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[Cal Hurst]

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Contents:

* Scenario 1: War of Shadows
* Faction Updates
* House Placement Changes
* Spring Cleaning 2008
* New Music
* General Fixes
* Testing Guidelines


Scenario 1: War of Shadows
This publish introduces the advance forces of the Shadowlords, continually harassing the outlying Britannian cities during this scenario. Below are some details about the events coming up!

* Vanguard Controller
o Rides the Dread Warhorse
o Wields Obsidian Blade and Chaos Shield
o Commands small units that attack the populace, from brigands to nightmares
o Special AI to handle movement during combat

* New mount: Dread Warhorse
o More powerful than a nightmare
o Special radius poison attack (when untamed)
o Special display "trick" for owners (when tamed)
o Requires 3 control slots

* Obsidian Blade
o Hit Life Leech: 10%
o Hit Stamina Leech: 20%
o Hit Chance Increase: 20%
o Armor Ignore: 1%

* Chaos Shield
o Black
o Self Repair: 5
o Reflect Physical Damage: 10%
o Defense Chance Increase: 10%
o Physical Resist: 15%
o Other resists randomly set between 1% - 3%

The scenario will unfold over the coming month on a weekly basis, with ongoing appearances by the Vanguard. You can look forward to:

* The Moonglow rift being closed
* Access to more of the Ethereal Void
* A major shift in politics
* ... and more!


Faction Updates
In order to promote accessibility and invigorate Factions, we’ve made several changes and fixed some bugs. Additionally, Factions will play an important role in the Warriors of Destiny plot arc.

* Faction size limit and load balancer removed: individual factions can grow to any size.
o Previously capped at 200.
* Multiple characters from the same account may join the same faction
* An account cannot have characters in different factions on the same shard
* Removed 30 day character age requirement
o “Young” players cannot join factions
o “Young” players will be removed from guilds that join factions
* One vote in faction elections per account
* Only one character per account may run in the elections
o 15 day character age requirement to run in or vote in elections
* Quit time reduced from 7 days to 3 days
* Resolved issues with ghosts using stairs


House Placement Changes
This publish adds the ability to safely resize your house, and implements several changes to prevent house placement exploits.

House resizing:

* Saying “I wish to resize my house” demolishes your house as though you’d used that option from the house sign
* Places a one hour account-bound placement zone where your house used to be
o Any character on the account is guaranteed replacement on the same plot for an hour
o Circumvents the normal 7 week delay between demolishes/rebuilds
o The new house can be smaller or larger than the original area, as long as the surrounding area can accommodate the change

Changes:

* 15 day character age requirement to place or trade a house
* Water barrels/magic fields/etc will no longer block house placement
IDOC behavior (houses that collapse through decay)
o When an IDOC drops, housing cannot be placed on the lot for a random amount of time
o Items that drop from the IDOC will have protections against scripted looting
* House placement tool will have a cooldown if used too many times in a given time period
* Must now wait one hour after building a home before demolishing it (previously 15 minutes)


Spring Cleaning 2008
Ah, how time flies. Spring has come once again to Britannia, but the sweet smell of blossoming flowers outside our homes can’t belie the memories of battles fought long so very long ago. Or is that the chest overflowing with Ophidian weapons in the corner? Or maybe it’s the bag of cursed artifacts hidden upstairs?

Time to cleanup, Britannia!

* Publish 52 institutes the first round of Spring Cleaning collections and rewards
* Four NPCs around the world collect items in exchange for tickets
* The tickets can be redeemed for rewards in a new community collection in Britain

The following list of turn-ins and rewards are subject to change during testing - especially redemption values of points. Also, more rewards, including a mouse hole house-addon, will be available in Publish 53.


Turn-in items:

Copper Shilling ............................................... 100pts

Ophidian Rations............................................... 100pts

Planesword .................................................... 100pts

Planeshield ................................................... 100pts

Ophidian Journals ............................................. 200pts

Ophidian Orders ............................................... 250pts

Slippery Snake Skins .......................................... 450pts

Silver Crown .................................................. 500pts

Power Weapon .................................................. 650pts

Magincia Rubble ............................................... 800pts

Vanquishing Weapon ............................................ 1,000pts

Mystic Weapon ................................................. 2,000pts

Staff of Pyros ................................................ 2,500pts

Vorpal Blade .................................................. 2,500pts

Ophidian Weapon (Power) ....................................... 3,000pts

Cursed Artifacts .............................................. 5,000pts

Ophidian Weapon (Vanquishing) ................................. 5,500pts

Ophidian Weapon (Mystic) ...................................... 7,500pts

Berserker's Scythe ............................................ 10,000pts

Gold Sovereign ................................................ 10,000pts

Ophidian Berserker's Bardiche ................................. 25,000pts

Inavlis's Burchete ............................................ 2,000,000pts



Rewards:

