We received 15 great stories from the Legends shard. Our judges had a wealth of memories to be entertained by and, once again, we ended up with another three way tie! Here are the 7 winning entries from the Legends shard: The Noobiest of Newbies When I look back at the ten years, I have played Ultima Online my favorite memory is of the month I was stuck in the Lost Lands aka T2A.   When I think about it, I laugh and laugh.   I really was the noobiest of newbies.  I am sure you are wondering how anyone becomes stuck […]

Written by members of the community Issue 9 WORLD NEWS SCHOOLBOY SLAIN BY PUMPKIN Guards recovered the body of an elementary school boy from a local pumpkin field in Yew following an attack by dormant pumpkin entity which had been allegedly awakened by the young boy’s summoning activities. Fellow students claimed that the youth was fixated with the entity for several past Halloweens where he repeatedly made a vigil with no manifestation of the entity in question. Regettably, the lad would finally get his wish. His screams were heard by his elementary school teacher who immediately called the guards, but […]

We had a total of 7 entries from the Chesapeake shard. The entries were so well done that we had an even amount of votes for some of them and ended up having a 3 way tie! Here are the 7 winning entries from Chesapeake: Maestro’s Journal – Fall 329 – Haven After a rough week things are improving. I am returning to town bloody but alive and with loot. This is due to my skills improving but also due to Malloc. I agreed to help him acquire the materials and money needed to advance in his crafting skills; and […]

We had 13 entries from the Drachenfels shard that included some very creative stories. For your enjoyment, here are the 5 winners: [Somewhere in Sosaria back in 1999…] Dear diary, *inkblot* It´s been some weeks now, since I started travelling the lands of Sosaria. In my efforts to become a good citizen I had to encounter fearsome creatures like Mongbats, Ettins and evil undead. My brothers Hegor and Kregor are good-for-nothing, lambasting murderers and bandits down at the crossroads, but I think a woodelf should follow the path of the virtues. … more or less. *smiles and takes a nip […]

We received many stories from Baja and our winners shared some inspiring memories of camaraderie. The top 5 most memorable UO moments from Baja: Fig The Ancient I struggled with this one for a while…their are so many good moments to remember but this one touched me deeply, and also gave me insight to the folks that played on our server. It was a few months after guilds were introduced into the world. It was during the times when houses were often vandalized by red characters. They would often kill members and steal the keys to your home then empty it […]

The Oceania shard’s contestants remind us that though some moments are full of strife, it’s the people with which we share the challenge that make the moment special. We had three entries from the Oceania shard so all of them are winners! Most Memorable Moment in UO In all my time of playing UO, there have been quite a few memorable moments, But to be honest nothing really captures the very first time I logged in (On my very first account – way back in 1998) It was Chespeake, the shard I first played on; because Oceania didn’t exist yet. […]

In the past few weeks your entries have tickled our funny bones, tugged at our heart strings and stirred up many enjoyable memories. In some shards the competition was fierce and forced many of us to diligently scour through many entries. Other shards the choice was much simpler. In either case, we would like to thank all of players for their amazing memories and announce our winning picks for your memorable UO moments. The first moments we would like to publish are the ones from the Balhae Shard. We received only four entries, so all of the entries are winners! […]

UO’s 15th anniversary triggered several articles and reviews. Here is the EA Press release: EA CELEBRATES 15 YEARS OF ULTIMA ONLINE Mythic to Crown a New King To Mark The 15-Year Anniversary Of The Longest Running MMO Of All-Time Electronic Arts and Mythic are proud to announce the 15th anniversary of the massively multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG) Ultima™ Online. Originally released on September 24, 1997, Ultima Online is a fantasy MMORPG set in the legendary Ultima™ universe and was the first game of its kind to gain a dedicated widespread audience. To celebrate this occasion, the development team at […]

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 […]