Games and Events

Games

One of the main features of UO Evolution that sets it apart from the competition is that the staff runs about 10 events daily and plans epic events each holiday! We have also set up many automated events daily, and also made it very easy for players to plan and execute their own events with staff assistance. No other shard runs this much entertainment!

Games Gallery

Bomberman!
Texas Hold'em Poker
UO Evolution Christmas
Battle Chess
Battleboard Game
Champion Spawn
Grand Auction Event
Epic Ship Battle
Dungeon Adventures
Valentine Event

Special Events

The staff runs "special events" during holidays or for testing new game mechanics. The GM will announce the event with a gump which will describe the event details. You can also use the [event command to open the gump at any time to view your progress. In general, these are "kill this" or "collect that" type of quests and can be done by most players.

BattleBoard

Battleboard is like a board game. You receive a bag with dice and your number. When it is your turn, you roll your dice and move forward the number of spaces that you rolled on both dice. The first person to the end wins the grand prize. All participants receive a prize bag at the end! Rules:

For all forward moves, follow the directions on the tile.
White tiles are neutral and do not require any other action.
When you land on a colored tile, click on the tile and follow the directions.
If you land on a tile that requires you to pick another player to move, you will roll the golden dice to pick the player, then roll your red dice to move them.
The Orange, Blue, and Pink tiles are prize tiles. The GM will place a prize scroll in your pack that you can spend after the game. If you land on a tile with several other players, please step off the prize tile so the GM can target you.
When game is over, turn in prize scrolls to the NPCs in the BB entrance room.
You can only play on one account during the game.
Have Fun!

Battleboard - Event Video

Bomberman

Bomberman Game Instructions:

Double click the Bomberman Game Stone to Create or Join a game.
You can set the number of players and board style.
Players wanting to participate must double click the Game Stone to Join the game and hit Ready to Start.
Players will be randomly tossed into the game board.
A bright orange Bomb Bag will appear in your inventory. Double click it to Drop a Bomb where you are standing.
Blow up the walls to progress but be careful to not blow yourself up!
Explosions blow up in an Intersecting Pattern, similar to a + sign in all directions (see picture below)
Last player to survive wins the match!

Special Items can be picked up to gain an advantage such as:

Explosion Damage - Increases the blast radius of your bombs
Speed Boots - Increases the player's speed tremendously
Detonator - You place your bomb, then you choose when to explode it. Just double click the Detonator and it will set off the Bombs you have placed. The Detonator can set off 1 Bomb at a time or you can place more than 1 Bomb at a time and set each one off, one at a time.

Bomberman - Event Video 1
Bomberman - Event Video 2

Trivia Contest

The Staff hosts a monthly trivia contest in the discord channel.

Log in and make sure you have subscribed to the trivia channel and then answer her questions for prizes!

Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones instructions

I have set up a game for all the guilds to participate in, its meant to set up friendly rivalries and engage in a bit of roleplay/pvp

Each guild leader has a custom "Gold Crown, King of XYZ" that is cursed. The guild leader must carry the crown on them at all times. If the leader is killed, the crown can be looted as the prize and must be delivered to the killer's guild leader to carry on their character. The crowns must be in the top layer of your pack at all times, not in the bank or in a blessed bag!

If you have more than one crown, you must carry them all on you. If you get killed you can lose all the crowns. If you set up a mutual challenge you may fight for one crown at a time.

I want to encourage the use of the [challenge command and the PVP Challenge System, and duel for crowns...or battle it out with some of the fun games. Even a simple game of chess or a round of Texas Hold'em could be fun!

At the end of the month, I would like the players with any looted crowns to allow a single challenge from the original crown guild leader to have a chance to win the crown back. The game can be anything the crown holder wishes. We can set this up in a fair, neutral place with a staff member present. At the end of the challenge, if a player still retains an extra crown, the player will win the monthly prize and the trophy. I will then return all crowns to their original owners and the game resets for the next month.

Be creative and have fun with this scenario. There will be a trophy each month and a gift to the guild who controls the most crowns on the last day of each month month

Defend your guild leader and your crown, your honor is at stake!

