Grand Fathered House In Trammel?

[Riply]

I have a Trammel house that was created during the first week that Trammel was created. On the house sign it has the comment that it's grand Fathered. I have another house that was created during that same week but says that the house is automatically refreshed.
Also the house which says grand fathered on the house sign never needs to be refreshed manually, but I believe that is now true on all grand fathered houses.
Still curious why one says grand fathered and the others does not, any thoughts or info on this?

 

[MalagAste]

Because when they switched it so that you couldn't have two on one account then you had to "choose" one as your Primary. This one auto refreshes.... the other one became "grandfathered" so...... this means that if you were to do something that would mess up your 2 houses on one account the one that is "grandfathered" I think is the one that stays.... the other goes bye bye. It was set as your primary. Hard to remember way back then... especially since I got rid of mine ages ago. But I believe that is the correct thinking. Anyway they should both be fine so long as you don't customize them or try to place another house or resize either of your homes then you should keep them both.

 

[Riply]

Only have one house on the grandfathered house, from what I remember grandfathered accounts were only for pre trammel houses.

 

[MalagAste]

Only have one house on the grandfathered house, from what I remember grandfathered accounts were only for pre trammel houses.

No when I started there was trammel... and you could have a house on more than one shard. Then they changed that and I had a house on GL's and my son had one on Pacific. They were grandfathered. There were many reasons for houses to become grandfathered. Though way back when you could have a house per character or some such stuff like that. Then it was one per shard... and you could have one on every shard if you wanted. Wish I had wanted but back then it was hard to find even a 7x7 spot to place in. So it went to one per account period.

 

[Mandrake of DF]

Grandfathered houses are from thoose that had multiple houses when they changed house policy. If you mess up your houses, no one will stay - both will fall. So NEVER place another house or trade one to you! You will loose all the other houses.

If you won a prize house, that would also become grandfathered made by GM's.

From what I remember, you had to choose one house as primary when they changed it - and had to refresh the other houses the first year/years then they changed them all to automatic refresh.

 

[Lord Nabin]

I have owned several Grandfathered houses. I have traded them. Placed houses on the accounts etc. Never ever had a problem with them going bad.

@Nails Warstein could comment on this as well as he has delt with them often enough as well

 

[Fogsbane]

For me, all my Grandfathered account homes display "This house is Grandfathered".

My grandfathered account trammel homes say "grandfathered", not "automatically".
The only grandfathered account home that does not say grandfathered is my Siege Perilous home -
this one displays "This house is Automatically refreshed".

My Grandfathered housing has NOT needed to be refreshed.

The "Codex of Wisdom" help text that pops up when you click on the blue highlighted "Grandfathered" text link listed on the Information tab of the House sign incorrectly states that "Grandfathered" houses need to be manually refreshed. This has not been the case, for me, for as long as I can remember.

If I am understanding correctly - it does seem odd that you would have a house on a grandfathered account that does not say grandfathered.

 

[Poo]

I have owned several Grandfathered houses. I have traded them. Placed houses on the accounts etc. Never ever had a problem with them going bad.

@Nails Warstein could comment on this as well as he has delt with them often enough as well

thats interesting.
so when youve traded the 'Grandfathered houses' did they remain Grandfathered?
i was always under the assumption that when we traded them they switched over to normal.
also, you say youve traded houses on those accounts.
so youve left the grandfathered one and trased the auto refreshing one with no problem?
just curious, i dont have any left on my accounts but my good friend has an account with like 3 or 4 of them and he's often wondered.

 

[Poo]

For me, all my Grandfathered account homes display "This house is Grandfathered".

My grandfathered account trammel homes say "grandfathered", not "automatically".
The only grandfathered account home that does not say grandfathered is my Siege Perilous home -
this one displays "This house is Automatically refreshed".

My Grandfathered housing has NOT needed to be refreshed.

The "Codex of Wisdom" help text that pops up when you click on the blue highlighted "Grandfathered" text link listed on the Information tab of the House sign incorrectly states that "Grandfathered" houses need to be manually refreshed. This has not been the case, for me, for as long as I can remember.

If I am understanding correctly - it does seem odd that you would have a house on a grandfathered account that does not say grandfathered.

id imagine that is probably due to the fact that they now allow everyone to place a house on siege and retain a house on normal shards - siege housing is now totally separate then the normal housing system off of the production shards.

 

[CovenantX]

I still have 5 houses on one account, none of them need to be refreshed, unless the account were to go down.

 

[Lord Nabin]

I have owned several Grandfathered houses. I have traded them. Placed houses on the accounts etc. Never ever had a problem with them going bad.

@Nails Warstein could comment on this as well as he has delt with them often enough as well

Yes I have traded the grandfathered Malas Castles over the years back and forth many times. Both with and without normal house placements attached to the accounts. In addition I have added and removed secondary houses on those accounts several times with no issues to the grandfathered status of a house on the same account.

There are also various Grandfathered Housing lots in game where I have traded as well. Some of those plots were customized. While I did not change the foundation size I was able to remodel and design the houses at will without any issue in losing their grandfathered status.

