[UO Herald] Call to Arms

[UO News]

As I am sure most of you have noticed there is an uneasy feeling in our world. This is an official notice for a Call to Arms…please check the times below for your shard and support Lord Dupre !
Shard ------------ Date ----------- Time EDT
Legends ----------- 6/25/2012 ------ 9 EDT
Atlantic------------- 6/22/2012 ----- 9 EDT
Lake Superior------ 6/25/2012 ----- 8EDT
Great Lakes -------- 6/23/2012 ------9 EDT
Chesapeake --------- 6/23/2012 ------9 EDT
Catskills -------------6/22/2012 ------ 7 EDT
Siege ---------------- 6/23/2012 ------ 3 EDT
Origin --------------- 6/22/2012 ------ 6:30 PDT
Pacific --------------- 6/22/2012 ------ 8 PDT
Sonoma ------------- 6/25/2012 ------ 9 EDT
Lake Austin--------- 6/23/2012 ------ 9:30 CDT
Baja ----------------- 6/24/2012------- 10 EDT
Napa Valley -------- 6/23/2012 ------ 10 EDT
Drachenfells ------- 6/24/2012 ------ 20:30 CEST
Europa ------------- 6/25/2012 ------- 3 pm EDT



Mugen ---------- 6/22/2012 ------ 9 JST
Wakoku -------- 6/24/2012 ------ 8 JST
Hokuto --------- 6/23/2012 ------ 10 JST
Formosa -------- 6/22/2012 ------ 9 pm JST
Izumo ----------- 6/23/2012 ------ 8 JST
Mizuho ---------- 6/22/2012 ------ 9 JST
Yamato ---------- 6/23/2012 ------ 9 JST
Asuka ------------ 6/24/2012 ------ 10 JST
Arirang ---------- 6/24/2012 ------ 8 TW
Balhae ----------- 6/25/2012 ------ 8 TW
Sakura ----------- 6/24/2012 ------ 9 JST

Continue reading...

 

[DevilsOwn]

the town criers on Legends have been calling for us for a few days now saying we should prepare for battle on the 23rd..... is this in addition to that or is someone confused? (aside from me, that is)

 

[Tina Small]

Nothing for Oceania? I've checked the Oceania EM website and the EM forum here on Stratics and they've been dormant since last year. The town cryers that I could actually find on Oceania had no news.

 

[Jillene]

Looks like GL missed out had their event 2 years ago, Great Lakes 6/23/2010 9 EDT
hehe

 

[Tina Small]

Was one post not enough?

I started that thread BEFORE the feed came through. Sorry. Sue me if you don't like it.

 

[Mapper]

I started that thread BEFORE the feed came through. Sorry. Sue me if you don't like it.

Apologies

 

[Winker]

Europa ------------- 6/25/2012 ------- 3 pm EDT
What is EDT?

 

[DevilsOwn]

Europa ------------- 6/25/2012 ------- 3 pm EDT
What is EDT?

eastern daylight time...... yer gonna need one of those magic clocks


(and that bug makes me nuts, got dents in my monitor)

 

[Mapper]

Europa ------------- 6/25/2012 ------- 3 pm EDT
What is EDT?

It comes out to 8pm UK time, Same as usual for Europa events.

 

[Tina Small]

I wonder if Oceania's already had their event, given that it's already 1:30 Saturday morning for them.

Checking:

Castle British - Queen Dawn's casket still lies in state in the throne room.
EM Hall - Nicely decorated but no clues there.
Blackthorn's grave in Fel - Seems undisturbed.
Former location of Blackthorn's Keep in Trammel - No more keep. No flames. Just assorted stuff floating in the air.
Gypsy camp by Compassion gate - Passageway to central Ilshenar still blocked.

Getting ready to check the garg city and Exodus dungeon. Don't know where else to check. The one person I've run into says they haven't seen any news of an event for this weekend.

Didn't see anything that seemed "new" in Ilshenar. Still can't get into central Ilshenar via the old, normal routes and haven't done the quest to get in there, so I can't tell if there's anything new there.

 

[R Traveler]

eastern daylight time...... yer gonna need one of those magic clocks


(and that bug makes me nuts, got dents in my monitor)

Eastern Europa time? 3pm is too early for West Europa.

