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[THE ARTISAN PUBLISH - NOVEMBER 17th, 2016]

THE ARTISAN PUBLISH - NOVEMBER 17th, 2016



UPDATE YOUR CLIENT TO: 7.0.55.4 or you will not see most of this.
Go to your installed UO folder, right click UOPatch.exe and run as Administrator.

This is one of the most important client updates we've had in awhile. If you do not do it, you won't see half the stuff below.



VNC Update

Massive Vita Nex Core engine update thanks to Vorspire. This addresses bugs and other fixes related to Battles and other VNC systems. You will also notice new gumps, etc.



THE ARTISAN CHAPTER

This is a nice deco update along with other goods, new ridables, pets, tweaks and Christmas. My main goal in this Publish was to spread around the dungeons by driving traffic in different directions for overall gameplay variety.


Masterful Weaves


A set of 6 total - *They are turnable

How do I get them?
They have a chance to drop on the monster it displays. All in Eodon.
Dragon Turtle (baby)
Infernus (Infernus)
Great Ape (Silverback Gorillas)
Mrymidex (All Mrymidex)
Dinosaur (Dimetrosaur only)
Tiger (Wild Tigers & Babies)





Honor Blocks


How do I get them? 'Cursed' in Dungeon Khaldun

A set of 8 total. They come lit (animated/sparkling) or not lit.
Sword
Masks
Axe
Ankh


Life Lanterns


How do I get them? Any Juka in Dungeon Wrong. (Both Fel & Tram).

A set of 8 total. They come lit (animated) or not lit.
*They are turnable.
Water
Skull
Moon
Cup



Rare Ice Archer Statue

A personal favorite.

How do I get one? Arctic Ogre Lords in Ice Dungeon. (Both Fel & Tram).
I did up the spawn rate of them a bit, but they don't spawn a ton & it's a bit rarer than this other deco.

The Ice Archer either comes shooting left or right, it isn't turnable.




Tiger Trophy


How do I get one? Rare drop off Wild Tigers in Eodon.



An Executed Hanging Skeleton

Another personal favorite

How do I get one? Rare drop (cause they look awesome) off Lich Lords as a little Skeleton idol deed.
Deceit Dungeon is probably your best bet. They Come in either South or East, not turnable.



A Rare Beautiful Pandora Flower


How do I get one? Rare drop off any Earth Elemental



New Healthy Vines


How do I get one? They drop off all Terathan Family
They are turnable with a decorating tool.



Christmas!


GM NollKoll will be activating Christmas soon on Ice Isle.

- Christmas Tree (animated lights)
- Christmas Tree (plain)
- White Christmas Tree (animated)
- Gift Box
- Red & Green Candy Canes
- Red Ribbon
- Gold Bells
- Santa's Christmas Bag
- Santa's Sleigh
(Also an upgrade on the winterfest dye tub, Lots of more colors!)




3 New Mounts



Magical Unicorn

This can be a beast, find one with good stats, and it could probably outmatch you in clearing a champ spawn! The key factor to its AoE power, is its intelligence and strength, which can of course be buffed with a bless from its owner.

(I will buff my daemonic dragon sooner, so its on par)

How do I get it? This is NOT in the donation room, you can only get this on a rare spawn on Dreadhorn Island inside Twisted Weild. So you must do the Dreadhorn quest to reach her. She will spawn quite randomly, anywhere from 1 week to 3 weeks, so you will have to be on your toes.

Takes 121 skill to tame it. Dreadhorn will want your head, so best to bring a friend... Also the Unicorn is pretty random in stats, it has a chance to be much better than it should or lesser so, but either way it's good.


Tarantula
A dangerous mount, more focused on PvP, ever wanted a mini Mephistis as your pet? This is your chance, it randomly throws webs at your foes!) Noll says it's powerful.

How I get it? It can be bought in the donation room and plans to implement it into other game play once we've tested & seen it in action.


Lesser Turanchula

More just for vanity and looks. Ridable.

How I get it? Once a week random spawn in Destard Felucca only. First level. 117.0 skill in Taming to get it.



TURANCHULA ETHEREAL


How do I get one? ONLY can be obtained by placing first in the weekly Battle's season or saving up PVP coins to purchase one.

So someone will get one once a week. Remember if you will never be 1st in the PVP Battles, you still get PVP Coins for just joining them at no risk (you never even die) and you can save up!



Fixes from Noll, also a new account filter, for some fall/winter cleaning!

