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| New information posted on the Ultima:Lord Blackthornes Revenge site. Check out the profiles and comic book teaser sections :) www.uolbr.com |
| New House of Commons log posted: http://uohoc.stratics.com/logs/pub020207.shtml |
| Monday 11th. Almost finished the third path of the Sacrifice Virtue, and its really tough. This virtue is great for people who are tamers and bards, because it requires a lot of fame sacrifice. Ok, so im a bard, but its still tough! Anyone who achieves this one without resorting to taming or barding has my respect, its a real tough one. Before Sacrifice, I barely did any hunting in the lands of Trammel, and I thought it would be easy going....and it is for the most part .but I soon discovered that people can be every it as hostile here as in fel. What Im talking abut are kill stealers and Fame stealers! Anyone who goes hunting demons , juka lords or anything else with "decent" loot /fame will know what im talking about :) Just walk into the Wrong Troll room and watch people with FIVE dragons (no less, that would be too scary for them) dominating the entire spawn.... Or go to the hedgemaze and watch as someone finally whitles down the demons strength to a sliver of health. then POW! an ebolt, axe, demon dismissal bow strikes...... over and over and over again! And yes its a rant, and im sure people will say "its a valid play style, they are entitled to a monster just as much as the next" and hey, I agree... but its a sad state of the world when common courtesy flies out the window. Peace. Frost |
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| Thursday 14th Ah valentines day! On the stroke of midnight I recieved a lovely gift from Lady Kaylie, everyone be nice to her! *growls*. Anyone whose picture you see here is a truely wonderful individual (including Saber), these are the people that make UO worth playing *sniff*. oh my, I've become emotional.*sniff* Almost at Sacrifice level 3, its too much effort to keep, so ill do it once and decay it back to 2 ..... anyone who needs more than 2 self resses a week is doing something fundamentally wrong! oh yea, LBR was released today...woohoo! etc... |
| Friday 15th Despite having spent far too long in the local Tavern, I managed to achieve the title of Knight of Sacrifice! Oh hm, there was an update today too, nothing interesting:) www.update.uo.com/fyi.html. |
| Monday 18th Another trip to the tavern! *hic*.. managed to get into an arguement over barding two demons.... . "can you please stop taking all the spawn, because only two demons spawn here?" "No, barding two demons which spawned right next to me is fair" ," you are selfish, im not wasting anymore time on you" . Ok, fairly typical stuff there, and I snipped it slightly , but thats the crux of it.... I said if I was barding ALL the demons it would be selfish, but I got the impression she went away thinking I was a jerk/as/newbie/scum/whatever ...... *sigh* , cant wait until I can travel to Ishenar, spread the annoying people out a bit more:) Theres a really wierd line as to what people find exceptable behaviour, and what isnt, and it varies incredibly between each individual, but nonetheless, I do hate it when im CONVINCED im acting gentlemanly, and people are still calling me names :( Well, I guess people remember the bad things people say, and forget the good these days. *Rambles a bit more about demons*...Oh and Hi Perse:) SPOILER: Oh, I was handed a note from an anonymous source today, go there or read it direct HERE Adieu, Frost |
| Wednesday 20th "Here be Dragons" My "passport" to Ishenar finally arrived today, so I did a little exploring... Didnt find much of interest though lol. I ran all over the surface looking for new hunting grounds and went all the way to the west where theres a passage that leads to an ancient wyrm spawn. I managed to beat them with the help of my guide , Farl. I also found a nice cave above the volcano to the north of garg city.... another dragon in there too:) Oh, be careful with the skeletal dragon....its *not nice*, it bards your pets, it spawns its own minions (which you cant bard), and it hits quite hard itself! If anyone wants to form a party (a big one) to take it down, lemme know, ill be sittin by MOONGLOW bank :) tip for the day: why fletch when you can kill ratmen archers at compassion shrine? :) |
| Thursday 21st Did a load more exploring in Ishenar and found some very nice areas to hunt, thanks again to my wonderful guide Farl. I take my bard/mage out usually, but with the proposed changes coming, looks like hes set to retire! Oh well, it was a fun 2 months:( Two other reasons to be down today: *Pow* Fel changes... whole account red? ridiculous. *Pow* Taming is due for " a tweak", bound to upset some of the tamers however it finally goes down. Mind you, I have always been for the "Cant tame, cant own" system (take that banksitters!). Gotta see how this one plays out. |
