Empire of Twilight - A Guild on the Chesapeake Shard

In order to combat this invasion, the people of Chesapeake have formed an Alliance based in the small village of Haven, west of Trinsic. EoT is seeking membership with this Alliance so that we might aid in this battle (and kick some ass).

Now to the important news: the Alliance plans a MASSIVE invasion Friday night at 9pm. Read about the details at UO-Chessie Daily News. They will be starting at the City of Corwyn, south of the ferry to Skara Brae, and sweeping through Shadowcove (a village south of Britain that is being harrassed by lizardmen and ratmen) to finally bring their full bear on Trinsic. Read more information about this as well as a map of the cities involved at the Crisis in Britannia site. Good luck, guys. And have fun.

Player vs Player Combat Enhancements

The following was just updated to In Concept:

Player vs. Player Combat Enhancements
Changes to combat skills and weapons to increase the diversity and tactics in player vs. player combat (PvP) and combat as a whole. Note that many of these changes are related to each other. It is important to consider all of the changes together, rather than looking at one change by itself. Be sure to read the entire document carefully before sending in your comments using the link below.
Archery
The archery skill will be tweaked to balance it and make it more effective in Player vs. Player combat.

The minimum damage on bows, crossbows, and heavy crossbows will be increased.
The maximum damage on bows, crossbows, and heavy crossbows will be decreased a small amount.
The rate of fire will be increased a small amount for bows, crossbows, and heavy crossbows.
The long equip delay for all bows will be tweaked.
Archery will have slight increase in its chance to hit when compared to other attacks.
Issues with hitting while moving and firing will be addressed.

Poisoning

You will not be able to heal a poisoned character through any method (healing skill, spells, potions, etc.) until they are first cured of the poison.
Poisoned weapons will corrode unless wiped clean with oil cloth (which will be made by tailors). The more often a poisoned weapon is used before being wiped clean, the more durability it loses.
Only one-handed bladed weapons can be poisoned.

Parrying
The amount of melee damage absorbed from parrying will be increased.
Lumberjacking and Axes
The lumberjacking skill will provide a bonus to damage when the player is using one of the following axes. The higher the characters lumberjacking skill the more damage they will do up to a 15% bonus for 99.9 lumberjacking. At Grandmaster lumberjacking, the damage bonus is 20%.

Axe
Battle Axe
Double Axe
Executioner's Axe
Hatchet
Large Battle Axe
Two-handed Axe

Two-handed Weapons
Any melee weapon that requires two hands to wield will gain the following special attacks:
Crushing blow: A hit for double damage.
Concussion blow: Victim's intelligence is halved for 30 seconds.
Paralyzing blow: Victim is paralyzed for 5 seconds. Paralysis can be broken under the same circumstances for the paralyze spell.

Upon a successful hit, there will be a small chance to inflict one of the special attacks. The base chance to inflict one of the special attacks is 20%. A high intelligence will give a small bonus towards the chance to execute a special attack up to a total chance of 30%.
Maces
The bonus for damaging armor and lowering stamina will now be restricted to the following mace weapons:
Mace
War Mace
War Hammer
War Axe
Hammer Pick
Club
Maul

Wands, staves, and smith hammers will not damage armor or reduce stamina.
Hitting and Dexterity
Currently, melee weapons check for whether a hit is successful or not in the beginning of the swing animation. This will now be scaled based on dexterity. The higher your dexterity, the earlier in your swing you hit. At very low dexterities, you will not hit until the end of your swing.
Thievery Changes

You will be able to steal items from others while in combat. All requirements for stealing (such as being in the thieves guild) will still apply.
You will not be removed from the thieves guild if you receive a murder count.

