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  1. 16 points
    Maybe slightly off-topic, but related to the original post in a way: I once played a different online game and was part and later a leader of a guild. In our guild we had a player - a relatively young fellow - who loved playing in a role of a "tank". He wasn't the best tank we had, but he was certainly not the worst and he was visibly improving from week to week... working very hard at getting better. His joy from being part of a large guild and having an increasingly important role was very visible to us all. One day, he simply vanished. We learned quickly that he passed away. It turned out that the player was a very sick person with deteriorating health who was in late stage of his illness. He was bound to a wheelchair and had increasing trouble performing many every day actions... except playing on the computer. The game we played - especially our guild - became very important to him, as it was his only source of entertainment that he could indepenently enjoy. His parents told us later that he often spoke of us and considered our acceptance of him a very important factor in his life. Of course, none of us knew he was sick... We were all nice to him, but none of us formed a close bond with the player, nor stopped to chat at length. While my relationship with him was very friendly, to this day I wish I spent a bit more time making him feel a bit more special. So... Don't forget to love people. They leave so fast...
  2. 13 points
    I could take the time to write out a long detailed reply to this detailing what was wrong, and why I did what I did, but after reading a bunch of messages in email and forum and this OP and the above comments it feels to me like the majority of people who care about this situation understand what the problem is and what I was getting at. At least I do hope that is the case.
  3. 13 points
    In my opinion, the problem doesn't lie with PvP in this case. It lies in the fact that the stolen items were taken to Freedom, where there is absolutely no chance of the kingdom getting them back. If the thief had stayed on Chaos with everything, it would have been a nice challenge for the kingdom to track the guy down and kill him to get their stuff back. *That's* what PvP is all about. NOT robbing your own kingdom blind then bolting to Freedom--where the mechanics aren't there to have any fair shot at getting anything back--to hide out with the loot. PvP should stay on PvP. That's my opinion.
  4. 11 points
    Can use keybinds FLATTEN or LEVEL on tile borders resulting in the raising or lowering of the tile border. Less random slopes when mining forward, depending on skill level. skill less than 50, +-3 (current) skill = 50, variance is +-2 skill = 70, variance is +-1 skill = 90+ no variance Tile corners are now available on bridges. Champion changes Kingdoms will no longer require the player god to favour them in order to ascend a champion Each kingdom may have one champion per god, with a maximum of three champions Courier and dark messenger no longer have cooldowns Genesis now has a cooldown of 30 seconds Bugfix: Creatures without bodies should play a proper death animation before being deleted. Bugfix: Strange devices courier casts can now be improved while in the correct spirits domain Bugfix: Fixed the bug that caused the pave option to show on packed dirt with floor boards, resulting in a gravel tile.
  5. 9 points
    The Case of The Fidgety Fingers Flu "if its in the game and it is not patched you should not get into trouble for doing it. that simple" "how is doing what is in the game a bannable offense its the game at fault not me" So you think that just because you can do something you should be allowed to.... Well, let's give this some perspective and see just how sound an argument that really is shall we! I could go drinking and driving! I could go jump off a cliff! I could check the blades of my mowers while they are running! I could look directly at the sun! I could go drink milk! I could go lick a frozen metal pole! I could go rob a bank! I could go build bombs! I could go play with a wild skunk! Any of this getting through? No!! Well, let me elaborate.... Life is a sandbox too! All of these things above I can do because the mechanics of life allow it! This does not in any way mean that I should do these things. Every single one of these sandbox actions have consequences socially and or legally! After all, the police do tend to get uppity if you rob a bank! I can just see trying those above quotes on a police officer. Wurm Online is also a sandbox with a massive amount of mechanical freedom, but just as in life there are expectations to how you should behave. We have discussed social behavior many times in a lot of threads in GM Hall, and Rolf himself once said that just because you can do something in Wurm, does not mean you necessarily should. It is impossible to have a true sandbox without some guidelines to allow our society to function. For the most part these guidelines are called the rules, and the sad truth is that the Game Masters of Wurm Online are the police in Wurm Online. One of our functions is to hold you to certain expectations and not allow anarchy as it only sews fear and anger. It has not been that long ago that we banned a number of people for rather malicious