Chris

I think reviving the elven subguild would be a good idea, but may work better with them being guilded to PGoH this time rather than another "guildstone". This would allow us to communicate more freely using guildchat. Naturally it would follow the same structure, traditions, etc. that it had when it was a "separate" guild.

As for the map of Trinsic:

True so coming to an expansion near you....Racial Soul stones!  No longer do you even have to talk to an NPC to change your race.  Just click the stone in your pack!!

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oo! oo! I three for each character! Wait! How many artwork/color variations will there be?! I want three of each version!!!

((just kidding of course )

Reynoldsburg

Ha! All your town are belong to... ME!

*drools*

F/A-22 Raptor

You are an F/A-22. You are technologically inclined, and though you've never been tested in combat, your very name is feared. You like noise, but prefer not to pollute any more than you have to. And you can move with the best.

What military aircraft are you?

taken from: http://boards.stratics.com/php-bin/uo/show...sb=5&o=&fpart=1

Here are the stats for all of the reading glasses rewards from the Britain Library and the equipable rewards from the Vesper Museum as of yesterday's patch.

Folded Steel Reading Glasses

Strength bonus 8

Night Sight

Defense chance increase 15%

Physical resist 20%

Fire resist 10%

Cold resist 10%

Poison resist 10%

Energy resist 10%

Mace and Shield Reading Glasses

Hit lower defense 30%

Strength bonus 10

Dexterity bonus 5

Physical resist 25%

Fire resist 10%

Cold resist 10%

Poison resist 10%

Energy resist 10%

Reading Glasses of the Trades

Strength bonus 10

Intelligence bonus 10

Physical resist 10%

Fire resist 10%

Cold resist 10%

Poison resist 10%

Energy resist 10%

Reading Glasses of the Arts

Strength bonus 5

Intelligence bonus 5

Hit point increase 15

Physical resist 10%

Fire resist 8%

Cold resist 8%

Poison resist 4%

Energy resist 10%

Poisoned Reading Glasses

Staming increase 3

Stamina regeneration 4

Physical resist 10%

Fire resist 10%

Cold resist 10%

Poison resist 30%

Energy resist 10%

Light of the Way Reading Glasses

Strength bonus 7

Intelligence bonus 5

Damage increase 30%

Physical resist 10%

Fire resist 10%

Cold resist 10%

Poison resist 10%

Energy resist 10%

Lyrical Reading Glasses

Hit lower defense 20%

Frostwood (someone please try getting more of these to see if they have a random wood type or if theyre all frostwood)

Night Sight

Reflect physical damage 15%

Physical resist 10%

Fire resist 10%

Cold resist 10%

Poison resist 10%

Energy resist 10%

Maritime Reading Glasses

Night Sight

Luck 150

Reflect physical damage 20%

Physical resist 3%

Fire resist 4%

Cold resist 30%

Poison resist 5%

Energy resist 3%

Necromantic Reading Glasses

Lower mana cost 15%

Lower reagent cost 30%

Wizard's Crystal Reading Glasses

Mana increase 10

Mana regeneration 3

Spell damage increase 15%

Physical resist 5%

Fire resist 5%

Cold resist 5%

Poison resist 5%

Energy resist 5%

Treasures and Trinkets Reading Glasses

Intelligence bonus 10

Hit point bonus 5

Spell damage increase 10%

Physical resist 10%

Fire resist 10%

Cold resist 10%

Poison resist 10%

Energy resist 10%

Anthropomorphist Reading Glasses

Hit point increase 5

Mana regeneration 3

Physical resist 5%

Fire resist 5%

Cold resist 10%

Poison resist 20%

Energy resist 20%

Geoffrey's Axe (executioner's axe)

Demon slayer

Strength bonus 10

Luck 150

Hit chance increase 15%

Damage increase 40%

Fire resist 10%

Physical damage 100%

Sword of Justice (viking sword)

Hit lower attack 60%

Spell channeling

Luck 100

Faster casting -1

Damage increase 50%

Physical resist 20%

Physical damage 100%

Blackthorn's Kryss

Elemental slayer

Hit life leech 30%

Swing speed increase 25%

Damage increase 50%

Use best weapon skill

Physical damage 100%

Chaos Shield

Self repair 1

Spell channeling

Faster cast recovery 2

Faster Casting 1

Physical resist 1%

Order Shield

Spell Channeling

Luck 80

Hit chance increase 15%

Defense chance increase 15%

Faster casting -1

Physical resist 1%

Clainin's Spellbook

Blessed

Spell channeling

Mana regeneration 3

Luck 80

Lower reagent cost 15%

Keeonean's Chain Mail (chain tunic)

