1. UO Stratics From Pub 81 : – The looting rights threshold has been lowered for all mobs. Can you give us some more details on this change? How it works in compare now then before pub 81. With some % would be nice to make us better to understand. (Kelly O’Brian of Drachenfels.) Bleak: As mentioned before loot rights are broken up into three separate totals (damage dealt, healing done, and damage received ) which are combined to equal the players looting right score. The looting right threshold is based on the highest looting right score which is use […]

I wanted to take a few moments to fill everyone in on a few things we are doing.  I have heard rumbling from the community that the  sky is falling.  I promise that is not true.  We still have a team that is dedicated to UO and is excited about what is to come.    The Event moderator program is here and still going strong. As for the future of UO, I would like to share with you some of the ideas we have and want to see happen this year. • New Theme Pack “The Kings Collection” • Vendor Search […]

In this week’s Ask and Answer we have some very informative answers from the developers including a holiday appropriate question about bunnies. Enjoy! UOForums Easter is coming. So… Would you consider adding Vorpal Bunnies to the loot system that powers Shame/Covetous/Wrong? Perhaps equivalent to a mid-level monster to recognize how agonizingly slow it is to grow green thorns? Would you consider adding a (very) rare Vorpal Bunny statue drop? Would you consider adding Vorpal Bunnies to the list of sources for the upcoming release of armor system-related ingredients? Would you consider adding various imbuing ingredients to the list of Bunny […]

Greetings, We will bring down the Account Center for a short maintenance tomorrow, Thursday February 21st, at 8am EST (14:00 CET). During the maintenance you will not be able to log in, change subscription, redeem game codes, select vet rewards or place new houses. At the moment we anticipate the Account Center to be back online at 9:00am EDT (15:00 CET). Thank you for your understanding.

In this week’s Ask & Answer we received many questions requesting changes and our developers give a glimpse of what is being planned. UO Auctions Question: Have the dev team considered adding further to the high seas content? it seems most gave up a life at sea when they realized the resources it takes to run a ship. but piracy/bounty hunting are fantastic parts of the game. do you think that perhaps a hand in system for titles might bring attention back? perhaps items gained from merchant/pirate vessels could be handed in at Serpents Hold/Buccaneers Den for the Pirate/ the […]

Due to issues beyond our control, I am sorry to have to inform all of Atlantic that we had to revert to a Dec 5, 2012 7:00 am EST back up. We have tried to retrieve a more current back up but we have been unable to do so due to corruption issues. We are very sorry this has happened and any Atlantic player that is being impacted by this revert will be compensated with 30 days free game time. If you are having any issues with Vet Rewards or In game codes please page a GM. They will be […]

We are experiencing a technical issue with the Veteran Rewards and housing. We are currently working on the issue and hope to have it fixed soon. Thank you for your patience.

As we move into the twelfth month of the year we bring you Ask and Answer number 12. It is a season for giving and your questions have the developers making plans to bring all sorts of changes to the game. Enjoy! UO Auctions Can anything be done about the freezing screen when you use house customising and or the packing create with EC? (Rupert Avery) We actually discussed this over lunch for approx 20 minutes to try to figure out the best way to do this, bottom line is yes it can be redone but it is not Just […]

We have staged Publish 79 to be released on Sunday evening, 11/18 during Maintenance for the European servers and Monday morning, 11/19  during Maintenance for the US servers.  Please note we are turning housing decay back on when this publish goes live. For your reading pleasure, here are the completed notes:   Publish 79.0.0 New Veteran Rewards 15th Year: Garden Shed House Add-On Contains two secure containers that do not count towards house storage limits Each container holds 125 items with no weight limit The shed has standard house security settings controlling container access To access the containers, stand near […]

It’s the time of the year that everyone gets creative and decorates their homes to reflect their feelings of the holidays.  UO would like to announce a Holiday House Decorating Contest.  Petra from stratics has been kind enough to help out with gathering and setting up the voting page for the contest.  There will be 10 winners total and you as the players will help pick the winners.  The rewards will be a special hued Reindeer with the text, “Winner of the 2012 Holiday House Decorating Contest” and the top voted design will have their house go down in the […]