*SPOILER* Client 7.0.7 text strings

[R Traveler]

You may not start a new character copy because character copy is disabled for this shard.
An error has prevented your Character Copy from completing. Please page a Game Master through the Help menu.

and lot of text changed from "character transfer" to "character transfer or copy"

Character Copy: This option will allow you to transfer your character to a test center shard without removing the character from this shard.
Start Character Copy
Thank you for participating in the character copy program.
- Items eligible for transfer include your character, everything your character has equipped (both wearing and holding), your backpack, your bank box, all your stabled pets, all your character's pets within the immediate vicinity, and their associated contents. (Temporary "followers," such as hirelings, escorts, and animated dead, will not be transferred.)
- Please verify the contents of your character's "transfer crate" are correct before initiating the transfer to the new shard. You will not get another opportunity to do so, nor can items be added if you find them missing afterwards.
- Houses and their secured items will not be transferred.
- Your affiliations to guilds, factions, and parties will not exist on the new shard.
- Bracelets of Binding and Balls of Pet Summoning will have their links cleared upon transfer to the new shard.
- All legacy "house deeds" will be converted into house placement tools.
- You can cancel transfer at any point during the process, and resume at a later date.
- You will not be able to log into the destination shard until the transfer is complete.
- You will have to recreate any custom game macros for that character after the transfer to the new shard.
- After entering the new shard, you will have 7 days to remove all items from your character's "transfer crate." Any items that remain in the crate after that time will disappear forever. (You can access your transfer crate at any time by choosing the "Open Transfer Crate" option from the context menu on your character.)
Please select the shard to which you would like this character to be copied. If a shard is currently unavailable for character copy, you will be unable to select it. (If a shard is experiencing temporary downtime, you will not be able to select it until that downtime has ended.)
Final Confirmation: Your character will be copied from this shard to the selected destination shard. Everything in your character's "transfer crate" will be transferred as well. After the transfer, you will have 7 days to empty your character's "transfer crate." Once this time period has expired and the items have been deleted they cannot be recovered. To accept and initiate the copy, please click "Copy me!" below.
In order to begin your character transfer or copy, you must be in a safe log-out location (such as an inn or a house which has you on its Owner, Co-owner, or Friends list).
Character copy has been cancelled.
Copy me!
Your character has been copied.

 

[RaDian FlGith]

That's a nice change!!!

The ability to take an existing character over to Test to see how something I actually play regularly works would be a boon to the testing process.

Not sure when this goes live, but I have to say, this is a good one.

 

[Old Man of UO]

First thing this brought to my mind using the Character Copy function is... combining shards.

 

[R Traveler]

Spoiler

The metal plating on your swamp dragon is not conducive to meditation.
Sutek's Dirty Gear
This creature is angered by your attempt to make it wear armor.
a dread swamp dragon
You don't want to eat this, it smells horrible. It looks like food for some kind of demon.
blackrock stew
Your bane dragon is returned to maximum power by this stew.
Your bane dragon seems a bit peckish today and is not at full power.
The creature looks at you strangely and shakes its head no.
Only males can use this.
drill
You make a small hole in the barrel staves.
Shatter Potion
~1_NAME~'s shatter potion destroys a potion in your inventory.
Warded Demonbone Bracers
Petrified Matriarch's Tongue
Victory to the Ophidians! You have earned a reward for your service! (double click the chest in the Ophidian temple for your reward.)
Victory to the Bane Chosen! You have earned a reward for your service! (double click the chest in the Bane Chosen camp for your reward.)
Do not Delete! This is the Ophidian camp control object for the Bane Invasion!
The arena gate has opened near the arena stone. Please pass through it within 2 minutes!
Big Majik Flippers

and lot more cool stuff

 

[Vaen Swiftar]

"The arena gate has opened near the arena stone. Please pass through it within 2 minutes!"

Oh god I hope this is some sort of PvP mechanic.

 

[R Traveler]

Oh god I hope this is some sort of PvP mechanic.

Spoiler

Host a duel
Enter a duel
Start the duel
Cancel the duel
Are you certain you wish to cancel this duel? If you're the owner of this duel, the duel session itself is canceled.
Arena Menu - BAN
CAUTION: Baned character can't join this session any longer.
Only session owner can use this function.

 

[Vaen Swiftar]

I came.

