UO Odyssey

June 2020

Update 001 - 6/01/20

Updated Sosaria map to the latest version of the odyssey maps

• Killing a guard will now give you a kill
• Killing a red: you can now carve up the corpse and drag the head on a guard for a gold/karma reward!
• Added bounties given by guards for ALL human enemies... carve them up and drop a head on a guard
• Updated spawns to match Odyssey - new map changes.
• Fixed issue where a red would discord a player
• Tweaked the difficulty of blues and reds somewhat - they should hit harder, but die easier
• The Town Herald might gossip about your lottery purchases now and other acts that are specific to this server!

Update 002 - 6/03/20

• Reduced red spawns
• Gadget fixed issue with reds who are bards
• Added: The wench! This lady of pleasure will make you feel better and can also be used to change your stats! She can be found near most inns in Sosaria
• Fixed store inventories to match odyssey

Update 003 - 6/06/20

• Added weather! it can rain/snow in odyssey again! Thanks Gadget
• Tweaked the amount of bandages red/blues have (lower) and increased bandage timer a bit for all
• Added Hiding Powerscroll (was missing)
• Fixed numerous crashes and bugs
• Changed squire control slots to 3 instead of 5

Update 004 - 6/09/20

• Updated to latest odyssey version, you can now become a librarian snooping into dungeon bookshelves using a monocle! rewards are very varied - more content thanks to Djeryv in Odyssey!
• Added the original OSI library books to the game. Look for them in dungeon bookshelves
• A number of fixes and updates to a few systems
• DOOM added!
• New Underworld Map!
• Morph Armors

Update 005 - 6/11/20

• Mages now sell a special item: Linked Gates!! These two gates will allow you to move freely (without penalty) between eachother, but are only effective within a facet/world. They are sold at mage vendors.
• All Guild vendors now sell MUCH higher quantities of goods... ingots, cloth, regs, you name it. You need to be a member of that guild to buy from the guildmaster vendor, but it might be worth it! Select items are also cheaper at the guildmaster.
• Reduced the skill gain rate of focus/mediation by a factor of 4. was way too fast before.
• Fixed issue where ClassicUO would show a no tile for a brazier that was not lit
• Players who are over 90% in hunger and thirst will receive a 10% well fed bonus to skill gain chances
• Tamables who are trained over level 25 will now have a chance to lower their control slot requirement by 1 control slot (as long as it is above 2), and all tamables who reach level 50 will lose a control slot requirement. Training and breeding a tamable to level 50 is very difficult, however if someone spends this much time with a tamable they will find that controlling them is much easier.
• Introduced monster nests, these items spawn enemies until they are destroyed- will start populating them around the lands and add a different mechanic to the way dungeons work.
• Skillgain was a bit too easy, so tweaked the skill gain factor for a few skills to adjust the rate of gain.
• Blueguards will now have the same cost as healers for resurrection services
• You can now buy mannequins from tailor vendors! Use them to display your cool armor and suits
• Added 15 new custom artefacts to the loot tables - more content for all to collect.
• Tweaks to henchmen. They were healing 100% of their damage too often, so we added a timer so they can only heal once every 5 seconds now, also, their stats/skills were based off a function of the player's stats and skills/skillcap. Because we have no skillcap, they were SUPER strong by default for almost everyone. this has been tweaked, Henchmen now spawn as a function of the player's stats and will scale accordingly. a 250 stat player will get the henchmen as 100% capacity.

