Issues with House Lockdown and Virtue Points on Origin

Kai Schober

16 Sep 2011 14:14:16 EST

Greetings,

There are currently some issues with the house lockdown as well as the virtue points on Origin. We are aware of the situation and working to fix it. No points will be lost.

The UO team

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Sonoma vs. Catskills in the Cross-Shard Treasure Hunting Challenge!

Kai Schober

16 Sep 2011 12:22:33 EST

Have you read about the challenge that Catskill declared and Sonoma accepted? We are bout to find out, how it will evolve.

In this corner we have the defending champions, Sonoma, and their champions – The Pink Elephants! This group of superlative Sonomans consists of: Hera “The Terrah”, Angel “Won’t Sit in the Corner” Baby, “Nifty” Swifty, Wonder “Braggin’” Dragon and Alice “Acting With Malice”!

In the opposing corner, the carapaced challengers of Catskills, the Blue Beetles! These azure adventurers are led by the King of Cartography, the Sultan of the Shovel, the Monarch of the Map – Dr. Sucio! They are Llewen “Fightin’” Faerlyght, “Don’t Call Me Dave” Haslehoff, “Dangerous Darlin’” Arwen, and the Pint-Sized Prince of Panty Purloining, Underpants Gnome!

This contest will take place on Saturday (9/17) at 6 pm PST / 9 pm EST on the Test Center shard.

The Challenge is being held at “The Chessboard” venue on the beautiful sand-swept island of Nujel’m. Admission is free, so come cheer on your favorite team! Will Sonoma stomp out the challengers to retain their title, or will those burrowing bugs of Catskills dig deep for the win? Find out on Saturday at “The Chessboard”!

Veteran Rewards Are Back

Kai Schober

14 Sep 2011 12:19:10 EST

Veteran awards are now once again available for all shards.

Also, we are working on getting house decay turned on and expect it to be working within the next week.

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Bug Fixes for Test Center and Origin

Kai Schober

 13 Sep 2011 16:42:34 EST

Greetings,

We are updating Test Center today. You can find the list of bug fixes below:

•    Mannequin can no longer be placed outside of a home.
•    Increased the point value for the Item bless deed
•    Changed the name of the item bless deed to bless deed to preserve the rare factor of the original one.
•    The Cornucopia will now give points as it should.
•    Removed the cooking bonus from the full Fisherman’s set.
•    Fixed an exploit with placing Clean up Britannia items in the trash can.

Please note: If you put female gargoyle cloth armor onto a male gargoyle you cannot remove it via the paperdoll. You can remove it by changing the race/gender. This is a classic client bug that will be fixed in the future.

We plan to publish these changes on Origin tomorrow, Wednesday 09/14. We are going to be bringing down Origin at 11am EDT (3pm UTC).

Please keep an eye on the Herald for updates.

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Essential Maintenance of All Shards – 09/13

 Kai Schober

13 Sep 2011 12:08:08 EST

Update 2:30 pm EDT: All shards are back online.

Greetings,

We will bring down all shards for a short maintenance today at 1:30pm EDT (5:30pm UTC). We anticipate all shards to be back online no later than 2:30pm EDT (6:30pm UTC). The maintenance is to prepare the shards for the re-activation of veteran rewards.

Please note: House decay is still deactivated. We will post an update about this within the next few days.

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An Update on Veteran Rewards

Kai Schober

12 Sep 2011 18:01:20 EST

Greetings,

We want to take a moment and let you know that Veteran Rewards will be re-enabled later this week. We will post an update as soon as they are available again.

Thanks everyone!

The UO Team

Client Patch for Compassion Dyes

Kai Schober

8 Sep 2011 18:20:30 EST

Greetings,

As announced in a previous news the compassion dyes will be patched into the game this evening. If your character is more than 30 days old and not on a trial account, you will see the dyes in your pack after maintenance.

Please note that this is a mandatory patch.