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Just as a courtesy to players who come after you: if you are moving permanently to another server when Xanadu opens, remember to not only disband any deed you won't be keeping, but also destroy any buildings you will be leaving behind unused. I know those of us who've moved to other servers often have a checklist of things to remember - just wanted to add this to it.

Trying to decide is Chaos really full of weekend warriors or are they just looking for a faster route to hunt dragons? Maybe I should do a poll.

Greetings RedBaron, Apologies if this message is outside of the precedent or correct procedure, however I would hugely appreciate your attention for the following brief paragraph. As the bonafide Public Relations Officer I would hope you count this as community relations engagement. I would turn your attention to the Week 22 announcement and Xanadu release notes. As you browse through you will note a growing dismay and indeed, in some cases, down right outcry, from a large number of chaos players. Firstly I would like to state we are under represented on the forum as a hole, but that is a separate matter. The highlights being: · This move isolated Choas heavily and threatens its already fragile wellbeing (Celebration too has been mentioned as potentially suffering). · It converts Choas into a fringe server from which we have had no interaction and engagement upon. · The majority of Choas players posting would like to be engaged with by the team with the means to establish whether or not a Westerly connection to P&R is possible, creating a ‘round world’ solution to the above. · This is the last straw in a string of decisions stemming from Choas being added to Freedom in the first place which has seen us struggle to keep our server relevant and populated (numbers are inflated by part-timers who reside on Freedom elsewhere. · Player population is already stretching thin, a new shiny server will surely be detrimental to the fringe servers based on previous precedent set by the Freedom isles expansion. I don’t want this to turn into a flaming comment war and we dont want it to seem like we are dismissing the thread outright – but this is chicken egg, if we don’t raise a voice we wont be heard, if we do we get criticized for flaming or expressing over the top alarm at the recent progress. Please, all we ask is to be accounted, listened to and engaged with – we risk losing more than we gain here. We are not against progress, and encourage it. We just feel like again, we have been overlooked. Yours Sincerely, A member of the Chaos community Discussed Topic: http://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/102547-news-update-work-and-progress-week-22/#entry1039534 Reading Posters - this is an open letter - Thoughts from Chaos players would be appreciated - none Chaos players please respect our plea.

