Happy 16^th Year Anniversary!!!!!!!!

Ultima Online’s 16^th anniversary gift bag will be delivered between midnight Monday, September 15th, 2013 and midnight October 14th, 2013. Characters need to be 30 days or older to receive the gift bag which contains :

• a 16^th anniversary pony statuette (no it is not a pink pony)

• 16^th anniversary gift card

• 16^th anniversary plant deed

• 16^th anniversary silver serving tray.

New Potted plant deed will create a specially hued Japanese maple tree, a wall mount staghorn fern deed, a potted dieffenbachia plant or a specially hued enormous Venus flytrap plant. The Venus flytrap plant functions just like a trash can which allows you to have more than one trash can in your house and is tied to the Clean up points.

Cleanup Britannia Update

Based on player feedback we have added four new cleanup Britannia rewards. These items include the Refinement Amalgamator, Nature’s Tears, Lune Rouge and Soleil Rouge. We have also added back all of the old dyes.

We have also added many items to the cleanup turn in list:

Exploring the Deep

A New Quest & Encounter have been added. Visit Hepler the Salvager Master at the Sons of the Sea in Trinsic. This is the first part of a three part content Arc which will be developing over the next few months.

City Government Changes

• Daily treasury taxation has been removed.
• Citizens may now donate items directly to the City Heralds, Governors can access those donations by using the City Stones.
• A bulletin board for intra-city communication has been placed in proximity to the City Stone in each loyalty city.
• Governors may place a ballot box to poll their citizens by accessing the option from the City Stone.

Halloween 2013

• During the month of October (October 1^st – October 31^st ET) Butchers can be found in Graveyards throughout Britannia.

• Butchers have a chance to drop a “Carving Kit.”

• Carving kits can be used on new carveable pumpkins to craft 9 different Jack o’ Lanterns.

• Carveable pumpkins can be found on Grimms, randomly spawning in pumpkin patches throughout Britannia.

• Some old and some new items have been added to Trick or Treating, including the heads of the UO Dev Team on a pike. GM Begging is required to have a chance at special Trick or Treat rewards, including the Heads on a Spike.

Character Transfer and Character Copy Changes

Due to some issues that have popped up recently with the cancellation of character transfers we have added the following protection to the system.

• The 24 hour waiting time between character transfers will now also applied to character copies
• In addition, each cancelled character transfer or character copy will be followed by an increasing waiting time based on their number of recent cancels. The first cancelled transfer or copy will be followed by a 5 minute waiting time before another transfer or copy can be attempted. Each additional transfer or copy which is attempted and cancelled within 60 minutes of the first cancel, will add an additional 5 minutes to the waiting time.

Misc Changes:

• New Item Property Bane is found on certain weapons. This on hit property will only trigger when targets health is below 50%. As the targets health decreases the chance for the property to fire will increase along with the damage. Bane will damage the target with  30% of the targets max hit points in physical damage.

• Refinement Amalgamator – Allows refinements of the same type and level to upgraded to the next level. Purchasable from Cleanup Britannia.

Level Requirements:

• 2 “Type” of Defense required to upgrade to 1 “Type” of Protection.

• 3 “Type” of Protection required to upgrade to 1 “Type” of Hardening.

• 4 “Type” of Hardening required to upgrade to 1 “Type” of Fortification.

• 5 “Type” of Fortification required to upgrade to 1 “Type” of Invulnerability.

New Titles: Veteran

• Unlocked at 2 years : Explorer of Darkness

• Unlocked at 4 years: Avenger of the Enchantress

• Unlocked at 6 years: Slayer of Exodus

• Unlocked at 8 years: Quester of the Avatar

• Unlocked at 10 years: Warrior of Destiny

• Unlocked at 12 years: Fulfiller of the False Prophecy

• Unlocked at 14 years: Destroyer of the Fellowship

• Unlocked at 16 years: Survivor of Pagan

• Unlocked at 18 years: Ascendant of the Guardian

• Removed account age limit to use vet reward items. This change does not remove the account bound limitation set on some vet rewards.

• Houses with rental vendors will now fall once they cycle completely through two IDOC states.

• Rental vendor owners will now receive in game messages if the houses they are in go into a collapsing state.

• Added a new cooking recipe, a craftable 3 teir cake recipe can be found on the Orge Cook, Fezzik, in the Wrong Dungeon. These cakes can be dyed by the natural dyes.

• All footwear can now be dyed using standard dye tubs, leather dye tubs and natural dyes.

• The non-meddable armor pieces of the Virtuoso’s Set, the Fisherman’s Set and the Bestial Set can now have the mage armor property applied via a mage guildmaster.

