No longer with Alexandria, WarLocke is starting up a new project targeted at radically changing how people see UO emulation. Give the page a quick visit and sign up if you’d like to hear more about the project as it develops:

AdvanceUO Project

While the current recommended client version remains set at 7.0.11.0, some players have informed me that they are running the latest EA client (7.0.15.1 at this time) with little trouble. What this means right now is it’s still an “upgrade at your own risk” situation, but at least people stuck with the current EA client will be able to connect.

So, hey, drop in if you haven’t before!

VITAL INFO: Minimum client version is 7.0.9.1, maximum tested stable client is 7.0.11.0, if you patch beyond that you may experience unexpected results, and at 7.0.13+ you MAY NOT BE ABLE TO CONNECT AT ALL. Therefore:

The recommended client version is 7.0.11.0

Other changes as follows:

• Updated to latest RunUO codebase, r665, which includes 7.0.9.x support. Lots of tweaks here, you may find some old issues resolved that aren’t listed in this post.
• Shadowstrike specials should cause a brief “speechless” duration on AGS marks, disallowing guard calling (untested, may or may not work).
• Affixed item seller prices are down 25% to 37,500gp (from 50k)
• Begging gold should respawn regularly.
• TasteID should work to identify poison on beverages.
• Khaldun DreadPriests should no longer continually resummon corpses (unsure if this was the source of issues, will require some live testing).
• Kraxxis will now despawn when his spawner puzzle resets.
• Kraxxis lootpack now contains 10 randomly affixed items.
• Loot instancing has been disabled in felucca.
• Dungeon treasure chests now begin to decay once an item is removed.

Wanted to get this live ASAP so that new client downloads (at version 7.0.10.0) will work.

Call it an experiment, but I’ve wanted to throw this out there for a while now: Give the players a diagram of how a system on Alexandria works, and see what kind of submissions they come up with for new content. So, here you go:

You love Order and Chaos. You wish there was more of it. I bet you could design a better system than I can. In fact, I’m counting on it. I’ve written up every piece of useful O/C functionality in a big old class/method listing. It’s available via a link in the Resources page, or via the following link:

Order / Chaos API

Please send submissions in a standalone style in ZIP format to WarLocke on the forums.

Have fun!

I’ve posted a fairly comprehensive new Connecting Page, so please take a brief look at that and see if I missed anything.

I made you a website. I hope you don’t mind. Love, WarLocke.