All Shards to be Published

[Lord Drakelord]

Upcoming Patch Info
Jeremy Dalberg
24 Apr 2008 14:51:30 EST
The next publish won't go out to Test Center until early next week, but we wanted to give you some goodies to drool over!

Factions

In order to promote accessibility and invigorate Factions, we’ve made several changes and fixed some bugs. Additionally, Factions will play an important role in the Warriors of Destiny plot arc.

Faction size limit and load balancer removed: individual factions can grow to any size. Previously capped at 200.

Multiple characters from the same account may join the same faction

An account cannot have characters in different factions on the same shard

Removed 30 day character age requirement

“Young” players cannot join factions

“Young” players will be removed from guilds that join factions

One vote in faction elections per account

Only one character per account may run in the elections

Quit time reduced from 7 days to 3 days

Resolved issues with ghosts using stairs


Spring Cleaning 2008

Ah, how time flies. Spring has come once again to Britannia, but the sweet smell of blossoming flowers outside our homes can’t belie the memories of battles fought long so very long ago. Or is that the chest overflowing with Ophidian weapons in the corner? Or maybe it’s the bag of cursed artifacts hidden upstairs?



Time to cleanup, Britannia!



· Publish 52 institutes the first round of Spring Cleaning collections and rewards

· Four NPCs around the world collect items in exchange for tickets

· The tickets can be redeemed for rewards in a new community collection

· Rewards:

- Shirts

· Comes with one phrase of choice

· Blessed

· Dyable

- Nocturne Earrings

· Grayish silver

· Night Sight

- RBG Sashes

· “Royal Britannia Guard”

· One color per Virtue/Town

· Blessed

- Scroll of Alacrity

· Increase skill gain for 15 minutes in the scroll’s skill

· Skill is randomly set once redeemed from the collection

- Sherry the Mouse Statue

· Larger than life statue of Sherry, in marble

· Will be hooked into the Town Crier system in Publish 53

- Snake Skin Boots

· Random snake skin hue

· +2% Poison Resist

- Knight’s Armor

· White

· Each piece has 7% resists, +1 HP

· Total: 42% resists, +6HP as a set of 6 items

· Turn-Ins

- Makiko the Samurai

· Turnins:

- Ophidian Journals

- Ophidian Orders

· Zento, Rokuon Cultural Center, 1st Floor

- Lozat the Numismatist

· Turnins:

- Copper Shilling

- Silver Crown

- Gold Sovereign

· Britain (Trammel), East Britain Bank

- Calaid the Soldier

· Turnins:

- Ophidian Rations

- Slippery Snake Skins

· Britain (Trammel), North guard tower at Castle Britannia entrance

· Siege: Guard tower southwest of West Britain Bank

- Onoe the Soldier

· Turnins:



- Cursed Artifacts

- Magincia Rubble

- Planesword

- Planeshield

- Staff of Pyros

- Vorpal Blade

- Magical Weapons (Power, Vanquishing, Mystic)

- Ophidian Weapons (Power, Vanquishing, Mystic)

- Berserker’s Scythe

- Ophidian Berserker’s Bardiche

- Invalis’s Burchete

· Britain (Trammel), South guard tower at Castle Britannia entrance

· Siege: Guard tower southwest of West Britain Bank





· Community collection box

- Located with Onoe the Soldier

New Music

Adding four new compositions to UO!

Bug Fixes:

Fixed a bug where players that use the Basket of Herbs could lose 20 points of cooking when the effect wears off instead of 10 points of cooking.
Explosion potion should no longer go off and reveal the player if the player is in no play mode (character transfer).
Pet release gump should now closed the moment a player is in no play mode during a character transfer.
Players should no longer be able to stable pets while a pet trade gump is open.
Spellweaving: Essence of Wind. Casting Speed and SSI debuff potency have been flip flopped
Fixed an issue with Ronin not being able to access secures in their own houses if permissions were set to "guild"
The Curse spell should no longer sometimes last past its intended duration
When a monster casts Curse on players the icon should now show in the buff icon tool bar
Fixed bugs where Paroxymus's swamp dragon can despawn if it is killed




Fixes the 2 rare mounts obtained from peerless mobs.

Will no longer be marked as a summoned pet.

Will no longer be deleted by other monsters special moves.