• Players will no longer erroneously receive wall tiles from the Heartwood fletching quests.

• Added five additional dungeons (Blighted Grove, Painted Caves, Palace of Paroxysmus, Prism of Light and Sanctuary) to the Corrupted Crystal Portal. The Felucca location for the Palace of Paroxysmus cannot be accessed through use of the Corrupted Crystal Portal.

• Updated the Exodus encounter stolen item list to include Dread Horn Mane instead of Pristine Dread Horn.

• Removed several blocked locations from the Despise call to arms landing zone.

• Added several items to the list of items that are dyeable by the metal dye tub.

• Corrected the gaman’s command acknowledgement sound effect. The pet should no longer whistle like birds.

• Added the ability to use Tokuno and/or Haochi dyes on the Shroud of the Condemned robe.

• Added salvage bags to the list of items that are sold by the Ter Mur gargish provisioners.

• The quest system will now recognize more of New Magincia for escort NPCs that are travelling to that city.

• Hit curse item property now uses constant power and no longer uses player skill to determine duration.

• Container’s contents are now viewable in the trade window.

• Reforging packages – Mage weapon has been added to Wizardry and Quality packages.

• Re-enabling House dueling with non guild mates. Attacking player outside of house while moving will still result in ejection.

• Secured containers that are created from deeds (Alchemist Bookshelf, Fountains of Life, etc.) in houses will remain secure after house customization.

• Gargoyle players can no longer use a bola attack and essentially fly at the same time.

• You will no longer be able to track a player after his death.

• You are now able to save macros using the number pad on non US keyboards

• Trial accounts are no longer able to use shard transfer tokens or character copy.

• Invisible players will now have to pass a stealth check to remain invisible when using any type of teleporter.

• Cliloc Changes
• New Art Additions

• Cliloc Changes
• New Art Additions

We are in the process of fixing the patcher which may or may not have caused some of you some problems logging into UO. That should be fixed in a few moments. Origin store has also fixed the issue of emails not going out when you purchases items. Please remember all the formatting of the codes you receive are incorrect, they should be formatted to 6-5-5-5 for the game to accept them correctly.

As must of you know we are coming up on UO’s 16th year Birthday. We are testing and putting the finishing touches on the next publish so please stay tuned for the Patch notes from the team.

Thank you everyone,

UO Team

Good morning everyone,

As everyone knows there was an exploit dealing with the Mythic and Advanced Character tokens.  We put out a publish last night to delete every token that was created between June 20th, 2013 and August 1st, 2013.  We are aware that there are some legit tokens that were purchased from the Origin store during this time period, we know how many were sold, so if you bought a token during the time listed and had not used it, then send me your receipt , a house location and shard. If you do not have a house we can set up a location when you contact me at barmstrong@ea.com.   I will not do this without a receipt for proof of purchase.

Considering we have already deleted over 8000 tokens and counting it was a necessary action to take for the game.

UO Team
 

We have fixed the Merchants Trinket you should see the fix tomorrow July 31st.  European shards will see this change tonight during your normal maintenance cycle on your shard.  All existing trinkets will have their charges reset to max 5% to 90  and 10% to 40.

We would also like to recommend you do not purchase Mythic or Advanced character tokens from anyone in game out of of game at this time.  Purchasing from the Origin store is acceptable.

Thanks everyone!

We are putting out a publish to fix a few bugs that have been called to our attention.  These changes will be seen after your next maintenance cycle,

• Corrected an issue which prevented the imbuing of the Gargish Amulet and the stone Gargish Amulet.
• Corrected an issue which broke auto-defending attackers once a player had multiple aggressors and had healed themselves.
• Corrected  an issue with north facing Compassion Virtue tile.

Looting rights distribution update

Healing now only applies aggression towards a healed targets aggressors,  if the healed target is not a pet, the healed target is not the healer, and the healed target has attacked the aggressor.
Example 1: Warrior A is fighting Mob B. Healer C heals Warrior A and now has aggressed Mob B.
Example 2: Tamer A’s pet is fighting Mob B. Healer C heals Tamer A’s pet and does not aggress Mob B.

I was just told by Origin that they know what the problem is that resulted in multi codes not being sent.  The good news is the charges for the 2nd and 3rd item failed .  They are removing the ability to purchase the Kings Collection and should be back up and fix after 5 pm EDT. 

At the return of the store everyone that purchased more than one code will be sent their codes.  So please wail till tomorrow to insure you get an email if you do not then please let me know.

I am sorry for the inconvenience this has caused you guys and thank you for being patient with us while we fix this issue.

