Yay!

[Sweeney]

http://www.uoherald.com/news/news.php?newsid=956

Faction guilds can no longer be in an alliance with non faction guilds.

 

[kelmo]

Here is the entire list on test.


•When over head chat is turned off, regular speech from a GM was not displaying over the GM’s head.
•New non template gargoyles will not see a selection to start in Britain even through they were starting in TerMur.
•Fixed an issue with the legacy client using the EquipLastWeapon when switching from a conventional weapon to a throwing weapon
•SOS gump had textual errors in the co-ordinate text

12th year Anniversary items –
Players will have till November 8th to log into the game to receive their gift ticket.
1st year Veteran Reward
To be listed in detail later
11th and 12th year Veteran Rewards
To be listed in detail later
All years Veteran Reward Clothing
Added a box in the Lycaeum (Felucca and Trammel) which allows players to trade their veteran reward clothing for one of a different type but of the same color.

Bug Fixes:

•Fixed an issue that allowed gloves to show properly on the paperdoll•Fixed an issue with Hair Restyling deeds showing Gargoyle Horns in the gump•Fixed an issue with Animal form and Bola’s, players would instantly resurrect and have a death shroud and hue.•Fixed the issue with Hitching Posts causing the players backpacks to become bugged.•Bola’s will now give a criminal action query when used.•Reduced Suteks roaming range•World Building fixes to lava areas•Fixed the issue where horns were dropping as loot•The small square basket now requires SA Entitlement•Retextured the death shroud•Fixed an issue to allow Faction players from triggering a trapped chest to deny giving faction scores and stat loss•Fixed an issue with players losing bonded pets when they did not log out with the players.•Fixed an issue with impassable cave tiles and walls•Exploit – Players will no longer be able to use the Bag of Sending on the puzzle boards.
•Plant clippers will now cut any plant that has the word Decorative in it
•Crafting Items will no longer bark “I’m in the hack!!!”
•Players can no longer unravel items after they have been traded
•Gruesome standards should now be 10 stones
•Snake Skin Boots and all masks (bear, deer and tribal) are now dyable with staining dyes
•Gem’s color rotation now has a chance of being blaze.
•Players can no longer build gargoyle dressers on gargoyle couches
•Snake charmer flute recipe now requires 3 luminescent fungi instead of 2 blights to craft
•Players will be able to meditate while wearing Gargoyle Jewelry without imbuing mage armor into it.
•Fixed an issue with Personal Attendant dupes
•Special leather bonuses should no longer apply to cloth armor
•Both facings of glass swords can now be used as ingredients for crushed glass
•Spinning Wheels should no longer get stuck in use. Players should be able to deed them without any issues.
•Fixed an issue with Scroll Binders, Alchemy scrolls will no longer be shown as Anatomy scrolls when bound.
•Removed Trap scrolls placed in binders having a TID error
•Fixed an issue with players having SA entitled pets in their stables without the entitlement on their accounts
•Clothing bless deeds can now be used on Gargish Robes
•Added Gargoyle furniture to the dyable list for furniture dye tubs
•Players can no longer tame the temporary summoned Raptors
•Fixed an issue with Vet Reward Statues coming to live when attacked
•Fixed an issue with Medusa petrifying your pets and the pet losing their original hues.
•Slasher will no longer use the fear effect on ghosts
•Giger no longer hates Neville, therefore he can talk by without taking cannon damage.
•Candle of Love will no longer stack.
•New gargoyle books have been updated to be included with the inscription skill
•Fixed an issue with seams in Ruin Walls
•Mud Puppies and Red Herring deeds should redeed correctly now.
•Fixed an issue with Navrey spawning in locations players can not reach
•Gargish furniture will actually be two lock downs. Players will be able to put items on each side. You will only have to lock down/secure one side for both sides to lock/secure
•Fixed an issue with Guilds dropping their guild leaders. The guild system will now appoint a new leader if the original one is dropped.
•Niporailem will now switch targets properly if the original target is unavailable
•Faction guilds can no longer be in an alliance with non faction guilds.
•Fixed an issue with SA cave entrances blocking caves in legacy.
•Fixed an exploit where players were getting multiple puzzle boxes. Puzzle boxes will now delete themselves when placed on the floor and someone tries to pick it up.
•The treasure/sand will no longer be blessed, it will fall to the players corpse
•Fixed an issue with the wizard hat twitching while sitting
•Fixed an issue with Fishing poles being destroyed
•Fixed an issue with players being teleported into the ground at the Primevil Lich champ spawn
•Fixed an issue with players not being able to buy from Gargoyle Vendors
•Players will no longer get the “no container” message when trying to get the pet food they do not want.
•Tasty Treats will no longer stack
•Fixed an issue with Treasure sand being statics when dropped.
•Iron Beetle no longer requires taming to control (still needs SA entitlement)
•Gargoyle Race change tokens are now blessed
•Fixed an issue with the Experimental Gem in the Puzzle room
•Fixed an issue with the Abyssal Infernal’s special condemnation attack causing players to become stuck
•Fixed an issue with the Despise bridge causing Line of Sight issues
•Casting while holding a weapon will no longer damage the weapon.
•Damage rate of weapons have been adjusted.
•Players who log out in the lamp room or trap maze puzzle room, will be teleported to a different location at log in.
•The 3.0 SoT reward from the trap maze puzzle has temporarily been replaced by a Lucky Coin.