| Friday 22nd This was just posted to the FYI section of uo.com. The North American shards will be undergoing unscheduled maintenance this afternoon, at around 2:40pm CST, in order to address a few in-game issues. We will be releasing the following fixes: Previously, players with slower connections could be killed after traveling through a moongate before their computer ever caught up with them and they were able to defend themselves. Players will now be hidden when coming out of a moongate, meaning that they will not become visible until their computer has finished loading, and they are able to move. Nice Hirelings will now cost 8K in return for their services. O..k...... Fixed an issue involving pack horses and BODs. Good! Corrected a gating/recall issue with the Minax stronghold. Holiday trees will be disabled. All holiday trees currently in the world should return to deed form. Only the owner of the house that the deed is in, or the person who placed the tree, will be able to pick up the deed. Boo! *hiss* The holiday gift gump will be disabled. Any remaining holiday tickets will still be useable, but no more will be given out. We expect these shards will be down for approximately 45 minutes, and apologize for any inconvenience this downtime may cause. Barring any unforeseen issues, the Asian, European, and Oceania shards should see these changes active following their regularly scheduled Sunday morning maintenance periods (local server time). |
| Tuesday 25th Check out In concept for the latest changes coming in Pub 16..... Love those power scrolls! |
| Been hunting *censored*, lots of loot, very slow moving creatures... I think maybe the bard nerf is good afterall, but with the proposed changes, they are going overboard...... someonewhere in the middle is about right... Be honest, barding is ridiculous!... how long does it take you to bag 10k? 10 minutes? less? compare that to any other class but the tamer and youll see where OSI are coming from ......oh, I agree with the tamer nerf too ! My friend got a 72 hour ban last night, he happenned to call someone a bad name! Yes its bad (mkay?) to name call, but, tell me , if someone goes out of their way to piss you off by their actions (kill steal, monster lure etc etc) , what can you do? nothing except leave the area, it appears....... On this subject, I notice a trend of people using the harassement queue to grief players.. literally goading them into losing their temper, so that they say something "wrong" etc... all in an attempt to get the person banned.....sad or what? Its especially rampant in Tram.:(. |
| Thursday 28th Scenerio 4 Update! Gromm (Designer, Ongoing Content) 02/26/02 02:23 PM I've seen a lot of threads lately asking about the status of the next scenario so I thought I'd give a good ole red name update for everyone to see. :) Without giving away any spoilers I can tell you that scenario 4 is going to be big. We've got a lot of content packed into this one including two pretty sizeable and complex systems (humility and the plant system). We're also currently working on really expanding the finale to be a long satisfying ending since this last scenario didn't have one. Testing has already started on the majority of the elements and the others are moving along nicely in code. We have a ways to go before we're going to be satisfied with the scenario as a whole but you can expect some big fun things that will be noticed far and wide. :) Finally! something to do! I must free up some space for the new batch of "collectables". Barding Update: Still not my cup of tea, its certainly interesting for group play, but how often do you see a group of adventurers? normally its 4 at the most..... I think they want it to be more like d&d or dare I say EQ? with the standard party consisting of at least two bards, a mage/tamer, an archer, and two fighters.... |
| March 3rd Farl managed to take down a skeletal dragon single handedly, using a bow! Heres the proof Almost got an entire agapite large bod finished.... if anyone has 15 agapite ring sleeves, lemme know:) Augur posted this clarification regarding Gardening on the UO.com boards:J Just to clear a few things up since there have been a lot of threads on this topic : when/if the plant system goes in, it will not use any of the old potted plant art (from rewards/gifts/etc.) Plants being grown start out as empty plant bowls (grey bowl art piece), then bowls of dirt (bowl of potatoes art), then bowls with green leafyness (bowl of lettuce art), and then once the plant is Full Grown, it uses all the assorted non-bowled plant art types in the game (cactii, campion flowers, fern, snake plant, small palm, etc.), dependant on the seed type that was used. There is never an instance where a piece of plant art that is already gainable in the game at this time or in the past is used (at least I can't remember any time players have been able to get plant art that's not in a bowl). In terms of skills needed, you may "need" alchemy in order to have potions to use on your plant, but you could always buy those potions from other players. You don't need alchemy or any other skill to actually use the potions on the plant. Hope that helps clear things up/allay any fears, :) Augur |
