A lot of people are leaving because of the duping & scripting also. They're losing clients that way too.

Not nearly as man who script, and duping is farrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr from new, hell the first major dupe came when they opened the serpent pillars for the FIRST time, can you guess what happened when they openeded them the 2nd time?

But that dupe didn't cause inflation. Back then, there were no checks and you could only hold about 20,000 gold on you. Today, players can dupe hundreds of items at a time and gold by the millions. It does a lot more damage because the developers no longer put in the proper safeguards.

To tell you the truth, all this scripting and duping is beyond me. I don't know how these folks figure all that stuff out. I just learned about what discordance does the other night...go figure. So much for my having played this game for so many years....NOOB.

I've been playing since March of '98... I'm still a newb. ;)

Me too is a noob.Till I saw all this posted on various forums,I knew nothing about scripting and duping etc.

Since I recently saw these strange houses active, I thought I would share them. They are what I call the Open Door Operation. These are all located on the East coast of Moonglow, most on the Peninsula that has the telescope. Hopefully Dennar drops by, he might be interested in having a look. No accusations, just similarly strange houses on 16 shards. Characters recall in right in front of the front steps, immediately run inside and then hide. They never respond to me. Then I see what looks like BODs getting dropped into the house sign. Would that be because someone is putting them into a moving crate or does it do that when putting them into a regular crate? Anyway, they seem to drop off a whole packfull at a time, so I guess they spend most of their days collecting them and that is why they don't recall in very often, i.e. 24 per day = 5 days to fill a pack. Anyway, have a look at these interesting houses we have throughout Britannia!

I asked some GMs if they wanted to share the view with me, but they never showed.

Shard screens in order: Sonoma, Pacific, Origin, Oceania, Napa Valley, Legends, Lake Superior, Lake Austin, Great Lakes, Formosa, Europa, Drachenfels, Chesapeake, Catskills, Baja, Atlantic

Click to enlarge. Hover over to see shard in link.

At the very least I'd say that's incredibly suspicious.

It did, For PvPers it did. Blessed items and so on went sky high right away. All other kinds of items that could be useful in pvp sky high.

There was no talk about storing all gold on one account back then. They had 10 dummy accounts.. just to STORE gold. They bought rares in masses to spend the money somewhere.

Now the common player notice it more though. Since items....AoS..

THERE IS NO OPEN DUPE BUG NOW! Im tired of hearing duping at moment.

Scripting is a problem yes.. But I must say It doesnt effect my gameplay at all. So I dont let myself get put down or annoyed by it. Wouldnt that just destroy my whole UO experience if i let it? Try the same? Instead of following them around, just leave feedback and let GMs handle it when they can? Remember the GMs got about another 50k people screaming about other things.. some might be more important...

These gold farming operations that are out there, do to the economy of UO what the illegal immigrant population does to the United States' economy. It keeps prices low. That's why nothing is going to be done about either problem. There will always be some people who benefit from that, and others that suffer. This virtual world we play in is not so virtual after all.
It's merely another avenue for people to extend their characteristics, be they bad or be they good. The cheaters are likely cheaters in every aspect of their daily lives. Just watch the news one night or read the paper. You will hear about corporate scandal, murder, corruption, etc.. Then check out the available UO player forums. You will see it is very comparable. Of course you would need to realize the difference between orcs and politicians.....come to think of it maybe they are not so different......Anyway, what I am writing probably doesn't make much sense, so I'll stop now. BTW good morning to all you east coasters.

I see no difference...

I wonder if EA will even investigate this one??