Hello Fellow Wurmians! Yes, I am a day early again but once more we have one of those lovely red days coming up here in Sweden. Maybe you do to? In any case, we will be disclosing some further information about the release today. For those who were wondering what I meant in last weeks post with “there will be some information related to Xanaduâ€. I was referring to the Pristine and Release vote about connecting to Xanadu and further hints at how the older Islands was going to be connected. Not to worry, there will be plenty more information this week and I will also be revealing the results of the P & R vote. Pristine and release vote, Connect to Xanadu? First of, only the premium accounts on Pristine and Release were allowed to vote in this specific poll and the turnout was great. Out of just over 1000 premium accounts on these servers 801 cast their votes on the topic. That is around 80% attentiveness which dwarfs the Swedish elections for the European parliament were we only had 50% casting their votes. Way to show us up Wurmians! So the results are in and they are quite clear: At a whopping 85% saying Yes to the question, P & R are looking positively at this chance to connect to Xanadu and through that, the old cluster. So I will delay the response from the Devs no further. -â€With this clear majority of votes cast in favor of the suggestion, we are going ahead and connecting P & R to Xanadu at the same time as all other Freedom Islands.†It is a big day indeed as this subject has been through many debates over a long period of time. But we are finally at the point where the big majority is ready to experience one awesomely huge unified Freedom Cluster! More information will follow on locations under the topic of Xanadu. Xanadu Less than one week remains until the release of Xanadu is finally upon us! For any who has missed this, the date is set for June 3rd. With the last preparations being done there are some things we would like to share with you. Concerning spawning the uniques, which if that was not already clear, is going to be across all of the current Islands, including epic as well as Xanadu. I was hinting before that loot will be handled in a different way from now and whilst we still want to keep this as a surprise. Let us at least burst the bubble on the dragons. As many are preparing for a big hunting party to kill the dragons for their huge drops of crafting materials for the highly sought after and prized dragon armor. Currently the market as we see it is in balance and we do not want to further push towards the armor becoming to standardized. For that matter making the other armors increasingly redundant. So, the dragons will drop a lot less of the materials needed to craft the armor. Only one hide/scale will be produced and the weight will depend on success of another butchering check. Aim being that we want to keep the market around the same quantity of dragon armor. Therefore supplying only enough material so that the armors that naturally disappear due to decay and such will be replaced. In lines with this I would further want to hint that instead, the uniques will start dropping materials that can be used to improve items. This is to better be able to compete with the dragon armor. Making them all more valuable and viable once more. That however, and how it will further expand, will be the part you can explore for yourself and we are quite certain many will enjoy! How we will handle teleporting to Xanadu and Tutorial? We are expecting plenty of new players and traffic to Golden Valley once we kick off the campaign and open the gates. So as a precaution, we are preparing in several ways. First of all we are building multiple locations on GV which will be selected at random to spread out spawns. They will be used as the initial landing zone for all new accounts. They are very basic with one unified portal for choosing whichever server you want to spawn on and one portal that takes you to the new tutorial area. If someone, (there is always someone), has already created a new account and finished the current tutorial area. Standing there at the end merely awaiting the release in front of the current portals. We will provide a new portal for this area as well. While you are at it, why not give a wave goodbye to this old place because after this, it will be but a memory. And finally, given its size, Xanadu is going to be prepared with several spawn points which you can choose from. Locations will not be revealed ahead of release. When will other Islands get connected? Our estimate is at the very least one week after the initial release pending traffic and unforeseen circumstances needed to be taken into account. Players on the Epic cluster are not going to be able to use portals to get there before the general connect. Positioning of the other Islands in relation to Xanadu? Click Image for a Larger Version As you can see from this picture, all islands will keep their current positioning in relation to each other. With Xanadu popping up between them and P & R on the world map it will be pushing everything further to the sides. This is how you will be able to reach Xanadu once it is connected. It is but a temporary map when it comes to the traveling routes being displayed as upon release nothing will be connected to Xanadu. We still keep reservations for unforeseen needs arising during the LandRush event however. Traders on Xanadu? As we have said previously the traders are going to change on Xanadu. Most probably they will have a type of trading ratio that will log how much they are being used. For example how many unique premium accounts that sold and bought to them. This will be the basis for the measure of how much currency they will receive from the crown to be able to buy more items. We are still coding the feature so more information will follow later. It is uncertain whether existing trader contracts will be possible to use on Xanadu so don’t stock up on them. I know, I know, you still have many questions on the specifics of so many things. But finally, so much more information right! At least there is no big conspiracies, maybe just these rumored to be highly fluffy and absorbent sheep. But putting that aside, lets all get hyped and Keep on Wurming!

+1 North Chaos = Independence West Chaos = Pristine or Release (apparently it can only be one or the other) South Chaos = Celebration or Exo (see above) Southern Cele = Independence (and vice versa) doo eet ;D Maybe it's just me but I don't care much for the perceived 'immersion' that sailing provides; I don't understand why we can't just easily sail between all servers with minimal time - it would certainly encourage traveling and trading with players. Chaos players will be severely discouraged from venturing to Xanadu if it's going to take them 10 hours to sail back in the event that their kingdom requires them for defending or attacking. This layout just makes Deliverance the center of everything by requiring you to sail through it if you want to visit most servers lol; if in a few years we have a big impalong or some other event will Deliverance be able to handle a thousand players crossing through it over the span of a few hours? What if Deliverance crashes - it would hypothetically render most server travel impossible correct?

Yes, sadly its the smell that drives them away... Have you ever tried to wash these new uniforms! It's dry clean only and they are riveted and forge welded on! Nice work Rosedragon.

Some people consider Indy to be Wurm's best map. Not that we need another server, but since we're getting one, I am happy to see rugged topography on the new map. If you want to play on a flat server, you have five others to choose from.

i think there is too many wurmtongues whispering in rolfs ear about drake and dragon armor... people making money on the side. To be honest it would be better to make drakehide imp with drakehead. Either that or drop it regularly. why should an armor that has distinct advantages (lightweight,resistances,etc) be limited to a select few people in the game is that really what wurm is about seperating the haves and havenots? I thought mmos were about everyone having the same opportunities in game? What happened to immersion? when someone has to pay $$ outside the game for some special armor to compete that is not balanced. Think of the future of the game.

