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New: Emails will be sent to deed mayors when upkeep falls below 30 days and again when it falls below 7 days. Change: Decorative items in containers and placed on other items should no longer decay. Due to the situation with Xanadu not receiving the 5 hours sleep bonus after the rollback, we will be providing all servers with 10 hours sleep bonus during the regular restart on the 14th of November. Bugfix: Fixed a bug where some items made before the signature update didn’t actually show the signatures when over 20 quality. Bugfix: The volume of measuring jugs can be adjusted while the jug is in inventory or in an inventory subgroup. It cannot be adjusted if the jug is inside a container. Bugfix: Hitching posts can now be placed and turned when not planted. Bugfix: Fixed an issue where relatively new traders failed to have merchant and trader contracts in their inventory for sale. Bugfix: Fixed the issue with some decorations and light sources not getting heating to glowing in a fire source. Bugfix: Change stone shards’ description to match the name. Bugfix: Fixed blue terrain on certain settings Bugfix: Fixed some of the excessive shininess

I'm sure they'll be ecstatic to try out a new version of wurm after they learn that CodeClub abandoned the previous version of the same game that's already on steam lol

Sleep bonus hard cap is at 10h. The journal cap refers to the bonus you can gain yourself, the soft cap, which is at 5h by default.

It's not just bugs, Rolf clearly promised that money coming from WU will be used to develop both games and now they decided to break that promise after they have the money...

The games are different but what people look for is the attitude of the company behind it. If you abandon a product on Steam when the player base doesn't agree it's done and finished, they will get mad (justifiably so) and they will loudly let everyone know who gets near any of your other products.

Yeah, I figured as much. Especially with 1 post. Still said what was on my mind though.

holy text wall 😱 --edit actually looks a lot better in https://wordcounter.net/

There's nothing here "exceeding every normal graphical limitation". We work through performance issues and client updates very often contain optimization fixes. Ambient Occlusion is a post-process effect that's independent of scene complexity. There's zero difference in how it works in a populated area or the test server, which is why the screenshots were done there. For changes that actually can affect the performance in populated deeds and player gatherings we do testing on live servers, such as the recent player armor normalmap additions. It was the same case with introducing the modern renderer - big point of that was that it's a deferred rendering engine, and that makes lighting independent of scene complexity, and as such intended to scale well with complex situations. There were certain performance issues at the start but now on most configurations it's much better than Legacy, and even takes advantage of geometry instancing for the many-things-in-local situations. I can see that you have no clue what you're talking about, but yet you keep trying to slight the dev team at every opportunity and I'd really appreciate if you at least tried to include some facts there, instead of very wild guesses on how stuff works.

As a new player to the game this village has been so very helpful! I am a Citizen, now, of Camara Hub and proud to be so, come join us and help build something :)

I gather they were discontinued as people were abusing the no/reduced decay feature, but we don't need them to have that feature. It's just super nice to give people seasonal, birthday, thank you and 'just because' gifts and fosters community - and the giftwrap was a nice presentation feature that encouraged that. Would be nice to have them to use for what they were originally intended.

