https://wiki.stratics.com/index.php?title=UO:House_of_Commons_from_2003-11-06&feed=atom&action=historyUO:House of Commons from 2003-11-06 - Revision history2024-03-29T12:33:03ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.33.1https://wiki.stratics.com/index.php?title=UO:House_of_Commons_from_2003-11-06&diff=254508&oldid=prevBrianFreud: Created page with "={{PAGENAME}}= __TOC__ {| |- style="vertical-align:top;" |<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||Greetings and thank you for attending tonight's Ultima Online House of Comm..."2017-02-02T15:53:41Z<p>Created page with "={{PAGENAME}}= __TOC__ {| |- style="vertical-align:top;" |<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||Greetings and thank you for attending tonight's Ultima Online House of Comm..."</p>
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|<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||Greetings and thank you for attending tonight's Ultima Online House of Commons Chat.<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||Tonight's chat is focusing on "Publish 21 and General Discussion"<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||I will be our moderator for this evening.<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||In order to submit questions please /msg or /query [QT]Exile or [QT]Aeiedil. Please /msg different question-takers at different times, in order to balance the load and speed this process up. Do not msg anyone from Dev. Team or myself. These questions will be ignored.<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||Remember that the Dev. Team may not have the opportunity to answer all of your questions. In addition, some questions may not be answered if the Dev Team feel that it is not appropriate or that it has been better answered through some other question.<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||The log of this chat will later be posted on http://uo.stratics.com so be sure to tell your friends if they missed it.<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||We'll start with a quick introduction from everyone, we'll then begin accepting questions.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Vex</font>||Howdy! I'm Vex, designer on the UO Live team. My current responsibilies revolve around the live updates that comprise our six-week publish cycle.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Sannio</font>||I'm Sannio, of OSI's Community Relations team.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||I'm MrTact and I'm the lead server programmer. My team and I work on the six-week publish cycle, also, as well as . . . other stuff<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Aeryn</font>||Heya, I'm Aeryn, Quality Assurance tester.<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||Reminder: In order to submit questions please /msg or /query [QT]Exile or [QT]Aeiedil.<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||(C_Adragonia_LS) SunSword mentioned before about some changes or rewards that vets would like; any word on what these might be yet?<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Vex</font>||Nothing specific that we've been given permission to speak about yet. It'll be cool, I promise. :) And we won't keep sitting on it for too long, either...<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||Megalon: Have you decided what will replace UBWS on bows?<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||Well we were hoping to make it a surprise . . .<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||But since it's taking bloody forever to get around to doing it<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||It will most likely be reduced ammo use, as some people have speculated.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||That's not firmly decided yet, but that would be the property that those of us who have discussed it like.<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||(Rex) A fix for the archery crash bug was promised for Publish 21 but I do not see it on the list of fixes. Are we doomed to crash endlessly for another six weeks?<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Aeryn</font>||I was just talking to Fertbert today about this issue having seen multiple threads on it again.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Aeryn</font>||We have not been able to reproduce the crasher in house as of yet, not for lack of trying.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Aeryn</font>||Fertbert asked that you PM him via Stratics your Windows crash log to see if he can narrow done what may be causing it.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Aeryn</font>||So that we can get a reproduceable test case.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Aeryn</font>||The crash log can be found in Windows xp by running the eventvwr.exe from the command window.<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||<Punk_Brad> Can you clarify what you mean by this: 'Monsters that are under the influence of Peacemaking now have a chance of breaking out when they are hit.' Seeing as monsters already break peace or have the chance to<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Vex</font>||It means the chance is actually increased with Pub 21. Peacemaking was making it possible to totally dominate very powerful monsters. It was never intended to do that.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Vex</font>||It was supposed to help provide crowd control and make monsters easier to fight -- not make them total pushovers. :)<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Vex</font>||The Pub 21 changes increase the monster's chance to break out of peacemaking when it takes damage.<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||(Neth) Houses have been falling this week. Was this intended or a glitch? It seems that all grandfathered houses on inactive accounts were the victims.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||Yes that was not as intended.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||Many accounts were impacted by the insidious "failing to renew" bug in our old billing system right before we converted<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||Therefore, they showed up as deactivated in the new billing system.