The first time I broke free my account had been deactivated for awhile but from what I read on UO's website house condemning had been turned off while they were doing some update or another. I believe they were switching it over to where you no longer had to refresh your house if you only had one. From *my* understanding on the web page all house condemning had been turned off, regardless if your account was currently active or not. (I read it 100s of times, and that's the way it read) Reactivated the day before they turned it back on to find 3 of my houses gone, including a tower on Ice Isle (that was a big deal back then! To me at least) and a public forge house within town protection against the mountain west of Britain, by the tunnel to the crossroads. Remember when the crossroads was *the* PK spot? That house had over 50000 visits before Trammel came and turned Fel into a ghost town.
No pun intended. The only house still standing was the one I cared for the least, just a small wooden in a forest. I deactivated within 5 minutes of resubscribing. That was a big reason I stayed away so long.
I know my forge had at least a few pieces of phoenix armor in one of the chests, really wish I had moved that to the bank, haha.
Post Merge: August 21, 2011, 10:48:50 PM
Sorry I didn't include this in my original post but I didn't think of it then!
When Trammel housing opened I had a spot all picked out (different account so I didn't condemn all my other houses) next to the ocean south of Skara Brae. I wanted to put a large forge there and start a player run tavern, as I was heavily into roleplaying at the time. Some in-game friends and I had a plan, my idea with my back story, but they would help with staffing. No sense in having a tavern if no one is around to serve drinks and tell stories! There were several other people there vying for the same spot the day they opened placement. I waited in anticipation, the message came, I double clicked my deed, targeted the spot, a large forge popped up, double clicked the sign and...... the house wasn't mine.
I had a few other spots to try however none of them were next to water which was a main theme behind the place. Alas, everything was full. I ran around just looking for any empty spot but could find nothing.
But then!
The revert. I don't remember what happened, but something went amiss during the placement process and every shard reverted. A second chance! And this time success! Looking back I feel bad for the person who originally placed and lost out but at the time I was so happy I didn't care.
We were open 3 nights a week for five hours a night (plus any other random time I logged in and someone was in drinking by themselves so I'd stay and chat) and had at least one event a week. It was a moderate success, some nights we had over 20 people while others just a few. We even had a website! Functional if not extremely basic. My event to go out and find a dolphin and then bring it back was by far the worst one, not a single person showed up! Can't blame them haha. Unfortunately most of the friends who were going to help with staffing never did and playing a minimum of 15 hours a week just to keep the place open became too much after I was done with college and moved back to my hometown. Having a full time job plus seeing all of your old family and friends again tends to put things like that on the back burner!
The theme and back story was a tribute to the fictional pirate Domingo who had ruled the seas with an iron fist. The forge was set up as sort of a mini museum with books laying around with stories in them about Domingo's life and exploits, as well as examples of drinks (it was a tavern after all) with descriptions. My personal favorite was the "Salty Brew", a concoction for when the sailors were running low on ale, they'd do half ale and half seawater. It was a house favorite. It was also a mini casino, it was in tribute to a pirate after all. I lost so much gold on darts, but made most of it back up on dice. House wins on dice! We had to institute a max bet of 10000 gold (which is laughable nowadays) as the high rollers would come in and with a few lucky throws they could bankrupt the house!
One of the things that amused me about the place was the proprietor was a simple lumberjack who would run and hide from anything bigger than a mongbat, yet here he is running a place in tribute and telling stories of the most feared pirate on the seas.
If you ever stopped by Domingo's Pride on Lake Superior, say hi!
Ah, fond memories, hope you enjoyed the story! I'm still getting used to navigating around the site, but one of the things I was looking for was an automated lumberjacking script that works in Ter Mur. Nothing I found at easyuo works in Ter Mur and I need some crystal shards.
Any suggestions?
I admittedly know nothing about scripting although I wouldn't mind learner a bit. Don't know if I'd ever get into anything too complicated, I think some of the things a lot of you guys know/do are amazing. I do consider myself quite the macroer though, haha. When I played last year I had a bulk reg selling business and had a macro to buy regs from the faction vendors in the Skara bank, even had it built in to pick them up off the ground and move them into the bank box. Starting from scratch on the vendors (20 of each reg) I could run it and buy about 2 million gold worth of regs in 5 hours or so (might've been longer). Not that everyone couldn't have done the same thing, but I was proud of it!
