Paragon Creature spawns are coming to Ilshenar, which will have specially hued/named chests on their corpses, and the possibility of minor artifacts as well as level 6 T-maps.

Sushi and Sake will be added, I think even for cooks!

The new guild interface coming with SE is said to be just awesome.

Current live team priorities are as follows - PvM (publish 26 loot changes, the paragon spawns and ancient SoS bottles), then boats, then crafters - they really seemed to want a way to get runic fletching kits in

Script looting issues are being looked at, including the possibility of instancing corpses for the first few minutes they are down.

Small-scale improvements to monster AI are being looked at, bigger ones are long-term

Leurocian has been assigned to do soulstones. They mostly restated what is on the FAQ. No partial transfers of skills, it's an all or nothing thing. Also useful to store skills so characters can try other skills out on their templates.

The insurance survey is costing them a lot to do and it is very important that all players give their input

EA is really behind UO now, no question about it. They are using their marketing muscle from Madden and LotR titles to get retailers to give UO its props.

A housing rush in Tokuno may be prevented by not allowing placement at first, but turning it on later, maybe even secretively.

They'd like to do something different with the vet rewards system at some point.

There's something BIG going on that they can't talk about yet.