Account Center Maintenance – 12/08

Kai Schober

7 Dec 2011 19:02:15 EST

Greetings,

We will bring down the Account Center for a short maintenance tomorrow, Thursday December 8th, at 10am EST (16:00 CET). During the maintenance you will not be able to change subscription, redeem game codes or transfer characters.

At the moment we anticipate the Account Center to be back online at 11:30am EST (17:30 CET).

Thank you for your understanding.

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December’s Treasure Hunt Challenge – Catskills Goes for the Hat Trick

Kai Schober

7 Dec 2011 11:04:53 EST

After successfully defending their title against Napa Valley, the Blue Beetles of Catskills will face their newest threat – the Purple Llamas of Great Lakes Shard! The following message was sent from the EMs of Great Lakes to their counterparts on Catskills:

Let it be known, that the Purple Llamas of Great Lakes throw down the gauntlet of challenge to the Blue Beetles of Catskills. Like an energy vortex, the Purple Llamas will whirl down upon the Blue Beetles with force and speed to claim the Cross Shard Treasure Hunt Trophy! We await the reply of EMs Adris and Barnaby.

Catskills was swift in their response:

To our Esteemed colleagues and the Great Lakes shard,
We have heard your Challenge and are pleased to accept. It will be our pleasure to watch as your vortexes vanish, your fields fizzle, and your Llamantable faction of fuchsia flavored foragers falls short in the face of the phenomenal feats of the fleet-footed Blue Beetles.

Your Biggest Fans,
Barnaby, Adris, and the Blue Beetles

Will the Catskills team manage to win their third straight match, cementing their dominance in this competition, or will they fall to a team of Llamas from Great Lakes? We will find out soon as the Blue Beetles face off against the Purple Llamas in the next match of the Cross Shard Treasure Hunt Challenge!

Date: Friday, December 9th
Time: 8pm CST, 9pm EST
Place: Nujel’m Chessboard, Test Center Shard
Spectators are encouraged to come and cheer on their favorite team! Gates will be provided from the New Haven bank prior to and during the event.

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Housing Decay Reactivated in 2012

Kai Schober

6 Dec 2011 13:06:55 EST

We expect to have housing decay turned on by the beginning of next year. We are going to start giving everyone a warning, this being the first of several you will see. Please take the necessary steps to secure your house before its turned back on.

Happy Holidays!

UO Team

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Items and Sale on Origin Store

Kai Schober

6 Dec 2011 12:22:36 EST

Greetings,

The EA store Origin is now the place to go when you want to buy codes for Ultima Online; it replaces the old store. To celebrate this transition we are running a 20% off sale for several items in the store until December 14th.

Origin currently offers 14 of our most popular items

Ultima Online™ 3 Month Game Time Code
Ultima Online™ 6 Month Game Time Code
Ultima Online™: High Seas Booster
Ultima Online™: Stygian Abyss™ (New Account + 30 Days of Game Time)
Ultima Online™: Stygian Abyss™ (Account Upgrade)
Ultima Online™ Character Transfer Code
Ultima Online™ Advanced Character
Rechargeable Housing Teleport Tiles
Rustic Theme Pack
Ultima Online™ Legacy Token Code
Ultima Online™ 7th Character Slot Code
Ultima Online™ 7th Character Slot and Storage
Forged Metal Tool 10 Charges (100% Enhancement)
Captain’s Bundle

We will see more UO items added in the coming months. These include:

Gothic Theme Pack
Britannia Ship
Forged Metal Tool 5 charges
WoodWorkers Bench
Haochi’s Pigments
Pen of Wisdom
Undertaker’s Staff
Eleventh Year Collection
Natural Hair Dye
Ultima Online™ Housing and Bank Storage Upgrade Code

Head over to the store and and find some stocking stuffers!

Happy Holidays!

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EA Password

Rowland Cox

2 Dec 2011 19:09:02 EST

If you recently registered at SWTOR.com, the password created there has become your new EA password. It will work for all your EA accounts, so please also use it at the account center for your UO account. Please note your game passwords remain unaffected.