Hit point regeneration 3

Night sight

Physical resist 5%

Fire resist 20%

Cold resist 15%

Poison resist 10%

Energy resist 15%

Mage armor

Minax's Armor (female studded armor)

Mana regeneration 2

Physical resist 15%

Fire resist 5%

Cold resist 10%

Poison resist 15%

Energy resist 25%

Mage armor

Gypsy Headdress (skullcap)

Physical resist 15%

Fire resist 20%

Cold Resist 20%

Poison resist 15%

Energy resist 15%

Nystul's Wizard's Hat

Lower mana cost 15%

Physical resist 10%

Fire resist 10%

Cold resist 10%

Poison resist 10%

Energy resist 25%

Jester Hat of Chuckles

Luck 150

Physical resist 12%

Fire resist 12%

Cold resist 12%

Poison resist 12%

Energy resist 12%

All other clothing items and jewelry have no stats that I'm aware of.

All the glasses as well as the axe, sword, kryss, shields, and spellbook cost 12 million gold each. The chainmail, hats, and Minax's armor cost 8.25 million each. Of course, you can also donate resources and items in place of gold to get the items.

and then people would complain that you're nerfing them

so basically if you go ahead and do both quests you can switch back and forth all the time?

click here to vote on my idea!

Under the current system the way people set up "lottery vendors" makes it too easy to scam customers. There is no way of knowing if the prize has been won yet or even if there ever was one.

I propose that a new deed be made available similar to barkeep contracts. This deed would be for a Lottery Vendor NPC that will sell chances to win items that are placed in its inventory by the owner. The owner would be able to set the total number of "tickets" available as well as the price of each ticket. Upon purchasing a winning ticket, a prize selected at random from the NPC's inventory would be deposited in the winning character's pack (or bank box if it is too heavy for them to carry). The remaining prizes and number of remaining tickets would be viewable at all times by any player. Once all prizes are gone, the number of tickets would automatically be reset to 0 until more are added. This would prevent players from being able to gamble unless they actually have a chance at winning.

There could be a special container (specially hued wooden box or small crate?) available from some merchant npc in the cities that is used to hold lottery prizes. All items placed in the same container would count as one prize. This would make it easy to make multi-item prizes and would also create another small gold sink that people would actually use.

I've got a castle a bit northwest of where Olympus should be

castles are a pain to place 0_o

this time around im going to get another altar and maybe some pixies or paintings

"Due to some technical issues (the ability to dupe certain Evil Items) we will be wiping all evil items from the production servers today. Your code will be reset and you will need to reclaim your item through the promotional system."

I guess anyone who purchased one of these from someone else is just plain screwed then. And anyone who sold one gets free money!

To all those who have fought for our freedom, those who will fight for it in the future, and everyone who makes this country worth fighting for: STRENGTH AND HONOR! *SALUTES*

With our recent return to using the warring function in roleplaying, it has become increasingly important to make sure that all members have read and understood all parts of the codex. In the past before anyone could become a full member they were tested on knowledge of our codex. Since that has not been done in a long time, we will need to test all members who have not yet taken and passed the test regardless of what rank they currently hold. Any member who has not yet shown that they understand the codex (especially the rules of engagement) will have NC added to their title, marking them as a non-combatant. Non-combatants are not permitted at any time to go into combat mode (or take any other action) against an orange-highlighted player for any reason. Once we get caught up on testing everybody the NC tag will be reserved for Squires and characters who have no combat skills whatsoever (mostly crafters). Passing the codex test will be a required step toward advancing from squire to knight.

Please keep in mind that an NC tag does not mean that you are invincible. You are still permitted to interact with members of other guilds and they are still permitted to interact with you. If you go out of your way to anger someone dont be surprised when they take you prisoner or something. With an NC tag on you would not be able to fight them in order to get away, so be careful or you'll have to sit around waiting for a rescue.

P.S.

After reading this message please post a reply stating the names of all of the characters you have in PGoH so that we'll know who has and hasnt read it.

please see the post about this in the regular UO forum.

I wasnt thinking when I posted it here asking people to reply

Balandar, if you see this one please feel free to delete

this is the only other MMORPG I think Im going to try before UO gets shut down

Yesterday EA activated a website (click me!) that will issue a reward code to any account that has been active for the last 35 days and a seven day game time code to the owners of any closed accounts that were previously open for 95 days. Rewards include soulstone fragments, 7th anniversary gifts, character transfer tokens, and +200 luck necklaces (in that order depending on account age).

