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Publish 99

2022-07-29T13:53:36Z

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* 02/27/2018 – 1st [[TC1]] Release
* 03/14/2018 – 2nd [[TC1]] Release
* 03/28/2018 – 3rd [[TC1]] Release & 1st [[Origin]], [[Izumo]], [[Baja]] Release
* 04/03/2018 – 2nd [[Origin]], [[Izumo]], [[Baja]] Release
* 04/05/2018 – World Wide Release

== Endless Journey ==
* 1st release of an free-to-play version of Ultima Online
* Ultima Online: [[Endless Journey]] is a way for players to experience the core features of Ultima Online without a paid subscription. Endless Journey accounts will have access to all pre-existing and newly created characters on all shards.
* See https://uo.com/endless-journey/ for more information

== Town Crier Updates ==
* Existing NPC [[Towncriers]] have been removed and respawned at all banks, starting inn locations, and the Eodon moongate.
* Using the “news” speech command or double clicking a town crier NPC will now bring up the Town Cryer newspaper.
* Town crier NPCs are updated in real time with the latest information. Non-NPC town criers (Sherry the Mouse & Coral the Owl) are updated once on server up if those objects are locked down or secure.

== Town Cryer News & Quests ==
* The “News” section of the Town Cryer offers a variety of quests designed to introduce players to new and existing content.
* Quests can be accepted via the “Quest” button in each Town Cryer article.
* Quests are non-repeatable.
* Where appropriate, news articles have a “Learn More” button that will open a webpage to pertinent wiki-entries on UO.com.
* Town Cryer quests are available for the following content areas:
** [[Animal Training]] updates
** [[The Wreck of the Ararat]]
** [[The Huntmaster’s Challenge]]
** [[Shame|Dungeon Shame]]
** [[Wrong|Dungeon Wrong]]
** [[Castle Blackthorn Dungeon]]
** [[Treasure Chest|Treasure Hunting]]
** [[Covetous|Dungeon Covetous]]
** Dungeon Despise

== Town Cryer EM, City & Guild Events ==
* EM event information, City Governor posts, and Guild Events are available in their respective sections of the Town Cryer.
* Updates to the Town Cryer are done through a context menu accessed on NPC Town Criers.
* Only the updates options the user has permissions for are displayed.
* Governor Entries
** May be accessed by the Governor.
** Must have a headline, at least one paragraph entry, and an expiry between 1-14 days.
** May have up to 5 active articles at any time.
** Entries are cleaned up at the time of expiry.
* Guild Events
** Guilds with 20 or more members may have 1 active event notice in the Town Cryer guild section.
** Guild Leaders & Warlords have permission to input, update, and delete event notices.
** A total of 150 guild event notices may be active at any given time.
** Events are sorted by date and cleaned up when the event date has passed.
** Guild event notices require a headline, event month, event day, event time, event timezone, event meeting place, and event description.
** Events may be posted for the current month and the following month.
** Inappropriate entries into the Town Cryer will result in guilds losing permission to input further events.

== The Britain Commons ==
* A new area has been added to Trammel Britain in the area southeast of the First Bank of Britain.
* This open space makes for the perfect meeting place and offers nearby access to essential city services such as a pub, stable master, and crafting stations.

== Ultima Store Items ==
The following items will be available in the Ultima Store. Keep an eye on UO.com and in-game for release dates!