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| December 11th "Omg an update!" Big Hi to Tyrant and Kaylie........ thanks for puttin up with me for two weeks:) Big gap in any uo news up until recently... they announced the opening of the Age Of Shadows site. First expansion Ive been looking forward too, seems a bit too good to be honest. Its got custom scratch-built housing tools, a new landmass(to glut with housing), combat changes (including new weapons) , Necromancy (no seriously) oh yea and uh paladins I guess. Hum in other news *rummages* Looks like one of those annoying uo hacker type kids finally got busted for it.....check it out here (I hope) Um. thats it. uh.. if I dont get back before the new year, merry christmas, and I hope your gifts dont suck:) September 27th Ok lots of stuff in this week, rewards, 5th year anniversary,new shard,and of course the quests(plural!) Vet rewards...meh, I guess they are ok this time, new ethy mounts, cloaks, dye tubs.. the usual stuff really... the dye tubs are really dissapointing, looks like they ran out of things to dye.....dye statues? ugh!..... I took a pic of an ethy kirin and a swamp dragon ethy for you to render your verdicts on... it can be found HERE. Oh, you can all have some year 5 cake, but you cant eat it:) Ok scenerio..'Ill only say this once, so no icqing me! Solen nests are now spawning in these areas: Trinsic west gate, Cove,Fire Isle and Yew.... These spawn spots move around, so you gotta walk about a bit:) Some of these holes you can fall down (double click) and enter the new dungeon. Each hole leads to a dfferent area, to get a quest, find the "ambitous solen queen" and talk to it using the context sensitive menus (thats shift+left click everyone ;0 )..she will tell you to go kill 5 solen queens....youll have to hunt round for the other hole..when you get there, prepare for a long wait:). What do you get? A bag of sending..click it and target what you want to send to bank box..takes charges (powder of temperment).. Beetles...I love these things...300 str! 3 control slots, work as a pack animal.. to tame em, you have to weaken them significantly.....but they only take 65 taming or so. theres a pic HERE. September 18th Solen are in today, start harvesting those fungi, and watch out for those picnic baskets and bracelets! Just hunt around in the woods......I found Cove and Brit x-roads to be quite decent..easy to kill,you wont need any guides on killing them. Also in are the stat lock gump, mining gump and plant gump. In other news, OSI unveiled their plans for the 5th year anniversay...read more here. In summary, a new shard, vet rewards, discount boxes... nothing great.... Oh and to round it all off, they are allowing us to buy premade chars...check that out here, but if you buy one..jeez..whats the matter with you? I hate this personally, not only is it a slap in the face to the vets that worked at it (hey, even the ebayers had to put in some effort to get those chars made before they were ebayed )I think it takes away the learning process and you lose out on the sense of achievement, there are so many things wrong with this IMHO. September 10th Yes its an update..not an awful lot going on at the moment, scenerio is going to be on Chesa either wednesday or thursday (depending on if its the "lucky shard") and if you dont want to know whats in it, you should look away......hm..now! Solens!Thats right , those ant warriors on the LBR box are finally coming:) They have two kinds of solens, red ones and black ones, each being native to one particular facet. You can kill them in some kind of quest system..oh and theres a new dungeon for them:).Also coming up is the valor virtue (makes champion altars activate), possibly those blue riding beatles at last (woo) and some wierd item called a bag of translocation..which is thought to be able to transport items to other bags (uomail system anyone?). All this is subject to change, it not being active yet. What else? hmm.champ spawns..FOR GODSAKE PLACE THE OAKS SKULL!..... *ahem ty* Finally, heres a decent link for all you people doing bod rewards..Tower of Roses. August 20th Short update.... OSI are letting us change our character names now, and they are charging $30 bucks for the privilege...I'd post the link but sim laughing too hard lol...*wipes tears from his eyes* ... hahahaha....*composes himeself* Oh and the scenerio is gonna be a coupla weeks more :/ August 5th Firesteed information can be found at www.tamingarchive.com New player pictures added here. July 30th ok after constant nagging, I'll update my site, but only because *you* the fans demanded it:P I cant really say theres been nothin to report...pub 16 hit...and it was less painful than I'd expected.I can bond to my pets at least, which means I can break out the legacy animals without risking their demise to timewarps, lag etc..My bard can still bard demons with only 100 music/85 provo. although I did read provo was amongst the list of broken ggs skills...