activities involving our PVP community. Their actions have prompted us to label them Toxic Players and we removed them from the game for their Extreme Disruptive Behavior. I am surprised to see someone following in the footsteps of those we have removed already. I refer to the incident reported here in these forums. Keep in mind that we recently removed a couple of people from the game for this very activity. Chaos is a chaotic ecosystem. It has been a very enjoyable experience in the past, but it has a major problem with its situation on the Freedom Cluster. That problem is thievery. Nothing is safe in a PVP environment, so it is a bit surprising to say that theft is a problem, so let me explain. Are you okay with someone entering your town, acting like your villager, and then robbing you blind only to leave to another country where you have no chance of getting revenge or possibly your stolen items back? If you said yes, then your brain is not firing on all cylinders and you should take it in to the shop for a tune up. We expect there to be raiding and looting and killing and slaughtering and pillaging and banter and all that goes with PVP, but infiltrating a PVP village for the purpose of looting it is not acceptable. This is NOT PVP! PVP is raiding a village like a... raider.. or a pirate... or an enemy. Becoming a villager under any pretense to gain the trust of a village and then abusing the permissions they have given you to steal from them or cause harm to them is not in any sense a PVP action! It is an utterly reprehensible action that we do not accept as an expected behavior! Thank you for reading these words of wisdom, poetic they may not be. Thank You, Wurm Online Team
  6. 7 points
    Stop and wave to every new player you meet, because you don't know who may be lonely and dying for someone to talk to. Just over this past week I've befriended two players who confided that they had no one to talk to or keep them company in-game. They were surprised and overjoyed when I waved to them first and then even engaged with them. One is a disabled player, for example. On a server that's fairly populous. Not sure if every MMO out there has this problem. My gut says "no".
  7. 7 points
    Let's not confuse spies putting their lives on the line to help the soldiers in trenches gain better intel, with a sociopath conning people with no regard for anything but their own monetary gain or perverse self-satisfaction. Granted, with the way alts work, it wouldn't really seem that the spy in Wurm is putting anything on the line at all. The risk lies entirely with the kingdom kind enough to give a noob a chance. The risk is theirs entirely. Having a GM intervene when someone abuses a system is what allows the system to exist. Even in real life, you smuggle a picasso from enemy territory back to your own, safe country for monetary gain, and your own military will come down on you like a ton of marble bricks. Nothing about this situation had anything to do with espionage. It wasn't done on behalf of any other kingdom to further the cause. This wasn't player versus player. It wasn't even outlaw vs. establishment. It was one or two people setting out to ruin the game-play of others for their own benefit. People who insist on a "Lord of the Flies" type anarchy in PvP games always fail to understand player vs. player requires BOTH sides to be having fun. Otherwise, get used to playing with yourself as nobody will want to play with you. It isn't playing if the fun is completely one-sided. You don't grow a PvP community by letting a handful of maladjusted brats ruin the experience for everybody else. PvP isn't a license or invitation to be a jerk, it's an invitation to be challenged in a way no ai could ever challenge you. Artificial intelligence can beat a human at chess, but only within the rules of the game. If you want a looser rule book, you need humans to intervene when the brat decides to take a hammer to all your chess pieces because he or she can.
  8. 7 points
    Making a character explicitly to join a kingdom on Chaos and to steal their stuff once you've gained their trust should never be allowed. It will ruin the game for new, legit people, and will inevitably make people quit due to the fact you can't do anything once the items have been brought to freedom. That and gaining the trust of people in order to gain their passwords to characters to steal everything they own should never be accepted.
  9. 7 points
    Then take Chaos away from freedom isles. It's a simple fix.
  10. 7 points
  11. 5 points
    I've been on the end of metagaming like this many many many times. Hell, I had ~12g worth of items stolen off of my character by some of the scummiest people in the game, who somehow obtained the password to my character. The items were stolen from freedom, on my deed. I really hope Enki goes back, and bans the scum responsible. This of course does not make me think "well they didnt do it for me, why someone else?". Its a GOOD thing enki and co are stopping this crap, as everyone on the recieving end hates it. I have seen people quit the game SO many times because of this - Speedy, Emoo, Yurik (came back) to name a few. These are all HUGE names in the wurm online game. Its about time people who have metagamed, stolen illigitmately, or otherwise to be made accountable for their actions.
