Don't do it. Please, I beg of you don't do it. I started playing this game at the end of my second year of college. It became so addicting, I'd do it every free minute I had. It's like the worst RPG on crack because building your guys takes forever. You have to actually sit there and chop wood or sew dresses for HOURS and HOURS before you can get anywhere in the game. Plus all the people who have been playing for awhile have so much stuff and when I quit they had just made it a lot more difficult to advance. I had some kickass characters that I probably could have sold and a house but I just couldn't log back on because I hate it so much. I used to use a macro program to semi cheat(not really cheating because I would just push one button and it would do like 4 repetitive tasks but I would still have to do those repetitive 4 tasks about a million times to get anywhere). I'm not joking at all, unless you have a ton of time on your hands(my roommate played it probably 8 hours a day for about a month and a half and his guys still weren't very good) and can't find anything at all in the world to do, then maybe I could suggest it. Nope, that game sucks. Way too much playing time for WAY too little fun. I'd check out everquest, I haven't played that one, but it can't be any worse than stupid ultima online.