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Ophidians Attack

Sat, 08 Jul 2006 03:28:00 +0000

Sneaking around and slinking up behind unsuspecting victims, Ophidians have invaded several areas of Britannia and seem to be attacking citizens at random. No pattern has yet been established for who they are attacking or why. According to eye witness reports, the Ophidians seem to be searching for someone in particular, but refuse to say who. Knowledge on why these overgrown snakes are roaming around on the outskirts of our fair towns and villages is scarce, though there may be a connection to the recent rash of missing persons reports originating from the cutpurse community.

Even the well fortified source of most of Britannia’s fighting population isn’t immune from these forays. Serpent’s Hold has reported Ophidians roughing up sketchy looking characters outside of the castle gates, though the snakes have yet to make any attempt to attack the Hold itself. Ophidian behavior is exceedingly difficult to predict, but there is hope that these minor incursions are not an omen of something much worse to come.

Notoriously reclusive, Ophidians are not known for traveling much farther than the mountain pass that leads to their home. Almost all contact with the Ophidians in recent years has been met with violence, as if they are protecting something of great value.

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15 Trillion in Dirty Money Removed from Ultima Online

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 23:33:00 +0000

From UO.com:

As outlined in our Rules of Conduct, we do not allow players to enrich themselves through the abuse of bugs or exploitation of game mechanics. We reserve the right to confiscate any items created through such means.

Recently, we discovered a large number of checks for amounts over one million gold pieces. Checks were never intended to exist in denominations of more than a million. Unfortunately, these inflated checks have been used by exploiters to store extremely large amounts of gold. These checks have now been removed from the game.

This action has resulted in over 180 accounts being terminated and approximately 15 Trillion (15,000,000,000,000) gold pieces have been permanently removed from the game.

We realize that some of checks for amounts over one million gold were created by players who did not intend to exploit or harm the game. The vast majority of these checks have been automatically replaced with separate checks equal to the total amount of the replaced check, which can be found in a brown bag where the original check was located. If the check was inside of a container, you will find the brown bag in the same location as that container. Please note that in some cases the brown bag will be underneath the container, so you will need to move the container to access the bag. If the check was in your backpack or in your bank box, the brown bag will be located in your bank box.

In some cases, this may cause your bank box or your house to hold more than their item limit. Don’t worry; the new checks are still safe! However, before you will be allowed to place anything more into your bank box or lock down an item in your house, you will have to remove enough items from your bank box or unlock enough items from your house to bring the total number of items below the item limit.

In rare cases where we could not safely convert these checks, the checks were automatically placed in a red secure container with the label, “Please contact a GM about this item.” These containers will not decay, so you may page a GM at your leisure to convert the checks. Please note: If these containers reside in a house, the house owner must be present.

We are committed to maintaining the integrity of Ultima Online, and will continue our efforts to rid the game of cheaters along with their ill-gotten gains. If you haven't done so recently, please take a moment to read the Terms of Service and Rules of Conduct, and remember to abide by them at all times.

Inu Quest on hold

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:29:00 +0000

The Inu Quest has been put on hold for a bit.

These are exciting days for MMORPG fans here at EA. With the acquisition of Mythic, the UO team will be working with the creative folks who brought us Dark Age of Camelot and are hard at work on the spectacular-looking Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. I’m thrilled that the UO team and Mythic will work together to forge Britannia’s future.

There is much to talk about with our new partners, and it will take some time to review and finalize our plans. Because we need to take that time, we are postponing the announcement that we were going to make this week. The in-game fiction cycle will take a break for a bit and will return soon.

See you in Britannia,
Darkscribe

Inu Quest Secret Dungeons

Sun, 25 Jun 2006 14:40:00 +0000

Inu Quest secret dungeon entrances added:

Here is how to get into these new secret dungeon areas for the Inu Quest happening in Ultima Online right now.

BRITAIN SEWERS

Where: In the sewers below Britain.

Visit: At the sign near the area with the switches at the North West end of the Britain sewers, you can enter this secret dungeon area by speaking "charvory" at the side of the sign near the switches in the screenshot.

SPECTRE DUNGEON

Where: On the island of Reg Volom in Ilshenar.

Visit: Run from Spirituality Shrine to the Spider Cave. Run through Spider cave until you get to the teleporter just outside the exit. Once in Reg Volom enter Spectre Dungeon and at the tip of the sword pattern in the hallway past the first room - speak "masteropenthydoor" to enter the secret tomb room below.