 

[Aurelius]

Spoiler

The metal plating on your swamp dragon is not conducive to meditation.
Sutek's Dirty Gear
This creature is angered by your attempt to make it wear armor.
a dread swamp dragon
You don't want to eat this, it smells horrible. It looks like food for some kind of demon.
blackrock stew
Your bane dragon is returned to maximum power by this stew.
Your bane dragon seems a bit peckish today and is not at full power.
The creature looks at you strangely and shakes its head no.
Only males can use this.
drill
You make a small hole in the barrel staves.
Shatter Potion
~1_NAME~'s shatter potion destroys a potion in your inventory.
Warded Demonbone Bracers
Petrified Matriarch's Tongue
Victory to the Ophidians! You have earned a reward for your service! (double click the chest in the Ophidian temple for your reward.)
Victory to the Bane Chosen! You have earned a reward for your service! (double click the chest in the Bane Chosen camp for your reward.)
Do not Delete! This is the Ophidian camp control object for the Bane Invasion!
The arena gate has opened near the arena stone. Please pass through it within 2 minutes!
Big Majik Flippers

and lot more cool stuff

Interesting, gargoyles have a virtue system, and are already fighting the void creatures. Ophidians also have a virtue system, and look to be getting a new enemy ... hmm...

 

[Haddy G]

Interesting idea, hopefully it cost the same as xfer tokens, unless some shards are going away then this really sucks. Warhammer did this for the servers they closed. I had to move 3 times when I played that game.

 

[Mapper]

Interesting idea, hopefully it cost the same as xfer tokens, unless some shards are going away then this really sucks. Warhammer did this for the servers they closed. I had to move 3 times when I played that game.

A player shard to TC transfer system costing money? I would hope it's free!

 

[Beer_Cayse]

bane dragon? blackrock stew? dueling? Oh, be still my racing heart!

 

[Haddy G]

I'm blind, missed the test center part.

 

[sirion]

Character Copy: This option will allow you to transfer your character to a test center shard without removing the character from this shard.

Good feature. But I'd say that's a poor technical writing to explain this whole thing. The writing should remove all "transfer" wordings, because it would confuse the new players.

"COPY" is good enough. "Transfer" means transporting from one place to the other!!

 

[Beer_Cayse]

Yuh ... as I read this, it could be either situation. To me it's ...

COPY: End result is the original is still in place but an identical "twin" is elsewhere. Two instances of the same character.

TRANSFER: Same as a "move" ... the source ends up in a destination and there is only 1 instance of that character - in the new place.

Sooooo, which is appropriate? Copy or Transfer (move)? At my bank, if I transfer $100 from savings to checking, do I have that $100 in savings AND checking when done? Nope ... savings is $100 less and checking has gained $100.

 

[Fogsbane]

The Test Center Copy of Characters will be a fantastic addition,
Thank You R Traveler for the spoiler ~

 

[Coldren]

Wait, wait wait...

Spoiler

BANE invasion?

Did they seriously use THAT name? Jeebus, better watch out for a lawsuit from NCSoft.

 

[longshanks]

Re the swamp Dragon Med thing. Not sure I like this. Wonder if you cant med on a parox either.

 

[Harlequin]

Wait, wait wait...

Spoiler

BANE invasion?

Did they seriously use THAT name? Jeebus, better watch out for a lawsuit from NCSoft.

Ahh, then WotC will sue NCSoft. And if WotC succeeds, they'll probably sue all MMOs that have paladins, mages, druids, barbarians etc etc

 

[Shelleybean]

Ooh thanks for the spoilers.

 

[Coldren]

Ahh, then WotC will sue NCSoft. And if WotC succeeds, they'll probably sue all MMOs that have paladins, mages, druids, barbarians etc etc

WotC?

No idea what that is.

Anyway, just found it was a bit too coincidental that they named the new "enemy" after the name of the enemy in Tabula Rasa, which was created by Richard Garriott.

Coincidence, sure.. But man.. What a coincidence.

 

[GalenKnighthawke]

Seeing as how "Bane Invasion" has also been used in some UK television series called The Sarah Jane Adventures, and in Dr. Who, and seeing as how both of those show up as Google results for Bane Invasion well before the other game, and seeing as how when you Google "Bane Invasion" as an exact phrase, this thread already ranks higher than the other game?

I'd guess EA is safe from lawsuit from NC Soft.

-Galen's player

 

[GalenKnighthawke]

I wonder what the issue with people using meditation on top of barded swamp dragons was.

*shrugs*

I also have discovered that Bane was a character in one of the single-player Ultima games (one I never played).