Fixed a bug where some "Sacks of Flour" could not be used as a cooking ingredient
Players guarded by pets that are attacked via the Paralyze spell in a guard zone will no longer get guardwhacked
Flattened the ground to remove pit in Moonglow, on tram/fel.
Players who transfer to a shard from another will no longer start in Magincia.
Fixed a bug with the weight of stacks of bola balls being incorrect
Small stacks of ore should no longer get stuck in "This object is in use" mode
Runic fishing poles made with Oak will not return values of 0 any longer
Commas can now be seen in checks (instead of 1000000, you will see 1,000,000)

[Lord Drakelord]

http://www.uo.com/fof/fiveonfriday106.html

PLEASE NOTE: The Five on Friday archives are not updated with each patch. Please take older documents with a grain of salt, as they may be inaccurate.


April 12, 2008



"How do the turn-ins actually work?"

It's a point system. Each item that can be turned in is worth a certain number of points, and you can then spend those points to get the reward items. And, speaking of the reward items...

Shirts
Nocturne Earrings
Royal Britannian Guard Sashes
Sherry the Mouse Statue
Snakeskin Boots
Knight's Armor

--

"I noticed that "Threads of Fate/Life" and "Cloaks of Corruption" weren't on the list of turn-ins. I wonder if that was an oversight, or do they have an as yet unrevealed purpose?"

Draconi has confirmed that the Threads and the Cloaks will have a future use unrelated to the turn-in system - so hang on to them!

[Lord Drakelord]

Origin:
Publish 52:
Apr 28 2008 2:40PM CST

Factions

In order to promote accessibility and invigorate Factions, we’ve made several changes and fixed some bugs. Additionally, Factions will play an important role in the Warriors of Destiny plot arc.
Faction size limit and load balancer removed: individual factions can grow to any size. Previously capped at 200.
Multiple characters from the same account may join the same faction
An account cannot have characters in different factions on the same shard
Removed 30 day character age requirement
“Young” players cannot join factions
“Young” players will be removed from guilds that join factions
One vote in faction elections per account
Only one character per account may run in the elections
Quit time reduced from 7 days to 3 days
House Placement Changes

This publish implements several changes to prevent house placement exploits.

15 day character age requirement to place or trade a house
Water barrels/magic fields/etc will no longer block house placement
When a house is placed on top of a moongate, the placer will get a message about placement being blocked, and the moongate will be destroyed (at both ends.)
IDOC behavior (houses that collapse through decay)
When an IDOC drops, housing cannot be placed on the lot for a random amount of time
Items that drop from the IDOC will have protections against scripted looting
House placement tool will have a cooldown if used too many times in a given time period
Must now wait one hour after building a home before demolishing it (previously 15 minutes)


Spring Cleaning 2008

Ah, how time flies. Spring has come once again to Britannia, but the sweet smell of blossoming flowers outside our homes can’t belie the memories of battles fought long so very long ago. Or is that the chest overflowing with Ophidian weapons in the corner? Or maybe it’s the bag of cursed artifacts hidden upstairs?

Time to cleanup, Britannia!

Publish 52 institutes the first round of Spring Cleaning collections and rewards
Four NPCs around the world collect items in exchange for tickets
The tickets can be redeemed for rewards in a new community collection
Turn-in items
Copper Shilling
100pts