Find more here: Inu Quest Secret Dungeon Entrances

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Ultima Online Publish 39

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:37:00 +0000

New Player Improvements

New Player Guided Tour System: Guided New Player
experience added in conjunction with the release of the Japanese “Starter
Kit”. Will be available (and skippable) to all new characters
upon initial log-in.

Font Improvements: Two new bold English fonts that
make the text easier to read. Also changed the default speech font color
to a readable yellow color.

Default layout: A new default layout that will make
it easier for new and returning players navigate the interface. The
default gameplay window size has also been set to the larger 800x600
option.

Spring Décor Collection items: This is a
set of house decoration items to be included in the Japanese “Starter
Kit” available in February. These items will be available to other
territories through uogamecodes.com beginning in March.

Quest updates and additions: 12 new quests that
help the new players get familiar with the game.

Interface and Art Additions/changes

Added new artwork for Dragon Armor and the Helm of Swiftness.

* Changed the character status screen artwork to make it more streamlined.

Added new Login screen artwork for the 2D client.

Added sticky health bars for all targetables.

Mouse wheel scrolling support has been added for the 2D client.

Menu bar can now be moved in 2D client

Adjusted the 3D character and creature models to make them fit more
inline with the world.

Object handles will stick where they appear to make targeting moving
objects easier.

Bug Fixes – Exploits

Players will no longer be able to attack mirror images to gain skill
or cause harm to other players in Trammel.

Changed the Mirror Image special ability so that it will no longer
cause players to get “guard whacked” when used by other
players.

Travesty will now cause damage when mimicking a player with a non-weapon
(fishing pole, candle, etc.).

Energy field will no longer cause players to be flagged as aggressive
in Trammel.

Players will no longer be able to area of effect rez ghosts through
house walls with Noble Sacrifice.

Players will no longer be able to provoke pets on other players in
a guard zone to get them guard killed.

Now that the snows have begun to melt, and the Winter Solstice has
passed into history, bags of sending can no longer be compelled to send
white cloth, or any other quest object, through the etheral void.

Other Bug Fixes

Lethal Dart and Broken Shaft quest will now work properly.

Ossian Grimoire can no longer be “blessed” by leaving
in a secured bag overnight on Siege.

Helm of Swiftness can now be repaired.

Helm of Swiftness obtained from a Peerless minor paragons can now
be worn by Humans and has been assigned the correct resists.

Changed two areas on Dreadhorn Island so they no longer teleport
players out of the dungeon.

Mondain’s 300th anniversary coin is now movable and will no
longer become un-locked if in a house nor will they be stackable.

Damage from all archery weapons has been adjusted Some underpowered
bows have been enhanced and some overpowered bows have had power reductions.

You can now trade regular blessed items. Personal blessed items still
may not be dropped in the trade window.

Changed the way the Aminia Werewolf Quest spawns creatures.. This
should eliminate problems with duplicate spawns.

Animal form now has a recovery time of 2.5 seconds. FCR 6 will reduce
this to 1 second.

Animal form now costs 10 mana to cast.

“Streakiness” in the random number generator should be
improved. As a side effect “8x8” will no longer work.

Flying creatures (dragons/drakes) no longer fall through surfaces
when they are killed. This will make it easier to loot their corpses.

Wyrms no longer spawn in or walk through stalagmites in Destard.

Changed message player receives when they are squelched and try to
speak to "You cannot say anything at this time, you have been muted."

Made game balance changes to the Delucia Dungeon to make it more
challenging to defeat the dread spiders.

House transfers are no longer allowed if the house exceeds the buyer's
storage capacity (Non UOML account)

Gender and Name Change

Warning text and a link to the uo.com information pages were added
to Name and Gender Change gumps.

When changing gender to male, players will now have the ability to
select a facial hair style.

Kane the Master of Arms Quest

Fri, 30 Dec 2005 02:16:00 +0000

Kane the Master of Arms can be found in the city of Trinsic. The quest is titled: "Doughty Warriors." He will ask you to slay 10 Mongbats, and then 10 Imps - afterwards he asks you to slay 10 Daemons. Your reward will be the "Sash of Might." Keep in mind you can only complete this quest once per charachater. The Sash of Might is blessed.

This is another quest for UO - Ultima Online

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New Ultima Online Quests

Wed, 21 Dec 2005 04:37:00 +0000

Read up on the latest quests for Ultima Online.

