So I've been playing on Ultima for a while, stopped a few months, came back and finally decided to get out of my cave and try to actually play with people. (I soloed 100% of the time until tonight). I loaded my Ramarl (level 92), there were no opened groups so I made one. People quickly joined, we went and destroyed the Sil Dragon, easy peasy. No rares, no biggies, I got two levels out of this.
Then I logged my Hucast (level 28), found a game on hard, joined and had a blast. We cleared forest, then did the Wrath of forest quest.
Conclusion: playing with people beats playing alone any day. Tonight I met cool people, quiet people, rude people and enterprising people who joined games just to ask for trades. I noticed some players went out of their way to heal, S/D, share drops etc while other people just Han-Solo'd ahead, destroying everything without letting the poor underleveled Hunter tag anything.
There was one drop on the hard diff game, someone else picked it up, realized he couldn't use it, dropped it again and suggested I take it. I couldn't. Though I saw the item, I could not be taken. We were not able to open a trade window either. Special rules on the server? How does rare loot rotation work on Ultima?
Anyways, it was fun. I'm annoyed that I have to go to sleep, I'd much, much rather join another game
Thanks Ultima for being there and allowing us to PSO to our hearts content.