Shirt: "I survived the Ophidian War" .......................... 1,000pts

Shirt: "I survived the snakes on the plains" .................. 1,000pts

Shirt: "I saved the day and all I got was this fancy shirt" ... 1,000pts

Shirt: "Free Ricardo!" ........................................ 1,000pts

Shirt: "Hang Ricardo!" ........................................ 1,000pts

Shirt: "Magincia Pride" ....................................... 1,000pts

Shirt: "Minax is #1" .......................................... 1,000pts

Shirt: "Council of Mages are #1" .............................. 1,000pts

Shirt: "True Britannians are #1" .............................. 1,000pts

Shirt: "Shadowlords are #1" ................................... 1,000pts

Nocturne Earrings ............................................. 5,000pts

Sherry the Mouse Statue ....................................... 10,000pts

Scroll of Alacrity ............................................ 20,000pts

Snake Skin Boots .............................................. 20,000pts

RBG Sash (Blue) ............................................... 30,000pts

RBG Sash (Yellow) ............................................. 30,000pts

RBG Sash (Red) ................................................ 30,000pts

RBG Sash (Green) .............................................. 30,000pts

RBG Sash (Orange) ............................................. 30,000pts

RBG Sash (Purple) ............................................. 30,000pts

RBG Sash (White) .............................................. 30,000pts

RBG Sash (Black) .............................................. 30,000pts

Knight's Close Helm ........................................... 100,000pts

Knight's Norse Helm ........................................... 100,000pts

Knight's Plate Helm ........................................... 100,000pts

Knight's Bascinet ............................................. 100,000pts

Knight's Gorget ............................................... 100,000pts

Knight's Gloves ............................................... 100,000pts

Knight's Arms ................................................. 100,000pts

Knight's Legs ................................................. 100,000pts

Knight's Breastplate .......................................... 100,000pts

Knight's Breastplate (Female) ................................. 100,000pts

Descriptions:

* Shirts
o Different phrases
o Blessed
o Dyable
* Nocturne Earrings
o Grayish silver
o Night Sight
* RBG Sashes
o "Royal Britannia Guard
o One color per Virtue/Town
o Blessed
* Scroll of Alacrity
o Increase skill gain for 15 minute's in the scroll's skill
o Skill is randomly set once redeemed from the collection
* Sherry the Mouse Statue
o Larger than life statue of Sherry, in marble
o Publish 53: Will be hooked into the town crier system ("news")
* Snake Skin Boots
o Random snake skin hue
o 2% Poison Resist
* Knight's Armor
o White
o Each piece has 7% Resists, +1HP
o Publish 53: Becomes a set of 6 pieces with additional bonuses

NPC Information:

* Makiko the Samurai
o > Ophidian Journals
o > Ophidian Orders
o Zento, Rokuon Cultural Center, 1st Floor
* Lozat the Numismatist
o > Copper Shilling
o > Silver Crown
o Gold Sovereign
o Britain (Trammel), East Britain Bank
* Calaid the Soldier
o > Ophidian Rations
o > Slippery Snake Skins
o Britain (Trammel), North guard tower at Castle Britannia entrance
o Siege: Guard tower southwest of West Britain Bank
* Onoe the Soldier
o > Cursed Artifacts
o > Magincia Rubble
o > Planesword
o > Planeshield
o > Staff of Pyros
o > Vorpal Blade
o > Magical Weapons (Power, Vanquishing, Mystic)
o > Ophidian Magical Weapons (P, V, M)
o > Berserker's Scythe
o > Ophidian Berserker's Bardiche
o > Inavlis's Burchete
o Britain (Trammel), South guard tower at Castle Britannia entrance
o Siege: Guard tower southwest of West Britain Bank

Community collection box is located with Onoe the Soldier.

New Music
We've just added four brand new themes to UO! These will be integrated into various areas and epic battles, but you can listen to them right now by navigating to the /Music/Digital folder in your 2D installation.

* Castle
* Festival
* Honor
* Medieval

These new pieces are courtesy of Michael Gluck, who also arranged the Battle on Stones theme for us last year.