 

[Bruin]

uhh, boo!

 

[nightstalker22]

The statues would have been fun to play with! Too bad I didn't know to try it.

3.0 SOT's replaced with lucky coins... way to go cheaters! You're ruining the game for everyone.

 

[Tiberius]

Can anyone give mea good godamn reason in hell why this is needed?

"•Players can no longer unravel items after they have been traded"

 

[Wulf2k]

I'm assuming that's just bad wording, and there's probably an exploit where you can trade somebody an item, then unravel it somehow.

That's the only thing that makes sense to me.

 

[Wulf2k]

Fixed an issue with the Despise bridge causing Line of Sight issues

That's been a long time coming.

 

[Tiberius]

I'm assuming that's just bad wording, and there's probably an exploit where you can trade somebody an item, then unravel it somehow.

That's the only thing that makes sense to me.

only if you made the trade next to a soul forge.

 

[Scuzzlebutt]

•Damage rate of weapons have been adjusted.

Who wrote this stuff, a second grader? Does this mean weapons will lose durability faster or slower than they do currently or does this mean weapons will deal a different amount of damage?

 

[Wulf2k]

Based off of the complaints I've heard, it's the durability loss that's been adjusted.

Also, a second grader wouldn't have called durability loss the damage rate. Give them (the 2nd graders) some credit.

 

[Sweeney]

Based off of the complaints I've heard, it's the durability loss that's been adjusted.

Also, a second grader wouldn't have called durability loss the damage rate. Give them (the 2nd graders) some credit.

I watched "Are you smarter than a 5th grader" the other day.

"What city served as the first seat of the united states congress?"
- Massachusetts!

"What is the brightest planet visible in the night sky from earth?"
- The moon!

 

[Vortex]

I watched "Are you smarter than a 5th grader" the other day.

"What city served as the first seat of the united states congress?"
- Massachusetts!

"What is the brightest planet visible in the night sky from earth?"
- The moon!

You think that's bad?
Search on You Tube for Kelly Pickler on that show, truly a blonde.

 

[Wulf2k]

"What city served as the first seat of the united states congress?"

I dunno. Why was Louis Riel hung for treason, and then given his own Canadian holiday?

What is the brightest planet visible in the night sky from earth?

The moon's more of a planet than Pluto was, that's an argument of classification, not lack of intelligence.

 

[Vortex]

I dunno. Why was Louis Riel hung for treason, and then given his own Canadian holiday?


The moon's more of a planet than Pluto was, that's an argument of classification, not lack of intelligence.

Except that Pluto orbits the Sun, the moon does not.

 

[Wulf2k]

Pluto orbits the Sun, the moon does not.

Really?