(think the only ones broken were bard ones). Havent gained a single point in poisoning, after ggs.. someone tell me what im doing wrong:P So thats ggs..... Powerscrolls and Champion spawns. I love this, I really do... I find myself banksitting very little now, which is suprising for me. It such a thrill to go out and cap "boss monsters" for those scrolls... I do think the powerscroll reward allocation should be looked at though, its pretty cheap at the moment, people hide their justice chars near spawns protecting their mains.... a valid tactic I guess , I can see why people do it, but its still cheap..... and I am kinda bitter that I havent been getting the good ones:P Gained Knight of Justice thanks to Lord Saber and ASD... thanks for that.. There are some jerks at the spawns you gotta watch out for. I want to thank Princess Jackie, Englaived, Saber, Black-RAM and ASD for actually telling me about spawns and keepin me alive. thats the most annoying part of doing them, finding them in the first place...too miuch running.. Oh what else. hm.....I got a taming scroll (thnx saber) and a +20 archery scroll....... those are doing well, anyone know if I get a title at 105?? I should find out today or tommorow.... I love archery! awoooooooooo. +10 wrestle scroll spare atm. Gamespy have a preview of Age of Shadows and it looks cool, but then all the expansions have *looked* cool... This ones really really promising though... house designing tile by tile...... cant wait, I love this so much.. Paladin/Necromancer thing ill have to reserve judgement on though...... I seem to have gained myself a newsreporter today :+): http://www.cpinternet.com/~jludwig/graphics/UO/glowgates.jpg Low Down and Shifty, plus Karn decided to try an experiment. Things get scary when mages get bored in Moonglow City!!! -Reported by Black Feather June 18th Yup Its been at least 2 weeks since I posted anything, "my bad". Few reasons for it, I was hacked, geocities was being bad, HAD A BREAK! and well, not much in the news..... Ok so theres publish 16, great publish with lots and lots of changes including barding, taming, skill gain, housing, felucca "enhancements" and tailoring bods. I guess its all for the best in the long run, but I cant help feel that its a little too late for all of this, I mean, chances are you already have a couple of multi gm chars ( stupid powerhour), so whats the point in suddenly cranking back the skill gain sustem? to punish new players? I mean, thats the only real effect its gonna have, everyones out squeezing every last powerhour they can out of the system before it goes anyway... Taming and barding have good changes, well the bards been completely messed with, and the tamer still reigns supreme in the gold harvesting... only took them....how long? *cough*. Sad to see house decy going back in, but I guess its for the best.. (?)..... *shrug* Congratulations to Elwood and Shiela, who were wed a few days ago, pictures can be found here. Finally, got a batch of resource baring plants, if anyone wants a few seeds, you know where to find me May 31st CONGRATULATIONS GREYOWL & MAGUS IRONCLAW I went to the wedding of Greyowl and Magus Ironclaw at the Heartkin Tower in Silvervale. Even with short notice, I still managed to brush-up quite nicely, guess which ones me:) . The wedding was interrupted by the Infamous Sublime O'Snakes, who I managed to track down for an explanation. He said he was doing it to highlight his cause of ressurecting the legendary Snakes gang.Also inattendence were the maids of Honor: Contare, Iliana Le Kyteler and Lady Angel Eyes, Best man:Kaine , Performing the ceremony: Vin Blackheart, and also Serax, Windstar , Stardust and Isabelle among many others. Pictures can be found here. And in other news, Test centre two was opened up for the dreaded publish 16... If you want to try out the new smithy and tailoring bods, or you want to try out taming, barding or a whole lot of new stuff, check it out. Be warned though, the new tailoring colours are nasty to say the least. May 29th This is just a quick update to the new scenerio spoiler......lots of interesting things in it, dont read if you dont like things"spoiled". Source: Markee Dragon and the uo.com boards. May 25th. Been planting a lot, got a few mutants, but because I dithered too long, I dont have many gen 3 plants, but I should have some nice results very soon now. I have also been fixing my fighting skills before the dreaded publish 16 comes in, hope you know about it...If you have any fighting skills left to achive, I advise you get yourself over to humility shrine and whack on some rotting corpses, its the "new bonewall". Lots of friends quitting for various reasons, so im a bit down..... Hope none of them quit of course, but I can understand their reasons... financial and lack of enjoyment. I'm sure we can all empathise :( Saw this idiot mouthing off at Glowbank the otherday, DOH May 18th. Plants...been growing quite alot... if anyone needs any seeds or flowers let me know, ill see what I can do. Second gen plants are for the most part ugly, ill be sticking to the plain ones personally. Stillno sign of the resources yet either, but im gussing those will be from third gen plants (best guess being two orange ferns crossed)...... dont think i have the patience for that thoguh,. im already drowing in seeds! Hum waht else? gained Knight of Compassion... I was doing it the hard way, running around del finding prisioners until a friend told me an easier way..... buy me beer or bribe me with ingots to find out how...not an exploit. Been thinkin about moving to drach.... dont cheer yet, just means ill be playing both. Yews being turned into a swamp.....itll grow next week I believe. Buh-bye! Frost May 8th Yup its been a while