Rolf the Wandering Healer

Hi there, my friend!

I'm a simple healer, devoted to roaming the land helping those in need. But, my story is long and not why I came to you. Though they are oft neglected in this day and age, even the least of the lowly knows that there are eight virtues in this world.

I'm going to tell you eight stories, but it's up to you to find meaning in them…

There's no war going on, why is this old codger working us like this?

Kane the Master of Arms

No, no, NO! How many times do I have to tell you? You do it like this! Do you think this is a game? Do you think if you cry yield in battle that you'll get a hand up like you do here? You will die if you don't knuckle down and learn to fight less like slobbering puppies and more like men!

You! You think this is funny, do you? We'll see who's laughing after your first battle, you bunch of worthless, craven maggots!

*sigh*

How ever can they expect me to hold Trinsic with this lot?

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Ultima Online Publish 38

Sat, 17 Dec 2005 20:55:00 +0000

Features for Ultima Online Publish 38

* Siege/Mugen PBD fix
o Players on the Siege Perilous and Mugen shards can now bless 1 item. Use the player’s context menu to do this. All other shards are unaffected by this change.
o Clothing with properties has been unblessed
* Combat changes
o 35 damage cap for direct damage for PvP (no cap for PvM)
o Word of Death now uses Chaos damage
o All stats have been capped at 150
* Name and Gender Change Tokens
* Christmas Trees can be placed
* Holiday Gift Boxes
o Holiday Tree Deed- Will offer 2 different types of trees
o Named Reindeer and Sleighs - These will feature the names of UO Team members (double-click to see the names)
o Snow Globe - Will have different places than previous years
o Soulstone Fragment - Because you simply can't get enough of these
* Players are no longer able to trade blessed items (this affects all shards)
* New Quests - BNN - Meanings

Primary Bug Fixes:

* Vendor Rentals now display the proper time remaining
* Player’s corpses now teleport out of a peerless dungeon when players are kicked out after defeating a Peerless boss
* Weight no longer remains if gold is in 2 piles when tithed
* Plant resources now stack automatically
* Corpses of creatures that were flying at the time of death can now be looted
* Fixed a client crash involving character transfer
* Fixed a potential shard crashing bug
* Peerless Boss teleport items used in the wrong facet no longer take players to a bad location in certain cases
* Fruit bowls can no longer be consumed if a player is full
* Added the ability for the Dev team to create chain quests that are either repeatable or non-repeatable
* Players can no longer get stuck in a state where they can’t fish anymore because they tried to fish while overweight
* Players can now only open one quest gump at a time plus their quest log

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Ultima Online Holiday Gifts 2005

Sat, 10 Dec 2005 03:54:00 +0000

The Ultima Online holiday gifts for 2005 are just around the corner!

We've been working hard in the basement for months, and just in time for the Holidays, we've finished crafting some cool items. In just a couple of weeks, you'll log-in one day to find a gift box in each of your characters' backpacks. Inside you'll find a number of Holiday-themed goodies - it's our way of saying thank you to our loyal players as well as celebrating another great year of Ultima Online.

Inside of each gift box you will find:
• Holiday Tree Deed- Will offer 2 different types of trees
• Named Reindeer and Sleighs - These will feature the names of UO Team members
• Snow Globe - Will have different places than previous years
• Soulstone Fragment - Because you simply can't get enough of these

Happy Holidays from the UO Team!

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Ultima Online Evil Home Decor

Sat, 02 Jul 2005 15:02:00 +0000

This is cool.

Evil Home Decor for Ultima Online has finally been revealed.

Express your dark side by decorating your house with the Evil Home Décor Collection, ghoulish furnishings that will be available for a limited time and part of a few key promotions. Every active player will get one of the items (one item or grouped set per account). (Your account must be active on June 24 to be eligible.)

The date of the giveaway will be announced soon!

After the giveaway, we will be adding the items to buddy program rewards, adding them as rewards to other upcoming promotions, and putting the items on sale for a limited time via an online store.

We are planning on adding more new collector’s item every 3-4 months, for use in a variety of promotions. Stay tuned to www.uo.com for news about what items will be introduced and when.

Meanwhile, don’t miss out on your chance to own a piece of The Evil Home Décor Collection. Here are all the items, in all their malevolent glory:

Read Evil Home Decor Rares & Items

Ultima Online Mondain's Legacy

Sat, 04 Jun 2005 06:01:00 +0000

The shattering of the Gem of Immortality was the genesis of Ultima Online™. The shards created were perfect images of Sosaria. But with the essence of immortality seeping from the fragmented shards, the fabric of the universe began to unravel.

