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

 The Following changes are now available on Test Center - 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

• Cliloc updates

• Cliloc updates

At 1:00PM EDT all shards will be brought offline for maintenance as we continue to improve our database systems. We anticipate all shards to be back online before 3:00PM EDT, thank you!

The following changes are now available on TC1 - have fun.

Publish 67 Notes

• Upkeep cost for Tribulation is lowered from 16 to 11
• Upkeep cost for Despair is lowered from 18 to 13
• Tribulation will no longer interrupt despair and visa versa
• Both can be run concurrently at double the upkeep cost
• Fixes were made for Treasure Map Spawn Locations
• Guardians are no longer tameable
• Tokuno Mobs will no longer drop invalid loot

We've made the following change to resolve an issue with the Enhanced Client, have a great weekend!

Patch 4.0.8.1 (Enhanced Client)

Bug Fix

• Fixed the issue with the Enhanced Client’s window positions snapping back when you change your options.
  

Publish 67 is available today on Test Center 1, please take a moment to read about the changes and features below and check them out in game. Your feedback is important to us and we look forward to hearing from you - have fun!

For many, shadows are a place for the sinister. Shadows are a place to hide. Shadows imply a coldness, a detachment.

For others shadows are a place for opportunity. 

Greetings!

Beginning Tuesday, July 13^th at 2:00PM EDT all shards will be brought offline for updates to the current database system. Due to the complexities of this maintenance we anticipate services will be back online by 8:00PM EDT (please see update below). We thank you for your patience during this extended downtime.

Update 7/14/10 - 1:00AM EST: The Enhance Client can once again connect to the game, we apologize in the delay for bringing this back online and those those users for their patience while the issue was resolved, have a great evening.

Update 7/14/10 - 1:00AM EST: We are currently investigating an issue in which players are unable to use the Enhance Client, we apologize for the inconvenience.

Update 7/14/10 - 12:00AM EST: Maintenance is complete - all shards are now open to players, welcome back and have fun!

 Update 7/13/10 - 11:20PM EST:  To ensure the maintenance was successful we are continuing to run tests across the game's systems. We hope to have further information shortly, thank you.

I will try to write a more extensive producer's update to discuss the current plans for publish 67 next Friday, as well as status on live events and core system updates next week.

In the interim it's essential we catch you up on an important update to the Ultima Online network.

For the last three months our engineering team in concert with EA World Wide IT, and the Net Engineering group have been working on upgrading our character databases and warehouse (read that "Housing") as well as login server applications to a new version of Oracle.

What does this mean to you?

Here in the United States, the Fourth of July is an important holiday and marks the founding of our country. Today many of us celebrate our independence with massive BBQ's, fireworks, and parades with our friends and family.

This weekend we invite you to join our virtual family and celebrate the American way with Event Moderators running events across all shards, all weekend long - so check out the new fireworks, see the ceremonies, and join in the celebration with your friends!

As an added bonus you'll find the latest chapter of Lost and Found below - the adventure continues, don't miss it!

From all of us have a safe, happy, and FUN holiday weekend,

- The Ultima Online Team
(Who would also like to wish our Canadian players a happy Canada Day today!)

The Chesapeake shard will be coming offline very shortly for immediate maintenance in attempts to address lag issues players have reported experiencing. We apologize for the short notice and anticipate to have the shard back online within an hour, thank you.

As players of our own game, we have a passion and interest for the legacy of Ultima Online, and how we interpret that and convey it through story, or prioritizing what systems and bugs to fix.  We then think about what the player wants.  Next, as creators and annihilators, we remove and add as necessary.  Not unlike chefs, sometimes the mix of ingredients is acceptable, sometimes bitter and unpleasant.  However, if we want you to return we’ll keep improving our skills.

This summer we’ve chosen to take the story arc a different direction. So often it’s been easy to show you good, and say “Hey, this is good, we are all good-natured at heart, this is obviously what life is about … “

The following changes will go live to all shards during tomorrow's scheduled morning maintenance, thank you.

Publish 66.2 Update - 06/24/10

• Bane chosen soldiers are now vulnerable to Repond slayers
• Hell hounds from event will no longer be tameable. 
• Existing hell hounds from the event that are tamed will be removed from the game.
• Disbanding a party will now work correctly in all situations
  

The Hell Hounds from the Abyss are currently tamable.  This was not the intent of the creature protecting the Bane Dragon.  Later this week we will be correcting this over sight and deleting all tamed hell hounds tamed in the Abyss preventing them from being tamed in the future.

Today was the first Ter Mur/Britannia summit since the completion of the Stygian Abyss outposts and Queen Zhah was saddened that she already had bad news to share.  She studied the soft, non-distinct face of her guest trying to decide how to proceed.  Humans are very hard to read, she thought.  Queen Dawn was sitting across from her and staring into the reflection pool, watching the fish swim.  The beauty of this indoor palace garden was blurred in Zhah’s mind by her melancholy.  It was at once a meticulously preserved artifact of the once-great Gargoyle Empire and a constant reminder of everything they had lost.  My people have lost so much, have paid such a high price. I wonder if we will ever have good news again. 

Welcome to Publish 66.2 - The following changes have gone live today during daily maintenance, thanks and have fun!