It's taken me a couple of years to feel like this post is ok. so im writing it. I wrote most of these in my 20's and 30's and half of them through some very truly trying times (guitar woulda been more constructive), they turn a little dark toward the end but are not yet in any specific order. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Woodwhispers-genuine-poetry-Steve-Brooks/dp/1484891643 - it's sold very few copies and i have never marketed myself, but it's done. which is good... a 2nd edition will be required. i've edited a good few crappy ones out. I'm not in the turmoil i was so production has dropped. The first one is newer and not in the book. ⠀ Singularity Intelligence is one entity the young call it god. the proud, call it genius. our genius calls it love. -------------------------------------------- From the book; Womankind A womans body isn't square amazing grace, i do declare It flows and weaves around itself as short as Halfling, high as Elf As my lustful feelings grow the yearning hope that i may show my love for it, the female form a giving spirit, a playful pawn For truly lustful feelings know that they are one yet seem to show themselves to be the greatest force fear not, they're not, it's love, of course. My love for it, the female form Grows with every, waking dawn. Life as a Bee Fresh sprung breezes through the fray Is this happy summers day a day of joy a day of light a walking romance through the park The tide it turns as often do the silent echo strong and true A shadow born beneath the clouds its thunder roar a sacred sound. The Devils echo a dark embrace clouds all the sunlight from this place. The storm it wanes the storm it dies and soon the storm doth turn to ice A frozen floodland in the dark a frozen rotting pregnant lark A silent whisper, a laugh it sounds seems to rumble from the ground. the air is thick yet cold as ice your heart you feel it chunder twice What is this darkness, spirit and glow that fills these cavern walls so slow Again you hear a whispered laugh it travels through the rocks it harks `your mine you know, I'll fill your mind, with all the searing pain and sound a thousand nightmares strong and true I'll fill your mind with stick fast glue' And so my nightmare tale doth end of happiness when it offends the forces of the powers-be when darkness calls, life as a bee. Knowmenot Haunting issues of days gone by, the fleeting dreams of a firefly to whom he knows and does partake might echo true upon thy wake Great sunder song streak through the air until a time he cries beware if mercy be unto the self the dreamer shouts `just be yourself!` Know me not and cry you will should truth benign become your still soon ashes turn thy deeds to dust upon the dreams, our wonderlust. The Sacrifice of Love Wondering silent in the dark, I feel my quiet beating heart It pulls me to the blinding light, towards the fire of lifes spun might For it knows the wounds it brings, all the breaking heartfelt things My body follows, mind and all, preparing itself for another fall Because one day there might just be, a point to this, the crazy spree Towards the light, towards the fall, towards the glory, heart, and all Homes Echo A place i dream, or so it seems An echo of a past so real a glory lost and found, i feel I've lost my way, or so they say, the test of truth is everyday. So as I wonder, lost and found an echo of a past laid down I feel it's guide, I follow through an echo of a past so true. Waterlife A flowing stream, a river too, never did they seem so blue To watch the life go flowing by, a tide and eddy, a firefly. Against the rocks it navigates, the silent song appreciates So carried through the pebbles be, towards the deepest ocean sea. Life's a macro, life's a dream, life's a steady, flowing stream. DayDreaming Running naked through the tree's, chasing whispers in the breeze Hard to catch, they fly away, then come back another day Soon you'll learn the whispers do, that in fact they come from you Some may think they lead astray others know, they live and play Chasing whispers in the breeze, running naked, through the trees. The Fire Within (sol) Breathe in hard, flame in the sky For one day we all die Enveloped by your plasmic death Your viscous coil of dragons breath Life's eternal, life's a ploy life's a fiery flame of broil A marriage to the sun we make So that we never all forsake The truth to it the chaos soul That which resides within us all Life goes On I sit and sigh, I contemplate How to follow through and take That which i need that which i know A saddened story, to and thro The morning sun, I hark , it comes To change the fear of nothing near And then I dream I contemplate The future of this hurtful fate I sit and sigh, the story goes By a tree as it unfolds I look to nature yet again For inspiration, love and pain And as it comes, can't help but wish I'de swap it all for a love sprung kiss Natural High The sun is shining no rain in the sky It makes me want to leap and to fly Fresh breeze from the sea laps at my face How proud I'm to be of the human race Such levels of beauty my eyes can see Such levels of nature and harmony The tree sways in the breeze reminding me so How energy gently moves to and thro The only thing missin is you by my side But I'll count my chickens while ime still alive The sun is shining, no rain in the sky Soft silent whispers a natural high. Evolutions Conquest Dragon true and dragon fair Dragon whispers through the air Searching waiting