At publisher request. Anyone know the story?

I got a quest from Baronessa Zanchi in continuous game mode. It is titled "Out!" and it says: Banish at least 500 beggars from your town. How do I do this? Since when is this a game mechanic? I tried the two obvious things. I tried REFUSING the beggars on the boat who periodically request to stay, which did NOT work, and I tried deleting all alms houses and waiting, which did NOT work. Still at 0/500 after trying both those methods. I am all out of ideas, and I see ZERO information about this quest or t...

Playing this game in single player, it is making a lot of DNS requests to "uts.ubi.com" and posting some kind of stats/session information to a third party server. That sure sounds like spyware ...

Hi. I'm having problem with Venice - it says that my username and/or password are wrong. But I'm 100% sure they are right, since they are the same as Uplay account plus the game authorized me in the first place, allowing Online-account. But I can't enter MP section still. Are the servers down or something?...

Hey I just noticed that all in-game text disapeared. There´s not a single letter or number in the entire menu. I also somehow managed to start a game despite the lack of text but there´s no text either, all text boxes are empty, hell even the numbers are missing. Does anyone know a fix?...