Hello everyone,

   I wanted to let everyone know that the issue with not getting your codes has been reported and I have someone working on it right now.  After speaking with my contact at the Origin store the 2nd and 3rd Theme packs purchases did not go through even though they appeared as they did.  There was an error in the labeling of the Theme pack and until this is corrected please do not buy more than one code per Origin account.  As soon as this is fixed I will let you guys know.

For those that have purchased the Kings Collection from the Origin store and are having issues getting the code to be recognized in game please do the following.  After the first 6 digits put in a dash, then after every 5 digits put in a dash.  If for some reason you are still having issues please feel free to contact support@ultimaonline.com or myself.

Happy Monday everyone!!

Publish 82.0.0

Publish 82 is being published on TC1 today, it will be on Origin and Izumo on Thursday/Friday during their maintenance.  The publish will go live on Monday June 24th during morning maintenance.

King’s Collection Theme Pack

• The King’s Collection theme pack will be available for purchase from the Origin store on Monday, June 24th, 2013.
• The King’s Collection provides an entitlement code to be applied to your account and also a code to redeem a token to claim in game items.
• Your account must have the King’s Collection entitlement to use the King’s Collection token to claim in game items
• The collection includes both items available for direct delivery as well as new craftables.
• Items available for direct delivery can only be placed by accounts that have the King’s Collection entitlement.
• Direct delivery items are delivered in a new specialty case to the player’s bank box when the token is used and includes:
 Dragon Lantern Lamp
 Tall Lamp
 Barrel Sponge (Will generate random specialty potions 35/week)
 Alchemist Bookcase
 Fire Painting (Will generate a random .1 Scrolls of Transcendence once per week)
 Ship Painting(Will generate large powder charges 42/week)
 Horse Painting
 Castle Painting
 Cactus Sponge
 Shelf Sponge
 Fluffy Sponge
 Koi Lamp
 Bird Lamp
 Bull Tapestry
 Monastery Bell (Plays a sound when double clicked)
 Embroidered Tapestry
 15th Anniversary Lithograph
 Marble Table
 Golden Table
 Ornate Bed
 Four Post Bed
• The collection will also allow crafters with the correct entitlement  to create the following items that anyone can use.
• Carpentry Craft able Items
 Plain Wooden Shelf
 Fancy Wood Shelf
 Fancy Loveseat
 Fancy Couch
 Plush Loveseat
 Plant Tapestry
 Metal Table
 Long Metal Table
 Wooden table
 Long Wooden Table
 Cello (Plays a sound when double clicked)
 Wall Mounted Bell (plays a sound when double clicked)
 Trumpet (plays a sound when double clicked)
 Cowbell (plays a sound when double clicked)
• Tinkering Menu
 Dragon Lamp
 Stained Glass Lamp
 Tall Double Lamp

Miscellaneous Additions

• Workable glass can now be crafted via the glassblowing menu.

Clean Up Dyes

• 2 old, Glossy Blue & Deep Violet
• 2 new, Liquid Sunshine & Dark Void

Looting rights distribution update

Corrected issue which prevented players healing scores from being calculated correctly in loot final score.
Healing now applies aggression towards targets aggressors. Example: Warrior A is fighting Mob B. Healer C heals Warrior A and now has aggressed Mob B. (Does not apply in PvP)
DPS weight has been adjusted to be closer to Pre Publish 74 in final loot score.

New Gargoyle Equipment: Amulets

• Non medable neck armor
• Crafted using masonry and blacksmithing. Amulets cannot be reforged and material bonuses are not applied when crafted.

Bug Fixes

• Election data will no longer be reset every hour on the first day of the election cycle.
• Corrected an issue where the informational gump indicating who the current governor is could display incorrect information.
• Removed errant water tiles in a part of the ocean where ships could become stuck.
• Anniversary rugs will no longer spam system messages when multiple items are collected.
• Gargoyles can no longer fly when copied/transferred from one shard to another.
• A greater refreshment potion which was poured from a potion keg now shows correct name.
• Greater refreshment potion kegs will now show the correct name.
• 720.0 is now the default total skill cap for all players.
• Shop prices can now be set to a negative value by faction finance ministers on Abyss rule set shards.

Siege Housing

As of 6/21/13, player accounts will be allowed to have one primary house placed on a siege rule set shard (Mugen/ Siege Perilous) as well as one primary house placed on a non siege rule set shard.

Classic client  7.0.31

• Cliloc Changes
• New Art Additions
• New instrument sounds

Enhanced Client  4.0.31

• Cliloc Changes
• New Art Additions
• New instrument sounds

Greetings everyone,

    We have put out a fix for the voting issuethe players have been experiencing.  After maintenance tomorrow the issue should be corrected.  Thank you for your patience while we fix this problem.

Good luck everyone!!

UO Team