lost in time To find the one that I call mine he searches here, he searches there He searches bleedin everywhere A host that holds his long lost love He finds one true then see's a mob He does Flee, a romantic soul, driven by the one he holds He looks again, through the blue, searching for his kindred true The journey's hard, reward is small Until one day he takes a fall Enough he shouts, enough i say! I cannot stand another day Into the next life he doth go To try again, to and thro Eternal is his kindred search Because without her, life just hurts Island of Storm My heart it bleeds a lonely shell My life it seems a quiet hell The next wave comes, of ###### and strife It sullens the pain and feeds it thrice Until the waves they calm and bleed The pain returns 10 fold to me What is my problem, my heart it aches To end this hell how do I break. Patience of Faith Soon if death should greet me blind I pray one day I'll surely find The reason for the ######-upness of life and lack of tenderness. Tiring futile ###### and strife All these things they make up life. Servitude no gain lest spent and even then its money lent Compassion is a futile force except for the ones u help, of course If giving leads me to short years with suicide my only tears Then I'll recharge in death and so, Receive my love in time i know. Paingivers Blinding blizzard stupid farts They toss and play with peoples hearts Its just not funny, a game they play reaching out for , a different day now and again they find a soul a juicy morsel and to and thro Its love they use as finger thus to stretch and strain its holy lust Vampiric bastards one and all They find great delight in divine fall. The Force of Leaves Waving sea of lands lost true regret unfound and force unto how weave we not to seek the day that finds the one within the fray I hear the sound of long lost love I see the sight of truth above to temper these the force of leaves how whisper they throughout the breeze Unnamed Hope and fire of wings unsung grace of breeze and truth undone hopeless fight and swing of fate how they make my body ache In this dark place hell does scorn In the lightning fire is born Soon the sun will shine for thee as the shocking crime does plea Turning of Age Sunlet cometh so does rain they bring and spread their light again the hope of justice the hope of pride the hope of circumstance aside How wonder yee through fire and flame to earn the truth and sacred gain. My feelings complex straight aside my hopes and dreams may not collide belief replace the strength of trust,in truth it all could turn to dust. Silent Hope Skies of colours wisps of air a night of beauty and sweet declare My dreams afloat my worries lost My home doth harketh through the lust Soft whispers true to form collide how spoken thee until they glide through magnet green and purple too Oh how they whisper straight to you Sadness True Screams of sadness silent sung a dark moon rising, come undone the pain of love, the pain of hate oh how i leave it in my wake it follows through, not far behind, a quiet whimper, a truth benign to stop and feel, invites it true, unto it drives a pitchfork through I hope one day, emotion strong, I'll find salvation within my song If i survive my heartache through my silent screams, my sadness true Hunter Kin Learn in life u can't trust fate Can't trust people the holes they make There be some truekin folk u know They weave themselves based on the glow But qualified am i, im not To find these folk throughout the plot Cus faith and trust belongs not so, hastily given and hastily thrown Tha MOON We like tha moon cus it is green through our eyes that cant see too keen It mad and green and silent song We hear it all night and day long We like tha moon cus it is real We have our cakes and with sum tea we see tha moon in our green cups and it gets bigger as we sup Not too big no cus heads will roll It fall from sky and make us old Cus we need moon to congregate our madcap feelins and mistakes Two True I feel i need to sacrifice this terrible thing that they call life The toss and turn of hearts true ache That makes me feel that im awake The struth and strife the fear and shake the saddened tale the story's fake yet live it we can feel it so It mocks us true beneath our glow So if you think the song unsung then listen closely , it's just begun To Be a Man To be a man is quite unknown How to rule this earthly throne Not many men, i fear do know What it is to rule this throne i know A macho man with hard spiked hair Will run from virtue hard and fair Honour, truth and fairness just To swallow pride and loose his lust There's many things a man must know That make him male that make him so The path I choose, the image I take May seem effeminate, to fools I make A truth beknown to me, I say To be a man takes many a day It's not enough to lust and drool To chase your pride around a fool Discipline, honour, strength and trust Much what I hold higher than lust. A macho man, a townie lad Aren't men to me, and I'm so glad That with the pain I tolerate that I am man i think they hate The strength I get from all due pain To be a man, to smile again. The Yearning Whisper softly in the dark, feel the silent, beating heart Let it grow within your chest, cushioned softly, in your nest If yearning impulse you do feel, then stress ye not, cus time will heal Because one day you'll find so true, a love that's tender, just for you As the river yearns for rain, to bring new life, to live again