While mysterious guardian spirits are credited with the salvation of Sosaria, in actuality, the primal cooperative magic of the elves mended the world anew. Such an immense enterprise, weakened the fey folk significantly and they withdrew from the world and its affairs to restore themselves.

As self-proclaimed but severely drained protectors of the land, the elves watched in sorrow as plague swept through Yew and decimated the region, converting it to a foul swampland. Isolated and safe, the elves waited until the time was right to come forth again into the world...

... that time is nearly upon us.

Introducing Ultima Online: Mondain's Legacy, the 7th exciting chapter in Ultima Online's rich and storied history. Ultima Online: Mondain's Legacy includes groundbreaking new features, including:

New Playable Race: Elves

Twisted New Enemies

New Dungeons

New Spellweaving Skill

New Quest System

Collections

Increased storage capacity

New Playable Race: Elves
Mysterious and powerful, a playable race of Elves will deliver a whole new way to explore and rediscover Sosaria. Along with a New Elf city, the following Elvin themed features have been added to assist the Elves in their return to Britannia: New combat abilities

New architecture and housing tiles

New trainable mount

100s of new craftables

New wearables

New Elven City

And more!

You can start a new Elf character, or you can transform a human character into an Elf after a series of difficult trials and quests.

Twisted New Enemies
While the Elves bring the light of life unto the world, new enemies bring death, disease, destruction and corruption. These fouls beast include: Chief Paroxysmus -- a hideous disease-spewing walking pollution.

The Dread Unicorn - A noxious, twisted version of a once pure creature.

Lady Melisande - So foul, the mere sight of her causes humans to wretch.

Shimmering Effusion - A deadly light that appears when greed, evil and corruption are in the area.

10 other new monsters, Champion Spawns and Paragons.

New Dungeons Nine new dungeons to explore

Rare treasures to claim

New Champion Spawns

New Paragons

New Peerless Monsters, quite literally, the toughest monsters ever put into UO.

New Spellweaving Skill
Groups of 2 to 5 skilled casters produce powerful magic that would be impossible for one mortal to command. The more participants in the spell circle, the more powerful the spells, which include: Gift of Renewal

Immolating Weapon

Attune Weapon

Thunderstorm

Nature’s Fury

And many others.

New Quest System
New quest engine will provide 100s of quests and 100s of hours of gameplay. Rewards offered will be everything from minor artifacts and gold for simple quests to the ability to join the Elven race after a long arduous series of quests.

Collections
New cooperative collections including a Museum, Library and a Zoo. Completion of a cooperative collection results in rewards for everyone who contributed.

Increased storage capacity
Housing storage capacity will be increased by 20%

Keep an ear out for more specific details to be released in the coming weeks.

UO Publish 32 Details

Sat, 16 Apr 2005 15:18:00 +0000

"TC2 Pub32 Test" will be running the Publish 32 Server code.

Players will find BODs have been added to bank boxes on test center to help with testing the BOD changes.

Publish 32 contains the following changes, fixes, and additions:

Note:
This is not a final list and may change before this publish goes live.
We will post a final list of Publish 32 details when we are ready to
publish to the production shards.

New Features

Three new Necromancer alchemy potions with two intensities each (regular and greater)

Conflagration – Creates a field of flame with damage based on the strength of the potion.

Mask of Death –
Causes monsters to ignore a player for a duration based on the strength
of the potion. Has no effect on monsters that are currently
attacking you.

Confusion Blast
– Confuses all monsters in an area. The size of the
area is based on the strength of the potion.

Necromancer Exorcism spell

Exorcism is a Necromancer spell that also requires GM Spirit Speak to cast

Exorcism will relocate any player ghosts around the caster to a shrine on that facet

Exorcism will only work in a champion spawn region

Exorcism will not affect players who have a corpse on the same subserver

Exorcism will not affect fellow faction, guild, alliance, or party members

Players with GM Spirit Speak can now see the ghosts of other players at all times

Exorcism scrolls will be craftable by scribes, drop off of some high ranking creatures, and can be sold to shopkeepers

Added guild and alliance chat

Use “\” for guild chat

Use “|” (shift + “\”) for alliance chat

Guild and alliance chat color and ignore toggles added to options gump

Improved looking radar map for both 2D and 3D clients

Shading based upon slope of tiles (except water and lava)