Chaos isn't actually moving, it's staying in the exact same location as it's always been. The addition of Xanadu doesn't change how the existing connections work, or marginalize Chaos. It may make it difficult for people from Release or Pristine to get to Chaos, but they haven't had any access to Chaos up to this point, so the fact that it's a bit difficult doesn't mean it won't happen.... I really don't see what the uproar is about.

what irritates me the most about the way servers are connected on that map, is that it once was indie beeing the "middle" of everything and now it seems they want to change it to xanadu, but not use it in its full potential? how about making xanadu the real central server, putting Chaos west of it, with a connection north for indie and south for deliverance, then put Deliverance, Exodus and Celebration besides each other on the bottom of xanadu, exodus beeing the main server beeing connected back and forth with xanadu to its north, while deliverance and celebration are mainly connected to exodus it would be like this: <----->Independence<-------------------> / | | Chaos <------> Xanadu<------------------>Pristine | | | Deliverance<->Exodus<->Celebration<->Release could even add one way paths from deliverance, celebration and release to xanadu

I still think those who WANT to pvp will get to chaos regardless of where it is and the idea of having Chaos as a 'risky shortcut' for pvers wanting to deliver across borders isn't a good idea, we should all live in harmony together and at the same time, out of each others way round world +1 Chaos being in the way of other servers -1 Chaos being readily accessible to/from all servers +1 Now how ^ that is done will be left to those smarter than myself xD

You know me, Becket, and I'm sort of one of the "weekend warriors" (although my "weekends" tend to turn into weeks). Just from my personal circle of friends, I can attest that there are a lot who split their time between Chaos and the other servers, and don't care about dragons. Anyway, for me, the issue is less about inconvenience or fairness to Chaos-based players sailing over to Freedom (especially since most of the part-time carebears have bases near the Chaos border already) but rather the newer players who will surely be dropped by default on the other side of the world, and sort of get scrod if they decide they'd like to give Chaos a go. Then, there's sailing trade between servers, which is already so time-consuming it puts many off... There just has to be a better way. Connecting Chaos to the east side of P&R would give the folks living over there the same access to Chaos as the folks on the older server, as well as providing an alternative - albeit risky - route for travel. I would never suggest forcing people to sail across Chaos to get from one PvE server to another, but giving folks the additional option seems fair to me.

I have to completely agree, if there is any other topic that has be brought up time and time again, when dealing with Chaos, its how we are connected. For the only PvP server on the freedom cluster, I find it rather peculiar that this issue hasn't been addressed. It has been several years, and every time I see a server released, I think... maybe he will bother to fix the other borders.... maybe... but year after year server after server I just see it ignored. We have asked the developers TIME and TIME again to help us with that issue, and its just so frustrating and limiting to the growth and demographics to only have one border we can effectively use to travel. The fact that we can only travel on one side of the server, affects almost every aspect of the server's growth, where PMKs can go, etc. PvP is part of the MMO world, the developers need to face the fact that new gamers, especially ones that will be finding out about this game from steam will expect to try out the PvP side of Wurm, eventually, most will likely go to Epic, but the ones that want to convert their PvE experience to PvP should be part of something that is just as connected as Xandu. Wurm is a sandbox expression of duality, you have gamers that like the survival experience, and ones that like the feelings of risk associated with PvP. Totally ignoring that part of the game and turning Chaos into a distant backwater, and isolating the population that lives on the west side of the server is not only a bad business model, ignoring all those players but also builds a lot of resentment Please, I strongly urge the development team look for solutions here, and ask the players what they want, or better yet look at the multiple topics on new connection maps, and many brilliant player solutions that have already been proposed, voted on in multiple polls, and then ignored.

OP please listen - all Wurm GM's and development team please listen! Look at the amount of likes and support the chaos posters are receiving. This move totally alienates us - would connecting the west coast up to P&R really be that much of a challenge? They have already agreed to being linked to Freedom Isles. Allow us the same privilege - allow us to remain relevant!

If you are planning on making it so you have to imp drake armour with drake hide forget it, its already hard enough imping it with leather. Certainly a change i don't want in for freedom and chaos!

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Love the update, some great stuff. However it does seem to me that Celebration and Chaos are the poor relations. It seems like you can go from Celebration to Xanadu but not back the other way unless you go back to Deliverance from Xanadu then sail south through Exodus. So it will take 5 minutes to sail to Xanadu and hours to get back. No other server do you have to sail back via 2 other servers to get home except Celebration. As for Chaos, I don't play it anymore but it does seem to be in the worst location. On balance this looks great but I really wish a better server crossing solution could be found like having a choice which server you cross to when crossing.

