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  1. 5 points
    It's great that we have developers that want to add new things and work on the game in a volunteer capacity but its quite obvious they have no intention of thoroughly testing their changes before forcing us, the paying customers, to endure their mistakes and test for them whether we want to or not. In other games where development is not a hobby or a game in and of itself, for instance Ultima Online, they at least follow these steps: 1. Develop ideas and test them themselves. 2. Announce changes and document them thoroughly for player consumption, every change no matter how significant. 3. Make the changes available to test on a test server that actually promotes player testing, maybe a week or more. 4. Make the changes available to test on 2 or 3 out of 15+ production servers for further testing, usually for a week. 5. Release the changes on all live servers and update the patch notes with every new change as a result of the testing. Here are a couple of easy things that can be implemented immediately and later improved: 1. Encourage Wurm's paying customers to participate in testing changes on a test server by rewarding players with sleep bonus on their main accounts. Easy and free. Have the changes available to test for at least 48 hours, the weekends would be a good time for this. 2. Document, document, document every single, I repeat, every single change you make to the code and make those changes available on the public forums before the changes go live and recap the extent of those changes and tweaks to them after they go live.
  2. 4 points
    Java browser plugin is dead since years already, and Oracle confirmed this +/- 1-2 years ago when they applied very strict security restrictions on it. This was just matter of time, and good thing that this finally happens. Desktop/server Java is fine and will be good for at least next few decades. I am more worried about JNLP future (it allows to launch Wurm from the website and single small file at the moment) - Oracle is not really happy with it as well.
  3. 4 points
    Hello forum mods? I mean I literally never thought this would stya open for as long as it has but perhaps the forum mods need to be reminded of their own rules " C ) You may not discuss, post items or links on religion, pornography, illegal drugs or the abuse of such drugs, game exploits, macros, or disallowed game practices as per the game rules. " How this thread EVER got to 4 pages is absolutely beyond me...
  4. 4 points
    You're not really after a discussion, you just want to fuel the "PvP vs. PvE" arguments again since it's been quiet on that front for a while. Shame on you, seriously.
  5. 3 points
    Another minor/large update today removed most of the remaining movement lag. Sleep bonus was awarded for these last days of extra downtime. Proper checks were added to make sure altars can only be used on ground. More smelting tweaks.
  6. 3 points
    10h of sleep bonus not good enought?
  7. 3 points
    As I'm obviously below the intelligence of the average person the wording of the rules must of confused me. " C ) You may not discuss, post items or links on macros, or disallowed game practices as per the game rules." obviously the average person would read that and see that it meant " You may not discuss, post items or links on macros, or disallowed game practices as per the game rules. Unless you're discussing macros without directing giving out macro script information, however you're allowed to challenge the game rules and troll all that you see fit" Now I'd be tempted to continue argue the point and perhaps even tell you where you can place your condescending attitude. However that would be against the forum rule regarding challenging moderation (Assuming you still enforce that one). Even if we disagree on the semantics of macro discussion, it doesn't change the fact that this troll thread clearly has run it's course and should be locked (even the OP has asked for it to be so some pages back!). Seriously.
  8. 3 points
    macros are dumb and dumb people use them the end
  9. 3 points
    It's bizarre that we've even been having these conversations at all. I thought it was pretty universally understood that cheating in games is bad and ruins the fun for everyone else. Like, we're talking kindergarten-level social skills, here. And especially now that WU is released, cheaters can skip as much of the game as they want without harming anyone. Yet people are still demanding to be able to do it on the WO servers? The selfishness is unreal.
  10. 3 points
    High nutrition will give you a maximum skill gain bonus of 5%, while low nutrition gives you a maximum skill gain penalty of 5%. Nutrition between 40 and 60 will not give any bonus or penalty. There is still a bonus to having over 60 nutrition. There is just no longer a 5% loss to people who can't or won't feed themselves. So if you're a crafter I would say that it's very worth it just for the extra bump in skill gain.
