House Ownership – 3. Trading a House

An alternative to placing a house is that of buying from another player, or selling your house to another player should you choose to move. A considerable amount of information on the topic is included in the game itself through gumps. The Seller On selecting the ‘trade house’ on the ‘ownership’ page of the house sign the house owner will see the message: In order to transfer the house, you and the recipient must both be outside the building and within two paces of the house sign. On targeting the buyer both characters will see a blue deed representing the […]


House Ownership – 1. Placing a House

Placement Rules | What Type of House? | Classic Houses | Custom Houses | Housing Rules | Replacement Rules Your bank box is overflowing, you’ve stuff you want to keep and nowhere to put it. What’s the answer? Build a house! As a house owner, you have many features available, such as: the ability to change the locks (ie set access), lock down items, create friends and banish enemies from the house, create a public building or shop, transfer ownership, or even replace the house. The first thing you will need is a house placement tool. This item is blessed, so […]


Vice versus Virtue

Vice versus Virtue is an order and chaos style player versus player system introduced in publish 86 to replace the older faction system. Non-participants will be unable to recall, gate travel or sacred journey into an active battle area and if approaching overland will be greeted at the town’s outskirts by the following gump: The information below is as released in the publish notes with the addition of some images and reward silver costs. Images of the reward tiles and banners can be seen on the page ‘Vice Vs Virtue Tiles and Banners‘ Sign Up & Quitting Players can join Vice […]


Community Collections

The Exhibits | How to Donate | What to Donate | Rewards Community Collections exist in three locations, Vesper Museum, Moonglow Zoo and Britain Library, they have a dual purpose. For the community aspect points are attributed to all player donations which trigger displays in the 3 locations involved. In Vesper Museum and Moonglow Zoo the display cases and zoo cages fill up as points tiers are completed, in Britain Library there are no tiers, each different NPC has a display relevant to the skill type he or she represents which will display when the points target on that individual […]


Community Rewards

All three community collection reward lists include titles and clothing. These items are in the reward lists of all Library NPCs, as are talismans. Some items are labelled ‘Souvenir from the Museum of Vesper’, ‘Britannia Royal Zoo Member’ or ‘Friends of the Library’. This has been reduced to the initials SMV, BRZM and FotL for the purposes of the table. Each Library npc has, in addition to the general list, a pair of reading glasses which is specific to that npc. These are listed below the general list in the library column. Note: the Fisher, in addition to his reading […]


Friends of the Library

Begin the quest chain by talking to Verity the Librarian in the library just out side Castle British. She tells you that she cannot permit you to make donations till you become a ‘friend of the library’ She gives you an application form and tells you to take it to Sarakki the Notary, whom you will find just outside the library, near the castle entrance. Bureacratic Delay Sarakki has run out of sealing wax, she cannot notarize your application, take an order for sealing was to Petrus the Beekeeper. Petrus is found East of Compassion moongate in Ilshenar, he agrees […]


Character Copy

This feature allows you make a copy of your character from any shard except Siege Perilous and Mugen to “Test Center 1”. There may be periods of time where this feature will not be enabled due to differences in server versions. No transfer tokens are needed for this, simply log in the character you wish to copy. To copy the character: Go to a safe logout location such as your house or an inn. Dismount if you are mounted on a pet, real or ethereal Open the help menu and select the “Character Copy” option Follow the instructions on the […]


Database Maintenance

On Wednesday, September 30, 2015 beginning at 8am ET housing, promotional codes, vet rewards, character transfers, and vendor search will be unavailable for approximately 1 hour.  We will keep you updated as this maintenance progresses.  Thank you and we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.


Publish 90 to Origin & Izumo

We are excited for the Origin & Izumo release of the Time of Legends!  You will need to patch your client to the latest version to log in to the game. We’ll also be updating TC1 to the latest version.  If you have any feedback please send it to uo@broadsword.com. We will be pushing this afternoon so expect Origin, Izumo, and TC1 to go down for a short period.  Please keep in mind that until Publish 90 is deployed world wide character transfers on Origin and Izumo are limited to only those two shards.  Character transfers between all other shards will function as expected. […]


City Loyalty

Ratings Explained | Earning Loyalty | Britannia City Elections City loyalty is viewed through the ‘loyalty rating’ link on the character’s context menu, this menu is displayed by a single left click on your character. Clicking on the loyalty ratings link opens a further menu, a blue gem at the bottom accesses the further page ‘City Loyalty’. Any character can gain loyalty for any city by performing quests or donating items for the benefit of the city. The further option of gaining loyalty for one particular city through killing champion spawns is made possible by becoming a citizen of that […]