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For the right price, sure. If it's worth doing, great. If it's not, don't.

Once upon a time, I was a subscriber to the idea that the persistence and patience with all the frustrating and time-consuming things in Wurm were necessary, and that anyone who "REALLY WANTS" to do do something will do it, no matter how long it takes. Then I got a full time job. Now, I know there are plenty of people in Wurm who work full time and manage to play (I know some of you play AT work, even ). But how many are able to play in dedicated 6-8+ hour stretches? Because that's how long it takes to sail across 4 of the 8x8 servers. That is a looooong time to do nothing, in any game.

As far as I'm concerned, I would rather want Chaos be phased out, or moved to the epic cluster. I don't really see the point of making the world round - where should the world expand once N and S of Xanadu is occupied?

I wish traveling by boat would be different, instead of using set connections between servers, why not offer the player a list of islands to choose from once he/she gets to the border of their current server. This way you can directly go from any one server to any other server. It's one big ocean after all, with all islands having the same general climate, so their location in relation to each other doesn't matter much. Of course to prevent abuse, if you leave a sever then this server should remember which border/location you used to leave it. When you return to that server then you should always return to that location, this way you can't abuse it to quickly get from one border to another in the same server. If you travel to a server to which you've never been before then you could arrive randomly at one of the four borders. I think this would be a big improvement to the sailing system, and it scales perfectly with more servers, while the current system really doesn't scale that well. Interestingly enough the current system also seems to have shortcut issues. According to the map given by Rolf, if you are on Celebration or Exodus and you want to go to Independence, then you could first go to Xanadu, then immediately turn 180 degrees and cross the border again, arriving in Deliverance. From there you can go to Indy. This is much faster than currently traveling straight north and you'd be in Xanadu for only a minute or so. This is my main issue with the current design of the travel system, the more servers you add the more of this stuff you get, but if you use a system where you can travel from any server to any other server then such shortcuts aren't a factor as you can travel directly to your target server.

I give a very big +1 to a "round" world arrangement. In addition to the implications of the current (planned) layout for Chaos players - what about those on Pristine & Release who have been itching to try PvP with these characters they've been working on for more than a year?

+1 In general I feel that Chaos as a PvP server would be more balanced for all kingdoms if every border had a connection to other servers; currently only JK and MR have easy access to Freedom; it would promote additional kingdoms sprouting up on Chaos if the northern border (Ebonaura) and southern border (Black Legion) had connections to Freedom also; it would also discourage the current meta where most 'strong' villages are either relocating or settling on the eastern coast of Chaos (spreading the population out makes for better PvP as you don't have a huge response squad up in your face immediately) One other slightly unrelated concern is it looks to me like Deliverence is going to be one massive point of failure as in the event it crashes a huge portion of travel will suddenly become impossible. Basically if Deli goes down the only 2 way travel is Release>Pristine and Exo>Cele - what will happen if a impalong is hosted? We have something like 6,000 players - will Deliverance really be able to handle 500+ players online at once which is surely going to happen if there was a big event? If we must have this map layout where it takes probably 10 hours to go from one side to the other how would people feel about being able to use Epic portals to go from any server in the Freedom cluster to Chaos? Of-course it would allow you to carry all of your items however. That way it removes alot of risk and hopefully would bring more people to Chaos - if PvP happens just use a portal and your back on Chaos in a few seconds ready to join in; I'm hoping this might encourage more Freedom players to try Chaos too - as an example a bunch of Freedom players could port to Hunter's Lodge when HoTA is active and immediately join in the hota; win or lose they could be back on Freedom in a hour and have not been stranded since their boat got stolen or had to sail for hours and hours. Just make it fun and easy for people to get around; who cares about realism or whatever else the goal with sailing is.

+1 for making it round.

I honestly don't think Chaos will suffer from this. If people really want to visit Chaos, they will do so regardless of the server location. But 1+ to making the world ''round''. Perhaps put the servers more into a square instead of a line.