-Galen's player

 

[In Flames]

Bane invasion?

I'm calling Batman.

 

[Coldren]

I just said in a previous post I just found it to be a remarkable coincidence.. Now everyone thinks I seriously think EA will be sued?

Wow. I need to use smiley faces more, apparently.

 

[Cetric]

The hell with it. I'll just copy all my chars and stuff to test and pvp there, it is more populated anyways...

 

[Nexus]

WotC?

No idea what that is.

Wizards of the Coast. The company that bought TSR and totally screwed up Dungeons and Dragons with 3rd edition, 3.5, and 4th Editions....

 

[Stupid Miner]

WotC?

No idea what that is.

Anyway, just found it was a bit too coincidental that they named the new "enemy" after the name of the enemy in Tabula Rasa, which was created by Richard Garriott.

Coincidence, sure.. But man.. What a coincidence.

No coincidence, he was bad with synonyms apparently. Banes of Chaos U7 Serpent Isle, Bane the Sorceress U8, and the old "Bane" weapons in UO.

 

[Coldren]

Wizards of the Coast. The company that bought TSR and totally screwed up Dungeons and Dragons with 3rd edition, 3.5, and 4th Editions....

Ahh.. Right. And Magic: The Gathering.

Gotcha. Thanks!

 

[Harlequin]

Ahh.. Right. And Magic: The Gathering.

Gotcha. Thanks!

Yup, that's the one, sorry was a bit lazy. Bane is the name of an evil deity in the D&D Forgotten Realm setting.

If NCSoft won a lawsuit for using the name Bane, I can imagine WotC trying to get on the bandwagon and sue every game/novel out there that they can nail for using D&D related stuff like names, class system, experience, levels etc, whatever they think they can get away with

 

[Trevelyan]

Its been a while since I’ve bothered with the patch contents, but heres some other ones that weren’t posted earlier:

Spoiler

Map stuff, id guess
for somewhere in Tokuno Islands
for somewhere in Ter Mur
It has been too long since you have decoded this map that you have forgotten the correct location and must decode it again.

Misc
This merchant's trinket has been updated

Upkeep Cost:

armor points: ~1_val~

fear essence

Ophidian and Bane stuff

Ophidian
Bane Chosen
Neutral
Ophidian loyalty decrease (base): ~1_VAL~ (peril bonus): ~2_val~
Bane Chosen loyalty decrease (base): ~1_VAL~ (peril bonus): ~2_VAL~
Ophidian loyalty increase (base): ~1_VAL~ (peril bonus): ~2_VAL~
Bane Chosen loyalty increase (base): ~1_VAL~ (peril bonus): ~2_VAL~

