Information about the UO Video House of Commons that is set to take place tomorrow, has been posted.
Ultima Online Video House of Commons
March 1st, 2011
7pm Eastern, 6pm Central, 4pm Pacific
Topics to be discussed:
* Follow up to last week’s Dev Video Diary (Full story with transcript)
* Current story arc (In the Shadow of Virtue) and events
* Publish 70
* Restoration of Magincia
* Concept of player-driven towns
Video streaming information will be provided at a later time.
The community relations team has posted the following update, for Publish 69.6 that is going to be pushed out to all shards during the normal shard maintenance windows. This publish went live on Origin yesterday.
Greetings,
Tomorrow, during regularly scheduled maintenance, Publish 69.6 will be released on all shards. Share the love and in the meantime we wanted to share the notes for your reading pleasure, thanks!
Publish 69.6
* Happy Valentine’s Day! Please make sure you check your picnic basket for your Valentines gift. (Note: The gift does not have any properties so please do not buy anything that might state otherwise). Please make sure you sign in before March 9th to get your gift.
* Gypsy camps have been disabled temporarily while we investigate their relation to an issue causing items to be destroyed.Enhanced Client
* Cliloc updates
* Snow RemovalClassic Client
* Cliloc updates
* Snow Removal
Love it or hate it, the snow is going to finally be gone.
The Cliloc updates are most likely related to the Valentine’s gifts.
Read: UO Herald
UO Journal Note: If that Valentine’s Heart/UO icon looks familiar to you, you’ve been around – it’s from the old Ultima Online website, UO.com, from at least February of 2000.
Publish 69 will be released onto all shards tomorrow morning during the normal shard maintenance windows.
It contains, among other things, a number of holiday-related items that need to be claimed before January 25th. Also Thanksgiving Turkeys are being turned off.
Full Publish 69 Details
* Thanksgiving Turkeys will be turned off
Each character will be able selected one of the following items:
* Antique Rocking Horse
* Christmas Tree
* Angel Decoration
* Holiday Fireflies (blinking wall decoration)
Vet Rewards:
* 1st year Dungeon teleporter
* 5th Year Metal Dye Tub
* 10th Year Choice of 3 Oval rugs. The skull and cross bones will give 1 random Treasure chest map each week, The Rose Rug will give one random seed each week, and the Dolphin will give one random MIB each week. (After the first of the year we will be putting out a change to these rugs, we will be adding a gump to pick the direction and adding a smaller size. You will be able to pick between the current size 7×7 or a 3×5)
* 13th year a new rideable Armored Boura.
Virtuebane Town Invasion
* Be aware that Virtuebane will be looking for any weakness. Town criers will give warning when the towns are about to be invaded.
Test Center is getting Publish 69 later today.
Highlights include:
* Holiday Gifts
* New vet rewards including Metal Dye Tub for 5th year vets, Rideable Armored Boura for 13 year vets, and unique rugs for 10th year vets.
* Town invasions from followers of Virtuebane
* Snow.
* The Abyss is being fleshed out. Many should appreciate that.
* A whole slew of other changes, including better journal handling for the Enhanced Client.
More information:
Update: Removed information – full Publish 69 information (December 15, 2010)
Read: UOHerald.com