Hello everybody! I would like to start this ten page essay off by saying I am having a blast getting back into UO after a long break.

... but, what is up with the respawn rates of bulls? Am I supposed to kill my tames or not? I feel like they take waaaaaay to long to respawn

If I'm not doing anything wrong and the respawn rate is supposed to be as long as it is, would anyone be opposed to lowering the time between respawns?

Thoughts?

Thanks for reading!

Instead of making a bunch of different forum posts in regards to what I am selling (which aren't listed on my vendors, I figured i'd post everything here. So here goes:

1. 5 skull of enlightenment's (100k each)
2. 1 Skull of death (125k)
3. 2 Sashes of Sereph (SB 50k)
4. Bridal sandals hues: 903, 908, 913 (sb 300k each)
5. Several houses in yew and minoc, including a yew moongate house.
6. Light trimmed valorite colored boss chest from Sereph. (200k)
7. Captain Blacksail's finest rum. S/b 300 plat. It's the first rare on server.
This post will be updated with more things I have for sale as I come across them. For anything else you may need, don't forget to check out the S-M Vendor house. It's the small house right behind yew bank, beside the rune library. It's vendors currently sell the following items:

Magic weapons
Spell reflect and Invis clothing & jewelery
Bod reward cloth
Carpenter crafted items
Full spellbooks
Regs
Greater potion kegs
Dped weapons & GM weapons
House addons

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Selling Arrows. 15k/100k or 7 per

We are excited to see all of the new players and welcome everyone to have a great time.  Some unsavory people may make their way to the shard and we felt it necessary to have a trade policy where it relates to forum account use and in game trades, this applies to using forum accounts to scam in game only!  ANY PERSON USING THEIR FORUM/DISCORD ACCOUNT TO SCAM IN GAME WILL LOSE SAID FORUM/DISCORD ACCOUNT!  This may include game account sanctions including suspension and ban of ALL gaming accounts!

This policy only covers forum accounts or Discord used to scam in game!  Here is the link to Jack's Discord rules: https://uolostlands.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=403


If you are still having trouble wrapping your brain around this, here's a hypothetical:

Player A puts up an auction on the forums for a house, weapon, or any other item.  Player B buys item on forum for agreed amount of gold, and meets player in game for the trade.  Player A takes the payment and recalls, leaving Player B "high and dry" with no item to show for his/her purchase.

I may correct the situation (i.e. reverse the trade) if given PROOF of the transaction by taking a video of the transaction using Razor.   If you were unaware of this functionality of Razor, look at the Video Capture tab.

This policy does not cover in-game scams, so if you are scammed in game, please do not page us!!!  Buyer beware in game!

Added 6/24/2016:  Auctioners please be very specific in what you are selling and what your terms are for payment.  If you have a very specific timeframe you must be paid in, put it in your auction or the buyer has "forever" to decide when to pay you!  For payment, put whether you will accept trades, gold, plat, fish steaks, etc. you get the idea I hope.  BUYERS: if you read the full terms of an auction and agree to it and perform a buyout, or you win the auction by declaration of the auctioner, you are expected to pay according to their terms!  Any breach of this "contract" by either party is actionable by shard staff up to and including forum/game account suspension and bans depending on the severity (or occurrence frequency)  If you are still confused, read it this way:  ANYTHING NOT STATED IN THE AUCTION CANNOT BE ASSUMED BY EITHER PARTY.  DO NOT BUY AN ITEM IF YOU CANNOT MEET THE SELLERS STATED AUCTION TERMS.  Jesus you have to be an attorney to play this game.  I hope this will be the end of any confusion.

I was thinking if exceptional instruments gave a bonus of like +5 to +10 to barding skills it would make those items useful and allow folks to stretch their bard templates a little bit and give people a reason to take 45 musicianship as a crafter to make them. They'd be like the "magical wizard's hat" of instruments.

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You can help us make our website prettier by posting your submission for picture of the month in this thread. Each month, the winner of the picture of the month will receive a trophy in game for their submission. Pictures can be anything, at the beginning of each month we will judge the winner.

A good place for uploading images is http://imgur.com - to post a picture of the forums, first upload it to imgur, and then use the direct image link inside forum tags like so:

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• Avoid any client modifications (eg: tree stump hack, paperdoll edits)
  
• Try your best to avoid "system message spam" - where the left side of your screen is filled with messages.
  
  

If you place enough items in a carpet bomb to cause client crashes, you must clean it up to a manageable level where it will no longer cause a client crash.

When you do this, it causes staff to have to respond and clean up the carpet bomb, which is entirely a waste of our time.

Starting from now, if you fail to follow this rule, your accounts will temporarily banned as punishment. This shard does not make money, the staff here are entirely volunteers doing this in our free time, and we do not have time to deal with matters that can easily be avoided by using common sense.

I've been working on some additional events and am rebuilding some things to make it easier to create new events in future. One thing I'm not sure about is if I should make teams random this time around or have the player select which team they want to be on (with a random rebalance before the game starts if people try to stack onto one team).

How do players feel about it?

This is a bug, you shouldn't be able to add or remove items to or from locked boxes.