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[Publish 45 - Pandora's Box]

Publish 45 - Pandora's Box

Geo-Location

Geo-Location has been re-enabled and we are using a new lookup service.
To modify your profile, type [GeoLoc

Crash Guard - When the shard crashes;

• Players will receive a notice interface.
• Pandora will automatically back-up and restart.
• Players will be asked if they would like to submit a theory report if they were on-line during a crash event.

Commands

• Grab can only be used in dungeons.
• Grab will process corpses, items and gold.
• Grab will trash worthless items for trash tokens.
• Grab will split gold with party and guild members, including allies.
• Grab can only be used once every 3 seconds.
• Grab will only loot corpses that are at least 10 seconds old.
• Grab will only delete corpses that you have rights to.
• Grab will auto-loot rare+ items on corpses with looting rights.
• Grab will give priority to larger groups of players in an area. (A group consists of party and guild members, including allies)
• Grab will not process corpses of renowned's, champion's or peerless' creatures.

New Players

• New characters should start with 100k Newbie Gold, an Ethereal Mount, a Newbie House Deed, 3 shrunken pack animals and a uses-remaining Shrink Potion.
• New characters will be able to choose 5x skills at 100 (GM)
• New Gargoyles will start with a usable flying idol.

Housing

• Unlimited houses per account.
• House Paints added.
• House painting added to house customize interface.
• Decay begins after 30 days from placement and drops after 7 days of normal decay.
• The first house a character places will no longer be ageless.
• Yards and gardens can be used to lock down items.
• The Tower house now has an east and west wing fence and garden.
• Added Gypsy Camp unique house.
• Added Fortress unique house.
• Unique houses added to placement tool interface.
• House Placement rules loosened up a bit.
• Added donation vendor for House Paints.

Combat

• Added Critical Strike Hit Chance Increase property.
• Added Resilience property.
• Added Faster Ethereal Casting property.
• Implemented Faster Ethereal Casting on Ethereal Mounts.
• Added support for Critical chance, Ethereal Cast Speed and resilience to Armor, Weapon, Jewellery, Talisman, Spellbook, Quiver and Clothing.
• Added damage calculations for Critical Strike Hit Chance.
• Added negation calculations for Resilience.

Imbuing

• Interfaces have been cleaned-up and should be more efficient.
• Added Critical Strike Hit Chance Increase to interfaces.
• Added Resilience to interfaces.
• Added Faster Ethereal Casting to interfaces.
• Donation Soul Forge can be used in backpack.

Shrinking

• Changed names and messages to help give a more clear understanding of shrunken pets.
• Added time-decay Shrink Potions.
• Added uses-remaining Shrink Potions.
• Added Shrunken Bonded Pet.
• Shrunken Water Pets should now release in water properly.

Loot

• Added Alchemy, Lumberjacking, Mining, Fletching, Cooking, Carpentry and Tinkering to Power Scroll available skills.
• Primeval Lich drops Abyss House Paint (#2075 - Ultra Rare)
• Added House Paint loot to most Elementals, Ratmen, Hell Hounds, Imps, Wraiths, Ghouls and Lich.

Misc

• Garden Shed should work as expected and be securable. (Chop it and place it again)
• Filter button added back to Taming BoB interface.
• Dinosaurs can't swim!
• Check Book hue changed to more visible #85.
• Primeval Lich has 3 new abilities: Fire Blast, Summon Undead and Ice Rain.
• Charybdis AI optimization.
• New available interface for Resource Box, can switch to compact mode.
• Empty Bottles, Empty vials and silver Serpent venom added to Resource Types.
• Trophies added for marine life.
• Trophies support bragging rights and show the hunter's name.
• Marine life over certain weights will display fisherman's name.
• Fixed damage buffer for Conflagration Potions.
• Fixed pacify buffer for Confusion Blast potions.
• Added Wikit's Ethereal Robe
• Added Blank Scrolls to Inscription craft menu.
• Added Newbie Gold for new players.
• Hail Storm Spell effect fixed.
• Plants now securable.
• Potion Kegs should now store invisibility potions.
• Added new colors for properties on Armor, Weapon, Jewellery, Talisman, Spellbook, Quiver and Clothing.

