THE HERALD

Last week saw a very special anniversary: One of our oldest players celebrated his 80th birthday. Happy birthday, Gerd! We /salute you for your continued enthusiasm and wish you all the best for the years to come.

But the battles didn’t pause. Probably because of the relic situation – Midgard owns its relics and the ones of Hibernia, while Hibernia keeps controls the ones from Albion – Sunday evening saw a full scale invasion of Midgard’s frontiers. Hibernia’s forces established a foothold in Bledmeer Faste and were soon joined by a big Albion attack on Blendrake Faste. The Battle Herald was on site and you can find some impressions in the Facebook Album.

Update 1:15 pm EDT: Glamorgan is back online as an archived server.
Update 10:00 am EDT: Glamorgan is now offline for maintenance.

Greetings!

In an effort to finalize transfers from Glamorgan to Ywain we will be shutting down all zones on that server except for the following:

• Classic Terrain/Dungeons
• Housing
• Capital Cities

Characters logged off in disabled zones will either return to their last legitimate bind location in a still functioning zone or, if the bind location is in a disabled zone, to their primary Border Keep within the Classic zones (Castle Sauvage, Svasud Faste and Druim Ligen).

We will be bringing Glamorgan offline tomorrow, Thursday 08/04, at 10:00 AM EDT in order to implement these changes. At this time we anticipate that the server will be back online no later than 3:00 PM EDT.

Thank you for your continued support and we’ll see you on the battlefield!

The warhorn of Midgard could be heard all throughout Hadrian’s Wall early Sunday evening as a host lead by Vigdisdk cut a swath through Albion territory. The raiding party sacked towers at Caer Boldiam, Cear Berkstead, and Caer Benowyc with only mild resistance from the outnumbered Albion defenders. Pausing near Berkstead to prepare for another assault saw the forces of Midgard ambushed by a group Bainshees that had tracked them along the Suspiro River. After a quick and lethal attack the Bainshees and their Hibernian supporters retreated south across Hadrian’s Wall, but the remaining forces of Midgard, hungry for revenge, ran them down as they fled.

Although Midgard crushed their assailants, the Hibernian attack had broke the host into two groups and slowed their momentum. Albion, not keen to let their prized Hibernian Relic fall into the hands of Midgard, deftly used their enemy’s moment of disorganization to fortify Caer Renaris. After being Harried and delayed by Hibernian attacks and scattered Albionians desperate to regain their lost towers, the Midgardian warband reached the keep. By this time however, Caer Renaris’ defenses proved too great and Albion successfully defended their Hibernian prize.

Update 10:22 am EDT: Glamorgan is back online as an archived server.

Update 6:11 pm EDT: Glamorgan is now offline for maintenance.

Greetings!

We will be bringing Glamorgan offline tonight, Wednesday 08/10, at 6:00 PM EDT in order migrate the data to a new server. At this time we anticipate that the server will be back online no later than Thursday 8/11, at 12:00 PM EDT.

Update: The Account Center is now back online.

Update: The Account Center will be down until approximately 12:00am EDT August 13th. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.

Greetings!

The Account Center will be down starting 11:30pm EDT tonight, Wednesday the 10th of August and remain down until 4:10pm EDT Friday the 12th of August for extended essential maintenance. If you have purchased gametime in the last few days please do not make an attempt to apply them until the account center is back up.  This will not affect you getting into the game to play.

Thank you for your patience.

Update: The Account Center is now offline.

Early next week the Account Center will be offline for an update. We will update you on expected downtime for both the account center and game servers as we know more.  We do not expect the combined downtime to take longer than several hours.

Over the past week we have gathered and evaluated player inputs on the account center, and will update and adjust account information based on this feedback.

Continue reading for more information!

We disabled many of the billing processes to avoid inappropriate or untimely charges during the transition to the new account center.

Our first step in is to update and process all those on any form of recurring billing. This means If you are charged for 30, 90, or 180 days at regular periods, AND were set to bill during the period from August 5th, through the time in which we enable the account center, you will be charged.

Also, during this update, we will re-enable and extend gametime for those whose accounts were incorrectly moved to an inactive status.  For anyone whose accounts may have lapsed due to an expiring gametime card, your time will be appended.

The ability to redeem game registration codes and other codes which allow you to connect to and play to the game will run once we are confirmed the first part of the process is running smoothly.

Our intent is to maintain player and character data for anyone who updated their subscriptions during this transition to the new account center.

We will also re-enable account age and veteran rewards.

Again, if you call into for support, please request an incident number as we are also tracking feedback for our use during this time.

Thank you again, for your patience during this time.

Look for information on Pub 72 and Ultima’s 14 year Anniversary later next week!

Update: The Account Center is now online. Thank you for your patience.

Greetings!

We now anticipate the the Account Center will back online by 8:00pm EDT this evening.

Please check the Herald for any updates regarding the Account Center maintenance today.

We thank you again for your patience and apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused you.

Albion was wreathed in battle Sunday evening when Hibernian forces smashed Caer Sursbrook while Midgard sacked the keeps surrounding Hadrian’s wall. The defenders were not idle however, as groups of Albionian’s engaged the invaders at Boldiam and Berkstead. Just as the Hibernians were pushed south, the defenders were flanked by a Midgardian horde out of Caer Erasleigh. Midgard nearly ran the defenders down, but Albion reinforcements stormed in from the east and sent the Midgardian’s fleeing for Erasleigh.

The Midgard host regrouped in the north and managed to take Caer Benowyc while the Hibernians became locked in a siege of Caer Boldiam. Having taken the northern keeps, a small contingent of Midgardian forces drew out the Albionian defenders at Caer Renaris. A squad from Albion came to suppress the attack, but was quickly swarmed from every direction as the full numbers of the Midgardian war-band emerged from the woods where they had concealed themselves. Just when it looked certain that Caer Renaris would fall and Midgard would reclaim Thor’s Hammer, Albionian reinforcements once again arrived to drive the invaders from Midgard. After insuring Albion’s continued possession of the Thor’s Hammer, the victorious war-band marched toward Caer Boldiam to deal with the Hibernian’s still attempting their siege.

Update 4:00 pm EDT: The archived servers are back online.

Greetings,

We will do a short maintenance on all archived servers today at 2:00 pm EDT. During this time character transfers will be unavailable.
At this time we anticipate the archived servers to be back online no later than 4 pm EDT.

See you in the frontiers!

Update 10:00 am EDT: Code activation has been re-enabled on the account center. You can once again enter game cards, item codes etc. in the account management under ‘Activate a Key’.

Greetings,

The process to activate will undergo an maintenance today. As a result, code activation on the account center will be disabled until tomorrow morning.

Please keep an eye on the Herald to learn when the activation is available again.