Posted by Kai Schober | 2012 Feb 29 15:07 -0500 GMT
Having defeated the Purple Llamas of Great Lakes to open the 2012 Treasure Hunt season, the Gold Diggers received a well-earned break from action. Such rest is temporary, however, as they have been called upon by a new Challenger – Lake Superior shard!
It has been many years since the Legend shard’s prejudicial past. But, one cannot forgive the way the people of this shard once looked down upon others simply for being different. It is unjust. It goes against the very Virtues that this game has tried to instill. In less than two weeks after UO: Renaissance was introduced, in May of 2000, the home shard of the Gold Diggers was formed. A shard…exclusively for AOL users. Bah!
Lake Superior. One of the original four shards. A place of rights. Respect. A place where no man should be looked down upon, merely for his choice of ISP. We’re the unmarred shard. We got the lakes that’ll give you the quakes. Enough roleplay to fill Norway. And we’ve got the sublime rhyme that’d make a mime chime.
For the good of Sosaria, no matter which shard of the Gem you reside, Lake Superior challenges the Gold Diggers of Legends. Your past as despicable AOL’ers is as inescapable as our future as the Cross Shard Treasure Hunt Champions.
Having been roused by this upstart, the team from Legends responded strongly:
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Posted by Rowland Cox | 2012 Feb 29 10:11 -0500 GMT
Greetings,
The login servers are now available.
We are experiencing an issue with the UO login servers. The login servers are temporarily down. This will not affect those already logged in to UO. We will have more information on a fix shortly.
Thank you for bearing with us
The UO Team
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Posted by Kai Schober | 2012 Feb 26 01:16 -0500 GMT
Update 1am EST: The issue has been corrected and the access to the shard is restored.
We have been informed by our service provider that there are issues to connect to shard Oceania.
The situation is under investigation. Keep an eye on the Herald for updates.
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Posted by Kai Schober | 2012 Feb 24 22:36 -0500 GMT
Update: The issue has been resolved and you should now receive your codes again.
If you want to buy codes for Ultima Online on Origin today, you might encounter a noticeable delay between the purchase and the delivery of the codes.
The store team is investigating this issue and we will inform you as soon as the situation returned to normal.
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Posted by Kai Schober | 2012 Feb 24 11:10 -0500 GMT
We are looking at fixing the issue regarding faction points and the deterioration of faction points. To fix these issues properly it will require us to wipe all faction points.
The fix will soon be available for testing on Test Center 1. We invite all of you to transfer your characters to TC1 and experience the changes as soon as it is ready.
Keep an eye on the Herald.
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Posted by Kai Schober | 2012 Feb 22 11:46 -0500 GMT
If you have visited the shard Baja you might have encountered a quite original being called The Yattering. With Mesanna's help we were able to address him, ask him some questions, and get away without getting bitten - although he was constantly eyeing our notice book. Here are his answers:
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Posted by Kai Schober | 2012 Feb 14 14:20 -0500 GMT
Written by the EM Team
“Blast it! Blast, blast, blast!!!” Callie snarled in frustration as she threw a stack of papers from the small desk she’d been using at the Britain Library, once again feeling as if she’d hit a brick wall. Her efforts in Skara Brae had shown no results and inquiries in the capital city weren’t faring any better, despite having uncovered even more support for her theories. She glanced to the staircase as one of the scribes, an elderly gentleman who appeared to be peeking from the stairwell to see that she was alright. Seemingly satisfied that she was, he descended once more. The energy suddenly seemed to drain out of her and she collapsed into the chair and ran her hands over her face, brushing her blonde bangs to one side.
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Posted by Kai Schober | 2012 Feb 13 13:15 -0500 GMT
For each city, each player character has individual ratings for Love, Hate, and Neutrality. These values are numeric and the raw values are not displayed.
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Performing beneficial acts in a city causes the city to gain Love for that character
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Performing negative acts in a city causes the city to gain Hate for that character
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Any time a city gains Love for a character, a small fraction of the city’s Hate for that character is converted into Neutrality
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Any time a city gains Hate for a character, and that city already had Love for that character, some of that Love is converted into Hate
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Any time a city gains Love for a character, all other cities will convert some of their Love for that character into Neutrality.
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Hate for a character decays at the slowest rate
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Love for a character decays at a moderate rate
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Neutrality for a character decays at a rapid rate
A character’s loyalty rating from a city consists of two parts: how well the character is known, and how “pure” the character’s actions are. There are essentially three possible outcomes:
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If the character only performs beneficial actions for one city, the character gains positive ratings
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If the character only performs harmful actions for one city, the character gains negative ratings
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If the character performs a mixture of actions for a city, or performs beneficial actions for multiple cities, the character will tend to gain positive or negative ratings to a lesser degree or will gain distrustful ratings.
Here are all the possible ratings:
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Posted by Kai Schober | 2012 Feb 10 19:31 -0500 GMT
We have improved the way to contact our Billing Support for Ultima Online. If you have a problem that you need help with you can either email support@ultimaonline.com, or visit help.ea.com. This website offers you a form to make sure that all necessary information get to our billing advisors.
If you are based in the US, this website allows you to leave your phone number for us to call you back. We are actively pursuing expanding phone support outside the US.
To use help.ea.com, login with your EA Account and click on ‘Talk to a Game Advisor’ on the right side of the page. On the following page please:
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Enter Ultima Online as the product
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Select “Billing/Purchasing” as the category
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Select the contact option and enter your details
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Posted by Kai Schober | 2012 Feb 09 22:12 -0500 GMT
Update 11:30 am EST: Atlantis is back online.
Update 8:45 am EST: Legends is back online.
Greetings!
We will be bringing the shards Atlantic and Legends offline tomorrow, Friday February 10, at 8:00 am EST (13:00 GMT) for an essential hardware maintenance.
At this time we anticipate that both shards will be back online no later than 1:00 pm EST (18:00 GMT).
Please be sure to check the Herald for updates regarding this downtime.
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