May 25th 1999: http://update.uo.com/design_22.htmlDerrick wrote:Do you have a date on this? This was addressed previously and it was understood that there was no check on transfer in our target timeframe.
"Transfer and friending actually do two loyalty checks--one for the old owner and one for the new. Both must succeed for the order to be obeyed."
"Transfering a nightmare to a non-tamer" was code for "releasing the nightmare in a secure area and making the new owner tame it" during this era.
Commanding in general was changed again in Jan 2000 to be more difficult than the Mar 25 publish. They also remove the ability to tame a previously tamed creature with 0 skill, forcing new nightmare owners to actually have some skill.
Transfer does not get changed again until much later (during LBR) when they added the loyalty check for riding mounts (to specifically address non-tamers with mares and other high end pets, as well as allow you to get on a mount that's fighting) where they removed the loyalty check for the original owner to allow them to surrender their mount to a tamer, but the loyalty check still occurs for the new owner.