Adventures on The High Seas

[Siteswap]

Just announced at the town hall.

new 'booster' (mini expansion?) with ships sea monsters etc etc.

$14.99 for the Booster.

New boat models
Boat paints
New boarding method
Increased boat and house storage
Cannons
ship repair and crafting (carp and tailors use less resources)
NPC merchants you can shoot and board (and loot)
NPC Pirates
Mouse control (thanks Mapper)
Secret island you need a map to find (moves location)
Lobster fishing
Lobster traps
36 new fish (2 mountable)
Legendary fishing
Dread pirates with bounties on their heads
Row boat if your ship cant reach the harbour

Apologies for the slapdash post ... it was put together as it was happening live...

 

[Storm]

yep great news all damagable and repairable alchamy tinkers tailoers etc all needed

 

[Schuyler Bain]

This is the best thing EVER!

too bad I can't chat even while logged in, but this ol' pirate is indeed happy!

 

[Mapper]

Smooth boat movement controllable via a mouse! WOOOOOT

 

[Storm]

36 nnew fish yay crabs lobsters etc
19 legendary fish

 

[Kylie Kinslayer]

I know they said in the fall but missed which fall. This year or next?

 

[Dermott of LS]

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Jeebus, the amount of stuff in the seas/fishing portion are an exapsnion by itself!

Too much for me to "live blog", so ummm yeah.

 

[Lord Frodo]

Don't you just love that they use the CC to show this.

 

[DevilsOwn]

it's a whole lotta stuffs and for lots of people... the fishers, the crafters, the hunters, the pvp'rs, even merchants... this looks excellent

 

[Heimi]

Rowboats

 

[Dermott of LS]

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He's demoing in the EC... only way you can see enough of the ships I think.

 

[Siteswap]

Ship models look great (currently being shown in classic client)

 

[Dermott of LS]

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Dunno which feed you're watching, but the play demo is in the EC.

The boats are HUGE.

 

[Siteswap]

Ah. youre right. I was typing on stratics before they zoomed into the screen. The ships still look great.

 

[Siteswap]

Wow. Ship movement is super smooth ... not the juddering sailing were used to...

 

[Mapper]

Movement was FAR better than I expected, I hope it works in 2d too.

 

[Dermott of LS]

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LOL he died in combat and was ress killed.

Boat damage is SWEET!

 

[Lord Frodo]

Looking interesting so far Yes using EC now

 

[Siteswap]

$14.99 for the booster ... half the price of an expansion.

Reasonable?

 

[Mapper]

14.99 price.

 

[Lord Frodo]

What is in the Booster pack

 

[Dermott of LS]

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Considering how much the Boat stuff they've done? Yeah, easily reasonable JUST for the boat stuff.

 

[Siteswap]

I agree.

 

[RawHeadRex]

yay cannon was heard

 

[ProZac]

Eh...

 

[Lord Frodo]

Not bad price if all listed by OP is included

 

[Serafi]

Lol! A pirate on the high seas booster pack. It`s so UO... Going to love this. And theres things there for everyone. Not sure I liked the legendary fisher though, thought I was all done. But I logged on just so I could pull my alacrity fishing scrolls off the vendor. No one gets those now. All mine!

 

[Schuyler Bain]

What a lot of work and for a small price with something for almost everyone.

Well played Mythic!

I can't wait to get my grubby pirate hands on the damn thing!

 

[Zooithion]

Nice!

 

[Willard]

Don't you just love that they use the CC to show this.

They also used the EC to show how to attack another ship.

 

[Storm]

1499 is cheap its a expansion in itself looks great and i imagine it will start to be released this fall but some of it is pre alpha so it would be very late fall i think maybe it was next fall not sure kinda vague

 

[Magnus]

I wonder if we'll have swimming now, since they're doing stuff with the water.

 

[Dermott of LS]

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Didn't look like it... Looks like it's still going to be relegated to land and boats, just with a bit more inetractivity.

