 August 31, Thursday |
 | Lock down bug! Lock your front doors! -Videric |  |
I read this from the news in stratics, it seems the bug is very real so please take this seriously:
Lock your door people, if you have not already done so, it seems ANY locked down or secure item can be stolen from a building that can be accessed inside.
Apparently large towers are not 100% safe from this exploit even if private*sighs*
I would suggest keeping your valuables in a safe place until we get confirmation that the thing has been fixed.
If person can access the house, lockdowns are not safe. So for all you public house holders,at least remove all valuable from your houses if you want to stay open.
Please read more at UO Stratics |
| August 28, Monday |
| City of Ulthuan Grand Opening delayed.... but, Ulthuan Library and Magika will throw opening ceremonies. -Remy LeBeau | |
I recieved this letter from Qurant, Ordermaster of TOU, this afternoon, along with an attachment. - Remy LeBeau
"Dear peoples of Britannia,
I regretfully announce that the opening of Ulthuan City will be delayed for at least 30 days. This has been the result of a dispute between members in this guild, stating we should not let Drow on the land we claimed for Old Ulthuan. We have shown no tolerance for the Drow, and many know my personal feelings towards Mori'Quessir (High Elven for Drow), but they have been granted a reprieve from British saying they have as much right to the land as we do, so thus is our arguement. So for now, the city of Ulthuan will remain under construction. I gaurantee it will not be longer than 30 days. But it light of this news, Lestat V'lorea, our resident head librarian, has sent me a letter, with some goods news.
Qurant
Ordermaster of The Order of Ulthuan
jmyers@reliable-net.net
And here is the letter he attached from Lestat V'lorea:
"Ladies and Gentlemen,
For recent bad happenings which I am not at liberty to discuss, the opening of the city of Ulthuan, will be shortly stopped. Father Qurant I am sure will release a statement about the situation soon. But as for now, I, Lestat V'lorea, Scholar and Head Librarian of the TOU, am proud to announce Opening Ceremonies for the Ulthuan Library and Magika. Since the godlings are fixing a problem pertaining to bookshelves, libaries will soon be useful again. We here at he L&M have three stories of a wide variety of books, written by many various peoples of Britannia. We will have a opening ceremony where you will find many scholars there to answer your questions, and were are planning for a guest speaker. For now the ceremony will be planned for September 5th, but if the godlings take longer, we will reschedule. For runes to the library, contact the TOU at Qurant's email address, jmyers@reliable-net.net."
Lestat V'lorea |
| August 27, Sunday |
Unfortunately I have sad news. Carl Barks, the famous (and in my opinion the best) Donald Duck artist died at the age of 99 earlier this week. To me, his comics remain unmatched by other Duck artists.
You can read more at http://www.carlbarks.net/
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| August 24, Thursday |
I would just like to post this so that everyone knows, OSI actually listened to us and has been working on an update for the lockdown issue. This is now in testing on the Test Center shard. Congratulations everyone, this is a monumental victory for us, the role-playing community. OSI is starting to learn that we will not give up and not be silenced. - Remy LeBeau
Lots of additions to Testing For Next Update:
Black Dye Tub Changes
Players will no longer be able to dye the true black (solid black) dye tubs to another color.
Lock Down and Secure Changes
Changes to lock downs and secures to account for various situations.
Access to secure containers can now be assigned by the house owner.
When a house owner makes a container secure a window will appear with the following options:
Accessible by only owners and co-owners,
Accessible by only owners, co-owners and friends.
Locking down secure items in houses will change in the following ways:
Only the player that locked down an item or the owner of the house will be able to unlock that particular item. This will not change previously locked down items until they become re-locked down.
Items on top of or below other locked down items will be accessible.
Players will be able to use dyes on any dye tub, including ones that are locked down. However, black dye tubs will no longer be dyeable under any circumstances. This will affect all previous black dye tubs that exist.
Keys on a keyring will not count toward the lock down total in a house. The keys within the keyring will not decay, however the keyring itself will still subject to normal decay situations.
