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March 2, 2001
OSI: Publish Update, Chesapeake Shard
The following was just posted to FYI on the UO.com website:Publish Update, Chesapeake Shard
We will be publishing the changes and fixes listed in Testing for Next Update to the Chesapeake shard to be active following its Sunday, March 4th (local server time) maintenance period. Changes in this publish include:Please note: as this publish includes a major number of changes necessary for Ultima Online: Third Dawn, including the addition of the Ilshenar land mass, the Chesapeake shard maintenance period will last approximately 6 hours on Sunday.
- The addition of the Ilshenar land mass
- Taxidermy kits
- Hair Stylist NPCs
- Item Identification changes
- Good creatures vs. karma
- Player-owned vendor changes
- And several additional updates and fixes listed at
http://update.uo.com/next.hmtl.
Important: While the publish will activate the Ilshenar lands on the Chesapeake shard, the Ultima Online: Third Dawn client is still in beta testing stages. Please keep this in mind before traveling to Ilshenar with any of your established characters. You will be unable to access the Ilshenar lands without the Third Dawn beta client.
We will be opening a Test Chesapeake shard later this evening for those players wishing to test the publish changes on a backup version of the Chesapeake shard. We urge Chesapeake players, as well as other interested players, to drop by and join in the testing.
We will monitor the Chesapeake shard over the remainder of the weekend, and barring any issues, will announce a publish schedule for the remaining shards next week.
Posted by Keith at March 2, 2001 6:46 PM