Posted by Draconi_EA UO Lead Designer on Stratics

~ Publish 52 ~

This is a full list of public changes we've made in this publish,
including more details about the turn-ins and events coming up.
This information may change during the course of testing as we
make some adjustments.


Contents:


* Scenario 1: War of Shadows

* Faction Updates

* House Placement Changes

* Spring Cleaning 2008

* New Music

* General Fixes

* Testing Guidelines



Stay tuned for announcements! We'll be doing public tests for IDOCs and more!

Tim "Draconi" Cotten -
UO Lead Designer -
EA Mythic

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lick the above link, or go to UOHerald for full list

The housing changes still need a lot of work. If they were expecting Publish 52 to go in by the weekend players are going to get really disappointed. This could have been avoided if the changes were detailed a couple weeks ago. As it stands house blocking is still possible and Luna houses will still go to scripters.

That's unfortunate.

What is also unfortunate is the recycled CRAP they will be giving out for the long anticipated "turn-in"......GUARD SASHES for criminy sake???

Link doesn't work for me... all I got was slobber all over the monitor.

*looks puzzled*...hmm works ok for me .I just tried it from your quote.

Try this link instead

*Updated [ already!!]*

Cocoa trees are where? asks Melina Havelock

Ah... moved to a later publish. *runs for it*

Tim "Draconi" Cotten -
UO Lead Designer -
EA Mythic

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Velvathos nearly had kittens when he read through the Publish notes

Wait, wait, per account or per shard? I hope you mean per shard....

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Right, account per shard. I've updated the notes above. Thanks!

Account can be in Shadowlords on Pacific, and Minax on Atlantic, but can't be in both factions on one shard.
Restrictions by account are only on the same server.

Tim "Draconi" Cotten -
UO Lead Designer -
EA Mythic

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Update #1:

* Points and reward scales readjusted, please take a look through the list again.
* Added info about rations and snake skins spawning on regular Ophidians from now on



Tim "Draconi" Cotten -
UO Lead Designer -
EA Mythic

Update #2

* Added info to house resizing
o Added confirmation window before resizing
o Owner needs to stand beneath house sign
o Warnings about items dropping, grandfathered house condemning
* Fixed bug where it was building houses on top of people and objects instead of pushing them away properly
* House placement tool will be smarter about tracking house placement attempts

These updates will be available in the next TC publish.

Tim "Draconi" Cotten -
UO Lead Designer -
EA Mythic

sablestorm asked

In regards to the housing tool, I'm concerned about the cool down period. I know when I'm house placing, I'll start with 7x7s to try and mark off corners for a larger plot. If this is going to require more waiting time, it is going to be very annoying for me. What is the reasoning behind the cool down period?

Avalonia had similar to say

I do the same thing then I slowly attempt to make the plot bigger after I know what is legal to place. I check out intersting spots even though I have an 18x16 and I just don't hit the confirm. I don't see a reason for the house placement tool cool down if you can only place a house once per hour anyways. It seems like they got a little to hyper about changing these things for people that requested them and have over done it a little bit.


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Origin Shards News Reporter,Larissa offered an explanation,and also added a question asked elsewhere


The reason for the cooldown is to offset the script placers.


Now there will be a timer, random where no housing can be placed....start script to attempt auto place over and over, use too many times the tool no longer works for a set amount of time.

Question that was brought up elsewhere is that are the tools Charactor bound? Cus a scriptor can have 100 house placement tools in his backpack and once one stops working, script moves to the next.

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A small correction to Larissa's reply came from Draconi

Character, not by tool

Tim "Draconi" Cotten -
UO Lead Designer -
EA Mythic

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