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Publish 78.0 Comes to TC1

Tim Chappell​
15 Aug 2012 16:06:01 EST​

Publish 78.0.0 has been patched to TC1.
Here are the publish notes for your reading pleasure.

Publish 78.0.0

Anniversary Items

Anniversary items for the 15th Anniversary of Ultima Online have been added. Considering these are a gift from us to you, we will drop a few sneak peaks in the upcoming weeks.
  • All Characters older than 30 days will be eligible to receive Anniversary Items beginning September 1st, 2012 and ending September 30th, 2012


Despise Dungeon Revamp

Two brothers, both well learned in the arcane arts, lusted for the same woman. She was but a simple maiden, tending to the ranches dotting Britannian countryside, her beauty, however, was without equal. Both men knew should they compete against one another, neither would succeed in bearing fruit with such beauty. So the brothers conspired, and began to corrupt the very fabric of her love. Together the brothers conjured a powerful Polymorph spell to transfigure themselves into the perfect man for the maiden to love. For months they would deceive her love, the maiden unknowingly accomplice to a corrupt triangle. Finally, she gave birth to twins. Despite the powerful magics the brothers used to pursue their ruse, the mother’s love for her children was too great and the brother’s trickery was uncovered. Outraged at such a thing the maiden cast away her lovers forever, cursing them to the Abyss. As the twins grew and their mother aged they would learn of her hate towards their fathers. As each twin grew to adulthood and became their own man, they would blame the other for their own father’s fate, and come to despise one another. Already practiced in their fathers’ art and fully possessing their arcane talent the twins began bartering with the mysterious Wisps. Eventually each convinced the Wisps to conjure an army with which to destroy the other. Their mother, bearing witness to this feud and knowing the dangers of the likely outcome, pleaded with her sons to reconcile. Corrupt with rage, there was no foregoing their anger and so she mediated at the Shrine of Compassion, hoping in her heart of hearts for her sons to end the feud. As she meditated a mysterious Wisp appeared to her and in an instant an eternal pact was struck. The mother’s love was enough to save Britannia from impending war, but her sons, filled with despise would be cast there forever…
  • Note that this new content is on Trammel only
  • There is a mysterious wisp near the entrance to Despise. Double-click it to have a conversation and learn something of the new dungeon content.
  • The top two levels of the dungeon are now aligned to Good and Evil and are at war
  • Look for the stone ankh inside the dungeon, and use it to commune with a Wisp
  • Your purpose is to help out your side in the war by building and training your army
  • The strongest army will periodically be transported to the Final Battle in the depths of Despise
  • Collect Putrid Hearts (the Dungeon Crystals of Despise) and spend them with the Mysterious Wisp on powerful rewards
  • The Final Fight can yield new artifacts!

Despise Artifacts

Compassion’s EyeRing
  • Intelligence Bonus 10
  • Mana Increase 10
  • Mana Regeneration 2
  • Luck 250
  • Spell Damage Increase 20%
  • Lower Reagent Cost 20%

Unicorn Mane Woven Sandals/Talons
Human: Sandals
Gargoyle: Leather Talons
  • Nightsight
  • Random Damage Eater 2%

Despicable Quiver / Despicable Vail
Human: Large Quiver
  • Archery +5
  • Damage Modifier 10%
  • Dexterity Bonus 5
  • Reflect Physical Damage 5%
  • Hit Chance Increase 5%
  • Random Resist 10%
  • Lower Ammo Cost 30%
  • Weight Reduction 30%
Gargoyle: Leather Wing Armor
  • Throwing +5
  • Dexterity Bonus 5
  • Reflect Physical Damage 5%
  • Hit Chance Increase 5%
  • Random Resist 10%

HailstormHuman: War Fork
Gargoyle: Gargish War Fork
  • Random Super Slayer
  • Hit Lightning 15%
  • Hit Mana Leech 30%
  • Hit Cold Area 100%
  • Hit Chance Increase 20%
  • Swing Speed Increase 25%
  • Damage Increase 50%
  • Cold Damage 100%
  • Durability 255/255

Cleanup Britannia Dyes

Two new and two old dyes have been added to the Cleanup Britannia Collection.
Players may choose the following dyes:
  • Black and Green Pigment
  • Shadow Blue Pigment
  • Vibrant Crimson Pigment
  • Reflective Shadow Pigment

Halloween Masks Added

Two new Halloween Masks have been added. Beware of the pumpkin patch between October 1st, 2012 and November 10th, 2012


