Publish Notes from 2004-10-27

Publish Notes from 2004-10-27

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

This publish includes the following 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