Armor Changes
Armor ratings and dexterity penalties will be modified. The table below illustrates the changes:
Armor Type AR Rating Dex Penalty (full set)
Plate 40 -22
Chain 28 -12
Ring 22 -6
Studded Leather 16 0
Leather 13 0
Bone 30 -15

Additionally, leather armor will not cause any meditation or stealth penalty.
Recall
You will not be able to recall if you are an aggressor to another player or the pet/creature of another player. This will not be the case when attacking monsters.
Ride-able Animals Fatigue
The exploit that allows a ride-able animal to be refreshed after becoming fatigued will be addressed. Feeding a ride-able animal food will increase its stamina and all ride-able animals will have the amount of time they can be ridden before becoming fatigued increased.
Wrestling Moves
New attacks with the wrestling skill.
Disarm
Characters with 80 or higher in both wrestling and arms lore can attempt to disarm an opponent. If successful, any weapon or spellbook in the target's hand will be removed and placed in the target's backpack.
Stun Punch
Characters with 80 or higher in both wrestling and anatomy can attempt to stun their opponents. A successful stun punch will paralyze a target for 5 seconds.

To perform one of these special attacks, players will need to set a macro to put themselves in the appropriate wrestling "mode". Both hands must be free in order to perform a move.
New macros called "StunPunch" and "Disarm" will facilitate this. Once in the special attack mode, the character will attempt the maneuver with each successful hit.
If a maneuver is performed successfully the wrestler will automatically go out of their wrestling mode. There is a 10 second delay before the wrestler can perform another move.
While in a wrestling mode, each attempt to perform a maneuver (each hit or miss) will result in a loss of 5 stamina.
The higher a characters wrestling and other skill (anatomy or arms lore), the higher chance they will have to successfully perform the move.
Spellbooks
In order to cast a spell, mages must have their spellbook equipped.
Magic Reflect
The magic reflect spell will be enhanced to provide additional tactical options in player versus player combat. At this time, any spell, regardless of its circle, can be used to counter a magic reflect spell. This results in the same spell (or few spells) being used every time to bring down the reflect. This change will add variety and additional tactical options when fighting a character who has cast magic reflect.

The level of the spell cast on a target will determine the percent chance to bring down the reflect. The more powerful the spell you cast, the better chance you have of defeating the magic reflect spell.
If the spell is not successful in bringing down the magic reflect, the spell will be reflected back to the caster, as under the current system. However, the target will not lose their reflect spell.
If a spell is cast and reflected, the chance for a second spell to bring down the reflect will increase. The percent chance to bring down the reflect is cumulative.
Once a spell is cast that succeeds in bringing down the reflect spell, it will damage the target. This is true even if the first spell cast successfully breaks the reflect.
Once a reflect is broken, there is a 10 second delay before the target can cast reflect again. This will stop players from simply casting magic reflect over and over again.

The power of a reflect spell will also be dependent on the caster's intelligence.
The higher your intelligence, the more powerful your reflect will be. More powerful reflects will be more difficult to bring down, and conversely, weaker reflects (cast by those with lower intelligence) will be easier to bring down.

The mind blast spell will do significant damage to any caster who has this spell reflected onto them. This is to prevent players from simply casting this spell to bring down the reflect, knowing it will do little to no damage to them if it is not successful.
Items of reflection will take 60 seconds to charge.
After equipping a reflect item there will be a 60 second delay before the reflect is active.
This will use only one charge from the item.
The reflect will act in the same manner as if it had been cast by the character wearing the item.
Once the reflect is broken, the wearer must wait 60 seconds before the item will place another reflect spell.

Overall, these change should provide both diversity and enhanced tactics in PvP. We are very interested in hearing what you think about these ideas and invite you to provide us with feedback by clicking here

- Joshua Rowan

This was taken from Stratics, by the way. Sound interesting?

It's Bigger Than the Lot of Us, My Friends

Friday February 4, 2000

You Ask For It, You Got It 3:42pm

Check out this link to UO Chesapeake. Looks like an intershard campaign is starting, a quest of major proportions, similar to the old FoA thing. My opinion: EoT needs to join in on this. Even Lord British has made a rare appearance to talk about it meaning SOMETHING is up, eh? More information as a get it.