How does the moon keep from falling into the sun then?

And why does the moon always seem the same size as we get further away from it?

 

[Mook Chessy]

Can anyone give mea good godamn reason in hell why this is needed?

"•Players can no longer unravel items after they have been traded"

I have no idea what they mean *traded*

person to person or person to vendor

person to the ground to another person, kind of a vauge statement! I'm sure the folks on Uhall will beat an explaination out of someone!

 

[Skylark SP]

Anyone else get a chuckle out of this:

Bug Fixes:

•Fixed an issue that allowed gloves to show properly on the paperdoll•

So...things that are showing "properly" are now considered bugs, and must be fixed? I know we joke about being so used to broken stuff in UO that when something goes right it must be unintended, but I didn't know the devs thought the same way.

-Skylark

 

[Vortex]

Really?

How does the moon keep from falling into the sun then?

The reason the moon doesn't continue out into the universe is that the Earth exerts a pull on the moon, which keeps it orbiting the Earth. Since the Earth is so big compared to the moon, it pulls the moon toward it. In a sense, the moon is falling towards the Earth, but since the moon is also moving forwards, it ends up going around and around the Earth.

And why does the moon always seem the same size as we get further away from it?

It doesn't. In fact...

We know that this phenomenon is not a physical or atmospheric effect, as may be easily demonstrated by photographing the moon in the sky at various elevations and comparing its size on the negatives. The moon's angular size is nearly constant as it moves across the sky, the moon subtending about 0.5 degree in the sky. One may also verify this with sighting instruments.

The moon does vary in angular size due to the eccentricity of its orbit. When the moon is closest to earth its angular size is about 11% larger than when it is most distant. The moon illusion describes the variation of apparent size during a much shorter time period of a few hours between its maximum elevation in the sky and its rising and setting.
Another real physical effect causes the angular size of the moon's image on the retina to be about 2% smaller when the moon is near the horizon, compared to its size near the zenith. This is due to the fact that the moon is one earth radius farther away when observed on the horizon. This size change from zenith to horizon is much smaller, and in the opposite sense to the moon illusion. A change of such a small amount is not large enough to be noticed with our unaided visual system.
Some people suppose the moon illusion to be due to atmospheric refraction. Refraction effects can be measured with instruments or cameras, and we find that refraction actually makes the moon's disk subtend a smaller angle in the sky than it would have if the atmosphere were not present. These refraction effects make the moon's apparent horizontal angular diameter still smaller (by about 1.7 percent) when the moon is near the horizon! These physical effects can be confirmed with telescopes and cameras. The moon's vertical angular diameter at the horizon is even smaller, causing the moon to appear "flattened." At the horizon the light must pass through a greater distance in our atmosphere than when the moon is higher in the sky. This size change is also opposite (and much smaller than) the psychological moon illusion!

 

[Wulf2k]

Earth exerts a pull on the moon, which keeps it orbiting the Earth.

And the Earth orbits the sun. Therefore, the Moon orbits the sun.

If the moon didn't orbit the sun, it wouldn't move along with us.

 

[Vortex]

And the Earth orbits the sun. Therefore, the Moon orbits the sun.

If the moon didn't orbit the sun, it wouldn't move along with us.

Faulty assumption. If the earth was not acting upon the moon, it would not orbit because it doesn't have the correct mass. It would either move out the galaxy or crash into the sun (or another planet on its way).

Just because Native Canadian orbits Diablo does not mean he orbits Luna also

 

[Wulf2k]

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/99ik6/askscience_what_would_happen_to_the_moon_if_the/

If you want to keep debating, create a new topic. We're sidetracking from the... Yaying. =]

 

[OldAsTheHills]

http://www.uoherald.com/news/news.php?newsid=956

Faction guilds can no longer be in an alliance with non faction guilds.

It seems that the policy is: Faction players play only with other faction players. The Faction players of the past did not want interplay with non-faction players. So... this should not be unexpected change.
Frankly, I do not see any reason for Faction guilds at all... the Faction is the
guild. Faction players should just stop belonging to a guild.

*stares*
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