For those of you who think I'm slackin...

[Larisa]

I DID post this..I SWEAR! But because the Stratics main page is down it's not showing up HERE...though the link I get from NewsPro shows it HERE...

SEE?

It SAYS it's in UO Hall....it's invisable!! *laughs*

But it's here...somewhere...I blame blackrock...


I'm cheating SHHH!!!!

Upcoming Patch Info
Jeremy Dalberg
24 Apr 2008 14:51:30 EST
The next publish won't go out to Test Center until early next week, but we wanted to give you some goodies to drool over!
Factions

In order to promote accessibility and invigorate Factions, we’ve made several changes and fixed some bugs. Additionally, Factions will play an important role in the Warriors of Destiny plot arc.

Faction size limit and load balancer removed: individual factions can grow to any size. Previously capped at 200.

Multiple characters from the same account may join the same faction

An account cannot have characters in different factions on the same shard

Removed 30 day character age requirement

“Young” players cannot join factions

“Young” players will be removed from guilds that join factions

One vote in faction elections per account

Only one character per account may run in the elections

Quit time reduced from 7 days to 3 days

Resolved issues with ghosts using stairs


Spring Cleaning 2008

Ah, how time flies. Spring has come once again to Britannia, but the sweet smell of blossoming flowers outside our homes can’t belie the memories of battles fought long so very long ago. Or is that the chest overflowing with Ophidian weapons in the corner? Or maybe it’s the bag of cursed artifacts hidden upstairs?



Time to cleanup, Britannia!



· Publish 52 institutes the first round of Spring Cleaning collections and rewards

· Four NPCs around the world collect items in exchange for tickets

· The tickets can be redeemed for rewards in a new community collection

· Rewards:

- Shirts

· Comes with one phrase of choice

· Blessed

· Dyable

- Nocturne Earrings

· Grayish silver

· Night Sight

- RBG Sashes

· “Royal Britannia Guard”

· One color per Virtue/Town

· Blessed

- Scroll of Alacrity

· Increase skill gain for 15 minutes in the scroll’s skill

· Skill is randomly set once redeemed from the collection

- Sherry the Mouse Statue

· Larger than life statue of Sherry, in marble

· Will be hooked into the Town Crier system in Publish 53

- Snake Skin Boots

· Random snake skin hue

· +2% Poison Resist

- Knight’s Armor

· White

· Each piece has 7% resists, +1 HP

· Total: 42% resists, +6HP as a set of 6 items

· Turn-Ins

- Makiko the Samurai

· Turnins:

- Ophidian Journals

- Ophidian Orders

· Zento, Rokuon Cultural Center, 1st Floor

- Lozat the Numismatist

· Turnins:

- Copper Shilling

- Silver Crown

- Gold Sovereign

· Britain (Trammel), East Britain Bank

- Calaid the Soldier

· Turnins:

- Ophidian Rations

- Slippery Snake Skins

· Britain (Trammel), North guard tower at Castle Britannia entrance

· Siege: Guard tower southwest of West Britain Bank

- Onoe the Soldier

· Turnins:



- Cursed Artifacts

- Magincia Rubble

- Planesword

- Planeshield

- Staff of Pyros

- Vorpal Blade

- Magical Weapons (Power, Vanquishing, Mystic)

- Ophidian Weapons (Power, Vanquishing, Mystic)

- Berserker’s Scythe

- Ophidian Berserker’s Bardiche

- Invalis’s Burchete

· Britain (Trammel), South guard tower at Castle Britannia entrance

· Siege: Guard tower southwest of West Britain Bank





· Community collection box

- Located with Onoe the Soldier

New Music

Adding four new compositions to UO!

