im guessing you tried relogging? that normally fixes it for most. not everytime sometimes pets goes poof for good,Decided to buy a pet bonding potion for a quick swamp dragon bond for Fire Dungeon event. Had it three days, it died tonight and no ghost of it anywhere. Paged a GM to ask about it and got a canned email response about not being able to replace it, they didn't even have the b@lls to send a GM to speak with me. So I'm out five bucks and a bonded pet. I learned my lesson, don't buy from the UO store, there are other options and places where I can waste my money.
I did, several times. At my house, at an inn. I knew it was mostly gone for good when it showed 0/5 followers. Just another screw up in this game the lazy @ss DEV team can't seem to acknowledge, nothing new there.
This reminds me of one of the more recent people I talked into playing Ultima Online.Decided to buy a pet bonding potion for a quick swamp dragon bond for Fire Dungeon event. Had it three days, it died tonight and no ghost of it anywhere. Paged a GM to ask about it and got a canned email response about not being able to replace it, they didn't even have the b@lls to send a GM to speak with me. So I'm out five bucks and a bonded pet. I learned my lesson, don't buy from the UO store, there are other options and places where I can waste my money.
I'm blaming their (dev team) laziness and poor ability to fix the issue to start with.
If pets stopped going poof then this problem would ... g-g-g-g-g-g- uh disappear
Oh, I know but they don't have any way to track items... and while they probably could have at some point coded that into the game... I'm not sure how that would work with the old client... it would probably kill it.... Newer games don't have the trading system we do... in fact a lot of them you can't drop items on the ground that anyone else can pick up or see... and their vendor systems are tightly regulated. So yeah that's why it doesn't and wouldn't ever work in UO.
I'm going to have to strongly disagree that they have zero way to track anything at all.
Yeah, losing pets was an issue, on occasion, years ago on the Heritage shard but once we added in pet training we re-looked at all that code and changed it.
They didn't delete/revert exploited pets that were combat trained and had scrolls applied to them, because "people invested scrolls into the pets, oh well that they exploited their hp/mp as well" but they reverted base slot pets that were exploited. And this exploiting wasn't even an "oops i accidentally did that" type of thing either, the process required forcing the pet to go wild then re-taming it and repeating the process, it took days and certain people were basically running factories to exploit pets as a payable service.
All mine have been "reverted," see Unleashed for details.
idk what unleashed is. but i know six dif people who probably have 40 exploited, trained and scrolled pets between themselves that havent been touched. most of the pvpers i know who had exploited banes are still untouched, the ones i don't know about are people who sold them both before and after the "hotfix"
Unleashed is a less-restricted forum where things not allowed to be discussed here can be. There are some rules but you can count them on one hand. Click "Forums" link at top of this page ... scroll down and you will see the link for Unleashed. It does require you to be "accepted" into there since it truly is an adults-only area.
Sounds dumb. Maybe this forums should get sold again, but this time to someone who can break the 1945 theme of suppressing opinion.
Soooo you shoot it down without trying or seeing? That is just .... n/m <walks off shaking his head>
Facts are what not should be suppressed. Its my opinion that everyone is cheating and I should be the only one in the game while ya'll take a 72 hour break.
Stratics has a history of facts not mattering, only clout has ever mattered. Either you're liked by the people who matter and your gripes got to stay, or you weren't and they didn't, factual attenuation tossed out the window and playerbases alienated for the sake of being "neutral".
Not the only thing that sounds dumb.
wouldn't be great if the Branding iron they sell to mark your pets was like a micochip and marked pets so if lost are returned to the rightful owner
How about that new pet castle working like the light house?wouldn't be great if the Branding iron they sell to mark your pets was like a micochip and marked pets so if lost are returned to the rightful owner
I predict it's a lot more complicated for the official shards due to the shambles they call servers and their auto-stable code. The main issue seems to be around sub-servers and the pet being stuck on one subserver while the player relogs on another and for some reason the game occasionally recognizes them as having nothing under their control. The pet then wonders to an obscure dungeon corner and accelerates its passing.
Oh totally agree. We use auto stable code too but everything is in C#. UO is a mix of C and C++.
That's the problem with the world today. Everyone buys the mass produced torches and pitchforks from overseas because they are cheaper and higher quality. I can assure you that my pitchforks are crafted 100% by locally enslaved children using 100% locally stolen materials. Our quality, though notably poor, cannot be matched by anyone!
While I cannot confirm the locality of my enslaved children or stolen goods; I can guarantee that the working conditions in my sweatshops is far worse for these tiny workers and I work them round the clock! My sweatshops to supply my emporium are also equal opportunity, as we use boys & girls from human/elf/gargoyle races... we even have a few vampire children to ensure round the clock work!!
How about people stop logging out to save their pets from losing skill, and then causing them to go wild or disappear ?
How about people stay on topic about the post?
Hiding your head in the sand is not the way to fix problems. They keep telling us they have logs and other ways to track dupes, etc. They should be able to tell if somone's pet or other item has really disappeared. And if they are not willing or able to fix the problems that cause the pets go poof, at the very least they should have the decency not to hide when it happens.
They don't care because they know you are going to keep paying your subscription fee regardless. That's all that matters.
