Did the shard reverts take gold bugs out?

Rick Cortese

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Feb 10, 2001, 2:20:10 PM2/10/01

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Funny on several levels for me. I mean the one poster who said ~he was going
to take the day off work so he could make gold using the bugs i.e. buy a
something from a non faction vendor and sell it at double the price to a
faction vendor.

Then me, wondering if that would work I bought a few bolts of cloth in
Serpent's Hold for ~120 and sold them in Moonglow for 240. Not wanting to
take advantage of the situation, I bought 10 fancy shirts and sold them back
at a loss to get rid of the extra gold I made, then just played a bit.

I guess it worked with house deeds too because some people are talking about
30 million in 5 minutes and 10s of millions being offered on eBay. I guess
the only 'tards in the game aren't the ones you ride.

Some people are claiming they reported the bug directly to OSI and they
published anyway. Now there is a surprise! One of the reasons I quit playing
TC was because there was a certain level of futility that went with
reporting bugs. 196 people looking for bugs to horde or abuse when it gets
published to regular shards and maybe 4 people actually testing and
reporting bugs into the black hole known as OSI QC.

Final odd bit of serendipitty hit my email box this morning: Offer from OSI
to take part in the UO3d beta testing. You be thinking about maybe a plate
of shrimp and next thing you know.<Repo Man>

mwettach

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Feb 10, 2001, 2:29:07 PM2/10/01

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I dont think it would work with house deeds as they are always resold at the
price they were initially sold

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jules

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Feb 10, 2001, 3:09:20 PM2/10/01

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"Rick Cortese" <rico...@netmagic.net> wrote in message
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> Funny on several levels for me. I mean the one poster who said ~he was
going
> to take the day off work so he could make gold using the bugs i.e. buy a
> something from a non faction vendor and sell it at double the price to a
> faction vendor

So thats why I was getting 244 gp per bale selling cotton to npcs the other
day.

Tolstoy

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Feb 10, 2001, 4:09:35 PM2/10/01

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This game becomes more screwed up every day...

Tolstoy/GM Wanderer

Ian A Kelley

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Feb 10, 2001, 4:18:58 PM2/10/01

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Rick Cortese (rico...@netmagic.net) wrote:
: Funny on several levels for me. I mean the one poster who said ~he was going

: to take the day off work so he could make gold using the bugs i.e. buy a
: something from a non faction vendor and sell it at double the price to a
: faction vendor.

The most embarrasing thing about this is not that twink & twink jr. are
out abusing this, it's that OSI never saw this coming. It's like that old
cheese wheel bug only a lot lot worse.

Thing about it is, OSI will probably fix the faction pricing in some way.
Too bad for me though, I was starting to enjoy having my wares being bought
for prices almost good enough to afford stuff off player vendors
post-inflation. <g>

--
Ian Kelley "Try not to become a man of success but
ike...@mail.sas.upenn.edu rather to become a man of value."
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~ikelley/ --Albert Einstein