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The mechanics and time period of Ultima Online Forever most accurately represents the Renaissance (UO:R) time period which is around publish 15/16.

Ultima Online Basics

• UO World Map: http://wiki.game-master.net/map/
• Skills can raise to 100 (Grandmaster) and certain skills can be raised to 120 with the use of a power scroll. There is a total skill cap of 700 so most complete templates will have 7 skills at the grandmaster level.
• Using a power scroll can push your skill beyond the 100 mark and beyond the 700 skill cap however this is only for crafting skills and does not unbalance pvp.
• There are three main attributes (strength, dexterity, intelligence) that can be raised to 100. The stat cap is 225 distributed between the three attributes. A common stat set up for a mage in this era would be 90 str 35 dex 100 int (225 stats).
• Ultima Online is a full loot game and all of your items with the exception of blessed items and runebooks and spellbooks will drop. For this reason it is important to visit a bank often so you never put yourself at risk of losing a lot of gold or items.
• Ultima Online is a FFA PvP game meaning you can be attacked by any player. Inside town you are protected by guards and are safe but once you leave town anyone can attack you. Player killers will have a red name as opposed to a blue one.

Ultima Online Forever Information

• Upon entering the world you will have a (Young) status next to your name. This will hold for 10 in game hours. As a young player, you will not lose any items that you hold but you can still die. This is to teach people about death before it counts.
• A new account holds a welcome bag with 500gp, a suit of leather armor, 50 of each reg, and 100 bandages.
• A person is granted 10 second looting rights when doing the majority of the damage to a monster (you can loot it but the body is blue and you will flag criminal). After 10 seconds the loot goes to FFA looting rights.
• Players can train a skill up to 50 points with a cost of 10 skill pets per 100gp at an NPC.
• Dungeon skill gain is 45% faster, and if using a skill against an NPC skills gain 25% faster.
• Skill gain is penalized in town with a -25% penalty, however, in the wilderness this penalty is gone.
• Skill gain penalty does not apply to crafting
• Training in dungeons against monsters is your best bet for fast skill gain.
• There is a young player dungeon that can only be accessed by young players
• When purchasing from an NPC you do not need gold in your bag it will take the gold from your bank. • When buying bulk items such as reagents from an NPC the contents will go to your bank.

Once you have downloaded and installed our client, run the Ultima Online Forever client. You will first be met with a login screen for your user name and password. We have auto-account creation so once you enter your account name and password click next and your account will be made. Please record what your account name and password is as you will need them to log back in. Every person is allowed up to two accounts. Join Ultima Online Forever and begin creating your character. Click to the next screen and Join Ultima Online Forever

Click New to begin creating your first character on Ultima Online Forever. The first screen will allow you to customize your looks and choose your gender type. You are not able to play as a Gargoyle or an Elf as these races were adding in a later era. Choose your name and click next when you are happy with your customization options. There is unique naming in place so you will have to choose a unique name and if you do not you will be renamed and promoted to again name your char in game.

There are many ways to start off on Ultima Online, It is recommended to either choose a mage a warrior, or select the advanced tab and select your skills as such. The other options are pre set templates that already distribute these attributes however we are goingt to use the advanced tab and do it ourselves more precisely.

Ultima Online is a game which is all about freedom and choices, there are more then 50+ skills to choose from and the options for starting out on the shard are endless. For the purpose of this guide we are going to be making a warrior-mage type character that focuses on early survivability and using a weapon with high dex and str. This char can be used to hunt the easy spawn in the game after a bit of training. Please distribute your stat and skill points accordingly for the guide. The 50 healing skill will allow bandages a much higher success rate early game, 50 resist spells will provide a reduction against spell damage and is one of the hardest skills to train, while selecting tailoring with a 0 skill point allocation will give you an extra bolt of cloth which you can cut with scissors to produce more bandages. Starting with high strength (50) will give you higher starting health points will 20 be a good starting point. You wont need much int early on as you will primarily be using meele weapons to start making early gold so leave that the default amount of 10. You can have 225 stats total allocated between str, dex, and int.

By this point your char is ready to now be creating, click over to the next screen where you will be shown the map of the world. By default you are starting in Brit. Britain is the Hub of Ultima Online and bank and city will be your home base while you get accumulated to the game world. Please follow to the next section to learn more about the interface before you adventure out.

There are many options that you can set which will make your playing experience much more enjoyable. This section will go over some option/interface changes you are going to want to make before playing and will look at a lot of useful options that are available through Razor. Here is a list of some basic commands and advanced commands that can be done with the interface.

