This is version 1.0 of the map of Sosaria. For those who have never played any of the Ultima series, this is the map where all ultima series based on. This is a huge map (180x180) for 8 players (to simulate the 8 city states of Ultima). I will expend it to 12 players and correct start position when I come around to make a scenario base on this map. ;)

Here is the view of the map using Gramphos' Civ3MultiTool's minimap feature. :)

hmmm it looks like you used the map from ultima online....

i MIGHT start thinking about trying to make an Ultima 9 based map...

Originally posted by tanadiel
hmmm it looks like you used the map from ultima online....

i MIGHT start thinking about trying to make an Ultima 9 based map...

Yup, the main reason is because I am still playing UO (after 4 years :lol: ) and I can't seems to find my old cloth map for the other Ultima games anywhere (starting from Ultima 4 ;) ). In fact, I seems to misplaced all my old Ultima stuff somewhere (the moonstone, ankh, oh well) :p

cool i been on uo for the past 2 and 1/2 years, boy do i miss the good ol days before trammel... lol anyway what shard u play on? i am on cheaspeake... ok enough of that i been playing civilization since 2 first came out and can't get enough of it lol
maybe with this map u could make a mod where u name the civ's after each city and start them at each cities starting location... sorta like for minocians or something for minoc lol.... just an idea..

... I'd be a million times happier with a proper Ultima map, as opposed to UO or Ascencion

A U5 map can be found on this site
http://www.uo.com/archive/ftp/maps/u5/britmap.gif

I can see my house from there! *jumps and points to the north of Fire Isle*

Just a short note to say Ive been playing UO a little over 4 years now too. LS and Catskills.

I might be able to dig up a Ultima 3D map (is this the right name?) from early nineties. I really mean dig up 'cause most floppy based games are far away form my comp.

MMM
It is well done, except for Minoc territory (where are the mountains?), Moonglow shape is wrong, there's too much sea around the continent, and other little things.
Unfortunately, with this editor it's impossible to do a nice mod like we used to do with civ2, with the file events.txt and the cities placed with the cheat editor.
So I can't bring on civ3 my UO scenario. :(

Well I found the original UO cloth map when I first bought the game 5 years ago lol!!

Your map is great, Minoc looks a little different though...:crazyeyes

Good Luck!

Ok, first thing first, I already tried as close as possible to get the right shape for the various island and land mass. In fact, Moonglow looks alright when the map is not tilted. ;)

As to the mountains around Minoc, they are there. But as the map is only 180x180, its kinda hard to show a big mass of mountain near Minoc (I know, I know, its the famous place for mining and PKs before Trammel is available :) ). I must maintain the ratio of mountains around Britain and then compare those around Minoc with it.

And for those who are interested, I play on both Catskills and Pacific. Of course, if you know me on UO then you already know about the name Dark Sheer :lol: And the same name is used on both Catskills and Pacific. You won't be able to see me in UO at the moment as I am in China and have no access to UO until I am back in Malaysia (in April :p ).

Hmm...I played UO for 4 years on Pac...I dont believe I ever met a Dark Sheer....I sold my account but my name was Dragoten....

Originally posted by Dragoten
Hmm...I played UO for 4 years on Pac...I dont believe I ever met a Dark Sheer....I sold my account but my name was Dragoten....

Ah, perhaps you met have met a GM Smith by the name of Bumba? I only created Dark Sheer on Pacific for about 2 years (3 years on Catskills as DS is a GM Smith on Cats but a GM Mage on Pac :D ) while I used another warrior by the name of Midnight Jackal ;)

i beta tested UO, it's the reason i'm not playing now... too many bugs... ('course they're probably all fixed now).... i noticed a definate downturn in the quality of the ultima games after EA bought out origin...

oh, i also found C64 versions of ultimas 1, 3 and 5 at a local goodwill for 2$ apiece, and the cloth maps were included :cool:

Originally posted by tanadiel
i beta tested UO, it's the reason i'm not playing now... too many bugs... ('course they're probably all fixed now).... i noticed a definate downturn in the quality of the ultima games after EA bought out origin...

oh, i also found C64 versions of ultimas 1, 3 and 5 at a local goodwill for 2$ apiece, and the cloth maps were included :cool:

Dang! $2 a piece? I paid about $50 each for them. Can't remember the exact amount as I remember I ordered U4 & U5 from UK (when origin is still a UK company :) ). And of course UO is straying more and more away from the original Ultima universe. With the latest instalment (Blackthorn's Revenge) which I believe is already released sometime last week in US (I haven't even order it yet as I am in china now and can't play UO), you can now expect mechanical monsters that is created by the creator of Spawn. :D

Still, I believe UO is still one of the best MMRPG around at the moment. ;)

This thread is no longer on the topic of civ3 so I think I will start an argument by saying...

