Posted by Tim Chappell | 2012 Nov 13 20:37 -0500 GMT
Complex Gaming recently published a list of the best PC games. We are very proud to see that Ultima Online was ranked number 8 of the 50 Best PC Games of All Time!
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Posted by Tim Chappell | 2012 Nov 12 14:02 -0500 GMT
It is time for another Ask and Answer. This week we received a lot of questions regarding adding features and items to the game. Here are the answers to your questions:
UO Auctions
From Purple Pixie, Atlantic
I totally think the bag with 3 snow and 3 grass tiles will be a miracle to those of us who love to decorate for the seasons and don’t want to go into construction mode and destroy our establishments. I just have one small request of wish for an addition... or even divide it 2x, 2x, and 2x... with sand tiles. We don’t have sand tiles in our house construction AND these could be used for “festive reasons”... not to mention in gardens to show off fancy cacti. Could you please consider adding them? Thanks (Lady Frany Flame)
Mesanna: Currently there are not any sand tiles in the same tile format as the grass and snow but I hope to get some good ones in the future *makes note*
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Posted by Kai Schober | 2012 Nov 09 18:27 -0500 GMT
Today is my last day as Community Manager at Mythic. I'll face a new and very exciting challenge from Monday on.
It has been great to work on Ultima Online and all other Mythic products for the last 2 years. I met amazing people here in the teams as well as out there among you players. My only regret is that I had to spread my attention over 5 different titles and never had the time to be really dedicated to one of them. But I take a lot of great memories with me.
I thank you for being the awesome, annoying, loyal, critic, understanding, demanding community that you are. The support you continue to give UO is really appreciated, and I know I leave the game in very good hands.
Until we meet again - thanks for all the fish, and no, you can't haz my stuff.
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Posted by Bonnie Armstrong | 2012 Nov 08 22:01 -0500 GMT
It’s the time of the year that everyone gets creative and decorates their homes to reflect their feelings of the holidays. UO would like to announce a Holiday House Decorating Contest. Petra from stratics has been kind enough to help out with gathering and setting up the voting page for the contest. There will be 10 winners total and you as the players will help pick the winners. The rewards will be a special hued Reindeer with the text, “Winner of the 2012 Holiday House Decorating Contest” and the top voted design will have their house go down in the history of UO by making it a mini house that will be available next year. This time you guys are the judges!
Rules
1 entry per account
10 winners total
Submit pictures to uocontests@stratics.com
Submissions close December 5th, 2012 and Voting closes December 15th, 2012
All entries must have a character name, shard, facet and location
All pictures submitted must be in jpg format
We look forward to seeing your creative decorations!
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Posted by Kai Schober | 2012 Nov 07 16:09 -0500 GMT
In the wake of a new focus our studio has recently changed its name from BioWare Mythic to Mythic. Everything else stays the same - our passionate teams will continue to support and develop our existing titles as well as working on some new and exciting projects.
If you want to learn more about our studio, visit our new website, our dedicated Facebook page, or follow us on Twitter @MythicNews.
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Posted by Tim Chappell | 2012 Nov 06 19:42 -0500 GMT
Publish 79 will be on Origin and Izumo after tomorrow’s maintenance. In an effort to get more feedback from all our players, we will be sending publishes to both Origin and Izumo shards.
In addition to the Publish 79 notes the following changes have been made:
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Artifacts obtained from the Exodus Encounter cannot have powder of fortification applied
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The New Haven Mine has opened on the Southern Edge of the island
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The trade window will no longer be empty when trading a tamed turkey
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Posted by Tim Chappell | 2012 Nov 05 20:49 -0500 GMT
In this week's Ask and Answer we have a interesting mix of questions that the developers answered. Here they are for your reading pleasure:
UO.stratics
Has there been any thought as to letting us use any of the boats in the huge lake in Malas near Umbra, or sail in any of the waters in Ilshenar? (Bazer - Apr 2011)
Could rowboats only be allowed in Dungeons, Ilshenar, Ter Mur and Malas? (Basara - October 2012)
Will you allow us to use rowboats in dungeons please? There is so much wasted water in like ice dungeon and I need to catch Winter Dragonfish and Blue lobsters so....thats all (Lord Gareth - June 2011)
Maybe it would be nice to allow rowboat placement in dungeons? There some dungeons where a rowboat can be handy to fish. Otherwise rowboats don't realy have a good use cause they are slow and have no hold.(Frarc -Mar 2011)I wouldn´t mind rowboats in Ilshenar, Gravewater Lake etc either .... (Ertai Vodalion - Mar 2011)
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Posted by Tim Chappell | 2012 Nov 05 16:06 -0500 GMT
Update 11:30 am EST: Europa and Drachenfels are back online.
Greetings!
We will be bringing the shards Europa and Drachenfels offline tomorrow, Tuesday November 6th, at 7:00 am EST (12:00 GMT) for essential maintenance.
At this time we anticipate that both shards will be back online no later than 12:00 pm EST (17:00 GMT).
Please be sure to check this post for updates regarding the downtime.
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Posted by Tim Chappell | 2012 Nov 02 12:15 -0400 GMT
We would like to announce the top scoring players on the Shard of the Dead this year. Congratulations to all of you!
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Posted by Tim Chappell | 2012 Nov 01 18:49 -0400 GMT
Publish 79.0.0
New Veteran Rewards
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15th Year: Garden Shed House Add-On
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Contains two secure containers that do not count towards house storage limits
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Each container holds 125 items with no weight limit
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The shed has standard house security settings controlling container access
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To access the containers, stand near the door of the shed and double-click it
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