Okay Okay Okay.... Are Broadswords Lights Still On?

[Lord Frodo]

No fair, they've started putting out a newsletter for DAoC.

Granted, I tried that game out when I had a computer that would freeze up every few minutes, but compared to UO...it didn't even come close to UOwesomness

-Val'lyn

Isn't it funny how DAoC is getting it done and then look at UO. Here is a good link http://stratics.com/community/threads/facebook.340514/#post-2548563

 

[Dot_Warner]

No fair, they've started putting out a newsletter for DAoC.

DAoC has always received significantly more love from Mythic/Broadsword. In the form of actual PR, dev/producer news and its website. Its not only unfair, its rather disgusting and completely shameful.

 

[Val'lyn De'ana]

Isn't it funny how DAoC is getting it done and then look at UO.

Nope, it's not funny at all.

-Val'lyn

 

[Lord Frodo]

Nope, it's not funny at all.

-Val'lyn

Guess you didn't get the sarcasm. We really need a sarcasm font.

 

[Kyronix]

No fair, they've started putting out a newsletter for DAoC.

Granted, I tried that game out when I had a computer that would freeze up every few minutes, but compared to UO...it didn't even come close to UOwesomness

-Val'lyn

You can sign up for the UO Newsletter by visiting www.uo.com and entering your email address at the top of the page.

 

[Ender]

You can sign up for the UO Newsletter by visiting www.uo.com and entering your email address at the top of the page.

Is there actually going to be news soon?

 

[Kyronix]

Is there actually going to be news soon?

You bet!

 

[Keith of Sonoma]

You bet!

How about some news on the status of the new expansion??

 

[Kyronix]

How about some news on the status of the new expansion??

We are fervently working on all the features we talked about in our UO 2015 Dev Diary. We'll have some news in the coming days, keep an eye on UO.com

 

[Keith of Sonoma]

We are fervently working on all the features we talked about in our UO 2015 Dev Diary. We'll have some news in the coming days, keep an eye on UO.com

Thank you for the response!

 

[Nexus]

OK time for more nonsensical Expansion Rumors. Maybe we'll get lucky between us all and the Devs will actually stick in one or two of the absurdly easy one's

• Sheep, tired after decades of being sheered and publicly shamed by having to walk around in pens naked will revolt and begin sheering players. You can identify if you've been sheered if your character mysteriously becomes bald.
• Characters will now age according to a players account age. 17th year vets will be identified by the lower arm flaps and increasingly rotund torsos.
• Terrestrial Oysters will now require harvesting in order to obtain black pearl. Running across a shoal of these land bound mollusks will result in player characters screaming in pain and leaving bloody foot prints revealing the location of even stealthing players.
• Buffs and Debuffs will now impart a psychosis on a character. An example of this are Players under the influence of Vamperic Embrace will automatically navigate to and pick up Blood Moss when it appears on screen as an example of obsessive compulsive behavior.
• Lich Lords having instituted a feudal caste system among the undead have begun raising warbands of Skeletal Knights, while Zombie and Ghoul serfs, have begun farming reagents in the regions near the Lich Lords domain.
  
• Ore Elementals have formed a trade union in order to drive the value of their composite materials upwards.
• A new rare gear for Dawns Music Box will be released. The track is a live cover by Minax of Aqua's I'm a Barbie Girl
• Due to a mix up in the Code, PK's will all become KP's and gain Journeyman level Skill in Cooking.
  
• A character with GM or better skill in Tailoring, Tinkering, and Alchemy will be able to create Gargoyle Wing Armor capable of holding and on command dropping Explosive Potions. The weaker the potion the more they are capable of holding.
  
• Due to a mishap, all magic in Sosaria becomes unstable, resulting in a shifting mix of various rule sets ranging from UO: Renaissance to UO: High Seas. An example of this effect, crossing a server line or changing facet may randomly Add, Remove, or Alter modifications on Equipment.
  
• It will be revealed that the premises of The Matrix films was correct and Ultima Online is simply a ported version of the Matrix Pre-Alpha running on DOSBox.

 

[G.v.P]

This is no way to run an airline. Just saying. Ya gotta pump out a little content every now and then. I realize they're supposedly working on an expansion or something. Considering they're probably gonna want 20 bucks for it, I'm not sure if I'm even gonna be wanting that.

Oh come on, if it's $20 you know you'll buy two or three ;P.

I was so excited about High Seas then I see it takes like 45 minutes to reload a cannon, so that left me real flat. Gotta drop us a dime every now and then. I dunno, a little post about making flaming chariots or something. Gotta toss out a little content here and there. Give us something to cling onto please *sigh*

I'll never understand...bear in mind I played beta (high seas) and I am PvP inclined, but I received a white dye tub soloing pirates on launch day. For me the problem was more so about content/incentives than it was mechanics, IE, once you have acquired the Orc Ship, there is no reason to have a "crew" any longer (unless you are one of those people who collected every pirate certificate you can).

