Publish 33 - 3/30/2012 *** 1/2 Off Sale!

[King Kong]

From Friday March 30th 2012 to Sunday April 1st all prices in donation house will be 1/2 off! These are rare sales and don't happen often! Buy Pandora Bucks like normal here http://tinyurl.com/7el9wwn and head to the donation house!


PUBLISH 33




BATTLE SYSTEM

(please allow me sometime to get them all set up)

- New Automated Battles
- New fighting arenas
- New kinds of fights
- Like the Daily Pvp, you never actually die in the battles. You dont lose insurance, you cannot be looted because you never die. You are teleported out before an actual death. All players, new, old, non pvpers, pvpers, should always join these.
- Imbuing mats and other goodies are being added to PvP Coin Room, simply join the battles, nothing to lose, and you will always get at least 1 pvp coin. You can buy some of the most important imbuing materials there along with a lot of great things.
- Type [battles to see the menu of all the battles currently on Pandora.(once I set them all up, you will slowly see more and more) You will also be able to join the Que and get an invitation pop up when you can be teleported to the arena.
- Also it will show times until they start.
- Every battle will be broadcasted to let you know like the Daily Pvp, now since we will have battles pretty much running most of the time, you have the option to choose the battle, then click 'unsubscribe' and this will have the messages not appear to you when that particular battle stats.
- New Battles stats and ranks. Every battle in the new battle system will now record a brand new set of statistics and ranking system. Simple click War on the Battles menu to see this.
- This new system allows us to make new automatic battles on the fly. With a full adjustable schedule.
- Like any new large system, you will slowly start to see more and more things appear with this. At first, a couple battles will be listed. But that list will keep getting bigger with all kinds of scenerios. Including free for alls, random 2v2s, large arena fighting thats like field fighting.
- This battle has all kinds of new things in it, too many to list. A couple is specific weather for the arena, raining fire that will hurt you, an arena cleaner that just loves to spray blood all over, team colors where you are fully dyed a certain color to know who your teammates are, etc.
- If for some silly reason you do not want to participate in the battles, you have the option to just join as a spectator and just watch.
- Some battles that require a certain amount of players to actually put you in the arena, will give you a pvp coin just for joining but teleport you to the bleachers and it will run again another time with more players.
- I will say this again, the battle system is just starting. In future we will expand the events and styles, for example we already have most of the capture the flag done in this system, but want to work on that a bit more before we put it live.
- Lots of cool features, play with it... Keep note this is a brand new HUGE system. Might be a couple of bugs or things we need to tweak. But needs live shard wear and tear to see them.

REMEMBER. PVP COINS HAVE NICE VALUE. YOU ALWAYS GET ONE. WIN OR LOSE. YOU NEVER DIE. YOU DON'T LOSE ANYTHING. JOIN THEM JUST TO GET THE COIN, ONLY TAKES A COUPLE MINUTES. EVEN YOUNG PLAYERS. (But do not join multiple characters, and if you stand still not doing nothing, battle will assume your afk. So run around)

New Toolbar

- As you will see there is a new style theme for the toolbar. Some player's would get distracted by the colors, so put it to be more like UO. But dont worry...
- If you click the Pandora Toolbar box, you can choose a couple of different colored themes! Some are like living in the 80s and being on a techno dance floor!
- Also you can now customize your toolbar, adding columns and more and more boxes.
- You can place the toolbar whenever you want, or simply minimize it.
- Lot's of cool features, play with it.



TWEAKS

- New Message Board Styles and themes!
- Alchemists NPC now sell Bottles again.
- You can now use glassblowing pipe and book at 0.0 alchemy.
- Gargish Breath of Dead abilities now work. You might have to page to get you'res traded in though.
- You will dig for sand a bit faster, get a bit more sand during a dig, and the spot you're digging will refill to be able to dig at again much faster.
- Toolbars have been changed a bit, if you had custom entries you will need to redo them.
- Added to players toolbars, is 'Video Tutorials' this is our fast growing YouTube channel (thanks to player Soultaker) that has tutorials on all types of things in Pandora. With video, music, voice explaining it. Easy to follow! There is only 4 in there now, but 1 is being added every week. Next is Imbuing & Battles/PvP Basics. Make sure to thank Soultaker for doing these, they take a lot of time.
- Michael Helmsley is taking over NPA, New Player Alliance guild. If you want to join the guild send him a PM in IRC or game.
- NPA Guild house has a public moongate and training elemental
- Pandora Galleon price has been lowered to 350k (no there will not be refunds on previous ones)
- PandoraUO.com has been updated with a Voting page and Videos page of all the great (and a lot more to come) tutorial videos for things in Pandora.
- You will notice basic armor is a part of sets now. If you match all the pieces you get a bonus. Really cool for the newer players.

Much more coming! Vorspire & I have some really neat things in the works.

Now time to set up the battles, you guys will start to see them pop up in [Battles menu. Each one takes some time though.