UO to be Featured in Massively’s Rise and Shiny Recap

Ultima Online is going to be featured in this week’s Rise and Shiny Recap at Massively, which will actually be posted next Sunday. Beau Hindman explains his Rise and Shiny Recap column below in a comment he made here, as well as the account problems I mentioned in yesterday’s post:

Thanks for the tweet. Actually, I did gain access to my old UO account, but by a player’s help. Mythic has still not returned my emails. I will save the details for my Rise and Shiny write up that comes out on Sunday. (I play a game for around 5 days or 10 hours and explain my first impressions. NOT a review. In some cases I just like to go back and check in on old classics.)

Anyway, we love UO on the site, and I even streamed it yesterday. I will show the clip on my youtube channel later.

Anyway, see you in game. Normally I am on the Great Lakes server. This week I am playing on a character named Beauhindman there, since I had to get a trial account to gain access. See ya in game!

Beau

This is good publicity for UO. It’s an interesting time for UO seeing as how UO is in the midst of a graphics update as well as a new producer taking the helm.

Links
* Rise and Shiny Recap
* Beau Hindman’s Twitter

UO – Big Mention on Massively.Joystiq.com of Producer’s Letter, Not so Favorable Mention of Account Management

Massively.Joystiq.com is one of the largest MMMORPG gaming websites, and earlier today they gave a big mention of UO, specifically concerning Jeff Skalski’s recent letter of introduction:

In it, he explains that his goals for the grand-daddy of MMOs include heavily increasing the team’s interaction with the community, implementing weekly Q&A sessions, squashing bugs, and “breathing life back into areas that have long been forgotten,” i.e., revamping older content.

While Massively mentions a lot of the work being done on UO, and they cited Publish 73, they missed out on the fact that UO is getting a high resolution artwork update, something that several comments mentioned they would like to see for UO. Well they didn’t miss it, they forget about it – back at the end of September Massively talked about UO’s 14th Anniversary (more than the UO Herald did) and mentioned the upcoming high resolution update.

However, while that press is good, other mentions of UO are not so good. From two days ago, in a discussion of what games they are playing, Massively’s Beau Hindman was planning on doing a livestream of UO this week, but ran into the account problems that have plagued many, and there is still no tutorial on UO Herald.

@Beau_Hindman: I can honestly say at this point that I have no idea what I will be playing, except for War of Dragons for Rise and Shiny. Other than that, I planned on playing Ultima Online for the livestream next week, but EA or Origin or whatever it is calling itself now is so frustrating to deal with. I literally have spent hours on hold and with customer service reps, none of which knows anything about my old UO account. For the record, I resubbed and played it recently. I tried to log in with my old login and it takes me to a site that does not even recognize the game. I felt silly.

For the naysayers who believe that the MMORPG community neglects UO, they don’t.

Link
* Ultima Online producer’s letter promises revitalization of classic content (Massively)
* WRUP: Let’s do the crafting edition (Massively)

Pinco’s UI for UO’s Enhanced Client – Two Guides for Hotbars and Agents

Those of you using Ultima Online’s Enhanced Client should be familiar with Pinco’s UI (User Interface). If you are not, make yourself familiar with it! Now! It makes certain aspects of the Enhanced Client enjoyable, similar to UO Assist for the Classic Client.

He has put together two very detailed guides to certain parts of his interface. One covering Hotbars, which are flexible/customizable bars that you can use for all kinds of things.

The other is for agents, and it’s very useful for those who grew accustomed to UO Assist. Agents include Organizers – moving items from one container to another, undressing – moving items from your character to a contain, restocking which is exactly what it sounds like. There are also automatic buy and sell agents.

Links to Pinco’s Work
* Download Pinco’s UI
* Hotbars – Full Guide
* Agents – Full Guide
* Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
* Support forum

Event: Siege Perilous – Naval Warfare – Saturday Nov 19

There is a really unique ship-ship PvP event happening on Siege Perilous in just under two weeks, with some nice prices.

It’s going to use cannons and the High Seas booster pack will be required if you want to participate in that aspect of it.

Player Requirements: High Seas Booster Pack and a galleon outfitted with cannons if you want any chance of winning, but feel free to show up in a rowboat to cause mayhem if you’re not upgraded. Other than that no skills required, sign up for someone elses crew to help them out if you don’t have your own ship but want to attend.

What?: This will be a ship pvp event, happening in and around the waters of bucs den. It will consist of teams of no more than 5 players or pets (recommend at least 3) In a shipboard deathmatch. It is not recommended to wear your beast gear for this event, nor should it be necessary. (everyone will probably have more fun if in simple lrc suits or exceptional leather, I just don’t want the event ruined by a whiner who wore 10 artys and got looted, the fight is with cannons anyways so it wont help all that much.)

Date: Saturday, November 19, 1PM PST
Location: Siege Perilous, meeting off Buc’s Den Docks (Sail your ship into the harbor)

I think it’ll be fun and if you’re not busy during that time, you should pay a visit and participate if you can. There are not many large naval engagements.

Read the Stratics thread.

UO Shard of the Dead Wraps Up, Treasure Hunt Set

There is a new treasure hunt – Catskills is going to have to defend their recent victory against Napa Valley.

As the winner of the last treasure hunt, Catskills had very little time to relax and to enjoy their trophy before a new challenge came from the Napa Valley.

Tomorrow is the time of decision and we are looking forward to watching the contest.

DATE: Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
TIME: 6:30pm Pacific, 9:30pm Eastern
PLACE: The Chessboard in Nujel’m, Test Center

Also, the Shard of the Dead, a (hopefully) annual Halloween event, is wrapping up today. The UO Herald has posted a list of the top players at the UO Herald (see the link below).

Sources:
* Treasure Hunt Approaches
* Shard of the Dead Ends Today