Update 006 - 6/14/20

• Thanks to some amazing constructive and positive feedback given by someone in servuo, we have now made it so any style of play will have unlimited skillcap. Thanks for bringing that to our attention!
• Casino is now open! Look for the door from the Inn - we will be adding games as time progresses.
• Sarth library now has usable bookshelves to store books in! IT's a great place for us to collect all the books int he game and create a public library
• The animal broker can now appraise a pet's value and purchase pets based on a complex calculation that takes into account a pet's max damage, resistances, stats, hits, taming skill required, and control slots required. You can use this to compare two of the same types of pets against each other.
• Corpses will now no longer have weight limits (dump you crap in them when in a dungeon please!)
• Tweaked reds to make them more challenging (again) - blues as well
• Revised widow's keep to make it more challenging... zombies are now more dangerous.
• Zombies can now drop a special unique armor set
• Added a completely new revised Monster Gauntlet in Ambrosia! Has menus now, allows you to pick which spawn you want, and had some special rewards if you're lucky. It also keeps a tally of all persons who complete the gauntlet (score and time to complete). Also, you can't die playing the gauntlet - you just teleport out, so try it!
• Added studybooks and original OSI books to the librarian searches.
• Completely revamped librarian drop rates. as it was before, a powerscroll had the same chance of being found as a magery spellbook :/ now, rewards have different difficulties.
• Changes were made to the way the AFK command works! Instead of the bland *is AFK[TIME]* message you see now, you will now see a randomized sentence! Try it! Also, gaining a skill will now remove the AFK status. If you are macroing, the player is doing an action :)
• Changes were made to begging! You can now receive up to 600gp a shot from begging, and the amount is determined by your LACK OF karma/fame... the closer you are to 0 fame/karma the more likely you are to get 600gp. ALSO, you can now beg other players!! and if they have gold, they will give you some on a successful check!
• Minotaur labyrinth spawns now have a special effect to counteract persons who use the maze hedges in order never to get hit a single time by any of the monsters, minotaurs have a chance of dropping item bless deeds, and slayer stones.
• The virus at widow's keep may now go airborne (wear a mask!), carving a red's body should now no longer cause karma loss
• Changed how tamables follow you... they used to stop when out of sight range and you had to double back and get them... this should now be dramatically improved.
• Trash barrels will now "talk trash" when you put an item in them! Try it out! They will say randomized insults to brighten up your day.
• Fixed an issue where dynamicbooks spawns empty
• Changed how stealth attacks damage was calculated... in odyssey they can do up to 4x damage at gm hiding and stealth. at 60 damage (with damage increase) this can result in 240hp hits, on top of weapon abilities and spells like enemy of one in chiv. reduced this to a random range now between 133% and 240% damage.
• Fixed squirecare book to work correctly, and uses image gump too (thanks gadget)
• First implementation of Morph Armor sets! Morph armor are VERY RARE drops from boss type monsters that will morph you into that monster. Each set will be geared towards a particular play style (melee, magery, stealth) and will have a special ability usable once every 24 hours. In this edit, the first morph armor is the minotaur morph armor. Obtainable from minotaur in the cracked labyrinth. Note that this is very powerful armor, and very rare - all 7 pieces are required for the morph effect.

Update 007 - 6/24/20

• Fixed a crash related to the recent change in OnDamage.
• Fixed an issue that made the [go command stop working and apparently the [sr command start crashing.
• You can now recall out of a dungeon, but you can no longer recall into a dungeon. This is to ensure people need to explore before they get to the big boss, instead of simply recalling in and farming the boss.
• Odyssey was a game meant to be played solo, so Djeryv didn't put any caps on Hp/Stam/Dex regen rates. As such, it was possible to have a character that had 120+ HP regen. We have implemented hard caps (configurable in myserversettings) for these regen rates and they are currently at 35, as well as spell damage increase (maxed to 100%). These had the possibility of making players overly powerful and invincible.
• Implementation of the Doom Gauntlet! This is meant to be ultra high-end content as the mobs there are much harder than in standard OSI servers (because of our no skillcap). I would recommend players really be careful when trying to enter doom and trying the gauntlet - the dark father has over 30,000 HP. This new dungeon will likely need balancing - but all functional parts work properly. The doom entrance can be accessed by asking a NPC in Sarth's abbey about it...
• Aether Globe: The dark father has come and made his mark on the lands of UA! Travel by recall/ dispellable moongate has a chance of incurring the dark father's curse in UA. The dark father is corrupting the Aether slowly but surely, and players need to kill the evil that spreads through the lands in order to counter-act his evil corruption. The Aether globe (there is one in the common bank) indicates the danger level and the corruption of the Aether by the dark father. Killing the dark father completely resets the corruption, and killing monsters with negative karma also reduces the curse based on their karma.
• Dark Father's morph armor now has a chance of dropping in Doom! Various mobs have random odds of having one of these very rare drops. The dark father morph armor will give the wearer the ability to be the lord of death, with a very special (non-aso attribute) feature which I won't write here in order to keep the mystery.
• Conversion of the Underworld! our new Ilshenar map is now live, giving us ample room for new content (stygian dragon anyone?) going down the line. The entrances to odyssey dungeons and features are placeholders at this point, as we did not have enough time to go in and edit the maps to ensure they are seamless. you will see floating mirrors, which are placeholders for now (if anyone wants to work on this, we would welcome it!). Note that we have kept only 6 dungeon dwellings.
• Imported the mounts appearing as they should from the latest odyssey version, thanks Djeryv! great change.

