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Another Broken thing? - House Placement Tool – “Too Many Attempts” Message?

NikonUSNikonUS Posts: 62
in General Discussions

I noticed something strange today while trying to place a house. After just a couple of placement attempts, I started getting a red message saying:
“You’ve attempted to place a house too many times recently. Please try again later.”

Basically, I can try placing about 3 times before getting locked out. Then after waiting a bit, the message goes away, but it keeps coming back again after a few more tries. I’m even waiting 1–2 minutes between attempts, and it still happens.

I tested it on a second account, and it’s doing the same thing there too.
Has anyone else run into this recently?

Did they change the house placement cooldown rules?
Are we supposed to wait 3, 4, or even 5 minutes between placement attempts now?

I even waited 5 minutes once and was still getting the lockout message.
Can any of the devs please clarify what’s going on or if there’s a new system in place for house placement attempts?

Thanks in advance!






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  • KroDuKKroDuK Posts: 1,268
    edited 2:58AM
    Pretty sure they did that to annoyed the bots (official response).. at the end the only person affected by that are legit users.

    I was using my two accounts; trying to place an optimize house.. such a pain in the ass, such a bad limitation for non illegal third party users.


    *puts tinfoil hat on* I'm pretty sure they knew that in advance, no way on earth they are that clueless and did not roll it back, if they were.. like they know who's third partying botting most of the house to RMT them and doing that??.. less competition for that affiliates real estate guy, or girl.. Way to obviously dumb to not be intended,  or i'm lost.

    PS: what ever they say, words gonna word (like that final warning they give him a few months ago, the producer legit call that person by name).. look at the results/facts.. a simple fact.. some person got ban from forum for calling him out and BS out; not doing anything against him and it's lucrative business.. meanwhile as legit, we multi account to place a solo, "worthless", house by our own.
    So rather than recognise the effort the botters went to, to set all that up - for the benefit of the players, to help get certain items, something you could never be bothered to do, you would rather drag people backwards to your neanderthal world?

    Leave attended paying accounts alone, these people go thru a lot of trouble to automate the game.

    It’s comical to me you are so frightened of somehow bod scripters get some sort of advantage.

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  • GrimbeardGrimbeard Posts: 3,233
    Yes it's been this way awhile annoying legit players and failing miserably in it's intended purpose 
  • KroDuKKroDuK Posts: 1,268
    edited 8:18AM
    I wouldn't say failing miserably. It blocks the noobies looping a command.. the type of person that gonna pay good money to the non legit pro for that same house.

    Meanwhile, we (random legit) also paying their bills.


    From where I sit, It work as intended.
    So rather than recognise the effort the botters went to, to set all that up - for the benefit of the players, to help get certain items, something you could never be bothered to do, you would rather drag people backwards to your neanderthal world?

    Leave attended paying accounts alone, these people go thru a lot of trouble to automate the game.

    It’s comical to me you are so frightened of somehow bod scripters get some sort of advantage.

    -UO official forums, brought to you by BoardSword studio
  • GilliganGilligan Posts: 6
    Grimbeard said:
    Yes it's been this way awhile annoying legit players and failing miserably in it's intended purpose 
    actually its worse now I was trying to resize my house and after the 3rd failed attempt I got the cool down message and had to wait 5 mins to replace my house back and I was only using the tool about 1 min apart trying to figure out where best to replot house 
  • ForeverFunForeverFun Posts: 1,051

    House placement should use a "best fit" type approach.  Some would say it's always been a frustrating exercise.

    see link.

  • NikonUSNikonUS Posts: 62

    Can we all make a petition about this?


    @Kyronix, can you please stop making these kinds of changes that no one asked for, and that only make things harder for normal, everyday players?

    This new placement system is so frustrating — it’s worse than before, and there’s been no official explanation, no guide, no instructions on how it’s supposed to work now.

    Are we just supposed to give up and let the same people (“the nonono guy”) place all the houses while everyone else gets locked out?

    This really needs to be looked at, it’s not fair, and it’s ruining the housing experience for a lot of us.


    is it too early to ask @Mesanna to jump in and help?



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