Ive heard some players are able to place 1 house per shard on multiple shards under the same account (without entering house decay timer) due to some sort of an account bug? Is that true?
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Multi shard house placement under one account?
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No Clue and something I am not willing to try. I do miss the days when I had a small tower or house on ever shard. Todays its Sonoma and Siege. I love to be able place once more across shards where I have characters living out of bank boxes and Inns. I don't like the idea of doing the boat things as if I was to forget to refresh the boat 
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I have characters on most shards that can travel and fight, in the old days it was to explore the grand difference between other shards. There is so much history on shards not linked to each others due to the Seers, Counslors, Game Masters, and the EMs. Today I have friends on several other shards. I even gone to vote for them when they ran for governorship. So to have a house on all of those shards once more would be grand indeed. A house that needs no refreshing please?
.I have characters on most shards that can travel and fight, in the old days it was to explore the grand difference between other shards. There is so much history on shards not linked to each others due to the Seers, Counslors, Game Masters, and the EMs. Today I have friends on several other shards. I even gone to vote for them when they ran for governorship. So to have a house on all of those shards once more would be grand indeed. A house that needs no refreshing please?
That somebody exploited?A Bug in UO
Seems like a risky bug to exploit.
No dont bother testing, its a very old bug, some accounts still benefit from it as far as i know... Its like the lmc bugged chars for example, just wondering if anyone knows anyone who got this bug, so i mainly made this post to make sure if this bug actually exists!
I know there is accounts that do have multi houses on one shard,but per shard no idea. There called grandfathered in houses
Whats causes this pls?
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Well before the one house one shard rule you had houses on every shard and had to refresh it much like refreshing a boat, opening a door.(possible) . Some players back then decided to keep the houses they had and not ask for the auto refresh (If I remember this right) on a key house on that account. That is why today as long as your account is paid up to date your house remains standing. Those houses became Grandfathered. That how I remember it, again I may be wrong, being I am 65yrs and forget a lot of stuff, thank god for bless rune books.
It's nothing that causes it person who owns the account already had the multi-houses on their accounts before the housing rules changed.
House Ownership & Decay Changes
The following points summarize the system of player housing and house decay within Ultima Online after Publish 16. (Note that, for the purpose of this document, the term “active account” means one that is paid up – it has nothing to do with the amount of time logged or frequency of play.)
Players who owned multiple houses prior to Publish 16, regardless of whether the multiple houses are on different shards or all on the same shard, are allowed to maintain these houses, but they will need to be refreshed manually.
Acquiring a new house will put all other houses owned by that account on any shard into condemned status, meaning they cannot be refreshed and will decay within 5 days.
Players may opt to own only one house per account, setting that house as primary, and causing any other houses on that account to become condemned and decay. In exchange, the primary house will be automatically refreshed for as long as the account remains active. (See "Primary Houses" below for more details.)
Houses that are owned by inactive game accounts will be marked as condemned and will decay within 5 days. Note: Currently this only applies to accounts that are inactive at the time that the Publish 16 changes take effect. See "Primary Houses" and “Grandfathered Houses” below for more details.
Any player who places a new house (this includes upgrading an old house by redeeding it and replacing it with a new house), or has a house transferred to them will be automatically opted into this system.
If a player places a house, has a house traded to him, or sets a house to Primary, a one-week timer begins. During that time, he may not place another house, have another house traded to him, or set another house as Primary. However, that player can still give away any number of houses on any number of shards without restriction.
You can find out whether your timer is still active by double-clicking a house deed. If you still have a timer, it will say, "You must wait __ days to place a house." Otherwise, you'll just get the house placement tool, which you can then cancel.
Only a house's owner, co-owners, and friends will be able to see a house's current state of decay ("This house is slightly worn," "This house is somewhat worn," etc.) of a house, which will be done by single-clicking that house's sign.