Bug Fixes:

Fixed a bug where players that use the Basket of Herbs could lose 20 points of cooking when the effect wears off instead of 10 points of cooking.
Explosion potion should no longer go off and reveal the player if the player is in no play mode (character transfer).
Pet release gump should now closed the moment a player is in no play mode during a character transfer.
Players should no longer be able to stable pets while a pet trade gump is open.
Spellweaving: Essence of Wind. Casting Speed and SSI debuff potency have been flip flopped
Fixed an issue with Ronin not being able to access secures in their own houses if permissions were set to "guild"
The Curse spell should no longer sometimes last past its intended duration
When a monster casts Curse on players the icon should now show in the buff icon tool bar
Fixed bugs where Paroxymus's swamp dragon can despawn if it is killed




Fixes the 2 rare mounts obtained from peerless mobs.

Will no longer be marked as a summoned pet.

Will no longer be deleted by other monsters special moves.


Fixed a bug where some "Sacks of Flour" could not be used as a cooking ingredient
Players guarded by pets that are attacked via the Paralyze spell in a guard zone will no longer get guardwhacked
Flattened the ground to remove pit in Moonglow, on tram/fel.
Players who transfer to a shard from another will no longer start in Magincia.
Fixed a bug with the weight of stacks of bola balls being incorrect
Small stacks of ore should no longer get stuck in "This object is in use" mode
Runic fishing poles made with Oak will not return values of 0 any longer
Commas can now be seen in checks (instead of 1000000, you will see 1,000,000)

 

[Guest]

Why in the world is Invalis';s Burchete on the list of treadeinable items? Should you really be offering a trade-in on an item rare enough that there are maybe one or two per shard (if we're lucky)?

And, conversely, why isn't the daemon's blood from Magincia on the list?

 

[Guest]

Slacker!!!
Stupid broken stratics main page
*shakes fist*

 

[Larisa]

Yeah those rare'r..?? items are definatly NOT worth trading in for what's being offered at the current time.

Inavlis Burchette's were SOOOOO rare like 1-2 per shard??? To trade in for a pair of night site earrings is just wrong.

Deamon Blood should be on there, that was so easy to get.

The list is awesome imo. nothing too overpowering, some deco items....very nice. Of course the greedy item-hungry people will disagree as their 400 billion gold suits are just NOT enough and they need more leet gear..*sighs*

 

[Guest]

I see the thread further down...
Probably on Page two for most people.

 

[Guest]

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their 400 billion gold suits are just NOT enough and they need more leet gear..*sighs*

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I want a billion!
If you have 400 billion giving someone just 1 billion isn't really gonna break you right? *makes grabby hands*

 

[Larisa]

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I see the thread further down...
Probably on Page two for most people.

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Yep found it, how it ended up on page 2 I have no idea...you guys just talk too much!

I shamelessly bumped it up though

 

[Guest]

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I DID post this..I SWEAR! But because the Stratics main page is down it's not showing up HERE...though the link I get from NewsPro shows it HERE...

SEE?

It SAYS it's in UO Hall....it's invisable!! *laughs*

But it's here...somewhere...I blame blackrock...


[/ QUOTE ]
Just what a slacker would say....


I like the earrings idea but the rewards seem a tad lackluster. Beggars can't be chooser though.

 

[Guest]

I noticed that "Threads of Fate/Life" and "Cloaks of Corruption" weren't on the list of turn-ins. I wonder if that was an oversight, or do they have an as yet unrevealed purpose?

 

[Guest]

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I noticed that "Threads of Fate/Life" and "Cloaks of Corruption" weren't on the list of turn-ins. I wonder if that was an oversight, or do they have an as yet unrevealed purpose?

[/ QUOTE ]

Draconi mentioned they would be part of something else down the road. Draconi's Post on Europa

 

[imported_Lady Tiger]

Larisa if they call you Slacker again just have them meet you in fel and you'll show them slacker *Wink*

 

[Guest]

Ah, thank you.

 

[imported_catfish]

"Publish 52 institutes the first round of Spring Cleaning collections and rewards "


does this imply there are more rounds?

 

[Guest]

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"Publish 52 institutes the first round of Spring Cleaning collections and rewards "


does this imply there are more rounds?

[/ QUOTE ]

ummm.....duh

there has be to a 2nd planned for their to be a first.....