Always remember these key points:

1. No PvP at Staff Events EVER
2. No Cussing EVER
3. No Griefing EVER
4. If you cheat you lose your crown to the person you cheated / pk
5. You must have your crown on you character at all times!
6. This is supposed to be fun for all, and create a friendly rivalry type of atmosphere not generate real negativity across the shard...be mature, this is just a game and meant to be enjoyed

When you have possession of an opposing guild's crown, please make sure there is a reasonable opportunity to let them have a chance at getting it back...duel, gold ransom, trade, chess match, public display of remorse etc...again role play this and make it fun!

Remember you can only be PKed in Felucca, but can be challenged to a duel anywhere...your honor is at stake as a guild leader!

How you resolve these conflicts will demonstrate to your followers, what kind of leader you are...will they view you as a Mighty Dragon or a skittering hopper?

Battle Chess

Traditional chess played on a large board with your choice of unique chess pieces

Casino Games

We have many different Slot Machines, Blackjack and Hi Lo that drop a variety of rare gifts, located in the center of Nu'Jelm

Watch for staff organized Slot and Blackjack tournaments, win additional prizes for winning!

There is also a Texas Hold'em Poker Room in Nu'Jelm with weekly games

Dante and the staff create weekly games and special poker events, watch for in-game announcements

Win 100 MPD as a reward for Knocking Dante out of the game!

Texas Hold'em Rules

Events

Daily Events

UO Evolution has several automated events daily:

Triple Champ Spawn - Random Times
2 Town Invasions Daily - Random Times
2 Non-PVP Champion Spawns daily
Random Power Hours Daily
Fishing Tournament every other day at noon
Hunger Games
Public PVP Champ Event 6pm Daily
New Player Event - Random Daily
Daily Royal Hunts - Automatic
Daily Hide and Seek Events - Automatic
Grand Auction 3rd Sunday of each month at noon cst

The UO Evolution staff run events every day. Watch the chat announcements for details

The NEW Player Guild runs events daily, check with Domino for times

New player orientation daily
New player dungeon stomp or new player champ spawn
Games

Raffles

There are usually 2 items up for raffle each week in front of Britain Bank

Raffles are a regularly held competitions which provide the player base with an opportunity to win rare and high-end prizes. Depending on the raffle, you will be able to purchase tickets with gold from the raffle stone

The stone keeps track of the entries and the winners. If you win the item it will automatically drop to your pack

Grand Auctions

Every month on the third Sunday at Noon PST, the staff hosts a Grand Auction. Many highly sought items can be obtained for a quite a great deal, such as rares, donation items and deco for Gold, Evolution Coins and Evolution Dollars.

Auction rules:

No talking during the auction, unless bidding
Make sure you bid in reasonable increments, please don't bit small amounts at a time
No guild chat, it disrupts the auction journal
Turn off auto looters and grab bags
No casting spells, no macros or any disruptive behavior
When paying the auctioneer, make a check in your pack and let us remove it and drop the item to your pack to avoid a trade crash

Grand Auction - Event Video

House Drops (IDOC)

House Drops are done every 6 months to clear out housing space for new players. The old term was "IDOC" which means a house is "in danger of collapsing." Players that have not logged into the shard for 6 months or more, the abandoned house may be "dropped" and all your items inside the house will fall to the ground and picked up by any player.

This is a very exciting event and players can find many treasured items during the house drops.

NOTE: A good strategy is to scout out houses likely to fall in the future and create rune books to all the potential locations!

Additional Event Rules: This is a large event. Please follow the normal event rules along with the following:

DO NOT place new houses on top of the event
DO NOT complain, whine or cry in public that you did not find any FREE loot!
If you are uncooperative, disruptive or break any rule you will be jailed for the event

Watch the IDOC Video 6th Year Anniversary Event
Watch the IDOC Video 9th Year Anniversary Event
Watch the IDOC Video Explanation of the IDOC Event
View the IDOC Gallery Screenshots from the event

Fishing Tournament

Fishing Tournament Event

The fishing tournament is is run every other day, watch for announcements!

Catch the largest fish within the time limit and win prizes, along with bragging rights! The more players that participate, the better the prize! Turn in your fish to the NPC on the docks at Buc Den, good luck fishing!

