IDOCS and Script users.
I am sure these kinds of threads show up every once in a while but I want to write about an experience I had tonight on Atlantic.
There was an IDOC advertised on the minister of trade so I figured why not? Showed up, got a bit of useless loot from the house and then I decided to wait for the one hour timer for the barrels to fall.
While waiting someone from one of the IDOC guilds recalled in so I figured I was dealing with a scripter at this point.
The barrels drop the area of not available for placement yet.
I try placing approximately every 45 seconds because I know if I try to do it too fast I'll trigger the lock out timer and be unable to even use the tool [very annoying]
At about 4:14AM I place and still get the area is unavailable to place message and then about 10 seconds later the IDOC guy places.
Maybe my timing was off and I need to get good or maybe the script was simply too fast for a human to compete with.
Either way it was a frustrating finish to the night.
I know these guilds apparently have a monopoly on the housing supply and are selling houses on forums and in game. I also know IDOC is a traditional part of UO but I feel that they should maybe find another solution to this since all efforts to deal with scripting in the past seems to have not done much of anything.
Maybe a lottery stone placed at the spot when a house falls?
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I wish you the best luck on your quest for change; hopefully you can succeed where everyone else has failed.
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imagine players that make a living through RMT having more power than those who are supposed to run this game
you will never get to the bottom if its until there is a complete change in Dev team and no influence over them
I used to love idocs 15 years ago, there is no point doing them now, certainly not on ATL
you get your posts removed because you break some stupid rule somewhere but you can script cheat and negatively affect the gameplay of there, that is ok
I give this 5 mins before its deleted and I get a warning or a ban
Even though I have not mentioned any names etc, I will be upsetting somebody somewhere and that just wont do
$$$$$$$$ talks when it falls into the right pockets
This I observed many time about 2 years ago, I am sure the cheat tech has improved.
Every change this Dev team comes up with to combat scripters is overcome within days by the cheat trade
the only players that lose out are the legit players
My advice, move on, do NOT buy from RMT sites or any players that list multiple 18x18 pin Facebook or the forum
Real players cannot possible have a housing stock of max storage Atlantic houses
They are ALL cheating and all gold converted and sold for $$$$$$$
This funds more dodgy codes and Broadsword get NO income from it
And nobody has convinced me otherwise
It was a 12x12 spot...it was not even a particularly big house. I just wanted an upgrade from my current 7x12 lol.
I feel like the solution is pretty easy in that once the house drops, a raffle stone spawns and you have to touch it to be on the list. Granted this won't really help with all the muliboxers but at least you have *a chance* by winning the rights to place at that plot without dealing with a script.
RMT sellers will just created millions of accts with dodgy codes to almost guarantee they win the raffle
when there is no real will form the devs to combat this the cheats will always win
i am sure these people will still make 10 multi boxed accounts to up their chances.
If you really wanted to make it a bit harder on them you could make the stone check for skill points possibly and only characters with 720.0 total skill points and at least 6 of the skills have to be GM ( to prevent loading up useless skill points ) would be able to register to the stone.
This makes it so they at least have to put in the work instead of fresh IDOC alts.
But an auction could still work too. I feel the devs could add other gold sinks too though. But removing a couple billion gold from the game at a time would be a good thing as well. Inflation is ridiculous right now.
i guess the idea is to name it as unappealing to scriptors as possible and hopefully collapse those real estate guilds that are such a bad thing for this game in general.
With an auction - 5 plat is bid on the house - 5 plat is removed. 5 plat less in the game. Eventually prices will come down especially on houses.
You don't need things for free in this game - work for a house. Its not hard to make a plat. I made nearly a plat just selling 27th anny tokens on Atlantic this month. Yes I have shard shields to move them but you could have moved yours with mine and sold on Atlantic too.
EM events give out items worth 300m in gold etc etc.
House auctions cuts scripters off at the legs. Unless UO doesn't want them to go away.....
https://forum.uo.com/discussion/1403/revisited-3rd-party-programs-list
Just sayin’...