To calm your horses, its based on inactivity and total gametime.
It will remove accounts (well it will filter, i gotta do the removing) that has been 6 months or more inactive, that has less then 30 minute of gametime (this includes removed characthers aswell)
same deal but;
12 months + 60 minutes
24 months + 120 minutes
36 months + 180 minutes
48 months + 240 minutes.

It will check for accounts that fits any of those 5 criteria. So to explain it a bit furthur, if an account has been inactive for MORE than 4 years, and had a total gametime of LESS then 4 hours, it would be a "match".
Pandora have never really gotten a good cleaning before.

- Possible fix for the attacking in Tram / pets exploit. We are fully aware and working on it.
Do not do it anymore. We will be testing things on the live shard as it's much much more complicated problem
than you think. Thank you for the patience.

[Thank you to those who played tonight for being cool having to reboot about 7 times to put in the system code little by little. (in case something goes wrong, we can focus on the fix easier this way).]

Thank you to those who played tonight for being cool having to reboot about 7 times to put in the system code little by little. (in case something goes wrong, we can focus on the fix easier this way).

We are working on a nice Publish, it's going smooth and I want to put it in soon as I can. I think you all will appreciate it.

As far as changes thus far, please update your client to the latest, it's very important. As we move Pandora into the future we need all players to be on that. Very easy, simply go to your UO directory, right click UOPatch.exe and run as Administrator. -- We've always been ahead and on the curve of the games new content, this isn't any different.


Couple tweaks so far. [Battles system should be working in full order. Vorspire and myself spent the entire evening tweaking it. Please everyone join battles when you see the announcements. Every time you join a Battle you get at least a PVP Coin and you never even die. Even players who don't pvp, just join it!  We also put in a fix for each week the season should change (every Monday) the top 5 players will get 1 out of 41 rare trophies and the runner up 7 will get 10 pvp coins each. Just join them -- If you see ANY bugs please send a PM in Discord to both myself and Vorspire (copy and paste) --- You will also notice the Toolbar revamped. You can place your toolbar or change the theme or buttons by clicking the specific buttons near the front and along the default buttons. To activate it, simple type [toolbar  -- See this image below where to click for options. (You will also notice some new gumps coming in, we hope to revamp the entire look of the game's basics!
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A lot coming soon. Remember to vote.

- Kon

Paused the event has it was creating intense lag on shard. Will talk to Noll when he's on and report back.

[Good news, they are back to 1 Pandora Buck to open them. -- I made a few adjustments.I fixed the crash the chest did the last few days, instead of buying the key off the vendor stone there is an npc.The best balance solution I found is: it's still completely random, but has more options to land on spots with Super Dyes.. Because: Everyone likes dyes and they hold their value really well.First off, in Tier 1, you randomly can land on any, but you have a more likely chance to get a 1 charge super dye, doubling your money (2). This is a solid item and should make you feel better about getting a chance to roll something worth it if you don't hit Tier 2 and 3. Same in Tier 2 except it's the 10 charge dye. (In this tier there is some items that cost less than the 14 and some that cost more. But this is a good middle ground and a solid Tier 2 item that you can sell off easily if you wish)Tier 3 - Removed the chance of getting only a 1 mil check from that. Because I don't want anyone going on suicide watch if they roll tier 3 and it says 1 mil. Also added the chance to roll a 50 charge Superdye on Tier 3. This is also a nice middle man and a very nice reward.Since keys are sold on vendor, they are not blessed to each player anymore and are not colored.Hope this helps. Happy hunting.]

Good news, they are back to 1 Pandora Buck to open them. -- I made a few adjustments.

I fixed the crash the chest did the last few days, instead of buying the key off the vendor stone there is an npc.

The best balance solution I found is: it's still completely random, but has more options to land on spots with Super Dyes.. Because: Everyone likes dyes and they hold their value really well.

First off, in Tier 1, you randomly can land on any, but you have a more likely chance to get a 1 charge super dye, doubling your money (2). This is a solid item and should make you feel better about getting a chance to roll something worth it if you don't hit Tier 2 and 3.

Same in Tier 2 except it's the 10 charge dye. (In this tier there is some items that cost less than the 14 and some that cost more. But this is a good middle ground and a solid Tier 2 item that you can sell off easily if you wish)

Tier 3 - Removed the chance of getting only a 1 mil check from that. Because I don't want anyone going on suicide watch if they roll tier 3 and it says 1 mil.

