lord of Ultima will be launching two brand new worlds on Thursday the 30th of June.

The new worlds will consist of one English world (USA East Coast- World 36) and a new Turkish World (Dunya 3).

The worlds will be brought online at the following times:

07:00 UTC -  Dunya 3 (Turkey UTC+3)
14:00 UTC -  World 36 (USA East Coast) (English UTC-4)

New Enlightenment Overview

This new overview will show all currently enlightened cities belonging to you and your alliance. The overview will provide you with valuable information about these cities:

• City name and coordinates
• Player Name
• Virtue
• Current palace level
• End of enlightenment
• Missing resources for next palace level

Furthermore, your alliance leaders and officers will be able to set priorities which can do such things as indicate which palace should be built first, making it even easier to direct alliance resource flow.
The overview will be visible to all members of the same alliance.

Palace Items for other Players

Some time ago, we introduced several new items including the Arch and the Pillar which can be used to increase dedicated resources for your own palaces.
From now on, you can also use these items in the region view to add resources to an enlightened city of your alliance members.

Improvements

• The maximum travel time for trade offers has been increased from 24 to 99 hours.
• We have limited the rights for a holiday substitute. From now on your substitute will not be able to:
  • Disband the alliance
  • Promote anyone to leader or second leader
  • Define rights
  • Dismiss alliance members
• We have added a link to the city notes window leading to the Flash City Planner, a tool which you might have already used for planning your cities.
• You can now change the name of your city in the city notes window.
• You will now be able to see the defender morale bonus in the city information in the region view.
• We have added a whisper channel in the chat giving you the option to whisper with other players without being disturbed by the general or alliance chat.
• The report symbols have been reworked. It is now easier to get an impression of the combat results simply by looking at the symbols in the report list.
• You will now be able to appoint ministers directly in their minister information windows as well as at other locations in the game that makesense.

“…Your ancestor waited in the tent on the front line where the battle would take place.
His hands twiddled and his mind worked, when a sly grin crossed his face.

Suddenly the Lord came in with his the adorned two swords your ancestor had ransacked. .
The Lord handed your ancestor the swords and gave him a word to show the skills he said he had.
Your ancestor was terrible with swords, but his display made up for the skills he lacked.
He swung them around like he would his lute, and looked as if he had gone mad.

After your ancestor was done he placed the sword on his back in blade cross blade.
He bowed before the king and gazed on with a smile at the impression he had made…”

Extracted from the winning story in the Event: the Story of the Gigantic Snake by Dryhten

Imagine the scene described above, do you think you would be able to draw it? Whether you use stick men, or the Mona lisa, we want to see your take on this comedic scene. Or is it comedic? Perhaps you want to re-imagine the story by adding your own flair and style? They choice is yours!

What must be done?

We want you to create a small comic strip where you depicting the aforementioned scene. You can use any discipline of your choosing, whether that be paintings, hand drawn images or a digital drawings.

Winners and Prizes

• 1st place: 300 Diamonds
• 2nd place: 200 Diamonds
• 3rd place: 100 Diamonds

Required Elements

• Your comic strip must include these elements:
• At least one knight with two swords.
• One King
• A battlefield
• Between three and six scenes. No less, but more it’s possible.

Looking to earn brownie points?

The following will be some of the points we will be taking into consideration when choosing the winners. In no particular order:

• LoU’iness: The more your image includes recognizable elements from Lord of Ultima the better!
• Artistic Prowess: Although not the be all and end all, we will be looking at the level of artistic prowess on show in the image.
• Originality/Creativity: When coming up with an image, think outside the box, better in a funny way.

Rules

• Only one comic strip per person is allowed to be submitted.
• The first comic strip to appear in one of your posts in this thread will be deemed to be your proposal.
• You may use any imagery found on the Lord of Ultima website other than that provided by players on the forum. Using imagery added to the Wiki by the community is fine, however if it is felt that imagery was added to the Wiki in order to allow it’s use in the contest we will disqualify the piece.
• You may also use imagery taken from the game.
• With the exception of the previous two points, all constituent parts of your image must be created by you alone. If it is felt that this is not the case, the piece will be disqualified.
• The comic strip as whole must have a maximum width of 800 pixels and a height of 800 pixels.
• The maximum file size for each entry is 2 Megabyte.
• Entries must use either the .png or .jpeg format.

