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Hello Uthgard community. There are some news we would like to tell you.
Item Usage
There was a bugfix to item usage via quickbar. You can't use items anymore by just clicking them on the quickbar or by just hitting the appropriate key.
Like on live you need to press the USE key first (see /keyboard, default should be 'u').
Alternatively you can place the effect icon (the one you see in the bottom when rightclicking the item) in your quickbar and use it directly. Or just rightclick the item and type /use.
Also, you cannot equip items from your backpack via quickbar anymore.
Evern Loot
There was a small bugfix to Ethereal Drakescale Band and Luminescent Drakescale Band dropped by Evern in Old Frontiers. They are now rings, not bracers. If you still got the bracer version you can trade it in via /appeal.
Xmas Quest Tokens
New NPCs joined the capitals to trade in your quest tokens from the winter market.
Darkness Falls Monsters
Several mobs had their positions updated and/or fixed to be live like. A misplaced purple nightmare near the Midgard shredders was removed and players can now pass the area again, like before.
Account Hijacking
During the past weeks we had a few account hijacking attempts. Unfortunately some of them were successfull. Most of the accounts that were hijacked had the same login data on other freeshards. One of these freeshards seemed to have an unencrypted login database.
Usually the passwords for all accounts are saved encrypted. This means if you enter a password like "pancake" it is saved as "fc5930a6007fef9b7d998f205417e671" in the database. Everytime you log in, the password you have entered is encrypted and checked whether it matches with the saved hash in the database. If encryption is deactivated in a server's database, the passwords are saved as plain text and can of course be read. Please do not use the same login data on other servers.
However we have reacted to the hijacking attempts in two ways: We have banned the hijackers and we have developed a safer system for password and email changes. As you may have noticed, you will no longer be able to change your password as long as there is no email address set for your account.
As soon as an email address is set, it is not possible to change the email address or your password like it was before. If you want to change one of them, a confirmation email is sent to your email address. After you have confirmed your request, you can make these changes effective.
If you have lost your account due to the hijacking issue, please use our account recovery form. Please note that it is always way easier and safer to recover an account, if an email address is set. This is the only fast way of identifying you as the account owner. |
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Password Security
If you have played on other freeshards with the same account/password combination you use on Uthgard, change your password right now! As you know, DOL is an open source project. Therefore, a malevolent freeshard admin could change the code and log your account name / password when you connect to his shard.
As we have seen quite a few account hijackings recently, we suspect this is the case, though we cannot identify any shard yet. If you have played on another DOL shard, if you might have used the same account/password combination, consider your account to be insecure.
For your information: We cannot restore any lost items, if your account was hijacked.
For your own security, change your password right now!
Generally speaking, do not use the same account/password at different servers/sites. This means not only DOL shards, but also board logins, Ebay, Freemailers, anything.
You can change your password ingame with the command "/password"
Usage: /password <current_password> <new_password> |
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Photographer: Florian Rommerskirchen
The whole staff wishes you a happy new year!
Much has been done in the past year, even more will be done in 2010. Let's go on, let's make Uthgard even better in the next year!
Support:
We kindly ask for your understanding if support requests take longer than usual to be answered, since most of the staff is partying and getting royally drunk. :)
Staff opening:
If you want to support Uthgard and the current staff, do not flame and have a talent to deal with people, apply as a moderator. Nayru is waiting for applications. |
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The whole staff wishes you a merry christmas. Have some peaceful and merry days with your families, as we will.
We kindly ask for your understanding if support requests take longer than usual to be answered.
Uthgard Xmas Event
Like in the past year you can download the official Xmas Mod (DAoCPortal Patch) here (Official Download Section) or here (external Link) (md5: c121d58236e0f904fde3b39531635d2f).
There will be no Snowball Hunt this year, instead you will be able to do new quests there or visit the Christmas market.
You can visit the Xmas Zone via channelers in the capitals or Mag Mell, Mularn and Cotswold from 25.12. till 26.12. (or may be even longer).
Update: Zone will be accessible till 31th Dec (at least).
Update: All Quests will give "tokens" as a reward. Keep them. You will be able to trade them for real rewards later (even in the new year).
Housing
We noticed that housing is more and more used by the players and added many new housing lots in every zone. Additionally you can find a new NPC at each housing zone entrance that can tell you where free lots can be found.