Also added the chance to roll a 50 charge Superdye on Tier 3. This is also a nice middle man and a very nice reward.

Since keys are sold on vendor, they are not blessed to each player anymore and are not colored.

Hope this helps. Happy hunting.

[as I said before that I will get them back to 1 P Buck again, but some of the tier items will have to be adjusted, so the next patch. Right now, some good items drop easy and are worth the 2 p buck chance, when I make change it will be scaled and worth 1 p buck.]

well, i did like it..... now its going to be impossible to open the chests that me and others who cant donate to get the keys, not only did you raise the price on the key stone, but these chests have made the price of pbucks triple, and its fel, alot of "ganking" is happening, its hard enough to really get chests and be able to leave the area... i've opened a few, and guildys have opened a bunch, no one has got something that great that we need all these price changes, it hasn't even been out a full day and the system has already been messed with.... i actually think its unfair to people who didnt get to open any, and everyone else who did get to open them, got to for 1 buck, ill say this to me its not worth almost 30m gold to get a pet bond food, and i've got that out of one already

It's a risk / reward. If it's not fun for you, than don't do it. It's a item in the game that isn't mandatory what so ever, I figure only a few people would like the chests thing, but most seem to really enjoy it. My favorite part and the reason why I did it was not for donations, though of course every little bit helps. But the PVP it brings in Eodon. Some people just hunt the chests for deco and make really cool stuff with them. -- yes getting ganked sucks, but it's been a part of the game for nearly 20 years. Part of the risk is why it makes it fun for non pvpers if they have a good attitude about it. But we cannot prevent zero risk to make people feel comfortable 100%. It's a free will game, that's why it's still popular after so long.

As far as the P Buck surge is expected at the start...The economy will balance out, that's basic economics.

And as I mentioned before, 1 p buck (I know the math and I did the math) the shard would have took a major loss calculating it each day for a month with certain items that are easy to drop. I needed to see the average chests drop per day and how many times people open them, etc. A live test which I knew I was going to do. With 2 p bucks the shard still takes a hit but has a chance to balance out with small donations. But I plan as I said before that I will get them back to 1 P Buck again, but some of the tier items will have to be adjusted, so the next patch. Right now, some good items drop easy and are worth the 2 p buck chance, when I make change it will be scaled and worth 1 p buck.

-- People don't know why I do things sometimes because they are only looking at it from their point of view of opinion and wants, not the shard as a whole as I have too... As far as your 30 million for a pet bond food statement: You don't put a dollar in a slot machine and expect to get 30 back, majority of the time you lose the dollar. But sometimes you don't.

If it's not for you, don't do them. No worries. -- We are doing our best to balance it.

[Ancient Chest / Key -- I am glad that so many are loving the Ancient Chest & Key system. Looking at the numbers for the first couple days and running more detail math we decided to make the keys to 2 p bucks instead of 1 -- Here is why: Majority of the time you will get a tier 1 item and 80% of those items are worth at least 1 to 2 pbucks, some up to 15+ P Bucks. Meaning most of the time you will get your money back or more. Now you might not get the item you want, but you can just as easily resell it for P Bucks or gold and buy more P Bucks. Not to mention, a decent chance to roll Tier 2 with prices 20 to 50 P Bucks and rolling a Tier 3.. Whoa... So I firmly believe that 2 P Bucks gives you a very good deal and shot, most of the time you won't lose. This isn't Vegas and the house definitly doesn't always win, we didn't make it for that... But we also have to protect the longevity of the system and shard. This new system will continue to evolve and thanks again for understand.]

Ancient Chest / Key -- I am glad that so many are loving the Ancient Chest & Key system. Looking at the numbers for the first couple days and running more detail math we decided to make the keys to 2 p bucks instead of 1 -- Here is why: Majority of the time you will get a tier 1 item and 80% of those items are worth at least 1 to 2 pbucks, some up to 15+ P Bucks. Meaning most of the time you will get your money back or more. Now you might not get the item you want, but you can just as easily resell it for P Bucks or gold and buy more P Bucks. Not to mention, a decent chance to roll Tier 2 with prices 20 to 50 P Bucks and rolling a Tier 3.. Whoa... So I firmly believe that 2 P Bucks gives you a very good deal and shot, most of the time you won't lose. This isn't Vegas and the house definitly doesn't always win, we didn't make it for that... But we also have to protect the longevity of the system and shard. This new system will continue to evolve and thanks again for understand.

