[imported_Yankovic]

That's a very good point that to be honest I forgot about... If I were to start macroing a brand new character tomorrow it would probably take ME 9-10 days+ and I have all the supplies I need. Actually I probably don't have enough MA scrolls (2k stockpile right now) or reagents stocked up to cast firefield a few hundred or thousand times to GM magery/resisting spells...

The other factor is time... Like a few people have mentioned in this thread and other threads, people simply don't have the same amount of time to put towards UO anymore yet we demand it of them...


Eru, I think your skill package is too much. As someone said in another thread, if you're given too many skills you don't feel an attachment to your player or like you earned them.

Going from no skill package to what you suggested is a huge leap and I don't think we need to offer that much. Personally, I think 75-85 Magery, 75-85 Meditation, 75-85 Resisting Spells, and 1 combat is more then enough. Healing is very easy to do, you just need 1 xuo fs and 100 aids. Since you don't lose aids when healing you can just keep re-using the same ones. Anatomy and Evaluating Intelligence are also very easy. Even a new player should be able to figure out a macro to do these.

The reason I say to give Magery, Meditation, Resisting Spells is because these take the most resources (which new players obviously don't have much of), and they are the most crucial and possibly longest.

I don't think any hunting skills should be included because that's really giving people a huge head start on hunting when they should have to work for it at least some what considering this is one of the main ways to make money... And as I said before, you can still hunt without skills like provocation, etc but it will be a bit more of a challenge.

You should have read the rest of my post...

When you create a character. You can choose 3 skills from the skillstone.
If you pick magery, resisting spells and healing or meditation. You don't need much resources because those are the only pvp skills you need resources for.

Now I think of this, I actually might create a second char for fun to see how long it would take when i have those skills. I think its even possible to do within a week