Have we been Counting UO time Incorrectly?!?

[Nicholi Ravnthorn]

Quoted directly from a great UO source... http://ultima.floriarama.info/

"Time Calculation in Ultima Online

• In 2 Earth hours an entire Britannian day will have passed.
• Twelve Britannian days makes one Earth day.
• Britannian years have twelve months which have the same names as the real months (e.g. January, February, etc).
• Each Britannian month consists of 73 days (this conflicts with Ultima series lore where a month has either 28 or 30 days, depending on the episode)
• This makes a Britannian year last 876 Britannian days, which is 73 Earth days.
• One Earth year equals five Britannian years.
• The release date of Ultima Online was in the Britannian year 314. Straticsincorrectly states 289 on it's date and time page. Based on the fact that 5
• Britannian years are 1 real life year, the UO release date is 314, as stated on another stratics page, assuming the current Britannian date displayed by stratics is correct.
• UO was released on 10/30/1997.

Sources
uo.com | UO Stratics | Spiritwood University | The Titans of Ether
Mobygames | The Notable Ultima "
 
 

[Kazuo Shinrai]

Now this is stuff I like!
If anyone else has old Ultima lore or knowledge to share, please do!

[Will Little]

Slightly confused... but what year is it in UO now?

[Garak Nightchill]

Some Ultima Trivia:

Mondain had contact with a cat-like spacefaring warrior race believed to be the Kilrathi from the Wing Commander games.  There were spaceships and laser-guns in the early Ultima games.  Mondain created the orcs by blending humans with dogs.

Ultima 2 appears to be entirely set on Earth in different time periods., conquered by Minax. I don't think Sosario is in it at all.  Britain (the island) is ruled by Lord British. 

Originally the Ultima characters were assumed to be different people i.e Ultima 4 was originally the Avatar's first time in Britannia/Sosaria.  Ultima 5 is referred to as his second visit to Britannia.  I think it was either Ultima 6 or Ultima 7 that 'retconned' things and had it that the Avatar was the protagonist in all the Ultima games.  Montor in Ilshenar was a normal city in the original Ultima game (possibly Ultima 3 too). 

In the PC version of Ultima 4 you meet Short-Round from Indiana Jones in Yew.  In the Sega Master System version it's Indy's father, looking for the grail.

In Ultima 4 the only way to visit Cove is to have your ship get sucked into a whirlpool to make it appear in the lake.  You can then dock next to Cove.  There was a hot air balloon sitting next to Hythloth in Ultima 4 which you could fly.

The original look of the Chaos Dragoon armour in the 3D version of UO looks like Blackthorn's Wyrm Guard armour from Ultima 9. 

In Ultima 4 the dungeons were all inter-connected with each other.  The entrance to Hythloth was at the back of Castle British. 

Originally in Ultima Online I think it was supposed to be set around after the first few Ultima games, when the Lake Superior player-run Trinsic Rebellion started around '99 Lord British (Garriott) sent a letter to the player-run High Council encouraging the Loyalists to stand against Calandryll's Rebellion, the letter referred to Minax and Exosus having been dealt with.  OSI later decided to change this and re-introduce Minax, Exodus etc.  The player Calandryll led the Rebellion and was one of the OOC organisers behind it, and later worked for OSI, was the lead developer (I think) of the ill-fated Ultima: X and is now working on Lord of the Rings Online.  Sadly I missed all that, by the time I started UO and got involved with the RP community it's slow decline had already begun. 

[Darcy O'Connor]

Kazuo loves in-game time?! ...Kazuo LOVES in-game time?!

If only everyone was so easy to please...

[Jack Sinist (•̪●)]

Some Ultima Trivia:

Mondain had contact with a cat-like spacefaring warrior race believed to be the Kilrathi from Ultima 2 appears to be entirely set on Earth in different time periods., conquered by Minax.  the Wing Commander games.  There were spaceships and laser-guns in the early Ultima games.  Mondain created the orcs by blending humans with dogs.

I don't think Sosario is in it at all.  Britain (the island) is ruled by Lord British. 

Originally the Ultima characters were assumed to be different people i.e Ultima 4 was originally the Avatar's first time in Britannia/Sosaria.  Ultima 5 is referred to as his second visit to Britannia.  I think it was either Ultima 6 or Ultima 7 that 'retconned' things and had it that the Avatar was the protagonist in all the Ultima games.  Montor in Ilshenar was a normal city in the original Ultima game (possibly Ultima 3 too). 

In the PC version of Ultima 4 you meet Short-Round from Indiana Jones in Yew.  In the Sega Master System version it's Indy's father, looking for the grail.

In Ultima 4 the only way to visit Cove is to have your ship get sucked into a whirlpool to make it appear in the lake.  You can then dock next to Cove.  There was a hot air balloon sitting next to Hythloth in Ultima 4 which you could fly.

The original look of the Chaos Dragoon armour in the 3D version of UO looks like Blackthorn's Wyrm Guard armour from Ultima 9. 

In Ultima 4 the dungeons were all inter-connected with each other.  The entrance to Hythloth was at the back of Castle British. 

Originally in Ultima Online I think it was supposed to be set around after the first few Ultima games, when the Lake Superior player-run Trinsic Rebellion started around '99 Lord British (Garriott) sent a letter to the player-run High Council encouraging the Loyalists to stand against Calandryll's Rebellion, the letter referred to Minax and Exosus having been dealt with.  OSI later decided to change this and re-introduce Minax, Exodus etc.  The player Calandryll led the Rebellion and was one of the OOC organisers behind it, and later worked for OSI, was the lead developer (I think) of the ill-fated Ultima: X and is now working on Lord of the Rings Online.  Sadly I missed all that, by the time I started UO and got involved with the RP community it's slow decline had already begun. 

Cool

[Kazuo Shinrai]

Yeah, I just love in-game time... heh, if only I had more of it! :S

What I meant though is that I love the ultima lore and I would love for UO to get the Ultima feel again. Recently (at least it is to me) UO is not much more than a catalist I use for roleplay.

"Want to join BoC? Well, first you need to download this program called UO, we all use it for roleplay." Hell, it won't be much longer before we start refering to UO as a ''BoC Client''.
Right?

[Darcy O'Connor]

Lol, well listen to this then. Me and Will have been coming up with draft ideas for a sort of in-game project to start a library at my houses location (just a second below the barracks) which will contain lore written by BoC members and scribes ABOUT BoC history and lore as well as other appropriate scriptures. So maybe you will see some more of this and could contribute if you wish to...

[Garak Nightchill]

My original post seems to have gone wierd, now fixed.  For some reason the first two paragraphs merged and sentences got mixed around.  It should now make sense.

[Kazuo Shinrai]

*grins*
Well, Kazuo still holds the key to the Bujin'Kai and Kotodama archives.
(meaning I got all the little red books that were ever written, including a full set of toppu denko cards - a card game, which was immensely popular in Yew, made by the founder of TBK)

[Gregor Eason]

Morihei!!
I touched his RL hand!