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[A ton of work went into this update from Vorspire. Too many things to list here, but we will give you the gist. Basically mass optimizations, overhauls & some new toys.]

A ton of work went into this update from Vorspire. Too many things to list here, but we will give you the gist.

Basically mass optimizations, overhauls & some new toys.

Update your client to the latest. Go to your install folder. Find the UO.exe or UOPatch.exe -- right click it and Run as Administrator!!!

---------------------Deco Additions

+ Add new relic items; they're like artifacts but they have "relic rarity" instead.
+ Add new decoration loot items; Spell Banners and Crude Dolls.
~ Spell Banners and Crude Dolls may drop rarely from any boss type creatures (bosses, champs, peerless, etc), including paragons. There are hundreds to collect!

---------------------Vehicle Content

Read more in depth on vehicles here (def. worth the read. Boats have A LOT of different options/crews now) http://www.pandorauo.com/wiki/index.php?n=PandoraLore.Vehicles

+ Vehicles feature overhaul.
+ Fix placement for ships.
+ Improved object collision detection.
+ Improved movement detection and updating.
+ You can purchase the new boats or craft them for cheaper at the NPCs "The Ship Provisioner" in Sea Market (both Fel & Tram)
+ Add a range of versatile attachments.
+ Add craft systems for vehicle and attachment building.
+ Add Go-Cart Deeds which may drop from humanoid creatures and paragons & can also be purchased as a novelty item in the Donation Store. These are for fun to park at your house, cruise around looking cool. Will possibly do more with these in the future....

---------------------Core Updates

+ Fix ranged display issues.
+ Close a loophole with character profiles.
+ Add support for house content display toggle option.
+ Full support for single-click labels in Enhanced Client.
+ Healing tracking support for all Mobiles. 
+ RNG feature additions.
+ Craft System API extensions.
+ Timer API extensions.
+ Crash prevention fixes.
+ Obsolete code clean-up.

---------------------Optimizations

+ Void Pool optimizations.
+ Aspect Ability optimizations.
+ Movement optimizations.
+ Party optimizations.
+ Delta optimizations.
+++ You will lag less.


---------------------Remember

To Vote everyday using the [Vote command in-game & consider donating when you can. Your donations pay the script god Vorspire to add more things.

Much Love,
Pandora Staff

[This has a lot of under the hood not listed below and optimizations from Vorspire. This patch focuses on stability and in turn frees up time for more in-game additions.]

This has a lot of under the hood not listed below and optimizations from Vorspire. This patch focuses on stability and in turn frees up time for more in-game additions.



Updated core compatibility for support with modern systems and features.

Fixed a serious internal item leak that was responsible for much of the recent lag.

Updated Server Side Client.

*****

Updated Vita-Nex: Core to version 5.3.0.0;

Prevent data loss by ensuring that all asynchronous file write operations have completed before allowing the shard to shut-down.

Increased capacity of memory buffers for gumps and compression for larger data streams to minimize client crashes.

Fixed an issue with web API service where a bad request could receive an HTTP-OK (200) response.

Updated donation processor to support the latest PayPal API data. Donations should be automatic again.

Optimized PvP Battles core system functions.
Overhauled the PvP Battles UI with a more user-friendly and intuitive design for both staff and players.

Fixed issues with special equipment sets updating their displayed attributes.

Optimized server-side client font loading at shard start-up.

Added support API for using Unicode glyph characters.

Updated gump support for Enhanced Clients and fixed an issue where text would appear below buttons when overlaid.

Overhauled common gumps to switch themes for clients at 7.0.50 and above.

Fixed an issue with node sorting in tree view gumps.
Fixed an issue in the gump animation engine that prevented animations from progressing or looping.

Added support for arbitrary gump tool-tips without the need for client file updates.

Removed unsupported and unused MOTD, Deceit Braziers and World Chat modules.


More coming soon! Noll has design some pretty wicked monsters, etc...

[Noll and I wiped over 3 million unused items off Pandora today. This has already helped many with lag and smoothness in game.We also did OS updates to the server box.We will continue to monitor.Please don't forget to vote!]

Noll and I wiped over 3 million unused items off Pandora today. This has already helped many with lag and smoothness in game.

We also did OS updates to the server box.


We will continue to monitor.