  11. 3 points
    If you need it explained for you then i am not sure it would do much good. Seriously go sit down and think about it and if you cannot figure it out then there is no help for you. Hint: wurm is not single player
  12. 2 points
    If everyone can basically do everything after a while you don't have an economy, that's right. Talking to vet when I moved into an area went like this for me: Vet: Hey welcome to the area. We are also close to opening a market! Me: Cool, what do you need for your village? Anything I can make you'd buy? Vet: We are sort of self sufficient and don't look to buy stuff. Me: How can I buy from your market if there's nothing I can sell to make money? Just can't work in my book unless you expect new players to buy their way into the game with real cash subsidizing the free play of vets?
  13. 2 points
    Hmmm... From what I have read it seems we need to ask devs to NEVER give away anything as it seems moaning and complaining is in human nature...
  14. 2 points
  15. 2 points
    So for filling of lamps and now fireplaces automatically within a 24 tile perimeter on deed we have the huge oil barrel. This barrel will hold up to 2,250kg's of liquid. Impressive isn't it, what I don't understand is why this mechanic is limited to olives. If you wanted to fill the barrel with olive oil you would need to harvest 12,500 olive tree's, that is assuming each olive tree has a olive during olive season. Chances are, maybe 2 out of 3 olive trees will bear this little fruit and then you must turn this olive into oil, so depending on your skill the amount of olive tree's needed to harvest to fill this barrel to the top could well go beyond requiring a person to harvest 20,000 trees. Don't forget that making olive oil use's the beverage skill, for oil that is not actually used as a beverage. Is this wurm logic at its best? What we need is an alternative fuel, one that is more readily available year around such as tar, and a means to turn this tar into oil and in-turn giving us more options for filling lamps and huge oil barrels. Save the olive's for compass building and of course the martini.
  16. 2 points
    I'm thinking about adding a previous version branch for the client, would help a little. We are also looking into adding some more version data sent from steam to the client so that it can verify before connection and either filter out or just gray out servers that are not the same version as the client. I'm guessing it would be preferable to see a server as unavailable due to version mismatch then connect to instant crash. Generally it is only a problem when we change the message protocols, been lots of those recently so I understand the frustration.
  17. 2 points
    Bear in mind that mapdumps wont show bridges, much like buildings dont show on them! We have been looking at what we can do with them, and hopefully will have something to share in the near future
  18. 2 points
    No this doesn't defeat its purpose. What is does is allow those who want to take the responsibility upon themselves to monitor the Event tab for these types of messages, that the Devs have decided that No!, they are not capable of doing so. Reminds me of the old mass-punishment system where all pay the price for the unacceptable actions of a few. What even is the purpose of these messages flashing on the screen disrupting game play anyway? I take it this is because some were making the excuse that they didn't see "important" Dev messages so they didn't know that they shouldn't be taking certain actions? I suggest that you rethink this and allow responsible individuals the option to eliminate these flashing nuisance messages on their screens. =Ayes=
  19. 2 points
    From what I'm seeing from friends and in this post, if you have more than 5 hours from this I'd suggest not using a bed til you get it back below 5 hours sleep bonus. Just as a precaution
  20. 2 points
    There has been call for a new one, what with bridges being implemented. A high amount of energy has been poured into the servers since, so much, in fact, that the new map dumps aren't very new at all. The desire to implement and compromise for bridges has changed alot of land and many long term settlements. I sincerely hope there are plans for one in the near future.
  21. 2 points
    As Zerocool eloquently states. Thread Locked. regards Solmark LFM
  22. 2 points
  23. 2 points
    Nah man, you sunk that ship long ago in the very beginning. Don't try to pawn it off on someone else.
  24. 2 points
    There was no nutrition in the game back when I started and it was a lot more enjoyable that way. I would honestly cheer them on if they decided to remove nutrition entirely.