Weekend Warriors

Tuesday January 28, 2000

Our Fearless Leader... Only on Weekends 12:17pm

News from the front. Our fearless friend and fellow Knight of the EoT, Lorial, has been declared Leader on weekends. This is primarily because neither Emporer Flint nor his trusty Chancellor Blackmore are usually on during the weekends.

"I would like to know what you think of this. Please ICQ me with your response to it. If I get a lot of bad things, it will not happen. The reason this is happening is so that there is someone that has some control of guild activities when myself and Blackmore are not on (which is mainly weekends and late nights)."

Flint Fireforge,
Emporer of the EoT

End of the Millenium Update

Tuesday December 28, 1999

New In Concept Jank 3:21pm

Sorry for no updates in a while guys. Since the whole fiasco with the bannings, things have been a bit quiet to say the least. Check out the newest "In Concept" news at the UO page. Some interesting stuff, to say the least.

It's a MADHOUSE I tell you! A MADHOUSE!

Friday December 17, 1999

Send in the lawyers 3:11pm
It's lawsuit time!

Bad Aftermaths 12:19pm
I'm sure we've all heard at this point that there was a MASSIVE banning yesterday throughout both the Chesapeake and SP shards, from 200 to as high as 300 individual accounts. Apparently, the group at the center of the ban was that infamous PvPing guild, KoC. Unfortunately, the killing blow managed to catch every damn single person they had ever talked to as well. I've lost a lot of friends who I knew for a fact weren't cheaters and exploiters. This is the only explanation OSI will give:

Hello,

We have recently performed an exhaustive search regarding wide spread use of exploits, Terms of Service violations, and Rules of Conduct violations in our service. All accounts and individuals involved that were discovered in this search have had their accounts suspended. This information was assembled over the period of weeks leading up to today, and the review of what transpired goes back several months.

Several persons on numerous accounts have decided to engage in exploitative activities for some time on multiple shards for personal gain. These exploits ranged from inappropriate character management and advancement to server-wide sharing of game resources gained through exploits. No use of any exploit is acceptable by Origin Systems or by Electronic Arts - once the information was compiled, the immediate necessary action was taken to protect the Ultima Online service.

Your account has been verified to be linked to these exploiters, either by logging into the accounts of the known exploiters or by them logging into yours. In either case, we have positively identified through IP logs, account logs, character records, and other methods that this has happened. Every account that has been associated with those accounts has been removed from the Ultima Online service in an attempt to ensure that these actions and their consequences are completely eliminated.

The closure of this and other implicated accounts was done so with the best interests of Ultima Online and its community in mind. Due to the extreme nature of the exploits, the damage inflicted on the UO community, and the blatant disregard of the Terms of Service and the Rules of Conduct, we feel it necessary to discontinue providing service and doing business with all accounts involved.
Thank you for your time,
Ultima Online Player Relations
Origin Systems, Inc.

Excuse me, I seem to have a bad taste in my mouth now....

No, Your Name is NOT Officially LootMasta!

Thursday December 9, 1999

Bad News For Certain Parties 3:09pm
News report in from UOC concerning name change deeds:

This is from a post from Cal on the COB Crossroads board, concerning name-change deeds...

"They have not been cancelled, they've been put behind more important issues like housing features (both auction and actually being able to place them), monster AI, PvP, expanded lands, etc. Features that will have a much broader and larger influence (and improvement) on the game.

Name Change Deeds were put in In Development, they were never In Testing, nor did we ever give a date for their release. We fully intend to implement them in the future, but they will not be in the near future. As I said, there are other features that are more far reaching and will affect the player base as a whole (such as the ones I mentioned above) that have taken priority at this time. I know some people are disappointed about the delay and I don't blame anyone for that.

My apologies if for some reason this change in priority speaks to my credibility. It's my job here to give you the most up to date information and the reasons behind decisions that we make. I feel that in this case, I have done just that."

