Just for nostalgia.  Name has been changed to protect the guilty.  This was on Sonoma.  I still can't find the date, but I'm searching....

Hey that's my shard!

What exactly is the lore/history behind the counselor program? It was in place when I took one of my hiatus's from UO and when I can back it was gone. What happened?

What all did your pro bono work entail? What powers were you given per se?

Props for doing volunteering for that and giving of your time to help the UO community. .

One of my good friends was a counselor for awhile. I also heard about some counselors using shady tactics/powers to help their in game friends. Seems like such a system should still be in place today....

Arggh! I just find this now! LOL!

Thing thing works great. Totally flawless is right.

I've been using craftmatic in quest for Overseer Sundered Blades and I've been holding on to the recipe scrolls and talismans for turn ins.

I spend over and hour or so yesterday turning in points and at the end of the day I had a huge headache and had to load up on NSAID.

This is making the spring clean up so much more pleasureable.

Thanks TM. Two thumbs up (even though I'm a little late)!

I love my KR. and I was there for the UO Beta way back when so I played the 2d client since 97'.  I don't like the constant crashes though that must be from the memory leaks you mentioned... I didn't know that it's sucking my RAM. Does EA know this?

Should post what you said on stratics see if they listen. And your right they should play their own game.

Unfortunately Titan Quest (Iron Lore) went out of business and aren't doing anymore sequels. Crazy how these big companies that put out games that have alot of success go out of business. I remember the 3DO makers of Might and Magic went under too. Craziness...

I guess more than anything I just don't want to see UO go away and hope that they will continue to keep it up to the current level of technology out there. I'd still like to be running around in Sosaria for many years to come plus it would be nice to see it return to a somewhat more popular game that it is now.

I'll stay optimistic about SA client. But history would have me hope for the best and be ready for the worst.

I think the heartwood quests are going to be left alone. I originally interpreted what they said at the townhall meeting they were doing away with them or making changes to them which still may be the case but  I think what they mean is that they're just not going to make more crafting quests similiar to what we have now in heartwood.

As for the upcomming changes to the client I think it's great. I really dig the KR Client but hopefully the SA client will have even better graphics. Anyone ever play Titan Quest? That was a kickass game imo all the time playing it I was saying 'Now if UO could be like this" then it be a hell of a game in today's market. I'm no fan of the 2D client. It has it's nostaligia and all for keeping it as an option but also all for them honing and polishing other clients keeping this great game moving on into the future. I only play 2d when I'm scripting or redecorating my home.

I'm getting burnt out too which is why I'm excited about the expansion. As long as they keep polishing the game up I'll continue to play it. Brittania is my home for sure. It was the father of all that has come after...

What shard are you on? You in need of an apprentice.

I saw one guy on my shard take DH down with Wind's Edge faster than I can do it with my 2 Dragons. Very impressive everytime I've used soulseeker.

I've had a real hard time putting together an all 70's suit with the Mace and Shield glasses.  So I go in with a darkwood suit...

Post your walk through if &when you have the time as I'd be eager to read it. Thanks for sharing...

This was put together by Adam over at UOForums regarding the Austin Town Hall Meeting. I thought I'd post in case anyone wasn't aware of it and we can get feedback from our members. If posting this is not okay then I apologize in advance. Thanks to Adam for taking the time to enlighten the UO community about the future expansion.

This is just a preliminary list of stuff we know so far, from the Austin Town hall.

Seattle Town Hall:

When?

- Stygian Abyss is coming next year sometime (2009)

How?

- Build up to expansion via live ingame events


Gargoyle information.

- Gargoyles have their own animation effects... including flying

- Gargoyles cannot wear human/elf armors

- Gargoyle flying over water... "we don't know"

- No new skills are garg specific

- Jeremy takes a vote and it's 50/50 on having a turn to garg quest

- Gargoyle animations will be seriously different from human/elves

- Inherent Garg abilities: YES. Will show up on website

- Gargs will not have mounts... flying replaces mounts


Client information.

- KR is being improved including new map, more vibrant, better map overall.

- New client being based off of the KR technology (the SA client)

- KR will be fixed. (there goes my question for WRR)

- SA will be for both clients (no details yet)

- Looking to integrate UOA with the client

- 2d UI is not being redone. (seems different than what they said at the first)

- The new UI is under construction


Skills.

- New Skill: Embueing! (Embueing is the "big new crafting change")

- New Skill: Throwing skill: (New weapon skill)

- New Skill: Mysticism

- Crafting to have a HUGE update.

- New champ spawns/power scrolls: Reward system will be different as will the new "boss fights"

- Recall in SA: Still under consideration... limited at best.

- No new skills are garg specific

- Crafters of any race can make garg armor

- Templates are supposed to be cramped skillpointwise


Stygian Abyss Dungeon and Lands.

- Dungeon will look and feel like the original Ultima Underworld dungeon

- Size big enough that they are talking about new hardware to support

- New housing: New housing space is under discussion

- There will be areas in SA reds can go. More detail in the future... PvP content mentioned

- Recall in SA: Still under consideration... limited at best.


PVP Concerns

- Fighting styles between flying creatures: in PvP will be similar to being mounted

- Can you use a Bola on flying gargs... YES. Acts as a dismount and they cannot instantly fly again

- PvP balance in SA: In theory it's supposed to happen in beta. Overpowered templates are not done on purpose.


Creatures of Stygian Abyss.

- New Tameables (New tameables and ridables)


Armor, Weapons and Items

- Will new armor be auto-have or need a recipe... unknown yet

- Garg Slayers Weapons: Will not affect in PvP/ Repond Slayers will not work on humans (PvP)

- New runics in SA: Not tied to expansion

- Randomized resources: To make higher end ore types rare, embueing will make them even more valuable. Mining and LJ rewards time.


Quests.

- "The stupid heartwood quests are not coming back"


Marketing.

- The Retail Box: Still under discussion and another fistfight

-"SA is going to ship when it is ready"

- Pre Order Gifts: To be discussed later

OMG,

What template and what weapon type are you using? And Gear? If that's not being too nosy.

Your making it sound too easy doing 20 in one day! I struggle with Irk sometimes and DH. I've solo'd a few times but by no means do I condsider it a walk in the park.

Fishing pole?What?