Which Idoc script marks runes at houses it finds with the following pattern, let's assume it's 3:45pm

"IDOC 154521" with the 15 being military time for 3pm, 45 being the minutes and 21 being the seconds ??

edit: I see more and more of these types of names on runes that people drop after an idoc, whatever the script it's become popular. It also screams scripter so you might want to stop dropping them if you use that script

As you know there is a metric ton of different types of house decor deeds out there. http://www.uoguide.com/Category:House_Addons. Some on the list aren't worth picking up at idoc, such as a loom or dartboard(or any player made item?), but some are very desirable. And then there are goza mats, the most vile of idoc loot since they hide items from view on floors above and share the same type as every other addon... so some filtering is needed.

I'm already performing an Event Property #findID and so filtering isn't too difficult but there are so many deeds to eliminate that it can become lengthy to perform a different "if" iteration for each. Lets say I just want to eliminate goza mats and dart boards for now...
sub whatever
IF Goza in #Property
{
ignoreitem #findID
}
IF Dart in #Property
{
ignoreitem #findID
}
return
Is creating a list of words going to be as efficient as a list of item types? example

set %deedFilter Goza_Dart_etc ;followed by a
IF %deedFilter in #Property
{
ignoreitem #findID
}
Will using deedFilter even work to specify text like that? If so, does it cause much of a slowdown? I'm not on my game computer to test right now.

Hey folks,

I've got a handy little script that lets me assign items to a list quickly and just walk around to load my beetle up. It's been helpful for all sorts of things from mining to picking up(and/or dropping) runes to redecorating. The thing is while walking around it works great but as soon as I run at all the drops sometimes fail because the beetle is more than 2 tiles away momentarily. I was making due with a small delay in the drop but that doesn't work with my ninja when in animal form... the beetle doesn't always keep up.

I'm having trouble getting a reliable check in the code to make sure the beetle is close enough to drop on before dropping. I've tried checking to make sure the beetle is within G_2 but doing that and adding a delay is causing it to glitch a bit too often. Is there a way to simply NOT do the drop until the beetle is in range without using a set delay time?

example of a glitch: I added a finditem for the beetle within G_2 and looped until it returned true but this forced me to stop whatever I was doing and stand still or the beetle might get within G_2 momentarily and be at G_3+ by the time the drop happens...

example of the code(simplified)

set %beetleID XXXXXX
set %stuffTypes BLAH_BLAH_BLAH
gosub beetleAction
;-------------------
sub beetleAction
finditem %stuffTypes G_2
if #FINDCNT > 0
{
  exevent drag #FINDID
  wait 10
  exevent dropc %beetleID
  wait 12
gosub beetleAction
}
If there is a rock solid way to handle the drop with slowpoke beetles I'd love to know, thanks in advance for any pointers.

My Davie's lockers are near full and I plan to fish them up as soon as I finish my current project. My mule needs the gems, my scribe needs the scrolls and regs and the shipwreck stuff will get turned in for points... but what to do with all the armor/weapons ?

Just curious what you guys are using to sort it out and find the good stuff and what you do with the rest. I'm guessing stuff like platemail mage armor, items with damage eater 12%, items with 2-3 cap bonuses but clean otherwise and legendary artifacts might sell?

I'm not sure what's working in terms of a looter so before I try them all I figured I'd ask which scripts you like to use for that and what you keep/sell/trash.

I keep details about idocs on a quick spreadsheet(what else is there to do while sitting there?!?) and after 18 this month a little tidbit of info seems to be giving away secrets. As you know houses can fall in 5, 10 or 15 hours after going idoc, well, what is inside the idoc seems to play a role in how long you will need to wait.

Oddly I have been at 6 of each in the past month, 6 fell after 5 hours, 6 more after 10 hours and the last 6 after 15 hours.

I attended 4 idocs in which the houses were empty(one had bagballs loaded with npc bought cooking supplies) and all 4 of those fell after the first 5 hours. The other two had generic carpentry stuff and typical contents of a player that never has gold. On the other end of the spectrum all 6 houses that fell at the 15 hour mark had a lot of items that sell for quite a bit on vendor search, I pulled an average of 71 million from each(would have been more if I wasn't testing my script). The six in the middle had some good items, and a lot of items in general but many of those of low value or NPC bought.

At a glance it very much looks like the best idocs fall at the 15 hour mark! Size of house is irrelevant according to the data I have so far, but only 18 idocs isn't quite enough to come to any conclusions. Still, it looks like number of items and item value play some role in determining how long an idoc takes to fall in the final stage.

WHY would they do this? Well, perhaps they thought that the longer a house stays idoc the more people have a chance to find it and split the lootz and houses with little in them fall fast so that not too many are there? That's just speculation but it makes sense. Have you noticed a similar pattern at your idocs?

I'm considering making a new fisher on a shard I have no characters on and am wondering how viable it would be to make him a T-Hunter as well

- 100 Magery
- 100 Eval
- 100 Med
- 100 Fishing
- 100 Mining
- 100 Carto
- 100 Lockpick

Casting Earth Elementals to hold aggro a bit, I don't want to empty chests or kill all monsters with this... just loot the good stuff and scoot. An all in one character instead of raising two seperate characters (fisher + t-hunter with provo or something), but my question is how high a T-Map do you think the above could handle?

I just went through my old UO bookmark folder and was sad to see a lot of sites no longer exist. Some of them were great, others funny, others evil but all served a purpose. In the early days I never got into scripting but I was up to speed on bugs then, they were often funny or useful. I never got into the dupe scene but some sites posted some stuff that even the UO devs used to learn about how to fix UO bugs.

One site I remember was askchopper.com, it had a member area that I never saw but also a public bug section. Harmless stuff for the most part, like how to color your beard without paying full price by removing it and adding it again... the game would dye it the same color as your hair so you wouldn't need two different dyes. Stuff like that.

Anyway, just curious what other old sites you guys liked that are offline now too. I noticed the wintermoor museum on Atlantic is gone, that thing used to be 20+ houses large on ice isle Atlantic. What sites do you miss?  Website info can be retrieved, it is never truly gone, I'm wondering if there's enough good stuff gone to create an archive section on a new site.