The devs have talked about wanting to revisit High Seas and change some things, and so I wouldn't be surprised if the expansion addresses some of the High Seas concerns. But I'll never understand why people felt so challenged by the steps/mechanics...I guess the bottom line is they developed High Seas for parties in mind, but the vast amount of people who play might not want or might not be able to find parties? Because if you had 6-7 people going with you all the time, resources/steps/mechanics, shouldn't be that much of an issue.

 

[MalagAste]

Oh come on, if it's $20 you know you'll buy two or three ;P.

Actually I'll only buy one if any because the stupid Origin Store won't let me buy multiples of such things even though I currently have 12 open accounts.

 

[Merus]

GM Herding Skill Mastery
Characters with 100 Herding and a minimum of 100 Animal Lore will gain the ability to open a portal to a hidden secret cow level. *shrugs*

 

[Val'lyn De'ana]

You can sign up for the UO Newsletter by visiting www.uo.com and entering your email address at the top of the page.

Thanks for the reply @Kyronix. Has the team determined a schedule for the newsletter yet? Weekly, monthly, annually? Before I put my name on an email list, I like to understand how often and what type of content I'll be sent.

Thanks,

-Val'lyn

 

[Dot_Warner]

GM Herding Skill Mastery
Characters with 100 Herding and a minimum of 100 Animal Lore will gain the ability to open a portal to a hidden secret cow level. *shrugs*

Only if this place has a BBQ sauce river...

 

[Val'lyn De'ana]

Only if this place has a BBQ sauce river...

Or better yet, a smoking chamber, mmmmm low and slow!!!

-Val'lyn

 

[Merus]

Only if this place has a BBQ sauce river...

You only get that if you have GM cooking in addition to the other skill requirements.

 

[Capt. Lucky]

No fair, they've started putting out a newsletter for DAoC.

Granted, I tried that game out when I had a computer that would freeze up every few minutes, but compared to UO...it didn't even come close to UOwesomness

-Val'lyn

I think you got it. DAoC art and UO game play I rather like the art in DAoC.

 

[whiterabbit]

no reason to eat anymore
no penalty from being hungry

 

[Capt. Lucky]

Based on Kyronix referring to the 2015 Dev Diary I revisited that and pulled out some highlights of what was discussed

"Time of Legends" Expansion

Draw on UO history

Shadow Guard and Valley of Elodon No idea on spelling here I get the impression these are 2 new lands.

New loot/clothing/armor

male/female specific wearables Examples given were flowing dresses for women and new beard styles for men

2 new champion spawns

Currency conversions - Ability for any character on an account to access the loot from the entire account on that specific shard. (I'm guessing you won't need an expansion for that)

"Stone crafting" ability to change houses that are currently not customizable such as castles

Some sort of new Peerless type loot that enables the character to change his skill set? I got the impression it would be like a sword that gives you 100 swordsmanship or something? Not sure what that part was. It's a little vague so I'm not sure exactly what that's about. But it's something about changing your template without raising the skill cap etc. tied into Peerless type drops.

So if I'm able to customize my castle I suppose that would put me into a situation where I might want this expansion if that happens. Naturally I'd have to see what actually happens. I got the impression you would need to go to these new lands to get building materials for this project, but I might be off base with that. Anyway check out the video at the top and put it together for yourself

 

[Lord Frodo]

I guess all is forgiven because a Dev showed up. Tell me when was the last Newsletter from UO, maybe UOStratics has one somewhere. How long has it been UO.COM has been garbage, at least DAoC is working on it. I will believe there is a Newsletter when I get one in my mail because I use to get them many years ago.

 

[Kyronix]

Thanks for the reply @Kyronix. Has the team determined a schedule for the newsletter yet? Weekly, monthly, annually? Before I put my name on an email list, I like to understand how often and what type of content I'll be sent.

Thanks,

-Val'lyn

Our initial discussion was to do it monthly. The goal is to find a nice cadence that isn't overbearing. Nobody likes spam and we certainly don't want to overdo it. Between our bi-weekly in game meetings and the newsletter we feel we can find a nice balance. Once the new UO.com launches it will also be much easier for us to add content to the site (which is amazing, can't wait till everyone sees it!)

 

[Val'lyn De'ana]

Once the new UO.com launches...

*excitedly* Do tell, is there a projected launch date?

-Val'lyn

 

[DJAd]

Where is the new account management??!!

 

[Lord Frodo]

*excitedly* Do tell, is there a projected launch date?