Ophidian Rations

Can accept stacks of 1, 10, or 100 100pts per Ration

Planesword
100pts

Planeshield
100pts

Ophidian Journals
200pts

Ophidian Orders
250pts

Slippery Snake Skins
450pts

Silver Crown
500pts

Power Weapon
650pts

Magincia Rubble
800pts

Vanquishing Weapon
1000pts

Mystic Weapon
2000pts

Staff of Pyros
2500pts

Vorpal Blade
2500pts

Ophidian Weapon (Power)
3000pts

Cursed Artifacts
5000pts

Ophidian Weapon (Vanquishing)
5500pts

Ophidian Weapon (Mystic)
7500pts

Berserker's Scythe
10,000pts

Gold Sovereign
10,000pts

Ophidian Berserker's Bardiche
25,000pts

Inavlis's Burchete
2,000,000pts



Rewards
Shirt: "I survived the Ophidian War"
1,000pts

Shirt: "I survived the snakes on the plains"
1,000pts

Shirt: "I saved the day and all I got was this fancy shirt"
1,000pts

Shirt: "Free Ricardo!"
1,000pts

Shirt: "Hang Ricardo!"
1,000pts

Shirt: "Magincia Pride"
1,000pts

Shirt: "Minax is #1"
1,000pts

Shirt: "Council of Mages are #1"
1,000pts

Shirt: "True Britannians are #1"
1,000pts

Shirt: "Shadowlords are #1"
1,000pts

Nocturne Earrings
5,000pts

Sherry the Mouse Statue
10,000pts

Scroll of Alacrity
20,000pts

Snake Skin Boots
20,000pts

RBG Sash (Blue)
30,000pts

RBG Sash (Yellow)
30,000pts

RBG Sash (Red)
30,000pts

RBG Sash (Green)
30,000pts

RBG Sash (Orange)
30,000pts

RBG Sash (Purple)
30,000pts

RBG Sash (White)
30,000pts

RBG Sash (Black)
30,000pts

Knight's Close Helm
100,000pts

Knight's Norse Helm
100,000pts

Knight's Plate Helm
100,000pts

Knight's Bascinet
100,000pts

Knight's Gorget
100,000pts

Knight's Gloves
100,000pts

Knight's Arms
100,000pts

Knight's Legs
100,000pts

Knight's Breastplate
100,000pts

Knight's Breastplate (Female)
100,000pts



Descriptions:
Shirts
Comes with one phrase of choice
Blessed
Dyable
Nocturne Earrings
Grayish silver
Night Sight
RBG Sashes
“Royal Britannia Guard”
One color per Virtue/Town
Blessed
Scroll of Alacrity
Increase skill gain for 15 minutes in the scroll’s skill
Skill is randomly set once redeemed from the collection
Sherry the Mouse Statue
Larger than life statue of Sherry, in marble
Will be hooked into the Town Crier system in Publish 53
Snake Skin Boots
Random snake skin hue
+2% Poison Resist
Knight’s Armor
White
Each piece has 7% resists, +1 HP
Total: 42% resists, +6HP as a set of 6 items
Cannot be enhanced
Turn-Ins
Makiko the Samurai
Turnins:
Ophidian Journals
Ophidian Orders
Zento, Rokuon Cultural Center, 1st Floor
Lozat the Numismatist
Turnins:
Copper Shilling
Silver Crown
Gold Sovereign
Britain (Trammel), East Britain Bank
Calaid the Soldier
Turnins:
Ophidian Rations
Slippery Snake Skins
Britain (Trammel), North guard tower at Castle Britannia entrance
Siege: Guard tower southwest of West Britain Bank
Onoe the Soldier
Turnins:
Cursed Artifacts
Magincia Rubble
Planesword
Planeshield
Staff of Pyros
Vorpal Blade
Magical Weapons (Power, Vanquishing, Mystic)
Ophidian Weapons (Power, Vanquishing, Mystic)
Berserker’s Scythe
Ophidian Berserker’s Bardiche
Invalis’s Burchete
Britain (Trammel), South guard tower at Castle Britannia entrance
Siege: Guard tower southwest of West Britain Bank
Community collection box
Located with Onoe the Soldier


Bug Fixes:

Fixed a bug where players that use the Basket of Herbs could lose 20 points of cooking when the effect wears off instead of 10 points of cooking.
Explosion potion should no longer go off and reveal the player if the player is in no play mode (character transfer).
Pet release gump should now closed the moment a player is in no play mode during a character transfer.
Players should no longer be able to stable pets while a pet trade gump is open.
Spellweaving: Essence of Wind. Casting Speed and SSI debuff potency have been flip flopped
Fixed an issue with Ronin not being able to access secures in their own houses if permissions were set to "guild"
The Curse spell should no longer sometimes last past its intended duration
When a monster casts Curse on players the icon should now show in the buff icon tool bar
Fixed bugs where Paroxymus's swamp dragon can despawn if it is killed
Fixes the 2 rare mounts obtained from peerless mobs.
Will no longer be marked as a summoned pet.
Will no longer be deleted by other monsters special moves.
Fixed a bug where some "Sacks of Flour" could not be used as a cooking ingredient
Players guarded by pets that are attacked via the Paralyze spell in a guard zone will no longer get guardwhacked
Flattened the ground to remove pit in Moonglow, on tram/fel.
Players who transfer to a shard from another will no longer start in Magincia.
Fixed a bug with the weight of stacks of bola balls being incorrect
Small stacks of ore should no longer get stuck in "This object is in use" mode
Runic fishing poles made with Oak will not return values of 0 any longer
Commas can now be seen in checks (instead of 1000000, you will see 1,000,000)

[Lord Drakelord]

What's To Come:

Publish 52 will be hanging out on Origin over the weekend (it's also still on Test Center, and you're more than welcome to hop on there and hammer on the housing changes some more as well.)

