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UO Dev Posts: Winterland - Current Activities

Shane — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:24:58 GMT

Posted on Stratics UHall: Draconi_EA

Helloooooo everybody!

Winterland is up and running, and more and more activities are coming online every day.

Here's what's happening right now:

* Britain decorated for the season! Snow, party favors, and more!
* Paint stations: Use any hue from 0 to 2000
* Pet Bonding and Spellweaving Gates
* Giant Holiday Tree: The decorations keep piling up!
* Wishlist: Leave three wishes behind as a memory of the shard. (Some, especially the selfless ones, may be answered!)
* Dance Floor with Live Band: A result of one of the wishes, a live band is playing some of Britannia's favorite songs.
* Tunnel of Love: Another wish, try " *kissing*" under the mistletoe for a stat reward
* Decorated the Winery for the U.Hall Party: The party is on the 20th, and the Winery's halls have been decked out There's an ice sculpture, speaker's stage, chairs, table decorations, spa, and functioning restrooms. There's a gate near the Holiday Tree in Britain
* UO Devs in the Pillory: A few of the people responsible for UO chained up in front of cannons, waiting for their just desserts. You can find this north of the Winery at Empath Abbey

More to come! Including Snowball Wars, a Fair... - stay tuned!

Activities Guide

Paint Stations
* Double click, target item, type in the hue you want
* 0: Bleach - returns to natural color
* 1: Pure black
* 1150, 1153: White, Bright White
* 1152: Glacial
* 1154 - 1179: Fun neons
* 1180's: Crazy...

Wishlist
* Double click, and type in a wish! It may or may not come true.
* Three wishes

Dance Floor with Live Band
* Turn on Music in the Options
* Walk onto the dance floor, wait for the band to rotate into the next song (may be a minute or two before you get caught in the rhythm.
* Popular favorite: Selim's Bar

Mistletoe
* Stand under the mistletoe, with someone else within one tile
* Say "*kiss*" or "*kisses*" or anything that starts with "kiss"
* You'll glow a bit and see a message at the bottom part of your screen, and get a 150 base stat change to either Strength, Dexterity, or Intelligence
* You can only be the kisser once in a while (cooldown period)

Restrooms
* Walk inside the stall, sit down, wait for a little bit
* Drops food satiety in half
* Requires several hours before another attempt

Edited by Draconi_EA (12/17/07 12:08 PM)

UO Dev Posts: Rift Guardians Status [It is done]

Shane — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:34:41 GMT

Posted at Stratics UHall: Draconi_EA

Current number of Rift Guardians by shard and facet.
Shard name: Felucca / Trammel

Atlantic: Success / Success
Catskills: Success / Success
Chesapeake: Success / Success
Great Lakes: Defeat / Success
Lake Superior: Success / Success
Legends: Defeat / Success
Siege Perilous: Defeat

Baja: Success / Success
Lake Austin: Defeat / Success
Napa Valley: Success / Success
Origin: Success / Success
Pacific: Success / Success
Sonoma: Success / Success

Oceania: Success / Success

Asuka: Success / Success
Hokuto: Success / Success
Izumo: Success / Success
Mizuho: Success / Success
Mugen: Success / Success
Sakura: Success / Success
Wakoku: Success / Success
Yamato: Success / Success

Formosa: Defeat / Success
Arirang: Success / Success
Balhae: Defeat / Success

Drachenfels: Success / Success
Europa: Success / Success

UO Dev Posts: Recently ...dang it! now {spoilers}

Shane — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:32:21 GMT

Posted at Stratics UHall: Draconi_EA

In response to: You see: a damaged moongate
                     The magic of this gate is too chaotic, and cannot be dispelled
                     (Tram and Fel ... mag gate on " saved " shards )
                     random landings... without a selection gump

Draconi_EA: One destination is not normal

UO Dev Posts: Lord Draconi - Caught with His Pants Down!!! Journal Text Added

Shane — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:22:17 GMT

Posted at Stratics UHall: Draconi_EA

In response to: Hehe, yes indeed!! I happened to go to the Magincia Trammel Gate on Oceania, and met the fellow! Obviously he was just relaxing and , I believe, distracted for a good while as well!

Anyway, his attention did return to UO in due course, and upon seeing me there, he hastily put a robe on, exclaiming "How Embarrassing!"

He decided that I had to die, and began a 5 second countdown, that oddly enough according to my journal, I actually counted down myself! Of course the inevitable happened at Zero, and I was blown to oblivion.
Draconi himself had disappeared, I ran off seeking a healer, was ressed then I returned to find not Draconi, but Andrew the Servant.
Andrew told me to forget about that other guy, and when I explained that the whole thing had cost me a good amount of insurance, he transported me to that weird place!!

