Was I killed by a staff member?

Sagan

Neophyte
Here's an interesting question.

Last night I had my character parked in west brit macroing hiding within the guarded zones (as you do) and about half-our in or so I heard my character die from the other room. I went to investigate and saw that I was indeed dead. I checked the journal and saw no references to me being attacked or even seeing any players approach. Confused, and not really having the time to check further into anything I logged off and didn't think anything else of it.

Fast forward to today and I'm walking around some vendors just outside of brit (out of the guarded area) when I'm suddenly struck dead. The kind of struck dead you get when you're killed in town by the guards/powers above for doing something wrong. You know, the bolt of lightening etc.. This was not a lighting strike from another player. I was just dead. No one to report for murder, no notification that I was under attack by anyone or anything like that. I was blue and had not committed any acts that would make me a criminal (not that it matters, I was well outside a guarded area).

Anyone care to shed some light on how this could occur?
 

Enslaved

Novice
why should he get banned when he's walking around vendors or heard his character die while in another room?
Do you allways sit in front of your computer watching your char trying to hide every 11 seconds? i dont think so.
 
S

Shane

Guest
No staff member would do this, anyone below staff does not have the abilitiy to do this. I would think not!
 

Illy

Master
why should he get banned when he's walking around vendors or heard his character die while in another room?
Do you allways sit in front of your computer watching your char trying to hide every 11 seconds? i dont think so.

Just joking around. Christ.
 

Sagan

Neophyte
I'm guessing scavenge/auto open and a trapped chest.

That does sound like a good theory, however I don't have auto open for anything aside from corpses. Such an event has never happened to me before around trapped chests (like the ones people leave around brit bank).

No staff member would do this, anyone below staff does not have the abilitiy to do this. I would think not!

I would hope not, however how can this be explained? It's happened twice in two days, completely different scenarios. Lighting from the sky and instant death. Not attacked by a player. Has happened inside a guarded zone, and outside. One instance doing nothing but standing in a vacant building. The other when wandering around outside of brit. I'm not accusing anyone, but I would like to know how it's happened.
 
If someone attacks you while AFK and noone else call guards, then u simply die

Simple like that

If u gonna make an AFK macro, add the "say guards" in any line
:)
 
If someone attacks you while AFK and noone else call guards, then u simply die

Simple like that

If u gonna make an AFK macro, add the "say guards" in any line
:)
Did you even read this post or you do just post random stupid shit to see yourself type? He says he wasnt afk....
 
Did you even read this post or you do just post random stupid shit to see yourself type? He says he wasnt afk....

Here's an interesting question.

Last night I had my character parked in west brit macroing hiding within the guarded zones (as you do) and about half-our in or so I heard my character die from the other room. I went to investigate and saw that I was indeed dead. I checked the journal and saw no references to me being attacked or even seeing any players approach. Confused, and not really having the time to check further into anything I logged off and didn't think anything else of it.

Fast forward to today and I'm walking around some vendors just outside of brit (out of the guarded area) when I'm suddenly struck dead. The kind of struck dead you get when you're killed in town by the guards/powers above for doing something wrong. You know, the bolt of lightening etc.. This was not a lighting strike from another player. I was just dead. No one to report for murder, no notification that I was under attack by anyone or anything like that. I was blue and had not committed any acts that would make me a criminal (not that it matters, I was well outside a guarded area).

Anyone care to shed some light on how this could occur?

and im the stupid here... lol
 

halygon

Grandmaster
Actually last night pks were killing bank sitters by hopping gates and dropping explodes then hopping back through. That's probably how you died then. Too bad you didn't have journal logging on to verify.
 

zoneseek

Novice
By default razor will check new containers to see whats inside of display purposes. A gm tinker trapped box can insta kill, and with razor set to default it will kill you the second you click and begin dragging the trapped box. You can have some fun with this at brit bank. Not saying this is in fact what happened but might be part of the equation. The death can seem like a guard whack.
 

Sagan

Neophyte
Thanks for the responses.

With regards to me being 'AFK' the first time, while I was in the other room I had sound on and could see the screen where I was sitting. I checked the journal as soon as I'd died and saw nothing there to indicate I was killed by a player. Also, I do not have auto-open for crates or anything aside from corpses. To reiterate; I have never been killed by GM tinker traps set up around brit bank before by the auto opening of them, because I don't have that feature setup. And I did not pick anything up.

As as for my death the second time round, I was there when it happened. It was a lightening bolt from the sky and instant death. The exact thing that happens when you get whacked in town. Or, as I imagine, when you're kill commanded by staff.

Definitely no player attacked me. The journal showed no attacks from players. No one to report for my murder (and no trapped anything), and no one came to loot my generously cashed up corpse.

Adam. I'm sure no staff would do that. But I'm completely puzzled as to how it would happen. I've been playing UO since OSI and have been a GM and Developer on numerous shards since and never had a player character experience anything like that before. o_O
 

Kiki

Grandmaster
I bet it was Karl Sagan. He doesn't like people using his name, and dat ass in his av would mesmerise you to death.
 
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