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UO Stratics Published Another Developer Interview

Kai Schober

2 Dec 2011 12:28:55 EST

Are you following the QA5 series of mini interviews with the UO Developers and Event Moderators on Stratics? Today the questions and answers with Michael “Phoenix” Moore were published.

For those of us who don’t know, what has your “career track” been with the gaming industry?

I am what is known as a game systems designer. That means I am primarily concerned with game mechanics and not game content. I don’t normally write quests or populate dungeons with monsters or lay out game maps. I occasionally do those things, but mostly I work with things like combat balance, monster AI, monster and player abilities, crafting, trading, and other such features. My job requires a broad skillset that includes software engineering, spreadsheets, databases, technical and creative writing, and user interface design. I often implement the designs I create.

Read the full interview here, or check out the previous ones with Bonnie “Mesanna” Armstrong, EM Emile Layne, Michael “Misk” Armstrong and EM Faine Morgain.

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Shard Mizuho Back Online

Kai Schober

1 Dec 2011 19:14:54 EST

Update 9:45pm EST: The shard is back online.

Shard Mizuho is currently not available. Our technical team is working to solve the situation as soon as possible. At the moment they expect the shard to be back online tomorrow around 1am EST (6am UTC).

Thank you for your understanding,

The UO team

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Shard Oceania Currently Unavailable

Kai Schober

30 Nov 2011 23:33:49 EST

Shard Oceania is currently not available. Our team is investigating the situation and tries to bring the shard back online as soon as possible.

Thank you for your understanding,

The UO team

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Pub 73.2 Comes to Origin

Kai Schober

30 Nov 2011 19:35:49 EST

Greetings,

Publish 73.2 comes to Origin tonight, along with the mandatory patch of the Enhance Client 4.0.21.1 and the Classic Client 7.0.21.1.
Here are the notes for your reading pleasure:

Publish 73.2

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Bug Fixes:

• Balanced will no longer appear on Throwing weapons, and will vanish from any existing throwing weapons.
• Corrected the item property intensity calculations for unraveling Shame loot drops. Lower level items will no longer unravel into Relic Fragments.
• All magic item drops from shame can now be Imbued, even if they have special SA Artifact item properties on them.
• -100 Luck on an item no longer decreases its total weighted item property intensity for purposes of imbuing.
• Imbuing and Enhancing of various item properties onto Shame magic item drops now adds the correct item property intensity.
• Fixed an issue with runic crafting tools that was cutting certain item property values in half when generated.
• Velocity item property values on Shame loot drops were incorrect. These are now generated in increments of 5% instead of 1%, with a 5% minimum.
• Dungeon chests and barrels in Shame now have locks and traps with difficulty and strength appropriate to the dungeon level.
• Fixed a bug with random magic item loot in Shame that was causing item properties to be generated with lower than expected values and with lower than intended caps.
• Small Soul Forges now have enhanced house security:
  • Any small soul forge placed after this publish will remember its owner
  • Only the soul forge owner or the house owner will be able to re-deed it
  • Any small soul forge placed before this publish can only be re-deeded by the house owner
• Fixed a bug with Mannequin security.
• Adjusted the effects of the New Player Token. It will now only last 5 days instead of 7, and party members skill gain increase will be cut in half.

Client Fixes

• Fixed issue when the EC can become unresponsive or even crash when dealing with the visual effect. (Ex. Any spell with massive effects such as the lich howl).
• Fixed EC issue with hueing dynamic objects that don’t change position.
• Fixed an EC crash at the Navery encounter.
• Updated error message when closing accounts.

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Shard Oceania Issues 11/27

Kai Schober

27 Nov 2011 12:40:18 EST

Update 6:10pm GMT: The shard is available again.

Due to a technical issue, shard Oceania is currently not available. Our team is investigating the situation and will try to restore full functionality as soon as possible.

Thank you for your understanding,

The UO team

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