-Val'lyn

SOON JK

 

[Kirthag]

Nexus love the posts and ideas ...@Kirthag i hope this is ok.

is making me giggle..

honestly, some of the best ideas have come from silliness storms....

 

[Melchiah]

• A new rare gear for Dawns Music Box will be released. The track is a live cover by Minax of Aqua's I'm a Barbie Girl

I'd settle for that. And a new iPad having covered it in green tea!!!

 

[Viquire]

Nexus is my new UO hero, and I nominate him for the next available internship on the UO Dev team as an idea man.

He is too creative to be relied on for code.

 

[Luc of Legends]

Sorry, Nexus I had run with the music box gear idea and the fact I did pop cr.. er music.

New Dawn's Music box gears coming soon...

• The Meer Cats' cover of One Direction's That's What Makes you Beautiful.
• Captain Dasha's cover Carly Rae Jespen's Call Me Maybe
• Neira the Necromancer's cover of Taylor Swift's Shake it off
• King Blackthorn's cover of Justin Bieber's Girlfriend
• The Liche Lord's cover of Ozzy Osborne's Crazy Train

​

 

[Nexus]

More late Night madness.

• Keeping with the Legends of Time motif famous warriors both real and fictional from throughout Earth's history will find themselves transported to Sosaria due the effects of a Galactic Alignment causing Moongates to randomly pop up across various Continents (on Earth), at different chronological time periods dropping them at equally random places in Sosaria.
  
  • Hannibal Barca will find himself in the mountains near the City of Wind and inadvertently introduce Elephants to Sosaria, if questioned he will only reply with "Liberemus diuturna cura populum Romanum, quando mortem senis exspectare longum censent."
  • Horatius Cocles will appear on one of the many bridges in Vesper, confused he will attempt to prevent any crossing, but there are simply to many bridges for him to man alone. In order to do this he will enlist the help of...
    
  • The Black Knight who will insist all damage taken is "Just a Flesh Wound".
  • Vercingetorix can be found in the environs of Yew consulting with the Elves there about similarities in their religious practices and those of his native Gaul.
  • Vlad III Drăculea may randomly appear near Sakra Brae's Ranger Camp attempting to source a large quantity of long pointy sticks.
  • Miyamoto Musashi is wandering around the various islands of Tokuno searching for a Legendary Artifact quality Dashio set. If brought one he will give the individual The Book of Five Rings which works like a Scroll of Transcendence but grants +10 to swordsmanship skill.
  • Fezzik can be found in the Stygian Abyss fighting entire goblin tribes as charity work helping the Gargoyle Refuges currently in Ter Mur's Royal City. Attacking him will yield an easy victory as he has grown unaccustomed to fighting only one man.
• Other Effects of the Galactic Alignment's based on a random RNG based trigger may include.
  • The Translation Server will come out of hibernation, unfortunately it will cause all speech in game to display in Macedonian.
  • The Protective Spell over Trammel Rule Set lands will scramble. As a result players will Murderer Status will be instantly telestormed to Trammel, unable to return to Felucca until the fluctuation expires (After Daily maintenance), though they will be able to enter Ilshenar, Ter Mur, and Malas during this period.
  • Rune Beetles will not be able to poison individuals instead their bite will cause a continual regeneration effect for what would be the normal poison duration.
    
  • Unicorns will only accept Male Riders, while Ki-rin will only accept Female Riders.
    
  • Mongbats will gain a super-duper slayer ability that only effects Greater Dragons, effectively causing them to One Shot them.
  • Horde Minions when summoned will inform the summoner "You need to pick up your own @*%$."
• Other Changes
  • Dragons type enemies in Destard will have evolved to no longer breath fire. This has been caused by disuse out of fear of accidentally igniting 17 years worth of flatulence which has built up in the cave. After all "When a Dragon Farts, the whole mountain stinks."
  • New Loot will have a chance to appear when fishing up an SoS.
    
    • Sponges - Various types of sponge will appear. They can be thrown at enemies, they have the Water Elemental Slayer property.
    • Giant Isopod molt castoffs. A tailor can turn these into a rather interesting helmet.
• New Creatures
  • The Jubjub Bird while easily slain, doing so causes your character to shun the Bandersnatch preventing your character from ever testing themselves against this frumious creature.
  • The Bandersnatch a creature driver by pure rage it proves a test to even the mightiest of adventurers.
  • Hircocervus half goat, half stag the Hircocervus can be tamed by anyone with 50 or higher taming. Too small to ride, they can be used as pack animals. Recommended usage is to transport wood to be used in helping them become the guest of honor at a late summer BBQ.