The War of Shadows is beginning, and Origin will face the Vanguard. Advance scouts report that Cove, Delucia, and Nu'jelm are the initial targets of the Shadowlord forces as they strive to disrupt Britannia's supply lines and demoralize its forces. Origin volunteer militia forces are encouraged to be prepared to defend those cities over this weekend.

[Lord Drakelord]

All Shards to be Published

Jeremy Dalberg

05 May 2008 16:24:26

All shards will be published with Pub 52 during their next scheduled maintenance.

Publish 52:
Factions

In order to promote accessibility and invigorate Factions, we’ve made several changes and fixed some bugs. Additionally, Factions will play an important role in the Warriors of Destiny plot arc.
Faction size limit and load balancer removed: individual factions can grow to any size. Previously capped at 200.
Multiple characters from the same account may join the same faction
An account cannot have characters in different factions on the same shard
Removed 30 day character age requirement
“Young” players cannot join factions
“Young” players will be removed from guilds that join factions
One vote in faction elections per account
Only one character per account may run in the elections
Quit time reduced from 7 days to 3 days
House Placement Changes

This publish implements several changes to prevent house placement exploits.

15 day character age requirement to place or trade a house
Water barrels/magic fields/etc will no longer block house placement
When a house is placed on top of a moongate, the placer will get a message about placement being blocked, and the moongate will be destroyed (at both ends.)
IDOC behavior (houses that collapse through decay)
When an IDOC drops, housing cannot be placed on the lot for a random amount of time
Items that drop from the IDOC will have protections against scripted looting
House placement tool will have a cooldown if used too many times in a given time period
Must now wait one hour after building a home before demolishing it (previously 15 minutes)


Spring Cleaning 2008

Ah, how time flies. Spring has come once again to Britannia, but the sweet smell of blossoming flowers outside our homes can’t belie the memories of battles fought long so very long ago. Or is that the chest overflowing with Ophidian weapons in the corner? Or maybe it’s the bag of cursed artifacts hidden upstairs?

Time to cleanup, Britannia!

Publish 52 institutes the first round of Spring Cleaning collections and rewards
Four NPCs around the world collect items in exchange for tickets
The tickets can be redeemed for rewards in a new community collection
Turn-in items
Copper Shilling
100pts