>>> Siren's Kiss Trait Added: Max 3 Tiers, gives a fishing bonus and a bonus to the weight of Big Fish caught

>>> When turning in a Big Fish, even if it isn't enough to take the lead, you have a chance of gaining the Siren's Kiss Trait for 12 hours

See Custom Fishing

Town Invasions

Watch for the town crier to call out a town invasion. You will see the message "Yew is being invaded, the guards have fled! help save it's citizens!"

There are several cities that can be invaded, they are all on the Felucca Facet. This is a safe event, there is to be no PK, no PVP and no player looting.

This event is just like a Champion Spawn event, but inside a city and is a good way to practice with a group in a save environment.

There are two town invasions daily, at random times. Watch the town crier, and in discord for announcements

See Town Invasion Video

Triple Champion Spawns

The staff runs a special Triple Champion Spawn Event where 3 random spawns are triggered at the same time! This event is for advanced players only. There is no PKing at events but watch out for area effect weapons and spells, as you could become a criminal and suffer an unfortunate accident.

Champion Spawn Marathons

UO Evolution runs special champion spawn marathon events, usually during holidays. This event is run several different ways:

All the Champion Spawns on the entire shard are triggered at the same time
Single champion spawns are run back-to-back in an arena
Or every champion spawn is triggered one-by-one from easiest to hardest in an arena

Watch the Triple Champion Spawn Event

Hunger Games

Rules:
1) No Stealthing/Hiding.
2) No Leaving the boundaries of the playing field.
3) No Teaming up. (Your partner is your ONLY teammate)
4) No accessing your bank at ANY time during participation.
5) No using guild chat at ANY time during participation.
6) No using vampiric form or shape shifting of any kind.

Information:
The Hunger Games is held in the Lost Lands of Felucca, in the area known as Terra Sanctum. Special Crates will randomly spawn that contain valuable items in them throughout the event area. Loot and use what's inside before another team does to gain an advantage. There are also various crafting stations throughout to help forge new weapons, armor and other tools. You can read more tips on the forums.

Red - Contains medical supplies: Bandages, healing potions, cloth, scissors and various medical based items.
Brown - Contains resource harvesting supplies: Mining picks, shovels, forges, skinning knives, axes and various other items for resource gathering and harvesting.
Orange - Contains spell casting supplies: magery/necro scrolls, reagents, spell books and various other spell casting based items.
Black - Contains dexxer supplies: swords, shields, spears, axes, daggers and various other dexxer based items.
Green - Contains completely random supplies: anything from any other color crate and some items that are not part of the drop tables listed in this post.

Object of the Game:
The UO Evolution Hunger games is a last team standing game that requires skills in various areas including: PvP, Crafting, Taming and Stealing. The strategy is completely up the players. The only objective is to survive until the end. The last team standing will claim the rewards, Nothing else matters.

General Gameplay:
Players will be divided into teams of two (2) and spread out in the starting area. Each team will receive colored robes to determine their initial starting team. These robes may be removed if you wish upon the event starting. Each team will also be placed in their own Teamspeak channel for strategizing for one minute (60 seconds).

Once the event is started (signaled by the referee by saying "GO" in-game chat) teams will break off into whatever direction they choose. Players will seek out supply crates and begin carrying out whatever strategy they decide upon. Players are welcome to kill each other, loot, steal, run, tame, hunt or do whatever they feel needed to survive (as long as they are adhering to the game rules).

Last team standing wins.

Naked and Afraid PvM Challenge

In this event you are naked in an arena and you have to fight off monsters and collect the resources off the bodies to gear up for the next series of battles.

Each wave of monsters gets harder and more challenging. The player that survives the longest wins the challenge

Naked Fistfights PvP

In this event you are naked in an arena along with other players. You can only use your fists to attack with. No spells or healing allowed! You have to fight off the attackers and survive! Last man (or woman) standing wins

Naked Fistfight - Event Video

Hide and Seek

Find the Game Master's Location from a series of hints and win a prize

Lost and Found

There are a few variations of this event

Lost and Found Events

The "Hunt for the Salty Dog's Lost Cannon" event has begun! Follow the arrows to locate the cannon and get a special pirate reward!