Update 008 - 7/1/20

The release includes a number of different elements - namely around the evil curse taking over the land.

• The math has been reworked and works much more as intended now - when players fight evil, the evil fights back
• There is an investment bag which allows you to invest your money - be careful as the investment returns follow an algorithm around the evil curse which is plaguing the land... if at times of high risk, investments are more likely to fail, but have much higher returns.
• Implemented a dynamic curse calculation that takes into account 3 day moving averages and the rate by which the curse went up or down. In other words, if NO ONE kills a monster for a few days, the rate of change will even to 0, and if the curst goes up by too much, the curse level might actually decrease to help the players out. The system is much more dynamic now - if players rock the house and kill tons of enemies, the rate of change of curse will increase to adapt to the players' activities.
• Implemented an investment algorithm that takes into account the dark father's curse! If times are good and the curse is low, returns should be stable and good (the economy is doing well), but if times are dangerous and the curse is high, you might lose on your investment. Also, i made it so the higher returns are earned (if you are lucky) during times of high risk.
• Also, as an added bonus, I have made it so negative karma characters have a MUCH LOWER chance of suffering the dark father's curse. He is evil after all and so is a negative karma character. to make things fun, i also made it so killing a POSITIVE KARMA mob HELPS the dark father's curse increase! Now, negative karma characters can make things harder for the good guys by killing positive karma mobs (purple mobs, etc)
• I found that with 80+ remove trap i would never trigger a single hidden trap. This is because the hidden trap avoidance is based on a number of different elements (like stats), but the remove trap check is a skillcheck with 0-125 min/max range. A character with 80+ remove trap skill would rarely fail this. So, I have randomized the minimum skill trap difficulty level to make things more fun. A player with gm remove trap might still get stung here and there, albeit rarely.
• With this in mind, hiddentraps will now emit a faint light to make them "spottable". try and find them in dungeons, and use remove trap to deactivate them.
• Complete rework of the curse calculation and investment calculation, tested and works as intended now (10+ hours went into this!)
• Entrances in the new underworld map were placeholders, I added some proper map changes for these entrances, as well as new mobs, etc. you can now fight the stygian dragon in the enslaved goblin fortress!

Lots of changes, much time spent making it all work. note that the client is set for the server, you need to change to localhost if you want to run offline (but why? come join us and ask for the discord link! its more fun with others)

Here is the latest server state - with the latest save. Note that if you're not using the save, at least do the spawngen method to get the mobiles. I highly recommend using the save here since there is lots of content that won't be present if you just update the scripts and use spawngen.

DOWNLOAD the AUGUST 3rd version. I highly recommend you get the ClassicUO Launcher

New Features:

• Working DOOM gauntlet
• Evil/good curse is balanced and re-tweaked (massive update to the algo)
• New dungeon under the widow's keep with quest, etc.
• Underworld is now fully spawned with new mobs

What we're working on:

• All lands have a good-focus, and i have a problem with that (good cities and evil mobs around in the wilderness). *We are in process of creating a land for evil players - where the cities are for evil players, and all the *wilderness is "good". This way an evil player can exist in this land and go out hunting "good" mobs. Spartans, gods, and all those types of goodie two shoes. It's a new concept as far as I can tell (making an ENTIRE MAP this way). This will hopefully encourage players to be evil, and therefore add to the good/evil curse mechanic.

Update 009 - 7/4/20

• Tied in the curse to the mob's HP: the higher the evil in the lands, the higher the HP of the monsters that spawn (global)
• Tied in the curse to the mob's gold drop rates: the higher the evil in the lands, the higher the gold drop rate of the mobs that spawn (harder enemies, more evil, more gold)
• Enhanced necromage AI which was added
• Added paladin AI (chivalry)
• Added 18 new SA artefacts to the loot tables, and simplified how artefacts are excluded from the name generator
• You can now claim a bod whenever you want, there is no 6 hour timer (it was ridiculous to wait that long for a bod and would take weeks to get a decent one).
• New high end smith bod rewards: AOS enhancement deeds - add attributes to any weapon or armor. One handed deed, make any two-handed weapon one-handed
• Added a new quest in the underworld (bill and ted are lost in hell)