I was going to try to negotiate with Andrew, you know, some sort of deal to keep the embarrassing photos of Draconi off the forum..I'd keep quiet on it for some sort of...err...bribe!! But he disappeared as well, so meh... Draconi, where's ya pants!!

Darocni: ...

How embarassing.

UO Dev Posts: Soooo the.. Event ends.. Okies When do we start the ''trade in''!! to rebuild!!

Shane — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:17:32 GMT

Posted at Stratics UHall: Draconi_EA

In response to: Im guessing we can use ''rubble'' and other ''building materials'' like ''wood and ingots'' etc etc.......as trade-in for points towards the cities rebuild and points for your own contribution!!!

Kinda guessing the prize for rebuilding the city, will be with luck, another chance of a Rift pillars, etc,

Draconi_EA: Um, that would be a little fast, wouldn't it?
*distracts with a holiday shard*

UO Dev Posts: Rift Guardians Status

Shane — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:21:55 GMT

Post at Stratics UHall: Draconi_EA

Current number of Rift Guardians by shard and facet.
Shard name: Felucca / Trammel

Atlantic: Success / Success
Catskills: 8 / Success
Chesapeake: Success / Success
Great Lakes: 8 / Success
Lake Superior: Success / Success
Legends: 5 / Success
Siege Perilous: 7

Baja: Success / Success
Lake Austin: 4 / Success
Napa Valley: 5 / Success
Origin: 6 / Success
Pacific: Success / Success
Sonoma: 8 / Success

Oceania: 6 / Success

Asuka: Success / Success
Hokuto: Success / Success
Izumo: Success / Success
Mizuho: Success / Success
Mugen: Success / Success
Sakura: Success / Success
Wakoku: Success / Success
Yamato: Success / Success

Formosa: 8 / Success
Arirang: 8 / Success
Balhae: 4 / Success

Drachenfels: Success / Success
Europa: 8 / Success

UO Dev Posts: Invasion Finale

Shane — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:18:18 GMT

Post at Stratics UHall: Draconi_EA

Invasion Finale

The invasion has reached it's final stage. An octet of Rift Guardians have appeared in front of the much smaller, energetic moongate. They defend themselves with barrages of magic and can summon Daemon Berserkers when threatened.

They are surrounded in part by barrier flames that can only be removed by creative use of spellwords.

Meanwhile, my humblest apologies for the delay. This should have occurred automatically already, and I'm now enabling them manually, shard by shard. This should take approximately another 15 minutes. Do not worry, I have not been hit by a truck (that happened last year), and the show will go on!

Due to the delay, the event finale will be extended until Friday. If the Rift Guardians are not > defeated by then, that shard/facet's Magincia is lost.

Oh, and hey! It turns out I'm staying with UO after all :-)

UO Dev Posts: Doom changes....was this intended.

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:46:05 GMT

Posted at Stratics UHall: Leurocian

In response to: So, I havent tested the changes myself yet, but several of my friends from Japan who play on Japanese shards have recieved 3-4 artifacts an hour each in doom.

Now I know that Japanese pvm playstyle is much different from American pvm playstyle, as it is much more efficient and effective, but was the drop intended to be this high?

Leurocian: Hello there,

The general intent is if a group of 5 players adventure through the entire Doom gauntlet at various luck values, each one of them would hopefully receive an artifact by their 4-5th run. It could be a little sooner than that. It could be later.

Now if this feels like players are receiving artifacts too frequently, we can easily adjust this frequency. We will continue to monitor your feedback for the next day or so and see what you all think.

Thanks everyone!

Leurocian:

The general intent is if a group of 5 players adventure through the entire Doom gauntlet at various luck values, each one of them would hopefully receive an artifact by their 4-5th run.

Are you calculating how long it takes to finish a room or defeat a boss? Because we were averaging 2-5 minutes per room with 10-15 people. I was there for about an hour and we ran the entire gauntlet at least 4 times.

Keep in mind if 10-15 people are doing the gauntlet more bosses will probably spawn which means more points for everyone participating. And yes, more players helping equals less time to complete the gauntlet. So we expect initially there will be a bunch of players excited to try out the new loot changes.

However, not all shards will have 10-15 players adventuring in the gauntlet, so we decided on assessing the drop rate based on a group of 5 players.

We will definitely keep an eye on everyone's feedback and adjust accordingly if need be.

