Houses in areas that say housing is not allowed

[Rammar]

The ones I'm thinking of are the ones in the swamp east of britain. Plus I just don't get how some swamps are placable and some aren't.

Because on OSI, that swamp was evidently unplaceable, while others were. Surprisingly (or not) many people here actually did not recall that. Might take a gander at the accuracy thread that brought it up: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=37391

When possible, and not game-breaking, patches usually grandfather here. This is also largely the same as OSI. There were (and likely still are) several obvious houses which break placement rules on the official servers. There were also many, many more which broke later placement rules (like half of felucca was illegal after the ren-era placement rules), yet were not demolished.

The shard's a work in progress. Stuff will get overlooked, some will lack evidence, and some there just hasn't been time for.

[Zippy]

It clearly was not known at launch this was a no housing zone.

What else is there to complain about?

That is it right there. It was known. This is a replica shard not a new concept. And asking questions is not complaining. Please go troll someone elses thread.

[Apocalypse]

It clearly was not known at launch this was a no housing zone.

What else is there to complain about?

That is it right there. It was known. This is a replica shard not a new concept. And asking questions is not complaining. Please go troll someone elses thread.

As Hoots said, it was not known at the beginning. At some point later on, it was discovered and changed. This is a "replica" but you need to understand this shard was built from scratch. It isn't as though Derrick was able to just take a quick "copy" of a shard during era and hold onto it for 10 years. I think you're not understanding how the shard was built. Download RunUO, create your own shard, and see what your template is to start building a shard. You'll find no spawns, no NPC's, etc. It is basically a vacant world with no life until it can be built and coded.

*edit* - things like house placement rules are not already built into the blank template. All of those things must first be researched to find out what they were and then coded to get them implemented.

[Blaise]

Honestly, even if it was known 5 years ago, perhaps they considered it insignificant in the grand scope of their goals?
That isn't really the case, but quite frankly, complaining about what they didn't know/care enough to research/feel like correcting, is a waste of text.

As to the illegally placed housing on OSI, removal of said housing was at the discretion of the GMs of THAT shard. Some shards had houses remain in illegal spots while others got removed.

Also, on this note, please help the cause by restoring the Bog of Desolation