Update 010 - 7/14/20

• Evil bards will now ... be bards! they can peace/provoke/discord. AI change
• Doom Lever puzzle added (not yet tested)
• The new dungeon "Widow's Lament" is now live. it's meant to be harder than doom, so be warned. New quest line, as well as an innovative mechanic to get through the dungeon. I won't put spoilers here, but it will change the way you play throughout the dungeon.
• the travel curse will now scale with the evil level. e.g. at max evil the players will lose 1% of at most 50% of their skills. at low evil players might only lose 0.1% of few skills. alternatively, at low evil you might only lose 0.1-0.2 of 2-3 skills
• death penalty will be linked to the curse, which means you won't simply loose 1% or 2% of skills, but rather 0-1% of skills with healer and THREE times that when auto rezing. so if the death penalty stands at 0.5, auto rezing will be 1.5. at worse (the max), healer is 1.0 and auto is 3.0 - at best, healer is 0.1 and auto is 0.3
• Stealing pedestals are now much harder, but have greater gold reward
• tweaked luck calculation to add greater randomness (real luck!)
• Just added the gravedigger NPC - a summonable npc that will fetch your corpse for you - useful when you died deep in a dungeon and don't want to bother going back... will cost you 30k however so its very pricey!
• fresh off the press, taming bulk orders! I'm still in process of adding the tamables (there are what seems like hundreds), but the rewards for completing the BODS will be both gold and a chance to get very special items : pet dyes, pet control slots, pet trainers... and the most impressive of all: a pet paragon deed.
• added a new command: type [changecharacter from your home or in an inn to quickly change characters
• did multiple tweaks to taming bods, including tying in the price the animal broker is giving for tames on the doomcurse. in good times prices are lower, in difficult times prices are higher
• PetEasing deed now a reward for taming bods... this (should) lower a tame's minimum taming skill required by 10, meaning lower skilled tamers (or even non-tamers if many are applied) will be able to control the pet
• Changed so anger on tame now takes into account the player and animals skills was 95% before regardless if the creature was easy compared to your taming skill or not
• Changed taming messages (they were boring) to add more diversity
• Fixed champ spawn body types for some of the mobiles
• Major changes to taming bods for balance, namely odds for rewards and amounts that need to be tamed.

Update 011 - 7/21/20

• Hopefully changed it so tamed animals won't attack their owners with breath area attack (unless the tame is directly attacking the owner)
• Changed it so tamed pets won't passively reveal their owners (unless they are attacking the owner)
• Big revamp of the curse today - looks like too much credit was given when killing high end enemies. I reduced the rate at which the doom curse can be decreased (now that our players are more powerful and killing more than skeletons). To balance this, I reduced the rate at which the curse increases. Also, did another pass of the math to ensure things are working as intended
• Fixed crash with the serpent pillars
• Players dying will now affect the curse - a good player dying will raise the curse (the evil has been able to defeat the forces of good!)
• The fame/karma value of ALL mobs was a static fixed value just arbitrarily placed in every mobile's script. I've changed it so its dynamic now, based on the mobile's attributes. tested skeleton/lichlord/balron/drake/primeval dragon and the fame/karma values seem to work very well. for example, lichlords were -15k karma before.. they are *4k now (they are easy after all)... now the values make much more sense.
• Added what I call spammervendors - npcs that sell unusual items (some buy them) and deal in unusual items. they are meant to simulate the spammers that used to sit in brit bank selling/buying wares.
• I've changed the calculations for pet levelling to make it easier to level them. it will still be a challenge but the way it was before made it nearly impossible to bring a pet to breeding level. e.g. a dragon would have to kill 600 other dragons just to get from level 9 to level 10. Reduced.
• Just implemented Colored equipment names (Thanks @AgetianMaywind). @garthavan (Harrington) found this and we have added it to the server. Now equipment names will have a hue indicated (very roughly) how many attributes and the quality of the item. Note that this system isn't perfect but should help to sort out the garbage from the quality items when in a dungeon. https://www.servuo.com/archive/colored-equipment-names.404/
• Breath damage maximum has been increased, so beware!
• Stealing pedestals have been made significantly harder now - damage from flame traps and failing to steal the chests have gone up significantly.
• Changed the luck calculation to make getting artifacts a little harder. It was common for someone to get 2-3 per dungeon run before...