 July 28, Sunday |
 | Rick Hall on Ultima Online: Age of Shadows -Videric |  |
Gamespy has Age of Shadow Q & A, with interesting screenshots. Definately worth of checking out.
Gamespy UO Interview |
| July 27, Saturday |
From FYI again:
Phase 1 of Publish 16’s new housing ownership & decay system is finally complete! We’ll soon be entering Phase 2, which will begin on Monday, August 5th, and will continue through until Monday, September 2nd.
At the center of the Phase 2 stage will be the possibility for some of you co-owners or friends to take possession of “ownerless houses” (those houses owned by an inactive account) — although if you already own a house on any shard, you will not be eligible to claim an ownerless house. Also occurring within Phase 2 will be the ability for full-owners to be able to set their homes as “Primary Houses” (don’t forget: setting a house as a Primary House will condemn all your other houses on all other shards!), which will allow houses to auto-refresh for as long as that owning account remains active.
We recommend that everyone take at least a few minutes to refresh themselves on the “House Ownership and Decay Changes” and “House Co-owners & Friends FAQ” information before we enter Phase 2.
Note: The automatic refreshing of houses will continue throughout Phase 2. Auto-refreshing of houses will cease at the start of Phase 3, except, of course, for those buildings set to be Primary Houses. Although Phase 3 will begin soon after Phase 2 ends, it will not necessarily begin immediately after Phase 2 ends — we’ll keep everyone up to date on when Phase 3 begins as well.
links:
House Co-owners & Friends FAQ
Publish 16 - House Ownership & Decay Changes |
Although I do not post all of FYI stuff, as people probably search more fiction related stuff here. However I try to post those most important. As this one has little fiction in it too, there is more reason to post.
“Hear ye! Hear ye! The honorable high court of Britannia does hereby decree that, in light of the recent waves of monstrous entities and their champions rampaging throughout the lands, that all current outstanding murder warrants shall be dismissed, and all persons shall once again have equal opportunity to bear arms against the Evil that threatens our civilization.”
As the age of the Harrower dawned, we found that he was evil - far more evil than we’d ever imagined. This evil ripped into the very framework of Britannia, causing fear, confusion, dissent – and at times, extra murder counts for players who lost their loves in the dungeons and Lost Lands.
To fix this wrong, we debated on the best course of action – whether to revert, or to level the playing field by giving all characters a one-time-only reprieve of all murder counts. The decision was made to issue a reprieve, and it was done. This reprieve is granted to each character as they enter Britannia—as each character logs into UO, all of that characters short- and long-term murder counts will set to zero. This reprieve will only happen once per character.
Once this decree was made, we concluded it was best to not make a formal announcement until the reprieve was activated on all shards, for fear of unscrupulous people taking this opportunity to enter killing frenzies on multiple shards, anticipating that at the end of the day their murders would essentially have zero repercussions.
We apologize for any inconveniences suffered in the development of any character, and hope that this reprieve helps bring everyone’s characters back on track.
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| July 24, Wednesday |
Ragnar Iceblood reported a lot of info about the champions in his post. Maybe you will find it useful.
UOboards post |
| July 23, Tuesday |
| About Mushroom men and monsters -Videric | |
From Gromm:
That's more or less it. There are no Mushroom Men in game and we currently have no plans to add them.
There are no fungus among us! :)
Also, yes, the current plan is to have all the LBR monsters in by the time the AoS expansion is out, so you're not going to get shorted any beasties.
UOboards post |
| July 20, Saturday |
According to this Stratics board post, IGM Talos has left UO-Europa. The poster is IGM Talos himself, as it is verified by Stratics (in his registed nick).
You will be missed by all of us, Talos. Thank you for all the great work you did to EU & DF community, without forgetting your great input to the interest volunteer quests (seer & elder time). If you read this Talos, please email me at traveller@rper.org.
Stratics post link:
Stratics boards |
| July 19, Friday |
GameSpot has few screenshots of the upcoming expansion to UO.
GameSpot |
| July 16, Tuesday |
| New expansion has nothing to do with full-3D -Videric | |
At least according to Tajima:
>>What about the 3D rumors? Does the Unreal Engine have anything to do with this next expansion?<<
No.
-Tajima
UOBoards post |
| Ultima Online: Age of Shadows -Videric | |
Yahoo seems to have first climbse of the new coming UO expansion, which will feature more customizable houses, Necromances and Paladins plus new land masses to conquer. I am sure we hear more details soon...
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020716/160100_1.html |
| July 12, Friday |
| Ultima Online with Unreal engine, kind of confirmed -Videric | |
Someone at boards pointed out that the UO.com job section had this in plusses of the Client programmer:
Experience with Unreal Script
Familiarity with 3rd party game tools such as the Unreal or Quake engines
Design and implementation of user interface
You can look yourself here:
http://www.uo.com/uojobs.html |
| July 8, Monday |
| New character portrait service -Videric | |
As always, when I receive a good link, I think it is only fair to share it. Daniel Chou approached me with a link to his character portrait site. Take a look at his gallery while you visit the site, you wont be let down.
The portraits cost US dollars to commission (much like Carde), not in-game gold.
A link been added to links section, but here is a direct link:
http://www.danielchou.com/ |
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