Clean Up Britannia Program 2011

By the way, it’s snowing on the test center, while I was checking things in the Classic Client, I should fire up the EC as well. On with the post, as a brief follow-up to the UO Pub 72 details, here are some of the items I directly saw available from the Cleanup Officer:

1,000 Points – Robes
* Humans and Elves are our friends
* Gargoyles are our friends
* We are pirates
* Follower of Bane
* Queen Dawn Forever

5,000 Points
* Lily Pad (decor – housing) (see picture at the top right)
* Lily Pads (decor – housing)
* Nocturne Earrings (Night Sight)

10,000 Points
* Sherry the Mouse Statue
* Chaos Tile Deed
* Honesty Virtue Tile Deed
* Compassion ”
* Justice ”
* Valor ”
* Spirituality ”
* Honor ”
* Humility ”
* Sacrifice

15,000 Points
* Yucca (plant)
* Table Lamp
* Bamboo (plant)

20,000 Points
* Horse Barding
* Scroll of Alacrity
* Snake Skin Boots (poison resist 2%)
* Boots of the Lava Lizard (fire resist 2%)
* Boots of the Ice Wyrm (cold resist 2%)
* Boots of the Crystal Hydra (Energy Resist 2%)
* Boots of the Thrasher (physical resist 2%)

50,000 Points
* Sophisticaed Elven Tapestry
* Ornate Elven Tapestry
* Chest of Drawers
* Footed Chest of Drawers
* Dragon Head
* Nest with Eggs

75,000 Points
* Giant Toad Costume
* Zombie Costume
* Fire Pit

80,000 Points
* Beehive
* Archery Butte

More 10,000 Point Items (armor/clothing)
* Knight’s Close Helm (Replica)
* Knight’s Norse Helm (Replica)
* Knight’s Plate Helm (Replica)
* And a whole lot more armor/clothing

150,000 Points
* Etoile Bleue (Luck 150, Faster casting and recovery 1)
* Novo Bleue (same as

Plus:
* Bunch of Gargoyle Fishing items at 50,000
* Plus Bestial Armor set for Gargoyles

And finally, an item bless dead for 50,000 points. This one will cause controversy.

I have a feeling there are still items yet to be added and that the points will be moved up or down in value. Yes, some of those items are new, including some of the deco items, while others are from the 2008 cleanup. It doesn’t bother me either way. I did have a stranglehold on the archery butte supply on Lake Superior (up to 11 now), but that’s okay, hopefully it will inspire others to create archery ranges.

Pinco has graciously put up a video showing off the Mannequin and Virtue Tapestries from the Anniversary gifts:

And if anybody is curious about the Honest Virtue mini-quests, the Lost and Found boxes are already in place, as you can see in the image to the right.

Ultima Online Publish 72 Details, Clients 4.0.17 and 7.0.17

> Well, here we finally have it, Details about Pub 72 for UO, and it’s already made its way onto the Test Center:

Publish 72 comes to Test Center today, along with the Enhance Client Patch 4.0.17 and the Classic Client Patch 7.0.17.

Here are the notes for your reading pleasure, thanks!

Publish 72.0.0

Clean Up Britannia

We are proud to announce the return of Clean Up Britannia!

Similar to the original Clean Up Britannia and subsequent Spring Cleaning events, you may now discard your unneeded items in exchange for points good for the purchase of interesting and powerful new items.

Here’s how it works:
* Use a trash can, either in public or in your house, to discard items. When the items are destroyed, you are awarded points.
* You may appraise items before throwing them out. Select “Appraise For Cleanup” from a trash can’s context menu, and target items to appraise them.
* Speak to a Cleanup Officer in New Magincia, Britain, New Haven, Ter Mur, or Buccaneer’s Den to see how many points you have, and spend those points

Things you can Turn In
* All items which could be turned in for Spring Cleaning in 2008 may now be turned in for Clean Up Britannia
* Many older and rarer items are now worth a lot more points!
* Any leftover points for Spring Cleaning 2008 convert to points for Clean Up Britannia
* Many new items can now be turned in for points:
*** Almost any item crafted from wood, leather, or metal (the rarer the material used to craft the item, the more points it’s worth)
*** Almost any equipment loot drop (stronger magical item properties increase their point value)
*** Gold and Bank Checks
*** Raw resources such as leather, wood, and ingots (the rarer the resource, the more points it is worth)

Things you can Buy
* Most of the items from Spring Cleaning 2008 are available in Clean Up Britannia
* The high-end item sets are available as replicas. These knock-offs are much cheaper in point cost, but have 125 durability and cannot be improved by Powder of Fortification.

New Imbuable Item Sets are available:
* Berserker’s Gear: the wearer gains a special berserk combat effect when at low health
* Fisherman’s Gear: wearing these items enhances the effectiveness of any fish bait used by the wearer
* Virtuoso’s Gear: these items improve a bard’s Mastery Bonus
* Various new decorative and equipment items are available for sale

Honesty Virtue
As you travel the lands of Trammel and Felucca, you may find lost items. These items will say “Lost Item (Return To Gain Honesty)” when you mouse-over them.

To turn in a lost item for Honesty credit: In a bank of each of the Virtue Towns (Britain, Yew, Moonglow, Trinsic, Skara Brae, New Magincia, Jehlom, and Minoc) there is a lost and found box. Put the item in the box for Honesty credit. You may use Forensic Evaluation skill to gain more information about the owner of the item. If you turn the item into the Lost And Found Box in the city where the owner lives, you will get double Honesty points for your extra effort. If you give the item to the original owner, you will get quadruple honesty points.