This thread is only for contest submissions, any other posts will be deleted. If you have comments or questions please post them in this thread!

Timing & submitting your entry

This thread will remain open for 14 days from the date of this post.
To submit your entry simply attach the image to your post.
The contest will close on 1st of July at 15:00 UTC.
Any post received after this date and time will not be taken into consideration.
From then on, the entries will be judged by the Community Team.
Winners will be announced on the evening of Monday the 4th of July.

A future update will include some more minor improvements.

Lord of Ultima has fine tuned a number of features in Lord of Ultima:

• The report symbols have been optimised to make it even easier to recognize which kind of report you are looking at.
• The maximum travel time for trade offers has been increased from 24 to 99 hours.
• You will now be able to appoint ministers directly from their respective minister information windows.

By LOU

A future update will include some minor improvements.

We have done some minor usability improvements to increase your comfort:

• We have added a link to the City Notes window, leading to the Flash City Planner, many of you might already know.
• We have added the option to change the name of your city to the City Notes window.
• You will now be able to see the defender morale bonus in the city information in the region view.
• We have added a Whisper Channel to the chat, giving you the option to whisper with other players without being disturbed by alliance or general chat.

In an effort to provide you the gamer with even more variety when it comes to payment options, Lord of Ultima once again increased the number of countries supported by the Paymo SMS payment option.

• Argentina
• Chile
• Czech Republic
• Colombia
• Indonesia
• Italy
• Thailand

Are now supported by Paymo SMS, meaning players from those countries can now purchase Diamonds using their cellphones!

All you need to do to purchase Diamonds via SMS is open the in-game shop, choose the Paymo SMS payment option and follow the on screen prompts to complete your transaction.

It is as simple as that. The upgraded services is available right now, so feel free to try it out!

Hail fellow members of the gentry,

Lord of Ultima is proud to announce the launch of revamped Diamond store.

Not only has there been a visual upgrade, but we have added support for more countries as well!

Today we are announcing the implementation of a new payment method, Moneybookers and two more countries added to the SMS payment service

SMS Payments

• U.S.A
• Canada

What is Moneybookers? – source

Moneybookers allows you to grab Diamonds quickly and easily with various payment methods online, another choice added to your arsenal for those shopping spree needs, whether you decide to grab some artifacts, hire some ministers, or take some time off by using an Orb of Peace.

In which countries can you use Moneybookers and which payment methods do they support?

• ELV (Germany)
• Nordea (Finland, Sweden)
• EPS (Austria)
• Poli (Australia)
• Pekao S.A. (Poland)
• Przelewy 24 (Poland)
• eNets (Singapore)
• Laser (Ireland)
• ePay.bg (Bulgaria)
• Poste Pay (Italy)
• Inteligo (Poland)
• Euro 6000 (Spain)
• Ideal (Netherlands)
• 4B Card (Spain)
• Mbank (Poland)

Lord of Ultima will be launching five brand new worlds on Thursday the 16th of June.

The five new worlds will consist of one three English worlds (Europe – World 33, Australia – World 34, USA West Coast – World 35), a new Italian World (Monde 5 ), and a new Polish World (Swiat 4).

The worlds will be brought online at the following times:

• 08:00 UTC -  Mondo 3 (Italy UTC+2)
• 08:00 UTC -  World 33 (Europe) (English UTC+2)
• 08:00 UTC -  Swiat 4 (Polish UTC+2)
• 00:00 UTC -  World 34 (Australia) (English UTC+10)
• 17:00 UTC -  World 35 (USA West Coast) (English UTC-7)

A brand new Portuguese world has just launched!  Mundo 4 (Portugal) is now online and awaiting the arrival of aspiring members of the gentry to begin their adventures anew in search of the title Lord of Ultima!

Gather your friends and family, form an alliance, and conquer Caledonia!

