TOWN BUFF CHANGES

[Malee]

In order to better serve a variety of citizens, the governor's held a special meeting to discuss having a larger variety of town buffs. Some buffs willing be staying the same - others will be changing.

This was not done on a whim or just for kicks to piss off people. We are honestly trying to serve a larger population and variety of play styles. All governors were in attendance except for the Governor of Britain; stand in stated in general chat that Britain would stay with their current town buff.
The Governors went through the list of available buffs and decided that a few were truly useless. These were +1 to all resist; +3 Dex, +3 Str, +3 Intel, +2 HP regen. That left 6 possible buffs and 9 towns. All remaining buffs are represented with 3 of them doubled.

+1 Faster Casting - New Magincia and Minoc (No Changes)

5% Swing Speed Increase - Britain and Skara Brae (No Changes)

5% Spell Damage Increase - Moonglow (No Change) and Jhelom (Changed)

+2 Mana Regen - Yew (No Change)

5% Hit Chance Increase - Trinsic (Changed)

5% Bandage Healing Bonus - Vesper (Changed)

All changes will go into effect no later than Next Tuesday (Feb. 13th!) Some have been changed already. Trinsic is now running with the 5% Hci; the buff wasn' t active for that city before the change. The bulletin boards will be updated with the new buffs as a reference guide. Please spread the word: tell your guildmates, ICQ friends, facebook buddies, other shard friends, and anyone else that comes to your mind.

We are aware that this will cause an inconvenience for some (myself included) but it is our hope that more will benefit from these changes. Lastly, help keep these trade orders in effect by running trade orders from your chosen city. Remember, it cost 2 million gold weekly to have the trade orders active. Help your city and get a chance at a pretty pink scroll as a possible reward from the trade ministers.

Sincerely not trying to screw anyone over,
Lady Marge
Secretary to Sweetpeez Meezad Govenor of Jhelom

 

[Khyro]

Thank you, Secretary Marge! That would have been a mouthful for poor little Sweetz to say!

 

[Malee]

Reminder - all towns that are changing over should changed by tomorrow!!

 

[Sweetpeez]

Grrrr... Hmmpph...... da stoopid stone toldz meez meez kuldnt change itz cause meez already did dis week but meez didnt. Meez tinkz it wuz da auto renew dat dooz dat so meez turned it off. As soon as dat stooopid stone letz me change itz meez will.

 

[Zoogi]

Umm did yoo pee on da stone? Dat mite help!!

 

[Sweetpeez]

ummm ob kourse meez dooz dat!!! meez dooz dat ebery time meez gooz byez itz.

 

[Pameleigha]

We need to really stress that it costs the town funds 2 million a week (every Sunday) to keep the town buffs going. There are only two ways to keep these funds up. 1 is to do trade runs STARTING in the town you want the gold to go to at the trade minister. 2 is to donate gold directly to the city herald of that town.

For the first one I have to say this. Our guild/alliance has been steady doing trade runs to the tune of 2000 plus, more since I became governor of Skara Brae in January. It is not keeping the gold up, even at doing over 2,000 trade runs in that time, I have personally put in over 12 million gold as various characters. by donating to the city herald. Some governors are really struggling to keep their town buffs going per week and donating all the funds, themselves

Citizens , if you want your town buffs, you need to engage in doing trade runs, or donating gold to the city heralds of your town.

A fresh trading character makes only 10 thousand gold per run for the town buff funds. If you are ambushed by marauders, you have to kill them, not get them guard whacked and you get 2 K to 10 K more for the town ( what I have experienced, not all encompassing) . If you just run from them ( the marauders), the town loses that extra bonus gold, so use a character that can fight. You can only use moongates or by boat or on foot to get to the next town. No gating or recalling allowed.

If anyone needs help starting the trade runs ask for Pam in general chat and say you need help. Hopefully, if I am not on , someone else will help you.

There are good rewards for doing the trade runs for you as well. Not 100 percent fantastic, as some times you get spined leather, but a lot of times you get the coveted pink scrolls (SOT's) of assorted skill gain bonuses when consumed.

Here is the wiki link for Trade quests
Trader Quests – Ultima Online

I hope this helps everyone and please pass this on to friends who don't read Stratics as your governors are really struggling in some of these towns.

Rel Sanct,
Pam

 

[Nash]

well actually the hit point regen is not worthless and now we have no town with hci so we can have three with ssi? lol okay... id like to see this change

 

[Nash]

ill donate the funds myself to whatever town puts up the hci buff and then some

 

[Nash]

we have four towns running the ssi bonus this isnt needed!!! oppes five towns with swing speed increase

 

[Zoogi]

Hrmm Derz uh Gobneorz meetin on Wed nite diz week. Uh year ugo wez changed soo der wood b all dipperent buffz cuz dey wuz all fazter caztin er SSI. Guezz wez need ta revizit diz.. Feel free ta show ub n azk aboot diz.Ip mez rememberz mez will bring id ub but mez furgitz sumtimez. Wednzday nite 9 est

 

[Zoogi]

Fur da time bein. Magincia n Minoc iz still da Fazter Caztin, Yew iz +2 mana regen, Vezber iz da 5% ta healing, Britain, Trinsic n Skara Brae iz all 5% swing speed increaze, Moonglow n Jhelom iz 5% spell damage. So der iz 3 townz wit SSI. Feel free ta *** ta da Gobenorz meedin n c wut can b dun aboot geddin uh dipperent buff in wun ub da townz.

 

[Nash]

Yes this needs revisited 5 towns are running swing speed increase with a possible of three different choices on town bonus

 

[Nash]

brit, yew, trinsic, vesper, jhelom all are swing speed increase

 

[Nash]

this must not be an atl post... my bad

 

[Malee]

This post is in the Chesapeake forum. Each shard has their own forum.