If you want to be one of the Chosen, you gotta pull your weight
Obtain 20 pieces of crystalline blackrock and return for your reward. You can mine for crystalline blackrock in Ter-Mur or you can get it by killing the upper level Ophidians who spawn on the front lines of the battle in this event. The reward for this quest is food for the bane dragon, it is the only known thing that they eat. What are you looking at, you lay about?! You think you can be one of the Chosen? Well, you have to prove yourself and get your own bane dragon! Getting one takes guts and brawn but keeping one takes some of my special stew. I'll give you a bowl of it, but you gotta prove yourself by service to the Bane Chosen. I want twenty pieces of crystalline blackrock in exchange for a bowl of my special dragon food. You can mine for it, if you haven't got anything better to do, but the fastest way to get it is from the cold dead hand of one of those Ophidians out on the front lines.... Now, get to it you wanna-be Chosen! Make yourself useful!
Where's my crystalline blackrock? Are you serious about getting your own dragon or not?!
Figures....
Well... not a bad days work, says I. Here, recruit, now good luck being food for the dragon. I mean... good luck feeding the dragon. Heh, heh.
Victory to the Ophidians! You have earned a reward for your service! (double click the chest in the Ophidian temple for your reward.)
Victory to the Bane Chosen! You have earned a reward for your service! (double click the chest in the Bane Chosen camp for your reward.)
Do not Delete! This is the Ophidian camp control object for the Bane Invasion!
Do not delete! This is the Bane Chosen camp control object!
Sympathizer
Friend
Essence of Fear
Obtain 10 crystalline blackrock and return for your reward. The most efficient way to get it is by killing higher tier Bane Chosen on the frontline of this event. Greetings-s-s-s friend. You have s-s-served us-s-s well. We will be glad to trade with the likes-s-s-s of you. Alchemist am I, developed very s-s-special potion to defend agains-s-s-st the humans who attacks us-s-s-s. Potion that makes-s-s them fear us-s-s-s. Bring to me ten crys-s-stalline blackrock and we s-s-shall trade. The Bane Chos-s-sen takes-s-s it from our land. They have found a vein of it in our land and they takes-s-s it. We must takes-s-s it back. Kill their leaders-s-s and bring to me the crystalline blackrock. We will trade, yes-s-s?Yes-s-s-s. Very powerful potion.
Three Fear Essence Potions-s-s-s
As-s-s-s you wish-sh-sh-sh....
Welcome friend. Has-s-s you crystalline blackrock to trade with us-s-s?
Exc-s-s-s-ellent! You have done well in collecting this-s-s treasure. I trades-s-s with you gladly. Take these potions-s-s with our thanks-s-s-s.
It wants-s-s to trade with us-s-s? We have potions-s-s-s to trade.
It is-s-s friend to us-s-s-s. I will trade with friends-s-s.£
Desperate Measures
Obtain 10 crystalline blackrock and return for your reward. The most efficient way to get it is by killing higher tier Bane Chosen on the frontline of this event. Friend to Ophidians-s-s-s. Come, s-s-speak with me.Alchemis-s-st am I, protecting us-s from humans-s-s. Developed very s-s-s-special potion. Creates great s-s-sound which can s-s-shatter. Our s-soldiers-s-s us-s-se it to prevent the humans from es-s-scaping with our crys-s-stalline blackrock. If they can't have our crystals-s-s, they will go away.S-s-sad to s-s-see it destroyed am I. Collecting it am I. Bring to me ten crys-s-stalline blackrock and I will trade to you s-s-some of my potions-s-s.
Three shattering potions-s-s-s
S-s-s-so be it... friend.
You resist the effects of the Fear Essence.
I s-s-shall not trade with you, s-s-strange one. We do not trus-s-st you.
Why would I trade with you? Strangers aren't welcome here!
Hound! Defend me!
You kill one of the Ophidians in the back ranks of their army and gain little recognition.
You kill one of the Bane Chosen in the back ranks of their army and gain little recognition.
You assist the Bane Chosen in pushing back the Ophidian army.
You assist the Ophidians in pushing back the Bane Chosen army.
The Ophidians have secured this location, the front line has moved up!
The Bane Chosen have secured this location, the front line has moved up!
Ophidians have lost ~1_VAL~ of ~2_VAL~ from wave ~3_VAL~ of their front line.
Bane Chosen have lost ~1_VAL~ of ~2_VAL~ from wave ~3_VAL~ of their front line.
Ophidian allies drove away the Bane Chosen ~1_VAL~ minutes ago.
Bane Chosen allies drove away the Ophidians ~1_VAL~ minutes ago.
You have assisted the Ophidians in routing the Bane Chosen but you have insufficient loyalty with them to receive a reward. (1000 loyalty required)
You have assisted the Bane Chosen in routing the Ophidians but you have insufficient loyalty with them to receive a reward. (1000 loyalty required)
Beware, reinforcements are coming!
We use the bane dragons because they are powerful and loyal mounts, our bane dragons cannot be stolen.
A hell hound trained by our hound masters bond to them supernaturally, the hound will defend its master to the death.
Lieutenant John of the Bane Chosen army.
It is my duty to recruit new soldiers for the Bane Chosen cause.
We seek to take back the land of Sosaria from the uncivilized races, such as the Ophidians.
The Ophidians are a vile race. I lost several members of my family when they attacked Britannia.
If you commit to our cause and help us drive out the Ophidians, I will pay you and the other soldiers from this chest.
The bounty collector is collecting crystalline blackrock to keep it from the Ophidians but he will only discuss it with those who have proven their loyalty.
If you want to prove yourself, go up to the front lines where the banners are and start killing Ophidians. Telling me you're loyal proves nothing.
My name is-s-s Ophidian Delphi.
I s-s-seek to reward those who help us-s-s.
The Bane Chos-s-sen attack us-s-s. They s-seek our crys-s-stalline blackrock.
The Ophidians-s-s want peace with the humans-s-s. They attack us-s-s unprovoked... again.
This-s-s ches-s-st. It contains-s-s s-s-some of our mos-s-st valuable treas-s-sure. If you help us-s-s drive away the Bane Chos-s-sen, we will pay you from it.
Our alchemis-s-st trade for crys-s-stalline blackrock. But they will not trade with those who s-s-seek to hurt us-s-s.
Thos-s-se who are loyal to us-s-s would drive away the Bane Chos-s-sen. Help us-s-s on the front lines-s-s of the battle and you will be rewarded well.
The fear potion caus-ses-s thos-se who are affected to be paralyz-s-zed with fear.
The s-s-shattering potion caus-s-ses-s-s crys-s-stal and glasssss to shatter! We use it against the Bane Chos-s-sen.
You no longer have the required items to complete this quest.