*Post-Patch Ammendments*

45.1

• Garden sheds should now be accessible with secure level set to anyone by default.
• Grab will not process corpses of renowned's, champion's or peerless' creatures.
• Grab will delete corpses that you have looting rights for.
• Grab will only loot corpses that are at least 10 seconds old.
• Grab will auto-loot rare+ items on corpses with looting rights.
• Grab will give priority to larger groups of players in an area. (A group consists of party and guild members, including allies)
• Champion Spawn corpses decay after 3 minutes.
• House Placement rules loosened up a bit.
• GeoLoc command will show the interface now.
• Donation Soul Forge can be used in backpack.

*Footnotes*

Damage Calculations

In order to calculate the critical strike damage dealt, a number of factors come in to play;

First, the critical chance cap is decided and is as follows:

• Player vs Player: 15% Cap
• Monster vs Player: 20% Cap
• Player vs Monster: 25% Cap

If your chance to perform a critical strike is successful, the critical damage will be a ranged percentage of your base damage;

• PvP: 10% to 30%
• MvP: 10% to 30%
• PvM: 50% to 100%

The amount of damage absorbed is controlled by Resilience.
The amount of critical damage that you receive is reduced by the percentage of Resilience you have.
Resilience can be stacked up to 100%, which would effectively negate all critical damage.

The whole equation looks something like this;

Code Select Expand


base = (N % damage)
absorbed = (resilience % base)
crit = base - absorbed


Where 'N' ==

• PvP: 10% to 30%
• MvP: 10% to 30%
• PvM: 50% to 100%

House Paints

House Paints can be used to paint your house! (Who would have guessed?)
You can either double-click them and target the sign of your house to paint it, or you can access your house customization menu through your house sign.

You must have a house paint in your pack, or locked down in your house for you to use it.

House paints are not consumable, you can use them as many times as you like!

Not all houses allow you to paint them, we've tested them all and we've disabled painting on specific houses where they just don't look right.
House painting is also disabled on some of the unique houses, either for the same reason as above, or because they already come with a special hue that can't be painted over.

Houses that do not allow painting are:

• Custom Houses (Client limitation, sorry)
• Dark Tower
• Dark Keep
• Dark Castle
• Dark Fortress
• Gypsy Camp/Caravan
• Farmer's Wood Cabin

Hope you enjoy this patch guys, a lot of work went in to pave the way for the future!

Vorspire & Kon

It's high-time we thought about making a short movie or trailer about Pandora...

If you have skills in animation, whether it be Flash, 3D modelling, or even just editing videos (clipping together), we'd like to hear from you.

Anyone interested in taking part in the construction of a trailer-style clip for Pandora should let me know by replying here or sending me a PM.

If you're a one-man-team and have a passion for creating animations, then we're happy to offer you the opportunity to take a stab at it and potentially earn yourself some rewards.

We'd like to start putting out videos on YouTube to promote the shard in the best light via raw footage and animations of various features.

I've done 3D and Flash animation in the past and I would personally love to do this myself, but as you all know, I'm extremely busy coding all the cool stuff you'll be recording or animating in your videos.

Any videos submitted to us that are chosen to represent the shard will net their creator a whopping 100 Pandora Bucks ( $100 value ) as the top reward, followed by eternal recognition for their work and a customized house decoration of their choice with a special name.

This is not a competition, everyone will receive these rewards if their video is chosen.
The best of the chosen videos will be used on our landing pages as an introduction.

We're looking for videos that focus on things like intense PvP, epic boss battles, guild wars and general game-play.
You don't have to worry about adding a sound-track to your video, we can arrange to have something composed on your behalf.

Your videos should be thrilling, exciting but most of all, informative.
There must be no offensive content, like swearing or harassment, keep it clean.
Ideally, your video will be at least 1 minute long, however, if you make a shorter clip, we will still look at it and will still reward your for your effort if it is chosen, but the main reward of 100 PB will be reduced.

