Post: #3

I haven't played UO as a player in about 8 or so years now so this is as near a new player opinion as you'll get from me.

Sign up, was easy, though the instructions after sign up for installation could be a little clearer, speaking for a generalized standpoint.

I installed the patch and logged into the server, accidentally into the wrong folder (I have 3 versions of UO it's easy to do)and so then had to copy the files into the right one.
After logging in the server told me that I needed the patch in order to play and kicked me. Fair enough, perhaps something got missed when I copied the files in.
Repatched (to the right folder this time) and launched the game. However the login file in the patch contains a completely different address to the one you give on your website, and so obviously I couldn't connect to the server. I'd suggest you fix that. It shold take as few steps as possible to get into the server.

After logging back in I found myself in a locked house containing a moongate, stepping into the moongate gave me the 50% skill start menu with the smallest buttons I have ever seen a little - next to the skill names does not make for a very good button...
Then having been made to start in Trinsic when I made a miner character was needless to say slightly inconvenient, but finding that the moon-gates seem to run on a random destination type setting made getting to where I wanted to be a royal pain in the backside. I understand the concept of a menu-less moon-gate system, I used to run one myself, but running in and out of them and typing .where to reach your desired destination is a little frustrating.

A gump to show all your commands INGAME would be useful seeing that there are so many, it would save having to go back to the webpage to look for them. While I am on that subject your .deathmenu command does nothing, so it either should be removed from the list, or fixed (feel free to steal mine)
Ok so now I am dead... In Minoc and I have no earthly clue where the healer lives.... fortunately you have some friendly and helpful players on your world chat. Unfortunately having now resurrected I notice that my pickaxe and starting gold is gone... not newbified. Which puts me in a really bad situation for picking up where I left off... I can't mine because I don't have a pickaxe, and I can't buy new because I don't have any money.
That's the point at which I got most annoyed. Imagine you picked a warriot class and went out to fight stuff on purpose (yes I did go on purpose to test your death menu but still)
You die, you lose your weapons, armor and any gold you figured would be safe, and now the fastest thing to do is make a new character or leave?

ALWAYS NEWBIFY START ITEMS! They don't have to be good, but a player with nothing at all can do nothing at all.