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House Customization Issue

Happy Valentines Day Everyone!    We have confirmed an issue related to a conflict between house customization and vendors within the houses.  Until further notice we are asking everyone not to customize their houses if they have vendors in their homes. Thank you


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Publish 85.3 World Wide Publish

We will be publishing Publish 85.3 to all shards in the morning during maintenance. Japanese shards will be published this evening during your regular maintenance cycles. Happy Valentines from the UO Team!! Be sure to keep an eye on your EM’s for the next 6 days, they will be doing a small event that gives out this years’ Valentines present. We hope you enjoy them! Bug Fixes: • Corrected issue where only the character that placed the house is allowed to customize the house. • Corrected issue where goza mats were becoming unusable. • Discordance is now considered a hostile […]


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Event Moderator Openings

こんにちは、皆さん。 現在、無限、出雲、飛鳥、瑞穂の4シャードでは、日本人EMを求めています。ほんの少しの英語は我々とコミュニケーションを取るうえで役立ちますが、翻訳機の使用はいつでも可能です。契約時間は月/24時間となります。もしあなたがプレーヤーたちによるこの偉大なチームに興味を持ち、日本シャードのEMになりたいとお考えでしたらどうぞ、Mesanna@broadsword.com までメールしてください。 あなたのご応募を心よりお待ちしております。 Mesanna (メサナ) Greetings Everyone, I would like to announce I am looking for 4 Japanese Event Moderators for Mugen, Izumo , Asuka, and Mizuho. A little English would be helpful to communicate but we can always use a translator. The required hours are 24 hours a month and it is a contracted position. If you are interested in joining a great group of players and becoming and Event Moderator on a Japanese shard please email Mesanna@broadsword.com. I look forward to hearing from you. Mesanna


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Producer Update

Greetings everyone! We are so thrilled to read all the feedback from our recent announcement and I wanted to share this great interview MMORPG.com did with a few of us at Broadsword to give you some insight as to what’s in store for the future. http://www.mmorpg.com/showFeature.cfm/feature/8212/General-Broadsword-Online-What-It-Means-For-UO-DAOC.html   I am also happy to announce that we are actively looking for candidates to fulfill the position of Assistant Producer for Ultima Online. Interested persons may send their cover letter and resume’ to Mesanna@broadsword.com Some of the requirements for the Associate Producer position include, • Fluency in Japanese and English • Willingness to […]


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Publish 85.3 Origin and Izumo

Hello Everyone,   We are publishing Origin and Izumo today with the following few bug fixes and new art for our Valentines Gifts coming to you soon. You will see an option on all shards in your character context menu for Vendor Search but it will not be available until March when we publish World Wide.   Below are the bug fixes with this publish: Corrected issue where only the character that placed the house is allowed to customize the house. Corrected issue where goza mats were becoming unuseable. Discordance is now considered a hostile act when used against player […]


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Producer Letter

Greetings Everyone! I come to you with some exciting news!  Since its humble beginnings at Origin Systems Incorporated in 1997, through development at EA Redwood Shores and for the last 7+ years at Mythic, Ultima Online™ has been enjoyed by millions of devoted players around the world. Beginning February 1st, 2014, Mythic Entertainment Co-Founder Rob Denton’s new studio: Broadsword Online Games (http://www.broadsword.com) will partner with EA’s Mythic Entertainment to operate, support and develop Ultima Online on EA’s behalf.  Electronic Arts will continue to provide billing and account services through its Origin™ portal.   Broadsword and Electronic Arts will work closely together […]


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Publish 85.3 Test Center 1

Test Center Patch Notes Vendor Search Improvements Players will not see these improvements for the first 3 hours until the data base has been rebuilt. • Added the ability to search “Artifact Rarity” values =  Know issue, Search returns artifacts of that rarity and above instead of just that rarity.   Vendor Maps: • Added message when vendor map is placed in backpack. • Removed ability to sell vendor maps to mapmakers. • Removed ability to use vendor maps to teleport during combat. • Increased distance allowed for teleporting around house sign. • Added the ability to pay for teleporting […]


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Vendor Search on TC1

Vendor Search For the initial release it will take approximately three hours for the vendor database to update.  If you do not find your item, please check back after that time frame.  After the initial database update all vended item additions/deletions will be available through searches within five minutes. Players will now be able to search for specific items on player run vendors while in-game.  Players will be allowed to opt out of the system on a per vendor basis. Trial accounts will not be allowed to use the vendor search system.  Maps can be obtained for vendor locations.  Players […]


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House Customization Issue

Wanted to take a few moments to let you know about an issue that has been discovered with House Customization.  .  You can not customize you house unless you are the OWNER of that house, being on the account does not matter you have to be the one that placed the house.  If by any chance you have deleted the house owner on that account then please page a GM and they will help you with correcting this issue. I just wanted to let everyone know it is a bug and we are aware of it and we are working […]