Thanks for the welcome, I used to really enjoy UO until they took the skill away from it. I stuck around there because of the great community there, but the release of WoW and EQII led me away from it.
The main problem I had in those 2 games were that other players seemed only to want to talk in monosyllables, and though not really a RP'er in the sense of the word. I do enjoy the social side of the game.