Index: 41 Age: 23 Gender: female Game: Ultima Online
On Socializing:
I do'nt play well with others. I tend to stick to killing the highest leveled monsters with my pets, by myself and ONE dragon/hiryu/white wyrm, vetting all the way. It gives me pleasure being able to solo otherwise almost unkillable monsters to others, and many times to others attempting the same thing I am. When in my guild (which I rejoined recently after being out of it for 2 YEARS!!) I help others, resurrect when needed, but otherwise I just mope and complain and donate all my gold to the guild fund.
On Achievement:
When I became GM taming, after 7 months of constant taming (we're talking about several hours a day.. 10+ hours every single day almost 5 years ago). After I finally Grandmastered my animal taming, I was clueless as to what to do. I wound up creating a second tamer just to GM the skill over again (which I did). Now I'm working with a power scroll to become level 120 taming. Also, collecting every single obtainable ridable mount in the game (all but silver steeds and dark steeds, because those are illegal on other servers but one). I even obtained (and have to this day) a rare, original, dark green shadowlords warhorse. There are only a couple in existance on my shard.
On Immersion:
I love playing as a male, mostly because people don't give me the special treatment like they do with 'female' characters. Also it's fun pretending you're just a gay man, so everyone leaves you alone to hunt in your little corner of the dungeon. I have noticed that with world of warcraft (not UO), I can play female characters and not get the special treatment I did with UO. special treatment: giving gold, 'protecting' them, giving gifts, helping kill a monster that may be overwhelming even though you CAN kill it yourself, they seem to think they should for you because you're a girl and they're a guy, thus you losing experience/looting rights to that monster. they just wanted to 'keep you alive'
On Exploration:
I explore immediately when I start up a character. every corner of the globe is explored.. I'm low level? I don't care. as a ghost I'll just keep running, so what if the world is gray? I'll come back to it later if I find something cool out!
On Escapism:
On Other Motivations:
Pets. I won't play a game if I can't tame fun creatures and I can level THEM up, not just me. that's why I play both Ultima Online as well as World of Warcraft. I tried City of Heroes and didn't like it. Tried Final Fantasy but it took too long to get a fun creature (that I couldn't even KEEP!!)
