HACKED!!
Back in early 2000 I was a dedicated UO player for six years, back when there was only Britain and Felucca I worked my but off for millions in gold and tons of Artifacts from that it put me on the fast track of selling stuff at auction.. Anyways fast track to now, after years of not playing I decided to come back thinking with all the stuff I had it wouldn't be so hard to transition into everything new (Keep in mind my account isn't updated to w/e new expansion is out today) well was I ever wrong, I login only to find out my account had been hacked all the gold,artifacts,vet gifts..basically anything that was worth was stolen and my best character was completely stripped bag and bank empty. I know there is nothing that can be done about it. I just never thought I would see the day. I'm really not sure what to do at this point, I've tried going to old hunting grounds to try to get things that I need like armor and gold to rebuild but all of them are dropping stuff I can't even use unless I buy the new expansion. I know no one cares just wanted to post it..
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You still have your skills. Make a tamer and come to the Luna stables. Introduce yourself in chat.
Stop pushing your taming addiction on others!! LOL
First off my condolence on the loss of your things...
A few years back there was a flurry of "Fishing" for information done to get into accounts.. they used bits and pieces to drag more from the CS people. They had no idea that it was being done. Each phone call got them more bits, as they played the poor lost customer who cant remember their password.. The CS gave them hints.. This was found out and reported to the Dev who had a cow with CS to the point that the CS no longer handles account issues.
You my friend must have been one of those poor devils that got hit.
All they needed was a idea of an account name.. the password fishing did the rest..
You can rebuild..
I had chars full of stuff on a shard. then I would find out everything gone except gifts. many seem no to believe a person when this is talked about. devs say they don't deleted anything. *coughs*
someone got into your account or stuff got wiped
I did find a bag full of ophidian stuff in one chars bank...lol
I know it happened. I just can't prove it. It was around or before the very first clean up campaign ever. I've been digging around the web on some really old sites (broken toys/Lum the Mad) and nothing yet, but if I can prove it I will We usually get the things we need and I need this lol. The characters remained but the stuff was wiped. I was thinking it was just bank boxes but it could have been wearables also.
Now in testing for next update:
Before that, I suspended playing from around 2000 to 2006, and the one account that I already had in 2000 was untouched when I came back in 2006.
The only things that got lost in both cases have been, obviously, the houses...
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That didnt make it into the game. I was gone longer than that amount of time during that time and all my toons are still there and the junk they had in the bank. I have old ones that have 25 str that were made when the stats started really low.
People are returning often on LS and their stuff is intact.
I also remember I think it was Wilki that said no chars were intentionally wiped. OOPS I do remember them saying something about chars with like 240 skill that wasn't used could be wiped to save space.
March 2001 UO 3rd Dawn with new client and Ilshenar land mass
Bad LAGGGGGGGG Still running on old UO Servers
They could have wiped data and some chars got caught up in it.
As I said before and you can ask Mesanna too if you don't take my word for it. UO never came to the point that they wiped any in good standing accounts out even for inactivity, I do know of a handful of accounts that belonged to players over the years including just recently, players who did multi digressions against UO and the rules.
What id ask first is:
Does/did any other know or play on your account? Is it possible a friend or guild mate might have known your account name, it only took a small bit of real info back in the day to fish out the rest of an account.
Is it possible that you have forgotten an action the last time you logged in that might be the reason for the loss... many back in my Counselor days we traced to short returns that player got mad and gave away all they had or threw it away striped chars and logged thinking never to return.
If you were not the original account holder/creator is it possible the original reclaimed the account and after a while did as above and then quit .
See there are a lot of reasons things can go missing... now if it was on a bug id say a revert might have happened and you were off the bug.. or if the account was not opened for a Long time could it be you died and didn't get your body and no item insurance?