Bag of sending change: Each 10 stone of weight costs 1 charge: makes it no longer viable for scripters (or even normal players) to send gold, ore, leather or boards/wood to bank from the field (ingots are less affected, of course).
Salvage bag: Gives Smiths & Tailors better recycling functionality than UO Assist. Not only are all items recycled in a single move, each smith item returns an additional ingot over and above its normal recycle amount.
The largest scripter operation in UO got caught, probably 30-50 (if not more) houses blasted and burning (3 on lake austin alone, with most shards seeing at least one Luna Vendor go up in flames).
Similar treatment before the dupers of the Vinecord Sandals event item, with a number of their houses going up as they were banned. Pplus, in addition, all the existing vinecords (all being dupes as the only original pair was in the possession of an account banned years ago, IIRC) went away...
BOD changes: You can immediately get a BOD after turning in a completed one (reduces normal crafters' disparity with scripters). All Tailor & smith runics had their top cap raised to 100% intensity, and their lower intensity bound raised. (one can craft keepable items with spined runics now, nice weapons with bronze or less runics).
In addition, Arms lore now gives a +1 random resist(armor)/+1 DI(weapon) bonus per 20 points of arms lore, to exceptional items (including carp, bowcraft & tinker items), on most shards (means a runic item can have up to 55% DI, even if crafted with a DC hammer by someone with GM arms lore). On Siege Perilous, the bonus is +1 every 12.5 skill, for a +8 bonus at GM.
Other changes have been made. Some are disliked (where ore and wood locations change randomly every so often), but those affect people with a set means of doing things (recall mining by book), more than the conventional crafter (the only normal people hurt by the wood change are those looking for frostwood, which is near impossible to find anymore - but it was way too easy before for scripters to keep the known trees empty for the normal guy, while turning in for museum items, so I can accept it, even if I don't like it - at least they increased the chance of each wood type as they did it).
The only people thinking they are ignoring the game are the ones deliberately ignoring the changes. In fact, a lot of the events we have seen over the last 18 months are Ultima IV and V related items we needed our UO versions of to occur, before we have Stygian Abyss (which, without the events, we WOULD have rushed into too suddenly and without a real justification).