Shading based upon height of objects (will help terrain like the hedge maze)

Careful Z sorting (to make roofs of buildings look better)

Tree canopies (won’t display in Felucca unless tree canopies option is on)

Corrected hue processing

Added a monument south-west of the Britain bank on both facets

Monument has statistics about the invasion

The color of the statue and the wording on it will vary depending on how successful players were at fighting off the invasion

Mini-house “Church at Night” as a 1st Year Veteran Reward

Paragons are now hued bright yellow in 3D client

Players can now press the
Enter key to select the last used shard in the 2D and 3D clients, and
to choose the last used character in the 2D client

Changes

The Despise Humanoid Invasion has ended

Turning in a BOD removes the BOD timer based on BOD type (blacksmith/tailor)

BOD quest offers now display time remaining in minutes instead of hours

Adjusted the rate at which cloth prices fluctuate in the commodity system

Vendors can no longer be dismissed until all of the gold they are holding as been collected

The turn-in NPC for Treasures of Tokuno, Ihara Soko, can now find more than 10 artifacts in your inventory

Replaced Polymorph gump with a better looking iconic choice gump

Confirmation gump now appears when disabling auto-insurance

All spellbooks, including Paladin, Necromancer, Ninjitsu, and Bushido, will now decay

Fixes

Players can no longer fire a
bow while moving unless you are using the Moving Shot special
attack. Archery with low swing speed no longer waits too long
to attack after moving

You can no longer pay reduced rent by pricing items such that the total value of the vended items exceeds the system limits

Power scrolls given to dead players will now be placed in the player’s corpse

Decorative plants now display the plant type in their name

Fixed a few creatures that were still auto-dispelling summoned pets too often

Fixed the spellbook
descriptions of Demons, Energy Vortexes and Blade Spirits to reflect
the recent change to the number of control slots they require

Faction tags can now be seen everywhere on Siege ruleset shards, instead of just in Felucca

Improved script language performance and fixed issues with various scripts on the server

Other miscellaneous fixes that will not be announced before the publish is live, as they are considered exploits

Ninja Class page added

Sun, 03 Apr 2005 20:22:00 +0000

Added info on the Ninja Class for Samurai Empire expansion. This page has info on the Ninja Special Attacks and more.

Master the art of Ninjitsu for ultima combat!

PVP?

Soulstone Fragments Are Available

Sun, 03 Apr 2005 18:44:00 +0000

Did you miss out on the Ultima Online: Samurai Empire pre-order Soulstone? Did you get your Soulstone, but wish you had another one? No need to fear, Soulstone Fragments are here!

Soulstone Fragments are small pieces of a shattered Soulstone that have retained some of the Soulstone's energy. These fragments are only strong enough to store a fraction of the original Soulstone's power and can be used to transfer skills up to 5 times. After the power of the fragment has been depleted, it can be used as a decoration for your humble abode. There are 9 different Soulstone Fragments available to collect and trade.

Now you can enter your Samurai Empire upgrade code found on the back of your CD jewel case into UO's in-game promotion tool, and you will be given a Promotional Token that can be redeemed for a Soulstone Fragment.

What exactly is a Soulstone Fragment? How is it different from a regular Soulstone?
A: A Soulstone Fragment is a piece of a shattered Soulstone that contains a remnant of the Soulstone's energy. Since it is only a small piece of a whole Soulstone, it has a limited amount of energy in which to transfer skills between your characters. This energy will last for 5 uses - after that, you can use it for decoration, because it just looks so darn cool when you stick it in the ground.

Q: What does a Soulstone Fragment do?

A: A Soulstone Fragment allows a UO player to store skill points in a specific skill and to move skill points from one character to another. For instance, if you have a character that you want to be a pure warrior, but he has a bunch of Magery skill points, you can move those Magery skill points to another character you own.

Or, if you have a character you’d like be a blacksmith one day and a warrior the next, store your blacksmith skill points in one Soulstone Fragment and your swordsmanship skill points in another Soulstone Fragment. Change your character back and forth when you wish. (Except during battle. Soulstones cannot be used during battle.)

You can use a Soulstone Fragment five times only. After that, its energy is gone and it's nothing more than decorative rock.

Treasures of Tokuna Item List

Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:21:00 +0000

Added a page with the info on Treasures of Tokuna. If you are looking for info or item info for these Ultima Online rarities, check out the Treasures Of Tokuna item list page.