Crazy_Legs scammed me

[Blaine the Gypsy]

Unfortunatly Skye, I did not get his char name. I was hoping a GM could help me with that one. Maybe review the code and see who i traded with.

UO logs journals by default so check your log file unless you turned it off.

 

[Afro Man]

Damn never trust people with crazy legs...

 

[Cack]

Let's pool some dough together and get this man a meta....
Dig deep
(Serious post)
I'll donate 100k if you can get Shane to grab it out of my bank(I know they don't do this as a rule but....)

 

[Jibreel_kills]

Unfortunatly Skye, I did not get his char name. I was hoping a GM could help me with that one. Maybe review the code and see who i traded with.

There is a guy named Crazy Legs as a char***

 

[Lord Hampton Royce]

Let's pool some dough together and get this man a meta....
Dig deep
(Serious post)
I'll donate 100k if you can get Shane to grab it out of my bank(I know they don't do this as a rule but....)

ill donate 100k of my 300k life savings for this poor soul

 

[EmmaTudor]

Call me an ass, but I'm not sure why people are so against scamming, no matter what form it comes in. That's what makes UO unique -- you need to be on your toes at all times.

 

[Lord Hampton Royce]

i dunno man. scamming a knowledgeable player is one thing. scamming someone whos clearly new is pretty lame

 

[Cack]

i dunno man. scamming a knowledgeable player is one thing. scamming someone whos clearly new is pretty lame

This

 

[Lord Hampton Royce]

This

 

[EmmaTudor]

You can't formulate rules and consequences that apply to some, but not to others. You've got to learn somehow, and if you can't handle the disappointment, this is not the game for you.

 

[Lord Hampton Royce]

of course you can...

you can punch a guy in the face if they start shit.

you cant punch a mentally handicapped guy in the face if they start shit.

 

[Cack]

of course you can...

you can punch a guy in the face if they start shit.

you cant punch a mentally handicapped guy in the face if they start shit.

Depends...how handicapped are they?

 

[EmmaTudor]

That's not really an applicable analogy. So let me provide a better one:

A. Guy just opens a store and gets his cash register robbed
B. Guy has had store open for 3 years and gets his cash register robbed

Should the criminal be punished anymore harshly because guy A just opened the store? No -- the punishment is the same. So that leaves 2 options, either no scamming, or all scamming.

 

[Cack]

That's not really an applicable analogy. So let me provide a better one:

A. Guy just opens a store and gets his cash register robbed
B. Guy has had store open for 3 years and gets his cash register robbed

Should the criminal be punished anymore harshly because guy A just opened the store? No -- the punishment is the same. So that leaves 2 options, either no scamming, or all scamming.

Well they're all Arab and get subsidies from our tax dollars anyway so the robber would just be stealing back his own tax dollars.

 

[Lord Hampton Royce]

actually, thats not true either.

a judge can assess damages based on many things.

being someones first day on the job, potentially scarring/giving emotional damages could land the criminal in more trouble than a guy robbing a seasoned store owner who may or may not already have dealt with robberies before.

its not always like that, but its possible.

thanks for playing

 

[EmmaTudor]

actually, thats not true either.

a judge can assess damages based on many things.

being someones first day on the job, potentially scarring/giving emotional damages could land the criminal in more trouble than a guy robbing a seasoned store owner.

its not always like that, but its possible.

thanks for playing

Lol, if you can find me one court case where that has been the case, I will reinstall windows/UO and give you whatever gold is in my bank. IF that was ever the case, it would go straight to an appeals court and be overturned.

 

[CN_Chan]

I appreciate all the info. Hopefully the GMs can either help me out or explain why they cant. Lesson learned.

 

[Skye Wolfbane]

I think it was if someone impersonated a GM and scammed that it was bannable but could be wrong.
Honestly, I think public shaming and banding together to help the people who get scammed makes for a much more unified community. We don't need the "government" to solve all problems. We can be vigilantes!

 

[Earendur]

That's not really an applicable analogy. So let me provide a better one:

A. Guy just opens a store and gets his cash register robbed
B. Guy has had store open for 3 years and gets his cash register robbed

Should the criminal be punished anymore harshly because guy A just opened the store? No -- the punishment is the same. So that leaves 2 options, either no scamming, or all scamming.

C. Several people who just opened a store get robbed, then no one opens stores, and the town dies.

 

[halygon]

UO logs journals by default so check your log file unless you turned it off.

Actually, you have to turn it on. It is off by default. This can be turned on in the options or in the character's config file (in your UO directory).

In regards to this being uof-illegal, I only know that we take a strong stance against scamming on the forums. I have never heard that scamming on IRC is illegal. The purpose of that rule is to keep the integrity of the sell/buy forums intact - not sure this correlates to IRC.