* [[Virtue Shield]]: This shield grants a bonus to virtue points gained while equipped! The shield provides 8% to all resists, penalty free spell channeling, and 10% defense chance increase. Can be used by Humans, Elves, and Gargoyles and dyed with metallic, plant, and specialty pigments.
* [[Deluxe Starter Pack]]: This starter pack is a perfect way to jumpstart your journey in Britannia! This starter pack includes:
** A Runic Atlas (a high capacity runebook) that comes pre-loaded with recall runes to Britannia’s Vaults, Banks, and Points of Interest
** A [[Runic Atlas|Runic Hunter’s Atlas]] that allows recalling to a variety of hunting grounds friendly to the training adventurer, complete with location descriptions and tips
** A full complement of full spellbooks for all magic schools including Bushido, Chivalry, Magery, Mysticism, Necromancy, and Ninjitsu
** A Token of Skill Alacrity that allows you and your party members to experience an increased rate of skill gain for an entire week
** A Deluxe Journeyman’s Armor token that outfits the adventurer in a starter set of human/elf or gargish leather armor providing 70% in all resists, +15 Hit Points, +17 Mana, +17 Stamina, +30 Lower Mana Cost, +6 Hit Point Regeneration, +6 Mana Regeneration, +10 Stamina Regeneration, +5 Strength, +5 Dexterity, +5 Intelligence, and 100% Lower Reagent Cost
** A Community Collection Point Award token that can be redeemed at the Moonglow Zoo, Vesper Museum, or Britain Library for 500,000 points
** A Dungeon Point Award Point Token that can be redeemed for 100 Blackthorn Dungeon points, 1000 Dungeon Crystal Points of Despise, and 1000 Covetous Points
** A direct deposit of 100,000 gold into your currency account
** All items are account and shard bound.

== Miscellaneous Updates ==
* Existing city bulletin boards have been removed and new freestanding boards have been placed in each loyalty city. Only city citizens may interact with a city’s bulletin board.
* Invisibility & Teleport Items
** Special moves can no longer be toggled while these items are casting
** These items can no longer be used while casting spells
** Invisibility items now have a 2 second casting delay
** Teleportation items now have a 1 second casting delay
* Instanced Corpse Update
** Only 250 items will be re-consolidated back to a public corpse from all instances.
* Added hitching post to Shadowguard lobby

== Bug Fixes ==
* All pets which have been exploited by releasing or death will have the following stats reset and incur a penalty to their advanced pet training. Strength, intelligence, dexterity, hit points, stamina, mana, base damage, and all resists will be reset to defaults.
** This change has been removed pending further development.
** Pets tamed before Publish 97 (Pre-Patch Pets) with pet slots lower than their true pet slots will no longer be able to start new advanced pet training. This is a temporary restriction to prevent further pets from entering a broken state prior to the resolution of the above referenced issue which will be resolved in Publish 100.
* Fixed issue where quest text would get truncated in quest gumps.
* Fixed issue where the New Haven Dark Knight quest could no longer be reached via rune.
* Chicken coops are now shard bound and pets that have undergone animal training can no longer be placed in the coop.

== Classic Client ==
* Updated login screen
* Cliloc changes
* Art changes
* Resolved issue where trading platinum & crimson drakes would result in classic client crashes.
* Known Issue: The client crashes while trying to access the game credits.

== Enhanced Client ==
* Updated login screen
* Cliloc changes
* Art changes
* Disabled the new player tutorial

== Latest Changes ==
* Fixed issue where monks in the Chamber of Virtue would not properly display a gump when doubled clicked.
* Fixed issue with Animal Trainer quest where accepting the quest from the Town Cryer and continuing the quest with a female animal trainer vs a male animal trainer could break the quest.
* Fixed issue where players could not use rune books or runic atlases if they were not in a player’s backpack.
* Fixed issue where using the switch clothes command on a mannequin would be placed at the mannequin’s feet.
* Pets tamed before Publish 97 (Pre-Patch Pets) with pet slots lower than their true pet slots will no longer be able to start new advanced pet training.
* Improved Global Chat performance.

== Issues resolved since Release 1 ==
* Fixed issue where the word “Origin” could not be used in the Town Cryer
* Monks at the Chamber of Virtue will now provide an informative gump when double clicked to link with the Town Cryer article on the Virtues.
* Fixes issue with the Blackthorn Castle quest where clues could be erroneously discovered in bad locations.
* Maps received from the Treasure Hunting Town Cryer Quest will no longer get deleted when retrieved from a Davies’ Locker.
* Fixed issue where the protective effects of the potion received in the Covetous Quest would not function properly.
* Allowed EJ access to TC1 & Siege
* Updated character creation on new Endless Journey accounts
* Adjusted gold available in the Deluxe Starter pack token