The Hunt for the "Bloody Bandage"

Hunt for the "Lost Fishing Waders"

Search for "Vecna's Rune"

Make sure you travel to the correct facet and follow the on-screen arrows to locate the object. The first player to find the item, wins a prize

Note: You can opt out of seeing the "blue arrow" by typing the [noseek command in-game

Scavenger Hunt

Find a list of objects and return them to the Game Master the fastest

Jousting Tournament

UOE hosts a Jousting Tournament every Summer

Safari Event

Each time you see the staff message call a Safari event, it means that the rare pet tamables have been reset and are currently spawned. Immediately start searching the world for the special animal and tame it!

Royal Hunt Event

See Royal Hunt

Role Play Events

There are many custom roleplay events run by staff and by players. See the Roleplaying section of the wiki for details.

Crafter Challenge

Follow the directions of staff and craft the required items in the time limit

Pet Wars

Each month, players fight their pet vs pet battles in an arena for prizes and glory!

Watch the calendar for event announcements

What is Pet Wars?

Pet Wars is a battle between pets! Each month a specific pet is chosen and you train it for battle! You must tame your pet and tag it with a “Pet Wars” tag that you obtain from an animal trainer. Then level up your pet for the big battle!

Rules:

Pet should be Generation 1 and max level of 30
You must tag your pet before you can begin training it. If your pet has already attacked anything, the pet cannot be tagged.
Do not add modifications to the pet such as level deeds, potions, etc.
When in the arena, you must remove all weapons
No healing of the pet or casting of any kind!
NO PVP or stealing!
You can only enter one account!
Train up your pet and prepare for battle!

The winner and runner-up will be awarded prizes and the Pet Wars title. Prizes are also given to all participants.

PVP Events

Each week players gather at RED CITY and run a PVP tournament. This is a safe event for the participants and spectators.

Currently players meet at 7pm shard time, every Friday

Learn how the top PVP players fight and watch the action!

Make macros
Training techniques
Check out gear
PVP secrets?
Learn tips

PVP Fight Night - PVP duel Video

Battle Royale

The Battle Royale is a chaotic free-for-all pvp event. It is held in a confined, walled arena and is basically a "Last man standing" type of event.

The GM unleashes boss monsters and champ spawns during the pvp melee, causing mass confusion and danger for all the participants.

You can exit anytime if it gets too intense. If you leave the walled area, you are out of the event

Staff Run Event

The UO Evolution staff plans events for each holiday and runs random events daily. Check the calendar daily for event updates

We usually run:

2 random town invasion events daily
2 Champion Spawns, around noon and 7pm shard time
1 Staff prime time event daily (5-7pm)
Fishing Tournament
Happy Hour meet and greet!
Stealing Events
Backpack Art Contest
House deco Events

Player Run Events

We do allow and encourage players to run events. Many players plan a weekly event and others just run a one time event. Here are a few successful examples of player run events:

Scavenger hunt
Chess Tournament
Pet Wars
Boat race, horse race, marathon etc
Hide N Seek
Trivia Contest
Player-run Auction
Harrower - Harrower Video
PvP type of events

Make sure you pick an open date and time that does not conflict with Holidays or staff events

PM Dante with detailed event info, rules, prizes, time, date and if you will need any staff assistance during the event. We will also add it to the calendar and help promote if you contact us in advance

Holiday Events

UO Evolution plans epic events on every major Holiday! Take a look at our holiday screenshot gallery and watch some of the great videos we have taken over the past decade!

Holiday Events Gallery

UOE Anniversary Auction
Black Friday Event
UOE Halloween Event
Christmas Event
St Patrick's Day

Shard Anniversary
St Valentine's Day - Event Video
St Patrick's Day
Easter
Friday the 13th
Veteran's day - PVP Event Video
Mother's Day
Father's day
4th of July
Pirate Month every September
Labor Day
Memorial Day
Halloween - Great Pumpkin Video or Haunted Hallows Video Halloween Event
Black Friday
Thanksgiving - Turkeygeddon Video
Christmas
12 Days of Christmas
New Year's Day

Custom Staff Events

Mythos of the Serpent Pillars Adventure Video
Adventurer's Guide to Seafaring Video Guide
Friday the 13th Video
Friday the 13th Crystal Lake Adventure Video
In Danger of Collapse IDOC Event Video
Homebrew Festival Event Video
Fort Auchenshuggle House Building and Deco Event
Kane's Monthly Event