Players will be able to use any locked down container, except a secure container. Note that items inside of a container cannot be locked down unless the container itself is also locked down. As stated above, locked down items will only be able to be released by the player that locked the item down, or by the owner of the house.
The following items will be useable when locked down:
Runes may be used for recalling.
Treasure maps may be viewed by anyone.
Rune books will allow recall scrolls to be added by anyone to increase the amount of charges.
Visitors to a house will be able to recall to a location from a locked down rune book in that house.
Books will be readable by house visitors.
Visitors to a house will not be able to scribe text into a locked down purple book.
Candelabras and lanterns that are locked down will be operable by the house owner, co-owner, and friends of the house.
Musical instruments will be operable.
Locked down dyes will be useable on locked down dye tubs (except true black dye tubs which will not be dyeable as described above.)
Locked down mugs, glasses, cups, buckets, and tubs will be useable by anyone.
Changes to Young players and New characters:
"Young" player items will be changed in the following ways:
Ranger armor (green armor) will be removed from the "young" player ticket options
In the place of Ranger Armor, "young" players will have the option for a spellbook. This spellbook will contain all of the spells within the first four circles of spellcasting.
All newly created character's starting gold will be increased to 1000 gold, from the current 100 gold, regardless of the play age of the account they exist on.
Various Changes and Fixes.
The following changes and updates will be added to Ultima Online:
Tamers will be able to loot monsters that their pets kill. The same damage looting rules still apply if other players or creatures are involved in the kill.
Thieves will have a chance to snoop and remain hidden. This will be based on a check against their hiding skill. At zero hiding skill, a player will be revealed when snooping 100% of the time. At 100 hiding, a player will be revealed 50% of the time when snooping.
Human NPC's in Wind will be able to call for guards if witnessing a criminal action or if noticing a murderer.
Boats will not be able to become drydocked unless the boat's anchor is down.
Posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2000, 6:11 PM EDT by Joshua Rowan (GeneralNews)
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| August 21, Monday |
| Black Dagger targets UO's economy, market and detailed studies of merchant -Videric | |
www.blackdagger.com has done many detailed studies for merchants and for people why frequent merchants for their goods. Currently the latest study includes all the known new weapons that have been found throughout the land as of late.
At Black Dagger we strive to bring you total information on all sellable items within the game. We can't say we have everything listed because that would be untrue, but what we don't have can be easily referenced through links to other popular sites. Why do I do this, because I feel I can have the most in-depth, detailed information presented in the most appealing and useful manner. That is my goal for all my guides.
So if you need any of the following you know that www.blackdagger.com is the place you can find detailed and up to date information.
- a Rares Guide (including rough prices)
- a General Price Guide (this also includes the rares...the data is driven from the same database)
- a New Items Guide
- a Treasure Hunting Guide
- an Ultima Online Links Engine (Similar to Yahoo's Directory)
Silk
www.blackdagger.com
A proud new member of the Shattered Crystal Gaming Network.
www.shatteredcrystal.com
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| The town of Mistweir would like to welcome one and all to our Grand Festival! -Videric | |
The town of Mistweir would like to welcome one and all to our Grand Festival!
The Festival will be held on the 27th of August from 18.00 to 22.00 CET in the town of Mistweir located at 110o 33'N 55o 53'E (southeast of Wrong) on the Trammel facet.
Events to include an opening blessing given by the Priest Alminster, followed by a cooking contest, a town rally, a darts contest, a wool coloring game, a grand festival dinner, a lottery, and a drunken polymorph race! Many grand prizes will be awarded to winners of the events to include the following top awards like a runebook collection, magical weapons of choice, 100 of each reagent, 20k in gold, and a complete collection of semi rare foods!
We are still looking for poets and musicians to show off their work, so please visit our sky pages and let us know if you'd like to provide entertainment for the festival. Please visit the following http://ultima.lemming.org/ (specifically, our town hall board here: http://ultima.lemming.org/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=list&forum=DCForumID2&conf=DCConfID2. Where a complete listing of events and times are listed.)
