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Great Lakes Extended Down Time

October 08, 2013 By: petra Category: General News

Game1Posted by Bonnie Armstrong | 2013 Oct 07 19:56 -0400 GMT

Tomorrow morning October 8th Great Lakes will be down for an extended maintenance period of 3 hours between 6 am est and 9 am est for scheduled network maintenance.

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Lake Superior Forced Maintenance

October 01, 2013 By: petra Category: General News

Game1Posted by Bonnie Armstrong | 2013 Oct 01 14:01 -0400 GMT

We are bringing down Lake Superior at 10:30 am EDT this morning for a force maintanence.  This should fix the issue of the shard not preforming its daily scheduled maintenance.  It should be down no longer than 30 minutes.

UO Team

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Hardware Update on Lake Superior

September 24, 2013 By: petra Category: General News

Game1Posted by Bonnie Armstrong | 2013 Sep 24 18:11 -0400 GMT

Tomorrow morning during maintenance (September 25th,2013) we will be extending the down time for a few hours to update some outdated hardware on Lake Superior.  We do not expect the shard to be down more then 3 hours maximum and expect to have it up and running no later than 9 am.

Thanks in advance for your patience!

UO Team

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Account Management Issue

September 20, 2013 By: petra Category: General News

Game1Posted by Bonnie Armstrong | 2013 Sep 18 17:42 -0400 GMT

Good afternoon Everyone,

We discovered an issue with the Account Management Center this morning that has been fixed.  If you were having difficulties renewing your accounts please try again.  If you are still unable to complete your transaction please contact us so we can take another look at the problem.

Thanks everyone for giving us a heads up on this problem.  We look forward to seeing you this Saturday and helping us celebrate our BIRTHDAY!!!

UO TEAM!!!

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Illegal Placement of Houses

September 20, 2013 By: petra Category: General News

Game1Posted by Bonnie Armstrong | 2013 Sep 19 13:56 -0400 GMT

Good Morning

Houses that have been placed in the new Deep Sea Quest area are being deleted.  The ability to place houses there will be corrected today.  Game Masters are in the process of going to each shard and deleting all houses they find in this area.  Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

UO Team

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Character Transfer Issues Update

September 16, 2013 By: petra Category: General News

GeneralPosted by Bonnie Armstrong | 2013 Sep 16
The Character Transfer Issue has been resolved and the warehouse as been turned back on.  You should have any issues with a character transfer unless you began it in Publish 82.  If you log in squelched, frozen and unable to interact with the world please page a GM to fix your character.

Thanks!

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Character Transfer Issues

September 13, 2013 By: petra Category: General News

GeneralPosted by Bonnie Armstrong | 2013 Sep 12 21:47 -0400 GMT

Hello everyone,

As some of you have discovered we are having some issues with Character Transers.  For the time being we have disabled the Character Transfer Warehouse.  We are working on fixing this issue and as soon as its resolved it will be turned back on.  We should have it back up by tomorrow.

UO Team

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Publish 83 Patch Notes

September 12, 2013 By: petra Category: General News

PatchNotesPosted by Bonnie Armstrong | 2013 Sep 11 21:02 -0400 GMT

Publish 83 will be released to all shards during your next maintenance cycle.  On the 15th of September you will receive your Anniversary gifts in your back packs when you log into the game,.  We  hope you enjoy the first part of the Global Arc and look forward to your feedback.

UO Team!

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Ultima Online’s 16th Anniversary Party

September 10, 2013 By: petra Category: General News

Game1Posted by UO Team | 2013 Sep 09 20:01 -0400 GMT

Ultima Online’s 16th Anniversary Party

Date: September 21st, 2013

12:45 till 5:00 pm CST

Location: TC1 – Luna Fairgrounds

Agenda

12:45 pm CST – Opening Ceremony at the Luna Fair grounds

1:00 to 2:00 pm CST – Hedge Maze Scavenger Hunt (see details below)

2:00 to 2:15 Return to Luna for announcement of winners for the Hedge Maze Scavenger Hunt

2:15 to 3:00 pm CST – Fool Hardy –Join us to preform and show how creative you are

3:00 to 3:30 pm CST Award prizes for the judging of the Cultural Center Design Contest and Story Contest

3:30 to 4:30 pm CST Trivia Contest

4:30 to 5:00 pm CST Magic Show

Details and Rules of Events

Hedge Maze Scavenger Hunt

  • Teleporter located at the Luna Fairgrounds to location of the event
  • Location is in Tram
  • Books with hints as to what objects to look for will be provided
  • After all items are recovered turn in all items to Lady Tia at the Fairgrounds in Luna (use gate to return)
  • There will be a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winner (awards given on shard of your choice)

Fool Hardy

  • Prepare a 6 minute skit – this can be a monologue, skit, or just tell jokes. Please remember to be tasteful and respect the diverse audience members.
  • This will be judged by three (3) devs
  • There will be a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winner (awards given on shard of your choice)
  • Location is at the Luna Fairgrounds on TC1
  • Pre enter via email to [email protected]   no later than September 20th

Cultural Center Design Contest

  • Winner will have their design built on the shard of their choice with your name as the designer
  • Location to be built is in New Magincia
  • Winner announced September 21st.

Story Contest

Mesannas Ascension
In the third and final chapter of the Mesanna Trilogy you will decide how this once servant girl from the Twin Oaks Tavern becomes one of our lands most famous and deadly goddesses.

What you need in the story:

  • Characters: mesanna and anyone you want (Be careful not to offend anyone)
  • Setting: Ultima Online, any shard you wish
  • Place: She can go anywhere, but one location must be a unique area on the shard. (Any player town, establishment, NPC building or EM Building can be used)

Other Information:

1. you may use pictures

2. you must stay true to the first story

3. Original story link:
http://uo2.stratics.com/community/threads/ne…er.196697/

The Golden Age Story Winner (Book 2 of 3)
http://uo2.stratics.com/community/threads/me…st-1814705

4. Should take place 10 or more years after the first story.

5. You must leave it open ended. This will be book (3 of 3)

6. Mesanna cannot die or lose any limbs but she can be scarred.

7. Contact submission email: [email protected]

8. Contest ends: 9/15/2013

9. Winner Announced: 9/21/2013

Trivia Contest

  • Pre sign up required no later than September 20th
  • This will be a bracket type event using this program http://challonge.com/tournament/bracket_generator
  • Be prepared to answer trivia questions, if you answer it correctly you move forward.
  • This will last till there is only one winner …reward announced after contest is over.
  • Location is at the Luna Fairgrounds on TC1

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Publish 83 to Origin and Izumo

September 10, 2013 By: petra Category: General News

From-the-Devs1Posted by Bonnie Armstrong | 2013 Sep 09 20:57 -0400 GMT

During the normal maintenance cycle tomorrow  we will be publshing  both Origin and Izumo, below are the changes made from TC1.

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.
• Luck plays an influence throughout various portions of the quest, including the chance at receiving an artifact from the final boss encounter

New Item Property Bane is  found on certain weapons. This on hit property will only trigger when the targets health is below 50%. As the targets health decreases the chance for the property to fire will increase along with the damage inflicted.  Bane has the potential to damage the target for up to 30% of the targets max hit points in physical damage. This damage cannot exceed 350 physical damage.

Added a new title upon completion of the Exploring the Deep quest.