In all fair
EJ scripters cant drop in a box. Macro'ing/scripting in a house is only gonna be a feel good thing for them to ban, all most people can really do in a house is script macro skills...which is actually fairly harmless I think, doesn't affect anyone's gameplay.
The real baddies, the ones we want gone, aare the Event dudes, the legendary farmers, the idoc scripters, and they aren't doing those things in a house LOL.
So the moneymakers get a pass (again) and the average Joe who stuck a matchstick in the keyboard to finish off spirit speak or heal or some SW spell while he went to the kitchen to get breaklfast will get banned.
In all fairness,
@Mesanna did say, to my understanding (
https://uo.com/2019/11/22/macroers-and-houses/) :
Specifically, if we come across a situation where a group of macroers are holed up in a house doing whatever it is they are doing (skill gains, crafting etc) or a recall group dropping off resources in chests at a specific house (or houses), We are going to confirm the house owner from the house sign and then note that house-owner account about what the GM observed in the product account notes section of that house-owner account.
The relevant part to be noted, to my opinion, is where it is said : "...
or a recall group dropping off resources in chests at a specific house (or houses)..."
The way I understand here, and if so, it is something which I totally agree with, what Broadsword is going to actively look for, is whether there is a number of "disposable" scripting accounts (EJ accounts or even veteran accounts but which have little to nothing to loose, if banned for scripting) which do the "dirt work", the scripted work to gather Resources, Legendaries or other Loot, and THEN benefit all these "against the TOS gotten items", to OTHER Ultima Online's Accounts which do not actively get involved in the scripting BUT, nonetheless, get the benefits from that....
And to me, it makes a whole lot of sense to ban
ALSO these other accounts.....
Because, at least to my understanding, this is most often what scripters do.... they use accounts for scripting which they do not care about should they be found and banned, and then STORE all of the items obtained from Scripting, in "other" Accounts which do not engage in bannable activities in the game.
Of course that also these "other" Accounts which benefit from the "disposable" Accounts which do Script should be Banned.... or the sanction would have n "teeth".... so to speak....
Scripters already take into account that their scripting account can be banned if caught so, often, they use accounts which they can afford losing.... but their "Mains" which get to receive all of the items that were scripted, so to speak ?
That is an entire other story.... and if Broadsword is going to "track down" the Scripting accounts activities
all the way to the Main Accounts which benefit from that against the TOS Scripting Activity and ban them too, well, THIS is surely going to make a change and finally work as a real deterrant against Scripting, finally.....
So, personally, as a player who has been against Scripting and all kinds of Cheating in UO from day one, and who saw many fellow players quit playing UO BECAUSE of the rampant scripting and cheating in it, I am totally on the side of
@Mesanna,
@Bleak,
@Kyronix and the entire Broadsword Developing Team to go BEYOND the disposable Scripting Accounts and go to the Root of all this, all the way UP to the Main Accounts (that do not script, usually) which nonetheless benefit from the Activity of Scripting Account.
This is at least the way I see it.
