Breaking news - A war between two gold farmer coalitions in the game Ultima Online recently broke out. Gold farmer groups EasyUO and Blacksnow, led by Rich Thurman and Lee Caldwell, recently were reported to in game GM’s. Certain operations for both coalitions were banned as an affect. The information leading to the bans origin is currently unknown, leading suspicion to arise, not only between the two groups, but also within their own entities.
Thurman a Texas resident, whose operation completely yielded, was accused by leader Lee of having leaked information crucial to the bans. Somebody had contacted the GM’s of the game UO and accounts for Lee’s coalition were banned, as well as all the accounts for Thurman. Thurman, whom for months has been making a profit out of his home by the use of in game bots and macroing to farm for in game gold, has been making quite a profit. By selling in game gold Thurman has approximately been making $4000 weekly. That projects his yearly income to $208,000 dollars yearly which is a very large income within gold farming. Thurman used several computers with separate accounts as well as having one main account. He also had multiple people working in his coalition EasyUO, the amount of members still undisclosed.
Lee’s information is a bit more concealed. He works out of California and he is definitely one of the top gold farmer’s in the world. Lee is the one who instigated this war, after assumptions that Thurman given him misleading information. Lee and Blacksnow are the sole contributors to hostile actions towards EasyUO thus far in the war and without any retaliation.
The whole conflict started with the fact that an in game code was shared from an independent Swiss gold farmer known as Cheffe. He possesses an in game code that enabled easier access to farming gold. This code, exevents, was shared with Thurman and his coalition. Cheffe and EasyUO were the only ones to possess this code which obviously lured Lee’s interest into attaining it. After futile attempts to create cooperation with Thurman and attain exevents, Lee rested on coexisting in the market peacefully. So when the two coalitions were recently reported to the GM’s of UO suspicion arose immediately. Lee’s accusations arose from the supposed indication that one of EasyUO’s, member’s accounts was still active and running. This account was also using exevents contrary to what Thurman had promised Lee about Cheffe suspending use of the code. Lee drew the conclusion that the information regarding exevents and EasyUO was false thus declaring war on EasyUO and Thurman.
The issue is far from being resolved as Lee and Blacksnow continue to sabotage any attempt from Thurman to restart his coalition. As investigation continues to find the culprits of these events, whether it be Cheffe whom shared the information without Blacksnow or EasyUO’s knowledge, or whether a mole exists within either coalitions, the future resolution of this conflict remains remote.
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