Endless Decanter of Water

Live Event:

In the Shadow of Virtue: Rise of the Bane Chosen

Bane Chosen forces are battling the Ophidians in the lost lands.  Players may join either side and the faction will reward them for their help.  Both sides are most appreciative of players who push back the front line of the enemy (look for the army battle flag to find the front line).  Speak with the recruiters in each faction camp to find out what they are fighting about.  For each point of loyalty that you gain with a faction at war, you will lose 3 points of loyalty with their enemy so it does not pay to switch sides often.  “Peril bonus” is a bonus to loyalty gain (and loss) when other players are assisting the enemy army.  Double clicking the flag at each faction’s front line will tell you the progress of the spawn.  Special quests are available at the faction camp when players reach 2000 loyalty to that faction.  Special rewards are available if players assist a faction in routing the other faction from the field, but be warned, these armies are stubborn and will return! Quests are not available while a faction is routed.

Additional Changes

• Bane dragon's special attack is now capped at 200.
  
  
• Healing stones now correctly track which stone is in use.
  
  
• Items with limited lifespan can no longer be altered

Publish 66.2 is currently going live to Origin, you can find the changes this publish has brough below. Thanks and have fun!

Endless Decanter of Water

Live Event:

In the Shadow of Virtue: Rise of the Bane Chosen

Bane Chosen forces are battling the Ophidians in the lost lands.  Players may join either side and the faction will reward them for their help.  Both sides are most appreciative of players who push back the front line of the enemy (look for the army battle flag to find the front line).  Speak with the recruiters in each faction camp to find out what they are fighting about.  For each point of loyalty that you gain with a faction at war, you will lose 3 points of loyalty with their enemy so it does not pay to switch sides often.  “Peril bonus” is a bonus to loyalty gain (and loss) when other players are assisting the enemy army.  Double clicking the flag at each faction’s front line will tell you the progress of the spawn.  Special quests are available at the faction camp when players reach 2000 loyalty to that faction.  Special rewards are available if players assist a faction in routing the other faction from the field, but be warned, these armies are stubborn and will return! Quests are not available while a faction is routed.

Additional Changes

• Bane dragon's special attack is now capped at 200.
  
  
• Healing stones now correctly track which stone is in use.
  
  
• Items with limited lifespan can no longer be altered

The following changes are now live with the new client on Test Center, have fun and we look forward to yourfeedback!

Endless Decanter of Water

Live Event:

In the Shadow of Virtue: Rise of the Bane Chosen

Patch 4.0.7.5 (Enhanced Client)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed animation issues with female Gargoyles

7.0.7.3 (Classic Client)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed animation issues with female Gargoyles
• Updates to Gargoyle Wearables and Weapons
• Community Collection NPCs: The Treasure Hunter and Thief NPC gumps do not open when players have an item in their inventory that can be turned in to them

We have the following changes coming to Test Center today. Please note that we are not doing a client update with this publish so those on Test Center may receive client errors while playing over the next week. Other than that have fun and we look forward to your feedback!

Publish 66.2 Notes

• Endless Decanter of Water
  To obtain, throw a full water pitcher at a water elemental (non summoned) there is a slight chance the elemental will throw back to the player a Endless Decanter of Water.  The Decanter can then be linked to a water trough, as long as the player is within 5 tiles outside of a house or anywhere inside a house the Decanter will continuously refill itself.

• Live Event -  In the Shadow of Virtue: Rise of the Bane Chosen
  Bane Chosen forces are battling the Ophidians in the lost lands.  Players may join either side and the faction will reward them for their help.  Both sides are most appreciative of players who push back the front line of the enemy (look for the army battle flag to find the front line).  Speak with the recruiters in each faction camp to find out what they are fighting about.  For each point of loyalty that you gain with a faction at war, you will lose 3 points of loyalty with their enemy so it does not pay to switch sides often.  “Peril bonus” is a bonus to loyalty gain (and loss) when other players are assisting the enemy army.  Double clicking the flag at each faction’s front line will tell you the progress of the spawn.  Special quests are available at the faction camp when players reach 2000 loyalty to that faction.  Special rewards are available if players assist a faction in routing the other faction from the field, but be warned, these armies are stubborn and will return! Quests are not available while a faction is routed.
  

The following change will go live during regularly scheduled server maintenance. Thank you and have a great weekend!

Publish Notes

• We have disabled the grid swapping feature for the Enhanced Client due to stability issues. We plan to reintroduce this feature in a future publish once these issues have been resolved.

Its our pleasure to announce our participation in the upcoming Stratics House of Commons chat tomorrow, Thursday, June 3rd. For information on how to join the IRC chat visit Stratics at the link below. We look forward to seeing you there!

Stratics HoC IRC Chat - 06/03/2010

From all of us at Mythic, we thank those who have served.

At approximately 4:30PM EDT we will be bringing down all shards for immediate maintenance to resolve the issues listed below. We estimate the update to be completed and all shards back online by 6:30PM EDT, thank you!

Patch 4.0.7.4 (Enhanced Client)

• Fixed unexpected item swapping issues while in list view or Legacy container view.
• Fixed players locking up in high-graphics areas when moving their mouse cursor off the game viewport into the empty black areas of the user interface.

Server changes

• Runebooks should now work correctly
• Players will be able to drop items in pack animals correctly again.
• Swamp Dragons will no longer block meditation
  

Welcome to Publish 66, below are the changes that have now gone live to all servers world-wide. We hope you enjoy them!

We hope everyone is enjoying their Tuesday - for those on Origin we will be updating the shard to Publish 66 today at 4:30PM EDT. We anticipate the shard to be back online by 6:30PM EDT. You can find the patch notes for Publish 66 below, thank you!