Please don't forget to vote!

[Elemental Event]

Elemental Event




I'm releasing a elemental themed event, alot of simularities with Risen. Im a bit on a tight time table here, but either me or Noll when he gets back, will update it with a way to Exchange unwanted decos.


This works a lot like the Risen Dragon event, as that was a nice balance of allowing a event to go for a month and a little something for everyone. If you participated in the Risen event, then you will have a good idea on it. Will change up the event style on the next one.


Keys drop pretty often on the Event Air, Fire & Water Elementals that are in the dungeon Shame (level 1 & some in level 2).
Felucca has more spawn than Trammel.


VENDORS / HOW IT WORKS.

3 Vendors outside Shame, you can purchase an Elemental Token by double clicking on them. Fire Key on Fire vendor, etc.

It will cost you 1 key to puchase the Elemental Token, you will also need another key to open it.

Fire, Air & Water Keys open the Elemental Token. Once you unseal it, double click the Elemental Token to receive you prize.



PRIZES

Items are on display outside the Dungeons.

They are as follows:

TIER 1

Water Banner
Poison Banner
Earth Banner
Fire Banner
(each has 2 directions it can come in)

Air Key
Fire Key
Water Key

Theatre Pillow
Axe Pillow
Sword Pillow
Ankh Pillow
(each has 2 directions it can come in)

Slime Pool
Can come in at least 20 different colors, including some rare colors


Heart Metal Chairs
(collect all 4 directions.. they go nice with the animated heart table in Tier 2)
Can come in at least 20 different colors, including some rare colors


Elemental Potted Plant
Can come in at least 20 different colors, including some rare colors



TIER 2


Plant Crate

Sparkling Gems
(comes in 2 different directions)

Rock Platform
Can come in at least 20 different colors, including some rare colors

Animated metal Heart Table
(goes with the metal heart chairs in Tier 1)
Can come in at least 20 different colors, including some rare colors

Stone Face
Can come in at least 20 different colors, including some rare colors

Magical Candles
Can come in at least 20 different colors, including some rare colors

Magical Huge Candle
Can come in at least 20 different colors, including some rare colors

Magical Moon
Can come in at least 20 different colors, including some rare colors

Evil Poet Table
(comes in 2 different directions)

Burning Anvil
Can come in at least 20 different colors, including some rare colors



TIER 3

Elemental Pandora Bucks
*You can exchange these for reglar Pandora Bucks 1:1 to spend them at the store... But they are more rare than that.

Small Sized Fish Pool

Medium Sized Fish Pool

Large Sized Fish Pool

Water Wheel
(2 different directions can be found)



MISC.

- Many of the donation prices have been lowered, including the pets.

- Server side client updated, please update all your UO clients to make sure you can see the latest graphics & animations. Do this by going to the folder where you installed Ultima Online, right click UOPatch.exe, run as administrator.

- Misc Tweaks and corrections.

*And please remember to vote everyday!

[Pandora's Box & the Risen Scarecrow Event]

Pandora's Box & the Risen Scarecrow Event

MISC:
*Update your clients all the way or you might not be able to see the rewards when they drop at all.
Go to your UO directory, find UO.exe or UOPatch.exe, right click, Run as Administrator, let it go all the way, then cancel.

*Updated server-side client, rebooted hard server.


Risen Scarecrow & Pandora's Box Event

I'd like the event to run for several weeks and will be monitoring it to see a good time to stop it.

Location:
Destard (Both Felucca & Trammel) -- Felucca has much more spawn & availability. But both are viable.

Target:
Risen Dragons - Like normal dragons, with a bit of a buff. Decayed Pandorians Skeletons have roughly 1 out of 10 chance to drop

Story:
The scarecrow from hell has risen on the burning cross during the Easter season to fulfill the Destard prophecy.
He's in search of the bones of fallen Pandorians to stay alive for another millennium.


How it works:
1. Kill Risen Dragons inside Destard
- Around 1 out of 10 drop Pandorian Skeletons.
- They spawn randomly anywhere from any 15 mins to 4 hours, Felucca side has more than Trammel side.

2. Take the Pandorian Skeletons in your backpack and double click the Risen Scarecrow outside Destard. He only accepts Pandorian Skeletons as payment.