A future update will include a new alliance overview.

This new overview will show all currently enlightened cities of your own as well as from your alliance. The overview will provide you with a lot of valuable information about these cities:

• Enlightened city with coordinates
• Player
• Virtue
• Current palace level
• End of enlightenment
• Missing resources for next palace level

Furthermore, your alliance leaders and officers will be able to set priorities like, which palace should be built first so you know where to send resources to.

The overview will be visible for everyone who is member of the same alliance.

For those nostalgic players and for those who want to discover the origins of the land of Sosaria and the realm of Britannia, your chance is here!

Stretching across dozens of games and three decades’ time, millions of people from all over the world have set out on great adventures in the world of Ultima.

Over the upcoming months Ultima Forever will bring you all this adventures back and much more!

To start you can play Ultima Online for FREE during 14 days.

You can also download, for FREE, the legendary Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar to play on your own computer.

Having defeated the evil Mondain and his progeny in his previous 3 trips, the Stranger returns to Britannia and endeavors to master each of the Virtues. In the process of meditating at shrines and questing through perilous dungeons, he seeks aid from seven great Companions. Together with these Companions, the Stranger braves the great Stygian Abyss, uncovers the Codex of Ultimate Wisdom and becomes the Avatar.

Released in 1985, Ultima IV was the first in the “Age of Enlightenment” period of Ultima games. It truly was a step forward in gaming, as it focused not on defeating some generic evil force with traditional “hack & slash” gameplay, but offered a story-driven quest based on ethical dilemmas presented to the player in an attempt to acheive enlightenment.

Ultimaforever.com is pleased to officially offer the full, original PC version of Ultima IV for download. Please be aware that you will need to install a verion of DOSbox in order to play. What are you waiting for? The virtues await!

Lord of Ultima (LoU) will bring three brand new worlds online on Thursday the 1st of June.

This time will be a new English World,World 32, a new French World, Monde 4 and a new Portuguese World, Mundo 3. They will be based on American East Coast time, UTC-4, on CEST and on Brazilian time, so this Mundo 3 will be the first Brazilian World, UTC-3.

The worlds will be brought online at the following times:

• World 32 (USA East Coast) - 14:00 UTC – UTC-4
• Monde 4 (French) - 08:00 UTC – UTC+2
• Mundo 3 (Brazil) - 13:00 UTC – UTC-3

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Lord of Ultima (LoU) has rolled out a new game update during today’s maintenance in all the English Worlds. Changes and updates can be found below.

Defense Minister Recruitment Improvement

This new feature allows you to define a target army size for each of your cities and the Minister will build it when there are enough free recruitment slots and resources.

Example: You have a city with 60,000 TS available and you want to build 60,000 Rangers. Now you are able to order your Defense Minister to recruit these Rangers, no matter how many resources you have available. He will then start recruiting troops in pieces of 3 hours. If you recruit something else, he will wait for your recruitments to finish before he continues.
When the army is completed, the minister will be idle until some of your troops die in battle so he can recruit up them again to the target amount.

Recruitment Order: Partial Conversion

If you have an unpaid recruitment order without enough resources to complete it, a new “convert” button will split the order and recruit as many units as possible, while any leftover units will remain queued in an unpaid order.

Example: You have an unpaid order for 10,000 Berserkers assigned to your Defense Minister and receive 150,000 iron delivered to your storage. You will now be able to convert 1.000 berserkers to the normal Recruitment Queue, while the other 9.000 berserkers are kept in an unpaid order.

Quick Use buttons

The Quick Use buttons are quite a bit easier to use now. The buttons have changed from the classic button design to have a smaller, more easily recognizable aspect. The new buttons will note how many of the selected artifacts you currently own, or if you don’t have any, which you need to purchase some. The buttons are also displayed in a number of new locations, making it even easier to access them without fuss.

Example: If you do not have the resources to complete an unpaid order due to a lack of wood, a button with the appropriate axe item is shown, so you can use the artifact needing to enter the Inventory or Shop.