Patrick "Leurocian" Malott
Lead Systems Designer, Ultima Online
EA Mythic

UO Dev Posts: Cathat's Farewell to UO

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:34:20 GMT

Posted at Stratics UHall: CatHat.

This will be my last week as a member of the UO Dev Team.

At Dec 1st , I cast myself back into the spinning time vortex of game development. Where and when I shall materialize – who can say. Much like a Sci-Fi sequel or an Elvis sighting – you can bet I’ll pop up around somewhere not too far away.

As you all know UO’s Team is moving to VA, but being a territorial little creature and native of sunny California, I’ve opted to stay here.

This means I’ll be no longer working with many of my friends on the team, nor getting to serve you, the community as a Dev. It will be a difficult transition for me since I’ve become so accustomed to working hard all day on UO and doing late night and early morning post readings, taking notes, and interacting with so many of you all, in game and on the boards. Oh, and of course making my infamous quirky posts abroad. It’s been a pleasure contributing to UO, the community, and its dev team for the past 3 years.

I want to thank you all for sending me your feedback, questions, suggestions, ideas and of course your sense of fun, and even stronger sense of community. While I’m sad to be leaving, acquiring a new master and applying my full focus elsewhere – I can part knowing that many good Dev are moving with UO and many good things I’ve contributed to, are still in the works – so the future is still bright. I’m proud to have contributed so much behind the scenes here on the dev team, and for the opportunity serve such dedicated fans. UO is legendary in the history of gaming and your world wide community is peerless.

I shall never forget you.

Cathat

UO Dev Posts: Blacksmith and Tailoring BOD changes *updated Nov 20th*

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:31:02 GMT

Posted By Wilki_EA at Stratics UHall.

As I mentioned in a previous FoF thread, I've made some changes to the BOD system. They're not huge, but it should make things a little more rewarding.

Corrected a small error that gave skilled smith's a 45% base chance to get a colored BOD instead of the intended 50% chance.

GM Smiths still get a 10% bonus chance for a colored BOD (60% total).

Elder Smiths get a 20% bonus chance for a colored BOD (70% total).

Legendary Smiths get a 40% bonus chance for a colored BOD (90% total).

The chances of getting a valorite BOD (once you've passed the colored BOD test), have been raised substantially.

There is also a short delay (5 seconds) between turning in multiple filled BODs.

Colored footwear large bods should now be offered.

All runic tools have had their intensity ranges changed as follows:
Blacksmithing:

Dull Copper: 40 - 100

Shadow: 45 - 100%

Copper: 50 - 100%

Bronze: 55 - 100%

Gold: 60 - 100%

Agapite: 65 - 100%

Verite: 70 - 100%

Valorite: 85 - 100%

Tailoring:

Spined: 40 - 100%

Horned: 45 - 100%

Barbed: 50 -100%

This won't make it into the very next publish, but should be in the one after that.

And to those who celebrate it, have a Happy Thanksgiving! :-)

Edit: Added a few fixes to the end of the list, and changed the delay to 5 seconds.

Edited by Wilki_EA (11/20/07 06:19 PM)

UO Dev Posts: Doom Secret Passage

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:57:35 GMT

Posted By Draconi_EA at at: Stratics UHall.

Hey, quick note for everyone who enjoys the Luxury Doom Shopping scene:

The secret passage in the Doom Gauntlet has been accidentally paved over. Whoever the Dark Fathers paid to do it, we owe them a good thrashing! In the meantime, there are now teleporters (invisible) set on either side of the wall so you can still use it.

Just walk towards the wall and you'll pass through.

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UO Dev Posts: Winterland - Current Activities

UO Dev Posts: Rift Guardians Status [It is done]

UO Dev Posts: Recently ...dang it! now {spoilers}

UO Dev Posts: Lord Draconi - Caught with His Pants Down!!! *Journal Text Added*

UO Dev Posts: Soooo the.. Event ends.. Okies When do we start the ''trade in''!! to rebuild!!

UO Dev Posts: Rift Guardians Status

UO Dev Posts: Invasion Finale

UO Dev Posts: Doom changes....was this intended.

UO Dev Posts: Cathat's Farewell to UO

UO Dev Posts: Blacksmith and Tailoring BOD changes *updated Nov 20th*

UO Dev Posts: Doom Secret Passage

UO Dev Posts: Lord Draconi - Caught with His Pants Down!!! Journal Text Added

UO Dev Posts: Blacksmith and Tailoring BOD changes updated Nov 20th