House placement
This delay using the house placement tool needs to go already. It's gotten beyond annoying and does nothing but hurt anyone that's attended.
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@Community Manager
- Revert placement timer?13 votes
- Revert it!100.00%
- I like wasting an hour to place a house0.00%
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For context, I did not know about the change, and went trying to find a plot, doing my typical try to place a 7x7 and see if it fits, then go up from there strategy and literally took over an hour to get a house I could squeeze in, and this was on a "ghost " shard , not atlantic.
We will not speak of the obscenities I uttered while hunting on Atlantic. There are still flame charred scorch marks all over the moniter.
Same boat. It's just not acceptable anymore.
Never be afraid to challenge the status quo
Congrats on stepping in as the new lead! Since you're open to feedback and fresh ideas, I want to raise a serious issue that desperately needs fixing: the current house placement system, especially for IDOCs.
Right now, one player — "nonono" — places nearly every house that falls. This isn't exaggeration, it's fact. They're running 30 accounts and placing every second. Regular players with 1 or 2 accounts have zero chance of competing. ZERO.
This isn't just frustrating — it's broken. The current system rewards those with the most accounts and scripts, not actual players.
It’s time for a better way. Here’s a simple idea:
Bring back a raffle-style system like the Old Magincia event.
When a house falls, put a “raffle stone” in place.
Players can click it to enter for a chance to claim that plot.
If they win, they get a scroll that locks the spot for 24 hours.
If they don’t use it, the area opens back up.
Yes, someone with 30 accounts will have more entries. But at least now everyone has a real shot. If 100 people enter, even the guy with 30 accounts has just a 30% chance, not the near-100% he has today.
Right now, there’s no competition. Just domination by a single player using sheer account volume. That’s not what UO is about. It’s time to level the field and make house placement fair again.
Thanks for listening — and really hope you consider this.
My first time posting on this forum, and I finally found a reason to.
I 100% agree with the post above. Devs, please we know you're super focused on New Legacy right now, and it feels like the normal shards have been left behind, but this really needs attention.
The current system is just unfair for players with only 1, 2, or even 3 accounts. There's no real chance against the guy who places every single IDOC... and he’s not even there in person! Hours before the house drops, you can literally see him recall in with 30+ characters at once, they all hide, and boom he gets the plot almost every time.
Please consider a raffle system, or like Mesanna once said, just remove the IDOC timers from the house sign. That alone would help a lot.
I didn't either when I came back, and when I was placing I made one little mistake without realizing it, and by the time the timer was up, I'm sitting there trying different house sizes (smaller sizes) and I nearly placed a smaller house. Thankfully I realized my mistake (figured out where a corner needed to be) and came across others mentioning the "True" message, and before placing, I checked on some other shards and saw something bigger would fit.
At least give us an indication of when the timer is up (and a notice that a timer exists in the first place). The unknown timer just pisses off casual players and would frustrate returning players who think they are making mistakes.
I'm happy I got my houses on Atlantic before these clients became out of control, along with the poor idoc/placement system. Just for reference 18x18s were 20m before these people were able to corner the market. The devs are spineless to do anything, don't expect change... you know the fix they already had for the client was in and would stop this crap.
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Then if u do a quick research.. u realise.. like those individuals being favored by certain of those non sense changes side hustle.. meanwhile I experienced that new cooldown.. 100% making it even more frustrating for legit CC users to place a castle.. I was bringing the alt account trying to place an optimize castle.
Leave attended paying accounts alone, these people go thru a lot of trouble to play/automate the game.
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Please don't lock this. I can't deal with this timer forever.
Pre timer you could do what you think would fit and use the outline to adjust bigger. Now it takes a solid hour doing it that way.
I think this would make a great vet reward to survey the land and show what would fit
They need to start selling stuff like gold on a front store; officially sponsored by EA, tho.
You mean like a punch clock for volunteers?
@caption ironically they deleted my message two days later (the one before the CM intervene)
I was mostly saying what u are saying.. I thought urs would be cuz u were name dropping (against forum rules to accuse..) and I was not.
Edit: I suspect this is the mesanna corporate culture part,that motivated them.. for them to decide to delete it two days later... or maybe some round corner; skipping a brick wall post
Leave attended paying accounts alone, these people go thru a lot of trouble to play/automate the game.
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Everyone playing this game is -well- aware of the litany of issues at this point. I'm a recluse mostly, and use plain old CC, with occasional forays into EC to look at vendors that were stocked in EC. I use no addons/bells or whistles. And I don't g.a.---F---. if someone is using them, I came to grips with it decades ago, to enjoy what I enjoy about UO.
Getting house placement reverted, at least for "ghost" shards where I've played the last decade, Sonoma, Lake Austin, Drachenfels, random Asian shards I've dipped my paws in would be enough to keep me from pulling my eyebrows out. At this point, there is "Atlantic" , and everything else. I don't like that so much myself, but it is what it is. I enjoy UO. Regardless of the shard, or whatever ways someone can exploit or ruin it for someone.
Please, whoever, trim posts that exceed the limits of 'acceptable' conversation if it needs to happen, but don't lock the thread. It's a big issue, for the vast majority of the game, while not addressing any 'real' issue of the people the 'fix' was supposedly brought online to deal with.