Those of you who dont play much anymore but keep accounts open to maintain houses and stuff oughta stop by to claim your reward while you can. This would also be a good opportunity for those of you who closed your accounts to stop back in and see what's new in the guild (and the game) since we dont use the forums much

still have no idea how dad survived

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control the food supply

.......and Balandar better apply for the jobs they are hiring for.......he is an expert in that game engine.........they need such a person to help on the team to make sure the online version stays true to the intent of the game itself

*POINTS LARGE STICK AT BALANDAR.....

APPLY NOW BALANDAR*

Turbine Jobs clicky......then just hit all jobs search

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Borg, be sure to apply for the dev team positions that are hiring back in UO

The following was posted on the UO U.Hall forum, by EvilMantis (Programmer, Ultima Online):

Comment: I gather is a sort of replacement for the BOD system with regard to the Crafting skills that don't already have BOD systems?

EvilMantis: It's not really a replacement as it is an alternative. By that I mean an extension to the existing BOD system is still possible. We'll have to see which way players like more.

Comment: Will the other Crafting skills, Blacksmithy and Tailoring have this quest system available to them?

EvilMantis: Not in this expansion.

Comment: Since there is a need, will one of the rewards of this new Crafting system be Powerscrolls for the other Crafting systems it supports (yes with many craftables having over 100 in these skills would be helpful). It seems only fair that all Crafting skills have the same skill potential and Powerscrolls seem to be an obvious reward choice for this system.

EvilMantis: We didn't create new powerscrolls for this expansion.

Comment: Recipe Scroll and Rare/Unique Recipes

Can you please expand a bit on what these are, how they will be aquired please?

EvilMantis: These are items you obtain through questing that give you crafter the ability to make the new items introduced in this expansion. Some recipes are rarer than others and those typically are for artifact type weapons and armor.

Comment: New Runic Kits

There was definately one for Fletching and Carpentry, but what about Tinkering, for magical jewelery? That was mentioned, but I don't think a clear answer was given as to whether or not that was even a feature.

EvilMantis: Tinkering will not have a runic kit, but crafting magical jewelry will be possible by obtaining the appropriate recipes in addition to some of the new special crafting ingredients.

Comment: Since we apparently will be able to make Runic bow weapons, are we going to be able to enhance bow weapons as well?

EvilMantis: Of course!

Comment: Can you expand upon the new wood type resources at all?

EvilMantis: There are 6 wood types: oak, ash, yew, heartwood, frostwood and bloodwood and 4 runic kits for both carpentry and fletching.

Comment: Will the new wood types be gathered as normal wood is (via Lumberjacking)? Will the new wood types be available on every facet? Will creatures that normally drop wood such as Corpsers and Reapers drop the new wood instead?

EvilMantis: These wood types will be available to anyone lumberjacking who is running the expansion. Yes, they will be on every facet but monsters will not drop them.

Comment: Can you expand upon how Quivers will be obtained or crafted? Will they be craftable by a Fletcher? Will they only be available through the new Fletcher quest system? Will they only be craftable by Fletchers with Runic Fletching Kits? Will they drop as loot? I'm specifically wondering about the Quivers with item properties.

Quivers that give certain properties such as poison to the arrows within was mentioned. Will the poisoning be something someone with the Poisoning skill applies to the quiver, or is this simply an item property on the quiver?

EvilMantis: I don't actually know much about the quivers. I'll ask the dev who worked on those to post some info.

Comment: Crafting artifact quality items

How exactly will this be accomplished, the new Recipe Scrolls, upgrades to Runic tools or something different?

EvilMantis: There will be new recipe scrolls required to know how to make these, plus you will likely require some of the rarer ingredients.

Comment: I understand that you can't give out complete lists and descriptions, but can we possibly get some highlights and maybe a short list of new craftables and a short description? Screenshots would be hot as well...

EvilMantis: Let me try to put something together later this weekend.

One last thing I wanted to mention that I don't think got much attention yet are the new armor sets. Leurocian, speedman and few other devs added what I personally think is the coolest feature of this expansion. I don't want to steal their thunder so maybe Leurocian will go into some more detail for you all.

With the recent influx of new recruits and no decurion to help oversee their training, it is doubly important that squires have someone working specifically to help them become productive members of the empire. Some may need help learning to roleplay. Some may need help with their skills. Some may need help learning how to use their skills more effectively. And ALL need help learning our rules, structure, traditions, and history. At this time all members of the rank of knight or higher need to seek out one squire to mentor. Try to find someone who often plays at the same time as you so that you can be more effective. Once you have found one and they agree to pair up with you, please contact Charlie, Kodoz, or Anfalas to have them marked as your squire. Also, if you are ranked higher than centurion, it would be best to sponsor them using a lower ranking character (if you have one). Each member should have only one squire.

Of course, not all of the work should fall upon the knights, so the squires should also be looking for someone to pair up with.