Honesty gives you discounts at NPC merchants. The higher your rank in Honesty, the bigger your discount. The discount is applied to the total purchase. The discount is not shown in the merchant window, but you will see a system message once you make the purchase.

Other Virtue System tweaks:
* The total virtue point cap has been increased so that it is easier to maintain Knight rank.
* All virtues now decay at the same rate as the current rate for Valor. (This is a significant decrease in decay rate for most virtues.)
* Skills that had their decay rate reduced now spend virtue when you use them.

Anniversary Gifts
Happy 14th Anniversary to all our players! This year we have done something a little different. We have a few new items and included last years items for anyone that may of missed them. Hope you enjoy this token of appreciate for all your years of dedication to UO. As always you have to be 30 days old to receive an anniversary gift. The gifts will stay active until October 31st.

Guild Voting Changes
Added functionality to resolve guild hierarchy issues when a guild has no active (characters that have logged in within the last 30 days) voting members. When a guild has no active voting members (Guild Leader, Warlords, Emissaries or Members) and only has active non-voting members (Ronins) the system will now hold a special election which will promote the guild member (Ronin) that was most recently active to become the guild master. If the system is unable to identify the most recently active member, it will randomly select an active guild member (Ronin) to promote. This special election will ONLY occur when there are no active voting guild members.

Halloween
This year’s Halloween Event will begin October 1st thru November 12th. We have added a special treat for you this year so keep your guard up. *evil grin*

Bug Fixes
* Converting stoneboots to Gargoyle stone Talons will no longer give a TID error.
* You can no longer use the Sacred Journey ability to recall away to your ship when you’re flagged.
* The amount of ingots were corrected to be the same when salvaging in a bag or by the smith hammer.
* You can now salvage deer mask, bear mask, and tribal masks via the salvage bag.
* Gargoyle alterations should now recognize the small soul forge.
* Your poison skill will affect the poison strength applied to Shurikens and Fukiya Darts.
* Grape vines fished up from MIB’s will produce grape bunches (this does not apply to the ones already fished up). Non functional grape vines previously fished up can be traded in for functional items at the Ye Olde Winery in Yew.

Classic client 7.0.17
* Cliloc Changes

Enhanced Client 4.0.17
* Cliloc Changes
* Players are no longer able to filter out GM reponses
* Updated the Enhanced Client default target type for several mysticism spells

My thoughts on Publish 72
Publish 72 is big – it’s covering the 14th Anniversary, some guild changes, some virtue changes, some imbuing changes, and a new Clean Up Britannia campaign. The guild changes and virtue changes are actually pretty important in my book, because the guild changes are going to benefit returning players whose guilds ceased to be active for one reason or another, although it was possible for players to eventually become guildmaster of their guilds after they had ceased to be active. Still, it’s good to see some thought put into it. The Honest Virtue “mini-quests” (my terminology) are one of those things that is helping to flesh out the game world of Ultima. It’s adding content to places that already exist, especially in this case Britannia proper, and it’s giving people a reason to visit the older towns. That’s always good. Clean Up Britannia and Anniversary Gifts…it’ll be interesting to see how those play out so I’ll reserve judgement for now.

High Resolution Artwork
I wanted to see the artwork update!!! And I know it’s coming, it’s just a matter of time. This was a huge publish though, and if you look at Publish 71 and everything that has happened since Publish 71 back at the start of July, namely the account management system migration, I’m not surprised to see the artwork being pushed back out of Publish 72.

What I’m hoping is that maybe the high resolution artwork will make an appearance of some sort, whether on UO Herald or in-game, on or around the time of UO’s 14th Anniversary, which would be fitting.

Virtues
Some love is being shown to the virtues, especially the Honesty Virtue, and it’s only fitting today that GOG released Ultima IV for free.

Overall
I wanted to see artwork, but given the events that have transpired since July, I’m impressed with Publish 72. It’s very balanced – something for the returning players, something for the item collectors, something for the fans of the older Ultima games, a decent amount of bug fixes, and quite a few classes and playstyles were covered.

via UO Herald

Notes About Accounts, Trials, Housing, and Veteran Rewards

If you are still experiencing problems from the account migration, a few issues have been addressed, or are in the works to be addressed, according to the UO Herald:

Hello everyone,

We wanted to give you guys a quick update on a few topics. The issue with Accounts being stuck in a Trial state has been fixed. If you are still experiencing this problem please contact our Customer Service by placing an in-game petition. Housing is still in a no decay state till we finalize the testing, we hope to have this finished along with re-enabling Veteran Rewards by the end of next week. We’ll keep you guys updated when we have additional information to pass along.

Thanks everyone!

The UO Team

via UO Herald

Account Center Maintenance Extended Until 8pm

Update: The Account Center is now back online at Accounts.EAMythic.com

Looks like the account center maintenance has been extended until 8pm, and not 3:30pm EST as previously reported:

We now anticipate the the Account Center will back online by 8:00pm EDT this evening.

Due to the importance of this information we will be updating the Herald with a new post for each update today.

We thank you again for your patience and apologize for the inconvienence this may have caused you.

I will be updating this post as they update the UO Herald.

via UO Herald

Account Center Down Until 3:30 PM EST

Update: At least 8pm EST

I think it’s been down for a bit, but Rowland Cox posted this a few minutes ago:

Greetings!

The Account Center is currently offline. We anticipate that it will be back online no later than 3:30pm EDT. Please visit UOHerald.com for for updates on the Account Center maintenance today.

Thank you for your patience today.

Hopefully this will fix some issues people were having.

via UO Herald

They still should post tutorials about using the account management center.