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Just to correct this: although the original EUO did use Josh’s U4 tiles, the current tile set is completely original. However, most monsters and tiles are based in the Ultima V canon (sand traps and so on, and you’ll recognise your reflection in the mirror!).
The ‘classes’ are based on fighter / mage / rogue skills: each skill is governed by one of these, and a player can only have 125% total. To make this clearer – fighter specials (bash, cleave, and so on) require a 90 skill in a weapon, meaning you’d raise your fighter percent to 90 if you trained this skill. Thus, if you wanted to use sixth circle spells as well, you’d find you couldn’t, as these require 60 in magery skills (magery, sorcery, piety). All in all, EUO has a lot of skills – ranging from the usual fighting ones to enchanting, animal taming, tinkering and so forth, however, players can tailor their characters to their own wishes to a large extent.
All the spells can be cast using the Ultima V runes, or for the non-Ultima fans, through a simpler list. The dungeons, of which there are over 30, are player made and with 1.2.0 going live, now incorporate the LUA scripting language – meaning that like in Ultima V (where you could zap rocks with your magic axes) you can now influence the dungeons through switches, puzzles and spawned monsters Although, yes, there are a couple of randomised dungeons on top of these as well!
There are also over 100 custom-written NPCs, and over 50 quests with more being added all the time. Leveling is done by meditating at the Shrines, which use a variant of the Ultima VI method – for example, the Shrine of Valor gives +6 strength, and the Shrine of Spirituality +2 to all stats.
All in all, if you loved Ultima V, EUO is well worth a look – nostalgia mixed in with quirky nethack nods and a designer whose doing rather smart things behind the now archaic front end! 
[...] installation instructions are available at the EUO forums, and the downloads are mirrored through the project entry here at [...]
[...] installation instructions are available at the EUO forums, and the downloads are mirrored through the project entry here at [...]
[...] 0.14, fixing a bug with window minimization. Updated versions of the download are available through the project entry here at [...]
[...] the 3D client for EUO has been updated, and can be downloaded either the project website or via the project entry here at [...]
[...] the latest version of the game’s installer here on the site, and it can be downloaded at the project entry. Note that this updated seems only to pertain to the game’s 2D client, and not its 3D client. [...]
[...] game has seen the release of version 0.16 of its rudimentary 3D client, which can be downloaded via the project entry at [...]
[...] game has seen the release of version 0.16 of its rudimentary 3D client, which can be downloaded via the project entry at [...]
[...] uploaded the latest version of the game’s installer to Aiera, and it can be downloaded at the project entry:link-icon: there. Note that this updated seems only to pertain to the game’s 2D client, and [...]