 

[Tomas_Bryce]

Way better than yet another "new land" expansion.

 

[Storm]

the chat is killing me people in there we want this we want this makes me sick bitchin and moaning pathetic

 

[Lord Frodo]

Says 10:15 AM - 2:15 PM will there be more

 

[sablestorm]

It sounds great! I have questions already!

1. By purchasing the booster, what content do we get access to? Will we still be able to access the regular Britannian ships we already have? Or will this change?

2. Will ships still be refreshed in the same manner?

3. If your ships are parked off the coast of your RP towns, can they be attacked and destroyed by, say, water elementals that turn up out there? Or will all these changes encourage us to dry dock our ships?

4. In the old Ultima Games, there were a few locales which were notable for ship adventures. In Ultima 4, one had to sail out and find Buccaneer's Den, Magincia, and Avatar Island. What's more, there was a huge pirate cove on Avatar Island. Lock Lake also had their fair share of pirates which provided a means to sail to Cove. Will these locales get some love in the booster?

5. Any chance we'll be able to sail from Britannia to Tokuno similar to how it was handled for the Lost Lands?

 

[Schuyler Bain]

the chat is killing me people in there we want this we want this makes me sick bitchin and moaning pathetic

Agreed, but it is to be expected...

 

[Phaen Grey]

Says 10:15 AM - 2:15 PM will there be more

I think its a typo, didn't start till 1:15pm eastern. just doing random interviews now

 

[Cal_Mythic]

Movement was FAR better than I expected, I hope it works in 2d too.

We actually developed in the 2D client first. So yes it worked first in 2D (Classic client).


- c

 

[Dermott of LS]

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Interviews, raffle, general milling about, then Q&A coming up.

 

[Siteswap]

It sounds great! I have questions already!

1. By purchasing the booster, what content do we get access to? Will we still be able to access the regular Britannian ships we already have? Or will this change?

2. Will ships still be refreshed in the same manner?

3. If your ships are parked off the coast of your RP towns, can they be attacked and destroyed by, say, water elementals that turn up out there? Or will all these changes encourage us to dry dock our ships?

4. In the old Ultima Games, there were a few locales which were notable for ship adventures. In Ultima 4, one had to sail out and find Buccaneer's Den, Magincia, and Avatar Island. What's more, there was a huge pirate cove on Avatar Island. Lock Lake also had their fair share of pirates which provided a means to sail to Cove. Will these locales get some love in the booster?

5. Any chance we'll be able to sail from Britannia to Tokuno similar to how it was handled for the Lost Lands?

Some great questions...

CAL .. any chance of getting these answered either here or live?

 

[Gheed]

This looks pretty awesome. I hope they pull it off as well as they did SA. Recipes were mentioned I think. I'd like to know more about that.

 

[Mapper]

We actually developed in the 2D client first. So yes it worked first in 2D (Classic client).


- c

Nice!

 

[Lord Chaos]

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Go pirates!

 

[Magnus]

We actually developed in the 2D client first. So yes it worked first in 2D (Classic client).


- c

Sure is nice to see that content is being developed to take advantage of the advancements in SA. Yep.

 

[Deb]

Awesome so far, one question...Will we need to have a powerscroll for 120 and
if so, how do we get them?

 

[Dermott of LS]

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Yes, and they quickly glossed over houw you get the power scroll... it will be "content-based" as a quest reward.

 

[lucitus]

We actually developed in the 2D client first. So yes it worked first in 2D (Classic client).


- c

Hehe i can understand this because the EC isnt ready, any chance to get this ready until the next expansion, i really dont want to quit because mythic disables my client ( in my case TD )

 

[AesSedai]

- Very interesting stuff.

- Can we make known cheaters of UO walk the plank and get gobbled up by a sea monster? This, of course, causing all of that account's possessions to be forever lost in Davy Jones' locker...