Return to Britannia is not active right now. As folks said in the past, you could just login and go. In the distant past (and also when they were doing work on the login servers) though would basically flip a switch where the login server would say, "Hey, valid account, good password, go play." This however led to RTB accounts placing houses which wouldn't decay. Last year, they applied a 30 day game time code to nearly every account. Some of my accounts, however, didn't receive this code and so I couldn't play on them, but most of them did. I can't recall now if it refreshed houses, but what it did do was start the timer on all those inactive accounts with RTB houses so they would start falling 90 days after last years RTB ended. This year, who knows, but it is not active and at the moment that is likely a good thing. The login server is already hiccuping from the paying customer base who are character swapping to get the anniversary rewards. Let this activity die down a bit before adding the strain of the inactive accounts to the mix. Oh by the way, Kyronix stated there should be a post about it on uo.com tomorrow (or today as the case may be).
