Put your houses on private or be banned.
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And I wasn't aware that you weren't allowed to drop in a box.
I usually do that with loot, take it to luna house and use teleporter (open to public) to go to another place where it goes into a chest to sort later.
I wasn't aware a miner couldn't drop off ore into a box at their own home, if it is on the steps. Is the row behind the steps ok? Cause sometimes you just want to throw it in the box or bag and smelt later. Like when you have used the last shovel or pickaxe. (I ask because sometimes miners wait for their fire beetle to be bonded before taking it along for mining)
Never be afraid to challenge the status quo
My 2 accounts were given legitimate email violation warnings for something that was happening at a house that I did not even own. Of course I tried to contest this and I was told by Mesanna herself, '... according to the notes this was your house so you approved of many accounts using your house to script.' I am sad to report this new policy is as bad as it looks. The fact my accounts were actioned and the producer of the game cannot tell that it was not even my house and won't allow me to contest the violations is a big YIKES.
I wish I could make this stuff up.
edit, adding this gem that was at the end of that email:
Again, it wasn't even my house lol and she won't give me a chance to contest the violations.
I will be slow to reply because I cannot log in/stay logged in to the forums.
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I TOTALLY agree !!
I have been saying that for years, I do not understand why on earth a Private House cannot have Vendors...
Aside from being accessable from the House sign, Vendors in a Private House could very well be placed on the House Doorsteps (ok, a limited number of them but still....) and be accessable likewise....
The real baddies, the ones we want gone, aare the Event dudes, the legendary farmers, the idoc scripters, and they aren't doing those things in a house LOL.
So the moneymakers get a pass (again) and the average Joe who stuck a matchstick in the keyboard to finish off spirit speak or heal or some SW spell while he went to the kitchen to get breaklfast will get banned.
That may be the primary reason but going after people dropping off vacuumed loot just got a lot easier as well.
It also means they can make resources static again if they so want to.
Killing four birds: resource scripters, skill raisers, idoc vacuumers, and static resouces; with one stone.
Doctors have to abide by a code of ethics but make money from big pharm kickbacks prescribing certain drugs.
The world revolves around money. It wouldn't surprise me if they did get kickbacks nor would I shame anyone for bettering themselves.
Agreed. More accounts with cap skills means more players will actually be playing the game. For free accounts this means their free space will fill up more quickly leading to a sub for housing. For sub accounts this could mean another account open for additional space.
Maybe it's time the store stocked a total cap mythic type token. It would generate money and end all excuses for skill macroing.
Although I appreciate them letting us know they are "working" on something, clearly they are pushing them to being even more secretive and harder to catch.
What worries me more is some of the "GMs" that come to help, don't even understand how our game is played and I can't see myself trusting them to even type a string of numbers and transposing them and unintentionally marking someone else's account. Clearly one person above has said they are affected adversely.
In all fairness, @Mesanna did say, to my understanding (https://uo.com/2019/11/22/macroers-and-houses/) :
The relevant part to be noted, to my opinion, is where it is said : "...or a recall group dropping off resources in chests at a specific house (or houses)..."
The way I understand here, and if so, it is something which I totally agree with, what Broadsword is going to actively look for, is whether there is a number of "disposable" scripting accounts (EJ accounts or even veteran accounts but which have little to nothing to loose, if banned for scripting) which do the "dirt work", the scripted work to gather Resources, Legendaries or other Loot, and THEN benefit all these "against the TOS gotten items", to OTHER Ultima Online's Accounts which do not actively get involved in the scripting BUT, nonetheless, get the benefits from that....
And to me, it makes a whole lot of sense to ban ALSO these other accounts.....
Because, at least to my understanding, this is most often what scripters do.... they use accounts for scripting which they do not care about should they be found and banned, and then STORE all of the items obtained from Scripting, in "other" Accounts which do not engage in bannable activities in the game.
Of course that also these "other" Accounts which benefit from the "disposable" Accounts which do Script should be Banned.... or the sanction would have n "teeth".... so to speak....
Scripters already take into account that their scripting account can be banned if caught so, often, they use accounts which they can afford losing.... but their "Mains" which get to receive all of the items that were scripted, so to speak ?
That is an entire other story.... and if Broadsword is going to "track down" the Scripting accounts activities all the way to the Main Accounts which benefit from that against the TOS Scripting Activity and ban them too, well, THIS is surely going to make a change and finally work as a real deterrant against Scripting, finally.....
So, personally, as a player who has been against Scripting and all kinds of Cheating in UO from day one, and who saw many fellow players quit playing UO BECAUSE of the rampant scripting and cheating in it, I am totally on the side of @Mesanna, @Bleak, @Kyronix and the entire Broadsword Developing Team to go BEYOND the disposable Scripting Accounts and go to the Root of all this, all the way UP to the Main Accounts (that do not script, usually) which nonetheless benefit from the Activity of Scripting Account.
This is at least the way I see it.
For someone who has not even that much of an advanced knowledge about scripting, "how" tough is it to SCRIPT some actions like Recall with the EJ account to a safe place or right by a House's doorsteps ground and drop a bag with the scripted items/resources on the Ground and THEN script another account, subscribed, to pick it up and drop it into a container on a House doorsteps ?
It might involve a bit more of a complex Script but, after a knowledge player writes that Script and passes it over to other Scripters, voila', the "work around" is available to STILL use EJ Accounts to Script gather items AND then have another Account drop them into a container at a safe, Main Account House....
Because the Root to all problems or surely MOST of the problems in Ultima Online DOES IS the ability to Script a whole number of Activities.....
Kill Scripting would mean magically solving all at once all of these issues which have troubles UO for decades, not mere Years....
At least, that is how I see it.