Shard News

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.

Publish 70 Test Delayed One Day, Blue Crystal Owners Happy

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So the plan was to roll out the Publish 70/New Magincia to the Test Center tomorrow, using a backup of Great Lakes. That’s been pushed out a day to Thursday, March 17, 2011, however blue crystal owners rejoice, they will be used in the growth and rebuilding of New Magincia. The reason given for the one-day delay is due to some internal testing. The clients will need to be patched, and this will involve a restart and update of all shards on Thursday at 3pm Eastern, 2pm Central. They should be back online within a few hours. Full details:

While the preparation for the launch of Pub 70 to the test center is in full swing, our internal testing on the changes to Magincia require one more day of review. Pub 70 will be available on Test Center this Thursday, March 17.

The client patch for Pub70 requires a server restart. Therefore on Thursday, beginning at 3:00 pm EDT we will bring down all shards. We expect all shards to be back online no later than 5:00 pm EDT.

As an additional note, we have added a purpose for the blue crystals so many players have asked about. They will have a use in the growth of Magincia.

There may have been an additional comment about starting new characters and where their starting location would be, which was tied to the client/shard updates, but it has been removed.

Read: UO Herald

Network Maintenance on Some North American Shards plus Oceania

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This just popped up on UOHerald.com. Looks like there is some work being done on the network side of things for some of the North American shards plus Oceania.

Greetings,

On Monday, March 14th, beginning at 8:00 AM EST we will bring down the following shards for a short network maintenance:

Lake Austin
Baja
Napa Valley
Sonoma
Pacific
Origin
Oceania

The expected downtime is 1.5 hours.

Thanks for your understanding.

This maybe ahead of the upcoming publish revolving around Magincia.