It is time for another Ask and Answer and this week we answer a lot of great questions from UO Mania. UO Mania clorenz – Are there any plans to add books to store Scrolls of Alacrity or Powerscrolls similar to the books for Scroll of Transcendence? Mesanna:  When we did the SOT book we had planned to add these other ways to store items.  There are just so many things we want to get done we have to take them one at a time.  Please be patient they are coming. UO Mania clorenz – Are there any plans to […]

It is Monday again. Although the Dev team already answered a ton of questions during the Anniversary Party on Saturday (a recording of this will be eleased later this week), they took the time to address these questions gathered on the different fan sites, too. Slayer properties on instruments: Was wondering if we could ever get a way to craft slayer musical instruments. Either thru runic saws or possibly new recipes for carpenters to make? (Xalan Dementia) Could maybe someday imbuing move to instruments? (JamesC ) I’d like to be able to imbue GM instruments with slayer properties using the […]

The Ultima Online team has received another set of questions last week. Here are the answers. Concerns People using high Seas boats, moored along side each other, to ‘house hide’ in PvP.   Mesanna: We have written this up as a bug and hope to have it fixed soon.  Questions Are there any plans to make gargoyle horn dye and/or restyle available on hairdressers? Daslo, Neverplay UO, Cerwin Vega Mesanna: After speaking with the team we think Horn Dressers is a good idea…Thanks  for the suggestion. Are there any plans to revamp Doom? By this I mean changing or evolving […]

Hello everyone,   First off I would like to thank everyone for their kind words to me regarding my promotion. I am writing this because some of you wanted an official Producer Letter so here goes.  First I would like to address the Exodus Event reward.  The +5 stat scroll will be put in the game as a permanent drop. This is something that was discussed as a team from the very beginning, so if you did not get one at Exodus or were not able to be at the event, you will  be able to get it later. The second […]

Greetings all, In this publish we are having an issue with our patcher which increases the size of the patch. Please do not be alarmed. You are going to see a 411 MB classic client patch and a 112 MB patch for the Enhanced client. We are working on a fix for the patcher so it will reduce the size of the patches you will be receiving in the future. We are sorry for any inconvenience.   Publish 77.0.0 City Loyalty In addition to assisting to quell the still ongoing unrest throughout Britannia three new ways to gain City Loyalty have been added: […]

Greetings, We will push Publish 76.0 to all shards during the next early morning maintenance cycle on May 22. In preparation for the publish, the map files in Ver Lor Reg will be out of sync until then. For your reading pleasure, here are the completed notes: Publish 76.0.0 Global Arc – The Awakening The Awakening – Act VI Quest added This quest will be active during Act VI of “The Awakening” beginning July of 2012 and will end August 12th, 2012.  The NPC will tell you how much time is remaining each time you turn an item in on […]

Publish 78.0.0 has been patched to TC1.  Here are the publish notes for your reading pleasure.   Publish 78.0.0 Anniversary Items Anniversary items for the 15th Anniversary of Ultima Online have been added. Considering  these are a gift from us to you, we will drop a few sneak peaks in the upcoming weeks. All Characters older than 30 days will be eligible to receive Anniversary Items beginning September 1st, 2012 and ending September 30th, 2012   Despise Dungeon Revamp       Two brothers, both well learned in the arcane arts, lusted for the same woman.  She was but a […]

Hello everyone, There is a lot going on in UO, so let me tell you all about it.  First, there is Publish 78 which is on its way to all shards soon. We have revised Despise, placed the artifacts on Siege only on Cora and level 3 in Covetous, relocated some of the monsters everyone is missing in other areas, and for the younger players we have earth elementals and more! The Anniversary rewards will be given out starting the month of September. As some of you know the Harpsichord is among one of the items; additional music can be […]

We will push Publish 78.0 to all shards during the maintenance this evening.  For your reading pleasure, here are the completed notes: Publish 78.0.0 Anniversary Items Anniversary items for the 15th Anniversary of Ultima Online have been added. Considering these are a gift from us to you, we will drop a few sneak peeks in the upcoming weeks. All Characters older than 30 days will be eligible to receive Anniversary Items beginning September 1st, 2012 and ending September 30th, 2012 List of Anniversary Gifts Harpsicord and Harpsicord Rolls Heritage Token (due to request for ladders) Sands of Sosaria (16 unique […]

We are staging the publish to all shards now. European shards will receive the patch today during their normal maintenance cycle.  Here are the publish notes for your reading pleasure: Publish 77.0.0 City Loyalty In addition to assisting to quell the still ongoing unrest throughout Britannia three new ways to gain City Loyalty have been added: Participating in Champ Spawns will award City Loyalty to the City you have chosen to declare citizenship to.  The more difficult the level of the champ spawn, the more love you will receive. Turning in BoDs in a Loyalty City will award love to […]