Report Updates

We realized that sometimes the number of reports you receive can be excessive. To this end, we have gone about ensuring that you receive only one report per action from now on, even if you had supported a player from multiple cities. That means all your troops will be summed up and displayed in one single report, no matter how many of your cities support the target.

Furthermore “Previous Report” and “Next Report” buttons have been added , enabling you to browse through your reports quickly and with little effort.

Improvements

• The Recruitment Window now shows the number of reinforcements each unit is currently scheduled to recruit.
• It is now possible to select the coordinates in the City Info screen in order to copy&paste them to a new location.
• The dropdown list in the Trade window when choosing a target City now displays 15 cities instead of 8.
• Tooltips belonging to the Minister buttons now have descriptive text detailing their functionality.
• In the chat a new “Social” channel with grey color is implemented which shows the “comes online” message when a player comes online or back from afk instead of the red colored system channel.
• Sending frigates together with scouts on a scouting mission is now possible.This way scouts can be sent to other continents. During a battle frigates are ignored, but only if a scouting mission has been chosen. Note: Frigates are NOT counted towards the fake attack head count limits, only the scouts are.
• The tooltips in the Trade Minister menu have been improved to make it even easier to understand how to use this powerful ally.
• Pop-Up windows now contain a time stamp displaying the time when they became active.
• In the “Game” tab in the Options screen it is now possible to deactivate notifications about friends or allies coming online.
• Errors and warnings have been improved. Error messages are shown in red marked with an “x” symbol and warning messages are shown in black with a “!” symbol.
• Lord of Ultima now remembers even more user preferences. Changes in the Shop and the Command screen are stored until your current active session ends. Adjustments in Overviews, Reports and Trade are stored even once a session has ended.
• Units killed (which are displayed in the Rankings as “Units defeated”) are now not only awarded to the defending player but split between defender and all supporters, depending on their individual troop strength.

You can join Lord of Ultima here.

Lord of Ultima will bring a brand new world online on Thursday the 26th of May. This time will be a new Russian World, World 4. It will be based on UTC+4.

It will be brought online at 06:00 UTC

You can join Lord of Ultima here.

The new German and Spanish Worlds are now online!

Remember that Mundo 5 is the first Spanish World based in UTC-4, which means this is the first South America World!!

Avisa a tus amigos y familiares y comienza una nueva aventura con Lord of Ultima!!

Gather your friends and family and begin a brand new adventure in the world of Caledonia!!

Lord of Ultima German Homepage

Lord of Ultima Spanish Homepage

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Following player coat of arms have won the forum event of the free browsergame Lord of Ultima

1st Prize was awarded to player Elijon and won 300 diamonds

2nd Prize was awarded to player Gus777 and won 200 diamonds

3rd Prize was awarded to player Ezinky and won 100 diamonds

The coat of arms of the winners

Elijon

Gus777

Ezinky

Join Lord of Ultima here and follow their public forums for more events.

Throughout the game there are dungeons, noticeable by a lit entrance on the side of mountain, hill, or forest. If the dungeon is available to raid it will appear open with a blue (mountain), red (hill), yellow (forest) glow coming out of the entrance. If the dungeon is abandoned (fully plundered) it will look as if the door has been sealed off. It is worth noting that pirate ships do not have a glow but when they are abandoned the image changes to a semi-destroyed pirate ship.

FINDING

To locate a nearby dungeon, scroll around the regional map searching for a lit dungeon entrance. When one is found, note the coordinates so you can easily return later.

RAIDING

Select the dungeon and you will get an option to “Send an army.” Select your desired amount of troops and send them off. How long it takes your army get there and return depends on how far away the dungeon is from your city, and the speed of the slowest unit in the army. Note that it takes your army an extra hour to prepare for the raid and an extra hour to unload upon return. This only applies to dungeon raids, not boss raids or other kinds of movement.