Staff Changes
We'd like to give a warm welcome to Eleras and Wally (again).
Ayjub, Endiku, Raik and Reiley have left the staff and we thank you for the great work you did on Uthgard.
Quests
245 Quests are currently implemented. And more to come soon every week. There will be a change for all Epic Quests, too. More on that later.
German Game Clients
Climbing Walls (Klettern) should now work with German Game Clients, too.
1.99 Support
1.99 Game Client Support has just been activated.
Lagshadows & Clipping Range
We did some fixes to Lagshadows and also increased the Clipping Range.
Edit: Begintime updated |
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Hello Community,
some more news for you:
Old Frontiers
So far, the introduction of Old Frontiers has been a huge success. More players than ever are in the RvR zones, fighting their realm enemies (or trying to level under the constant danger of being attacked).
You have already found some bugs that we did'nt notice in internal testing. Some of them have been fixed, others will be shortly. Thank you for every report that helps us to improve OF and Uthgard.
edit:
When repairing or upgrading keep doors, keep in mind that you need less wooden boards when you use better wood qualities. Here is a small table to show the relations:
Rowan - 1 wood units Elm - 4 wood units Oak - 8 wood units
Ironwood - 16 wood units Heartwood - 32 wood units Runewood - 48 wood units
Stonewood - 60 wood units Ebonwood - 80 wood units Dyrwood - 104 wood units
Duskwood - 136 wood units
This means that 10 ironwood boards are for repairing/upgrading the same as 80 rowan boards. Higher wood qualities have a worse cost-benefit ratio (10 ironwood boards cost more than 80 rowan boards), but you won't have to run so often between the keep and the merchant.
General Conduct
In the last few weeks we noticed a growing number of complaints about players/groups "adding" other fights or "zerging".
DAoC is a game in which three realms compete against each other. This may include duels between solo players or "8vs8" fights, but is not limited to them. 8vs1, 24vs8 or 50vs50 fights are viable too.
If you like a certain playstyle (like for example, 8vs8) you may play according to that arbitrary ruleset, and others might be playing like that too.
But you may NOT insult/flame other players in any community part just because they don't want to play with your arbitrary ruleset.
We are now taking a closer look into the broadcast chat of all realms and are aware of the different ban times allocated for "bad language in broad".
The severity of the punishment (from friendly warning to permanent ban) depends on the severity of the actual bad language that was used.
Staff
We are looking for moderators for our forum and the official IRC channel. Duties include: Keeping those community parts clean and in line with our server/forum/irc rules, possibly translating News. If you have participated in our community for some time, do not flame yourself and think you have a certain talent to deal with other people, please write an application to Nayru. |
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The time has come: The Old Frontiers are available. The patch you need to install can be downloaded here: Download (md5: 2cd3aca42893e8417956747aaf079ecb)
Further information and an explanation for the setup can be found here: Link |
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We are moving to the new server in a few minutes. The new ip address is:
88.198.56.21
The relocation will take a few minutes. The host uthgard.game-server.cc has been updated, but since some DNS servers take over changes slowly, you should use the ip address until tomorrow. |
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We finally got access to the new server and currently setting it up.
Additionally the old server runs one day longer - so there will be probably no downtime.
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Hello Community.
We'd like to give you a newsflash about the upcoming week. As we have announced earlier, we have cancelled our contract with the current server hoster. The last day of the gameserver in the old computer center is Wednesday, November 11th. We have ordered the new server, but we did not get access to it yet, so we could not prepare it until now. We hope to get it on Monday or Tuesday, as we need about one day for setting up everything. It could be possible that we can't hold our promise to change the server on the fly due to the fact that we don't know when exactly we get access to the server. I don't think we will have a downtime, but it could be possible.
After the new server is ready, we will start to convert our RvR setting to the old frontiers, as we also announced. We cannot say how long this will take, but it should not last longer than a few hours.
Have a nice weekend!
An infothread about the coming Old Frontiers is now available here |
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The server is offline at the moment, we have neither an idea what's wrong, nor can we do or fix anything. We will have to wait for someone with direct server access. I am sorry. As soons as there are more informations, we will post them here.
Server is back online! |
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