If you have a special idea that would require staff assistance to achieve, let us know and we'll work with you to make it happen!

Thank you for reading, now go get animating!

[Garden Shed (Trash Token Vendor)]

The Garden Sheds can be bought on the Trash Token Vendor for 10,000 Trash tokens.

The Garden Shed is an upgradable Add-On with 8 available upgrades, which are persistent through the re-deeding process.

Each upgrade offers the opportunity to unlock a new storage container and increase the Sheds' total storage capacity.
The upgrades become more expensive and offer more storage space than cheaper upgrades.
The Shed currently uses Gold Coins as the required item for purchasing upgrades.
The upgrades must be completed in order, from 1 to 8.
You can also pay smaller amounts towards an upgrades' full cost, if you don't have enough funds - just carry the upgrade out as normal, funds are taken from your pack then bank.

There is a donation version of the Garden Shed, which can be bought for 20 Pandora Bucks.
This shed benefits from a greatly enhanced maximum storage capacity per upgrade in regards to it's standard Gold-consuming cousin.
Each upgrade requires Pandora Bucks.

The Sheds work just like any other Add-On in respect to placing them inside houses and can also be dyed with Furniture Dye Tubs. The Shed will retain it's hue when being re-deeded.

Each upgradable part of the shed can have a secure access level assigned, you can do this by using the context menu when you single-click.

If your shed has any items in any containers when you decide to try and chop it down, everything in those containers will end up on the floor where the shed was.

Here is the upgrade table, the sheds are subject to change at any time and this post may be out of date by the time you read it.

Garden Shed (Trash Token Vendor)

#	Task	Storage	Cost (Gold Coins)
1	Clean Out The Shed	100	Free
2	Build Some Shelves	100	500,000
3	Build A Workbench	250	1,000,000
4	Build A Closet	250	1,000,000
5	Build A Tool Rack	500	2,500,000
6	Build More Shelves	500	2,500,000
7	Dig A Basement	500	2,500,000
8	Dig A Deeper Basement	500	2,500,000

Garden Shed (Donation Reward)

#	Task	Storage	Cost (Pandora Bucks)
1	Clean Out The Shed	250	Free
2	Build Some Shelves	250	Free
3	Build A Workbench	500	10
4	Build A Closet	500	10
5	Build A Tool Rack	1,000	20
6	Build More Shelves	1,000	20
7	Dig A Basement	1,000	20
8	Dig A Deeper Basement	1,000	20

I'm hanging around so much at the moment, can be sure I'll be here to get the shard back on-line while we debug some unexpected crashes.

Thanks for your patience, every time the server is restarted, we have one less bug to deal with.

Our new Vita-Nex: Core module - the Memory Manager - hard at work keeping your game-play lag-free!

Might not have even noticed my absence, but I've just recovered from some serious hardware failures thanks to Kon and I'm back in the running, fully active over the next week while Kon is away.
I will be bringing bug fixes and new content to the table all week next week so be prepared

Thanks for the continued support everyone!

[Publish 41.2 - Quick Patch]

Publish 41.2 - Quick Patch

Marine Life

- Added full support for 'catchers mark' on fish weighing 128+ stones
- Added full support for rarity control, including property tags

Vehicles

- Fixed a bug that can cause Docked Vessel Items to be leaked to the Internal map
- Fixed bugs with keys not working or being removed (applies to new keys only)
- Fixed a bug that causes boats to suddenly sink under the water near coast-lines

Hailstorm Spell

- Nerfed HailStormSpell special FX and repeat count

Houses

- Fixed a bug with house LockDowns always returning 0


***Most of this patch includes underlying technical modifications***

We're looking for your community input for new content on Pandora!

But first, I have a suggestion myself which I would like you to discuss...

The item count on Pandora is getting quite high, a lot of this stuff is hoarded items, but some people just can't part with their spare dagger or longsword these days, so I'm going to target the second biggest cause of loose items by introducing a new command that allows you to sacrifice monster corpses using the trash system, meaning you will get tokens for removing these extra corpses.