This doesn't mean it's 2 forever, I will try to get it back to 1 just might have to adjust a few items that are too easy to get for too much profit, etc.

[PUBLISH - SEPTEMBER 14, 2016]

PUBLISH - SEPTEMBER 14, 2016



Ancient Pandora Treasure Chest

This was designed by King Kon and coded by Player Drake and more additions will be added to it as we go.



Full New Chance System:
The Ancient Chests will drop randomly on the Eodon Villagers / Clan's Bodies. They will come locked/sealed. You will need an Ancient Key. Yes Eodon is Fel, but they drop fairly often and newer players can buy them from other players.

You can purchase an Ancient Key for it for 1 Pandora Buck at the Donation House. 1 Key for 1 Chest.

It will always give you a pretty decent prize at random from all our Shard Stores (P Coin, Ocean, PVP, Donation), and it has a chance to make you very rich...

It has 3 tiers on how hard and which items it drops.. Tier 1 will drop the most often, then Tier 2, then Tier 3...

(This list, please add to our Wiki also Flint, etc)


TIER 1 ITEMS:

Clothing Bless Deed
Weapon Engraving Tool
Pet Bond Food
Stable Stone
Ethereal Cu Sidhe
Blackrock Coffin
World Table
Rose of Trinsic
Guillotine
Bed of Nails
Wall Safe / Vault
Hooded Shroud
Zero Kill Token
Ocean Crest
Ocean Corpse
Ocean Energy Field
Ocean Dragon Head
Ocean Globe of Sosaria
Indestructable Smith Hammer
Indestructable Pickaxe
Indestructable Shovel
Indestructable Hatchet
Portable Anvil
Garden Shed
Skill Ball +5
Skill Ball +10
Skill Ball +100
Item Bless Deed
Pandora 5th Anniv. Painting
Potted Coffee Plant
Regulator
Power Core
Lava Rock Display
Rainbow Painting
Quiver of Attacking
Master Runebook
Portable Trash Basket
Soul Stone
Exceptional Donator Dread Flute
Blessed Potion Bag
Welcome Mat
Self Repair +10 Deed
Universal Donation Dye 1 Charge
1 Million Check


TIER 2 ITEMS:

Resource Box
Incognito Shroud
Ethereal Boura
Portable Soul Forge
PVP Shroud
Robe of the Sand
Davies Locker
+1 Pet Slot Control Deed
Weapon Exceptional Deed
Gold Fireplace
Portable Forge
Smithing Press
Sewing Machine
Green Fireplace
Water Quiver
Monastery Bell
Large Soul Forge with Roof
Skill Ball 1 skil to 125
Monster Tank
Dragon Turtle Fountain
Donation Water Quiver
Quiver of Life
Bank Stone
Everlasting Bandage
Everlasting Ammo
Everlasting Shrink Potion
Pet Skills 130 Deed
Linked Gates
Good Luck Deed 300
Blessed Reg and Aid Bag
Everlasting Enchanted Apple
Universal Donation Dye 10 Charge
Ethereal Tiger
One Mil Bank Check


TIER 3 ITEMS:

Donation Water Quiver
Oceanic Sandals
Oceanic Talons
Robe of the Sea
Gargish Robe of the Sea
Skill Ball all 125 Skills
Skill Ball all 100 Skills
Eodon Sandals
Eodon Talons
Shroud of Turin
Unholy Sash
Shrouf of Magi
Gargish Shroud of Magi
Pandora Shroud
Gargish Pandora Shroud
True Quiver of Turin
One Mil Bank Check



Battles Trophies

In light of Battle Necklace retiring, we have something pretty cool.

41 total trophies. The top 3 players in points each week on the [Battles will receive one of these at random.
They are great collection items and many players will sell theirs to the collectors. Collect them all!

(one is very special looking, it's just a hand cursor like you see in game)

Here is a preview of a couple (the name will also have the player's name and season # in the name)



Remember, you do not lose anything in Battles, you do not even die. Even new players you should do it.



Universal Dyes (Super Dye Room)

Universal Dyes have decreased in price by 80% so players can change their looks often. Costs: 2/5/14

The Universal Dyes now allow you to dye your skin. Have fun.

There is a new Universal Dye option - 50 charges for 50 P Bucks. Great for guilds.




Rental Vendors

Vendors for your houses will take WAY less gold than they normally would. Like very little.
Trying to encourage more players to use them.