-Calandryll
Online Community Coordinator
calandryll@uo.com

Guildmasters Anonymous! Monday December 6, 1999

No, "Buttcake" is NOT a valid name 12:20pm
News from the our Guild Master:

Flint Fireforge is no longer going to be with us, in name that is. I am offering a 5k incentive to come up with a new name for him. I would like to keep it along the same lines, but definitely have Fireforge as the last name. There are just way to many Flints in Brittania and they are all giving me a bad rep that is very hard to overcome. Thank you for your help in this matter. Also, if you can find a name change deed let me know exactly where to buy it please. Do not buy it cause if you did that then I would end up with like 10 or so of them and don't want you to waste your gold on my problem. Thanks again.

Formerly Flint

Support your guild! Buy Moonglowian!

Thursday December 2, 1999

News from Arlyn 3:58pm
Some news from our friend Arlyn concerning cheap guild goods:

Hail all. This is Arlyn, your resident valorite bender just letting you know that I am once again stocking one of my vendors in the Moonglow vendor house. Currently there are 2 vendors there that are restocked. Flint's fishing vendor, and Jacques, my smithing vendor. He is usually stocked with gm exceptional kryss, katana, heaters, archer suits, and 30AR plate. Often there is a colored suit of some sort there too. My house is located about 4 screens north of the moongate, of 7 or so screens out of the south gate. There will soon me openeing a magic weapons vendor. Also, if any of you would like to open a vendor there, let me know. I am looking to put my house back on the map as a good palce to go to buy a variety of things.

Bryan Brook
aka Arlyn of Chesapeake, Grandmaster Smith
aka Tuan of Chesapeake, Grandmaster Adventurer

Olympic Action!

Monday November 22, 1999

Ovak's da Man 1:06pm
A report from the Olympic front:

well, things went pretty good with the paladins battle after a minor problem at first.

things started off very badly, almost made me want to go home. the problem was there was one person there saying the fight was not fair because there was macers in it and he couldnt use poisoned weapons.

Angel decided to take and have the macers fight by themselves to rectify this. i thought it was a bad choice but oh well. i tried to argue to no avail.

we gated to the spot where things would take place. once there, i was first to fight. i made very quick work of this person, then the others fought. keep in mind that macers were not in the fight with the swords (there were no fincers there).

second round come along and i got to fight the first female orc i have seen. didnt take long to finish her off either. with my win in that i took gold medal.

the others fought and got down to one winner. at that point i thought it only fair to have a final fight between the 2 of us to determine who got the gold, instead of both of us fighting.

(this was another lame part of it) i offered to give up my gold medal for a final fight. the other questioned this very hard. he was told that he had nothing to lose cause he would still get a gold no matter what. (thought that was very lame).

he accepted it and we began to fight. i dont know what happened to me, but he hit me the first time and i was at half my str almost. it was all down hill from there. i couldnt hit and he could. took me out kinda fast. i did not yield, i made sure that he took me to the ground. after i was down, someone tried to loot me and angel gladly gave the order to take him down. he did not last long between the corp pors that filled my screen. i mean out of about 20 of us there, i know he got hit with about 15 of them. i gladly collected the belongings he tried to get from me.

lord edward proved he was a better man this day, just wish there was others from the guild there to fight by my side, but i know things come up.

none the less, all in all, i showed that eot was nothing to mess around with.

we now have a medal to prove it, we just need a chest to pin it on now. hehe.

take care all,
Ovak Fireforge

Congratulate Ovak, everybody, bring of fame to the guild! Now we get to see who's going to PK him first to get the silver medal from him....

Neat Toys For the Gals and Boys

Friday November 12, 1999

Try Before You Buy 2:35pm
Here's a nice tool to check when you're about to go hunting. Some of the information is a little out of date but you never know when it could save your life. Plus, if you report your own encounters, maybe it'll save others: UO Chesapeake Criminal Reports.

Lum! Lum! Lum!

Tuesday November 9, 1999

Freakin' Kids 12:38am
Just another warning guys. I'm sure you've heard this millions of times but you never know when it's going to be you. There is a trojan horse copy of UOE going about that has been used to hack accounts. A friend of ours has been a victim: not only did the hacker screw his stuff up, he actually went to the extent of deleting all his characters. So, for God's sake people, don't accept files from anybody you don't REALLY know and run an anti-trojan program every now and then. Here's a good one.

