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rolan69vw
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To the honest UO Player:
As many of us know, Ghost Cams have been used by some guilds to unfairly watch Champion Spawns for years now. The other day I learned how Ghost Cams work and I was shocked and disappointed.
Let me explain how Ghost Cams work. First they use three dummy accounts for a grand total of 18 available players. These accounts have nothing on them but six characters that are untrained; they start them with 50 on hiding skill so they can hide at Champ Spawns. They hide and log out each character on the accounts near the Alter on a Spawn area. Here comes the illegal part. They basically use two programs that work together. The first of these programs logs in each character at a time and reports to the other program, telling the other program, if the spawn is popped, what type of a spawn it is, and how many red and white skulls there are. The programs logs in on one account, logs a character, reports, and logs out, then logs in on another account, logs a character on another spawn, reports, and logs out, and so on until it has logged on all 18 character and reported on all the spawn areas.
If you do the math, every 5 minutes, the program is reporting on three Spawns so, if there are 18 Champion Spawns in Feluca (I am not sure how many they are, but something around that), every 30 minutes each of the Spawns will be reported on. The other program is used by all the Guild members to read the reports on the spawn, so basically, every guild member running the second program knows what is going on at every Champ Spawn. These programs run unattended and double client which we all know is illegal and unfair for us honest UO players.
How I know all this? Well, we managed to infiltrate the guild that runs all the Ghosts Cams in our shard. You can imagine we have not tried to run a spawn since we learned how it works.
The fix: I had a very simple and non drastic idea to get rid of Ghost Cams. I e-mailed Jeremy about it last week but I have gotten no answer so I wanted to share it with you guys and get some feedback from the players themselves. Ok here we go.
If EA made it so that if you timed out at a champion spawn you would be redirected to the nearest town on your next login, just as you cannot recall into T2A, or any Champ Spawn for that matter, the Ghost Cam programs would be destroyed. This would allow for five minutes to log back in if you had actually crashed (the time out time) and it would also help if you had crashed because if you had had problems and could not log back in you would be redirected to the nearest town on your next login so you could res up and get back on your feet. I believe it is a great and simple idea and I can’t see why EA would not try to implement it. The only thing I could think of is that EA would not like to lose that extra income that comes from those three dummy accounts per shard and I would like to think EA is not that desperate.
So that’s it guys, sorry its such a long thread but I tried to be as short as possible, just had a lot to say. PLEASE vote and post any suggestions on the idea. Thanks a lot and Happy Valentines to you all.
Best of wishes,
Rolan
As many of us know, Ghost Cams have been used by some guilds to unfairly watch Champion Spawns for years now. The other day I learned how Ghost Cams work and I was shocked and disappointed.
Let me explain how Ghost Cams work. First they use three dummy accounts for a grand total of 18 available players. These accounts have nothing on them but six characters that are untrained; they start them with 50 on hiding skill so they can hide at Champ Spawns. They hide and log out each character on the accounts near the Alter on a Spawn area. Here comes the illegal part. They basically use two programs that work together. The first of these programs logs in each character at a time and reports to the other program, telling the other program, if the spawn is popped, what type of a spawn it is, and how many red and white skulls there are. The programs logs in on one account, logs a character, reports, and logs out, then logs in on another account, logs a character on another spawn, reports, and logs out, and so on until it has logged on all 18 character and reported on all the spawn areas.
If you do the math, every 5 minutes, the program is reporting on three Spawns so, if there are 18 Champion Spawns in Feluca (I am not sure how many they are, but something around that), every 30 minutes each of the Spawns will be reported on. The other program is used by all the Guild members to read the reports on the spawn, so basically, every guild member running the second program knows what is going on at every Champ Spawn. These programs run unattended and double client which we all know is illegal and unfair for us honest UO players.
How I know all this? Well, we managed to infiltrate the guild that runs all the Ghosts Cams in our shard. You can imagine we have not tried to run a spawn since we learned how it works.
The fix: I had a very simple and non drastic idea to get rid of Ghost Cams. I e-mailed Jeremy about it last week but I have gotten no answer so I wanted to share it with you guys and get some feedback from the players themselves. Ok here we go.
If EA made it so that if you timed out at a champion spawn you would be redirected to the nearest town on your next login, just as you cannot recall into T2A, or any Champ Spawn for that matter, the Ghost Cam programs would be destroyed. This would allow for five minutes to log back in if you had actually crashed (the time out time) and it would also help if you had crashed because if you had had problems and could not log back in you would be redirected to the nearest town on your next login so you could res up and get back on your feet. I believe it is a great and simple idea and I can’t see why EA would not try to implement it. The only thing I could think of is that EA would not like to lose that extra income that comes from those three dummy accounts per shard and I would like to think EA is not that desperate.
So that’s it guys, sorry its such a long thread but I tried to be as short as possible, just had a lot to say. PLEASE vote and post any suggestions on the idea. Thanks a lot and Happy Valentines to you all.
Best of wishes,
Rolan
