I added the first of Three type trainers in Britain, just outside the bank.

This one is a “lesser” skill trainer for the normal Elven class.
There will be Lesser, Minor and Greater trainers.

There will be Trainers for: Normal Elf, Shadow Elf, Vampire, Dwarf (for now, with time maybe one for each race)

The trainers can teach you different abilities and skills (only one can be activated at a time)

Tomorrow im gonna add the Vampire Trainer.
And add a quest or two.

I want to thank you all for doing such a great job and reporting bugs and telling me all your ideas, thats what makes this shard something special .. mainly its you who form it, i just try to integrade your ideas in a way so they will work with the shard engine.

Also i would like to welcome Counselor Dada (better late then never
Who is doing a great job taking care of pages and hosting events.

I see fewer and fewer “greater” bugs, mainly its just typos and other mismatches, stuff that is easy to fix in a matter of minutes, so i think we are heading in the right direction.

I know many of you hunger for more quests! and new monsters and dungeons, but stay tight, ill take care of that very soon!

-Lano

Well as the beta moves along, we kill more and more bugs, and thats good!
So keep up the good job and keep me posted on those bugs you find.

Changes:

I added a Death Shrine for all npc’s.
So from now on if you are on a quest that requires you to collect some special loot from some specific monsters, 2xclick the Death Shrine that appears, it will supply you with the items.
Thatway, even healers who have done no dmg to the mob can get the items, or you can have a newbie friend come along and loot what you kill.
Also it secures that pets wont get the quest item needed.
The Death Shrine remains for 20sec, and just like the Boss Shrines it can only be clicked once by every player in the region.

The Death Shrines will be made “ghostly” so players can run through them, so they do not block.

I also altered the mining on the Dwarf accounts.
As a dwarf you now gain hits and stam from mining if you are low on it, also only a Dwarf can dig out Fire, Dwarven & stone ore from now on.

I am currently also updating the crafting menus, so they become more logic for the racial crafts.

All World Rep. gains from crafting will be removed, i have already removed it from some skills, but this is a major job, so it will take some days before i am all done.

The Shadow Elf can now use platemail.
NOTE: everyone who has created a shadow elf before this change was made, please page me in game, so we can fix your toon so he/she can use the platemail ability.

I am also working on a larger amount of new bone and leather armors (craftables)

Quests:

Tomorrow i will start to add quests, i will start adding quests in Brit, then i will go for the dungeon quests, and then the red quests.
So lets see how many i can get done.

Also i am not only planning on remaking the old quests, but also adding a lot new ones, so if you have some good ideas, let me know.

For one, i will ad a repeatable quest that will let you pick which monster you want to kill.
Headless, Gargoyle, Daemon, Dragon.
So even a newcomer can participate in this repeatable quest.

Overall:

I see lesser and lesser errors in the console, so we are doing a good job, we have already gotten rid off a big amount of bugs, but there are still many to come.

Poisoning, Resistances and so on, should hopefully also be fixed in the weekend.

My guess is the Beta will still run for about a month.

I am currently working on fixing the bugs you listed.
I should be done with that within this week.
I am also working on a new propper-working resistance system, since the one we got not seems to work at all.

The Upcommin weekend i will focus on three things only:

1. Quests
2. Artefacts.
3. Leather & Cloth armors/craftables.

So dont page me in game with hundreads of idias and bugs, post em on the forum, it its an emergency, yeah page me, but else, i will need the time to get the quests done, i am way behind with those.

Oh and i allready added three new artefacts:

Varkamian Bow Of Speed
The Crimson Claw
Kylies Cleaver of Firy Inferno

-Enjoy.

Seems like the server is down, nothing i can do here from work thou.
Ill look into why it is down when i get home.

I am sorry for the down time.

Server was off the grid for 10min today.
Sorry, but its back up and running

I have updated the “Shard Information” page.
Also i posted the armour ar values on the forum for you guys to see.

I will add Installation guide on the “Join now” site, so more players can join the open beta.
And to all beta testers, keep up the good work, and keep posting those bugs

Yeah, i think we are good to go…..i think :/

Just a few notes thou:

Do not start the quests which have not been rescriptet to the new dialog boxes yet.
You can see an example of the new dialog boxes in the “screenshots” section, everything that looks something like that is OK.

If you however do accept some of the quests running the old “boring grey message boxes” they will still work, but you will not gain the proper rewards or reputation and so on and so on.

I did rescript most quests in Britain to the new dialog box system, so those are safe to accept.

I have NOT rescriptet any of the “red karma” quests yet, so if you are planning on playing evil, and getting “red” fast … you’ll have to wait a few more days

—THIS IS BETA:

And therefore there may be a lot of bugs, so be patient, and report everything you find!, i will be afk the most of the evening, but the shard should be up for you testers who are willing to give it a try.

IP: 87.54.130.24 port: 2593

just download the UO ML client, let it update (uopatcher) to something between client 7.0.2.2 and 7.0.5.0
i myself run: 7.0.2.2 and 7.0.5.0 and they seem to run smooth.

When done updating, download the TNL files, and change the login.cfg.

If you have trouble connection post it on forums, i think i forwarded the whole deal right through the router, but i am not a 100% (new router)

So remember, the beta is to find and fix bugs, so be prepared for a lotta bugs commin’ your way

-See you in game.

Happy New Year all!

I have been working on the shard since early morning to get it ready for tomorrow.
But now im gonna head home and visit the family.

I basicly still need to script the “bribing system” and rescript a whole lotta quests to the new dialog system.

But mainly as soon as all the quests in the starting areas are done, hopefully i can rescript the rest as the shard goes along.

But for now, Take care and get into 2012 with all 10 fingers remaining please. (or 12 if you were born that way..i guess :/ )
Cheers and happy new year!

Hi all, we know we promissed to open for Beta today, but sadly we decided first to open on sunday, the server is running stable and all, but neither me or Cyrus have the time to be on the shard theese days, with newyear and all.

And opening a beta server with no GM’s available would not be very helpfull, so we set the beta launch dato to:

Sunday evening.
The download section willl be updated sunday as well so you have access to the required files.

We are adding owner information to the pet/companion system.

So if you see a tame pet/companion/minion it would say:

“pets name”
[owner: "your name"]

like:

Jeff the gorilla
[owner: Lano]

Also we are trying to make a auto shrink system that triggers on logout, so everytime you log out with pets active, your pets will be auto shrunken and transfered to your bank or the backpack maybe.
Normally pets linger in game even after you logout, that sucks if you are a Reaper or Beastmaster and have some favorite expensive pet by your side, and have to logout fast.