Ultima Online: The Second Age Patch Notes for 12/21/1998

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Ultima Online: The Second Age Patch Notes for 12/21/1998

These are unofficial patch notes from the release of Ultima Online: The Second Age. These patch notes were taken from the now defunct www.mengaxe.com web page. As such, the patch notes' formatting differs from their original formatting.

Housing Update Phase 3 Dec 21 1998 1:48PM

HOUSING

• Excess houses are deleted.
  • All unclaimed houses are deleted when the server comes up.
  • All houses with claim ties are deleted.
  • Houses with ties that are both the same person are not deleted.
  • The no build period ends.
• Vendors return to normal.
  • You can place vendors again.
  • They can only be placed in public houses.
  • Vendors gain a new command, "replace," which will dismiss the vendor and create a fresh vendor deed in your backpack. This command only works if the vendor has no inventory. Any vendors bugged during the deeding period can be cleaned up this way.
• You can place guildstones again.
• You can place houses again.
• Tents still cannot be placed.
• Old building "shop" types can be placed, but the ovens, forges, etc, no longer appear in them.
• Architects are around, and they sell deeds again.
  • The old building types that were shop specific are no longer for sale.
  • Tents are no longer for sale.
• Guild deeds may be purchased again.
• Vendor deeds may be purchased again.
• Placement of houses enforces a space limit around the newly placed house.
  • There must be a completely clear 1 tile space all the way around the building.
  • There must be a 5 tile space in the front and back of the house wherein there are no "dynamic" objects. This means that trees and underbrush are OK, but another house is not.
• Houses are now owned by the top claimant, or the placer of a new house. The old concept of keyholders becomes obsolete.
• The top claims are automatically made into owners when the server comes up and when players log in.
• The player is flagged as owning a house.
• The house is flagged as being owned.
• People flagged as house owners are not able to place new buildings.
• Friend of the house is defined as
  • Being the house's owner
  • Being on the house's explicit friends list
  • Being a character on the same account as the owner, unless you own a house yourself
• Functions which previously depended on holding a key will now generally depend on being a friend of the house.
• Vendors will only be eligible to remain in the house if you are a friend, and will pack up automatically if their owner visits them and is not a friend.
• Only the owner of the house will be able to lock down items. A key is still used an interface, but the action will only succeed if you are the owner of the house.
• Only friends of the house will be able to rename locked down runes.
• Owners and friends of the house are able to refresh the house by using the front door.
• Friends of the house (including owners) may defend the house:
  • They may exercise "Texas Law."
  • They may attack non-friends in the house without penalty under the rep system.
  • This only applies to private buildings.
  • They can use keywords to ban and eject people.
  • Saying "I ban thee" will bring up a targeting cursor to ban someone.
  • Saying "Remove thyself" will bring up a targeting cursor to eject someone.
  • The functionality of banning and ejecting is the same as if it were selected from the house menu.
  • Logging into a house will automatically eject you outside the door if you are not a friend of the house.
• House signs gain a new interface.
  • Looking at the sign
    • will give the house name
    • will put (under guard protection) in the case of a public house that is guarded.
  • Double-clicking the sign will bring up a brass plaque with the house name on it.
  • The name of the house will be centered on the sign both horizontally and vertically.
    • Overly long words will linebreak in the middle.
    • Overly long names will truncate after five lines.
  • The sign may be used from inside or outside the house.
  • If the user of the sign is a friend of the house, the brass sign will have a window attached to it with more options.
    • The gump will have an OKAY button that closes the gump. This button also makes the house sign be whatever the currently selected sign type is.
    • The gump will have three tabs, named INFO, FRIENDS, and OPTIONS. Clicking on the tabs between the pages will change the page.
      • The INFO tab will be the front page, and it will have the following:
        • The owner of the house.
        • The number of locked down items, out of the maximum available on the house.
        • The number of secure containers, out of the maximum available on the house.
        • A button to change the house's name.
        • Pressing this button will prompt you to type in a new name.
        • You can cancel typing in a new name by hitting ESCAPE.
        • Having entered a new name, it will become the name of the house.
        • This option may be used by any friend of the house.
        • If the building is public, it will list the number of "visits" the house has had. This is a highly approximate number.
      • The FRIENDS tab will have the following:
        • List friends will list all the friends of the house.
          • If there are many friends, the gump should allow paging through them with left and right buttons on the gray bar at the bottom.
          • An OKAY button should take you back to the front page of the house sign gump.
          • Any house friend may access this list.
        • Clear friends will remove all the friends of the house. Only the house owner may use this button.
        • Add a friend will bring up a targeting cursor to allow you to add a new friend.
          • Only house owners may use this option.
          • There is a limit of 50 friends.
        • Remove a friend will list all the friends of the house with checkboxes so you can choose one to remove.
          • Only the house owner may access this command.
          • If there are many friends, the gump should allow paging through them with left and right buttons on the gray bar.
          • Paging back and forth should not affect which box is currently selected.
          • A "remove now!" button will remove the friend from the list, and redisplay the list with the new friends list.
          • An OKAY button will return to the house sign menu without removing anyone.
        • Ban works exactly as "add a friend" does, except it bans.
          • Any house friend may use this command.
          • Banning will also eject the character from the house, to three tiles from the door.
          • You cannot ban a friend of the house.
          • A message explaining what happened is given to the victim.
          • There is a limit of 50 bans.
        • Eject will bring up a targeting cursor and allow you to target someone.
          • Any house friend may use this command.
          • The targeted individual will be sent outside the house, 3 tiles from the door.
          • The ejected character must be a player.
          • Friends of the house may not be ejected.
          • A message explaining what happened is given to the victim.
        • List bans will list all the people banned from the house.
          • Any house friend may use this command.
          • If there are many bans, the window allows paging through them.
          • The OKAY button will return to the house menu.
        • Lift a ban will list all the people banned from the house, with checkboxes next to them.
          • Any friend of the house may use this command.
          • If there are many bans, you can page through them.
          • The OKAY button will return to the house menu without affecting the ban list.
          • The "remove now!" button will lift the ban, and redisplay the list.
          • Paging back and forth will not affect which box is selected.
      • The OPTIONS tab will have the following:
        • Transfer ownership will let you transfer ownership to another player by bringing up a targeting cursor.
          • The user must be outside the house when the option is selected.
          • Only the house owner may use this option.
          • The target must not own a house
          • The friends list is cleared off the house when ownership is transferred.
          • The ban list is cleared when ownership is transferred.
          • The locks are automatically changed when ownership is transferred.
          • New master keys are given to the new owner (one in the bank and one in the backpack).
          • The ownership of the house is removed from the old owner.
          • Ownership of the house is assigned to the new owner.
        • Demolish house will allow demolishing the house back into a deed.
          • Only the owner may use this option.
          • The option will pull up an "are you sure" gump making it clear that this will delete guilds and vendors.
          • The house will be destroyed.
          • Ownership will be removed from the player.
          • A deed for that type of house will be placed in the bank unless the person is a murderer, in which case it will go in the backpack.
        • Change locks will allow changing of the house locks.
          • Only the owner may use this option.
          • The front door will be deleted and replaced with a new door (thus making old keys useless).
          • New master keys will be given to the owner (one in the bank and one in the backpack).
          • This option does work if the house is public, but since the door is unlockable, it has no real effect.
        • Declare building public
          • Only the house owner may do this.
          • This choice only appears for private houses.
          • Makes the door always openable and unlockable.
          • Makes the building eligible for vendor placement.
        • Declare building private
          • Only the house owner may do this.
          • This choice only appears for public houses.
          • This option will fail with a message if there are vendors in the house.
          • Relocks the front door.
          • Resets the sign to the standard house sign type.
          • Removes the guard region if any.
        • Toggle guard protection.
          • This option is disabled while we assess it for game balance impact.
          • Guards are not aggressive towards murderers, but only towards aggressors.
          • Guards are only aggressive towards aggressors.
          • The victim must be standing on the house.
          • The victim must call the guards.
        • Change house sign will allow you to select a new sign for the house.
          • This option may be used by any friend of the house.
          • This option only appears for public houses.
          • It will bring up a page with sign choices.
          • You can flip between two pages of choices by hitting the more choices button.
          • The selected sign will stay selected regardless of paging.
          • The new sign will take effect when the OKAY button is hit on any page of the gump.
      • Right-clicking will close the window, as usual.