since I updated, geocities was down all weekend *shrug*. Whats new? Plants! you get plants from bogthing and boglings (found in the swamp). Boglings are easy enough, bog things youll need to bldespirit...they hit hard, but are slow moving. Also new plague beasts....just blade those too *shrug*. You want indepth hunting guides go to stratics or soemthin', or bribe me with ingots at tramglowbank. I have been growing lots of plants ( I say "lots" because whatever number I come up with, you are bound to be growing more than me, no matter how outragous I make that number). Most of the infos on the plant gump itself if you look, but basically its: plant bowl (provisioners)+ water (pitcher) + seed (bogling)= plant. Feed it poison if it has insects, cures if it has fungus, strength to boost its rresistance and heals to restore its hitpoints.. oh and water it..... not to omuch! I just went onto thesecond generation..got some wierd ones growing.... black, green, white and purple. Selling someof my doubles at 8k.... cant understand why people are selling 30k+.... max costs work out at about 700..... Think thats it for now, you can find me at tramglowbank watching the soap opera that is uo. April 30th Looks like plants are in tommorow, thats when the next part of the scenerio is in anyway. Few updates in the player gallery section. Did some bank sitting, met some nice people... lots of old faces....Peregrine, Taralynne, Sublime O'Snakes, Dr Pepper, Sis.. and some new ones, notably Estrella...... Hi to you all ^_^ April 25th , bit late but *shrug* ! So week two is in... Dragon barding can now be made. If you look under the blacksmithing menu, theres a new entry for it, under "platemail". Takes 750 ingots roughly.. 100 are lost each time you fail. 55% chance to make it, 10% exceptional chance. Despite what you'll read elsewhere, the armour reduces damage by a percentage amount, not an arbitrary 9 points ... this was/is a bug!. Thats about it for new stuff, the invasion has stepped up a notch, you'll find golems, controllers and ELITE dragoons now.. the dragoons carry magic swords.. Dragon Barding pic. Companion calls are always interesting... First one I went to was in the shadow wyrm spawn, second was checking out the ophidian lair, and the third....well, he had a *really* inappropriate name, plus his friends tried to "gank" me...... and this is why I find it so enjoyable! never knowing what'll happen next! :+) April 17th The scenerio has FINALLY started! Check out uo.com for the BNN story. Yew was invaded by Juka today, as were Papua, Jhelom and Trinsic. New to appear were the chaos dragoons, cavalry men mounted on swamp dragons. These guys are easy to kill (slow moving, drop in 4 ebs), and the dragon remains behind for you to either tame (95.1 to tame , 0.0 to ride) or slaughter for their scales (5). But who would want to kill such peaceful, docile creatures? (you'll lose a lot of karma). As well as the swamp dragons, all dragons (and sea serpents) drop a few dragon scales... collect em up and you can make a colored set of dragon ringmail (ac 37-19, -19 dex, perm bless effect). Dont let anyone trick you into buying a dragon hammer either , all you need is 40 tinkering and 4 ingots..... they look nice though..... If anyones wondering what all this new stuff looks like click here........YUCK April 11th The latest 660k patch for 2d users was just to change the client version....well thats according to their official blurb. The 3d users have 4mb worth of monster files. If you dont want it soiled, and are happy with the official "660k to change the 6 byte version number story",then dont read here! April 4th Some may say I am being lazy, but there has been almost nothing newsworthy in the last two weeks. I wont put up *every* post the devs made, just the stuff I consider fun/interesting.. Pub 16th is put back until JUNE, scnerio is pushed back until "late april we hope" ...which sucks, too long a wait for the scenerio. Hanse comments on the BOD system for pub 16 here. March 15th Both taming and barding went through further revisions which can be found here and here respectively. Taming changes look " a bit good" , maybe ill dust off my tamer/mage (Yes I have one, but he only owns one wyrm, which he doesnt even use....dont hate me:P ). But on the flipside, ill be retiring my mage/bard :( Tip of the day:Use your bard as much as you can, youll miss it when its gone! Met an old friend, Maeve, nice to see some old faces around, especially people from Heartkin:) March 12th Went away to sunny Vesper for the weekend. Came back to find a lot more information waiting for me to post. Tailoring will be updated with its own set of BODS. Lots of interesting shades of cloth, including one that looks remarkable like shadow cloth. Tailoring will gain new armor types in the next scenerio: Spined leather: easily killed aggressive creatures... mostly... dire wolves, alligators, ratmen, and lizardmen are good examples of this type of leather bearing monster/animal. Horned leather: Drakes, wyverns, sea serpents, ki-rin, and unicorns. Barbed leather: Dragons, wyrms (all three types), nightmares, etc... tough creatures...experiment.. :) March 7th The proposition for compassion virtue can be found here |