 

[chuckoatl]

No coincidence, he was bad with synonyms apparently. Banes of Chaos U7 Serpent Isle, Bane the Sorceress U8, and the old "Bane" weapons in UO.

Ya, they copied stuff from origin...... not the other way around. Origin was by far the best creators of stories in RPGs. Ultima7 and the serpents isle was one of the most epic games ever. BTW you can play it for free now.

 

[Specialshoes]

for somewhere in Tokuno Islands
for somewhere in Ter Mur




Could this be as in "A deviously drawn map" or "ingeniously drawn map" or the like?

 

[Merion]

Everything in here sound great... apart from that duel stuff! What we don't need is people hopping into pocket dimension or whatnot for dueling and making fel appear even less populated that it already is. If you want a 1:1 undisturbed, simply meet somewhere out of the way... say Minoc gate. Or gate your duel partner to a small island. Or go into a house. Or just somewhere in the middle of nowhere.

 

[RawHeadRex]

get your power ophid weapons out people !

 

[GarthGrey]

I came.

Since a mod didnt edit/delete your response, and no one else commented, I will. You need to grow up...a lot.

 

[Norrar]

*Gets all teary eyed*

More blackrocky stuff? This day is fantastic! *hugs the enormous amount of stashed blackrock throughout houses*

 

[maroite]

*Gets all teary eyed*

More blackrocky stuff? This day is fantastic! *hugs the enormous amount of stashed blackrock throughout houses*

Its Crystalline Blackrock, its not the same as the blackrock from before.

BTW, when is this going live? Or is it just stuff that people have dug up??

Also, Bane Dragon? A new mount from the looks of it. I am glad they're adding mounts, for you know... the gargoyles... rolleyes:

Other than that I look forward to an event... I miss the shadow lord event.

 

[G.v.P]

Sounds like the Shadowlords will be coming back

 

[Martyna Zmuir]

Uhm.. Crystalline Blackrock is what you get from mining in Ter Mur, from killing rats in the Abyss and from killing higher level earth elementals. It is not, however, the 'a small piece of blackrock' which comes from mining in the older lands.

So really all they've done is give us another use for an already valuable imbuing resource...not a use for regular useless blackrock. So the sixty trillion pieces people have saved up.. yeah.. still no use.

 

[Lord Chaos]

Wizards of the Coast. The company that bought TSR and totally screwed up Dungeons and Dragons with 3rd edition, 3.5, and 4th Editions....

While I am a die hard old school D&D player, I will still say that what you're stating is a matter of perspective.

 

[phantus]

Wizards of the Coast. The company that bought TSR and totally screwed up Dungeons and Dragons with 3rd edition, 3.5, and 4th Editions....

While I am a die hard old school D&D player, I will still say that what you're stating is a matter of perspective.

Indeed.


Soo.....uh.....when do they turn this crap on? We had that fabulously great HoC and I don't recall any mention of anything remotely useful in it but I may have missed something. Would be nice to have something to do that I havn't been doing since SA came out.

 

[[JD]]

how does one copy to the tc?

 

[jbfortune]

Since a mod didnt edit/delete your response, and no one else commented, I will. You need to grow up...a lot.

That offended you so much you felt the need to respond like that? rolleyes:

 

[Dol'Gorath]

Since a mod didnt edit/delete your response, and no one else commented, I will. You need to grow up...a lot.

Get a sense of humor.

 

[Sergul'zan_SP]

Seeing as how "Bane Invasion" has also been used in some UK television series called The Sarah Jane Adventures, and in Dr. Who, and seeing as how both of those show up as Google results for Bane Invasion well before the other game, and seeing as how when you Google "Bane Invasion" as an exact phrase, this thread already ranks higher than the other game?

I'd guess EA is safe from lawsuit from NC Soft.

-Galen's player

We need Daleks in UO.

We really do...