A friend IRL and in game and I were working on a project this morning on the farm. He asked how I managed to keep track of 22 active accounts and back in the day 60+ accounts, over the years I have probably had 150 different accounts, some only for year and others that I got attached to for one reason or another. Anyway I thought this would make a good Stratic topic for future Massive Multiple Account folks.
First off there are many reasons to have multiple accounts.... The Green Gold Guys and Gals that milk the game for cash being probably the most dominate, particularly in the UO Real estate side of the Green Gold game. Script farmers are right up there, I mean you gotta run 5 boxes on 20 computers to farm them plats every day
Some like myself just simply love UO and accounts are like potatoe chips you just can stop with one or ten. Let me also say not all accounts are created equal. Even if you build identical characters on 10 accounts, with identical gear and play them a equal amount of time.... One of the accounts will really stand out in terms of loot, luck, drops and all around fun. One of my accounts that I call the LUCKY Account, gets drops at a rate of about 50:1 of the next best account, but in general gets 99.99% trash in corpse and t chest loot. Another account though gets with a identical character same suit, same skills, and same amount of play time has Never gotten a drop but regularly gets the clean and high end monster and chest loot. Some accounts fly up in skill gains, while others grind a long at a snails pace. The funny thing is it does not seem to matter what shard these things are consistent. I honestly believe some accounts are just more RNG friendly than others
Now as far as keeping track of accounts........ Less than 10 accounts is pretty easy and I doubt most folks will have more than 10 active accounts. Just in talking to to folks 5-6 accounts seems to be about average and a whole lot of 2-3 accounts folks. Once you get over 10, have shard shields or buy lots of Mexican transfer tokens things start to get squirrely. I am not into spread sheets and keeping detailed records for a game LOL I do enough of that IRL. So I came up with my own system. I place my houses in the same locations on every shard I play on And made a code system that runs from G and YB (two accounts left from the alphabet code days) and 1 through 105 (With a whole lot of those 105 accounts dormant) Then on each house sighn I put -=98=- for example that lets me look at the list pinned to the wall above my desk and and see that -=98=- goes to account (Not going to put it here ) On most of the shards I play the primary house is the one in the Tsuki Garden (Isamu) The Secondary House is usually the SW Zento point off the square, The Vesper Ants, the Orc Mine preferably Fel, The Wind Maze again Fel if possible, On some shards like Origin I have more accounts than other shards and shoot for a location close to a moongate like just outside the East Zento City Gates. Between the Acct Codes on the house signs and always puttting the houses in the same locations it just does not get confusing.
What does get confusing is knowing what character is on what shard! You can very quickly end up with characters and equipment scattered all over the place I learned that the hard way It is best to only have 1 or 2 characters per account transferring and noting which ones are where. Logging into every shard on 20+ accounts looking for one character with one item is a tedious task. Narrowing that down to 10-12 characters that transfer makes it much easier. Noting anything special like the 60 raised beds that took me a month to find in a odd ball transfers pack inside of a bag, inside of a box, inside of a comod box......... I have seen some friends with as many or more accounts than myselfs spread sheets..... That to me is a nightmare and way to complicated. One friend has every house inventoried, every character inventoried, every characters bank box inventoried and spends more time updating the spread sheets than she does actually playing the game lol. At least she will never lose anything I guess it is a different outlook when you play for fun and enjoyment and when you play to pay the bills
On a side note some have said I must have so many accounts to engage in RWT and Script farming. I welcome BS to check me out. And challenge to find anything on my machines. I don't even run UOA I do run a short electric fence connector bolt with two nuts tightened down on it as a key weight And I have been know to have all five computers running, with the key weights on four of them as I sit in the middle playing on one and watching the other four. From what I understand from what Mesanna has said as long as they are attended and I respond if a GM shows up all is good. And let me tell you, GMs do show up and strike up a conversation with you on occasion Of course I only do that in a house, training skills that require lots of repetition like mage or hiding. I have thought about using the Easy option program but really don't see it doing more than my key weights do, and since I am firmly against using scripts to farm gold and resources it would be of no real benefit to me.
