With us publishing out Vendor search we are having to take down the Housing warehouse and the Character transfer warehouse for a few hours today to make sure we update those also. This should be a one time only occurance so please be patient with us.

Vendor Search

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

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 with gold in backpack.

• Removed the ability to use a vendor map as a recall rune.

• Added the ability to open the container containing the vended item when within 19 tiles of the item.

• Added a check to make sure an item is still for sale before allowing the player to teleport to the item.

Vendor Searching:

• Changed numeric search string restriction to only block numbers under 1000.

• Changed text search to look for each word individually.

• Added ability to sort results by price from high to low.

• Added ability to remove individual search criterion.

Vendor Results Menu

• Fixed item properties display for empty strings.
• Fixed display of some add-on items.
• Added commas to price display.

Easter Gifts

Characters atleast 30 days old logging in between publish day and 12:01 AM 5/1/2014 will receive an Easter Gift!

• An Easter Bunny raised in one of Sosaria’s various cities, with a chance at a rare location!
• The Easter Bunny comes in eight (8) different vest colors
• Once every 24 hours the Easter Bunny will prepare an edible marshmallow duckling that can be eaten
• Marshmallow ducklings come in six (6) different colors.

Event Moderator Reward Distribution Change

Rewards distributed through the Event Moderator tool commonly referred to as “top attacker” or “top damager” will now function as follows:

• All players who qualify for the “top attacker list” via a combination of damage dealt, damage taken, and damage healed will have an equally random chance to receive a reward.
• For a detailed explanation of how a player would qualify for this list please see this post http://stratics.com/community/threads/confirmed-powerscrolls-bug-at-a-spawn.307634/#post-2366249

Broadsword Commemorative Plaques

To Commemorate Broadsword Online’s investment into the future of Ultima Online, commemorative plaques will be available from the West Britain Bank after all shards are published. Please visit the plaque on your shard to get yours when they are available.

• 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 act when used against player pets; players may now only use peacemaking on player pets that are freely aggressive
• Faction players once again cannot be put into stat loss or reward points when killed by non-faction players
• Pets can no longer go wild while owner is riding them.
• Players who customize a house containing a house add-on will no longer have security settings revert back to owner only.

• Cliloc Changes
• Art Additions

• Cliloc Changes
• Art Additions

ブロードソードのウルティマ オンライン チームは、日本人プレーヤーへの継続的なサポートと献身をここに宣言することを大変誇りに思います。
我々は日本のコミュニティに投資しており、我々の間のサポートとコミュニケーションを発展させるべく、日本語に堪能なアシスタント プロデューサーを既に雇用しています。
UO.comについては英語と日本語のバイリンガルサイトにするため、再構築の計画を立てています。これは現在日本公式サイトに掲載されている情報をすべて引き継ぐものになるでしょう。我々はこれらの情報の重要性を認識しており、いずれも損なわれることのないようこれらをアーカイブ化し、いつでもあなた方が必要とするときにそれを提供できるようにする予定です。
およそ2週間の内には、米国ブロードソード社の新たなチームメンバー（日本から来るのよ！）として加わる、アシスタント プロデューサーも紹介できるでしょう！

The Broadsword Ultima Online Team is very proud to announce the continued support and dedication to our Japanese players. We’re investing in our Japanese community and have hired an Assistant Producer fluent in Japanese to help us improve all support and communications. We are also making plans to redo UO.Com so it will be bi-lingual in English and Japanese. It will preserve all of the information currently on the Japanese website. We recognize the value of all the information and will archive it so nothing is lost and will always be available to you. In 2 weeks, we look forward to introducing our newest Assistant Producer team member (natively from Japan!) that will be joining us here at Broadsword in the US!

We have resolved the login issues on Europa that have been preventing players from logging into the shard since 3 am EDT.  If any players are having issues please let us know as soon as possible.  Thank you for your patience.

UO Team

We are going to reinstate the Counselor Program back into UO!  At this time I would like to know if we have any players that would be interested in volunteering for these positions.   Below are the requirements:

• Must be 18 years old
• Must have an active account
• Must have an account in good standing
• Have great game knowledge
• Desire to help and work with others

We are making a few alterations to make the program work with all the changes that have been made currently so it will not be active for a bit but if you are interested in being considered for a volunteer Position please email Mesanna@broadsword.com with the following information:

• account name (no passwords)
• shard you play on
• time zone you live in

I understand most of you have your accounts full of characters so you will be given a work account for this task.

Good afternoon Everyone.

  
   Wanted to let everyone know it is safe for everyone to customize your houses again.  We have fixed the existing issue we were seeing. 

   The team also wants to tell you that we have made a change to the way the In-game codes are accepted and you no longer have to worry about changing the formatting around.  You can copy and paste the code in game exactly how you get it from Origin from now on and the game will auto correct it and recognize the code if it is a valid code.  If anyone has any issues with claiming codes in game please let us know.

  Thank you for your patience this morning while we worked on Atlantic and getting it back up.

UO Team

Good afternoon everyone,

Just wanted to bring a few points to everyone’s attention.

We have had some issues with the Account Management page that is now fixed. If you were having issues in the past few days please try again. If you are still having issues please contact me.

I also wanted to let everyone know ahead of time we are bringing down Atlantic tomorrow (2/19/2014) for approx. 3 hours between 11 am EDT and 2 pm EDT to fix the crashing issue we have seen for the last few days.

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

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 act when used against player pets; players may now only use peacemaking on player pets that are freely aggressive.
• Vanilla seeds will now once again spawn on certain mobs within the Exodus Dungeon.
• Cupid’s Arrows will now work during the month of February.
• Event Moderator reward items that have the flamestrike, smoke or sparkle effect will once again be useable in your backpacks with a 60 second delay.

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

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 relocate or reside in the Northern Virginia area
• A passion for games and the communities they support

All future positions, contract or full time, will be presented to you the player base first to fill. I think with your experience and game knowledge we can do great things together!