Don't miss out on this exciting event!
Cheers,
Belladona
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| August 19, Saturday |
I know this isn't exactly Europa news, but I felt it needed to be said. It was posted today on UO Stratics general news. - Remy
It looks like we've finally discovered what this week's new item is! Thanks to Srikrit Ta Lir for providing this tale:
Hail,
After reading the BNN article and the hint given on the new item, I decided to give it a try. I went to a place thats cold, as suggested. Outside the ice dungeon I hunted on anything that moved. My first guess was that it would be the snow elementals, but to my surprise I found a very strange staff on a Giant Ice Serpent. The staff is said to be a Glacial staff. It looks like its made of ice. After further investigation (armslore) by my friend Jezamyn we found out that the staff is best used by a mage, and has 2 modes of operation. These modes can be triggered by saying the words "In Corp Del" or "An Ex Del" when holding the staff. You hear mysterious sounds when you change mode.
I did little experimenting with it sofar, but I can describe a few things I found out.
When the staff is used in In Corp Del mode it uses ALL your mana in 1 blast, the blast seems to do damage, but I have no idea how much. It killed a bull in one shot, but did nothing on a heavily damage drake. Besides its scary to lose 100 mana with 1 spell.
The An Ex Del mode, makes the sound of a paralyse and seems to paralyse the target, but only for a very short time.
I guess a lot more research is needed to find out all about this, but I hope this is a good start.
Srikrit Ta Lir of Clan Wulf (Drachenfels)
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| August 15, Tuesday |
| Bardic night, 21.00 CET on Tuesday 15th of August -Videric | |
All the friends of good music and merry, 'tis true! Bardic night is a night for bards to show their talents and audience to enjoy this art with perhaps a pint of beer or glass of fine wine. The event will be held inside the Trade Caravan Fortress, which is a bit north from Cove (Trammel). For detailed map of location, look at the tome from this address: http://caravan.lemming.org/.
Thank you,
Videric Gaveston
http://caravan.lemming.org/
Apologies for late adverticement, originally the plan was to held it on Wednesday or Thursday, but it turned out I might not be able to host the event on those nights.
I hope you will be able to come either as audiance or performer. |
| August 13, Sunday |
Announcement from the Ordermaster of The Order of Ulthuan, Qurant -
The Order of Ulthuan is proud to announce that the city of Ulthuan will open on September 1st, 2000! There will be a smithy with Grandmaster employees to service your weapon and armor needs, the Ulthuan Library and Magika for all you mages, scribes, and book collectors, and a tailor's shop that sews the finest threads in all the lands! We are also trying to construct a tavern where all you warriors can find the smoothest ales, and hardest liquors that your stomachs can handle. The future site of Ulthuan is located southeast of the great town of Spiritwood, along the Destard mountain range, in the Felucca facet. As for now the Ulthuan Library and Magika is already open to the public. For contact information please refer to the TOU's skypage at http://toulthuan.cjb.net
See you there,
Ordermaster Qurant |
| August 12, Saturday |
An announcement from Zreto Lusorian
Hear ye Citizens of Europa
After 2 weeks of hard work, we are finally able to annouce the opening of the first 2 parts of "Ye North End Tavern & Mall". The first is our rune library. Our "library crew" has travelled to every corner of Britannia, and we now offer runes to all city shops sorted by category, all dungeon levels, and all treasure islands. In addition we have some more interesting places and player run locations. All runes are stored in runebooks, easily used both by mages and users of scrolls.
Our "player establishments & shops" books still have free slots, so should thee be running a town or tavern, or own a vendor to which thee have a rune, please contact me, so I can add thy location.
The second part now open is our Mall. One whole level of our tower is dedicated to vendors. We have vendors selling items of EVERY tradeskill at GM level, plus vendors stocked with magical items, fishing items, semi rares and rares, we hope everything desirable in these lands. All packed into one room, for easy shopping.