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||As a consequence, when we got 10 days past when we turned on phase 3, their houses started getting set inactive, just as you would expect.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||We have tracked down these accounts, &amp; fixed the states of their houses in game<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">DevilHimself</font>||SirFist: It was mentioned that enhancing will be effected by skill but I do not see it on list pub pub 21 changes. Will this be in pub 21 or not?<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||The root problem seems to be that these people are still able to log in for some reason, so they have no way of knowing the billing system thinks they are suspended.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||Hey hey!<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||:-(<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||So<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||Anyone experiencing housing weirdness, PLEASE go to the billing website &amp; make sure your account is active.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||(I promise, this will be the LAST time you have to do this!)<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Sannio</font>||And while you're there please make sure your account information is up to date (e-mail, etc.).<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">DevilHimself</font>||SirFist: It was mentioned that enhancing will be effected by skill but I do not see it on list pub pub 21 changes. Will this be in pub 21 or not?<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Sannio</font>||There's a few additions that need to be added to the Pub21 write-up in UO.com's Update Center. I'm working on an update. Hopefully it'll be done by tomorrow, but perhaps more likely it'll be fully up to speed by next week.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Sannio</font>||(If I didn't answer your specific question about enhancing, it's because I don't have those Pub21 notes in front of me. ;)<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">DevilHimself</font>||Nadia: In the IanStorm chat it was mentioned that TC was an early version of Pub 21 but a few days later Hanse mentioned that the (then) current TC was no longer a publish 21 shard, what's currently on Test Center and if it's not Pub 21 when might we see a Pub 21 TC?<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Aeryn</font>||The test center currently has the code that recently went worldwide that fixed legacy boxed up vendors. I will inquire tommorrow about getting it published with Pub21 so you can test it out.<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">DevilHimself</font>||(Aedilwulf) When can we expect the long promised fix to guildstones? Where do these stand on OSI's priority list?<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Vex</font>||Right now their priority is medium-high. Guildstone fixes are likely to be scheduled into one of the upcoming few six-week publishes.<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||Flukey: There are rumors that faster casting is going to be capped...as well as rumors of an artifact cap per person...are either of these true?<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Vex</font>||I don't think we're planning to do either. It's possible we might put a limitation on the maximum possible speed a spell could be cast with, to slightly slow down the ability to rapid-fire magic arrow.<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||Rosey: Have been reading forums on scammers etc and there was a point raised that the trade window could be updated to have a white background so as to decrease the number of black bag overweight/item scams..is this going to be taken into consideration?<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||If you play with a fully-patched up client, you will note that we have done a change in the spirit of that already.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||BG is not white, but patterns, so hopefully no more black bag scams.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||First of several anti-scam fixes that are rolling out with pub 21.<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||(Thez) Enhancing of bows :) Whats the word on this? It was mentioned way back - but We haven't seen it yet?<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Vex</font>||This is something we definitely want to do. Right now we don't have any solid plans on exactly when, though.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Vex</font>||Sorry I can't be more informative. :(<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||Khyronkt: Scripts? are they going to be somehow fixed soon? if possible<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Vex</font>||One thing we're going to try to focus on for our Pub 22 efforts is reducing/eliminating the ability to automate certain key tasks.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Vex</font>||I plan on starting a discussion thread on the Stratics boards about it tomorrow morning.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Vex</font>||One thing we've talked about is basically making automatic corpse looting and loot splitting a feature of the game.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Vex</font>||We've also brainstormed some ideas to stop automated mining...<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||([PoVal]Asmodan) what is in your minds to be done so that you draw old uo players back into the game?<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||Hmmmm<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||Ve haff . . . many plans . . .<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||ZECRET plans . . .<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||of vhich I can tell you . . . NUSSINK<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||MOO-ha ha ha<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||Achilles: Question: You mentioned that certain skill problems on siege had been 'Verified'. Does this mean fixed and what about the skills not mentioned (Resist for one)?<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||Sorry, slipped a little "QA-speak" into the post<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||I blame Sannio :-)<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||What that means is, the bug has been verified as being fixed by QA<br />
