I'm glad to hear it as an old (1985) Ultima veteran. You will discover while you play U6 why it is called a trilogy and how the cycle closes. To be honest i don't know what hint to give you without spoiling you the games, therefore i only wish you fun.
Nice. And yet, Sindarin was too common
Sure, but Jaana is best waifu. How could you do that to her?
. Getting the hang of wind direction manipulation with the spell. Also, figure out how to use the blue teleport gates for my convenience, interesting and useful.
No, but do keep in mind that doing these things will lower your score in that particular virtue. There's no meter you can directly see, but asking Hawkwind the Seer about a virtue will tell you more or less how you're doing. The point of this part of the game is to figure out by yourself how to improve in specific virtues. Most of them are pretty straightforward, though others might be a bit trickier (I think Sacrifice was the one that gave players the most trouble back then)
There are some less straightforward and interesting ways to raise some of the virtues. Valor goes up if you kill evil things and down if you run away obviously, but killing non-evil things (like snakes or other beasts) will raise Valor but LOWER Compassion, so the idea is to either let them run away when they start to, which will raise Compassion without changing Valor, or even running away yourself, since re-raising the lost Valor is easier. For Sacrifice, donating blood is the most obvious one, but there are others, such as if you're running away from a fight, protecting your party members' retreat and being the last one to leave will lower Valor but raise Sacrifice. The virtue system is surprisingly organic I think.
Pretty much how it works yeah.
Your assumption is correct. So you are starting to learn the game and that it is important on how you play the game (virtue system) and not only in playing the game. Welcome to the depths of Ultima, that no other game has ever reached them again.
To use the sextant you use the L key command. And it looks like this:
Some things won't because the game mechanics change (U4 is the only game that tracks each virtue individually), but other world-related things stay the same, such as all the mantras, or the location of places in the world (though some move a bit as the world becomes more detailed). You never have to worry about forgetting something from one game to the next though, the mantras can be found in each game again (though obviously if you already know them you can skip some steps).
I didn't want to post this because i thought that it was quite a spoiler.
to OP for trying, have fun!
Learn how to use horses and the blink spell, and you will easily avoid most overworld encounters (except when exploring the ocean). You will still have to fight your way in dungeons, but at least their rooms don't scale to your party size.
There are 2 ways to get the coordinates.
I dunno. I need a lot of gold, so I've been tackling combat wherever it happens.
Magic Wand? Magic Bow? I haven't found any towne that sells that. Also, I figure this implies farming gold.
Yes. Enemies usually don't inflict that much damage either. Balrons are the most dangerous foes I found so far, mostly cuz they spam sleep.
I've noticed dungeons are the opposite values of a virtue: WRONG, DESPISE, COVETOUS.. At least the ones I found. Those are always nearby of townes or shrines of the virtues they antagonize?
I've been taking moongates wherever opportunity arises.
There's a NPC called Merlin and the Balrons are clearly based upon Balrog.