I have moved Drowsy Hollow from Y30,X25 It is now at Y31,X23.... I noticed the map says Hillside Village there.. but all I found where a few pavings and no other signs of it... must have disbanded a while ago

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Yay! So happy! First time I win a contest! Thanks everyone! And congrats to everybody who sent a submission because there have been lots of awesome jobs and ideas, I hope you keep up the good work, the lands of Wurm will surely benefit from your great skills!

So.... Chaos is getting screwed over again... why? Also the dragon drop thing sounds dumb.

I'm done with this crap. Translation: Our buddies here at code club which are Volunteers or their friends haven't made enough money out of the game yet, so its not quite ready to change. Are you even aware at how freaking overpriced the items are? 100€ or 1 Gold or more? That's the equivalent of 10 months premium money YOU'LL NEVER SEE, or do you think even if they're paying for it in gold they'll buy the gold from you? Wake up ffs.

Controversies aside just wanted to say ... Welcome to the world P/R!

A lot of us on Celebration are aware that our server is already in poor economic shape, and this new server will end any hopes in recovering. With that in mind we have been preparing for this move for quite a while. However, Nobody that I've spoken to is going to spend another cent to create a prem alt for this Cashrush Event. We will wait it out, And sail over as we please, With no unnecessary expenses. The traders and dragon changes seem fine to me. But then I have no plans to buy, Or use another trader. So I really wouldn't know. Overall, The size of the server is a major disappointment. I can only imagine that animals will be very hard to find, Because you never solved that problem on Indy, So I expect nothing more on this server. Then you jaded the existing players even more, By making us wait a week to go to Xanadu in hopes that you can boost your income with new prem alts, And megadeeds. If you really need people to spend money that badly that your willing to lose your existing players, Then you should add items to the traders that are worth buying, And lower those rediculously high prices you have items set to now. The fact is that we will buy new settlement forms, And we will pay our prem one way or the other. But to be treated as second class because we already support this game is maddening. I don't even want to think about how the players on chaos feel about their placement in the world, From what I've read, It isn't good. A smart move would have been to make the players feel that their best interests were the priority, And that you understand that this game has no working economy! And that this is a move to fix that problem. But instead you make the same tired old mistakes you always make. You spread players even thinner, While you take in whatever cash you can squeeze out of people, Instead of making the game more enjoyable to existing players, Which is your number one source of advertising for this game. I'm to the point that I don't even know what to say anymore.

Xanadu's not looking so big or exciting anymore ..

Lotus Landing Mailbox now has a 99 courier cast on its mail box, yay me!

There are some new deed role privilige settings on the test server including attach lock, think that should address the issue.

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+1

This means you're not working...well... playing () hard enough.

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Desertion is the best map IMO. The rest of the Epic maps suck. Also Kegan, you are not entirely correct. Drake and plate have the same damage reduction at a given quality. The differences are as follows: > Plate glances arrows like toothpicks hitting a tank, while drake lets a lot of arrows past. Even if you manage to get a hit past someone's shield (which isn't very likely unless they have low skill, are facing away, and/or are out of stamina), it will most likely glance on plate, but it will probably still do some damage through drake. > Drake is much lighter than plate and has less of a hardcoded speed penalty. This alone is why most people prefer drake over plate. > The drake cap does not protect the face, while the great helm and basinet helm do protect the face. Scale is superior to drake and scale and is the same as adamantine plate in terms of damage reduction, while seryll plate and glimmersteel plate have the highest damage reduction of any armor in the game.

Thank you!

Uhm why do I feel that chaos is getting blue balls ? Couldn't you guys connect us to xanadu too ? Everyone's connected to Xanadu, except from us.

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-1 I think you guys have enough time to get "vengeance" when you are on land no need taking the only hope freedom players have of escaping their mistake of getting to close to the border and getting them killed.

The real problem here is the fact that some random person can come on your deed and put a lock on your property to start with. The never ending mantra in chat and on forums is "Deed it or Lose it" and yet when you deed it you still have no more protection for your property than an undeeded house. Making me have to lock all the bsb's on my deed is stupid, on deed bsb's should be protected without a lock. Needs to be some sort of permissions or ownership tied to on deed bsb's. At the very least they should fall under the setting for picking up items on the ground.

We had no enclosure rule 2 years ago and we were fine... Honestly, we will be fine now. There are a few asshats that will take advantage and grief people, but for the most part people will follow the "play nice" rule.

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