> and a world that didn't care about your feelings

Dead on.

UO didn't have a global concept of a level. You had a maximum number of points per character, which you allocated to skills by doing the corresponding activity. This is how you can skill cap your character without killing monsters or players.

Take this with a grain of salt - several Youtube exposés showed that the Actions code was utter shit before LLM coding was widely available. I'm assuming the tech debt finally sent the product off a cliff.

Wikipediocracy link gives "not authorized".

All this talk of soup making me wonder if these are Arabic/ME derivatives.

Then again there are like 10 different ways to refer to soup in the various dialects.