Someone (We all know who) at an IDOC crashed our Internet / Modem for 25 minutes.
If nothing can be done about these players that do such things... can we not just come to an agreement to stop IDOCs altogether? Save items for returning players or delete items from banned accounts... period.
Then let IDOC house plots be auctioned... one chance per paying account?
There is nothing fair in this game when someone can crash the game / someone modem for almost an half hour. Half of the players there came back to bodies.... all because there was a rubble fire, Atlantic Mesanna lantern, and Great Lakes Mesanna lantern... among jawbones and moonstone crystals.
Our whole internet went down. We had to unplug and plug the modem back up 5 times and nothing... I guess the internet company finally reset it.
Then let IDOC house plots be auctioned... one chance per paying account?
There is nothing fair in this game when someone can crash the game / someone modem for almost an half hour. Half of the players there came back to bodies.... all because there was a rubble fire, Atlantic Mesanna lantern, and Great Lakes Mesanna lantern... among jawbones and moonstone crystals.
Our whole internet went down. We had to unplug and plug the modem back up 5 times and nothing... I guess the internet company finally reset it.
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Still, that will not help anyone not reading this. I suggest to the Devs that you should take action and stop IDOCs altogether. There is no rhyme or reason as so why a certain group of players should be allowed to do this.
I am guessing it is the same group/person who gets every single castle / keep IDOC into his hands to sell for real life money.
I'm sure the DarkLady et al will want to know more about this. If you have logs (from your system, the modem, and also your ISP) I'd send that to Mesanna with a direct note explaining what happened.
Do not name names (if she wants names she will ask you for them)... that will change the tone of your email. But do make sure to include logs for they will contain some information the devs could use.
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And its fair.
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What I do know, from experience, is that a literate and accurately worded explanation of a situation along with suggestions for possible solutions does get attention. It may not get a direct response from Broadsword, but does get attention.
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She thinks the group of guys were on voice chat / discord and they called to each other to leave the area.... and they did something in game to just crash everyone. But for whatever reason, our internet rep. said that it was likely a DDOS attack. When that happens, their system has a fail safe where it will flag any modem experiencing that and lock it for a certain amount of time. That is what happened to us, our whole internet went down for probably 20-30 minutes. There were only 4-5 piles of bones on the ground when we got back to the IDOC.
It's just extremely frustrating.... I spent $60 in sovereigns today to get 2 transfer tokens and soulstones to sell in gen chat.... for way cheaper than I should have... all to finish setting up my character finally. Then I did not even get the chance to test my character because of our Ultima crashing and internet shutting down. I literally spent 10 hours today getting ready for this IDOC, and $60 in the UO Store.
I guess I should have mowed the yard and not played Ultima.... that is what it feels like. It is just great to know that the cheaters won again.... they got their rubble fire and tons of other goodies (were +20 stealth cloaks on the ground, many Mesanna lanterns, EM items everywhere.) The cheaters got loaded up with goods and the actual players who spent all day leveling their characters, buying gear, and selling legit UO Store items did not get a single thing. I got a crystalline ring that was VvV.... I threw it in the trash. No idea what else I might have gotten did the whole thing not crash. It doesn't feel good @Devs.
I hope you guys seriously consider what @Seth said above about the IDOCs. If you guys did that for IDOCs.... I would probably be paying for 20 accounts all of a sudden instead of the 8 we have. Then you really would have no people complaining. I appreciate everything you guys did with making IDOCs private, creating the barrel system, and all of the new content. But you guys know the cheaters and griefers are never going to stop. Just make it fair once and for all and take away their castle / keep / IDOC sales and let everyone have a shot? Seth's idea is great. Simple, extremely effective. It will take away all scripters.... house placers, barrel punches... whoever did the thing to us. They cannot stop someone from coming and clicking a totem to get a ticket for the raffle..... and I bet a ton of people will be paying for more accounts and selling items more fairly.
Sorry for ranting all... this hurt. What's worse is that the cheaters knew they were outmatched. They had no choice.... they flipped the server and crashed everyone. They won it after all...
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Sounds like it was in Fel. Surprised anyone besides reds were able to do anything.
