UO Second Age

Sahaquiel wrote:Yes... because it is CRAZY to expect some kind of secure house trading system or any system of accountability at all with a system regarding massive amounts of gold.

What's borderline psychopathic that even when a scam can be clearly seen to be a scam, you'll do nothing about it, except for maybe blame and insult the victim.

You can't tell me that you have no way to track the external IP address of who signs into SirEarnest's account. I've had a RunUO server locally on my machine. I know what the admin options are. I know that I can tell what characters belong to what accounts, and the IP address of the connected client (barring proxy tunneling, but this guy was connected and moving too fast to be tunneling through something like TOR).

I know that if you know code well enough to modify the C# of the RunUO server, you can code in logging features.

I know you can read journals.
I know that when SirEarnest set up his forum account, this webserver was aware of his external IP, and that unless the IP is from China, it's most likely his. It's trivial to log this.
I also know that it's trivial to block people from logging into the forum OR the RunUO server by external IPs.

Your *hands off* approach to administering the server and solving problems... is it a result of apathy, incompetence, or something else?

violator wrote:I think it is equally ridiculous that the person who got scammed is made out to be the bad guy here.

I think people who come here and don't want to be PK'd etc... should probably go somewhere else, because this is the era before Trammel, and yeah the guy should have been more careful because scamming also happened in OSI, but publicly making it the scammed guy's fault and ridiculing him/her while letting the scammer off the hook isn't fair.

ujil wrote:So I just got back and was going to start playing UOSA, I made this post earlier today.

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=46779

Basically, after seeing this thread I think UOSA isn't for me. The unsecure house trading feature is a turn off, but scamming being done on the official forums and nothing being done about it pushes it over the top for me. Things like this will only make people quit and I really don't feel like playing a private server that I know has features that will make people want to quit playing, cuz they will.

And just so you know i'm a unique user that has never played UOSA before, my AIM is [email protected] and that's also the AIM I use for contacts on UO Hybrid, my UO hybrid forum username is also the same as my UOSA forum name (ujil), anyone that read the previous thread and was thinking of helping me out don't reply anymore.

Someone can send me an AIM if things like these change and maybe I check UOSA out.

ujil wrote:So I just got back and was going to start playing UOSA, I made this post earlier today.

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=46779

Basically, after seeing this thread I think UOSA isn't for me. The unsecure house trading feature is a turn off, but scamming being done on the official forums and nothing being done about it pushes it over the top for me. Things like this will only make people quit and I really don't feel like playing a private server that I know has features that will make people want to quit playing, cuz they will.

And just so you know i'm a unique user that has never played UOSA before, my AIM is [email protected] and that's also the AIM I use for contacts on UO Hybrid, my UO hybrid forum username is also the same as my UOSA forum name (ujil), anyone that read the previous thread and was thinking of helping me out don't reply anymore.

Someone can send me an AIM if things like these change and maybe I check UOSA out.