Why have 22 active accounts? Because I can, and I hate being homeless and trying to live off of a boat or out of a bank box
First off there are many reasons to have multiple accounts.... The Green Gold Guys and Gals that milk the game for cash being probably the most dominate, particularly in the UO Real estate side of the Green Gold game. Script farmers are right up there, I mean you gotta run 5 boxes on 20 computers to farm them plats every day
Some like myself just simply love UO and accounts are like potatoe chips you just can stop with one or ten. Let me also say not all accounts are created equal. Even if you build identical characters on 10 accounts, with identical gear and play them a equal amount of time.... One of the accounts will really stand out in terms of loot, luck, drops and all around fun. One of my accounts that I call the LUCKY Account, gets drops at a rate of about 50:1 of the next best account, but in general gets 99.99% trash in corpse and t chest loot. Another account though gets with a identical character same suit, same skills, and same amount of play time has Never gotten a drop but regularly gets the clean and high end monster and chest loot. Some accounts fly up in skill gains, while others grind a long at a snails pace. The funny thing is it does not seem to matter what shard these things are consistent. I honestly believe some accounts are just more RNG friendly than others Now as far as keeping track of accounts........ Less than 10 accounts is pretty easy and I doubt most folks will have more than 10 active accounts. Just in talking to to folks 5-6 accounts seems to be about average and a whole lot of 2-3 accounts folks. Once you get over 10, have shard shields or buy lots of Mexican transfer tokens things start to get squirrely. I am not into spread sheets and keeping detailed records for a game LOL I do enough of that IRL. So I came up with my own system. I place my houses in the same locations on every shard I play on And made a code system that runs from G and YB (two accounts left from the alphabet code days) and 1 through 105 (With a whole lot of those 105 accounts dormant) Then on each house sighn I put -=98=- for example that lets me look at the list pinned to the wall above my desk and and see that -=98=- goes to account (Not going to put it here
) On most of the shards I play the primary house is the one in the Tsuki Garden (Isamu) The Secondary House is usually the SW Zento point off the square, The Vesper Ants, the Orc Mine preferably Fel, The Wind Maze again Fel if possible, On some shards like Origin I have more accounts than other shards and shoot for a location close to a moongate like just outside the East Zento City Gates. Between the Acct Codes on the house signs and always puttting the houses in the same locations it just does not get confusing.What does get confusing is knowing what character is on what shard! You can very quickly end up with characters and equipment scattered all over the place I learned that the hard way
It is best to only have 1 or 2 characters per account transferring and noting which ones are where. Logging into every shard on 20+ accounts looking for one character with one item is a tedious task. Narrowing that down to 10-12 characters that transfer makes it much easier. Noting anything special like the 60 raised beds that took me a month to find in a odd ball transfers pack inside of a bag, inside of a box, inside of a comod box......... I have seen some friends with as many or more accounts than myselfs spread sheets..... That to me is a nightmare and way to complicated. One friend has every house inventoried, every character inventoried, every characters bank box inventoried and spends more time updating the spread sheets than she does actually playing the game lol. At least she will never lose anything I guess it is a different outlook when you play for fun and enjoyment and when you play to pay the bills On a side note some have said I must have so many accounts to engage in RWT and Script farming. I welcome BS to check me out. And challenge to find anything on my machines. I don't even run UOA
I do run a short electric fence connector bolt with two nuts tightened down on it as a key weight And I have been know to have all five computers running, with the key weights on four of them as I sit in the middle playing on one and watching the other four. From what I understand from what Mesanna has said as long as they are attended and I respond if a GM shows up all is good. And let me tell you, GMs do show up and strike up a conversation with you on occasion Of course I only do that in a house, training skills that require lots of repetition like mage or hiding. I have thought about using the Easy option program but really don't see it doing more than my key weights do, and since I am firmly against using scripts to farm gold and resources it would be of no real benefit to me.Why have 22 active accounts? Because I can, and I hate being homeless and trying to live off of a boat or out of a bank box