New Casino Games

  • Visit the Fortune’s Fire Casino at the base of the volcano on Fire Isle
  • See the Cashier to buy Casino Chips or to cash out your winnings. The exchange rate is 100 gold for 1 chip
  • Bet your Chips with one of the two dealers in the Dice Tent:
    • Chuckles’ Luck: Bet on a number between 1 and 6. The dealer rolls 3 dice. You win your bet amount for each time your lucky number comes up!
    • iHi-Middle-Lo: Place a bet on “High”, “Middle”, “Low”, or “Outside”. For the real gamblers out there, the “Outside” bet pays 5:1 on a win!
  • Enjoy a mug o’ Fortune’s Fire Grog, and don’t forget to tip your waitress

Stewards

Some of you asked for this type of NPC and here it is. We have added a Steward to the Clean up Britiannia system, it will cost 10,000 points. Below are the requirements for using one.
Requires 125 house item storage and one vendor slot to place.
  • Can only be placed in public houses
  • Can be named
  • Can be dressed
  • Can be programmed using key words to hand items out to other players when the correct word or phrase is spoken.

Bug Fixes

  • The rockslides preventing passage into Central Ilshenar have been cleared.
  • Act II of the Awakening has been disabled.
  • The Afflicted Gargoyles of Ter Mur have been healed.
  • Seedboxes will now hold up to 300 unique seeds and 5000 total seeds.
  • Rare hued vanilla plants are available from completing the Naturalist’s Quest.
  • Lava Lobster traps will now retain the correct name when returned from buoy form.
  • City Raiders have been added to the Brigand Fort between Yew and Britain.
  • Ghosts will no longer get stuck in the Experimental Room within the Underworld
  • The maximum price of an item on a player-run vendor is now 175,000,000gp
  • Players who kill certain creatures in other parts of Covetous will no longer receive score credit on the Void Pool scoreboard.
  • Mannequins can now wear faction armor.

Classic client 7.0.27

  • Cliloc Changes
  • Fixed issue where the sitting animation and a chair can allow the classic client to become out of sync.

Enhanced Client 4.0.27

  • Cliloc Changes
  • Fixed EC crashing periodically when dealing with loading and unloading dynamic objects.
 

christy1221

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I wish the wisp gave some new deco rewards also. Other then that I like how it is done but I am going to miss killing ogre lords there :(
 

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at the Casino:

I'm not sure how the dart thing works, unless thats now working yet. :)


Despise: Good Karma characters are not attacked by the "Good" Monsters" but Bad Karma Character are attacked by both Good and Bad (Red) Monsters. Maybe Bad Karma characters should also be free from being attacked from Bad Monsters unless they attack them. 5They do after you picked a side and got a wisp)


Suggestion : Place a NPC Healer at the Entrance of the Dungeon that can ressurect you. Make him Simular like the one in Doom Gauntlet that you have to pay him gold (5K or 10K) to get ressurected).


(Could place these at the Entrance of Every Dungeon) If people don't want to use them they can still run to one for free ressurecting.
 
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Despise Dungeon Revamp, Trammel only?

What about Siege, we do not have the trammel facet. Will we not get this revarp?
 

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Some text need to be looked at when kicked out from the Lord in Despise.



Need to be changed to Not able to defeat or unable to defeat. :)
 

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What are the Anniversary gits ? I made a new character on test but when I entered TC1 I got a message saying that the character is too young to get a gift....

I could copy an existing character from another shard but when I tried it initially I had difficulties so thought it was easier and faster to ask here.

Thanks.
 

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The harpsicord is a Anniversary gift.
 
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Despise Dungeon Revamp, Trammel only?

What about Siege, we do not have the trammel facet. Will we not get this revarp?
You SPers ask this question every pub, and every time it is the same answer.
 

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When i first went in I ran to the ankh but did not get a menu and later died so ran out of dungeon to find a healer ,,,so good to know you can res there!
 

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I've ammended the page I wrote to be more clear. You double click the ankh to get the wisp orb, but single clicking it brings up the usual ankh menu with Res, lock karma and tithe. On the upper (good) level though you do have to be right next to it or can't reach it because of the slope.
 

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You can't customize the appearance of the steward currently and it looks exactly like Patrick Stewart.
 

Petra Fyde

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You can't customize the appearance of the steward currently and it looks exactly like Patrick Stewart.
Unless you make it female :D

I'm not sure why mannequins and stewards have no hair, it's strange, but I guess there must be a reason for it.
Maybe we'll be able to buy wigs for them at some point. :)
 

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City Raiders have been added to the Brigand Fort between Yew and Britain.
They are also on west Umbra, Ilshenar and every other place that spawn NPC Brigands, so I guess you just added "Raiders" to the spawn list of the Brigand camps and now they spawn on other facets as well as other locations, not just the Brigand Fort between Yew and Britain. I'm also not sure why this is noted under Bug Fixes. We just started to test the changes :).
 

