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24 Hour Wait on Securely Replacing a House

Started by LilyGrace · 2025-07-28 · 26 posts · General Discussions
LilyGrace 2025-07-25 16:05 #0
Whyyyyy?

Why we gotta wait 24 hours between tries on seeing what we want for a style keep or castle? Was this timer always a thing? I don't remember it always being so. 

If you're gonna make us wait like that can you please set up each of the styles permanently on TC? You can't tell until you walk around in these buildings if you're really going to like how it works for you.

I really don't want to traipse all over the countryside trying to find all the various styles and hope they're set to public so you can check out the layout.

Why? WhyWhyWhy? 

I currently have to wait 24251 more seconds before I can try another style. It's already been way too many seconds, and there's still way too many more seconds to wait. That's not fun.
CovenantX 2025-07-25 18:34 #1
that and the 24 hour transfer cooldown following a 'Character Copy" to Test Center... both annoying and seemingly pointless.
LilyGrace 2025-07-25 18:46 #2
Agreed. @Community Manager would you be able to shed any light on why there’s a 24 hour timer on changing a house style? 
Grimbeard 2025-07-25 19:09 #3
Spaghetti code is my thought 
LilyGrace 2025-07-25 19:21 #4
Certainly a possibility 
Community Manager 2025-07-25 22:20 #5
LilyGrace said:
Agreed. @ "Community Manager" would you be able to shed any light on why there’s a 24 hour timer on changing a house style? 
I can’t really shed any light on why, but I do know it’s been something talked about many times before at meet and greets. 
I can definitely ask the dev team and see if there’s any light they can shed on it. 🙂 
LilyGrace 2025-07-25 23:10 #6
That’d be great to have some info on why or if it’s necessary. 

Maybe you could ask if it might be possible to add the various styles to an area on TC so players can see what they’re like before making a choice?

If there wasn’t a 24 hour timer I wouldn’t care at all, but if you’re not familiar with these designs and you want to try a few on for size it’s a real pain.

Seriously, if you want to check out 7 different styles it’s going to take you a full week? And in the meantime all your house contents are stuck in the moving crate? That’s not only inconvenient, it’s nerve wracking. 

Thanks very much!
Lokea 2025-07-26 01:43 #7
Community Manager said:
I can’t really shed any light on why, but I do know it’s been something talked about many times before at meet and greets. 
I can definitely ask the dev team and see if there’s any light they can shed on it. 🙂 
Can you ask them to take the timer off of the house placement tool in general, because clearly it is not impacting the people it was originally supposed to, and it's only causing problems for those of us out looking for housing spots.
LilyGrace 2025-07-26 10:24 #9
I do appreciate those pages very much, Mariah. I was poring over them again and again, but I guess for me I can't really tell if I like a design as much as I think I might unless I can walk around in it. 

I've tried a couple styles that I thought I'd like, then didn't like them as much once I saw more detail close up and could see how it flowed to move around in. Thus my frustration with having to wait so long to try another style.

In my heart of hearts I know I, and probably many others who really enjoy playing with UO artwork, won't love any keep or castle design that's available as much as I'd like being able to create my own design for myself.

I wish we could get past the worry Bonnie had that people would ruin the landscape with Borg cubes if we had the ability to customize our own keep or castle plots.

Some people like to spend money on totems for a chance to find rare color pets. I'd lay down a chunk of cash to buy customizable castle and keep spots.

🙂
Thank you again for the links! 

Lokea 2025-07-26 21:16 #10
I think the concern about customizable castles and keeps was lag.  I would give anything for a customizable keep, but I’m surrounded by castles and keeps and it’s bad enough.  I went with Robin’s Nest - not perfect for me but matches with crafted stone walls and is different enough from most.  I say that and within three screens I have two other Robin’s Nest keeps.
LilyGrace 2025-07-26 22:05 #11
How does a committed custom design vary from  a house placed using a house placement tool in terms of lag? I’ve no idea. There’s a difference?

I thought contents in houses loading when you run on the screen was what caused lag issues for some. And with the ability to choose whether or not contents load that problem was solved for those who have trouble with lag. No? Maybe I have that wrong, I’m not sure. 


Grimbeard 2025-07-26 22:30 #12
LilyGrace said:
How does a committed custom design vary from  a house placed using a house placement tool in terms of lag? I’ve no idea. There’s a difference?

