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New Shard Event Calendars
Posted on Sunday, October 5, 2008, 10:09 AM EDT by *zigzag* (GeneralNews)
Individual shard event calendars have been created... or re-created depending on how ya look at it! Anyhoo...we now have another place to post our player events. I say another because unlike our old forum setup, at this point your event will not auto post to the current UO Events Calendar. We do encourage you to post to both your shard calendar and the main UO Events calendar. The calendars are visible from the shard forums, from the forum index page, and from the dropdown at the bottom of any calendar page. The calendars are moderated, meaning your event will not show until approved by a Moderator. I've set up email notifications to the shard staff so it should never be too long before your event does appear. Thanks everyone! Go make more cool events and post 'em!
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FoF: Party On
Posted on Saturday, October 4, 2008, 4:59 AM EDT by Larisa (GeneralNews)
Posted to uoherald.com's Five on Friday: FoF: Party On Jeremy Dalberg 03 Oct 2008 15:18:24 EST Publish 56 bugfixes, upcoming faction stuff, and more! "I'm red/green colorblind - is there a way for me to tell the difference between colors of granite?" Yes! In Publish 56 we'll be adding the name of the granite type (shadow, valorite, etc) to the tooltip. -- Publish 56 Bug Fix Roundup Here are some more tidbits that look likely to make Publish 56: - Young players will now be attacked in Ilshenar dungeons (they will also get the warning gump as they enter, so they're not taken by surprise.) - Abandoning an escort via the quest gump will no longer prevent you from picking up a new escort - The Virtue Armor suit will no longer sometimes lose its self repair property after logout One clarification as well - last week I mentioned the "weapon switch" macro working with spellbooks - this was terribly unclear. The macro that will work with spellbooks in Pub 56 is EquipLastWeapon. -- Skill Jewelry and Form-Changing Spells in Publish 56 I didn't have a version of the question handy, but this has come up a number of times. Currently, if you use skill jewelry to increase your skill, cast a form-changing spell (such as Necromancy's Vampiric Embrace) then remove the skill jewelry, you remain in that form. This will be changing in Publish 56. What will happen is if you lower your skill past the threshhold to be able to cast that particular form-changing spell, (whether by removing items, using a soulstone, or even using the Test Center set skill command) you will revert to your normal form. This will affect not only the various forms available with Necromancy but Magery (Polymorph,) Ninjitsu (Animal Form,) and Spellweaving (Reaper Form.) -- "You've hinted at more faction-related stuff coming up - is this in Publish 56?" Yes! The next round of content adds completely new rewards and incentives for Factions. Amongst them are many new items, a few of which we can tease about below. Faction Equippables: A set of enhanced Artifacts. They will be available for purchase via a collection box in your Faction Stronghold (later on, silver collected this way will benefit your faction, but that will be in a future publish.) These items will have several restrictions: Bound to the character that purchases them - they won't be tradable or equippable by anyone else Durability has been added to many of them, requiring repairs as they're damaged Can only be repaired with the new Powder of Perseverance, a faction-only item. (Powder of Fortification will not work on them) Available only to certain ranks; if you lose your faction rank you will no longer be able to equip an item of that rank. We'll release the full table of items in the notes when the publish goes to Test Center, but here are a few examples so you can see what we mean by "enhanced": Rank 1: Rune Beetle Carapace with additional +3 to all resists Rank 4: Crimson Cincture with additional +5 Dexterity Rank 7: Spirit of the Totem with enhanced resists (instead of the linked resists, this version has Phys 20% and 10% in each of the others) Rank 9: Folded Steel Reading Glasses with additional +10 DCI Rank 10: Ornament of the Magician with additional Mana Regen 3 There are a total of nineteen new artifacts spread out across the various tiers. Faction Consumables: In addition to the new artifacts, a number of new consumables will be available for purchase with silver. Anyone in the faction will be able to use the items (they are freely tradable) but there will be a cooldown on many of the items, based on rank. Examples of the consumables include: Stronghold Rune: One-use item that will teleport you to your faction HQ (standard criminal flagging rules apply) Shrine Gem: One-use item that can be used to teleport your ghost to the nearest shrine Powder of Perseverance: A variant of Powder of Fortification that can be used on the new faction items. Enhanced bandages that also remove curses Two new types of potions There will also be a new item for sale that allows Human players to equip Elven items. Start stocking up your silver, and when this goes to Test Center we look forward to your feedback and bug reports! -- More Stacking Info The following items have all been made stackable in Publish 56 - QA still needs to check through