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| ||<font color="dda0dd">* Sannio makes faces behind MrTact *</font><br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||Resist is another of the skills in that same category . . . you should find that all those skills will gain over 100.0 after pub 21<br />
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| ||<font color="dda0dd">* MrTact doesn't really blame Sannio, he just said that to be funny *</font><br />
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| ||<font color="dda0dd">* Sannio weeps openly at his humiliation *</font><br />
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|<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||(LeonK) Could you explain in abit more detail the changes to BODs in Publish 21?<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Vex</font>||Basically what it means is that Smith BOD rewards will be a bit less random.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Vex</font>||For example, for each completed deed, there will be only one, maybe two, possible rewards.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Vex</font>||Also, it will become slightly easier to get Smith power scrolls and slightly more difficult to get Tailoring power scrolls.<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||(Sphyr) Test Center has eased the requirements for Wrestling Special moves, yet Pub21 doesn't mention these. Are the Wrestling improvements included?<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Sannio</font>||Actually, if I recall correctly, that's one of the notes that will be added to the Pub21 list with my next update.<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||(defddd) when will i not get caught on twigs? :(<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||Well, given that our last change to blocking terrain totall came back to bite us on the butt, probably never<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||Not until such a time as we might make massive sweeping changes to the map, anyway, should such an improbability ever occur<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||Nevyn: Will Powder of Fortification be added as a tailoring BOD reward?<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Vex</font>||Probably not. I see it as something impossible to balance with Smith BODs.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Vex</font>||By that I mean, either the Smith deed or the Tailoring deed will make it easier to get the powder.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Vex</font>||For all practical purposes, then, it might as well only be part of the reward list for the easier skill.<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||Megalon: A while back it was mentioned that you may be implementing something to help us compete with speed hackers. Is this likely to be done soon?<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||This was originally planned for pub 21.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||We currently log speedhackers, but they are not in a very useful format for GMs, so they only rarely bust speedhackers.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||The plan is to make that information more prominent so the GMs will have an easier time policing that activity.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||This will almost certainly appear in a publish coming soon to a shard near you.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||The GMs are chomping at the bit to start busting people for this, so I want us to get it in ASAP.<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||Nevyn: Will the "no recalling into castle courtyards" fix prevent placement of castles where there would be a tree in the courtyard (this is currently possible)? And what was the reason for this "fix"?<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Vex</font>||No, it won't change how terrain interacts with castles at all.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Vex</font>||The reason for the fix is to protect both castle owners and everyone else.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Vex</font>||You won't have to worry about random people bypassing bans or private status if they happen to have a rune for your courtyard<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Vex</font>||Also, you won't be able to reverse-gate strangers into the castle for some nefarious purpose.<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||<Bob2000> Care to drop a hint on any possible future expansions currently in the works? :)<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Sannio</font>||Nope!<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||Already did . . .<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Fertbert</font>||We will be expanding our waistlines with the lack of exercise that accompanies crunch-time development activity.<br />
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| ||<font color="dda0dd">* Sannio laughs *</font><br />
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|<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||Mordeath: Whats the status on character transfer between shards?<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">MrTact</font>||We have completed requirements gathering &amp; design. We are currently in technical design review &amp; are beginning construction.<br />
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|<font color="dc143c">Wolfgang</font>||I would like to thank everyone for attending tonights Ultima Online House of Commons Chat! The logs of tonighst chat will be found later tonight over at http://uo.stratics.com.<br />
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|<font color="4682b4">Fertbert</font>||Thanks all! <br />
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