Lineage is better than UO :crazyeyes

I played for two years on Atlantic, even managed to be able to buy a sandstone near the Yew crypts. Finally sold my account, I was so addicted that I was getting nothing done. I had a great bard and was close to GMing lockpicking, made loads of gold that way. Spent lots of time theiving from factioners, stealing their hard earned silver. Seeing posts like this make me really miss the game, but I think some of the changes I have seen taking place do not really appeal to me.

OMG! UO is a true virtual life. It isn't a game. It's a drug. I'm happy I'm detoxicated now.
But I miss my house outside Moonglow so much... :(

lol! and I thought I was going crazy while I was playing with Sosaria as a civ by itself. :)

here is one old map of the land lets compare

Originally posted by Kefka
here is one old map of the land lets compare

Hey, nice map. We do have alot of Ultima Player around. :cool:

It looks pretty much the same except that UO version has a few new islands. Nuljem is one of them. And Magincia is much bigger than the tiny island that I remember in U4. ;)

What I love about the Ultima Series is that the map is always pretty consistent. I remember when I first started UO 4 years ago, I actually took someone I met for a trip around the land in the first week (he was already playing a week before me...hehe) :cooool:

Well, since the timeline of Ultima Online does NOT exactly fit into a specific time era in the Ultima Universe, it will be VERY hard to just make a map of Sosaria (although I congradulate you on your good work :goodjob: )

Oh, btw, I've got like WAY TOO MUCH knowledge on the history of Sosaria.. We are working on a free shard project right now, and a website that is joint to the shard is being made by my team... We still have a free shard open for Turkish players. There were times we got like 500 players playing at the same time, but now it is only 150, since the new project will be bug-free and we are mostly working on that. There are other shards in Turkey which get like 400 hits on average at any given time. For more info, check http://www.sanane.net

Here is a good UO map to work with

Cool map. I thought I was the only one who had to have Britain, Trinsic, Moonglow, and Minoc in my civilization. :cooool:

I am really glad to see there are so many UO fans who are playing Civ3 as well.

After playing on the map, I have a few gripes. :crazyeye:

It was extremely easy for all of the civs on the mainland to get all 8 luxury resources. I only had to trade for one (started near Trinsic), the English one (started near Yew), and the Americans one (started near Minoc), and the Romans one (started near Britain). I only get the option to trade ones to the island starters. Although, it is nice to have size 12 cities with no unhappiness. :)

The map appears squished. The west coast of Britannia isn't nearly that slanted. Dagger Isle and Verity Isle should also be more vertical, extend further south, and larger... Moonglow is even with Britain in latitude according to my U7 map). The Isle of the Avatar is kinda small (a civ should start there instead of Bucaneer's Den... or that island to the east of it, what is that, Magincia or Isle of Fire?).

I also downloaded a copy of a C64 Ultima IV for free (I thru VI are available). Of course, I play it with an emulator on my PC, but it's free and has the music (I love the tune while you walk through Britannia), unlike my PC version.

I wanna see a Serpent Isle map. A map of each of the Ultima I continents would be cool too. Ultima III's map was dumb... too much like a box.

Originally posted by Dark Sheer


We do have alot of Ultima Player around. :cool:



You UO players should look here:

http://it.geocities.com/rhye_pd/main.html

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I allso played UO a couple of years ago on Atlantic :) . I had a GM smith called Malachai and a warrior called Dnalnif.I begun to play befor there were any servers outside USA thats why I played on Atlantic even thou Im from Europe :) . But I sold my account, sadly I have to say that Im glad that I quit UO just befor the trammel thing, they screwed up one of the greatest games quite badly.

Wonderful... just the map I was looking for :D

hi aaglo,

it looks like you found what you're looking for! Do give a shot at my ultima scenario and tell me if you like it.

"Deity challenge"!?!?

Wow... I'm scared of playing with Monarch.... :lol:

I'll propably be the dumb one then... ;)

aaglo,

It's certainly not impossible to play my scenario. You play as Lord British and the capital Britain and Lord British Castle are difficult to fall to the AI because it is well defended with heroes like the Avatar, Iolo and LB himself there. It will only look scary as you're engage from multiple points but ...it's survivable. There will come a time when you certainly be ready :)