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Memorial Service for Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami Victims on Sonoma, 6pm Pacific, 8pm Central

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Details:
* Friday, March 18, 2011
* 6pm Pacific, 9pm Eastern
* Sonoma Shard
* Homare-Jima, Tokuno Island
* Sculpture Flower Garden

It is currently going on, and many players are arriving as I post this. If you have a few minutes, make an appearance. The best way to get here is to head to Luna and take the extra moongate that is near the standard moongate.

EM Eira and EM Sangria, and others are here, and I believe I saw Mesanna. And of course a few players are trying to be jackasses and bringing up crap about the TOS and asking for special items from EMs.

I would like to thank Queen Mum from TLF for hosting this event.

Ultima Online Goes Boom – a Bit of St. Patrick’s Day Fun on LS

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Rather than continue exploring New Magincia on the Test Center and looking through some of the new things with Publish 70, I took some time out to participate in a St. Patrick’s Day EM event on Lake Superior, that took place in Minoc. It was a lot of fun, only died a few times, and I wouldn’t be surprised if most players heavily involved died at least once. At one point, one of the Guardian leprachauns took down about 10-15 people within 30 seconds.

There was a mongbat that decided to explode in the midst of everything – jump to about 20 seconds into this short video:

I have several videos of the event that I’ll post if there is any interest among LSers. Sorry for the lower quality, still experimenting with some things in the EC.

I’d like to thank the Lake Superior EMs for putting this event on. It appeared to be a well-attended event. I’d also like to thank Lord William Wallace for resurrecting me!

I’ll wrap up my New Magincia coverage tomorrow.

In-Game Memorial Service for Earthquake and Tsunami Victims – March 18

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UOForums.com is organizing a candle-light ceremony and moment of silence for the victims and their family and friends of the recent earthquakes and tsunami in Japan.

Details:
* Friday, March 18, 2011
* 6pm Pacific, 9pm Eastern
* Sonoma Shard
* Homare-Jima, Tokuno Island
* Sculpture Flower Garden

Gates will be made available from Haven and Luna Banks

Read: Ultima Online Forums (UOForums.com)

If you’d like to donate to an aid organization, the UO Herald is running a banner for AmeriCares and a post with information:

As many of you know, a great number of our playerbase is in Japan. We also have a team in Tokyo, so the events in Japan over the last week have affected us deeply.

If you care to contribute to Japan relief we have added a button in the right column of the Herald page which will take you to Americares.org. You can find out more about the organization here.

Thank you for your attention!

Live-Blogging the Video HOC

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Update – Full Transcripts
* Part 1
* Part 2

Notes from the video House of Commons (Latest at the top):

Note: There are probably going to be errors in what I typed below, in regards to matching up with the video. I intend to go through and put together a coherent post with direct quotes. I was typing really fast, and once or twice the video glitched or I missed something. Do not take what I typed as 100% accurate!

And the HoC is finished.

Keeps/Castles customizable
* Not an easy question
* Have talked about enhancing them
* Talk about locking things down in courtyard

Abandoned Homes
* Getting rid of them as they can
* Takes time
* Associate Producer just deleted 200 houses on Legends

Discussion of Reptalon and slots
* Associate Producer will discuss it later

In-Game Economy
* Change the amount of gold looted on monsters to be lower
* Lead Developer/Supreem: Gold should be higher in monster loot. (UOJ Note???)
* More loot should be on monsters to help the new players

UO Game Codes Store
* More stuff up, rotating items out, etc.
* Getting an item up on the store is a huge process

Siege Perilous
* Can’t character transfer, technically impossible
* Many exceptions required
* Siege is an island and is designed that way

Character Copy
* Character Copy – character transfer without removing it from the source
* Lets you take your specific characters and try them out out on TC.
* Only on Test Center

PVP Arena open this spring
* “Hope so”
* Hardware migration delayed it
* Starting to be looked at
* 90% of the way there, but the 10% left is 90% of it.
* Something headed towards the Test Center

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