  25. 2 points
    I think pinchaloaf is going about this wrong but is somewhat on a right track... Here are some facts for the nay sayers.. If you honestly think there are players in game that have not macroed you are kidding yourself. Ive been gaming for years and all games have had a anti macro stance and in every game people still do it. Some get caught some have not but that doesnt stop anyone from doing it. Some games changed the punishment to make it work out better... Straight ban does nothing for the game because id the player wants to come back he will and will most likely macro again in hopes of not being caught while some others prrhaps the majority wont come back and thats lost revenue and also in a game this size actually long terms hurts the economy more then helps it. Here is another fact for you... There have been some way worse game breaking skill gaining exploits that overwieght macroing any day of the week, yet many of these accounts are still here. Now im not saying not saying nothing at all should be done but a first time offense ban in my opinion should not be the answer... If wurm had good population my stance would be different but knowing wurms population for 10 years i would look for a different route vs the one we have now... Roma victor a game i played for a while had public crucifixion (im not sayin we need that here) depending on the offense determined your time on the cross... The public could throw stuff at you spit on you and so on... Depending again for what you are up there in the case lets talk macros, skill decreas would be in order and 30days on the cross. (not refundable time) but it allowed the player to come back... Continued bans would ultimatly become permanent. In wurm they could adopt a similar system perhaps make it a bit more harse... X days banned and zero out the skill being macroed, along with that 10 20 30% take your pick across the board skill loss. Some of the games that had insta ban policies have also done a mass unban after certain point in the game ( usually when it was to late) and many players have returned to play. Wurm could also adopt that with a across the board skill loss to every account banned for macros. Now not all accounts were banned for macroing, there have been many stupid bans as well and allowing them to come back with some type of penalty. Bottom line is dont kid yourself with how many accounts have looked for loop holes for exploiting skills even without macroing. Its pretty hypocritical as a policy when there have been worse conditions taken advantage of and those players are still playing yet there have been some players banned for macros which im willing to bet if you looked at their macroed skill its probably not even much in comparison. Once upon a time there were many accounts sold every few months with certain skills 90 90 90 fighting 70 70 70 and some other misc skills.. Im willing to bet those were all macroed accounts. Flame away!
  26. 2 points
    Can we lock this thread too? Another moot and pointless question. The OP is obviously trying to insult everyone with his antics, and defending the idea of cheating whilst doing so. Total crap.
  27. 2 points
    -1 and while we are at it, remove all player gods from the BL side too, BL only needs one God and that's Lib
  28. 2 points
    Tired of these whiny epic players who cry constantly on freedom about how long it takes to get everything. If you want SOTG put in the time and train for it like everyone else here has done. It is something anyone can get, so I do not see the problem with it. If you don't like it, the epic portal is that way ---> don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out.
  29. 1 point
    I doubt it will go away soon, but even if it would we would have enough time to replace current JNLP launcher with standalone client. Java3D still exists in changed form, right now it is element of modern JavaFX GUI library - naturally it is not suited for games, but for interactive 3d apps and various science/enterprise stuff (NASA even wrote their own graphics library for Java based on older version of it). "Old" Java3D is no longer supported by Oracle, but it was picked up by community and is still developed under JOGL project (DeedPlanner is example of program which uses JOGL). For games, most obvious choices are LWJGL and JOGL, both developed by Java community. There are some complete and well known Java-based engines as well, with most famous one being the LibGDX.
  30. 1 point
    butchering knife, 32 ql, 87 coc, 1.25 s carving knife, 33 ql, 87 woa, 71 coc, 1.6 s carving knife, 56 ql, 79 coc, 60 c chisel, 48 ql, 81 coc, 1 s file, 22 ql, 72 coc, 60 c grooming brush, oakenwood, 16 ql, 87 coc, 1.3 s hammer, 36 ql, 83 coc, 1 s mallet, oakenwood, 31 ql, 86 coc, 1.2 s meditation rug, 4 ql, 89 coc, 1.5 s pelt, mountain lion, 78 ql, 77 coc, 50 c pickaxe, 15 ql, 64 coc, 40 c pickaxe, 69 ql, 63 woa, 78 coc, 1 s rake, 18 ql, 61 coc, 40 c Cod to Omland please, thanks
  31. 1 point
    anyway, people who think they only got 2 hours of sb (which is 2silvers worth of sleep powders, are more than welcome to send 2 silvers to me, i might appreciate it a bit more than you, it seems)
  32. 1 point
    Or even just having the version number listed with the servers, which other games can do so it should be possible.
  33. 1 point
    I am also seeing the same sort of trace as the previous post - and it was working for me a little earlier this morning. I got out to look at something on my local test server, then when I went back to try and log back on my usual private server I get the underflow. I can connect to another private server though. Have had steam validate files and cleared java cache but still get same error.
  34. 1 point
    Oil doesn't make sense. There's a woodpile (and a woodbasket?) next to the fireplace - make it so we can drop a decent amount of logs in those (make the woodpile into a container for logs), and let the guard keep the fire alive from that, not from a barrel of olive-oil...
