I am wondering whether anyone has a reliable means in EUO to drop in a check to confirm whether an event macro 17 0 has been effective to open a container.

My thoughts:
1.   I could look for an item in the container and if my #FindCnt is greater than zero its open, but that won't work for containers that are empty.

2.   I was hoping that I might be able to reset one of the related values other than #LobjectID and then look for a change, but it appears that the container variables are not two way variables, so that is not a very promising venue.

3.  My last idea was to use option 1 first, and if it doesn't detect anything, switch the current container to the backpack by opening it before attempting the container again, and then checking against container ID.  This would be slower, but ought to be reliable.

Anyone have a better solution?

I am again enjoying a recurring problem that I used to have with Comcast cable internet in Chicago.  Every time the cable internet service would experience an interruption, it would knock my printer off of the network so that it would show up as offline.  This problem went away when I gave Comcast the big middle finger and switched to UVerse.  So for a couple of years I didn't see the issue.  Now that I am in St Louis the only internet service available for my office is Comcast cable.  Last night the cable service interrupted and my I am back to offline printer blues.  

The only way I could solve this previously was to uninstall and reinstall the printer.  When I called Comcast back in the day they always told me that it can't be their problem because I have internet service.  I just got the same answer from Charter and I hung up on the tech two minutes into his explanation of why cable internet service couldn't be the cause of that problem because I can get onto the internet and he is 99% sure it has nothing to do with cable internet...

Anyone got any ideas why this happens?  

As an aside, it amazes me that cable company internet customer service is just as lousy with a different company.  

I am looking at picking up a multi-house account and I have some questions that I wonder if folks can answer for me:

1. Refreshing the houses:  It is my understanding that the houses will need to be refreshed by an owner or co-owner.  Does anyone remember what the time period is for this?

2. Customizing a house: Can you customize a house on a multihouse account without condemning the other houses? I know you can't place a house without condemning them.

When I open up a second EUO, I get a cascade of error 5 messages. I think it may have something to do with a power outage that happened over the weekend during a big storm. Not sure what is wrong.  Permissions all appear to be in order. 

For a while now LBOD turn ins of gold runic hammer level and above have the chance to promote to a higher reward.  I have started tracking my turn ins to see if we can figure out what the chance is.  Not amazing so far, but I am not complaining.

Verite Hammer LBODs:

20EVerite Plate LBOD: Val hammer and 200K gold (Promoted)
15EValorite Plate LBOD: Ver hammer and 150K gold
 
60 ASH LBOD: No Promotion

10EVal Plate LBOD: 60 ASH and 100K Gold

Agg Hammer LBOD: No Promotion

10EVal Chain LBOD: Agg Hammer and 100K Gold

Gold Hammer LBODs: No Promotions

10EAgg Chain LBOD: Gold Hammer 50K
10EAgg Chain LBOD: Gold Hammer 50K
10EAgg Chain LBOD: Gold Hammer 50K
10EAgg Chain LBOD: Gold Hammer 50K
10EAgg Chain LBOD: Gold Hammer 50K
15EAgg Chain LBOD: Gold Hammer 75K
15EAgg Chain LBOD: Gold Hammer 75K
15EAgg Chain LBOD: Gold Hammer 75K
 

I built a general purpose container to container script that I use a lot for manipulating a large amount of objects between containers.  It uses the line Finditem * C_ , %SourceContainer to find the next item to move.  I built in a variable that you can assign to scan the items for a property, allowing you to pull only one type of item out of a bag full of stuff.  If you leave this input blank, it just moves everything from one container to another, but its nice if you want to pull all of the copper hammers out of a mixed bag of hammers for example.

The issue I am seeing is that #FindCnt never seems to get to zero when it is ignoring things, so if the conditional is supposed to be met by having moved all of the items that meet the property requirement it ends up in a loop. I wonder if there is a way around this. Is there a value for #FindCnt when the only items it finds are being ignored?  Here is loop I built that moves things.

Repeat
   {
   Move_Item_Loop:
   Finditem * C_ , %SourceBag
   If %NecessaryProperty <> N/A
      {
      Event Property #FindID
      If %NecessaryProperty notin #Property
         {
         IgnoreItem #FindID
         GoTo Move_Item_Loop
         }
      }
   set %jstart #jIndex + 1
   exevent drag #FindID
   wait 15
   exevent dropc %TargetBag
   Wait 15
   Set %NumberMoved %NumberMoved + 1
   Finditem * C_ , %SourceBag
   set %jend #jIndex
   scanjournal #jindex
   for %ji %jstart %jend
       {
       scanJournal %ji
       if That_Container_Cannot_Hold_More_Items in #Journal
          Set %TargetContainerFull Yes
       }
   event exmsg #charid 3 4 TEST MESSAGE Find Count is #FindCnt
   Wait 5
   }
Until #FindCnt < 1 || %TargetContainerFull = Yes || %NumberMoved = %NumberToMove
What I wonder is whether this might better be accomplished by doing just one Finditem and then working through that list looking at each item in sequence, but I am unsure of the syntax for a routine like that.

Hmm, going to look at something I saw in one of Cerv or C2's scripts...

I have been compiling some statistics on what the yeild is for various mining combinations and thought I would share:

Human Miner Not Prospecting: 83.4% Iron Ore, 16.6% Colored Ore. This is a result of hitting iron veins 50% of the time, and pulling in colored ore 33.3% of the time on colored veins.  Colored Ore spread per random occurrence variables available here: http://uo.stratics.com/content/skills/mining.php

Human Miner Prospecting: 66.6% Iron Ore, 33.3% Colored Ore.  This is the result of human 1/3 yeild on colored veins and converting all iron only veins to dull copper veins and promoting all colored veins aside from valorite one color.

Elf Miner Not Prospecting: 75% Iron Ore, 25% Colored Ore: This is the result of hitting iron ore veins 50% of the time, and the Elf bonus which bumps the yeild on colored veins to 50%.

Elf Miner Prospecting: 50% Iron Ore, 50% Colored Ore: This is the result of converting iron ore veins to dull copper, promoting all but valorite veins one colore, and the Elf bonus which bumps the yeild on colored veins to 50%

Conclusion:

Most of the mining I have been doing in UO has been on human miners that were not prospecting.  I have no trouble getting iron, but often run short on colored ingots.  By converting all of my miners to elves and prospecting 100% of the time I can more than triple my colored ingot yeild.