  12. 4 points
    This post is in regards to : Spying and infiltration is and has always been a huge part of any warfare. The more rules you place for gm's to manage the less of a sandbox and more of a document people need to read before they can even play the game. You have all the deed permission and can allow the players to govern themselves. Loyalty is built through trust and cooperation not GM rules! This is all part of the grander problem with pvp. There is nothing to fight for, no value or achievement to gain. At least back when permachamps where a thing the wl and bl held value. Now they serve as nothing more than a point of reference in travel, or top up points. Giving faith, some Dr or recharge the little used and over valued artifacts. You need to stop making PvP a hand holding contest, repair the economy of wurm. Especially in PvP in relation to deeds and kingdoms. Beyond that you require a huge overhaul of objective based war. With meaningful gains beyond a few numbers (land,rank) and a few lumps of metal that had once been rare. Beyond this everyone is see a thread of PvP ban, warning. The GM team are quickly becoming more prominent and invasive on PvP servers, often. Making quick irrational calls with little thought or regards to the long term effects it will have. I myself and many people I have played with directly refuse to build a pmk due to how a situation had been handled. When you(Enki) yourself took a banned item(crown) and handed it to a player with no deed, no title or any really claim to have out any long term monitery value in to the kingdom. This is a perfect example of how harsh and incomprehensive decisions can allenate players, many of them have not and will not return from this single event alone. I myself had been burnt out and hardly played wurm online, everyone I look to return I see another failing moment of judgement with the community of the remains players out crying against the decision. This can only be reflected in the slowly reducing premium membership. I have a special place for wurm and really hope it succeeds in the ever growing and competitive market it is in but things need to change and more rules enforced by GM rulling, taking up valuable time that the few good ones have to deal with these senarios such as infiltration that already have game mechanics to prevent. Stop going beyond the required intervention unless absolutely necessary and if you do, make sure all players are equally compensated. Update: General agreements/over arching and repeated comments.
  13. 4 points
    One thing that makes me wonder is when people go "I was screwed over by X back in this year, and nothing was done. Why now?" Why NOT now? Why is it a bad thing to put your foot down and say that it is not acceptable and will not be tolerated? I'm very sorry if people in the past have had similar situations. I wish that things could be retroactive. BUT that doesn't mean let the crap continue into infinity because you got screwed. I will never understand that mentality.
  14. 4 points
    Depends how good you are at juggling [shouldn't be too long, only half of my testers didnt return, the other half said the experience was pleasant, then proceeded to curl up into a ball]
  15. 4 points
    So Chaos goods to freedom = OK Epic goods to freedom = NOK Maybe then separate Chaos from Freedom?
  16. 3 points
    Pavings changed to slate, on bridges, tunnel and ground,
  17. 3 points
    PvP comes in different forms. You can use force to take someone elses stuff.. or you can use cunning. Labeling one as cowardly is weird. This can go further. Is sneak attack cowardly and should be banned? Deception? Yes, there was a problem, but to outlaw theft on PvP server... I don't know. Especially when the underlying problem still remains - all your shinies can still be transported to safety of PvE servers, without a chance for you to reclaim... no matter how they were taken - in combat, or theft.
  18. 3 points
    A real Sandbox would be the way Epic is played. Freedomers argue that this is a sandbox, that it should be allowrd in the Chaos cluster. The solution should be to separate the clusters. As long as THEIR gameplay is unnafected, who cares? But there is another solution. One that pvers will definetely balk at. Make this game a true sandbox. Enable pvp in thr freedom cluster. That way if someone steals from you, you have the ability to make them pay. It fixes the problem both in Chaos and Freedom. Whats that? No? You dont like others interfering with the way you play? I thought so.
  19. 3 points
  20. 3 points
    +1 Freedom takes everything from Epic, it's about time they gave something back.