 

[Petra Fyde]

no, it's 3pm East Coast USA, 8pm UK, 9pm CET

 

[R Traveler]

This make me wonder ... is Drachenfells located at european country (uses CEST time) and Europa at USA (EDT time)?

 

[Petra Fyde]

No, both servers are in Dortmund, Germany.

 

[Sevin0oo0]

Awesome, actual notice of global EM events?

 

[Frarc]

Drachenfels will be ready!

 

[Tina Small]

Hehe...this should be fun....looking at an interesting book on Formosa.

 

[Juztme]

As I am sure most of you have noticed there is an uneasy feeling in our world. This is an official notice for a Call to Arms…please check the times below for your shard and support Lord Dupre !
Shard ------------ Date ----------- Time EDT
Legends ----------- 6/25/2012 ------ 9 EDT
Atlantic------------- 6/22/2012 ----- 9 EDT
Lake Superior------ 6/25/2012 ----- 8EDT
Great Lakes -------- 6/23/2012 ------9 EDT
Chesapeake --------- 6/23/2012 ------9 EDT
Catskills -------------6/22/2012 ------ 7 EDT
Siege ---------------- 6/23/2012 ------ 3 EDT
Origin --------------- 6/22/2012 ------ 6:30 PDT
Pacific --------------- 6/22/2012 ------ 8 PDT
Sonoma ------------- 6/25/2012 ------ 9 EDT
Lake Austin--------- 6/23/2012 ------ 9:30 CDT
Baja ----------------- 6/24/2012------- 10 EDT
Napa Valley -------- 6/23/2012 ------ 10 EDT
Drachenfells ------- 6/24/2012 ------ 20:30 CEST
Europa ------------- 6/25/2012 ------- 3 pm EDT



Mugen ---------- 6/22/2012 ------ 9 JST
Wakoku -------- 6/24/2012 ------ 8 JST
Hokuto --------- 6/23/2012 ------ 10 JST
Formosa -------- 6/22/2012 ------ 9 pm JST
Izumo ----------- 6/23/2012 ------ 8 JST
Mizuho ---------- 6/22/2012 ------ 9 JST
Yamato ---------- 6/23/2012 ------ 9 JST
Asuka ------------ 6/24/2012 ------ 10 JST
Arirang ---------- 6/24/2012 ------ 8 TW
Balhae ----------- 6/25/2012 ------ 8 TW
Sakura ----------- 6/24/2012 ------ 9 JST


This looks somewhat familiar to how the server login list looks frequently.."Oceania Missing".
I'm sure I don't pay with monopoly money ,so here's hoping the hampster got temporarily side tracked by donuts.

 

[Winker]

It comes out to 8pm UK time, Same as usual for Europa events.

Thanks, i dont know why they cant convert it into local times... Confused.com...I am!

 

[Winker]

(and that bug makes me nuts, got dents in my monitor)

lol if i had a £1 for everyone who has done that i would be a rich man

 

[Uriah Heep]

the town criers on Legends have been calling for us for a few days now saying we should prepare for battle on the 23rd..... is this in addition to that or is someone confused? (aside from me, that is)

It's the 23rd in Tel Mur...the 25th everywhere else

 

[Raptor85]

Thanks, i dont know why they cant convert it into local times... Confused.com...I am!

or just have it in UTC which is the standard for listing times not specific to a single time zone. I admit I had to look up with EDT was, I assumed it was probably eastern but i've only ever seen it listed as EST (eastern standard time), I didn't know it had a seperate one for when they're in daylight savings time, hell I didn't know WE had a seperate one in PST for our daylight savings time, nobody uses it, always just abbreviated PST.

 

[SirZ]

Europa ------------- 6/25/2012 ------- 3 pm EDT

This is great! Why you do not write in Australian time?

 

[Tina Small]

Spoiler

Here are a few screen shots from Formosa, Mizuho, and Oceania from within the last two hours or so. (I think Formosa and Mizuho have had the Call to Arms event now. Who knows what's going on with Oceania.)

Honor moongate is fractured on Formosa and Mizuho. You can get to it but you cannot use it to leave.

Near the Honor gate on Formosa is a strange moongate.

Using this moongate takes you to a campsite near Trinsic. On Formosa, this campsite is populated with NPCs. On Mizuho and Oceania, there are no NPs present and only the sparsest of furnishings.

Clicking the weathered journal on the table at the campsite on Formosa puts a copy in your backpack.

