The EM's have started a friendly competition between the shards, this will be held on TC1. The shard Trophy will be placed on the winning shard, so let the bragging can begin!

When: This Saturday August 21st , 2010 @ 9:00 pm EDT (2 hours)
Who: Chesapeak vs Sonoma
Meeting place: Nujel'm Chessboard

The Challenge:
Two teams from each shard will be given 5 level 6 maps, the first team to complete all maps will be declared the winners. After 30 days, another shard will be able to challenge the winners for the Trophy. So pick your teams, practice, and let the games begin.

Just is a simple word. It can mean forthright, and properly executed within the bounds of law. It may also be used as an adverb. For example: “I just love cake” or “Why doesn’t the dev team just ?”

The word “just” tends to get some in a lot of trouble. Another example “I was just adjusting my radio, officer.” Or something I am certain many have heard “Oh he or she is just a friend.”

Patrolling the boards as we do, the dev team tends to see the word “just” a lot in terms of things we have done or have yet to do. “If they would just …”

Well, we have just finished Pub 67. We have just been through testing on the latest internal review of arenas, and we have just finished taking a look all of the fans who will attend the summer Town Hall at the end of this month.

And I am just excited.

What does this all mean for you?

It means we are just as focused on the future of UO as we ever have been. 

The media outreach prior to this letter went to quite a number of people -- some who have played Ultima Online before, or know of the Ultima series … some whoare only RPGers. The intent? To open the channel and experience of the longest running MMO to countless who have only heard of the game in passing.

Huzzah!

For over a decade UO and its players have led the vanguard of the MMO genre and helped to ignite the world-wide phenomena of online games. Our peers in the industry have recognized the contributions UO and the team behind it have made to the gaming world.

Hello Everyone,

We have completely filled all of our slots for the UO Town Hall Event in August! At this time we are taking no further requests to attend the events.

Thanks to everyone who has shown interest. Attendees will receive confirmation e-mails with the Town Hall agenda and travel information within the next few days.

For those who won’t be able to attend, Whispering Rose radio will host an audio stream. Also, we are looking into streaming the event live.

Stay tuned for more information as the date draws near!

Greetings!

We have some bug fixes this evening going live during all shards daily maintenance tomorrow. Thank you!

Publish 67 Bug Fixes

• We have resolved the know issue of Paragon chest treasure maps being created with unreachable X locations.
  
  • Please Note: Existing maps that have been decoded will be corrected upon the thirty day reset.
• Adjusted the Navery Rock damage being done to Navery.

For some time we have mentioned that we would have a major announcement this Summer about the future of Ultima Online. While we have been busy with hardware updates and publishes, we have also been working on our first community event in almost two years.

With that … on August 28th, Mythic Entertainment will host a community event at our building in Fairfax.

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED (Updated 8/11/10)

During the event we will discuss the course of Live Events and share information about several major game updates we plan for the year. Finally, we will have an exclusive announcement about an upcoming release targeted for the end of this summer.

We will be raffling off cloth maps, Ultima Online gear:  Ankh’s made specifically for the Stygian Abyss Expansion, and one T-Shirt signed by Todd McFarland and various other goodies.

Hope to see you there!

Dawn loved rain.

Unfortunately there had not been any for several weeks. Nothing to be concerned about, she kept telling herself.  There had been no natural or political fires during this time either.  For that she was truly thankful.

So she decided to make some time to play.

Welcome to Publish 67!

We are pleased to announce the release of Publish 67 during normal maintenance hours tomorrow, August 5th, 2010. There are many excellent improvements and additions so be sure to check them out in-game and within the notes below!

In addition we have a few patch notes for this afternoons patch in support of the release of Publish 67.

Thanks and enjoy!

Greetings!

Players on Origin will be able to experience what Publish 67 has to offer.

Below are the most recent changes. For the full list of notes for Publish 67 click here - have fun! 

Publish 67 Notes

• Adding SOT’s to Felucca Treasure chests
• Added updated properties to the Mana Phase Orb
• Can no longer imbue Durability onto a Brittle item
• Pre Existing Ilshenar Treasure  Maps will now be tagged with an Artifact Rarity 0 tag
• Item counts have been adjusted for all treasure chests
• Added  Reagents back to the chests
• Forged Pardons drop chance has been reduced