Heh, buzzards, somehow I find that name very fitting of people who IDOC extensively. Waiting hours and days for a house to die in hopes of picking up some scrap pixels worth something to someone.

I went on an EM event tonight and was highly disappointed. I made the mistake of going on an archer with healing skill. Well, it was just one big zerg to get kill rights on a monster that could AOE stun the entire room and 1-shot kill everyone... except Sampires and Tamer pets. Healing skill is 100% useless after the first death because you no longer have bandages to use. Sure enough the lead sampy got THREE of the 20 limited EM items to himself and the other 17 went to tamers and other sampires. Even the guy in back doing nothing but ressing everyone got nothing and he probably worked harder than anyone.

Idocs don't seem so bad after that.  

Yes, I think searchuo just uses bots to go around looking into packs. It covers all of Luna as well as some vendors outside of Luna. I wouldn't be surprised if searchuo is omiting known rares however since they want to get/sell/collect those themselves. If you search atlantic's vendor search for "catskills" for example you see a bunch of catskills EM event items but searchuo does not show you these items.

Anyway, right now I've got a wishlist of items in notepad++ and am manually using UO's "vendor search" to check them each one by one. Items like a "secret chest" are rarely on a vendor so if one shows up I want to know as fast as possible. That chest is from an Asian shard event and so isn't common on Atlantic(it allows 500 items to be stored in it, not 125).

So there isn't a search script that works with the default UO "vendor search" feature? I really don't want to wander around from vendor to vendor with a script since the vendor search feature already has that info.

I don't have a screenshot, just an idea, a script to run through a list of items I am looking for to tell me if yes/no the item was found. Since I'm going to use it to search for rares a simple found yes/no is enough since there won't ever be a lot of them.

Definitely some changes. I got an idoc to myself only 2 hours into the final stage, I recalled to all my runes and found this one already down with nobody around. I also looted an 18x18 with 4-5 other people there and it was clean within 10 minutes. Being in a good spot I decided I'd try to take the spot too and on the first test try with my tool I got the 18x18 placed. Another idoc took the regular 4.5 hours to fall.

It used to take 1hr + a random amount of time more for a house tool to work, 1-2 hours total, but it seems like that first minimum hour is gone. I liked that I could show up 10-15 minutes before I knew it would be going down, this needing to wait hours is for the birds.

It seems that a lot of items from past turn-in events can no longer be had, they became rares, thanks to the hoarding of sell-for-cash sites. Example: Chest of Heirlooms. It could be turned in 10 at a time for tokuno treasures. If you unlocked it however it could no longer be turned in and it makes a great storage container. I think if you vendor one it will be gone within minutes too thanks to those websites that monitor vendor contents.

It doesn't matter which server you vendor it on either, it will end up transferred, eventually.

I doubt any item from this doom set of turn-ins will become as valuable, but who knows. One drop off the lich in Ilsh is called a death vortex and even though it's still dropping its rare enough that it's on these sellers lists of items to look out for and so it sells for 50m+. In general if it sells for under 1m it's a common item, no matter where it comes from. The reason is that 1m is the value of a check and it's not worth holding onto an item worth less than that or you have 1 item space taken by something worth less than a check.

Anyway, the arties seem to be dropping again.

/facepalm, property....  thanks.

I was able to add a property check that, if it finds a locked down item, continues to check but once the lock down comes off the rest of the script runs without checking for locked down again. Works great. I really didn't want to get into IGNORE loops and didn't have to.

Perhaps learning how the exploit works would allow us to figure out how to avoid being knocked out of the game BUT I'd rather just deal with the problem parties that keep getting away with it. Obviously I don't mind scripting to automate tasks but I do have a problem with this particular activity since it's essentially a DOS attack(denial of service).

Heya,

I'm tweaking a script and am having some trouble with locked down items. What's happening is that it tries to pick up an item once to read the journal for the locked down message but I'd rather it not do that. Is it possible to scan the item for "locked down" before trying to drag it? This would eliminate the need to check the journal at all for me. Here is a quick routine I'd be fitting it into... but am not sure how to do the check without initiating a drag event. I know it's simple but ... yeah, i must be tired cuz I'm not getting it, lol.

sub itemPickup
FINDITEM %itemList G_2
  IF #FINDCNT > 0
     {
     event Drag #findID
findItem %backpackId
set #findMod 139_217
     wait 20
     click #findX #findY p
     }
Thanks