In the room farthest to the east in Exodus Dungeon, there's a hole in the ground on Formosa and Mizuho. There are also blue NPC wandering healers on the bottom level of Exodus Dungeon on these two shards. Nothing else seemed very different on this level, that I noticed anyway. The broken machine and tinker tools were still there and the room to the north of them that someone suspected might have some activity seemed to be unchanged as well. On Formosa, I noticed extra walls as you got closer to the room to the east that were not present on Mizuho or Oceania. EM-placed walls, perhaps?

On Oceania, this room looks like this, however (we caused the corpses):

Also, on all three shards, the normal entrances to central Ilshenar are all still blocked by boulders. The gargoyle city is still destroyed and there is a nexus at the bottom of where the steps used to be, but it wasn't spawning anything. The provisioner NPC selling sifting equipment was still in place.

Edited to add (2:30 pm Eastern Time): Here's how things are set up in Exodus dungeon currently on Origin, which will get its event this evening. The last room to the west is blocked by a wall and nexus machines at some of the closest crossing corridors are walled off with walls that can be highlighted, tile by tile, so it appears they are only temporary walls. Dupre's camp exists but is unpopulated at this point.

 

[Ruppy2]

Drachenfels will be ready!

But if you lose to the Greeks today I will not be so sure!

Jo

 

[Martyna Zmuir]

I've added the text of the event's book to the Library of Sosaria wiki.

It's an interesting read, though oddly rife with typos (which I've mostly fixed).

 

[Tina Small]

I've added the text of the event's book to the Library of Sosaria wiki.

It's an interesting read, though oddly rife with typos (which I've mostly fixed).

I'm glad you got that added, Martyna. I fear that folks who don't make it to the events this weekend will not have any chance to get the books for themselves, if things go as they often do and you have to actually have one handed to you by an EM or get it from a dispenser that's only up for a few minutes. It's just a book, so I really don't understand why on all shards the EMs can't leave the dispenser out for a few days. Oh well, not my call.

 

[Samaira]

So what's our guess for when (if at all) Oce is gunna get this event?

 

[Mesanna]

I wonder if Oceania's already had their event, given that it's already 1:30 Saturday morning for them.

Checking:

Castle British - Queen Dawn's casket still lies in state in the throne room.
EM Hall - Nicely decorated but no clues there.
Blackthorn's grave in Fel - Seems undisturbed.
Former location of Blackthorn's Keep in Trammel - No more keep. No flames. Just assorted stuff floating in the air.
Gypsy camp by Compassion gate - Passageway to central Ilshenar still blocked.

Getting ready to check the garg city and Exodus dungeon. Don't know where else to check. The one person I've run into says they haven't seen any news of an event for this weekend.

Didn't see anything that seemed "new" in Ilshenar. Still can't get into central Ilshenar via the old, normal routes and haven't done the quest to get in there, so I can't tell if there's anything new there.

To all our Oceania players,
I needed to get this list up as soon as possible. Since I do not have a EM yet on Oceania I was waiting to hear back from my EM team who had time in their schedule to do Oceania. The event will be run on Oceania tomorrow 6/23/2012 at 7pm AEST.

Enjoy

 

[DevilsOwn]

thanks for the answer about Oceania, and yay for muti-tasking EMs!

and I hate to be pesty, but is Legends truly scheduled for two events over the next three days?

 

[R Traveler]

Its posted 22 Jun 2012 10:50:05 EST and time given in EDT

 

[SunWolf]

Oceania, is a day ahead of us all, so right now it is the 23rd of June and 8:00am if I am correct.

So according to per post today (Oceania) at 7pm will be the event
Eastern is 5 am

 

[Tina Small]

To all our Oceania players,
I needed to get this list up as soon as possible. Since I do not have a EM yet on Oceania I was waiting to hear back from my EM team who had time in their schedule to do Oceania. The event will be run on Oceania tomorrow 6/23/2012 at 7pm AEST.

Enjoy

Thanks, Mesanna. Looks like Queen Dawn's casket was also removed from the throne room and a few more town cryers were placed.

 

[G.v.P]

Mesanna, I don't want to spoil your event but this is going to be AOS all over again if the items do what I think they do.

 

[NBG]

Mesanna, I don't want to spoil your event but this is going to be AOS all over again if the items do what I think they do.

Yeah, not happy about one of the event item reward, I mean I could careless about pixel crack but this one is not just some useless deco.