 

[Aurelius]

• New Creatures
  • The Jubjub Bird while easily slain, doing so causes your character to shun the Bandersnatch preventing your character from ever testing themselves against this frumious creature.
  • The Bandersnatch a creature driver by pure rage it proves a test to even the mightiest of adventurers.
  • Hircocervus half goat, half stag the Hircocervus can be tamed by anyone with 50 or higher taming. Too small to ride, they can be used as pack animals. Recommended usage is to transport wood to be used in helping them become the guest of honor at a late summer BBQ.

So you're not adding in Boojums that make your character permanently disappear?

 

[Zosimus]

Nah the new race should be that can one hit kill anybody or anything in the game will be oompa loompas.

 

[Capt. Lucky]

Nah the new race should be that can one hit kill anybody or anything in the game will be oompa loompas.

Reminds me of the "Caddyshack" expansion where they wanted to put in gophers but didn't want to pay for the rights.

IanStorm - What is the purpose of the gopher holes in Malas?
Oaks - The original theme for Malas was actually "Caddyshack," but it got cut due to licensing issues, and the gopher holes were simply too difficult to remove.
Kerowyn - They have no purpose.

So be careful what you suggest. They might have the money for "Oompa Loompas"

 

[Jirel of Joiry]

Reminds me of the "Caddyshack" expansion where they wanted to put in gophers but didn't want to pay for the rights.

IanStorm - What is the purpose of the gopher holes in Malas?
Oaks - The original theme for Malas was actually "Caddyshack," but it got cut due to licensing issues, and the gopher holes were simply too difficult to remove.
Kerowyn - They have no purpose.

So be careful what you suggest. They might have the money for "Oompa Loompas"

For Real!?!?!?!?

 

[Kirthag]

>.<
oompa loompas gave me nightmares as a kid... that would not be fun...

 

[Capt. Lucky]

For Real!?!?!?!?

For real. They wanted to do that lol

 

[Nexus]

Another Round of Late Night Silliness.

• The Satyr in the Twisted Wield will now randomly be found playing Dungeons and Dragons. After all it's just Faun and Games.
• Serpentine Dragons furious with being mocked for their silly "grin" will now join their cousins and attack characters of all karma levels on sight.
  
• The Prism of Light has been declared a Sosarian Heritage Site, as such all crystalline creatures and crystal formations now have protected status. In order to access the Shimmering Effusion chamber, players will now be required to make considerable donations towards the upkeep and maintenance of the site.
• Nu'jelm will finally get a Moongate.
• Frenzied Ostards will have evolved. The evolved version have feathers and are called Titanis.
• Lord Casca will be revealed to have survived his encounter with Dawn, now disguised as a merchant he will peddle his own brand of ale.
• SETA (Sosarians for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) will form a blockade of Destard claiming the glorious Greater Dragons deserve the love and respect of humans, elves, and gargoyles and should not be subjected to taming for use in the bloodsport of EM Event Farming. When asked a representative of the Dragon race welcomed the protestors as they "...find them quite tasty with a sriracha ketchup."
• The Primeval Lich has installed a security system throughout his lair to curb the unwanted removal of pieces of landscape materials. When tripped players will be confronted by the Knights who say Ni! demanding a shrubbery to offset the damage caused by the theft.
• Despite prayers for the Avatar to return in order to aid against the threat of Minax, Sosaria's mightiest wizards have only managed to summon his mother who gave this statement.
• Due to inflation across Britannia, shop workers in Britain are now demanding a pay increase, siting the need for a living wage. As a rebuttal, bureaucrats have pointed out that without sophisticated forges and tools, the Monsters of the realm consistently produce and carry better quality goods.
• After nearly 9 years, New Haven has decided to change it's name to simply Haven, reasoning for this change has been explained as a lack of anything "New" happening in the environs in the past several years.
• Due to Shard Warming, Ice Island will undergo a large scale Melt. Due to millennia of permafrost thawing all houses on the island will sink into the new mud flats opening the area to re-settlement.
• The Healers Guild has mounted an expedition into Dungeon Deceit. Through massive resurrection raids the undead have been eleminated from the dungeon. The newly revived villains were promptly evicted by an assault team of Juka claiming recompense for being forced out of Dungeon Wrong.
  

 

[Kirthag]

Another Round of Late Night Silliness.

• Nu'jelm will finally get a Moongate.

you just dunno how much this has been requested!

 

[Kojak]

um, it kinda has one ... if you're leaving nujelm - upper left side of the island

 

[Nexus]

um, it kinda has one ... if you're leaving nujelm - upper left side of the island

Yea, but get to Nu'jelm from any static moongate

 

[Lord Frodo]

YES http://stratics.com/community/threa...e-state-of-ultima-online.344107/#post-2564616

 

[Rodge]

An advisor will show up in under two hours and will be able to resolve your issue.