When the metal characteristics change went live, people with nice rare/supreme weapons probably felt a little short changed now their great iron weapons were now inferior (to most people) than their silver counterparts. I think it's pretty fair to offer players a way to change metal type of an item, one way or another. I have so many rare/supreme items I don't want to give up that I'd KILL to turn them to silver metal type. Perhaps it could be done using transmutation liquids? Maybe a rune? Maybe a paid trader item? If you use transmutation liquid or rune, you could allow it to do a random roll for common metal types. If it's a paid item, give the choice for metal type.

I couldn't agree with you more if I tried. WU is where things are tried and experimented upon. WO is rigid in comparison.

Nope, going to be gone for good now. Saving money up for Uni, this should fetch something to start off.

Ok, in this case I misunderstood you, my apologies. And I agree so far that a too weak server could pose a problem on steam when the one server of the game each for PvE/PvP is overrun especially with hundreds or more of "free" players in the beginning. Maybe the steam move should offer an "open beta phase" or so that the team can learn and adapt as well especially in case the steam move shows promise for a success. Players are ways more tolerant in beta settings where they simply expect things going wrong and being subject of change. I can't say much about, could well be that way.

Don't do it, Drid! You've already sold him and bought him back once...

Maybe yes, but mostly wu is free once you've done the initial investment to buy it.. not to mention the 1$ copies that make the game 'absolutely free'. That's the main reason players prefer wu, mods and kiddy stuff sure.. they love the gps. 'qols' and other metas. Problem of wurm is that it does not want to be a business and to make money.. it's not like it can't be all that.

It would be nice to give gifts all year round. Different people celebrate different things. Perhaps with a reduced decay, so they will decay if not opened in a couple of weeks Perhaps decay will be initially just on the wrapping, so once that comes off, the item that was inside decays as normal. A few months ago, I found some very old wrapped gift boxes on my deed that were not addressed to anyone, and had great fun opening them and seeing what they were. I think there should be more of this kind of spontaneous fun at unexpected times throughout the year.

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It's not me or Devil...like how that person had to pick a similar name... I played Wurm since 2013 sure there is alot that has changed and that will change and alot that could be improved and hopefully will be improved but I don't get that huge post...it don't matter what year you were born (no offense) or whoever else was born...there are still the odd players who has been here since 10 year's + that this game exist and I'm not going on Steam once it's out there... I play while I work it gives me something to do between call's and when it's down it sucks because I don't know what to do until the game is back up...I'll be here until the game dies more than likely because I can't see me stop playing anytime soon!!!

Xanadu will also receive the 5 hours when the servers come back from this update.

i was born in 78, you do not speak for me. its the most common mistake people make, that they think that what they believe or are convinced by is shared among everyone that shares a some characteristic like age, social background etc. I completely disagree with almost everything you posted. i want RMT completely removed from this game and the game made easier and faster.

Thank you all for participating in the first ever Requiem Treasure Hunt!! What a turnout!!! We cannot wait to come up with bigger and better adventures for all of you. If you have any ideas or suggestions for things you'd like to see for the next Treasure Hunt, feel free to let us know. Enjoy that treasure! 💰💎

What to do on Wurm. I was once told by a village member to do what I enjoy. What to do? Some tasks on wurm require time between them to gain skill. Lockpicking and prayer can only have skill gain after a time delay. So I am finding out one must have routine. Much like a real life simulator you would not eat breakfast all day. Same with Wurm. One would not pray all day, maybe but one would be crazy. So routine is key. Log on do a few things. Pray, pick a lock and eat breakfast. I am sure there are other tasks that should be done on routine. As a simulator the game just gets better and better. I love Wurm for its depth and realism.

No, and i'd say it's probably worse. Asking players to invest time and money into an MMO and then starting by abandoning a different version of that game (and on the same platform) is not a good marketing strategy i think.

What is it? The Camara Hub is a brand new deed, part of the Uncanny Legion Alliance, located West of Celebration. It was founded 15/10/2019. Population: 3. Who are we looking for? We are looking for people that would like to join so that we can be reasonably self-sustaining. We have close to nothing yet except some help from a deed of the Alliance located nearby so you have to want to start from scratch. I will put an emphasis on teamwork as the goal is to create a small tight-knit community rather than a big village. Interested? Send me a message through the forum or directly in game, ign: Minstaer. 20/10/2019 update We now have 3 members as things start to get going. We're still recruiting.

Lovely read.

