¶Folios under the subject of
Game Terms
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- 8x8 — 8X8 refers to a now-defunct method of gaining skills.
- Abbreviation — An abbreviation is a partial representation of a name or phrase using only some letters from each word in the name or phrase. Most...
- Acronym — An acronym is an abbreviation of a name or phrase using only some letters from each word in the name or phrase. Most acronyms use the...
- Aggressors — Although it is not illegal to attack criminals and murderers, it is also not illegal for unsavory types to defend themselves against...
- Armor penalty
- Armor Rating — Armor Rating (also abbreviated as AR) is an antiquated term from Ultima Online's early era. The effectiveness of worn armor (and shield,...
- Artifacts — Artifacts are special items with unique names that can be obtained by various means: using the Stealing skill to pilfer them from...
- Avatar — The Avatar is the central heroic figure of the Ultima mythology — the Stranger summoned from another world to defeat Mondain, who...
- Bank Check — Despite years of delay in fixing this problem, checks finally display the amount with comma separators. In the past, many an innocent...
- Banned — The term given for someone who has had their Ultima Online account terminated by Electronic Arts. Often mistaken for a suspension, which...
- Barding Difficulty — **Barding Difficulty** is the hidden per-creature value that gates every check by the four bardic skills —...
- Barnacle Covered — Barnacle Covered refers to the items that are fished up using a File:Dredging hook.png Dredging Hook.
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- Blessed — A blessed item is one which will reappear in its owner's backpack upon resurrection. They may not be stolen.
- Buff — A term used to describe a beneficial boosting or increase to a target. For example the Bless spell is a buff. Consequently a debuff is...
- Buff Bar — Buff Bar, Buff/Debuff Gump, and Buff/Debuff Icon System are all terms that refer to a game interface. The Buff Bar allows players to...
- Character — Strong BackYears of hard work allow more weight to be carried on strong backs.{|
- Charges: — Charges is generally a term to describe how many uses an item has remaining. Usually found on jewelry, if for example a ring with...
- Container — For the list of containers, see: :Category:Containers
- Crafting — **Crafting** is the umbrella term for the **player-driven manufacture of items** in Ultima Online — the cluster of skills, tools, and...
- Creature — A Creature is a global term that usually encompasses both Monsters and Animals. Generally speaking, Humanoids are not included in this term.
- Criminal — Criminals (or grays) are characters who have recently broken the law. They may be freely attacked in guard zones, and their corpses...
- Critical Hit — Every time you deal a standard strike in combat, you have a chance of dealing a Critical Hit.
- Cross-healing — Cross-healing is a simple but very effective tactic for dealing with moderate to high levels of damage. Successful cross-healing...
- Cursed — Cursed is an item property which denotes that an item is one which cannot be insured and will automatically fall to a player's corpse...
- Damage Types — **Damage Types** is the **collective term for the seven flavors of damage** dealt by weapons, spells, monsters, and traps in modern...
- Death — When your character's hit points fall below 0, your character will die.
- Dungeons — Dungeons within UO are located on all Facets. They are explorable areas where characters may encounter any combination of monsters,...
- Duping — Duping is a term for a specific form of cheating. It involves exploiting a game mechanic whereby duplicated copies of otherwise...
- Easter Egg — In the software context, an Easter Egg is a hidden feature or novelty that the programmers have put in their software on purpose. They...
- Equipment slot — Equipment Slots refers to the number and type of items that can be equipped on the body of a player character. There are currently 18...
- Exceptional — **Exceptional** is the **quality tag** awarded to a [crafted](/codex/Crafting) item produced on a successful skill check that exceeded...
- EZ Loot — An EZ Loot is performed when a player double-clicks his/her own dead body after resurrection. Upon doing so, all items present are...
- Facets
- Faction System — The **Faction System** was a broad organized-PvP system designed to promote large-scale player conflict within the society of Britannia,...
- Fame — **Fame** is one of the **two reputation variables** in the **Reputation Title System** (the other being **[Karma](/codex/Karma)**)....
- Follower — A Follower is the technical term for NPCs, Summons, and Pets your character controls. Every character has 5 "follower slots" and you can...
- Game Master
- Guild — Guilds are a game mechanic that facilitates group activities. There are also NPC guilds that allow characters who join them to engage in...
- Gump — A **Gump** in Britannia is the **canonical name for any pop-up menu or interactive window** that the game's UI displays — character...
- Houses — One of the most unique and exciting parts of UO is owning a house. To date, no other MMO has implemented a system quite like it. The...
- Innocent — Innocent (or blue) is the default status for any player controlled character in Ultima Online.
- Item Insurance — Some items are not insurable, such as those that are Cursed, but also usually items that stack(reagents, fish steaks, etc.)....
- Karma — **Karma** is one of the **two reputation variables** in the **Reputation Title System** (the other being **[Fame](/codex/Fame)**). It is...
- Kill Stealing — Kill Stealing is the act of running up to a creature and landing the killing blow. It can also occur in other forms, such as taking on a...