Think Mary Lou! 11:48am
It is my humble suggestion that we all try to support our fellow Olympic athletes who will be fighting for the glory of Magincia (or whatever...) Here is the schedule for those who want to see Max, Losgar, Flint, and others crack some skulls and... um... mine some ore.

Contest Participants Date Time Location

Melee Losgar
Max Carnage
11/8 9pm Jhelom

Mining Flint Fireforge 11/13 9pm Minoc

Smithing Flint Fireforge 11/13 9pm Minoc

Mage Battle Losgar 11/15 9pm Moonglow

Paladin Battle Ovak Fireforge
Max Carnage
Losgar
11/19 9pm Trinsic

Sorry I didn't get this up before the melee event but congrats to Losgar and Max for their accomplishments during that event.

Sorry, No Pr0n For U!

Tuesday November 2, 1999

Old Message Board 3:45pm
Oh yeah, and if you want to check the old message board to make sure you didn't miss anything, it still exists right here: Old EoT Message Board

Axing the Ads 2:47pm
In my humanitarian act for today, we have switched over message boards to one that would allow me to be crueler and meaner (ie. ban the IP addresses of offending emails). Plus, hopefully, it'll make us safe against the pornography advertisements that were getting posted. Stay tuned for more details (no, not more details about the pornography)!

Upon Further Stroking My Ego....

Thursday October 21, 1999

I'm a Professional Writer! I'm a Professional Writer! 3:08pm
Hey gang! I got my first article put up on UO-Chessie so I guess that means I'm super cool. You guys should check it out, mainly because I put it up there (no, I didn't write it) and partially because it's an example of what's going on in that little world of ours that we fondly call UO-Hell.

Work for the Webmeister

Wednesday October 20, 1999

"I Work Hard For No Money...." 2:56pm
Okay, I've spent a rather entertaining day putting this website back together so that we can access all the stuff we used to have fun bragging about. The plan is still to eventually migrate to UO-Guilds but, for now, I wanted to have something to work with.

On the other hand, the Mets lost so I'm probably going to set fire to something now. I suppose it ended rather poetically but, frankly, I prefer the poetry of a World Series ring on Bobby Valentine's hand.

Also, if anybody does write a nice story/take pictures of a dungeon type adventure, feel free to turn them in. Everything currently on this site will transfer to the new one no matter how different I make it. So, let's hear about your adventures. Or burn.

I'm da Man

Tuesday October 19, 1999

Power Trippin' 3:57pm
Okay guys, time for you to deal with this: I'm the new webmaster, the mouth of EoT. I love power. It's me, Gayde Rylock, by the way. First news of the minute is that I'm probably going to move this webpage over to the UO-Guilds network because Tripod seems to be a bit flakey. This should happen over the next few weeks. I've already applied for the address www.eot.uoguilds.com but you never know when that's gonna happen.

Among the more interesting news, the Tournament of Really Butch EoT Guys has finally ended and, that's right, I died. But, among the many finishes:

Max Carnage kicked everybody's butt and is now the General of EoT.
Ovak Fireforge kicked everybody's butt except Max's and is our Marshall.
Rock Vanderbashe of the Famous Vanderbashes is now known as Captain Rock.
Finally, Shaka-Zulu, who so firmly planted his spear directly into my kidney, is our Lieutenant until the point at which somebody tells me the correct spelling of "Lieutenant".

Finally, I would like to link to myself.