Thank you! that is the kind of posts i'd like to see here. and Thank you for taking the time to actually read all that and consider and post. I understand your point of view and respect that.

I deeded a piece of land and there is this horse hitched to a cart..... Pinkiehalt being cared for by Svokson. The cart owner is Filjose. Does anyone know of either of them so they can move the cart or even unhitch the horse and maybe Uncare for it if they donot want it any more.

is a troll account... probably an parody to all "hardcore grinders", some part of wurm team really out of reality and people taking wurm like a job

Well.. I was born in 77.. I can't even take half of this seriously. I've played Wurm since 2011. I have never looked at this game at a cash cow and if you are- you need to find another profession. Games were meant to be challenging and to have fun. Is this game a grind? Yes.. It's always been a grind. It's so much easier now than it was. At the comment that games die around the 7 yr mark, there are games out there that have been around for 20yrs.. That still have a fan base. That still get subs and put out expansions. If you have suggestions for the game, you are more than welcome to post them in the proper place, the suggestions forum. You've been around long enough to know how forums work. I know I have. EDIT: In case you can't find it... https://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/forum/15-suggestions-amp-ideas/

The scenario: You're happily pottering away, planting trees for your woodcutting mad deed-mate to grind on in a month or two, and you have an idea! Why not have an item that holds sprouts and plants them without you needing to select? You rush to the forums and quickly make a post "omg put this in now!" "plant sprouts with a tool!" The thread sort of sits there, occasionally someone will +1 but it doesn't come in-game, what happened? We need to dial it back a few things first. The purpose of this board: Firstly, suggestions are an excellent place for players to post and share ideas about what they would like to see in the game, and we often spend a lot of time reading through them while discussing potential additions or changes to mechanics in the game. What this board is NOT for is voting in new changes, a popular suggestion or a well-reasoned one may be excellent and might be something we'd love to see too, but it does not guarantee something will be implemented. Often it's a matter of time, resource/working hour requirements, or not in our focus at this point. Look before you leap (to posting): Before throwing up your post, take the time to search to see if someone has suggested it before quickly. This search allows you to save time making a new post and add your thoughts to the post, keeping it all in one place with all the old discussion (or maybe even a post by a dev explaining why it can/can't happen). Posting new threads without taking the time to look means the discussion for/against is split up and quite a pain to view everyone's opinions without a lot of running around. Elevator pitch: With that said, the best suggestions tend to have some things in common. The title is always self-explanatory with the idea in a quick single line; you can go into detail in the thread but avoid thread titles such as "devs, please read" or "you need to add this" (we don't think anyone posts suggestions they don't want to be added). Please also avoid claiming an idea is quick or easy, it's not always the case and can lead to feeling negative if it's not added (being hard isn't the reason we don't add things). Content is king: So we've got the title done, now we have the meat, the original topic! When writing your suggestion, it's worth expanding a little more than one or two sentences. We aren't looking for online recipes where you describe your life experiences leading up to this situation, but it would be nice to see what you want to add, and how you might envision it works. Some suggestions are more detailed than others; adding a sprout planting tool is far simpler than suggesting a new mechanic system. Always work on fleshing out your idea as much as you can, I've seen some suggestions of "add this, not sure how it'll work, but that's up to the devs" which means that it's not a thoroughly thought out idea and can't help us discuss and weigh up the merits of the pitched design. If you can find reference pictures or screenshots from in-game that helps to visualise your idea, do it! This board is your place to pitch your ideas, make sure you put in the work for it! Commentastic: Now you're sure it's the only post of that idea, the title is accurate and straightforward, and the post is excellent, now on to the comments! The first rule of commenting, this isn't a voting system. +1 does nothing. We do not tally votes of pluses or minuses to weigh out ideas; it means nothing to us and distracts from the discussion. What we do look for is a meaningful contribution, if you want to say you like an idea, like the main post, if you have thoughts, feelings, concerns, voices telling you things about it feel free to post those. A paragraph about why someone feels something may not be suitable for the game beats a million +1's because none of those explains why someone feels it would be ideal for the game or their play. The comments section should be for discussion about something, pros and cons, if you feel something won't be good for your play say so! We see a few "+1 but only if I can turn it off" which means "I don't want to use this and thus I have no reason to support it" if you say "this isn't something I would use because x" means we get a better idea of why people might not want to use it. The suggestion spectrum: Types of suggestions that are good vs types that are bad Suggestions are for players ideas about adding features or changing mechanics, things you'd like to see in the game or feel the game could use. It's not for "fix x bug" (they go in server/client bugs). Another type of post that is not appropriate is the meta suggestion. The meta suggestion is not a suggestion about something in the game, but about the game as a business. Business decisions (such as pricing, patches, hiring and firing of staff) are not suggestions. If you want to discuss those aspects, you're welcome to use the town square, but the suggestions board is not for that. Many great suggestions have wound up in the game, and many more will come in the future too. I spend a considerable amount of time working through them and finding things to help the devs when they are working on specific areas. Too long, got distracted by shinies: So to sum up in a little TL;DR: Make sure you're not reposting an already existing idea, take a minute to do a quick keyword search. Make your title clear as to what you are suggesting, help us know what's inside when we click. Flesh out your post with all the information you feel gives the best overview. It's your time to shine! Provide constructive comments, +1's and -1's aren't useful, we overlook and ignore them anyways, post why you like or dislike something. Bugs go in the bugs section. Sensitive bugs go in a PM to the GM team, myself, or Alectrys. Don't post meta suggestions, if you wish to discuss something about the state of the game feel free to open discussion on the town square. So I hope that all helps you formulate your post to get the best engagement from your fellow players, and also helps commenters be the best commenters they can be. Thank you for coming to my TED talk Retro