Example - If you house is NOT commercial, he will charge about 60k per 10 million.
If your house IS commercial, he will charge about 3k per 10 million.




Added Everlasting Bolt to donation house.

Oceanic Coins will now drop in SOS chests and Treasure Chests. The amount is 2 x (times) the level.

Please remember to type [Vote every single day.
Thank you.

- King

[Another price change:]

Another price change:

All Pandora Super Dyes have been lowered by 80% to promote that almost any player can afford to look cool while allowing people to easily change their look often without a big cost. It's nice to get a change of color and look on your toon to keep things fresh and l33t. (... and as one player mentioned, they are tired of seeing @ChickeN#8364  in all black) -- The prices for Universal Dyes in super room are now 2/5/14 -- 2 = 1 charge / 5 = 3 charges / 14 = 10 charges

[Couple minor things that could have a big impact to some so I wanted to mention it.]

Couple minor things that could have a big impact to some so I wanted to mention it.

There is a new donation item. The 6 Str 6 Dex 6 Int can now be applied to ANY clothing (ONLY CLOTHING, No quivers, etc) -- It will not stack, so do not ask us to put 6 str on top of something that has str already (unless its like 3 and you just want 3 more, and no it's not cheaper) -- This is now in the donation store.. The best news is that each stat is 16 P Bucks (as opposed to 28) and all 3 is 42 P Bucks (as opposed to 75!) It will also be introduced in PVP COins or Pandora Coins in the near future to give the option to people who cannot donate. Thank you.

Another note: We no longer will be removing blessed things that you get on the special currency stones. So choose which character you are purchasing the item on wisely. We will have an option to remove it at a price in the future. As this might inconvenient some of you, know that it is great for long term economy as it doesn't flood any items in market. In turn it holds its value for you too. It's a win / win. Promise.

- Battles are working again with giving out PVP Coins etc. Everyone should join these as you always get a pvp coin and you lose nothing. You dont even die... Also no more Battle Necklaces. I will be working on special unique trophies for the winners of the week in next patch.


- King Kon

[All 90% Donation Store Items prices have been tweaked (lowered).]

All 90% Donation Store Items prices have been tweaked (lowered).


These prices are based on the current Pandora economy to adjust for what currency sells at taking into account Pandora Bucks, Pandora Coins, Voting Tokens, etc. 90% of them are lower, so I don't think anyone will have too many flags about this one...

We didn't touch the pets. Just the items.

Too many items to list here, but all the Pandora Bucks stones reflect the new prices. Thanks.

- King Kon

[Hot Patch - September 6th, 2016]

Hot Patch - September 6th, 2016


- Pet Slots are now 19 P Bucks as opposed to 25. You no longer need the unlocker just the +1. You can have up to a max of 15 slots.

- Adjusted a couple of the Donation Pets prices (not the big ones, ones like G Dragon, Tornado, etc)

- Prices of Oceanic Sandals and Robe raised quite a bit after realizing how low it was.  If you work hard you can earn about 1k Sea Coins a day, give or take. (Every player is different, but it is obtainable).

- Finally a working fix for the dark skeleton deeds.. hate em... hate em so much... hate em even more

-Added a dps golem, wonder what that is?

-Fix for rune codex stealing other players hard work, so sorry for misunderstanding the issue when it was reported the first time. Thought a player could steal a runebook FROM the codex, still bad.. but thought why lock one down then..  anyway.. codex cant steal runes nor runebooks.. gotta keep it in your backpack

- Fixed it so npcs will always take gold from "bank".. old ghost from the ToL gold patch


Remember to Vote.

- Kon & NollKoll

Cool.

Flint, Mal and Empati have agreed to take it on for awhile.

[Folks, many other shards have already made the switch and players seem to like it much better. Instead of using global chat in game we use Discord. It takes about 2 minutes to sign up here:]

Folks, many other shards have already made the switch and players seem to like it much better. Instead of using global chat in game we use Discord.

It takes about 2 minutes to sign up here: https://discordapp.com/login 

It's a great chat room that can either form your web browser or you can download the desktop program here:
https://discordapp.com/api/download?platform=win

CONNECT TO PANDORA DISCORD:
http://discord.gg/Gfmhgdy

Global Chat will not be turned off right away, we will allow people to transition over to Discord. Please everyone give it a shot... I think you will like it better. Both with PVMers and PVPers as global chat has many disadvantages also.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.