---Lost Items---

Player Mistakes

If you make a mistake in game and lose an item it will not be replaced by staff. Losing items is part of the game! Make sure you bless and insure all your important items or store them safely in your bank/house.

Many players each day, page the staff and complain about "losing" items. We DO NOT replace player items that just "disappear" Our server reports/logs all items that are removed or "lost".

I have only had 1 incident where it was a legitimate "missing item" was our fault, that we had to remove.
The fact is that out of the dozens of reports, 99% of the missing items were found or were lost due to human error.

---Common Reasons for lost Items---

Before you make a report to a gm, please check this list
Here are some of the common reasons I have seen for "lost" items in my investigations:

1. Misplaced the item, it turns up in another bag, bank or at your house. The item may be same color as another and blends in, or it may be under another item.

2. The item lost durability and was not repaired, it then "disappears" when it breaks

3. If you fight a monster that uses an acid attack, you may lose durability/item so beware!

4. Players can steal from you in Felucca!

5. Guildmates and Alliances can steal from each other anywhere

6. Some boss monsters can "eat" or unbond your pets, read the wiki for info!

7. You must feed your pets or they can go wild and be "lost" If you are missing a pet, check the stables, use [getpet and look at your control slot count. Also ask yourself did you bond your pet?

8. Lack of money to pay for the auto insurance

9. Overweight backpack causes items to drop out of your pack. This commonly happens when you are killed and your bag of holding dumps out to your main pack

10. Looted by a player or by certain monsters, they can "rummage through your pack" and steal items

11. Forgot to lock down/secure an item or chest in your house

12. Players stand around afk and get killed/looted

13. Did you drop your item into your trashbag?

14. Was your item cursed, it can be looted!

15. Did an item disappear due to a crash or revert? Sorry we cannot replace items if we had to revert back to an earlier save. If you get disconnected/crash, pets are usually found in the stable

16. Does anyone else have access to your acct? Does anyone else have access to your house? Many times a girlfriend, roomate, sibling etc took the item if your acct is not secure

17. If you "lend" an item to another player and they dont log back in, there is nothing a GM can do.

18. Make sure you always have gold in your bank, not a bank check. Insurance and vendors check the bank first for gold, then the gold ledger. If you are dead, and have no gold in the bank, this may set your items to not be insured

19. The gold ledger is a complicated script and has room for error upon instances of death, insurance and vendors. Only use 1 gold ledger! Only use 1 loot bag! If you try to use multiple items you may confuse/glitch the script

20. Add gold to your vendors, if they run out, they will leave and steal all your items

21. Many artifacts are scripted to be not repairable and with low durability so when it hits zero durability it will break/disapear. This is normal and intended.

22. If you lost a peice of deco in your house, you probably remodeled recently. During customization the items are stored in your moving crate on the house sign gump, you will find them there.

23. If you die in game and do not return to your body in time, the items will decay and disappear

24. Do not store any custom items on keys. The keys were made for standard items only and not for custom items. If you add a custom item to a key, it may lose it's properties or get it stuck in the key. (do not use the fill from pack command on the keys, it will suck in the custom items)

25. If you are AFK and mounted, players can get dismounted and your pet may go wild. If you are going to stay logged in AFK in a public area you should always shrink your pets to avoid losing your mount.

26. If you use a UORazor/UOSteam/AssistUO auto dress macro you may lose items. That is a third-party piece of software and you are using player-made scripts. Beware those macros may have flaws! Use at your own risk!

---Exceptions---

NO Exceptions

We will no longer replace any items for any reason!

Since the population has now become so large, and many of the player base is attempting to take advantage of the staff, we must revise the "Lost Item" policy

In the past we have tried to be flexible and replace some items in rare cases, that seemed to have some merit. In the past 5 years of investigating "lost" items, the results of every investigation has been player error.

Recently we have been flooded with false claims of lost items, multiple claims to each staff member and just plain lies about how the items disappeared.

In an attempt to cut down the volume of false claims we are imposing a 100ED fee to research a lost item claim. This will allow us to investigate "Real" missing item claims, and lessen the "fake" claims that waste staff time and energy

In order to research a claim we have to download an old save, locate the original item, find the serial number and track the item.  We then have to search in the current save and see if there is an item match on the live server.  This process can take well over an hour and is a big interruption to our day.

The fee will be non-refundable.  If we find the item and it was a server or staff error, the item will be replaced and the fee refunded.  If the investigation reveals it was human error or one of the items listed on the "Lost Item" section of the wiki, you will lose the fee!

If you misplace an item always check your storage keys! After a server reset the "keyguard" will need to be reset on an item.

Also I was told to always have a loose stack of gold in the bank just incase the auto insurance can not grab it from your ledger.

I can't believe that someone try to use some of the excuses you listed in the first post.
Some of that are so funny.

LOL