More Info:

Ultima Online: Mondain's Legacy

Playable Race Elves

Race Bonuses

New Elven City

9 New Dungeons, entrances on all facets

New Champion spawns, non-feluccean

Quivers

Quivers have properties, such as poison

New Paragons

New Monster AI

Hundreds of new craftables and wearables

New tameables, new rideables

New super bosses, toughest ever

Container and Item Labeling

New Spellweaving skill, group spell casting for 2-5 mages

Craftable artifacts

Talismons, new equipment slot (probably like jewlery with new properties)

Hundreds of quests, all new quest engine

Partly instanced dungeons, players can lock other players out of dungeons

New House tiles

House parrots

House Aquarium

Runic Kits for Feltching and Carpentry, greatly expanded

New dungeons have mirrors in both Trammel and Felucca!

No new land mass, only dungeons and town

New types of wood

Recipe Scrolls for crafting items

No BODs

Body parts of monsters, like trophies

Other Notes:

-- New squirril animal, tameable

-- Tameable, rideable wolf creature

-- Can change current human characters to an elf through difficult quests

-- Can change from elf back to Human

-- Aquarium can be filled with caught fished

-- No power scrolls outside of Felucca

Developer Leurocian gives more details about group spellcasting:

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Group casting only affects the creation of the arcane focus object that each arcanist (the official title of a spellweaving caster) receives while participating in the casting of an arcane circle. Once the arcane circle is cast and the arcane focus is received, the arcanists' spellweaving spells will be increased such as damage, area of effect, duration, etc. This increase, however, is not exponential and shouldn't cause any major unbalances in PvP. During beta, we will be looking very closely at player feedback just in case there is a particular spell or combination that is overpowering and adjust accordingly.

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I should also mention that there is a cap of 5 arcanists for a given arcane circle casting.

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Here is an example.

Let's say the duration of a spell is normally 5 minutes. But if 5 arcanists are participating in an arcane circle and have received an arcane focus, the duration may be extended to 10 minutes (+1 minute per additional arcanist). So typically the bonus is +1 unit per additional arcanist.

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Basically, arcane circle is a spellweaving spell. There is also a pentagram like object in game called an arcane circle - that is craftable as a house addon and public.

One casting arcanist and up to four other arcanists stand inside the arcane circle and the casting arcanist invokes the arcane circle spell, while the others just add to the potency of the casting simply by standing inside the circle with the caster.

Once the arcane circle spell is cast, each player character standing inside the circle receives a gem like object called an arcane focus. While this item is carried by an arcanist, her spellweaving spells will be augmented in power with the power level scaled based on the number of arcanists who participated in the arcane circle casting (cap of 5 arcanists per arcane focus). The arcane focus cannot be traded and if it is dropped it is destroyed. The arcane focus lasts for several hours.

Hope this helps clarify this more.

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• Gift of Renewal

Helps with health regeneration and the possibly of curing poison

• Immolating Weapon

Is a spell that adds fire damage to a weapon. This cannot be cast if other spells such as consecrate weapon, curse weapon, etc. are already under effect.

• Attune Weapon

Works against the enemies weapon and reduces their damage with their weapon by 50% for a limited duration. This will need to be closely monitored during beta.

• Thunderstorm

Does some area of effect damage and possibly reduces spell cast recovery effective for a limited duration (I need to verify the latter part of this - I'm at home and the design doc is not handy).

• Nature's Fury

Is like a blade spirit sort of effect that gets stronger as the nature's fury takes damage.

So these spells don't necessarily stack onto a caster as buffs. Only two of these are a buff.

He has more to say about other things:

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Ok, one other cat to let out of the bag.

I also programmed barding AI for satyrs and dryads and the like. These critters can provoke critters onto player characters and player controlled critters. Discord and Targeted Peacemaking also work against players and player controlled critters as well.

Player character bards in the Felucca facet will be able to provoke critters onto player characters again. Discord and Targeted Peacemaking, however, will not work on player characters in PvP.

more info in this link!

Maybe one of these days they'll make another movie. There's definitely enough lore established for StarWars to make a lifetime worth of movies.

watched it at midnight last night

definitely a good movie, but that's all Im saying because I dont want to spoil it for anyone

YOU ARE THE SERVANT OF EVIL, THE GREATEST VILLAIN OF ALL TIME, THE ONE WHO IS ALWAYS MADE TO STAND AT THE BACK IN GROUP PHOTOS. YOU ARE AN APPALLING FATHER, A CORRUPTED SOUL, AND A TAD HEAVY-HANDED DURING BUSINESS MEETINGS. ONLY YOUR SON CAN SAVE YOU NOW