Lighthouse linking - VERY IMPORTANT!!!

Mandrake 2019-03-30 16:00 #0

I have 3 ships, but only 1 ship would link to my lighthouse.

So - i had GM River finally showing up, and we tried to solve this, but it gave us gray hair...nothing worked. I replaced the lighthouse several times, redeployed the ships, only 1 was linking - the house owner.

Then i got a warning on house owner that linking failed, so I had to click the lighthouse for it to link ships on this acc... that still worked for the owner - 1 ship linked.

I then logged in other toons - and click the lighthouse, and I got system msg that ships would link. I then had to redeply the ship - and it got linked.

So - if you want to link your ship, you HAVE to double click the Lighthouse BEFORE you deploy a ship.

Thanks to GM River this was resolved, without him telling who many was linked - it had been impossible to figure out.

Mandrake 2019-03-30 16:48 #1

In short words - if you want your Lighthouse to work, you HAVE to double click the lighthouse BEFORE deploy a ship...

Garth_Grey 2019-03-30 22:12 #2

Yep always been that way.

Mervyn 2019-03-30 22:26 #3

If this is as intended, @Mariah can you correct the wiki please?

Ivenor 2019-03-31 07:41 #4

BTW: Any news on the Brit ships supposedly linked to LHs (confirmatiom messages recieved and Runes iussed) but that got lost anyway after even only a couple of days AFK?

Mandrake 2019-03-31 13:27 #5

I got the brit ship linked to lighthouse...

Ivenor 2019-03-31 17:17 #6

Mandrake said:

I got the brit ship linked to lighthouse...

Yes, they link, but there are some reports (mine included) that, even if linked to a LH, when they decay because players don't connect for some time, the Brit ships (and other kind of ships too, if I remember correctly) go urecoverbily lost instead of going in the House Moving Crate, as it should be by the main function of the LHs. The Recall Rune stays back, but if used it gives a "cannot be found message".

The bug have been notified some time ago, but I'm not aware of its correction: https://forum.uo.com/discussion/comment/16380/#Comment_16380

Mandrake 2019-03-31 17:32 #7

I lost a tokuno ship myself not long ago...but this might be related to that it was not the owner of the house that placed it.
- with new msg that it got linked, its easier to know. And GM River was so helpful to try all sort of combinations untill he could read it was 3 ships linked... the process was that each char had to double click the light house before deploy the ship.

Ivenor 2019-03-31 18:21 #8

Mandrake said:

I lost a tokuno ship myself not long ago...but this might be related to that it was not the owner of the house that placed it.
- with new msg that it got linked, its easier to know. And GM River was so helpful to try all sort of combinations untill he could read it was 3 ships linked... the process was that each char had to double click the light house before deploy the ship.

The Brit ship I lost was placed and linked by the same Toon that placed and own both the House and the LH. VERY angry about this, considedred that I paid full price for the ship in the UO Store, and that when lost it had a FULL complement of heavy cannons plus the Hold full of Powder, Balls, anf all the cannons' paraphrenalia...

Garth_Grey 2019-03-31 18:22 #9

The title of this thread is clickbait... +1 postcount

Ivenor 2019-03-31 18:54 #10

Garth_Grey said:

The title of this thread is clickbait... +1 postcount

???

Garth_Grey 2019-03-31 19:45 #11

Ivenor said:

Garth_Grey said:

The title of this thread is clickbait... +1 postcount

???

This threads not VERY IMPORTANT. It's a simple lighthouse setup, it's been that way since Day 1 .

Ivenor 2019-03-31 20:15 #12

Garth_Grey said:

Ivenor said:

Garth_Grey said:

The title of this thread is clickbait... +1 postcount

???

This threads not VERY IMPORTANT. It's a simple lighthouse setup, it's been that way since Day 1 .

Ah, OK, thanks.

Maybe the thread is not "Very Important", however there are still the points that the LH doesen't function corretly and/or if the procedure is non followed correctly one can lose a 1000 Sovrs ship, and, as Mervyn noted, the Official Wiki entry deosn't describe the procedure at all.

Petra_Fyde 2019-04-01 10:10 #13

For clarification, are you saying that you must double click the light house every time you plan to deploy the boat? dry docking it will break the link?

Arron 2019-04-01 10:44 #14

Good question @Petra_Fyde.

Mandrake 2019-04-01 10:58 #15

I had to do this for each of the characters before I deployed the ship, then it got linked.

Lighthouse linking - VERY IMPORTANT!!!

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