General Fixes

* Fixed a bug where players that use the Basket of Herbs could lose 20 points of cooking when the effect wears off instead of 10 points of cooking.
* Explosion potion should no longer go off and reveal the player if the player is in no play mode (character transfer).
* Pet release gump should now closed the moment a player is in no play mode during a character transfer.
* Players should no longer be able to stable pets while a pet trade gump is open.
* Spellweaving: Essence of Wind. Casting Speed and SSI debuff potency have been flip flopped
* Fixed an issue with Ronin not being able to access secures in their own houses if permissions were set to "guild"
* The Curse spell should no longer sometimes last past its intended duration
* When a monster casts Curse on players the icon should now show in the buff icon tool bar
* Fixed bugs where Paroxymus's swamp dragon can despawn if it is killed
o Fixes the 2 rare mounts obtained from peerless mobs.
o Will no longer be marked as a summoned pet.
o Will no longer be deleted by other monsters special moves.
* Fixed a bug where some "Sacks of Flour" could not be used as a cooking ingredient
* Players guarded by pets that are attacked via the Paralyze spell in a guard zone will no longer get guardwhacked
* Flattened the ground to remove pit in Moonglow, on tram/fel.
* Players who transfer to a shard from another will no longer start in Magincia.
* Fixed a bug with the weight of stacks of bola balls being incorrect
* Small stacks of ore should no longer get stuck in "This object is in use" mode
* Runic fishing poles made with Oak will not return values of 0 any longer
* $$$ Commas can now be seen in checks (instead of 1000000, you will see 1,000,000) $$$


Testing Guidelines

Stay tuned for announcements! We'll be doing public tests for IDOCs and more!
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[Cal Hurst]

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My thoughts...

Some of the point values seem a little off. And the prizes are a bit high. Although the Burchette will definitely make someone happy (2million points, dayum).

It will take 15 cursed artifacts to get the snake skin boots. That seems a little silly mathematically, but considering how many of those artifacts I currently use (0), compared to how many pairs of snake skin boots I plan to use (all of them), it seems worth it. Still a hefty price though.

I can't wait to see this Vanguard enemy. The weapon looks interesting, too, with a 1% chance to do the Armor Ignore special. Not too sure if that will cost the wearer money, though I doubt it.

And the Dread Warhorse... looks interesting. Wonder what this "trick" will be.
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[Jaedra]

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I want a new horsey..
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[Tai Kwan Leap]

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I want ethy hiryus, cu sidhes, or reptalons
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"He's been fired from the Shrimp Boat?" -- Charlaine Harris "Living Dead In Dallas."

[Jonathan Strathmore]

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Inavlis's Burchete... What is that and I want one? And yeah, the point values are ridiculous, glad to know I won't be able to get anything at all. Oh well. EA likes to build us up then c***slap us in the face.

[Isk]

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I want the obsidian blade and the new mount.

I got lots of the coins but dont plan to use them for any for these items. Will probably just drop most of my rubble and ophidian stuff for some snake boots and magincia pride shirts

[Cal Hurst]

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They updated their point values, and I must say I am very happy with the result. VERY happy.
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[Jonathan Strathmore]

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Looks alot better.

[Alessandra]

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I am wondering about the resizing houses... what does it do with your stuff... will you have to clear the house before you do this or will it put it all in an account based moving crate? It says it acts as though you use the demolish option in the menu, but wouldn't that throw everything out of the house onto the ground?
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Ken: I don't put anything in my mouth I don't intend on swallowing...

Ken: I put it any way I want to, cause that is the kind of man I am...

Toni/Gwyn/Dae ‎(11:22 AM):
well I was doing Beo, but he annoyed me lol

[09:37] Leshok: i think dancing is like sex, don't let one bad partner ruin it for the rest of your life

[Tay Thormear]

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[Jonathan Strathmore]

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[Kaelthir]

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I'm glad they changed it, I was going to just hang onto all of my planar swords and shields because 20 points per is just not worth it. I might wait and pick up a rat hole, because that sounds awesome.

[Isk]

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Magincia = City of Pride

Magincia Pride = Magincia's Bagball team.

The Magincia shirt is by no means gay.

I will be getting these shirts and parading with them down town Brit wearing a diaper and or leather sex gear, all you men are welcome to join me.


ALSO... new point values are goooood. I like.

[Cal Hurst]

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[Teh Glouris Lrod Kujabis]

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Don'chu know who I am!?

Ugh, not Gary again....