Archived News

December 22, 1998

Ok, I've reviewed the news for today you'll find at various places and have pointed out key parts below regarding housing, vendors, deeds, and OWO site updates - take the links to check out the full story. (Also, find a message from OSI regarding the survey here) A UO Christmas Beginning very shortly, when you log into Ultima Online, you will have a surprise in your backpack. You should find a special ticket, marked with a random serial number. The ticket will have instructions on how to find other players with matching tickets. Once you find someone else with your same number, both of you will then be able to select one of a list of christmas gifts to enjoy over the holidays. Some examples of the gifts are: a deed for a christmas tree (complete with blinking lights), a hairstyle coupon, and deep green studded leather armor. Vendors Are Back! You can place vendors again. Vendor deeds may be purchased again. They can only be placed in public houses. Vendors gain a new command, "replace," which will dismiss the vendor and create a fresh vendor deed in your backpack. This command only works if the vendor has no inventory. Any vendors bugged during the deeding period can be cleaned up this way. Architects Off Strike and On Duty Again The old building types that were shop specific are no longer for sale. (but you can buy craftable add-on deeds from other players or make them yourself) Tents are no longer for sale. Guild deeds may be purchased again. "A player can sell a deed back to a vendor however we are running into a problem with the amount of funds an architect has from moment to moment. Once we get that fixed you should be able to sell any building deed back to the architect." - GM Lint House Ownership People flagged as house owners are not able to place new buildings. Friend of the house is defined as: Being the house's owner Being on the house's explicit friends list Being a character on the same account as the owner, unless this other character own a house as well Friends of the house (including owners) may defend the house: They may exercise "Texas Law." (They may attack non-friends in the house without penalty under the rep system. This only applies to private buildings.) They can use keywords to ban and eject people. Saying "I ban thee" will bring up a targeting cursor to ban someone. Saying "Remove thyself" will bring up a targeting cursor to eject someone. The functionality of banning and ejecting is the same as if it were selected from the house menu. Logging into a house will automatically eject you outside the door if you are not a friend of the house. Laying House Deeds Here's some clearer info regarding how to lay house deeds correctly: With this new patch, there appears to be some confusion about new house placement. As with all past house placements, houses can only be laid on flat terrain, with no objects to obstruct the new building. This includes rocks, trees, bushes, flowers, chests, etc. In addition, there is now a "no build" radius around houses. A 5 tile "no build" space exists to the north and south of the home and a 1 tile "no build" is to the east and west. Please completely investigate your surroundings before attempting to place a new house. Finally, when attempting to place a home, have the cursor positioned away from your character. If your cursor is near or on top of your character, it would black out your screen. [...full story] Demolished-House Deeds "Some people are under the mistaken impression that the deeds from demolished houses are valueless and invulnerable to theft. This is not the case. When you demolish a house, it becomes a deed like any other house deed, and it can be stolen. The deed will remain on your corpse when you die. It behaves just like any other item in the game." [...full story] Update on Craftables Info UOSS reported that their stats on minimum skill required is not very accurate and that they are investigating this. Meanwhile, Faceless has posted these stats regarding the new craftables. Blacksmithy Add-ons Carpentry Blacksmithy Logs Ingots Small Forge 50% 75% 5 75 Big Forge (E,S) 80% 80% 5 100 Anvil (E,S) 75% 75% 5 150 Training Add-ons Carpentry Tailoring Logs Ingots Training Dummy 70% 50% 55 60 Pickpocket Dip 75% 50% 65 60 Cooking Add-ons Carpentry Tinkering Logs Ingots Stone Oven 70% 50% 85 125 Flour Mill 95% 75% 100 50 Tailoring Add-ons Carpentry Tailoring Logs Cloth Spinning Wheel 75% 65% 75 25 Loom 85% 65% 85 25 Mystical Add-Ons Carpentry Magery Logs Ingots Pentagram 100% 75% 100 40 Abbatoir 75% 50% 100 40 -@5:46 P.M. EST, Majestic

December 21, 1998

Craftable Add-Ons I'd like to be the first to say that UOSS has updated its craftables list with the required materials and skill for each item. Accurate? Check it out for yourself: Craftable Home Add-ons When the item is created, you get a deed which can be used or transferred to someone else. To place the item, you need to use the deed inside the house and be the owner or a friend of the house. Using the deed will give you a ghosted image of the item to place (just like when you place a house). These items are not allowed to be adjacent to doors. Items that are placed cannot be moved. All items may be chopped with an axe by the owner of the house, that will destroy all pieces of the object. Also, you can find a lot of hype regarding the patch at CoB's Dev Board and UO Vault's General Discussion Board. Museum of Memories - Great Lakes - Looking for Rare Items The proprietors of the SSF Museum of Memories are searching for extremely rare and unusual items to put on display in the building. They will not be purchasing these, however, so that you can still own your items. "We hope you to can donate to the Museum. In turn, the item will be locked down on display, with a sign right next to it giving credit and appreciation to the person who donated it." The Museum will also have vendors located in within the premises. They are guaranteeing GM Exceptional Quality items stocked, as well as striving to offer them at the best prices in all the lands. A Vendor Market Proposal If you haven't heard, the UO Market Place will be sponsoring a program to save up for public houses on each shard which will be open to any prospective vendor owner if you pay a one-time fee (which should be far less than the cost of buying your own house). Downside, (not sure if they have all the details worked out yet but...) large amount of competition for selling your wares since I'm sure a lot of players will be signing up to save money. If you're interested anyway, head over to the UOMP General Discussion board. -@4:48 P.M. EST, Majestic

December 20, 1998

Anticipation Yep, we're all anticipating the patch tomorrow. Two things that should go into effect: Vendor Deed Laying New Craftables Implementation Abattoir Anvil Flour Mill Large Forge Loom Oven Pentagram Pickpocket Dummy ('Pickpockets Dip') Small Forge Spinning Wheel Training Dummy Let's see if promises are kept... New Shortcut for Shadows Gate Well, while I was getting the Markets and Merchants shortcut, I got one for the main site too. I seriously recommend using bookmarking the original URL, but you can use this one if you feel like typing: http://shadowsgate.cjb.net Also, the Markets and Merchants Link is back up, straight to the new vendor/merchant listing section. The shortcut for this section is (if you forgot) http://uomarket.cjb.net Progress with Healing? That's right, we have about 5+/- pages of statistics, tips, issues, and miscellaneous tidbits about healing collected so far. Now we need a formula. Sadly, the UOSS one doesn't seem to accurately reflect max and min damage healed... We're not sure, so it's being explored. Comments and contributions are are welcome. Just post 'em on the Healers Discussion Board. The UO Market Place has Moved And they're called UOMarket.com (what a coincidence) Last note, I would like to thank MuT over at the Ultima Online Black Market for the cool comments. -@5:29 P.M. EST, Majestic