Newsletter

Drakelord

https://mailchi.mp/broadsword/uo-newsletter-4

[quote]In lieu of Holiday Tokens this year we are trying something different and giving everyone a variety of ways to stay busy during the holidays so we have baked our holiday themed rewards into a number of different events including The Artisan Festival, Krampus, and Tears of the Ice Dragon!  You can check out the schedule for those events below,[/quote]

I do not do Bods.  Krampus is/was just a repeat of last years.  And the Dragon of Ice is nothing compared to the event we had in Oct.  Only one page of possible rewards for it?  And they all really nothing I need or wish for.



Merry Christmas, have a safe holiday.

Margrette

I'm disappointed.  Just going to leave it at that.

Marge

The hedges would have been nice as the Christmas token gifts. (It would have also been nice if we could have had clippers work on them. Just think how cute a snowy goblin topiary would be.)

RockStaR

And to top it all off... It's all shardbound....

Pawain

Yes. The book would be great for my no skill guys on other shards.  But they can't get 5 points.

Maximus_Neximus

First time ever with no Holiday gift. That’s really disappointing. 

There wasn’t any new vet rewards this year either, right?

Marge

Yes - back in March

Veteran Rewards

• The Vet Reward selection gump has been redesigned and refactored to improve user experience.
• Statuettes – when locked down in a house will play sound effects when approached
  • Pig Statuette – 1 Year
  • Goat Statuette – 2 Year
  • Ice Fiend – 3 Year
• Enchanted Granite Cart – 6 Year
  • Once every 24 hour period produces 2 granite
  • Can hold up to 20 units of granite
  • Randomly delivers a type of granite when granite is claimed
  • Can be hued with normal, furniture, plant, pigment, and promo dyes
• Power Tools – can hold up to 5000 charges of the associated crafting skill tool
  • Glass Kiln, Glassblowing, Functions as a heat source when ignited – 7 Year
  • Enchanted Sculpting Tool, Masonry – 7 Year
• War Boar – 15 Year
  • Ethereal Mount
  • Cannot be altered with the Retouching Tool

Maximus_Neximus

Marge said:

Yes - back in March

Veteran Rewards

• The Vet Reward selection gump has been redesigned and refactored to improve user experience.
• Statuettes – when locked down in a house will play sound effects when approached
  • Pig Statuette – 1 Year
  • Goat Statuette – 2 Year
  • Ice Fiend – 3 Year
• Enchanted Granite Cart – 6 Year
  • Once every 24 hour period produces 2 granite
  • Can hold up to 20 units of granite
  • Randomly delivers a type of granite when granite is claimed
  • Can be hued with normal, furniture, plant, pigment, and promo dyes
• Power Tools – can hold up to 5000 charges of the associated crafting skill tool
  • Glass Kiln, Glassblowing, Functions as a heat source when ignited – 7 Year
  • Enchanted Sculpting Tool, Masonry – 7 Year
• War Boar – 15 Year
  • Ethereal Mount
  • Cannot be altered with the Retouching Tool

Weren’t those the delayed 2019 vet rewards?

Marge

No - these were for 2019

Veteran Rewards

• New veteran rewards have been added to the veteran reward system!
• Water Wheel – 10th Year
  • House addon that can be placed on existing house addon water features, such as the koi pond
  • Functions as a water source
• Tinker Bench – 7th Year
  • Power tool for tinkering that allows tinkering
  • Stores up to 5000 charges
• Repair Bench – 5th Year
  • House addon that can store and use repair deeds from all crafting systems
  • Stores up to 500 charges per skill
• Embroidery Tool – 4th Year
  • Can be used to embroider clothing items
  • Recharge via NPC tinkers
• Statuettes – can be turned on & off by double clicking and play a sound when approached
  • Krampus – 1st Year
  • Khal Ankur – 2nd Year
  • Krampus Minion – 3rd Year

Maximus_Neximus

Marge said:

No - these were for 2019

My mistake. But we are still a year behind on those. These are when publish notes were shared and what publish they came with.

Nov 6 2015 pub 91

Nov 3 2016 pub 95

Jul 24 2017 pub 98.2

Feb 6 2019 pub 104

Feb 18 2020 pub 108

https://uo.com/wiki/ultima-online-wiki/publish-notes/

psycho

Disappointed. Holiday gifts are a tradition

Even if you gave me coal this year it would love the deco

dvvid

As much as I don’t really mind not getting a holiday gift this year, I do think some quick gift could have been put together. I agree with you @psycho it could have been something like a piece of coal and that would still be nice. 

Seth

I think the rewards are the hedges but want us to spend time to get it. I think they should separate event reward and keep to tradition. Afterall, I think some players have habit of activating account end of year as I always did in the past.

Lord_Nabin

The decision to not have a holiday gift this year was in poor taste, lacked understanding of the community, and total fail on Broadswords part. 

I am very disappointed in this decision. 

MissE

Oh well that is two accounts I don't need to bother opening again.  

Soldahouse

I never got newsletter #4 in my email but i did get #3 and it says "Make sure you watch your P's and Q's because Santa is watching and Christmas is right around the corner!"

Drakelord

Soldahouse said:

I never got newsletter #4 in my email but i did get #3 and it says "Make sure you watch your P's and Q's because Santa is watching and Christmas is right around the corner!"

https://mailchi.mp/broadsword/uo-newsletter-3?e=10db9daaab

[quote]Make sure you watch your P's and Q's because Santa is watching and Christmas is right around the corner!

See you in Britannia!

Bonnie "Mesanna" Armstrong
Producer[/quote]

Drakelord

I guess we all did not "watch your P's and Q's because Santa is watching".

Larisa

Yeah and we got Forest spawn, Artisan Festival, Ice Dungeon and Krampus....

I actually got to kill Krampus once....so far this year...hopefully I can get Origin to do it a few more times. Finally got my Naughty title!