Best thing about UO? Reinvention... I had no idea what to say to this thread but I figured it out so here it is.
In the last month I went from being in a guild I've been with for nearly 2 years. All of a sudden these people who had my back call me a faggot, a horrible father etc. So, what do I do? I lay low for a while, I make a new miner character which I tend to do when I want to revisit my very first character I ever made. I proceeded for the next week to mine, mark ore veins for myself and aquire a rather large library. In between bumped into said guild, won some, lost some. But it's nice to know that someone picks you out of a crowd to destroy you.
The new spawn has taken the zergs from the field to the dungeon. I agree'd with this at first, but yesterday after my pets dieing aprox. 8 times in all due to faction blessed weapons coming at me on my tamer, lunar and undine elementals. And last but not least ONE guilds insatiable appetite for being the biggest pricks on the server went out of their way running small spawns to find someone to kill than proceeded to kill my pets again. So I raged, 3 13 year old players searching solo's out to bola kill them? Pathetic, so I gave my pets away and do not intend on running dungeons anymore.
So right now I'm in between doing escorts, farming leather and cloth. To a lot this might sound extremely lame and IT IS however right now it's entertaining the hell out of me and I'm getting something positive out of my game time which is what a game is for.
So forget all the other idea's of what makes this game great, this is the number 1 reason right here. No matter what, if people ruin your game for you, you can reinvent yourself into something else, or try your hand at glassblowing or stone mason. Maybe do some bod's... This game will always ALWAYS provide something more to do, if you give it a try. Eventually I'll come back around to doing a little PvM here and there but you know what? 3 frenzied ostards tearing apart a bull so I can farm leather, priceless entertainment to me right now.