Here too, we have some free spots left (after all we have set space for 36 vendors), so if thee have some fine wares to sell and want a (hopefully) much frequented vendor spot, we offer them to thee for free. Just contact me.
The opening of our 3rd part, the tavern, is now scheduled for Thursday, the 24th. We are still hard at work on the finishing touches to make it a place to feel good in. We are also still looking for people interested in working in the tavern once a week for a few hours, as we are still lacking enough people to open on more than 2 or 3 days a week. So if this might interest thee, please just contact me and I will answer any question and thee can see, if this would be something for thee.
"Ye North End Tavern & Mall" can be found...well ye guessed it, at the north end of the world. More precisely we are located just north of the mountains where the Dungeon Wrong lies. If the walk around these mountains, thee will find our tower at the northen tip of them, straight south from the Entrance to the Ice Dungeon. The exact coordinates are 128 N 45 E. We hope to see thee all there in the comming days.
With regards
Zreto Lusorian
ICQ: 11934600
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| New creatures roam the lands -Melissa | |
New, terrible beasts have risen from the depths of the earth. Yesterday there were confirmed sightings of several kinds of elementals, including shadow, copper, gold, verite and valorite elementals.
These powerful creatures seem to be originating from the areas which miners frequent, such as the mining caves north of Britain. Eyewitnesses report that the most powerful of these creatures, the valorite elemental, is capable of using magic and slaying warriors with only a few blows from its mighty metal fist.
Perhaps the land itself is rebelling against the strip-mining populace and is using these elementals as guardians against the evil folk who would rob the mountains of their riches?
So if you are thinking about mining some of that precious ore, I would recommend taking either a valiant friend or at least a sturdy sword along, since you can never be sure if that golden gleam you see in that dark cave is really a gold vein...
Update:
The Britannia News Network has a story concering the elementals. |
| August 10, Thursday |
Eldariel of Glorindar send me the following:
Glorindar is proud to announce the European rune libary for Trammel.
We have put together a massive collection of runes for places all over the world. At the moment the library contains 251 runes in 27 runebooks, but we will expand it more in the future.
The library has 2 main parts:
The Grid
This is a worldwide grid of runes. The concept is simple. You look at the grid section of the site and look for the rune that is closest to the spot where you want to go. Then you recall of the rune in our library with the right number.
General spots
These are runes for banks, mage shops, player-run establishements, dungeon entrances, moongates, shrines, .... You find the complete list here
You can find the rune library in our town called Glorindar. Glorindar is located next to Hedge Maze (you will find a little map on the webpage)
Everybody is welcome
Eldariel
Elder and scribe of Glorindar
Also the link at links -section has been fixed to match the new URL. |
| August 9, Wednesday |
| Grand opening of the Trade Caravan Fortress of Cove. -Videric | |
Hear Ye, Hear Ye…
I would like to invite all to the opening of the Trade Caravan Fortress of Cove at the Trammel Facet. The
fortress acts as a base of the Trade Caravan merchants and mercenaries but as well as a Public Tavern.
There will be a Caravan leading to Trade Caravan Fortress of Cove at 20.00 (CET) on Thursday 10th of
August, leaving from Vesper; just front of the Ironwood inn. So why not join us? Best of all; the drinks will be
on the house, even if it is against my merchant blood.
The Leader of Trade Caravan,
-Videric Gaveston |
| August 6, Sunday |
For some reason or the other Art section was uploaded with wrong file, preventing the menu to show, this is fixed now.
Also portrait of Ooradax has been fixed and replaced with new art.
The portrait of Ooradax
I am sorry for the trouble. |
| August 5, Saturday |
Hail all and well met.
My name is Remy LeBeau, and I have just joined the Tales of a Traveller's news team. I will strive to bring you the latest and hottest news as soon as they happen. You can also send me, or the rest of the team, any news that you see fit to print. If you see me around Vesper, don't be afraid to stop me and say hello!
