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May 25th, 2007
The NUO server is back online at the request of some KoA members. In light of there be nothing else worth playing, we hope to afford everyone a home, be it temporary or more permanent, in NUO. Be sure to read through the website as NUO, though based on Pre-AoS Ultima Online, is very different in some aspects. It is its own game with its own mechanics, rules, culture, etc. Old player accounts are still intact. If you have trouble remembering passwords, you may contact the Administrator to have your old password reset, allowing you access to your old account.
December 12th, 2006
Housing Decay will be activated in the near future. This means homes must be refreshed a minimum of once every thirty days or risk falling down. Homes cannot be replaced if they fall. Homes require gold maintenance to refresh on a regular basis. Many of our old players have homes that did not fall as Housing Decay was never fully instituted. If you plan on possibly ever returning to NUO, be sure to log in regularly and refresh your home.
September 28th, 2006
NUO after having been offline for sometime, is back online. There has been no open recruiting or announcement as we are really only being played by a few family and friends currently. However Auto-account Creation has been enabled so that anyone may play. Housing Decay has been temporarily turned off so that old homes from our last group of players do not fall for the present. All accounts were maintained from last March as well with characters and bank accounts intact. Ingame support is not available. Should we see a sudden influx of players/guilds where servicing the public is again a need, changes to all of the above will be executed.
March 5th, 2006
NUO server has finally reached the phase of Open Launch. Housing Decay is currently active so you will all need to refresh homes and any other elements that require regular maintenance such as pets. If you have not been playing with us through the closed Invitational phase in the last few weeks, be sure to read the PATCH notes on our forums. Catching up on the website is also recommended, however that is a more extensive read.
There are also a few one-time items of note for today, March 5th. These are items or systems that are available for one day only so it is recommended that you review the list carefully.
- A Magic Jewel Transmuter has been placed in the Bank in Homestead. Dbl-click it with Magic Jewels in your backpack and it will instantly transform them into Silverlode. Magic Jewels are an obsolete fuel for Spellcrafting.
- A Pre-Registration Reward Stone has been placed in the High Council Hall. If your account was registered by Feb. 26th, dbl-click this stone to recieve your rewards today only! March 6th, the Stone self-deletes and there is nothing any of us can do for you.
- At 7:00pm EST there will be an expose on the Voodoo system. All attendees ought to meet at the Keep northwest of Homestead ONTIME if you wish to receive the expose giveaways.
February 22, 2006
NUO server is now online for returning player accounts. This phase is considered a live phase and there are no planned wipes so everything you accomplish and accrue will be carried forward through Open Launch. Housing Decay is currently inactive so many of you will find that your homes are still intact. However, Housing Decay will soon again be activated. Please login to refresh homes and any other elements that require regular maintenance such as pets.
In addition to all the other Pre-Registration rewards, we have two Early Settler incentives. Details on the (GSC) Guild Supremacy Competition can be found here. Winners will recieve:
- A Runic Hammer ticket that will generate one random ore type hammer. To date, there are NO runic hammers in NUO so this is a very exclusive offer.
- The first Ancient Spellbook, used for Spellcrafting. These books are EXTREMELY RARE monster drops. This is indeed a prize of great value!
- 50 Silverlode for your Guild.
- GSC Prize Winner House banners.
Secondly, we are offering a one-time building size restriction waiver on the first Player City to reach 10 buildings. That means the first city to have ANY 10 buildings, regardless of size, will receive:
- Streetlamps, roads/paths, and a Town Stone with your City name will be placed.
- An apothecary. One Wandering Healer will be placed near your City.
- Stables will be placed with an npc vendor who shall share a percentage of his gross income with your Mayor to distribute as he/she sees fit.
- A Guard House will be placed within your City. Inside it will have a store of wooden planks for maintaining the structure. This pile of wood planks can be "charged" by dbl-clicking wood "boards"(from a Carpenter) and targeting the wood pile. As long as a wood pile has ample charges, a Warlord or Guildmaster of the Guild that owns the Guard House can commission mounted Guards to protect your city from Red characters. The Guards do not insta-kill but rather fight much like any other npc. You will commission 1 Guard for every 100 charges on the wood pile to a maximum of 10 Guards. Guards may only be commissioned once per 24 real-world hours. Anyone may add boards to the wood pile store up to the maximum 1,000 boards at any time.
- Market status. A Moongate will be placed within your City limits with connections to a large network of locales to facilitate consumer traffic.
- NPC Vendor(s) will be placed for popular sale items (ie. reagents, home deeds, etc.) with a percentage of gross income going to Mayor.
February 9, 2006
NUO will be opening temporarily this Saturday and Sunday for all Registered account holders. Saturday, players will be able to get an experimental copy of many of the Arms Lore weapons available in NUO. These copies will not require that you actually have the Arms Lore skill so that everyone can play with them and see how they function.
Sunday, all six PvP Region stones are in place and players can war over control of them. Either by forming their own Guilds and warring each other, or joining either the Minoc and Vesper Order/Chaos stones.
Of course, your account must be Registered by this time to participate. Have fun!
January 31, 2006
NUO is poised for a grand re-opening! We have a core staff in place and have made many major improvements to the code, ingame design, and website. Having been through a very successful Closed Beta in the previous build, we are proud to present NUO to our players as an Open Beta. In short, this means major systems were checked out and we plan on no account or world wipes from this point forward.
We are preparing for an Open Launch near the date of March 5th, 2006. Account holders pre-registered by February 26th are invited to begin play March 3rd. Returning players with accounts from our last build will find their accounts and characters intact and are invited to begin play March 1st.
If you are a returning player or a new player with an account pre-registered by February 26th, you will be an important part in evaluating and stress-testing elements custom to NUO. As such, you are entitled to the following incentives:
- 10,000 extra starting gold
- One of each Ancient Alchemy potions
- A temporary ethereal mount
- One Silverlode
- Assorted crafting tools and resources (if your character has crafting skills trained)
- And a chance in the raffle for a free Sandstone home!
If you haven't already, be sure to pre-Register for an NUO account by Feb. 26th, 2006! All rewards can only be collected on the Open Launch day, scheduled for March 5th.