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The fisherman's village is still full of infected gargoyles, though the healer has gone.
 

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Unless you make it female :D
Petra, can you try to rename a steward, then press the cancel menu without entering any name, and check his default name. no matter what the gender or the race is, its default name is "Pat", so I believe it was intentional. :)

Stewards also give these messages:
"You rotate the mannequin a little bit."
"Enter a new name for your vendor"

Pat the Steward (visual approximation):
ps.jpg
 
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Petra Fyde

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hehe he defaulted to 'Pat' Plus it said 'your vendor has been renamed'
 

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Lucky Darts / Slot Machine: Nothing to see here, but it is not mentioned in the publish notes either so I guess it will be added later.
Chips on the tables: They act as recall runes for some strange reason.
Cards: The radio buttons under "Number of Faces" are not grouped, clicking on one does not clear the others.
Edit: sorry, it seems the singular form is die.
 
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Petra Fyde

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As I said in my page - ignore the books, they're not relevant to the publish content.
Interact with the npcs only.
 
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Chuckles' Luck paying three times the bet for three of a specific number is ripping players off, in fact, two times the bet for two of a specific number is ripping players off as well, and brutally if I might add. You should pay ~10 times for two times and ~150 times for three times, at the very least.

Note: Since you cant individually bet for the dice to come up multiple times, the above suggestion will bankrupt the casino, so discard it.
 
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Chuckles' Luck paying three times the bet for three of a specific number is ripping players off, in fact, two times the bet for two of a specific number is ripping players off as well, and brutally if I might add :). You should pay ~10 times for two times and ~150 times for three times, at the very least.

Is that not realistic how casino's work? ;)
 

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Is that not realistic how casino's work? ;)
No idea, but it is my understanding that the lower the odds are, the higher the table pays, and the odds of three of a kind in chuckle's luck is less than 1%, which pays triple while the odds of Outside in hi-middle-lo is about 18%, which pays five times the bet. Thus, it is not thought thoroughly.
Note: Since you cant individually bet for the dice to come up multiple times, the above suggestion will bankrupt the casino, so discard it.

Started to test Despise: Why other players are able to attack each others' pet? A friend trained a pet and another player just killed it by luring it to a crowded area with other side's creatures and also attacking it himself. I saw another player luring an ethereal warrior pet to the evil side and caused both the owner and the pet to die. I'm not against or for it, but if you will allow this type of action in Trammel you should warn the players beforehand.

Also, your pet doesn't follow you in defensive mode if another creature attacks it.
 
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I got the "You will be teleported into the depths of the dungeon within 60 seconds" message about 15 minutes ago, haven't got any other call to arms message and I'm still waiting to be teleported.
Edit: Forgot to conscript the creature.
 
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Started to test Despise: Why other players are able to attack each others' pet? A friend trained a pet and another player just killed it by luring it to a crowded area with other side's creatures and also attacking it himself.
It's going to be interesting because the best way to get points is going to be farming at odd hours, but the best way to do the boss is going to be with three or more people, so I don't know. Worst part for me is you can't use wither or else you kill your own pet, lol.
 

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I got the "You will be teleported into the depths of the dungeon within 60 seconds" message about 15 minutes ago, haven't got any other call to arms message and I'm still waiting to be teleported.
Take two: After waiting an hour without getting teleported the other day, I just gave up today after 10 minutes. I have a level 10 creature with me but the army power shows 81, which is probably the player who got teleported there with a level 9 creature. My character is a gargoyle, if it is related to that.

Edit: Forgot to conscript the creature.
 
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Nimuaq

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Take three: I let my creature die, I dropped the wisp orb and logged out. I logged in, took control of another creature, got the call to arms message and at one point my creatures' hp displayed "-1.#IND", then it returned to normal but I still didn't get teleported while others did.

Edit: Forgot to conscript the creature.
 
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Nimuaq

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Thanks to Galahad of Sonoma, I finally understand the issue: it seems I forgot to conscript the creature, thinking that the call to arms message was already indicating that my army was ready.

He mentioned another thing though: he is stuck after he got teleported.
 

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Yes, Conscript your monster and has to be a minimum of level 4 or 5 to be teleported. But thats too early if you ask me. :)
 
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