If nothing can be done about these players that do such things... can we not just come to an agreement to stop IDOCs altogether? Save items for returning players or delete items from banned accounts... period.
Then let IDOC house plots be auctioned... one chance per paying account?
There is nothing fair in this game when someone can crash the game / someone modem for almost an half hour. Half of the players there came back to bodies.... all because there was a rubble fire, Atlantic Mesanna lantern, and Great Lakes Mesanna lantern... among jawbones and moonstone crystals.
Our whole internet went down. We had to unplug and plug the modem back up 5 times and nothing... I guess the internet company finally reset it.
Just for everyone's information.... our internet company said that if we get a VPN this won't happen again. The people who did it were targeting our IP address they said. VPNs will mask your IP address apparently and that will never happen, per our internet service provider.
Still, that will not help anyone not reading this. I suggest to the Devs that you should take action and stop IDOCs altogether. There is no rhyme or reason as so why a certain group of players should be allowed to do this.
I am guessing it is the same group/person who gets every single castle / keep IDOC into his hands to sell for real life money.
So you're saying -someone- attacked your IP which crashed your cable modem and only after a hard reset by your ISP (most likely IP# change) were you able to get back online?
I'm sure the DarkLady et al will want to know more about this. If you have logs (from your system, the modem, and also your ISP) I'd send that to Mesanna with a direct note explaining what happened.
Do not name names (if she wants names she will ask you for them)... that will change the tone of your email. But do make sure to include logs for they will contain some information the devs could use.
Well... I do not have her ear, so there is nothing I can personally do.
What I do know, from experience, is that a literate and accurately worded explanation of a situation along with suggestions for possible solutions does get attention. It may not get a direct response from Broadsword, but does get attention.
How many others crashed at this IDOC?
Post here please.
Not many people watch these forums sadly... But I am guessing that the ones who did it probably do and will likely be here to tell you "nothing to see here."
I was there i got nothing good from the idoc just two death robes. My internet was not attacked and no interruption to it. I hit two barrels then died.
What shard? I'm guessing atlantic?
I have been disconnected before at a couple of IDOCs but always was able to log right back on. It was like the EM Events when the boss appears - just extreme lag and overload from just about all uo players in one spot.
Something sound fishy. In order for them to do a DDOS against your modem they need its IP address. But how would they get it? They would need direct access to the server's management console to find out which IP addresses were for the players at the IDOC. Either the server got hacked or the DDOS attack was purely coincidental.
As someone mentioned. Implementing a raffle system could work.
But I'd suggest making the following amendments. Each account gets a raffle weight.
- If you already recently owned a house, your raffle weight goes down.
- Each time you trade a house to yourself, the raffle weight goes down.
- The longer you dont own a house with an active account in good standing - the higher your weight goes up. (think veteran rewards type counts)
Eventually even the most arthritis ridden player will be able to get a house (not just those with hours upon hours on hand to sit and spam place at IDOCs).
This system could allow for future shard mergers or other balancing tasks. Owners of houses on shards that gets shuttered, would get huge raffle weight bonus in order to maximize their pick of the lot.
Wouldnt adress multi account "raffle joining" but the old method of placing houses at IDOCs is simply bad. Maybe back in the day when scripting and automation wasnt as prevalent as it is now, it was a good thing.. but not in this time and era.
- Well, wouldnt this just create a long queue of people wanting a house you say?
People who has houses can still sell them. Just like now. It just means that more people have a shot at a house than a select few "professionals" that drive the house pricing upwards. There wont be any less or more houses available, just more chance for equal chance of placing!
People who want the best house from an IDOC might not want to place a house of their own to increase their weight scoring on the raffle. Which potentially means more house plots available if people carefully select what sort of home they go for.
While this is mildly entertaining, I'm confused... the OP said they spent 10 hours and $60 "getting ready for the IDOC" and were breaking barrels etc but then says the solution is to raffle off the house plot which I'm not sure what exactly you need to "get ready for" when that's simply just placing a house with no skills needed.
Unless the OP is suggesting to raffle off the entirety of the house to a single person and basically just hand the keys over (that seems very unrealistic) then it seems like they are confused to what their sob story is vs what they actually want from it.
IBTL.
I really dont know if I should laugh about this post or cry. The level of craziness and conspiracy is at the high level here.
No one else but the OP crashed!
Ofc the Idoc was in fel and PK's were everywhere and they got most of the loot and someone got butthurt and created this amazing fiction that a group of people planned a direct attack to his IP and crashed his modem for 25 min to prevent him to loot???? WOW, just wow... you won the Oscar dude. 1st we had the video maker saying that player A and B and C were the reason of all prices go up, than most recently Nails sold some plots for 25P and was his fault as well to make house prices go up, now you saying that we have people direct attacking you with "DOS" attack that will shut down your specific modem for 20 min to prevent you to loot from Idocs?? Does it sound normal?
I think this has gone far enough.