Tournament Stuff

Friday October 1, 1999

Update! 7:30pm
Remember that I told you that the people would start building up piles of garbage since the announcement of the ticket system? Well, look this fragment that was posted recently in the FYI section of the Update Center:

During the two weeks the Ticket System is active on the shards (scheduled to begin October 4th) we will be stepping up our efforts to stop people who macro unattended. 7

Well, OSI finally realised this and they want people to be scared so they don't do it.
Also, the In Developement section was updated with LOTS of stuff. Thanks to Jinx for the heads-up, a Proxy Server Cache issue did not reveal this great information to me when I checked... Some of the changes are clearily Exploit fixes... please go read them and let me know what the exploits were... (hey, I'm no exploiter! I stopped Duping when OSI published the Amnesty thing much more than a year ago!)
One of the fixes inludes a one-time chance for changing your character's name! Jesus! The world must be coming to an end. This has been asked for since (or earlier than) UO beta test phase two!

It's official. The tournament will end next Friday October 8, 1999 at exactly 8:00pm EoT standard time. (that means Flint's Casio wristwatch). At that moment, all combatants of the fights which are still undecided will be automatically disqualified. That means you have to find the time to fight. Also, you will have to start pushing the ones who have to fight so your pending fight can take place. Please contact your opponent and the Guild council members.
When the Tournament is over, the Guild military rankings will be assigned. Also, it's very likely be starting a 'Challenge' process, where you will be able to challenge the holders of these rankings. Details on this will be published soon.

The good patch, the bad patch and the ugly patch

Thursday September 30, 1999

Update 3:30pm
Today another fight took place. This one was between Lorail and Gayde Rylock. Gayde got the upper hand on a close margin... our newer recruits are showing more power! So these are the current standings:

Latest fight at Cove healers

Viento del Lago

Zephan Zyan

Ovak Fireforge

Zephan Zyan

Ovak Fireforge

Gayde Rylock

Sizzlin

Promethium Kryxx

Rock Vanderbashe

Promethium Kryxx

Rock Vanderbashe

Lorial

Max Carnage

Fish-Girl

Losgar

Shaka-Zulu

Viento del Lago

Shaka-Zulu

Gayde Rylock

Lorial

Update! 2:00pm
Well. I will change my wish-list somewhat.
First, it seems confirmed, locked down containers won't retain their contents. But, They seem to be *planning* to increase the number of secure container options and to allow stackables to be locked down. That's nice, heck, that's even better than the locked down containers thing I was after. Let's see what the heck "planning" means this time... My worry is, they have about 5 days to plan, design, implement and test. If that time is not enough then it will most surely be enough to ... well ... create total player base havoc... (the exact name for what will happen is not sutiable for all audiences)
Now, regarding to the most asked questions: "Whose fault? Why me? Why now? Can I go to the bathroom?"... Well, its definitely OSI's fault. They should have known, something similar to this should have been implemented YEARS ago. Real-life years, in Britannian years its like 300 years ago? more?
They tried once, but got scared as hell of the player base, that was the housing maintenance. They also have implemented very recently, changes that actually PROMOTE garbage hoarding in the houses floor... for example... fishing and treasure hunting. You get tons of useless items along with the cool ones. Is it the player's fault? well, I would say no. Those people who have their houses full to the ceiling with wooden shields of defense are just playing by the rules.
Regarding to the ticket system that will allegedly award the garbage collectors, I would say that a very high percentage of us are garbage collectors. And Im almost sure it even includes Lum, Jinx and Calandryll (if he still plays). Heck, even LadyMOI must have been "one of us" when she remembered what was the name of the Guild she was in. Imagine this... Gordon the Tyrant^TM playing that-crappy-game-he-was-in-before-UO carring a sh*tload of items on his backpack.
Now, even if it is not our fault, we should not whine... it's obvious these steps are on the right direction. I'm sure that after the dust settles (lets just hope the tornado goes away someday soon) Britannia will be much more lag-free and the timewarps will be much less of an issue.