All you have to do is use [Sac - any corpses in an 8 pace range will be checked and will be treated as a container by the trash system, processing all of the items.
Any items that can't be trashed, like bandages and gold, will be placed in your pack.
Only corpses that have been dead for at least 5 minutes, and you have full looting rights for, will be included in the sacrifice.

This is not set in stone, it's a suggestion based on the need to reduce our item count.

What makes the game more interesting for you?

Do you want more things like the fun throwable items?
The Stink Bombs, Haunted Momento, etc?

How about convenience items?
What do you find to be a great inconvenience when playing?
We're not looking for bug reports and such, more of things to do with reducing the amount of time you spend grinding something that just isn't fun?
Of course things like stat and skill training can't be changed, but maybe there's a way to make it more fun?
How about other small convenience items like the Broadcast Scrolls you can get?

Winter's coming and the Pandora Winterfest will be warming up soon, but the traders don't know what to sell, so they've asked me to do a market survey to find out what the most popular Ultima toys are this year. So, what do you suggest for Winterfest?

PvP Battles and PvP Coins.
We'd like to see the battles become one of the gems of Pandora, but safe PvP doesn't attract many eager heroes without rewards, sure you have PvP Coins, but the traders have not yet show face. I think it's high time we brought them in.
We want to offer pure PvP-based rewards, armor, weapons, potions, anything that you can thinkof that would both benefit PvP'ers and keep the balance.
We're looking for suggestions about full armor sets with bonuses, we'd like to find out what you deem the most important attributes that PvP armor and weapons can yield, while showing us what you think is more geared towards PvE/PvM.
The seasonal reward for the PvP battles, the Battle Necklace, will always be unique to each seasons' winner.

We also want to offer more battle scenarios, we currently have active Team-Death-Match and Free-For-All battles, but we'd like to extend that list to Capture-The-Flag, Bomberman, Counter-Strike, etc. Any kind of PvP scenario ideas are welcome!

If you have input on anything else, feel free to comment.
Don't comment about loot drops or rates, buffing or nerfing bosses or bugs - we'll cover that stuff another time, another place on these forums.

Thank you all for your continued support!

[Publish 41.1 - Additional Content]

Publish 41.1 - Additional Content

Halloween

• Added Dark Skeleton Statue
• Added Black Cat Ornament
• Added Haunted Momento
• Added Black Cat, Dark Skeleton and Haunted Momento to Halloween Vendor and Treat Bag Loot

FixMe Command

• Added Message to FixMe Command for Quest Option

Magical Food (Fish Pies, Halloween Treats, etc)

• Allowed MagicalFood to be eaten at 0 FillFactor.

Crafting Recipes

• All available recipes in the world will be automatically learned when you log-in.

There were a lot of background tweaks that don't affect game-play experience enough to mention in this update.

Thanks for your continued support Pandorians!

[http://www.runuo.com/files/razor/Razor_Latest.exe]

In order to connect to our shard, you will need Razor.

Razor is a free 3rd-party application that allows you to launch your Ultima Online client.

Razor also provides lots of great features to enhance your game-play.

Razor is currently required to play our shard, you can download the latest version here;
http://www.runuo.com/files/razor/Razor_Latest.exe

When connecting with Razor, make sure the Patch Client Encryption checkbox is checked (on).

Login:

Host: play.pandorauo.com
Port: 2593

We are currently experiencing unexpected down-time due to testing of a new body value from the latest patch with a buggy weapon, the shard will be rebooted.

There was a world save not long before the issue, so the roll-back will be minimal.

Thank you for your patience, we will resume the service ASAP.

[Donations are now FULLY AUTOMATIC!]

Donations are now FULLY AUTOMATIC!

When you donate to PandoraUO, you will be able to type the command [CheckDonate after the next world save & claim your rewards!
Any time of day, any day of the week!
They will be instantly placed inside your bank in a small bag when you claim them.

Click here to learn more.