I think i would to do the scortched Earth method and delete everything; that way i would not be tempted to come back.

I would stand on my soapbox at luna and sell all my valuable stuff for gold... After seeing what kind of $$$ gold goes for on ebay, I will fund my first few years of my next mmorpg of choice... Not sure I can say what one in this thread without a TOS violation :shocked:

muwahaha...

You're right, thats why i'm trying to figure out what i can bank

I would recommend banking char items such as bless deeds and AOS clothes. I would also bank unique rares evetn items and then the rest would be checks.

This is so true,

I quit in 2000 originally, and said id never come back so gave everything away.

6 years later and here I am, back in the game. Lucky for me I found a great guild who was willing to take a noob vet like me onboard.

I kept each of my chars suits they were wearing, banked my Fencers weapon collection, most of the gold I had, and a few other things...

I think the most important things to me were my charcters armor (took me so long to get those suits just how I wanted them) and my Tamers Stables. If you come back with nothing but that, you still have enough to work youre way back to wherever you were.

As previously stated, anything "irreplaceable" like Event items, true rares, etc. should also be banked. If no other reason, they make a nice "nest egg" for when you return.

When I quit in early 2002, I just sold the whole account as is on some broker site because I figured I would not be coming back...yet here I am. Been back about 2 years now. I had to start from scratch when I came back, but all in all it wasn't to hard. It was MUCH easier than starting from scratch in '98.

I quit in 2003 when I deployed for 6 months, I didnt know much about the game and got reallllllllllllllllly bored. While deployed I read up on stratics and found out what I was missing and wanted to rejoin when I got home. Luckily I did not own a home, so I didnt lose anything. I had just the armor I wore and a few k in the bank.

Back when i quit UO 5 years ago, it happened over a 2-3 month period. I had started playing EQ, and completely neglected my account outside of logging in to refresh my house. I eventually just cancelled my account one day without actually "preparing" anything, thinking i would never come back.. Well that was the end of a house full of rares, 5 million in checks, OH SO MANY KEGS/POTIONS from thieving/looting around yew (which is near impossible these days... hi 1shotthiefkill... beep the new game) My ice staff collection, My globe collection (I have not seen any normal globes around these days.. were they deleted from the game or something? I had a beep..I am not talking about "snowy scene". I mean the ones that used to sit around outside brit bank rotting away. ) And my "wall of staves" where ~50 ice staves created a wall of my house. A runebook library to just about anywhere, my dye tub collection, an ethy llama... The list goes on.

I regret not packing up my crap before quitting. When i logged back in about 2 weeks ago, i logged into characters in full 5 year old crap armor, with 1-2 blessed holiday items each sitting in the inventory. Luckily my tamer had a 1 mil check in the bank to get me started (which immediatly went into placing an 18X18 house and customizing it up ;D cant believe i found that spot.) And my old pets were still alive.. though only one is alive now... old WW dont put up much of a fight nowdays!

Suprisingly though, i lucked out. Day 7 coming back from my 5 year break, i was wandering luna when someone asked "any new players out there?". I jumped in saying i was coming back from a 5 year break, and yeah i looked like a total idiot in my full suit of cloth armor with no stats. Another guy also jumped in with me. The one looking for newbs opened a gate to fellucca, and told us to jump in. Expecting some pvp finally (I had been searching for it) I went right for the gate. The first thing he does is hand me a legendary, 1 mil check, and an ethy horse. (he also does the same for the other guy) He then co-leaders us to his house and tells us to go on a looting spree. This nearly decked out my tamer, got me several slayer weapons for my archer, filled 2 chests with holiday items, got several rares/artifacts. Another million check, and much more ;D

The day after i was thinking i was a god once again.. until i started strolling luna. Hi 50millionforonefreakinpositem. Hi 3000000 for nonartifactarmor. Hi 4000000 for a ring that matches the stats i just found off a zombie in moonglow. Pricing in this game is disgusting now days.

Well there you go, first/last impressions. PACK UP YOUR beep IF YOU THINK YOU ARE QUITTING! It will bite you in the ass in the future if you decide to return. Don't pull a me and think you never will.. theres alwasy a chance.


*edited for language*

Leaving UO??!!?? Blasphemy! :cheesy:

I tried to leave, years ago... Gave away everything I had at the time.

Finally, fate brought me back after a whole half a year.

Regards,
Josh