Amazing no one on Atlantic can detect hidden to kill the guys trying to place. With all the cheating and such that you say goes on. Should have been 400 EJ accounts and 300 EJ Ghost cams there to kill anyone not in the barrels.
Perfect example of how fabricated your complaint posts are.
If it is a small group of Reds and it is a large IDOC, they get full and have to drop things in a container to sort stuff out. Grab stuff from it and insure when you get things.
Our whole internet got taken down at once. The modem and everything went offline. After we realized it was off, she ran and unplugged it. She tried that 4 times.... nothing..... finally it came back after 25-30 minutes. The internet service provider said it looked like a DDOS attack. They suggested I get a VPN.
I hope you guys can just put an end to it altogether. This was dis-heartening. We have done so much for this game and it is still ruined by cheaters. Why not allow IDOCs to be auctioned? Winning raffle gets houses and items. Or items stay with player they came from.... winning raffle gets plot.
Everyone will have twice the accounts just for the raffle chances. New subs will have a chance at keeps / castles without trying for ages to make 45 platinum. The cheats won't win.... I am so glad that you guys changed it to barrels, that I really do not want to complain about barrel punching scripts, but they are still there too. We do super good at IDOCs now. But when it comes to a super great IDOC, they can't have anyone breaking any barrels besides themselves it seems.
Ok, I don't need the IDOC, there are other better things to do.
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Notice how no one else has came forward to say they also were affected. Funny how all the barrels were broken and all the items are gone if everyone's connection was disrupted by "You know who"
Yall just prove your incompetence at UO by blaming others for your lack of---- Circle correct answer:
Skills
Connection
Understanding of game mechanics
Quickness
All the above
But I'd suggest making the following amendments. Each account gets a raffle weight.
- If you already recently owned a house, your raffle weight goes down.
- Each time you trade a house to yourself, the raffle weight goes down.
- The longer you dont own a house with an active account in good standing - the higher your weight goes up. (think veteran rewards type counts)
Eventually even the most arthritis ridden player will be able to get a house (not just those with hours upon hours on hand to sit and spam place at IDOCs).
This system could allow for future shard mergers or other balancing tasks. Owners of houses on shards that gets shuttered, would get huge raffle weight bonus in order to maximize their pick of the lot.
Wouldnt adress multi account "raffle joining" but the old method of placing houses at IDOCs is simply bad. Maybe back in the day when scripting and automation wasnt as prevalent as it is now, it was a good thing.. but not in this time and era.
- Well, wouldnt this just create a long queue of people wanting a house you say?
People who has houses can still sell them. Just like now. It just means that more people have a shot at a house than a select few "professionals" that drive the house pricing upwards. There wont be any less or more houses available, just more chance for equal chance of placing!
People who want the best house from an IDOC might not want to place a house of their own to increase their weight scoring on the raffle. Which potentially means more house plots available if people carefully select what sort of home they go for.
Nah, what I mean is all these threads are about the IDOC thing, be it scripts, ddos, legendary idoc skill, or whatever. As mentioned earlier, whatever the reasons, raffle will put an end to all these problems, real or fake.
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Unless the OP is suggesting to raffle off the entirety of the house to a single person and basically just hand the keys over (that seems very unrealistic) then it seems like they are confused to what their sob story is vs what they actually want from it.
IBTL.
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No one else but the OP crashed!
Ofc the Idoc was in fel and PK's were everywhere and they got most of the loot and someone got butthurt and created this amazing fiction that a group of people planned a direct attack to his IP and crashed his modem for 25 min to prevent him to loot???? WOW, just wow... you won the Oscar dude. 1st we had the video maker saying that player A and B and C were the reason of all prices go up, than most recently Nails sold some plots for 25P and was his fault as well to make house prices go up, now you saying that we have people direct attacking you with "DOS" attack that will shut down your specific modem for 20 min to prevent you to loot from Idocs?? Does it sound normal?
An attacker would not need anything from the server if the victim was using software that could provide the attacker with direct access to the victims computer.
I.E. Unapproved clients are unapproved for a reason.