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| August 4, Friday |
From Uo.com:
Come meet friends from around the world at the Ultima Online World Faire! Join us in Austin, November 10 - 11, 2000 for an exciting two-day opportunity to meet and mingle with friends and UO staff members under the Texas sky. Give us your opinions on Ultima Online and join in on a wide range of sessions designed to involve you in the changing face of UO! Take part in an astounding array of events, demonstrations, exhibits, and entertainment!
- Meet and speak with the UltimaTM Online team
- See an exclusive premiere of the future of Ultima Online
- Enjoy an exclusive peek at Ultima Worlds Online: ORIGIN
- Take part in over 50 informative Panels, Workshops, and Roundtables
- Explore a Renaissance Village of Vendors with exclusive Ultima Online merchandise and more
- Take part in a fantasy art show and charity auction
- Raise your glass at one of two special Happy Hour events
- And most important of all, gather together with thousands of Ultima Online players from around the world!
Registration is now open! Act early to get the best price, and as a special bonus, we'll personalize your commemorative World Faire badge with a portrait of your Ultima Online character!
Sign up Here.
As I probably will not be able to go, I would like to ask anyone who is attending about a report of the faire. So if you are going and you are interested of taking few pictures and write something for the Tales of a Traveller, please let me know.
Would be great to see screenshots of that new 3D client that is rumoured to be at works*grins* |
| Ultima Online House of Commons aka UOhoc -Videric | |
The most interesting question asked at the last nights chat was in my opinion this. Pity I could not get a change to ask about bookcases specially. On the bright side it seems the team is aware of at least some of the lock-down problems.
Read it yourself:
<Jerrith> *C_Casey_Atl* Now that the lockdown changes have went in, are there any plans to allow changeing of an item's z-axis to help center it on tables, etc?
Also, are the rules against lockdowns on/near indoor stairs/ladders/doors really necessary? It doesn't keep people from blocking walkways.
<Sage> Yes. We are looking at ways to help all home decorators. The lockdown changes were done to prevent several exploits. However, it was determined that the changes were not adequate.
I am not satisfied with them, and we are currently rewriting the system to make it more sound, and better for players.
The rest of the chat can be soon read at Stratics, where it will probably be posted later today. |
| August 3, Thursday |
Sorry for not having it up earlier, I goofed up a bit. The script is not the worlds best there is, but hopefully it will do it's duty.
Thank you for thy concern over this issue.
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| August 2, Wednesday |
| B0N3D00D and pLaTeDeWd are back -Videric | |
| Origin hires Great Bob from "Lum the Mad" and UO-Europa -Videric | |
Ho have I managed to get these two things under one topic? Read on and find out. *grins*
Great Bob is a known ranter/reporter at Lum the Mad website. Congratulations to Great Bob for a new job at Origin/EA.
The latest addition to Ultima Development community seems to support the idea that they are indeed continuing to hire active Ultima fans (in this case ranter?) to the company. Previously on this year, two people from the Battle Vortex Audio show were hired to work on Origin as well. Probably because their devotion to PvP combat.
So they have hired two PvP experts, and Bob from the community websites. But they are obviously missing one type that needs to be hired as well, where is the roleplayer expert? There is plenty to look for from Europian community I would say...*grins*
I for one would be interested to see UO-europa to grow, and concentrate on Europian shards seperately. Europian community is it's own community and not just part of American one, even the time zone difference is great.
Great first step would be to make uo-europa.com more active, and even daily updated. Fansite links which Tales of a Traveller is featured is great first step (not just because they choose to show link to here, but because it lets people find Europian communities more easily). But how about some articles and maybe even player stories and news like on official UO.com. It might be interesting...
So what was the point of all this? Online Companies should concentrate more on Europa side as well, there is "a few" people playing games at this side of "the lake" too.
Tomf would probably have more to say on this subject, but he is currently unavailable (no, he has not been hired by a gaming company). *grins*
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