Phase I of the now called "Cleanup Britannia" campaign will start real soon, as soon as October 4. Read about it. Did you read it? Cool huh? Wait!
First read about Phase II and III. Read that? Scared already? Me too.
Now read what Lum has to say about it. Lum: the update says locked down items, not locked down containers and their contents. I have not read what Jinx has to say because he does not update from home. I will surely go read it tomorrow!
What I have to say is, well, I will most probably have my UO back up and running BEFORE Oct. 4. And I will be busy as hell locking down and/or arranging/sorting items (read my personal and valuable garbage) VERY NEARBY my trash barrel.
I will also be ranting CONTINUOUSLY in favor of making locked down containers and THEIR CONTENTS so that they don't decay... what I read only included the locked down items themselves. I will be asking a lot about OSI clarifying what is the current item count on servers and their target for item count on the servers. So that they justify such strict rules.
I will also be laughing hard in the faces of people who were crying about the house maintenance plans that never got into the game... or will that be sobbing? I dont know yet.
And I will also be praying so that you (yeah, You. No, dont look away, its really YOU!) post in our humble message board all of your thoughts and comments on this issue. What are you waiting for? An invitation?
Now, what you should do (besides posting like crazy in the msg board) is keep coming back, because I shall bring more! Did I mention that you should post in our message board?

Tickets, Prizes and the Document that caused Hatred

Wednesday September 29, 1999

OSI has (or had) plans on publishing changes that will promote the players to lower the number of objects in Britannia. This is to lower lag, improve on the timewarp problems, improve on the server stability issues, improve chances of getting laid (less lag=you get more l33t), etc. Read more about it here and here.
These changes inlcude the transformation of trash cans and barrels into 'ticket' spitting beasts for a limited time. These tickets will give you the ability to obtain very cool items while you clean your house. The more tickets the cooler the items you will get.
That is interesting enough, however, DrTwit got a document supposedly intended for counselors. In this document we can read more details than we were supposed to know, so OSI, or at least Calandryll did not become happier people.
My comments on these matters are, well, this ticket thing is supposed to lower the amount of garbage in Britannia. But they seem to have plans for this to be a temporary thing. If it works, it will be great for a couple of months, then the world will be filled with garbage again in no time. This (or whatever they decide to implement to control item count) must be PERMANENT so the garbage wont start piling up again. Also, this ticket thing will get a lot of people mad, because people already started switching to garbage-piling-mode and the more lag-creating-garbage you currently have, the cooler items you will get. Expect lag to become increasinlgy bad in the following weeks 'till patch day.
Another thing is, the 'item decay' change they are thinking of putting up and of which we have no real details of. This will make even MORE people mad. If the whole scheme works on permanently cleaning Britannia of 60-70% of the garbage that we currently have, they gave my green light on that. Heck, it could even mean that we gain 1+ hours of gameplay daily because the backups will take much less time, and this also means lower timewarps.
More info on these matters will follow, so stay tuned.

Tournament and Jealousy

Tuesday September 28, 1999

The Tournament standings were updated. Check the current standings:
Important! We urge you to try to make time AND contact either your opponent and/or the Guild authorities so the remaining fights take place. Otherwise, we *might* be forced to find alternate ways of deciding the outcome of the guild standing dispute.

Viento del Lago

Zephan Zyan

Ovak Fireforge

Zephan Zyan

Ovak Fireforge

Gayde Rylock

Sizzlin

Promethium Kryxx

Rock Vanderbashe

Promethium Kryxx

Rock Vanderbashe

Lorial

Max Carnage

Fish-Girl

Losgar

Shaka-Zulu

Viento del Lago

Shaka-Zulu

Gayde Rylock

Lorial

Second Round

Battle Not Fought Yet

Winner

Undecided

These are the color codes for the table. Note: Come back often to check out the current standings!

Also, Dr. Twister is posting lots about UO2. Most of the UO rant sites are ranting about Dr Twister getting the info... the only question is if what he is posting is not just a bunch of lies.

