Greetings, Publish 75.0 comes to Origin tonight. These are the changes to the Publish 75.0 Notes: Faction Score System All faction scores will be scaled down instead of wiped. All faction members’ rankings will be updated to reflect the new scaled points. Faction score now decays at a rate of 1% (rounded down) of score per day. Scores of 99 or below will have a scaling chance to decay 1 point per day. The closer the score is to 0 the smaller the chance is of having point decay. Players with 0 Faction score will always be assigned Rank 1 […]

Written by members of the UO community Issue 2 – Edition 3 WORLD NEWS Alchemist Labors for Naught It was 12 years ago, that the great intellect and alchemist, Vig Parthus the Accomplished addressed the public before barring the door to his lab. He bid that no one disturb his work, for when he finally emerged from his bailiwick, he would present to the people that which mankind had been searching for since the beginning of time. After a decade of respecting the mages request, a concerned citizen determined that something was amiss, since no one had been bringing food […]

Written by the EM Team Intermission Fiction     Stumbling, he grasps onto the railing leading out of the cellar as the distant sounds of unrest echo throughout the empty building around him. Taking another drink from the somewhat depleted bottle of wine in his hand he makes his way through the corridors to the balcony, until the bottle slips from his grasp. In his attempt to grab it he falls, and knocks aside a piece of fabric with a jingle. His eyes are drawn to the weathered and tattered hat.  A memory long past is conjured before his eyes as […]

Update 10:15 am EDT: The maintenance is over. All functions of the account center are available again. Greetings, We will bring down the Account Center for a short maintenance tomorrow, Thursday March 15th, at 9am EDT (14:00 CET). During the maintenance you will not be able to change subscription or redeem game codes. At the moment we anticipate the Account Center to be back online at 11:45am EDT (16:45 CET). Thank you for your understanding.

We have added a new program to the list of approved 3rd party programs for UO. Ultima Mapper is the new mapping application for Ultima Online Classic and Enhanced clients that allows users to share the entire experience. It’s features include: Coordinate and Facet Tracking Connected User Health Status Automatically Marks Corpses Upon Death Follow any Player on the Map Crystal and Corrupt Crystal Portal Commands Boat Commands And much more   A list of all approved 3rd party programs can be found here in the EA knowledgebase.

We have received reports that some players are having issues patching. If you do not see the screen below when logging in, then you may have closed the patcher before you should have. Please verify your client is not open when you attempt to patch.  

Greetings, Here are the publish notes to accompany publish 75 coming to TC1. Read and enjoy! Publish 75.0.0   Global Arc Acts 3 and 4 for the awakening have been completed.  Please keep an eye on your Town Criers for upcoming news.  Continue on with this quest and you too can have your own heirlooms.  As always watch the herald for future fiction. Clean up Britannia – 4 new dyes Glossy Fuchsia Deep Blue Vibrant Seagreen Murky Amber Faction Score System All faction scores will be reset to 0 All Faction members will return to Rank 1 Faction score now […]

     So just what happened at the Legends vs. Lake Superior T-hunt challenge?      Legends’ defending champions, the Gold Diggers were geared up and ready to rock and roll!  You could tell this was a team prepared for anything.  Well almost anything as would soon been seen, but I’m getting ahead of myself… The Gold Diggers members included, Hawk Eye, Casper, InViSiBlE, Bulldog, and Nadalia.      Lake Superior’s team drifted in, no team color, no name and one or two of their members had been recruited only an hour or two before.  Did any of this bother them?  Not in […]

Sosaria Reels had the chance to grab Jeff Skalski, the Ultima Franchise Producer and published the video interview today. Head over to Stratics and see what Jeff has to say about his job, about our plans for Ultima Online and about the 15th anniversary.

Greetings Intrepid Adventurers of Sosaria! We are pleased to kickoff the next chapter in our epic live event, The Awakening.  Act II will no doubt bring you face to face with unseen perils within the wilds of Ilshenar.  Many of you have been inquiring about the strange collapses within the Mountain passes there, perhaps these require further investigation? We encourage you to explore the area and wish you the best of luck in your adventures! See you in game, The UO Team