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Some of you might remember how, a long, loooong, and probably even forgotten time ago (not) I posted here with respect to having lost a house placement.
I'll refresh your memory; after having an avian aficionado move into the small plot next door, I decided to move. After placing my house, requesting a resize, dying, and rezzing, I lost that house spot in an untimely manner, long before the resize timer should have ended.
I then posted very publicly my displeasure at having a parrot peeve and housing horror. I bid you all in UO a fond farewell.
And so - here is the 'official' update; after extensive testing on TC1, I was able to recreate the housing loss debacle. As mentioned, I had died to some fresh spawn during the resize, and so, I quickly logged into my other account to resurrect myself. In my panicked rush to complete the housing job before the timer could possibly run out, and with a flurry of folks recalling in and out, I clicked 'OK' when advised that running two instances of UO is an unsupported feature. I was able to recreate this same scenario on test and indeed another player was able to place on my 'reserved' spot only when I was logged in to two accounts at the same time. That is to say - two accounts on one computer, something I have very rarely done, and something I don't recommend anyone do.
And so, to Ultima Online, I apologize. I also apologize to the very goodly and kind hearted people here on Stratics who offered me much help; in the way of houses/transfers of items and more. It was the show of support that gave me the impetus to stay.
...However, the guy with the parrots is still an arse.
And now my goodly friends, please enjoy as I feast on this! No, it's not a parrot, it is indeed a crow.
Cheers
Edited to add @Cyrah @railshot @celticus @Stinky Pete @MalagAste @ShriNayne @Pawain @Dot_Warner @SugarMMM @Spartan @Maker2014 @Sellingahouse @Alkaseltzer @Luc of Legends @grimiz @Ezekiel Zane @Lore @SteelRust @Blackie , thank you all for your input and support, it was very helpful, and deeply appreciated!
Edit number 2:
To clarify, I used one computer running two classic clients. I went to the same location on TC1 that I had been on in production shard when I lost the placement. It was near Minoc and very close to a server line. I placed two side by side houses, and resized one, and then an hour and ten minutes later resized the second house. I was NOT able to have anyone place whilst running a single client - message was to the effect 'this area is temporarily unavailable' (not a direct quote though it could be). However, when I logged in on same pc with the aforementioned second classic client, a house was able to be placed in my reserved spot. I did not need to die to recreate this. Placement by a different user happened within ten minutes. I have not tested this on the enhanced client, nor a combination of 1 enhanced/1 classic. I hope this helps in some way!
I'll refresh your memory; after having an avian aficionado move into the small plot next door, I decided to move. After placing my house, requesting a resize, dying, and rezzing, I lost that house spot in an untimely manner, long before the resize timer should have ended.
I then posted very publicly my displeasure at having a parrot peeve and housing horror. I bid you all in UO a fond farewell.
And so - here is the 'official' update; after extensive testing on TC1, I was able to recreate the housing loss debacle. As mentioned, I had died to some fresh spawn during the resize, and so, I quickly logged into my other account to resurrect myself. In my panicked rush to complete the housing job before the timer could possibly run out, and with a flurry of folks recalling in and out, I clicked 'OK' when advised that running two instances of UO is an unsupported feature. I was able to recreate this same scenario on test and indeed another player was able to place on my 'reserved' spot only when I was logged in to two accounts at the same time. That is to say - two accounts on one computer, something I have very rarely done, and something I don't recommend anyone do.
And so, to Ultima Online, I apologize. I also apologize to the very goodly and kind hearted people here on Stratics who offered me much help; in the way of houses/transfers of items and more. It was the show of support that gave me the impetus to stay.
...However, the guy with the parrots is still an arse.
And now my goodly friends, please enjoy as I feast on this! No, it's not a parrot, it is indeed a crow.
Cheers
Edited to add @Cyrah @railshot @celticus @Stinky Pete @MalagAste @ShriNayne @Pawain @Dot_Warner @SugarMMM @Spartan @Maker2014 @Sellingahouse @Alkaseltzer @Luc of Legends @grimiz @Ezekiel Zane @Lore @SteelRust @Blackie , thank you all for your input and support, it was very helpful, and deeply appreciated!
Edit number 2:
To clarify, I used one computer running two classic clients. I went to the same location on TC1 that I had been on in production shard when I lost the placement. It was near Minoc and very close to a server line. I placed two side by side houses, and resized one, and then an hour and ten minutes later resized the second house. I was NOT able to have anyone place whilst running a single client - message was to the effect 'this area is temporarily unavailable' (not a direct quote though it could be). However, when I logged in on same pc with the aforementioned second classic client, a house was able to be placed in my reserved spot. I did not need to die to recreate this. Placement by a different user happened within ten minutes. I have not tested this on the enhanced client, nor a combination of 1 enhanced/1 classic. I hope this helps in some way!
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Just one of them 
moments! Glad it is now settled - except for the bird lover. Too bad archery doesn't work on the bloody things!