  21. 3 points
  22. 3 points
    Completed paving main pathways for now (until the east side of the cavern is levelled down) and decided to make a little video. Pay no heed to the random background music that came with the video software o.o.
  23. 3 points
  24. 2 points
    To be absolutely clear, you can get ANY skill boost you want! Why skill at a 100% when you can skill at 110%?! That's right, with these pizzas, you can boost your every day grinds in any skills you want! I'm offering 10kg pizzas that give 100% ccfp and 8h+ timers from 1 bite! All of these will now be provided at 90ql and beyond for lowest decay rate and best nutrition . Because the timer lasts so long and all you need is 1 bite, you can easily have 10+ of these insights running at all times! Keep these pizzas wrapped in an icy larder or in a magic chest so you don't need new ones in weeks . For new customers I need to send a taste test meal before i complete the order . If possible, switch to the fixed system by going to your character window, right-clicking the body icon and Managing Profile, the option for switching will be at the bottom. Pricing: 30c each Ccfp fillers 90ql+ 2c/kg Wrapping available at 1c for each pizza. This could be you too..
  25. 2 points
    The humble village of Port Catnip on Deliverance is open to new members. Experienced or brand new players are both equally welcome. The deed is owned by myself (Hexd) and right now I am the only active villager. We are however part of an active alliance, so if I am not around there are always others to talk too in the area Port Catnip is a fairly new deed. Aside from a couple of houses we have a warehouse/crafting area which is still a bit of a work in progress. The deed has a nice sized farm, a field of cows and sheep. It also has some horse breeding pens and will be able to provide 5s horses to anyone who would like to join (or help with the breeding!) We have a mine and I am in the process of building a boat cave which will hopefully open up the option to build a nice row of houses/buildings underground as well as an underground docks. Having voice comms (discord) is very nice so you can join in with us when we are doing hunts, rifts or just general banter. Also we are an english speaking group. The deed and the alliance is currently home to PVPers from Chaos as well. So if you are interested or curious about PVP then great. If not then there is absolutely no pressure at all! I'm mostly looking for some buddies to play with when I'm on freedom. However for anyone who is interested joining Port Catnip is a great way to get a foot in the door on the PVP scene. We can always provide you with all the tools and help needed to get you PVP ready. If PVE is your main focus that is great too and I will do whatever I can to help you out. Just let me know what skills you wish to work on and we can get what you need. Right now I have a house that is empty that a player can move straight into. Or if you prefer I can give you a plot of land to build your own (underground or above). Deed is in the SE of Deliverance. On the coast of Dragons Cove. P20 on the in game map. If you are interested drop me a message in-game on hexd. Also accepting forum messages or leave me a post here Feel free to ask all kinds of questions!
  26. 2 points
    Just on the edge of each starter town an old wizened oak tree will appear, what secrets does it hold? You'll have to explore yourself... This weekend we'll be celebrating Midsummer with a special event on Xanadu! The event will start at each starter town and lead to a central location Those who survive the event will receive a special unique event only prize! As this is a unique prize, we'll also have it open to Epic players, simply come through the epic portal, complete the murderhouse event, and receive the prize, then you can log a support ticket for it to be moved to your character on epic You will not need: A horse A boat Combat capabilities Sanity You will need Food Water A sense of humour See you there!
  27. 2 points
    This is no slam on anyone here, including the OP, just something I want to say. Why is it that many hard-core sandbox PVP gamers (I have seen this in dozens of online games) act like rapid dogs protecting their food any time any attempt is made to sensor their actions? An anything-goes mentality in a sandbox game only seems to foster worse forms of betrayal, greed, and degradation the longer it is permitted. Where does it end and to what end does it accomplish? Maybe I just grew up in a different age, but are there really so many people out there who don't give a crap about what they do to others, how they treat others, or what the consequences of their actions are to those they betray/humiliate/destroy (YES, EVEN IN A GAME)? God help us!
  28. 2 points
    June last year = Returners rewards December last year = Christmas gifts Of course there were premium spikes for these. The rest appears to be consistent, so I really don't see your argument.