Basic Commands

• Use the mouse for movement and right click on the screen towards wherever you want to move
• Left click on an NPC to bring up- a list of interaction options such as Buy, Sell, and Train. • Hitting TAB will put you in war mode allowing you to attack monsters by double clicking on them
• Left click and drag over a player or an npc to bring up its health bar
• Hold down Left-click on an item in your back-pack or on a corpse to put it on your cursor, at that point you can drag the item into your bag or into the bank
• Many items of the same type can be stacked together by placing the items on top of each-other

Advanced Commands

• Auto-run can be activated by holding down the right mouse and clicking the left.
• When dragging a stack of items holding down shift lets you drag the entire stack
• Hold down Ctr+Shift to bring up all the items on your screen including player health bars allowing you to drag hp bars easier. Also helps with looting a corpse you may not otherwise see
• Make a hotkey that records you saying vendor buy bank guards and vendor sell for faster interaction with important NPCs
• Hitting ctrl + w and ctr + q will scroll up and down through the previous messages that you have sent
• Heavy piles unable to be held in your backpack can still be held safely on your cursor
• You can use this to move heavy piles by placing the stack on the ground, moving forward and dragging it to another spot in front of you
• Active use skills (such as meditation) may be dragged from your skill scroll in order to create a gump for that skill on your screen. Left click the skill in the skill scroll and drag it into your screen.
• You can organize the skills in your skill scroll as well as creating a new group for your skills.

The Interface - Entering the Game world

You have entered Ultima Online Forever! You first begin at the Britain Inn which is located in the West side of the city very close to both the healer and the inn. Before we venture out, open your paperdoll by double clicking your char or by hitting Alt + P. Through your paper doll you are able to open up your skills tree, options, check your status, and see what items you have equipped. The first thing you should do is open up your options menu and take a look and what you can do to help make the game easier to play.

Interface

• Uncheck enable pathfinding with double-right-click. This feature tends to get in the way more then anything and you will often find yourself pathfinding when you don\\\'t really want to.
• Uncheck hold down tab-key for combat. This will make it easier for you to stay in war mode and keep attacking a monster, now you can just hit tab to turn war mod on or off instead of needing to hold it down.
• Check your character will always run. This will allow your char to always run when instead of walking when the mouse if closer to your char, helps a lot.

Miscellaneous

• Check use circle of transparency. Helps with seeing things behind walls, gives you a small area of transparency depending on the scale you use. Try 100 for now.
• Put inform me on skill gain slider to . Will update you on every .0.1 skill gain.
• Check inform me of strength ,dex ,int increase. Gives you a more accurate reading of your progression.

Razor Options

Razors a built in assistance tool that can further allow you to set up hotkeys and configure your interface and options. There are many a options that can be found in razor that will help you on your adventures. The one most sought after feature of Razor is the ability to configure your game size. Just use the force game size option and add in the resolution you would like to play with.



General
• Light levels. This will filter all light levels and will always keep your vision daytime even in dungeons.

Options
• Check override all hues and target highlight. Spell hue override will make it much easier to keep track of beneficial and harmful spells by keeping the colors consistent..
• Check open new corpses within 5 tiles. This will make it so when you kill a monster the corpse will open up on your screen within a 5 tile range. Helps a bunch with looting.
• Check show incoming players. This makes it a lot easier to immeditely identify new threats or friends that may have arrived on your screen.

More Options
• Force Game Size is quite possibly one of the biggest changers in improving the interface. This will let you set your game size window to whatever resolution you like. Try using 1000x700 and adjusting accordingly.
• Auto open doors helps a lot with entering buildings, check that.
• Auto-unequip hands before casting makes it easier for you when you pre-cast a spell and arm a weapon, upon using the spell your wep immediately will drop.

The key to success in Ultima Online is having a good set of hotkeys and macros that you can become comfortable with. There are 64 different spells available for use, as well as dozens different skills and other functions. The best thing you can do is start by looking at the hotkey options that are available in both razor and the in game options menu. There are a number of important hotkeys that should be set early on.

In Game Macro Options

By accessing your options menu (alt+o) you may then click on the macro options tab which allows you to create in game macros. You can hotkey your spells and different abilities through both in game and through razor. However, we are going to just use razor to set hotkeys for spells to keep things consistent. We are going to use the in-game macro options to set a hotkey in game that says the following \"vendor buy bank guards\" on F5 and \"vendor sell\" sell on F6. Make sure to hit apply, then okay. These keys to allow you to deal with NPCs easier.

Razor Hotkey Options

Razor will allow you to easily set hotkeys for all of your spells and other abilities in game. The first thing you should hotkey is \"Enable/Disable Razor HotKeys\". This function will allow you to turn razor hotkeys on and off so you can type in game. For example if you have bandage bound to B, when you hit B you will always use bandage, turn razor hotkeys on and off and when they are off hitting B will type a B in game instead of using your bandage.

Britain West Bank

After you have your interface set up correctly and have become adjusted to basic commands in the world it is time to head to the bank. There are two banks in Britain one on the west side and one on the east. Most players use the west bank and this is where the entrance to the young player dungeon is so please head to the west bank..

Every new account will start with the following, 500gp, suit of leather armor, 50 of each reg, 100 bandages, and a check for 100gp. This is plenty of supplies to get you started early on. Put on the armor and put the rest of your supplies on your char for now.

Buying Equipment from a Blacksmith

The first thing you want to do is buy some new weapons for your char. There are four different weapon skills available for us, swordsmanship, fencing, mace fighting, and archery. Each weapon type is useful in its on way. A few good weapon choices would be spear, kryss, katana, double axe, quarter staff, war hammer, bow. Decide what type of weapon skill you want to raise and buy a few weapons before heading out. Along with buying weapons you can buy more armor such as a shield that you can wield in conjunction with a 1 handed weapon to raise your parry skill.