CRAFTING

• Carpentry changes:
  • Gains a new category of items called "House Additions".
    • Blacksmithing additions require a level of the blacksmith skill, wood, and iron.
      • Small Forge
      • Big Forge (facing East)
      • Big Forge (facing South)
      • Anvil (facing East)
      • Anvil (facing South)
    • Training dummies require a level of tailoring skill, wood, and cloth.
      • Training Dummy (facing East)
      • Training Dummy (facing South)
      • Pickpocket Dummy (facing East)
      • Pickpocket Dummy (facing South)
    • Cooking add-ons require a level of tinkering skill, wood, and iron.
      • Stone Oven (facing East)
      • Stone Oven (facing South)
      • Flour Mill (facing East)
      • Flour Mill (facing South)
    • Tailoring add-ons require a level of tailoring, wood, and cloth.
      • Spinning Wheel (facing South)
      • Spinning Wheel (facing East)
      • Loom (facing East)
      • Loom (facing South)
    • Mystical add-ons require a level of magery, wood, and iron.
      • Pentagram
      • Abbatoir
  • Crafting the item will generate a deed.
  • Double-clicking the deed will give you a ghosted image of the item to place.
  • These items may only be placed in a house.
  • You must be a friend of the house to place them.
  • These items are not allowed to be adjacent to doors.
  • Items when placed are immovable.
  • Items when placed are usable, if they have uses.
  • All add-ons may be chopped with an axe by the owner of the house, and will destroy all pieces of the object.
  • Carpentry becomes difficulty-based. You will not be able to craft certain items until you reach a certain skill level.
• Tinkering changes:
  • The range for traps on chests will be three paces.
  • Traps will only damage those who opened the chest.

MISCELLANEOUS

• Guild changes:
  • Warfare:
    • Changing guild types should no longer mess up color highlighting for your current wars.
    • Current messed up color highlighting should clean itself up automatically by setting the sides to being at peace.
  • Monsters will pick up and destroy items that block them as follows:
    • The item must be moveable.
    • The creature cannot be a pet.
    • The item cannot be locked down.
    • The item must be impassable.
    • Monsters can destroy an item anytime.
    • Human NPCs must be attacking someone to destroy an item.
    • Animals must be attacking someone to destroy an item.
    • The creatures will destroy stacked items one at a time.
• Numerous map fixes were made.
• The help menu will point to the correct URL for sending email to Origin.
• Giant frogs will no longer cost you karma to kill.