Lots going on

Friday September 24, 1999

Aye, lots, get ready for lots of web link clickin'...
OSI finally decided to announce what everyone else knew, UO2 is already on the works. Nearly all of the other pages have news about it. The most interesting tidbit (what is a tidbit anyway?) that I picked up was that both Raph Koster (aka Designer Dragon) and Lord British (aka Richard Garriott) are apparently not directly related to the project. My hopes of getting Ultima-series fiction in any edition of UO are vanishing quickly. Also, the release date for the external testing period (when we get to play almost free... I hope) should start sometime next year. Well, just make sure you join the mailing list at the UO2 official website, I beleive it will be kind of a heads-up for getting into the upcoming testing program.
More news, there a very interesting Post Patch Mini-Update (I�m going to start marketing the acronym: PPMU, remember, you saw it here first. The interesting part is the freebie items that will appear in our pack when we log on. Just be sure you get in before Oct. 4!
Also, at the UOHoC website, the latest, entirely uninteresting, chat log with the UO Dev team. Well, it was not really the dev team, it was some guy whose name I already forgot who claims to be a new dev team member. Ah, Calandryll (was that correctly spelled?) was also attending... Since he revealed that his boss is actually LadyMOI his popularity has been somewhat on the decline.
Even more news: cdmag.com published lots of information regarding Ultima IX: Ascension. Check out the leads here, here and here. I do not know why I am posting links to their website since thet havent sent me my prize on the Ultima memory contest. :P
Also, I received an email from Calandryll himself (ah, I forgot. no biggie), regarding Ultima-fiction in UO. Read the details here.
I also put up the picture of Eric on the Members page.
And to finish the link spree, read this sad story.

Family Pictures

Wednesday September 22, 1999

Yeah, I finally put up a page with pictures of the new Baby. As a throwaway I also put up some family pictures too. Since the baby frenzy hasnt really ended yet, expect more pictures up soon. :)
Now, to the news. Today, it's patch day. You prolly already know that by now tho. Let God help us all.
And on to more important stories, Sierra On-Line in another move that gives hints on exactly how much they STILL suck, dropped the Middle-Earth Massive Multiplayer ORPG project based on Tolkien's fantasy. They also apparently fired most or all of the ME Dev staff. Read more about these news here and here.

Dating a Gamer

Thursday September 7, 1999

I found these news on the web (well, actually a friend sent the link to me, i'm lazy). I noticed the obvious relevance in our current lives and I decided that It was a must-post. So, here it is. Enjoy!
Regarding to UO... well, there has been news about bannings, exploits and why we get this horrible lag and get disconnected every short while.

EoT Tournament Results

Monday September 6, 1999

Over the weekend, some of the fights on the EoT tournament continued to take place. Here are the current standings:

Viento del Lago

Zephan Zyan

Ovak Fireforge

Zephan Zyan

Ovak Fireforge

Gayde Rylock

Sizzlin

Promethium Kryxx

Rock Vanderbashe

Promethium Kryxx

Rock Vanderbashe

Lorial

Max Carnage

Fish-Girl

Losgar

Shaka-Zulu

Viento del Lago

Shaka-Zulu

Gayde Rylock

Lorial

Second Round

Battle Not Fought Yet

Winner

Undecided

These are the color codes for the table. Note: Come back often to check out the current standings!

If you are on this table, and you have a fight scheduled with someone, please try to inquiry either your Guild Master (or nearest guild council member), or your opponent (or both) so the fight can take place as soon as possible.
Also, dont forget to tell your friends to come and visit our humble web page, the web visits are on a decline. At first I thought it was because of the lack of updates, but I've been working hard to get them back to more than daily. Comments welcome.

Earthquake at Cove

Saturday September 4, 1999

Today a terrible earthquake took place just in front of Cove entrance. This earthquake moved several houses and apparently spat up the pieces of others! Don't beleive me? LOOK!

Whiplash and the Quake's remains. Notice the perplexed look on her eyes.

Get fresh air, said the doctor. But this is way too much!

Easy Transport

Thursday September 2, 1999

Hello. I am still mad because nobody cares to put any form of Ultima-series fiction in UO. So I decided to put up a link to this "tip" on how to easily transport large amounts of raw materials quickly. :)
And no, that was not just an excuse to post a link to this kind of tip.

Old News

Wednesday September 1, 1999