Pandalet

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  1. Please CoD the following to Pandalet: Carving knife, iron 23.96 quality C98 - 1 silver 35 copper Mallet, oakenwood 43.72 quality C93 - 1 silver 35 copper Pickaxe, iron 50.40 quality C91 - 1 silver 8 copper
  2. -1 - the usefulness of hedges is that they don't decay off-deed. We use them for things like perimeter horse pens - having to keep repairing stone walls is a pain, and hedges look nicer for peripheral stuff anyway. They really aren't that difficult to remove, and they do take a fair bit of resource gathering to create.
  3. I +1 this suggestion every time it comes around, so... +1!
  4. +1, but... When digging clay, if you're on a deed that has allowed digging (so as to provide a public clay pit), if you dig into a pile on the ground, you may not be able to pick up said pile when you're done digging (due to pick up permissions not being set). Or would proximity ownership solve that?
  5. If you can find a reasonably flat strip of surface rock, or even a wall of surface rock with a flattish bit next to it, you can work your way backwards and forwards along it, prospecting each tile as you go. I found that using a 3x10 (roughly) strip of rock, with a 70ish coc pick and SB on, I could get to 20 prospecting in under 30 minutes.
  6. I like that I can browse the auctions inbetween work stuff, through the day. If I had to log in to the game, I would no longer be able to do that. I suspect that many of the people who currently bid on auctions are not logged in to the game when they do so. So -1 from me to moving auctions to in-game, unless there's a way to view and bid from a web browser.
  7. Yes, please! Just logged in for the first time on a new laptop, and got caught out by this.
  8. CoD the santa cap to Pandalet, please.
  9. It is, of course, your choice as a seller to have a reserve, hidden or otherwise. If you have a minimum value you're prepared to accept for your thing, then by all means, set that value as a reserve. Starting bidding at a lower value is also entirely your choice, and I can see how one might do this to stimulate interest. However, if your reserve is hidden, the (potential) buyers have no idea what you want until afterwards, and as you're the only person who knows what your minimum price is, and there's no 'official' trusted third party in place to enforce it, nobody knows whether the value is actually fixed or even whether there is a value at all. As a buyer, I will not bid in auctions with hidden reserves. If the seller wants more than I'm prepared to pay for something, then fair enough, I know I can ignore that sale and move on. I have no problem with people charging whatever they like, but I do object to my time being wasted when I'm making bids in good faith. If you think if you "...put the reserve up people would be put off...", then those people wouldn't have bought your item anyway, so all you really would have done was save them some time and effort by clearly stating what you wanted.
  10. Personally, I'd prefer to link P/R to the Western edges of the old cluster, not Chaos - I'd like to be able to visit, say, Deli or Cele without having to sail across Xanadu or Chaos.
  11. +1, but with a toggle setting so that you could turn it off if you wanted to.
  12. See, the most sensible suggestion so far has been to suspend PvP for a period to run the hunt. And that says to me that treasure hunts, in the current format, only work under PvE rule-sets, and thus should only run on PvE servers. Without wanting to start a they-get-X-so-we-should-have-Y debate, HotA seems to be designed for a PvP environment, treasure hunts seem to be designed for a PvE environment, so keep them in their respective spots. I'm pretty sure the Chaos folks are joining in the hunts on (at least) the close Freedom servers (where many of them live part-time anyway), so it's not like they're completely excluded.
  13. The population density numbers are particularly interesting - despite the numbers playing on it, Xanadu is still the freedom server with the lowest population per area. For new players looking for the server with plenty of easy space to settle in, Xanadu (and Indy, to a lesser degree) is your best bet. On the other hand, if you'd like somewhere with lots of people, and a more settled feel, Deli or Release are for you. Of course these numbers are a rough measurement, since they don't take alts into account, just raw totals. But it's still an interesting confirmation of what folks tend to say when new players ask which server to settle on.
  14. Speaking as someone who has assembled enough scale for a set after the uniques started respawning, I'll say it is possible. It just takes a lot of perseverance to get your name out there as a buyer, a decent amount of folks who are prepared to help by selling thier scraps, and a large pile of cash. I like that the price of bloods is low enough that anyone who seriously wants to imbue a tool can manage it without pumping a ridiculous load of cash in - making bloods drop less would bump up the price, while at the same time removing an occasional windfall from newbies who can at least come and get some stuff they can sell. I would like to see dragons drop a bit more hide, though. The underlying problem for most people is not that people are bringing lots of alts, it's that the game doesn't handle a lot of people in the same place at the same time. I've seen fights where the organiser asked folks to log out alts until the actual fight, and then log them out again afterwards, and that worked well. Ultimately, the current system isn't perfect, but I'm not sure your alternative would be any better.
  15. I'm not going to make it all the way out, but if anyone fancies selling me a scrap of black scale afterwards, drop me a message - enquiring minds want to test it in combination with red scraps
  16. I'm not looking for a lot to start with, any size tiny scrap would be fine. I'll pay 50s/kg.