I thought contents in houses loading when you run on the screen was what caused lag issues for some. And with the ability to choose whether or not contents load that problem was solved for those who have trouble with lag. No? Maybe I have that wrong, I’m not sure. 


If we are still worried about lag in 2025 we have issues 
LilyGrace 2025-07-26 22:34 #13
 😂 
keven2002 2025-07-27 11:39 #14
Grimbeard said:
LilyGrace said:
How does a committed custom design vary from  a house placed using a house placement tool in terms of lag? I’ve no idea. There’s a difference?

I thought contents in houses loading when you run on the screen was what caused lag issues for some. And with the ability to choose whether or not contents load that problem was solved for those who have trouble with lag. No? Maybe I have that wrong, I’m not sure. 


If we are still worried about lag in 2025 we have issues 
Come to ATL to play Mistas... see how much lag you get with the 100+ toons there when Inquis Zyn or one of the other commanders is doing the void rain
LilyGrace 2025-07-27 12:07 #15
That's fair, Kev, but I for one was thinking more in terms of running around the landscape and housing. Not so much highly populated events.
Grimbeard 2025-07-27 14:16 #16
LilyGrace said:
That's fair, Kev, but I for one was thinking more in terms of running around the landscape and housing. Not so much highly populated events.
Lily is correct but even in your  scenario it should not be an issue
LilyGrace 2025-07-27 14:24 #17
Lag would be an issue for me with a crowd like that. Not too sure I'd be able to play really.
Pawain 2025-07-27 16:18 #18
keven2002 said:
Grimbeard said:
LilyGrace said:
How does a committed custom design vary from  a house placed using a house placement tool in terms of lag? I’ve no idea. There’s a difference?

I thought contents in houses loading when you run on the screen was what caused lag issues for some. And with the ability to choose whether or not contents load that problem was solved for those who have trouble with lag. No? Maybe I have that wrong, I’m not sure. 


If we are still worried about lag in 2025 we have issues 
Come to ATL to play Mistas... see how much lag you get with the 100+ toons there when Inquis Zyn or one of the other commanders is doing the void rain
I don't lag during the effects,  but I know the commader or boss died because the game freezes for a few seconds when I'm on Atlantic. 

Would that be from the game handing out the rewards?
CovenantX 2025-07-27 19:43 #19
Pawain said:
keven2002 said:
Grimbeard said:
LilyGrace said:
How does a committed custom design vary from  a house placed using a house placement tool in terms of lag? I’ve no idea. There’s a difference?

I thought contents in houses loading when you run on the screen was what caused lag issues for some. And with the ability to choose whether or not contents load that problem was solved for those who have trouble with lag. No? Maybe I have that wrong, I’m not sure. 


If we are still worried about lag in 2025 we have issues 
Come to ATL to play Mistas... see how much lag you get with the 100+ toons there when Inquis Zyn or one of the other commanders is doing the void rain
I don't lag during the effects,  but I know the commader or boss died because the game freezes for a few seconds when I'm on Atlantic. 

Would that be from the game handing out the rewards?
 Yes the lag when a mob dies is from the corpse loot being generated when tons of players earn looting rights, only does it for mobs that drop 1x loot for each player not in party.

a party of players only counts as one player in terms of corpse loot, and just because you can 'open the corpse' doesn't mean you have earned looting rights, it just means someone in your party has earned rights.   


Community Manager 2025-07-28 14:55 #20
LilyGrace said:
That’d be great to have some info on why or if it’s necessary. 

I was told it is a Performance Issue. 🙂 
Pawain 2025-07-28 16:14 #21
UO is High Performance!
Queen_Mum 2025-07-28 17:59 #22
@LilyGrace ; I'm curious if you are trying this on test center shard or production shard? It would be really nice if they did have all housing options displayed on Test Center.
*cookie hugs* 
Grimbeard 2025-07-28 18:34 #23
Lots of room in malas they need to create a showcase of homes 
LilyGrace 2025-07-28 19:33 #24
Queen_Mum said:
@ LilyGrace  I'm curious if you are trying this on test center shard or production shard? It would be really nice if they did have all housing options displayed on Test Center.
*cookie hugs* 
Not on TC, but yes I agree it would be nice to have something on TC to see examples we can walk around in. That's a good idea, Grim.

Urge 2025-07-28 19:40 #25
Agreed on the showcase. Pics are ok but nothing beats a walk thru. 

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