them, and we'd LOVE for y'all to spend some time on TC breaking them, but here's what we have so far: granite sand tribal berries enchanted apples smoke bombs green tea wasabi clumps sushi rolls all chocolate ingredients oil cloths arcane gems dough pans of cookies cakes baked pies Here are some more that we're working on but may or may not make it in 56: savage kin paint unbaked pies There are a few caveats - for example, exceptional and non-exceptional components won't stack with each other - but this should start to make things easier in a number of areas. We still have quite a few more items on our list, but we're moving right along!. -- What's To Come: Publish 56 is still on track to go to Test Center the week of the 13th. As you can see from the things mentioned above, it's pretty big! We'll most likely be running a few special testing events on TC to get lots of attention to the various parts of the publish, so stay tuned. Also, the Chicago Town Hall is coming very soon - October 18th! Leurocian and I are looking forward to talking in much more detail about some facets of Stygian Abyss, and we'd love for you to join us. Check out the details here, and we'd appreciate it if you RSVPed. -- House of Commons Chat Log Available Thanks for Stratics for hosting a great House of Commons - if you missed it, you can read the transcript (and see some pictures of the team!) here. -- Fansite News: [Sonoma] Sonoma kicks off Fall ... UO TRIVIA CHALLENGE! The Peoples Army of Sonoma [PAS] invites players to participate in a fun for everyone UO TRIVIA Challenge starting at 6pm Pacific (8pm Central, 9pm Eastern) at Karns Vendor Shop located inside Luna town (SW corner). Free entry, great prizes and a fantastic JACKPOT question reward. CLICK HERE for more details. ~~~~~~~~~ FALL-O'WEEN Home Deco Contest Grab those deco kits ... rake those leaves .... cut those vines ... pull out the old cauldrons ... stuff those scarecrows and scatter those bones ... let the creative juices flow as it is time for Sonoma's FALL-O'WEEN Home Deco contest!! It's easy to participate... Decorate your Sonoma home in a Fall or Halloween theme. Entry home must be opened to public from Oct. 26th - Oct. 31st for viewing by judges. Entries accepted until Saturday, Oct. 25th at 5:00m Pacific. Contact Queen Mum by PM or at ICQ 168-812-018 to enter and for more details click here. -- [Lake Superior] Lake Superior Community's weekly event Schedule ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Community Meet'n Greet Date: Monday, October 6th Time: 7:30PM Central Location: Skara Brae Community Center - located next to the bank Hosts: Airmid / Sabina Nikolai ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Doom Gauntlet Run Date: Tuesday, October 7th Time: 8:00PM Central Starting Location: Skara Brae Community Center - located next to the bank Host: Taeara Mi'Aken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peerless hunt (Mondain's Legacy Required) Date: Wednesday, October 8th Time: 8:00PM Central Starting Location: Skara Brae Community Center - located next to the bank Host: Taeara Mi'Aken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dungeon hunt Training Camp Date: Wednesday, October 8th Time: 8:00PM Central Starting Location: Skara Brae Community Center - located next to the bank Host: Dyllon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Miasma Hunt Date: Thursday, October 9th Time: 8:00PM Central Starting Location: Skara Brae Community Center - located next to the bank Host: Taeara Mi'aken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ilshenar Champion Spawn hunt Date: Friday, October 10th Time: 9:00PM Central Starting Location: Skara Brae Community Center - located next to the bank Host: Taeara Mi'Aken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Have fun playing UO while listening to these live broadcasts from Whispering Rose Radio (www.wrrad.com) ... Saturday - Oct. 4th - Its time for the ever popular Brush LimpPaw show starting at 2pm PT, 5pm ET on WRR where listeners hear his Universal Outlook on current events as only he can deliver it. ~~~~~~~~~ Saturday - Oct. 4th - Deal or No Deal ~ 'UO Style' is on LEGENDS this week starting at 3pm PT, 6pm ET. Participants will be playing for 10 Million and of course there will be 5 - 250k door prize drawings *remember, you must be there to win*. For a map of the WRR DoND location on LEGENDS... CLICK HERE. ~~~~~~~~~ Sunday - Oct. 5th - Its time for the weekly auction with the Pacific Auction House (located just East of the Luna Moongate). Serving the community for over 4 years, the PAH continues to bring players fantastic AUCTION deals. Get there early for best seating. Auction starts at 12pm PT, 3pm ET and is broadcasted live on WRRadio. ~~~~~~~~~ Thursday - Oct. 9th - The weekly "Tazz & Keg's Underground" radio show on WRR is broadcasted live at 7pm PT - 10pm ET. Entering their underground world leads to a world you will long remember and never want to miss. ~~~~~~~~~ Have a fantastic week with UO & the sounds of Whispering Rose Radio (www.wrrad.com) ~ see you all on the flip side! -- -- I spent this week in Virginia hanging out with the team in person. It's always a blast to see everyone face-to-face, and I'll miss them when I'm back home next week! - Jeremy
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UO Herald RSS Feed Available!
Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2008, 7:50 PM EDT by Larisa (GeneralNews)
Posted to uoherald.com: UO Herald RSS Feed Available! Jeremy Dalberg 02 Oct 2008 17:48:59 At long last, we have an RSS feed for the UO Herald - use your favorite reader to pick it up Here!
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FoF: Happy Birthday!
Posted on Friday, September 26, 2008, 6:55 PM EDT by Larisa (GeneralNews)
Posted to uoherald.com's Five on Friday: FoF: Happy Birthday! Jeremy Dalberg 26 Sep 2008 18:32:28 We're still neck-deep in Publish 56, so here are some more updates and some schedule info to keep your appetite whetted! "So fire-colored cacti are cool but... is that *all* the Naturalist quest gives anymore?" This is something we're investigating. As an update to last week's post about colored new plants, this may be a bug that the fixing of which would eliminate those colors in the new plants. We'll keep you posted, but I wanted to make sure y'all were aware of the possibility that they will go away, since it's contrary to what we posted last week. -- More Publish 56 updates The big stuff is still making its way to QA, but here are some more bugs that are looking pretty solidly fixed right now: Making the "weapon switch" macro work with spellbooks Fixing an issue where axing spinning wheels while they're spinning can break them The ability to disarm a shield with the Disarm special move should go away Fixing some issues with the hiryu dismount move You'll be able to find a healer on Nu'Jelm! Fixing some issues with commanding your pet to attack or kill and the pet not responding consistently Fixed a bug where the Inquisitor's Resolution sometimes spawns in an unreachable area A number of minor display bugs - tooltips not showing the correct information, that sort of thing We've got more coming in all the time, plus the live event, prep work for Halloween (you didn't think we'd forget about Halloween, did you?) and more! It's gonna be a monster publish. -- What's To Come: Publish 56 schedule update - at this point we're looking to get it on Test Center in two weeks (the week of the 13th) in order to give QA a fair shot at it. It'll sit on TC for a week or so, then Origin, then live - the usual pattern. We know this is an unusually long wait for this event, but it's complex and involves quite a few systems, so we're spending as much time as it takes to make it work. -- Upcoming House of Commons Chat We've got a UO Stratics House of Commons chat scheduled for next week - Wednesday, October 1, at 7PM EDT. We'd love to have you come on out and ask us questions! To find out how to join, check out the Stratics announcement here! -- Fansite News: [Lake Superior] Lake Superior Community's weekly event Schedule ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Community Meet'n Greet Date: Monday, September 29th Time: 7:30PM Central Location: Skara Brae Community Center - located next to the bank Hosts: Airmid / Sabina Nikolai ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vesper Museum Exhibit tours Date: Tuesday, September 30th Time: 8:00PM Central Starting Location: Skara Brae Community Center - located next to the bank Host: Taeara Mi'Aken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peerless hunt (Mondain's Legacy Required) Date: Wednesday, October 1st Time: 8:00PM Central Starting Location: Skara Brae Community Center - located next to the bank Host: Taeara Mi'Aken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dungeon hunt Training Camp Date: Wednesday, October 1st Time: 8:00PM Central Starting Location: Skara Brae Community Center - located next to the bank Host: Dyllon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Terathan Keep dungeon crawl Date: Thursday, October 2nd Time: 8:00PM Central Starting Location: Skara Brae Community Center - located next to the bank Host: Taeara Mi'aken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ilshenar Champion Spawn hunt Date: Friday, October 3rd Time: 9:00PM Central Starting Location: Skara Brae Community Center - located next to the bank Host: Taeara Mi'Aken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Enjoy the experience of playing UO while listening to these live broadcasts from Whispering Rose Radio (wrrad.com) ... Saturday - Sept. 27th - Its time for the ever popular Brush LimpPaw show starting at 2pm PT, 5pm ET on WRR where listeners hear his Universal Outlook on current events as only he can deliver it. ~~~~~~~~~ Saturday - Sept. 27th - Deal or No Deal ~ 'UO Style' is on the LAKE SUPERIOR shard this week starting at 3pm PST, 6pm ET. Participants will be playing for 10 Million this week and of course there will be 5 - 250k door prize drawings *remember, you must be there to win*. For a map of the WRR DoND location on LAKE SUPERIOR ... CLICK HERE. ~~~~~~~~~ Saturday - Sept. 27th - LOOT!! LOOT!! LOOT!! If you enjoy the excitement of looting then join the mayhem immediately following the Deal or No Deal show on LAKE SUPERIOR. Catch a gate to the s