- You can buy 1 Pandora's Box for 1 Skeleton

- You can buy 1 Dice #6 for 1 Skeleton

- You need both these items for a chance of a prize.
You double click the Dice #6, click the Pandoras box, then open it.




Pandora's Box Loot:


All items will be on display outside Destard entrances once I can implement in the game (Felucca & Trammel). Tier 1 is the easiest to find, Tier 3 the hardest

Tier 1:

Pandorian Human Skeleton #1
PandorianHuman Skeleton #2
Pandorian Gargoyle Skeleton #1
Pandorian Gargoyle Skeleton #2
Ancient Extinct Duck Statue
Risen Scarecrow
Pandora Die #6 (roll again!)
Pandora' Box (open again!)
Decayed Pandorian (trade again!)

Tier 2:

Pandora Dice #1 (collect all 6! Only the #6 can unlock Pandora's Box though!)
PandoraDice #2
PandoraDice #3
PandoraDice #4
PandoraDice #5
PandoraDice #6
Rare Telescope #1
Rare Telescope #2
Risen Dragon Jaw
Ancient Giant Skull
Incense Skull #1
Incense Skull #2
Risen Burning Scarecrow

Tier 3:

1 Easter Pandora Buck - This is a special edition Pandora Buck. You cannot spend it directly in donation room unless you have me exchange it for a normal Pandora Buck, which I will do no problem just by reaching out to me in Discord  -- I am doing this as an option as some folks might want to keep the rare Pandora Easter Buck9s)...

PANDORA: Trapped Souls Of the Ocean
PANDORA: Trapped Souls
PANDORA: Trapped Souls Of the Forest
1 Easter Pandora Buck (rare)

Of course I am around on Discord for any questions as soon as I can answer them, just make sure to tag @King_Kon

Please remember to vote!

...Oh and don't let me catch you AFK farming Risen Dragons... Won't be good...

Welcome to the shard mate! Pandora is going to seem a lot different, but the mechanics are the same, we just made them better (our humble opinion).

I also played Great Lakes back in the day! Where I fell in love with UO.

Nice!

Welcome back man!!

Welcome mate! Vorspire is one of the key builders of Pandora & still keeps us healthy. He's the best.

See you in game!

This is sweet.

Let Noll or I know to make some unique fishing trophies for those participants & bigger ones for the winner(s)!

Howdy Raki,

I don't believe you need Cu pads, it's been awhile since someone asked that, but they should be easy to get.

Yes, powerscrolls must go in order. More scrolls drop here than normal so there is always a influx. You can also go all the way to 125 by infesting a champion for chance of 125 drops. We do this for a longer game play since the skills them selves are so easy to raise.

Houses decay, but they are much slower than the 2-3 weeks thing. GM Noll could give the exacts, but I believe it can takes months for a house to fall with no love.

Pets. There are a lot of variables, a vet hunter could give more specific light to this.

Glad you are here Raki!

I agree. I will promote it more.

[House Decay is back. This is your only warning. In total, it will take around 60 days for a house to fall. This gives people plenty of time to refresh their house if they really care. All you have to do, is log in on your account that owns the house and it will refresh.]

House Decay is back. This is your only warning. In total, it will take around 60 days for a house to fall. This gives people plenty of time to refresh their house if they really care. All you have to do, is log in on your account that owns the house and it will refresh.

Here are the time tables for it.

Like New - 15 days

Slightly Worn - 15 days

Somewhat Worn - 10 days

Fairly Worn - 10 days

Greatly Worn - 10 days

IDOC - random from 1 hour to 24 hours.

Remember you can buy an Ageless House Token from the Gold Shop in West Brit

Let me know if you need help accessing your accounts. Please send an email or better yet private message me in the shard's Discord.

Welcome back!

[Please take the time to update your client version by going to your UO install directory and Right clicking UOPatch.exe and running it as admin (there is cool new mounts, etc in the works) 7.0.56.0-- Also it's a new months so please vote, very important for us to vote a lot in the first week.More to come.]

Please take the time to update your client version by going to your UO install directory and Right clicking UOPatch.exe and running it as admin (there is cool new mounts, etc in the works)

7.0.56.0

-- Also it's a new months so please vote, very important for us to vote a lot in the first week.


More to come.