Publish Notes from 2004-10-27

Publish 27 Update 2

On October 27, 2004, the following was published:

Today, October 27th, 2004 we will be publishing all shards with the Ultima Online: Samurai Empire launch preparation code. This publish will take approximately 3 hours and take place during the scheduled maintenance window and for each shard as follows:

• 27 October 10:00 AM PDT - publish Chesapeake, Atlantic, Catskills, Siege Perilous, Legends, Great Lakes
• 27 October 11:00 AM PDT- publish Lake Austin, Baja, Sonoma, Pacific
• 27 October 2:00 PM PDT - publish Oceania
• 27 October 4:00 PM PDT - publish Yamato, Izumo, Wakoku, Hokuto, Mizuho, Mugen, Sakura
• 27 October 5:00 PM PDT - publish Arirang, Balhae, Formosa
• 27 October 9:00 PM PDT - publish Europa, Drachenfels

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with items that gave a HP Regeneration bonus to cause players' strength to drop to 10 after crossing server lines
• Fixed an issue with boats related to optimization changes made to the server
• Fixed a Weight issue involving purchasing Gargoyle Stone Mining and Stone Crafting Books
• Fix for the Japanese text guild search client crash
• Fix for the stuck gump window
• Fixed Night Sight
• Can now recall out of Ilshenar
• Pets no longer highlight oRange
• Fixed Luna guard zones
• Fixed guild war status

Feature additions and changes

• Honor Virtue System was added
• The new Guild System has been introduced:
  • A “Guild” button has been added to the paperdoll
  • Can also access the new guild system by typing the word “guilds”
  • A new guild interface has been introduced to enhance guilds and provide greater accessibility
  • Legacy guild stones are now deedable items
  • Guilds can now form alliances with other guilds
  • The Guild interface now displays when members were last on
  • Guilds now cost 25,000 to gold to be created
  • Vendors no longer sell guild deeds but will still buy them back
  • Legacy guilds have been converted into the new guild system at no additional cost
  • Chaos and Order system have been removed
  • Added a guild alliance system
  • Guilds can now set different ranks, each with their own levels of permission, to guild members
  • A new guild election system has been introduced
  • Guild wars can now be declared using length of time or number of kills as their victory conditions
  • Guild security settings have been added to the housing system
• Faction System has had some minor modifications made to it:
  • Insurance costs have been lowered from their current cost when a player dies to a faction enemy
  • Sigil corruption time is now 10 hours. The grace period is now 30 minutes
  • The sigil carrier hueing system was improved
  • Any player can now resurrect their own war horse
  • Skilled animal tamers will now resurrect pets with more starting health
  • Various minor bugfixes
• The Stealth Skill has been changed:
  • Entering and training Stealth will now only require 50.0 skill in Hiding instead of the previous 80.0
  • Hidden players with enough skill in Stealth will now attempt to auto-stealth once they begin to walk
  • Players can now run in stealth, but doing so increases the chances that players will come out of stealth
  • Monsters will retain knowledge of hidden players and attempt to find players that hide while in view of the monster
  • Poison damage will no longer reveal hidden players