I have never tried to resize a grandfathered houses plot. No clue on what would happen with that.

I have also never worked directly with the little 7x7 grandfathered houses from long long ago.

 

[Fogsbane]

While I did not change the foundation size I was able to remodel and design the houses at will without any issue in losing their grandfathered status.

Thank You Nabin for this Nugget of detail!
I have wondered about this many, many times, but had never seen a specific direct answer to this.

I still think I'll keep my classic design, but who knows perhaps one day the mood will suit me.

again, Thank You ~

 

[Lord Nabin]

Thank You Nabin for this Nugget of detail!
I have wondered about this many, many times, but had never seen a specific direct answer to this.

I still think I'll keep my classic design, but who knows perhaps one day the mood will suit me.

again, Thank You ~

Keep in mind that this was not a classic style house plot it was a customization plot. I have never changed a plot from Classic to Customization plot nor have I tried the resize my house function on a grandfathered plot.

 

[Fogsbane]

Keep in mind that this was not a classic style house plot it was a customization plot. I have never changed a plot from Classic to Customization plot nor have I tried the resize my house function on a grandfathered plot.

Understood. I should have quoted the whole paragraph - I understood that from your original. Thanks for the clarification.

 

[Goodmann]

No when I started there was trammel... and you could have a house on more than one shard. Then they changed that and I had a house on GL's and my son had one on Pacific. They were grandfathered. There were many reasons for houses to become grandfathered. Though way back when you could have a house per character or some such stuff like that. Then it was one per shard... and you could have one on every shard if you wanted. Wish I had wanted but back then it was hard to find even a 7x7 spot to place in. So it went to one per account period.

With the introduction of trammel that was the end of grandfathered houses. I remember giving up 5 houses for a nice sandy plot in malas............................After trammel there was no such thing as grandfathered houses. They need to reopen it to at least 2 houses per account

 

[Lord Nabin]

They need to reopen it to at least 2 houses per account

They have.

You can have a house on any shard and a house on Siege

 

[Goodmann]

They have.

You can have a house on any shard and a house on Siege

They should advertise Siege as a single player game bc it's certainly not a MMO

 

[kelmo]

 

[kelmo]

Single player game?

http://stratics.com/community/threads/siege-raises-the-bar.318583/

 

[Lord Nabin]

They should advertise Siege as a single player game bc it's certainly not a MMO

Of Course its an MMO,

someone is always either offering to help me or slaying me on the spot even though I am just a harmless old Sage wandering the lands of Sosaria.

It's quite fun actually. Finally saved up enough to plant a good size classic house.

 

[Kolka]

Of Course its an MMO,

someone is always either offering to help me or slaying me on the spot even though I am just a harmless old Sage wandering the lands of Sosaria.

It's quite fun actually. Finally saved up enough to plant a good size classic house.

Ha! I created a character to do just that. Its been a loooooong time since I had to start a character from zero though. And I feel a little cheated that I haven't been PK'd yet......

 

[Acid Rain]

All grandfathered homes may be customized as long as you don't change the foundations.
The exception being L-shaped and towers. L-shaped can't be customized without changing
the footprint (foundation) which nulls grandfather status. Towers have the overhangs so
customization isn't available either.

All the old 7x7 may be customized as I have 2 on Atl (alt homes for chars). I made them
3 story then added a 4th goza mat floor for garden sheds, lighthouses, map tables, etc,...
It should be noted that when customizing the 7x7s you will lose one space in front as the
game sees your steps (whether you have them or not) as potentially 'your' house. This will
effectively make your home a 6x7 on the 1st floor (6 being north to south). The original
7x7s by today's game standards were actually 8x7 as the game did not view steps as being
part of the house (compared to customized homes).

From what I can remember, original there was no limit to homes owned (as I lived out of
2 blue and 2 green tents all placed by the same char back in the day). Then it went to one
home per character per shard. Shortly after, it changed to one home per shard then one home
per account. Of course now, as stated, its 2 homes per account as long as one is on Siege.

I remember for months having to manually refresh all my homes across all shards because
they didn't refresh unless doors were opened. Don't remember how long that lasted but I do
remember the relief I felt one day when logging on to refresh them all and found them not
needing it.

One of my greatest wishes for UO would be to allow L-shaped homes to be squared off IF
allowed by placement rules and made customize-able without changing grandfathered status.
Then I could have my museum on Atl instead of on another shard where I have a larger
customized home. Sadly, there are not enough players in this situation to ever have a loud
enough voice for the powers that be to care.

 

[old gypsy]

...You can have a house on any shard and a house on Siege

...someone is always either offering to help me or slaying me on the spot even though I am just a harmless old Sage wandering the lands of Sosaria.

It's quite fun actually. Finally saved up enough to plant a good size classic house.

If I ever tried Siege again [I have a hard time imagining it] I'd have to be a wandering beggar without much ambition, carrying nothing more than a muffin in my backpack. That's a tough world for someone who doesn't care much for hunting and avoids PvP like the plague.