A simple question about UO and the shard

[piojosnos]

Hi People,

I'm new to UO. In fact, I have not started playing yet, I'm currently playing another MMORPG but I'm planning to leave it because of ugly economy and a dumb rule they have lately impose (which absolutely and completely ruins my game play). Because of that I would like to ask a single question, that may tell me if I can land on UO, and why not this shard

Please, read completely before answer, just don't go run to answer or flame when you see the first AFK word

I love to AFK harvesting and I would like to know if it's possible here. I've seen a post about making illegal AFK harvesting in the shard, but may be we have completely different concepts of AFK harvesting, so I would like to clear that.

For me AFK harvesting is NOT to be completely AFK while some evil macro does all the work for me (in fact, I'm against macros mostly at all). For me AFK harvesting is going (Non AFK-non macro, or well may be mapclicking or something) from an storage (or a place where I can store mined/harvested stuff) to a place where minerals/stuff is. Once then click on harvestable item to star harvesting (or use a macro of some kind to click multiple times) and go AFK to surf the WEB, watch TV, read a bit of a book, etc. until mi carry capacity is full. To give you an Idea, to get a full load of items in the other game usually took 3-5 minutes. So I watch my screen each 2-4 minutes any way. Once I'm full (I suppose in UO is like others game in which you can't carry any more so you stop harvesting). I just star walking non-AFK-non macro to the place to store mineral/stuff, to just start over.

It may happens that I star harvesting and something happens in real life so I might leave the screen unattended for a long period (don't know how much) but theoretically in some short period of time my load capacity should be full and I should not be able to harvest no more (just stand there unattended).

This is important for me cause I don't want to spend like 25 hours a day to to gather tons of resources that takes (at least in the old game I played) to level a char (And I'm really addicted to level) , and this way I can share time between the game and other activities like TV, book as I've stated before.

Usually when I have enough resources I spend some non AFK time (which is no little) to mix, chat with people, train on monsters do quests, etc. So don't think I just harvest AFK.

So is this way of playing allowed in generally in UO and in this shard, or I'll have problems if I play this way? I'm just looking for a nice game / place where I can feel happy

Best regards, and sorry for the long post.
dmi

[Harabakc]

The only thing the rules say is don't be afk. Being alt-tabbed out isn't being afk. If a staff member shows up to check on you you'll have some amount of time to answer or respond in some way before you get thrown in jail or whatever the current penalty is.

It's all posted in the codex.

[Gordin]

Dude, u will centainly enjoy this shard.
About your doubt: we have a codex (http://www.uoex.net/codex) with all the rules you should know before playing and its explanations. AFK gathering resources here isn't allowed in any way (fishing, mining, lumberjacking or anything else). But by AFK it means long periods of time. I do think it will be considered different if it even comes to be judgeg by staff) the situation you described -> you will be "ALT+TABed", as Haraback said.
The most important you gotta know what the codex says about been forbidden to gather great amount of resources AFK. This idea will get you trough.
Cya

[Bubba Ho Tep]

Yeah, the rule is against large production, once it's possible in UO to have a macro that will fullfill your bag, take you to the bank, storage it, and then loop, keeping on gathering for as long as you want. If you respect your own weight limit, doing harmless tries at mining, lumberjacking or whatever, I think no one will have a problem with that - at least, not the way it's nowadays. Colibri (one of our admins) is thinking about going a bit tougher about the rules. But I still can't imagine the staff being unreasonable.
Can't gather eveything there's to be gathered though. If you do are getting riches AFK, then there's something wrong.

And our concept of AFK here truly is away from keyboard. After approached by a GM, you have about five minutes to answer him.

[Harabakc]

Collect as many thousands of any resource as you want, just be at/near the keyboard on a regular basis to confirm you are there.

[piojosnos]

The only thing the rules say is don't be afk.
It's all posted in the codex.

Thanks, I've just realized that here it's called "codex", I was looking something like "rules" or alike, that's why I didn't found it. But your first phrase seems to contradict a bit with the codex:

When performing the following activities, you must not be away from keyboard: killing spawn (regular or champions), leveling weapons, fishing, gathering ore/wood/leather/wool/plants. This may not be a final list - the idea is that you should not perform anything that brings a good amount of wealth while AFK

From not being AFK at all to just not being AFK while harvesting. May be some times my char may stand in "trance" or "meditating" for a couple of hours with out doing anything at all

If you do are getting riches AFK, then there's something wrong.

And our concept of AFK here truly is away from keyboard. After approached by a GM, you have about five minutes to answer him.

Fair enough for me and enough time too. I'll give a try to the game as soon as I can make it run under linux with wine or can compile a native client I've found (just some technical issues on the last one) , But I hope to solve them by the weekend

Thanks every one for the answers
dmi

[Harabakc]

Your post was talking about afk harvesting, that's what I answered.