Planesword
100pts

Planeshield
100pts

Ophidian Rations

Can accept stacks of 1, 10, or 100 100pts per Ration

Ophidian Orders
250pts

Slippery Snake Skins
400pts

Silver Crown
500pts

Power Weapon
650pts

Magincia Rubble
800pts

Vanquishing Weapon
1.000pts

Mystic Weapon
2,000pts

Ophidian Journals
2,500pts

Staff of Pyros
2,500pts

Vorpal Blade
2,500pts

Ophidian Weapon (Power)
3,500pts

Cursed Artifacts
5,000pts

Ophidian Weapon (Vanquishing)
5,000pts

Ophidian Weapon (Mystic)
7,500pts

Berserker's Scythe
10,000pts

Gold Sovereign
10,000pts

Ophidian Berserker's Bardiche
25,000pts

Inavlis's Burchete
2,000,000pts



Rewards
Shirt: "I survived the Ophidian War"
1,000pts

Shirt: "I survived the snakes on the plains"
1,000pts

Shirt: "I saved the day and all I got was this fancy shirt"
1,000pts

Shirt: "Free Ricardo!"
1,000pts

Shirt: "Hang Ricardo!"
1,000pts

Shirt: "Magincia Pride"
1,000pts

Shirt: "Minax is #1"
1,000pts

Shirt: "Council of Mages are #1"
1,000pts

Shirt: "True Britannians are #1"
1,000pts

Shirt: "Shadowlords are #1"
1,000pts

Nocturne Earrings
5,000pts

Sherry the Mouse Statue
10,000pts

Scroll of Alacrity
20,000pts

Snake Skin Boots
20,000pts

RBG Sash (Blue)
30,000pts

RBG Sash (Yellow)
30,000pts

RBG Sash (Red)
30,000pts

RBG Sash (Green)
30,000pts

RBG Sash (Orange)
30,000pts

RBG Sash (Purple)
30,000pts

RBG Sash (White)
30,000pts

RBG Sash (Black)
30,000pts

Knight's Close Helm
100,000pts

Knight's Norse Helm
100,000pts

Knight's Plate Helm
100,000pts

Knight's Bascinet
100,000pts

Knight's Gorget
100,000pts

Knight's Gloves
100,000pts

Knight's Arms
100,000pts

Knight's Legs
100,000pts

Knight's Breastplate
100,000pts

Knight's Breastplate (Female)
100,000pts



Descriptions:
Shirts
Comes with one phrase of choice
Blessed
Dyable
Nocturne Earrings
Grayish silver
Night Sight
RBG Sashes
“Royal Britannia Guard”
One color per Virtue/Town
Blessed
Scroll of Alacrity
Increase skill gain for 15 minutes in the scroll’s skill
Skill is randomly set once redeemed from the collection
Sherry the Mouse Statue
Larger than life statue of Sherry, in marble
Will be hooked into the Town Crier system in Publish 53
Snake Skin Boots
Random snake skin hue
+2% Poison Resist
Knight’s Armor
White
Each piece has 7% resists, +1 HP
Total: 42% resists, +6HP as a set of 6 items
Cannot be enhanced
Turn-Ins
Makiko the Samurai
Turnins:
Ophidian Journals
Ophidian Orders
Zento, Rokuon Cultural Center, 1st Floor
Lozat the Numismatist
Turnins:
Copper Shilling
Silver Crown
Gold Sovereign
Britain (Trammel), East Britain Bank
Calaid the Soldier
Turnins:
Ophidian Rations
Slippery Snake Skins
Britain (Trammel), North guard tower at Castle Britannia entrance
Siege: Guard tower southwest of West Britain Bank
Onoe the Soldier
Turnins:
Cursed Artifacts
Magincia Rubble
Planesword
Planeshield
Staff of Pyros
Vorpal Blade
Magical Weapons (Power, Vanquishing, Mystic)
Ophidian Weapons (Power, Vanquishing, Mystic)
Berserker’s Scythe
Ophidian Berserker’s Bardiche
Invalis’s Burchete
Britain (Trammel), South guard tower at Castle Britannia entrance
Siege: Guard tower southwest of West Britain Bank
Community collection box
Located with Onoe the Soldier


Bug Fixes:

Fixed a bug where players that use the Basket of Herbs could lose 20 points of cooking when the effect wears off instead of 10 points of cooking.
Explosion potion should no longer go off and reveal the player if the player is in no play mode (character transfer).
Pet release gump should now closed the moment a player is in no play mode during a character transfer.
Players should no longer be able to stable pets while a pet trade gump is open.
Spellweaving: Essence of Wind. Casting Speed and SSI debuff potency have been flip flopped
Fixed an issue with Ronin not being able to access secures in their own houses if permissions were set to "guild"
The Curse spell should no longer sometimes last past its intended duration
When a monster casts Curse on players the icon should now show in the buff icon tool bar
Fixed bugs where Paroxymus's swamp dragon can despawn if it is killed
Fixes the 2 rare mounts obtained from peerless mobs.
Will no longer be marked as a summoned pet.
Will no longer be deleted by other monsters special moves.
Fixed a bug where some "Sacks of Flour" could not be used as a cooking ingredient
Players guarded by pets that are attacked via the Paralyze spell in a guard zone will no longer get guardwhacked
Flattened the ground to remove pit in Moonglow, on tram/fel.
Players who transfer to a shard from another will no longer start in Magincia.
Fixed a bug with the weight of stacks of bola balls being incorrect
Small stacks of ore should no longer get stuck in "This object is in use" mode
Runic fishing poles made with Oak will not return values of 0 any longer
Commas can now be seen in checks (instead of 1000000, you will see 1,000,000)