  35. 1 point
    Replace skill with PvP, and you'll know why I choose to PvP only in real PvP games, not Wurm.
  36. 1 point
    A smart designer would make Soul Depth useful, and publicize it, rather than getting rid of a system that really isn't that badly designed for what it's intended as. (It's no different than the Sleep Bonus system.)
  37. 1 point
    Isnt it a bit sad to quit your hobby which you clearly invested alot into, just because of a Xsolla problem? Could still buy Silvers from trustworthy players through paypal.
  38. 1 point
    Well, doens't everyone have the stamina issue. make it a part of your raidplan instead of leaving to go on a raid without it.. all you need is 1 person to carry a barrel with meals... i don't really see the problem lol
  39. 1 point
    I appreciate the heads up which we almost never get on these things. However the post above was a bit misleading letting people think they had some time to get ready for this when the patch went live less than 24 hours from this post.
  40. 1 point
  41. 1 point
    Holy hell, did not expect this much crap over a question. I honestly have no idea what advancing your skills does for you other than making your own crap higher QL on a PvE server. Pure and simple. And if someone macros to grind up skills, then who cares? I'm not baiting, nor have I been banned for macroing. It was just a simple question. Is it that if someone has a higher skill than you on a PvE server because they macro'd that it's somehow unfair? I just don't understand why it matters when the skills play no other part than to improve your own stuff.
  42. 1 point
    But ErikN, what if we really want the system messages disabled onscreen too? It may defeat their purpose, but many of us do not need the extra notice, the event message is enough. This will not be too annoying when there is a system shutdown, but I know I'm going to hate seeing this when there is a PVP ban, because it will show up every 15 minutes, and I'm on the Freedom servers. Please don't go forcing this on all of us.
  43. 1 point
    Great idea, will help get rid of all the junk littering each and every server. With the mention it should happen OFF DEED only. On deed, nothing should go unplanted, regardless of ql and/or decay level.
  44. 1 point
    Enuf what you can do is one of the 4 things 1) Grind those skills to 70 and then the value may increase. 2) Take one of the following offers. 3) Make an auction with $10 starting bid and hope that it picks up pace. 4) Or simply buy premium and enjoy playing with the account. So its upto you now. Enjoy.
  45. 1 point
    https://github.com/ago1024/WurmClientModLauncher/releases/tag/v0.3.3 Version 0.3.3 Transfer annotations to map loaded from serverpacks
  46. 1 point
    Sorry but that's not the point. The point is, and what is broken is, there seems to be no way for this to be disabled on servers that are supposed to be customizable. People love to complain Wurm Unlimited is easy mode, and then go on to force easy mode on Wurm Unlimited. That's what's broken about this. Even if it is set as default because apparently life is just too hard for some folks, the option to remove this should at the very least be functional.
  47. 1 point
  48. 1 point
    I think you're being a little bit unfair. Your comment would have more validity if the ebony black would have among the least voted colors, but if you look at the current results, it's literally the #3 choice if you consider the two pintos identical other than color. So I'll have to disagree about "screwing the rest of the community". Something I'd like to point out: I offered to make some skins for free. I was told I could. I personally offered to set up a poll. I was not asked to, nor was it suggested to me. So at the end of the day, I could have pretty much gone ahead and made any kinds of skins I'd have liked without anyone batting an eye. But I wanted to also consider what you guys would like as well and thus set this poll up. This was not any official poll by the developers, instead merely a fan of the game offering to do some skins for free and just curious to see what others would like. I am not a developer of the game, I owe the community nothing at all. After seeing the most popular choices, I based my decision on three things: the popularity factor, the practicality factor and lastly my own wants as well. The devs were absolutely fine with my choices and there was no negotiations on which colors to do. I then went to work putting all the love and effort I could into modifying the existing skin to accommodate the chosen colors. Wasn't paid by anyone, instead spent a considerable amount of my personal time to offer them for free. So we could either have the scenario of continuing with the same old colors, or else getting 3 new bonus colors as a "gift" from a fan of the game. And I'm told I'm screwing the community over as thanks for that. *shakes head in disappointment*
  49. 1 point
    +1 Posted on behalf of the Save Creatures from Random Evil Attack Mutants (Scream) committee.
  50. 1 point
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