LOOT

What kind of loot and how much you get from a dungeon raid depends on several things:

• First off there is a level cap. You can only get 150 max resources(lumber, stone, iron and food total) from a level 1 dungeon. The amount of loot does vary and you will more than likely not get the max 100% of the time. The level 2 cap is at least 800 resources. *Note that a level 1 forest dungeon appears to have 450 max loot.
• Second, the actual amount you can get per run depends on how many foes you face. How many foes you kill, however, does_not_influence the loot.
• Third, different foes drop different amounts of loot. Spiders drop 25 each, orcs drop 30 each, thieves drop 31.
• Fourth, how much you can even carry depends on your soldiers. To figure this out you can set up the following calculation: Your units can carry maximum: (Number of units sent)*(Loot capacity per unit sent). I.e 10 Berserkers(capacity 10) can carry maximum 100 resources total.

HOW MANY BERSERKERS TO SEND

The different types of dungeons will give you about 75% extra of a single type of resource. (ex. Forest Dungeons give more wood)

• Level 1: 10-20 berserkers
• Level 2: 70-80 berserkers
• Level 3: 300 berserkers
• Level 4: 700 berserkers
• Level 5: 3000-3400 berserkers
• Level 6: 6000-7000 berserkers
• Level 7: 9000-12500 berserkers
• Level 8: 11000-25000 berserkers
• Level 9: 15,000-35,000 berserkers
• Level 10:

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A soon to be update will allow our beloved game to remember you and your preferences!

In the past, you automatically loaded in to the first city on your city dropdown when you logged in. With this update the game will remember which city you were in when you logged out and take you there.

There are some additional values that will be remembered as well:

• chosen Minister tab: column order, sort order, filter settings
• Report filter flags

And last but by no means least, in the trade window the prices you set for your own as well as for other offers are now stored for each resource.

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Lord of Ultima will bring three brand new worlds online on Thursday the 19th of May.

This time will be a new German World,Welt 7, and two brand new Spanish Worlds, Mundo 4 and Mundo 5. They will be based on CEST except the Mundo 5 which will the first “Mundo Latino” based on UTC-4!!

The worlds will be brought online at the following times:

• Welt 7 - 08:00 UTC
• Mundo 4 (España) - 08:00 UTC
• Mundo 5 (América Latina) - 14:00 UTC

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

Lord of Ultima is a free browsergame by Phenomic an Electronic Arts studio

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A  soon to be update will include features regarding how reports are displayed.

LoU developers are trying to improve the information you receive about your empire. They realize that sometimes the number of reports you receive can be excessive. To this end, they have gone about ensuring that you receive only one report per action, even if you had supported a player from multiple cities. That means all your troops will be summed up and displayed in one single report, no matter how many of your cities support the target.

Furthermore a “Previous Report” and “Next Report” buttons will be added to reports, enabling you to browse through your reports quickly and with little effort.

You can join Lord of Ultima Here

Are you tired of making room for resources, rearranging recruitment orders or canceling and splitting orders manually? Well, now if you have an unpaid recruitment order and not enough resources to complete it , a new “convert” button will split the order and convert as many units as possible into a normal order while the leftover units will remain queued in the unpaid order.

Example:
You have an unpaid order for 10.000 Berserkers assigned to your Defense Minister and get 150.000 iron delivered in your storage. You will now be able to convert 1.000 berserkers to the normal Recruitment Queue, while the other 9.000 berserkers are kept in the unpaid order.

Furthermore there will be a minor improvement to the Recruitment Window. It will soon show the number of reinforcements each unit is currently scheduled to recruit. This will make planning your overall army structure even simpler to do than ever before.

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This city is a military city specialized in knights.

Notice it is still under construction. Cottages will be demolished and slowly being converted into additional barracks/stables.

It is completely reliant on a feeder city or trading for resources and additional food.

• Stable recruiting speed: %4500
• Current Capacity: 140,000 TS – Lv. 7/10 Castle
• Current Knight recruiting time: 10 seconds

Knights and paladins are the best units for assualting and plundering while the main force of berserkers and rams/catapualts are used to siege.

Heavily armed and armored, Knights excel at attacking enemy cities. Once victorious, they are capable looters, being able to carry a large amount of booty.

You can recognize the holy banners of the paladins even from afar. Loyal to the end, they are capable of protecting whole armies against their magical arch-enemies.

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