  29. 2 points
    We separated PvP and Freedom for quite some time after Indy first opened... Wild (chaos) had such a low population after a few years that it was all but impossible to even find another player to fight there. So, they connected it to freedom... and now we are back to the same problem that caused rolf to add home server raiding and lead to the circumstances that created the freedom cluster in the first place... PvP loot is being stored in complete safety on a PvE server Not sure what (if any) the solution could be... just finding it interesting that we have once again come full circle... many of wurm's problems go this way... the solution to problem A causes problem B, and the solution to problem B ends up recreating problem A....
  30. 2 points
    A year ago I would have plus one'd it, but not anymore. There are beautiful items in the world, and sometimes they get lost... get destroyed... stop existing... and there's nothing you can do about it. I think it suits with the (somewhat) harsh nature of Wurm, too. Not everything can be saved, not everything is forever. A rare or PMK wagon you can still repair, improve, keep it on your deed as a marker of someone who has long gone. You can't use it, but it's a relic, a reminder of old times, of people who walked before you. A locked container with the contents will leave you forever wonder what's inside. That's Wurm
  31. 2 points
    Not to worry Wargasm, people are already doing that.
  32. 2 points
  33. 2 points
    So in a game that has masses of alts and encourages them and in some sense relies on them for subs, we're now being told don't use alts for spies? Should mains be used instead? I'm starting to get this picture of pvp on chaos, Team 1 pulls up to an enemy deed, "anyone online guys? no? guess we have to go home then or risk a ban, if there's no one to kill we can't loot anything". Hyperbole...kinda...
  34. 2 points
    Jockll is basically saying that spy warfare should be legit. By that token, he must think what happened to MR (I'm referring to the host of wrongdoings associated with "the MR forum incident") should be legit and not a bannable offense. Do you agree Jockll? You think the (three?) individuals shouldn't have been banned, all those MR players should have lost their accounts?
  35. 2 points
    Come join Pandemonium, Where we kiss our Enemy while fighting. And we also feed and provide Cotton to them just to make them Fight longer
  36. 2 points
    This. Actions like these just drive people away from the game. They can't even retaliate or take their stuff back since the thief can simply slap it on a bunch of alts and never log them in again. I'd rather see Wurm encourage an environment where you can trust each other (as GMs will step in when abuse like this takes place) then that Wurm becomes an environment where you can't trust anybody. The latter isn't any fun to play in. I had a similar back stabbing happen to me in another game, where a guy decided to run off with everything once he was given more power. This guy had been in the alliance for more than SIX years, he always had our back and we always had his. The GMs in that game did nothing and most of the group quit within the next year, because why bother playing in a game which endorces such shitty behavior? So I'm really glad Enki did what he did.
  37. 2 points
    Within the past 4 years I have played this game, I have seen communities come and go, lived in different locations and servers, do this and that... but in my heart I have asked only one thing the whole time; to live on a mutual, active and joyful community, so whenever I log in, there's always someone online (thanks to U.S. folks for being online mostly on my very uncommon playing hours from European point of view!) and always someone that I could talk to. Time passes much smoother in a game, when I have perfect distraction from the hours and hours lasting grind to something wonderful, like discussing daily matters, the game or life in general. I have suffered loneliness greatly in this game, before I found my current community. I never felt any previous locations where I lived as a home, when I felt like something big was missing. I cannot thank NEXA folk enough! And btw, the whole 4 years I have played this game and done some travels and met people, just passing by or participating on same event I am... I always wave! And hug close friends if around Emotes are a great way to impress those basic human interaction methods, where you feel warmly welcome and be noticed by other people. Wish there could be even more emotes, love em!