- Lag — While it doesn't specifically relate to all cases of in-game slow down, the term LAAAG!! is screamed by all those affected. How badly...
- Latency — Latency refers to the time it takes a data packet to travel to the server. Lag is more often used to refer to the same description.
- Lava Infused — Lava Infused refers to the weapons that are fished up using a File:Lava proof hook.png Lava Proof Hook. These weapons always spawn with...
- Lifespan — Lifespan is an item property on certain objects that causes them to decay or disappear once the countdown timer has elapsed. Like the...
- Log Out — To leave the game world you need to Logout. There are multiple ways to do this:
- Loot — Loot refers to the items that are found on other players' or creatures' corpses or stolen from them.
- Looting Rights — Looting Rights is granted to players to loot a certain monster corpse. Its specific mechanics are posted on Five on Friday - January 19, 2007:
- Medable — The Meditation skill passively raises your mana regeneration rate, and also can be activated in order to double the speed. However, if...
- Melee — A term used to describe close combat. The opposite of Magery and Archery. It is how users of Swordsmanship, Fencing and Mace Fighting do battle.
- MMOG — A massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) is a type of computer game that enables hundreds or thousands of players to simultaneously...
- Moongate — A Moongate or gate is a form of transportation across large distances in Ultima Online.
- Mounts — Mounts are a type of pet that can be ridden (by double clicking them when they're directly beside you). While riding your character can...
- Mule — Conventionally in UO, the term "mule" refers to a character used for crafting and repairs.
- Murderer — "You there, good sir! Would thou come to my aid? I cannot slay this demon!"
- Nerf — Nerf is a UO term describing when an item, skill, quest, or really anything in the game is diminished in power and/or usefulness. Some...
- Newbified — NOTE: A newbified item is not described as such in game!
- No-Drop/No-Trade — No-Drop/No-Trade is an item property which denotes that the item cannot be traded via the trade window and cannot be removed from a...
- Non-supported — Non-supported is a term used for bugged items which may be repaired in the future. There will be no compensation if the item is deleted...
- Oven — An oven is a general term used to describe a heat source usually used with the Cooking skill.
- Pets — Pets are essential to nearly all characters in Ultima Online. Without a mount a warrior cannot hope to keep up with (or escape from!)...
- Player — A Player in Ultima Online (UO) is the actual person behind an in-game character or avatar. Unless you are a bot, webcrawler, or...
- Player Character — A Player Character, simply put, is an in-game Character that is played by a real person, or Player. This is as opposed to Non-Player...
- Player vs. Environment — Commonly referred to as PvE or PvM by most online games and gamers. Simply put, it is the player-controlled character (you) competing...
- Player vs. Player — In Ultima Online, player vs player (commonly abbreviated as PvP) denotes fighting other players rather than monsters. Originally the...
- Power Core — Power Core is an alternate name for the Exodus Dungeon. It was known by this designation on the UO AutoMap mapping utility that was used...
- Publishes — Publishes are changes to a Shard's programming to fix bugs or add content. Publishes may or may not be announced by the development...
- Random Magic Item Generation System — The Random Magic Item Generation System was introduced with Publish 73 and first applied to the dungeon Shame which is followed by the...
- Rate Over Time — Rate over Time (ROT) is the skill gain system used on the Siege Perilous and Mugen shards.
- Resistances — **Resistances** — also called **resists** or, by individual element, **Physical Resist / Fire Resist / Cold Resist / Poison Resist /...
- Resurrect — Once your character or bonded pet dies, you must find a way to restore it to life. Reviving yourself significantly lowers your Fame level.
- Roleplayer — A "roleplayer" is someone who engages in the playstyle of "roleplaying."
- Roleplaying — Roleplaying is a playstyle based around pretending to be your character as much as possible while in-game.
- Server — In a UO context, each shard is a collection of servers running the software written by the game developers. With each Publish, additions...
- Server line — A server line is boundary between two sub-servers.
- Shards — Ultima Online is split up into different servers called Shards that are located all over the world. Players usually select a shard in or...
- Sosaria — **Sosaria** is the world. In *Ultima* lore, it is the planet on which Britannia, the Lost Lands, and most of the original Ultima saga...
- Stats — Stats, an abbreviation of statistics, refers to the 3 statistics all characters have in varying amounts, as follows:
- Suspended — Suspended is a game term used to describe when a player's account has put in an un-playable state.
- Swing Speed — Swing Speed is the final delay between two swings of the weapon in seconds after the Stamina statistic and the Swing Speed Increase...
- System Message — System Messages are the most common way the client provides feedback for your actions. In the Classic Client they appear in the bottom...
- Title — Titles are achievement, guild, reputation, reward, or skill based designations given to characters. The title menu can be accessed...
- Trial Account — Trial account refers to the accounts that can be played for free for a limited amount of time. A trial account can be ceated by...
- UOPro — This is a "UO Pro" Utility, which means that its use promotes and is in keeping with the spirit of the Ultima Online product, community...
- Useless Skill — Allows you to determine who's a member of the Thieves Guild. Pointless in that thievery from other players can only be performed in...
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