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February 26, Monday

Beta CD giveaway. -Videric

I got this in mail from Cordicat, so if you do not have UO 3rd dawn Cd, well this is your chance.

    Lords and Ladies,

    It is a Monday. Mondays so rarely bring exciting news - a fact which I'm determined to take a good sharp broadsword to.

    So, with no messing about - I'd like to direct you all to www.uo-europe.com and our Win A Beta CD Competition. We have 50 to give away in a raffle type arrangement. In fact, all things considered, competition isn't quite the word. Giveaway! No less.

    If you don't have a beta cd, or know someone who doesn't, or would quite like another one - enter and give it a whirl!

    See you there,

    Cordicat & ThePreacher
    ________________________________________
    Cordicat: Online Community Manager (Europe)
    ThePreacher: UO Europe Webmaster


And the URL is:

  • http://www.uo-europe.com


    • February 23, Friday

    Petition to put Necromancy back on the development board! -Remy

    Irritated that OSI removed Necromancy from the dev board? Irked because they don't seem to be doing anything about it? Then sign this petition to let OSI know about it!

    http://members.theglobe.com/osipetition/petition.html


    Europa gets new Hardware! -Videric

    This is great news indeed! As we Europa players know very well, our server has been slow especially at the evenings on Trammel and Dungeon server has been slower than a snail at times too.


      European hardware upgrades are in the works right now. We're turnin' on the new machines just as fast as we can get them out the door. :) The machines have to be sent to Origin in Austin, Texas to be prepared and from there, they are sent out to the site and installed.

      -Lonestar, Origin
      Online Network Ops


  • UO Boards


    • February 17, Saturday

    House Auto-refresh -Elv'eng

    I found this on Update Center:

    House Auto-refresh Update
    Feb 16 2001 2:01PM CST (GMT -06:00)

    Currently, the houses on Lake Superior, Drachenfels, and Europa are being refreshed automatically. On February 21st (local server time) we are planning on turning off the auto-refresh system. Right before the system is deactivated, all houses will be refreshed one last time and all condemned houses will be uncondemed. Once the system is deactivated, all houses will need to be refreshed at regular intervals (approximately at least once every 9 days) to avoid decay.


    So watch out people, time to keep refreshing thouse houses again.


    February 15, Thursday

    Purple items -Videric

    Origins has started to ban (or give final warning) people who have used the purple item bug and people who just has them in general. Origin recommends that you get rid of your purple items incase you still have some.

    So teaching in this: do not cheat people!


    Two different Ultimas in production? Too confusing... -Videric

    At least for GameSpot UK. Have a look at their screenshot page of their preview, and we are supposed to listen these guys to guide us what game to buy?

  • We just preview games


    • February 14, Wednesday

    Ultima Online 2 /UWO:Origin figures -Videric

    Here is a link to Mcfarlane Toys 2001 catalog, especially to it's UO2 section:

  • The UO2 Catalog


    • Future of volunteers in Online games -Videric

    Although we cover mainly only Ultima, I think Asheron's Call happenings are something to think about.

    Yesterday AC fired all it's voluteer staff and replaced them with eight paid workers (which is more than 10 times less they had as volunteers according to other news sites).

  • http://ac.stratics.com/
  • http://ac.xrgaming.net/

    I do no not know how this affects AC as I have only played it during the beta, and have not touched the game since (maybe Melissa can bring another view to that). But think of an hypotetical "What if Origin was forced to fire all volunteers" scenario, just imagine UO without Companions, Counselors, Seer and Elder.

    I think you can say without hesitation that UO would suffer greatly if ingame support/quests handled by hundreds of volunteers was changed to be work of few payed workers. It would be quite a rough ride, but in this game future is much in the laywers' hands. It is also interesting to think would changes affect all the shards or just American ones?

    Sometimes reality is stranger than fantasy, I guess.


    • Character Name Generator -Videric

    Here is a website that might help you to create your character's name. The site is based to D&D (as it is on Wizards homepage) so the style of the name might not always be in your liking, but it is worth of try as it still gives good ideas.

  • Character Name Generator


    • February 9, Friday

    Ultima Online Bi-weekly Events -Videric

    "Join Us For Ultima Online Bi-weekly Events," they say, I wonder what they will be like, but they do sound interesting. I hope also do have good fiction nin them to bring new twists to the plot. Well your guess is as good as mine, so read more here:

  • http://town.uo.com/bwevents.html


    • New Official Fiction! -Videric

    A lot of fiction, and well written fiction may I add. Story is probably related in coming of the third dawn add-on disc, but it has a lot to offer.

    Without spoiling much it does involve a lot reasons and persons behind certain factions. I found it all very faithful to Ultima universe and very interesting to read. Must read for all role-players to know what is going on!

  • The Principle Pieces - Part I
  • The Principle Pieces - Part II
  • The Principle Pieces - Part III
  • The Principle Pieces - Part IV


    • February 7, Wednesday

    Traveller hits 10 000 visitors! -Videric

    As you can see from the little counter at the bottom, Traveller has about 10 000 hits. Great!

    Thanks to everyone for visiting and please keep doing so!


    February 4, Sunday

    UO3D keeps getting better... -Videric

    UO3D Patch 40 really added some new eye candy again, like the Zoom feature, adding of sitting animation (which needs some adjusting still however) and fixing and adding wearables.

    As we have not yet even reached Beta, I think we can be very hopeful that UO3d will be very nice when Finished, specially to role-players with all of emotes and enchantments it offers.


    February 3, Saturday

    Win a Copy of Ultima Online: Third Dawn -Elv'eng

    Something i found at www.uo.com, you can win a Copy of UO3D, read below for more information.

    Want to win your very own, hot-off-the-presses, copy of Ultima Online: Third Dawn? EA.com is giving you the opportunity to win, and score yourself a free year of Ultima Online: Third Dawn gameplay! And all you need to do is tell EA.com the top five reasons you deserve to be one of the first to own Ultima Online: Third Dawn. Stop by the “Top Five List” contest web page for official rules and instructions and send in your entry today. Be sure to include your Ultima Online or EA.com account name as well. Be creative, be unique, and win!

    Additium from Videric:
    "Eligibility. You must be 18 years of age or older to win. This contest is open to U.S. and Canadian residents ONLY, excluding Quebec." - Meaning saddly that the competition is not for Europians.


    Don't rug me in the wrong way -Melissa

    I ran across this happy fellow in the Skara Brae tailor's shop on the Alpha Test Shard. I couldn't get a good view of his selections since he refused to listen to me, but I think I have a fairly good idea of what he has in store. More on this later when I get him to listen.



    [Update: managed to get the fellow's attention by shouting in his ear. See a sample of his wares by peeking here, here and here. Note that the prices he asks are a bit hefty, so better start saving now!]

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