  38. 2 points
    If higher skilled fishermen (or women) had the ability to catch and stuff fish for decorations, and it was only available to once you reached a certain skill (Lets say 80 in fishing) than you could make a living off fishing just by catching and stuffing fish to hang on walls. If you had the ability to stuff animals from hunting if your butchering skill was at a set point ( I will use 80 again) than hunters could make a living from just hunting. And if certain animals opened up at a certain skill point, wolf at 50 butchering, troll and 90 than I could see making a decent living off a skill set. With a little thought you could in theory make most useless skills useful to make money just by adding decorations for housing assigned to those skills. Mavv
  39. 2 points
    I was a bit annoyed at how things got sorted, a GM should not have gotten involved, although I feel sympathy for those affected, I feel that a new standard has been set for PVP as a whole. If you don't want people taking their gains from chaos to freedom.. then disconnect them, but getting punished for it is a little absurd. The only thing that was abused was the trust of some really good people. Destroying an enemy from within has always been a thing in competitive PVP games, so it was no surprise to me to hear someone got jacked. The goal will always be to plunder, rather you backstab your own, or anybody that comes in between, it's still pvp, is it a low thing to do, yeah it's like a sucker punch.. but sucker punches win fights sometimes, but not everybody agrees with them. The wild does not feel so wild anymore.
  40. 2 points
    Some of us have asked for this over the years and nothing would make us happier. This isn't the old days of Chaos/JKHome/MRHome before Indy.... this is now and now the connection between Chaos and the Freedom Isles is being abused. Close the Gate. Sever the Link. Please. As Erevorn says it's a simple fix, easier than the nightmare to figure out where the loot gotten taken to now.
  41. 2 points
    So just an update, had two awesome new villagers join Port Catnip today! yay! I unfortunately don't have any pre-built houses left for people but with a bit more digging I should have some plots available soon if players are still interested. Doesn't matter if you are brand new or an exisiting player that just wants a change of pace like Alinicon! Nice active alliance, lots of people to chat too. Message me any questions you like and join the fun!
  42. 2 points
    I used to do a lot of deed salvaging and have met every type of person in the process. Some completely agree with the practice and will give you friendly competition, some think it is reprehensible and will try every way to stop you so they can protect their friends stuff. Then there are those who will say they are trying to protect their friends stuff but really just want it for themselves. But your options are the same no matter what type of person you encounter: take anything you can (as long as it's not a bug) and you are allowed to do so. Perimeter over any buildings, fence or house any objects, lead or slaughter animals, do as you please. As long as you don't prevent access to the owner then you are fine. If you want, make a note of what you retrieved so you can pay the owner back when they return, or don't. I wouldn't bother explaining yourself to anyone more than you absolutely have to because everyone is going to have an opinion and none of them can read your heart.
  43. 2 points
    No good deed goes unpunished
  44. 2 points
    ... and that is the exact opposite..
  45. 2 points
    overly dramatic cat (parents feeding toddlers can relate)
  46. 2 points
  47. 2 points
    I just remember my villager saying KFAQL all the time when someone crossed local. KFAQL meant: Kill First Ask Questions Later Good old Affliction 1.0, best time I had in wurm
  48. 2 points
    Date: To be announced (The goal is for June or July.) Indy Funworld is your amusement park, currently under construction. Upon completion of the park a fayre will be held. All the World’s a Stage The stage is set for you to get some friends together or your alliance to perform for your fellow Wurmians. That’s right a two story stage has been built at the park. Part of the fayre will be performances on stage! You can do a scene from a play, a movie or a book or write your own! Recite your favourite poem or any other performance you can think of. And yes, in between plays, puppetering is encouraged. So, form a team and start rehearsing! You will need to supply your own props, scenery and costumes. The stage is available for viewing and rehearsals (no full dress rehearsals yet), but do keep in mind construction is on-going. *For the fayre please keep all material family friendly. Thank you. Comedy Wednesday Wednesday during the fayre will be comedy day! You are encouraged to do stand-up, improv, slap-stick, funny skits or scenes on stage! Show your funny side to Wurm! *For the fayre please keep all material family friendly. Thank you. Jousting Tournament Soon to be built is the jousting arena, so get practicing with your spears on your favourite mount! Whether you ride a 5 speed horse or a crocodile, the jousting arena is the place to show off your skills. If it is ride-able then it will be included in the tournament. Remember entertaining the audience is as important as having your own fun! More announcements will be made closer to the date, but just wanted you to have time to pick a performance and rehearse as well as get your taming and spear skill up! Hope to see you at the fayre!
  49. 2 points
  50. 2 points
    We will remember this. Your rep just dropped to the ground.
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