Have you visited1Up.com’s website today? They posted an interesting article about Ultima Online. “It’s actually this near-total anarchy that most sets UO apart from what came after. Nobody had done anything quite like this before, and it shows. While today MMOs have become mostly formulaic and carefully manage player progression, interaction, class balancing, and just generally make sure that the entire experience is a known quantity, Ultima Online faced no such constraints. There was no “common sense” when it came to this sort of thing, and while the kitchen-sink approach of providing everything one would expect from a single-player RPG and […]

Written by the EM Team     “Blast it! Blast, blast, blast!!!” Callie snarled in frustration as she threw a stack of papers from the small desk she’d been using at the Britain Library, once again feeling as if she’d hit a brick wall. Her efforts in Skara Brae had shown no results and inquiries in the capital city weren’t faring any better, despite having uncovered even more support for her theories. She glanced to the staircase as one of the scribes, an elderly gentleman who appeared to be peeking from the stairwell to see that she was alright. Seemingly satisfied […]

Written by the EM Team     Dupre’s gleaming platemail was scarred and battered as he approached the walled sandstone city, great strips of it ripped away by the attacks of the vicious mechanical beasts. He’d left too many men, elves, and gargoyles dead in the final struggle to rid them of the foul beast Exodus…and despite Sacrifice being a virtue, he wondered if it hadn’t taken more than its share this time. And why did it seem that those younger, faster, and stronger than he were so oft chosen while Sacrifice had merely passed him by all these years? Or […]

As I am sure most of you have noticed there is an uneasy feeling in our world. This is an official notice for a Call to Arms…please check the times below for your shard and support Lord Dupre!   Shard Date Time EDT Legends  6/25/2012  9 EDT Atlantic 6/22/2012  9 EDT Lake Superior  6/25/2012  8EDT Great Lakes  6/23/2010  9 EDT Chesapeake 6/23/2012 9 EDT Catskills 6/22/2012  7 EDT Siege 6/23/2012 3 EDT Origin 6/22/2012 6:30 PDT Pacific  6/22/2012  8 PDT Sonoma  6/25/2012 9 EDT Lake Austin  6/23/2012  9:30 CDT Baja 6/24/2012 10 EDT Napa Valley 6/23/2012 10 EDT Drachenfells  6/24/2012 […]

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: […]

Written by members of the UO community Issue 1 – Edition 3 CURRENT NEWS Accidental Tourist Takes Trip to Distant Lands The mystery of items disappearing from containers may finally be resolved. Dread Lord Popeye reported that he had been consistently experiencing missing items from his home and pinpointed the loss to an armoir on an upper floor of his tower. While further investigating, he somehow passed through the back of the armoir into a snowy landscape, where he soon encountered, in his own words “a female RPer Ice-queen and a midget in a sled” who tried to alternately bribe […]

The Jury has spoken and the winners of the Sudiva Contest have been chosen. Thank you and congratulations to all participants. It was great to read all the different stories, but there can be only … three. And here they are:     THIRD PLACE ‘Sudiva Enshrined’ by Jhym Sudiva stopped in her endless pacing and shivered in the darkness. She had heard… something. A distant, keening, fitful wail, almost as though a puff of smoke had extinguished the last of the embers remaining from a conflagration that had almost destroyed the world. She raised an eye ridge in thought, […]

Three weeks ago, we posted a reminder about account safety and mentioned the option to set up a secret word to add extra security to your account. The secret word will identify you as the true owner of the account in case your details got lost or changed. If you don’t have a secret word, you should go to the account center and add it to your account right now. If you don’t remember your secret word, send an to email support@ultimaonline.com, supply them with your account name, email address, cc info, and any other information (e.g. game codes), and […]

Greetings, We will push Publish 74.0 to all shards during the next maintenance cycle, in the early morning of January 31. Here are the complete notes for your reading pleasure, enjoy and see you in the game! Publish 74.0   Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone! Yes, love is in the air so please celebrate this day with our gift to you to remember it. You will find a cupid statue in your packs and a cupid arrow. Use the arrow by double clicking and targeting anything mobile. The arrow will then retain the name of your true love. Use it wisely because this arrow will […]

Issue 3 WORLD NEWS Prankster Strikes Again Law officials are on the lookout for the individual responsible for a recent prank, which left many with lower back injuries and hernias.  With the land being absent of a monarch for far too long, the miraculous appearance of a sword in a stone seems to have addressed the people’s cries for order.  Etched writing on the blade not concealed by the stone reads “Whosoever shall pulleth this sword from this stone shall become..”  There are few citizens of the land not familiar with the old tale of how a squire once won […]