Publish 99

2022-07-29T13:47:45Z

Pete: Added publish 99 (EJ update)

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* 02/27/2018 – 1st [[TC1]] Release
* 03/14/2018 – 2nd [[TC1]] Release
* 03/28/2018 – 3rd [[TC1]] Release & 1st [[Origin]], [[Izumo]], [[Baja]] Release
* 04/03/2018 – 2nd [[Origin]], [[Izumo]], [[Baja]] Release
* 04/05/2018 – World Wide Release

== Endless Journey ==
* 1st release of an free-to-play version of Ultima Online
* Ultima Online: Endless Journey is a way for players to experience the core features of Ultima Online without a paid subscription. Endless Journey accounts will have access to all pre-existing and newly created characters on all shards.
* See https://uo.com/endless-journey/ for more information

== Town Crier Updates ==
* Existing NPC Towncriers have been removed and respawned at all banks, starting inn locations, and the Eodon moongate.
* Using the “news” speech command or double clicking a town crier NPC will now bring up the Town Cryer newspaper.
* Town crier NPCs are updated in real time with the latest information. Non-NPC town criers (Sherry the Mouse & Coral the Owl) are updated once on server up if those objects are locked down or secure.

== Town Cryer News & Quests ==
* The “News” section of the Town Cryer offers a variety of quests designed to introduce players to new and existing content.
* Quests can be accepted via the “Quest” button in each Town Cryer article.
* Quests are non-repeatable.
* Where appropriate, news articles have a “Learn More” button that will open a webpage to pertinent wiki-entries on UO.com.
* Town Cryer quests are available for the following content areas:
** Animal Training updates
** The Wreck of the Ararat
** The Huntmaster’s Challenge
** Dungeon Shame
** Dungeon Wrong
** Castle Blackthorn Dungeon
** Treasure Hunting
** Dungeon Covetous
** Dungeon Despise

== Town Cryer EM, City & Guild Events ==
* EM event information, City Governor posts, and Guild Events are available in their respective sections of the Town Cryer.
* Updates to the Town Cryer are done through a context menu accessed on NPC Town Criers.
* Only the updates options the user has permissions for are displayed.
* Governor Entries
** May be accessed by the Governor.
** Must have a headline, at least one paragraph entry, and an expiry between 1-14 days.
** May have up to 5 active articles at any time.
** Entries are cleaned up at the time of expiry.
* Guild Events
** Guilds with 20 or more members may have 1 active event notice in the Town Cryer guild section.
** Guild Leaders & Warlords have permission to input, update, and delete event notices.
** A total of 150 guild event notices may be active at any given time.
** Events are sorted by date and cleaned up when the event date has passed.
** Guild event notices require a headline, event month, event day, event time, event timezone, event meeting place, and event description.
** Events may be posted for the current month and the following month.
** Inappropriate entries into the Town Cryer will result in guilds losing permission to input further events.

== The Britain Commons ==
* A new area has been added to Trammel Britain in the area southeast of the First Bank of Britain.
* This open space makes for the perfect meeting place and offers nearby access to essential city services such as a pub, stable master, and crafting stations.

== Ultima Store Items ==
The following items will be available in the Ultima Store. Keep an eye on UO.com and in-game for release dates!

