Further additions to housing accuracy rollout

[Mens Rea]

Housing Update Phase 3 Dec 21 1998 1:48PM
HOUSING

- Friend of the house is defined as
* Being the house's owner
* Being on the house's explicit friends list
* Being a character on the same account as the owner, unless you own a house yourself

- Functions which previously depended on holding a key will now generally depend on being a friend of the house.

- Only friends of the house will be able to rename locked down runes.

- [with regard to house sign menus - but I think this was removed in a later patch] will put (under guard protection) in the case of a public house that is guarded.

Holiday Gifts! Dec 23 1998 9:37AM
Miscellaneous

- Whenever a friend of the house uses the house sign, it will give them a message in the lower left corner, saying "Welcome back to the house, friend." This is because of confusion players had as to whether their alternate characters were friends or not.

I can see an accuracy-exception discussion occuring here... Hell, I'd rather not post the below info but hell - Derrick wants accuracy, he can have accuracy.

Mini-Update Sep 1 1999 7:36PM CST

The following changes will be in effect after the shards come back from their daily maintenance.

* Characters that are flagged as criminals or aggressors will no longer be able to instantly log out of the game while in their house or in an inn.
* Murderers (reds) who are not flagged as criminals or aggressors will be able to instantly log out of the game while in their house or in an inn.

NOTE ABOVE: AT THE MOMENT IT IS ONLY AGGRESSORS WHO HAVE ATTACKED A BLUE - AGGRESSORS WHO HAVE ATTACKED REDS/GREYS/PERMAS CAN STILL INSTA-LOG. AS CAN LOOTERS, THIEVES, ETC = CRIMINALS. ACCURACY TIME! ^_^

AND THEN

Sept. 22nd Publish Sep 22 1999 4:27PM CST

Other Changes
* Red players cannot insta-log from houses.

Have fun ^_^

[Bigoud]

As we said, there was an easy exploit at that time to co own / friend all the chars from the same account.

I suggest that you dont make change to current system unless you can also had this bug in.

I dont understand who is annoyed by the fact that all your chars are auto friend/co own... it's a plus in the game. anyway...

[Mens Rea]

As we said, there was an easy exploit at that time to co own / friend all the chars from the same account.

I suggest that you dont make change to current system unless you can also had this bug in.

I dont understand who is annoyed by the fact that all your chars are auto friend/co own... it's a plus in the game. anyway...

It's not a matter about being annoyed. The shards mantra is not to "not being annoying" the shards mantra is "accuracy to a grey area between before and after the 23 Nov 1999 patch".

In the spirit of accuracy - prove that your bug exists and it might very well be implemented.

And as I said - I have posted about your bug before - But my source did not reliably prove it, and it seemed impossible to implement.

Get researching, as I said.

[Joueur Moyen]

As we said, there was an easy exploit at that time to co own / friend all the chars from the same account.

I suggest that you dont make change to current system unless you can also had this bug in.

I dont understand who is annoyed by the fact that all your chars are auto friend/co own... it's a plus in the game. anyway...

Pretty sure that bug was to friend a char who owned a house. Dbl-click dagger and log -> wait timeout -> log in house owner and add friend then log out with cursor up -> log in first char and click on char. Something like that.

That bug might have been easier when friends first got patched in, and I have no idea if it still worked during our era.

[Sum_Mors]

I'd always remembered, and found evidence for but never brought up, reds could not insta-log. Ever. What he posts is true.

Commence whining about the perma-red additions and how people REMEMBER insta-logging their precious red.