The co-owner feature for houses will continue to exist, with all the rights and privileges they currently enjoy, although being a co-owner will no longer count against your house ownership status.
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ive got a guild mate who has an account that has grandfathered houses scattered over several shards.
he likes to rub that in whenever the opportunity arises cause he knows im so jealous.
there is also a 2nd way to get multiple houses that are grandfathered.
if you get a Seer Blessed house they too are also grandfathered and do not count against your primary house.
or at least the couple owned by people i use to play with that was the way they where handled.
he likes to rub that in whenever the opportunity arises cause he knows im so jealous.
there is also a 2nd way to get multiple houses that are grandfathered.
if you get a Seer Blessed house they too are also grandfathered and do not count against your primary house.
or at least the couple owned by people i use to play with that was the way they where handled.
Yes, in the old days you could actually have one house per character on each shard. When the new housing rules came into play all those houses were grandfathered and as long as you keep your account current they stay that way.
Are you talking about Grandfathered Houses or are you trying to find out if there is a bug, which should be reported to UO ASAP by the way, with the understanding that you may not discuss how to about bugs/exploits. I gave up all my grandfathered houses when I consolidated down to 2 accounts and got Castles.
Its the grandfathered accounts that im talking about it seems. Sorry for confusing some of u, im not talking about any recent bug or exploits. I was just wondering if it was still possible for some account to own more than one house at a time on different shards.
Technically, yes, but only if Mesanna is directly involved...and those houses are temporary for things such as rares fests and the like.
There is no current method for a player to grandfather a second house to an account.
It's neither a bug nor an exploit. Very old accounts, if they are old enough, have grandfathered multiple houses, up to 5 or perhaps 6 on home shard and I believe they could have one other on each shard. They DO NOT have to be manually refreshed when they're grandfathered.
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I think u will find theres many olde grandfathered houses still standing on all shards that are unused in decades...just bugged to stand there in the 2003/2004 deco forever....and a day....till time is finally called they will still be there in there basic olde school beauty
few years ago, this bug happened to me. I demolished my house(atl), xfered char on europa placed a house there and then Atlantic crashed.
When Atlantic came back after few hours. my old house was there again with the character i xfered .... Of course i called a GM to delete it
When Atlantic came back after few hours. my old house was there again with the character i xfered .... Of course i called a GM to delete it
Yeah i remember deleting that house for you Akasha, good man!few years ago, this bug happened to me. I demolished my house(atl), xfered char on europa placed a house there and then Atlantic crashed.
When Atlantic came back after few hours. my old house was there again with the character i xfered .... Of course i called a GM to delete it
okies.....uve got me..... maybe they have not added any deco since 2003... that would make perfect sense....no item ...not one.....u win.....bugged houses dont exsist....[whatever] hey you believe what YOU want to believe!.....iam stating facts that some olde style houses still have deco from back in them days....and yes u could be right!!!! oh yes a player could be using that house thrice daily but they just dont want to add any new deco that came after publish 16 or whatever publish in 2002/03
really i aint fussed want u think...iam telling you UO facts that there are many olde style houses bugged to never fall- similar to the olde ''un-named/ no owner'' ones....now i bid u a good day...
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Ok, ya made me curious, how do you deco them little 7X7 noncustomizable buggers? That's what a large part of those are? I'm not trying to say that there aren't a lot of bugged old houses and that they should fall but some of them, perhaps a lot are pretty much in the same state as those bugged ones.
my guild mate's houses that are scattered on multi shards where deco'ed frozen in time circa 1998 then i picked him up a couple things for his houses, couple of those dungeon globes and such, then he went and added a bunch of stuff to them (soulforges ect) so people do actually update their old grandfathered houses..... just not much.
But do you see those things when you just do a driveby? Only thing you can do is put up a sign or put something on the porch steps I think. I'm not trying to be difficult but just saying some of the houses folks think are abandoned are really not. If it's a housesign tells you that, then ok I understand