* Virtue Shield: This shield grants a bonus to virtue points gained while equipped! The shield provides 8% to all resists, penalty free spell channeling, and 10% defense chance increase. Can be used by Humans, Elves, and Gargoyles and dyed with metallic, plant, and specialty pigments.
* Deluxe Starter Pack: This starter pack is a perfect way to jumpstart your journey in Britannia! This starter pack includes:
** A Runic Atlas (a high capacity runebook) that comes pre-loaded with recall runes to Britannia’s Vaults, Banks, and Points of Interest
** A Runic Hunter’s Atlas that allows recalling to a variety of hunting grounds friendly to the training adventurer, complete with location descriptions and tips
** A full complement of full spellbooks for all magic schools including Bushido, Chivalry, Magery, Mysticism, Necromancy, and Ninjitsu
** A Token of Skill Alacrity that allows you and your party members to experience an increased rate of skill gain for an entire week
** A Deluxe Journeyman’s Armor token that outfits the adventurer in a starter set of human/elf or gargish leather armor providing 70% in all resists, +15 Hit Points, +17 Mana, +17 Stamina, +30 Lower Mana Cost, +6 Hit Point Regeneration, +6 Mana Regeneration, +10 Stamina Regeneration, +5 Strength, +5 Dexterity, +5 Intelligence, and 100% Lower Reagent Cost
** A Community Collection Point Award token that can be redeemed at the Moonglow Zoo, Vesper Museum, or Britain Library for 500,000 points
** A Dungeon Point Award Point Token that can be redeemed for 100 Blackthorn Dungeon points, 1000 Dungeon Crystal Points of Despise, and 1000 Covetous Points
** A direct deposit of 100,000 gold into your currency account
** All items are account and shard bound.

== Miscellaneous Updates ==
* Existing city bulletin boards have been removed and new freestanding boards have been placed in each loyalty city. Only city citizens may interact with a city’s bulletin board.
* Invisibility & Teleport Items
** Special moves can no longer be toggled while these items are casting
** These items can no longer be used while casting spells
** Invisibility items now have a 2 second casting delay
** Teleportation items now have a 1 second casting delay
* Instanced Corpse Update
** Only 250 items will be re-consolidated back to a public corpse from all instances.
* Added hitching post to Shadowguard lobby

== Bug Fixes ==
* All pets which have been exploited by releasing or death will have the following stats reset and incur a penalty to their advanced pet training. Strength, intelligence, dexterity, hit points, stamina, mana, base damage, and all resists will be reset to defaults.
** This change has been removed pending further development.
** Pets tamed before Publish 97 (Pre-Patch Pets) with pet slots lower than their true pet slots will no longer be able to start new advanced pet training. This is a temporary restriction to prevent further pets from entering a broken state prior to the resolution of the above referenced issue which will be resolved in Publish 100.
* Fixed issue where quest text would get truncated in quest gumps.
* Fixed issue where the New Haven Dark Knight quest could no longer be reached via rune.
* Chicken coops are now shard bound and pets that have undergone animal training can no longer be placed in the coop.

== Classic Client ==
* Updated login screen
* Cliloc changes
* Art changes
* Resolved issue where trading platinum & crimson drakes would result in classic client crashes.
* Known Issue: The client crashes while trying to access the game credits.

== Enhanced Client ==
* Updated login screen
* Cliloc changes
* Art changes
* Disabled the new player tutorial

== Latest Changes ==
* Fixed issue where monks in the Chamber of Virtue would not properly display a gump when doubled clicked.
* Fixed issue with Animal Trainer quest where accepting the quest from the Town Cryer and continuing the quest with a female animal trainer vs a male animal trainer could break the quest.
* Fixed issue where players could not use rune books or runic atlases if they were not in a player’s backpack.
* Fixed issue where using the switch clothes command on a mannequin would be placed at the mannequin’s feet.
* Pets tamed before Publish 97 (Pre-Patch Pets) with pet slots lower than their true pet slots will no longer be able to start new advanced pet training.
* Improved Global Chat performance.

== Issues resolved since Release 1 ==
* Fixed issue where the word “Origin” could not be used in the Town Cryer
* Monks at the Chamber of Virtue will now provide an informative gump when double clicked to link with the Town Cryer article on the Virtues.
* Fixes issue with the Blackthorn Castle quest where clues could be erroneously discovered in bad locations.
* Maps received from the Treasure Hunting Town Cryer Quest will no longer get deleted when retrieved from a Davies’ Locker.
* Fixed issue where the protective effects of the potion received in the Covetous Quest would not function properly.
* Allowed EJ access to TC1 & Siege
* Updated character creation on new Endless Journey accounts
* Adjusted gold available in the Deluxe Starter pack token