House of Commons from 2001-03-08

House of Commons from 2001-03-08

Prescient	Good evening everyone, thank you for coming to tonight's Ultima Online open house. This Stratics House of Commons chat is a direct connection between you the players and the designers and programmers of Ultima Online.
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Prescient	Enjoy tonight's chat...the topic is "Ultima Online: Third Dawn"
Prescient	Please message Danciy, ender, Kehleyr, or Mag with your questions
Prescient	*Shadow* Why has all the armor and weapons on LS that are very old and have the original makers mark lost their markings with yesterdays publish and when will it be fixed?
FierYiCe	This is a known problem and we are planning on addressing it as soon as possible.
Prescient	*Klaitu* Are these the final version of the paperdoll we'll be seeing when UO3D is out of beta?
Runesabre	We are still evaluating the paperdoll. We've been monitoring the feedback to the paperdoll changes very closely in the past couple weeks.
Prescient	*Lord-Xanthor_CV* The new Unicorns being introduced into the game, why is it only females can ride them? WOuldnt it be more fair for anyone with tameing to? It wouldnt have been a problem had the origional plans came out for changing names or sex of a character but since thats no longer happening, many have no chance of ever riding one =(
Runesabre	We felt adding gender diversity would be a nice addition with Third Dawn. Females can ride Unicorns while Males can ride Ki-rins so both genders have something unique.
Prescient	*Serip_Droman* will all the changes be added to sp execpt for the new lands?
Runesabre	Yes most of the changes with the latest updates will be added to Siege Perilous except those that require Ilshenar.
Prescient	*Tristam* How similar will the ruleset in Ilshner be to the rule set in Trammel in reguards to PvP? Will it be consent only, or will members of the interest team be allowed to make "'ber-monsters" there?
Calandryll	With regards to seers and monsters, we'll probably have the same rules as we have for Trammel since PvP there is consent only.
Calandryll	Which means seers wont be playing monsters in Ilshenar
Prescient	LC* What are the Unicorns and the Ki-rins equal to, by fighting standards?
Melantus	the players should find out through experience how strong the new monsters are, or via word of mouth from fellow adventurers :)
Prescient	*Lord-Xanthor_CV* With the patching happening, most of the high level maps are no longer spawning on monsters. Dragons, daemans, etc etc. Are they planning on correcting this or increasing the map spawn? Doing maps are needed for skill gains now to gm skills.
FierYiCe	The chances for getting those maps has not changed. The odds are still as low as they were before the patch.
Prescient	*Azlen* Will the "walking on ice" effect many of the monsters exhibit be fixed soon?
Runesabre	We are working to resolve these types of animation issues.
Prescient	*mangina* With this patch, alot of blackholes and client crashes are happening to certain players, leaving them helpless for hours. When can we expect a update to fix this?
Runesabre	The blackholing issues have been resolved already. We have also resolved the latest client crashes with last night's and today's patch
Runesabre	If you are still experiencing crashes please send me the details and what version of the client you are running.
Prescient	*Zophar* actually my question is will there be large areas of land for sailing in the new world
Runesabre	There will not be any boats allowed in Ilshenar.
Prescient	*Lag* We've heard that Unicode has to be enabled because of 3rd Dawn. Is there any work being done to correct the problem with being unable to "hear" unicode speach in large crowds and if so what is the time estimate?
Runesabre	We are working to resolve the issues with unicode speech. We have already partially fixed the issue with the latest updates and will refine unicode speech to behave properly and not hinder communication.
Prescient	*Gilthas-UOHoC* When UO:TD is released, will the player have the option to switch back to the old style gumps from the 2D client? Such as the chests, backpacks, and pouch graphics? Many have expressed dislike with the current "drone" look of the boxy backpacks and chest gumps (including myself). Also, will the option to have their origional opening sounds enabled as well?
Runesabre	No, the Third Dawn client will not have the option to display the old 2D interface.
Prescient	*Shiel* Will there be volunteer support in Ilshenar?
Melantus	we expect there shouldnt be a problem with this
Prescient	*WillScottII* Can you give us any information about the upcoming changes to spawn that Melantus hinted at not long ago?
Melantus	no, another thing for players to discover :)
Melantus	Of course we wouldnt let you get too frustrated about it, and could give hints. we shall see.
Prescient	*elf-cv* I have a voodoo3 video card. Is there any progress being made concerning compatibility with the 3d client?
Runesabre	Yes there is good progress in addressing the performace issues with Third Dawn and Voodoo3 as well as other similiar video cards.
Prescient	*RSC-M_Zax[Central]* Will youngs be allowed in Ilshenar?
FierYiCe	Yes. :)
Prescient	*Gorthaur* Will there be fixes to the coloring issues? I logged onto a normal shard using the 3D client, and the colors for many items were off. Furnature was dyed the wrong color, daemon bone armor was green! Will this be fixed?
Runesabre	Please send us screenshots, what version of the THird Dawn client you are using, machine specs, video card info so we can check out if there are problems.
Prescient	*Videric[-C-]* Current Avatar size is 1.3, but have you considered 1.4 or even 1.5? It is currently about the same as 2d figure, but 3d figures are a lot thinner, especially the females.
Runesabre	We are evaluating what a good scaling factor is for the human avatars.
Prescient	LC* Are the problems with the ground tiles part of the voodoo 3 complications?
Runesabre	Please be sure to post all issues you are having on our <a href="http://boards.uo.com/cgi-bin/wwwthreads.pl" target="_blank">Beta Third Dawn boards</a>. We monitor those boards daily to gather issues. Your feedback and bug reports are extremely valuable to us.
Prescient	*RSC-M_Zax[Central]* Does UO:TD work with win2k yet? Or will it ever be supported?
Runesabre	Win2K is not officially supported. I have heard many players have it working on that platform, nonetheless.
Prescient	*Lord-Xanthor_CV* When it was stated last UOHOC about not being able to recall or gate in the new lands. Is this refering to going back and forth to the other facets or will people be able to mark in the new lands and be able to recall or gate to spots in the new lands once they are there?
FierYiCe	You will not be able to mark, recall, or gate in the new lands.
Prescient	*[E]psycho* hello...Will there be a way to upgrade more than one account so you dont have to buy several Third dawn pacatches?
Calandryll	Even if you have multiple accounts, you'll only need one Third Dawn CD.
Prescient	*Videric[-C-]* What are the top issues with UO3d in Devteams point of view right now?
Runesabre	1) Mouse Performance
Runesabre	2) Framerate
Runesabre	3) Framerate
Runesabre	4) framerate
Runesabre	Oh, and framerate. :)
Calandryll	Before we close, I wanted to say we got quite a few questions from volunteers about Ilshenar
Calandryll	and volunteer issues. I would advise you to ask your volunteer coordinator about those questions directly.
Prescient	Well, that is the end of the chat for this evening. On behalf of Stratics, I'd like to thank the Dev Team for coming and answering questions.
Runesabre	Good night, Britannia!
Melantus	thanks all!
Hanse	Mongbats still scare me. It won't be a good night with them around.