 

[Ludes]

Have to disagree... I was there from the start and it was pretty cool..

And then afterwords...

Plus getting that permanent Plus 5 to my dex will really help me!

 

[Sauteed Onion]

This was a complete disaster on Atlantic. The point where we got back into decimated ver lor reg, crashes were extremely rampant and there were people complaining of loosing 100+ hp and not even on screen with the boss. I'm trying to record but when I open up anything I crash. basically will be taking screen shots of all things said.. and posting them here. And this is the "good" stuff. Thanks EA.. Thanks UO. Thanks for this. Srsly, somebody needs to be fired. Not sure who? But I'm speaking my wallet here, and this is the final straw. not another to you guys til this gets fixed.

 

[Frarc]

But if you lose to the Greeks today I will not be so sure!

Jo

I'm not German

And don't you think if Germany did loose, that my german friends would not be extra motivated to kill something?

 

[Ludes]

This was a complete disaster on Atlantic. The point where we got back into decimated ver lor reg, crashes were extremely rampant and there were people complaining of loosing 100+ hp and not even on screen with the boss. I'm trying to record but when I open up anything I crash. basically will be taking screen shots of all things said.. and posting them here. And this is the "good" stuff. Thanks EA.. Thanks UO. Thanks for this. Srsly, somebody needs to be fired. Not sure who? But I'm speaking my wallet here, and this is the final straw. not another to you guys til this gets fixed.

I've tried several times to get you to move to Catskills brah.... You got no excuse..
Perhaps this might swing you into my guild on Catskills... hehe

Our event was beautiful..
props to the Devs and Messanna!

 

[Promathia]

Spoiler

Exodus looks awesome

 

[Tina Small]

Mesanna, I don't want to spoil your event but this is going to be AOS all over again if the items do what I think they do.

Any chance you can list the rewards? Our grandkids just went home for the evening and it's looking like the other two afternoons and evenings this weekend will also be filled with family activities, so I doubt I'm gonna make it to any shard's event at this rate. Thanks.

 

[G.v.P]

Have to disagree... I was there from the start and it was pretty cool..

Not sure who or what you're disagreeing with, but my issue is the first reward we ended up getting. It's similar to the have and have nots situation we had after a certain AOS reward.

Nice to meet you on Cats, btw .

 

[G.v.P]

Any chance you can list the rewards? Our grandkids just went home for the evening and it's looking like the other two afternoons and evenings this weekend will also be filled with family activities, so I doubt I'm gonna make it to any shard's event at this rate. Thanks.

Spoiler

The first reward, which everyone gets for just doing damage to Exodus, is a +5 Stat item which, theoretically, extends your stat cap to 260 (I haven't tried it yet myself). The second reward is an RP book you could get by dbl clicking a final event book.

 

[Larisa]

Spoiler

The first reward, which everyone gets for just doing damage to Exodus, is a +5 Stat item which, theoretically, extends your stat cap to 260 (I haven't tried it yet myself). The second reward is an RP book you could get by dbl clicking a final event book.

It's a very cool item!

Spoiler

http://i50.***********/333h7yo.png

 

[Tina Small]

Spoiler

The first reward, which everyone gets for just doing damage to Exodus, is a +5 Stat item which, theoretically, extends your stat cap to 260 (I haven't tried it yet myself). The second reward is an RP book you could get by dbl clicking a final event book.

Spoiler

The equivalent of a +5 stat scroll, but if you were already at the max, it pushes you over it by 5?

 

[Larisa]

Spoiler

The equivalent of a +5 stat scroll?

Yes Tina, adds to it..here's what it is pre-use:

Spoiler

http://i47.***********/2lik9hl.png

 

[Tina Small]

Well, I guess someone's trying to start a fire storm.... LOL

 

[Martyna Zmuir]

I've been worried about this item since I saw the spoiler from the last patch. If these are only available from this event, its an epic, epic fail and a big middle finger to any players who might be enjoying the sun on the first weekend of summer...

 

[NuSair]

Yeah, I guess, because of rl commitments my wife and I are unable to participate in the event. an item like that.... I think it's the first time in 15 years she's considered closing her accounts. Me, I am currently laughing, because while a cool reward... to have it at something like this... is an epic level blunder.

 

[Promathia]

People are overreacting too much

Closing their accounts because of +5 stats? lol