gorgeous deed!

Self explantatory, would like to have a trapdoor on my ladder openings. Wouldn't work like a door only with a lock/unlock option.

i think it's great, for too long wurm has been a cpu intensive game. I did some proper tests when i last upgraded. 750ti to 1060gtx barely touched my fps (minor bottleneck) but when i upgraded the CPU, massive improvement in performance. But now, the GPU is getting utilised as much as the cpu. i love it technically and aesthetically. A fresh installation of wurm doesn't have to have everything turned up (As long as that VBO setting is set to core by default, there's been many of us that had to switch it from extension manually) The impact of HBAO on your fps depends greatly on your system configuration. (to be fair i need to do testing) What is your system spec and can you honestly account that you are comparing it with the same spec in other games. Doesn't wurm use OpenGL rather than DirectX? The framerate tax will inevitably vary if so. I believe HBAO is native to directX, any implementation of it in OpenGL likely involves transitions that are beyond my understanding.

I totally agree w needing an alternative to current fishing system .. its now nothing but another tiresome chore to add to the ones already ingame.

It is not using a lot more resources though. It might on the High preset, which we don't recommend as you can see in the patch notes. Should we stop adding graphical features altogether, if they cause a completely optional moderate increase in GPU usage? The technology used is Nvidia's HBAO, and it works the same visuals and speed-wise as in other games. There is no downside to this, I'm not sure why you pretend there is. AO off/on screenshots for those unsure how much of a difference it makes:

Options such as ambient occlusion can be disabled if they're too taxing on your system. It's rather silly to assume the developers will implement graphical changes to the point where the game simply won't run anymore. Why would they even do that? Graphics hardware gets better over time. Wurm doesn't have to stay the same forever. Using your GPU for its intended purpose is not "unhealthy" unless there's some serious problem with how your hardware is set up.

There is no need for a server to be wiped though, so that doesn't hold here. And what we "live" for in Wurm is the process of ever improving your environment to your liking, which is much diminished if you know it's going to get nuked on a schedule.

As_I_Decay, although I agree with your OP in many respects I have noticed that you have been off exploring new vistas in that other world that we escape to here from, which no doubt is where you have come across that last nail. There will always be people of self interest like this that will take advantage of any opportunities to enrich themselves at others expense. There really is no way to avoid them other than to be vigilant in your defense and elusive to these wolves pursuit. Then again, I further read that this mystery house has just as magically disappeared without not so much as a drop of stardust left behind. Possibly someone with a conscience tied to a shred of decency has read your post and realized that the impact upon you of what they have done is not worth the price paid in removing a place quiet retreat from someone who has had your many years of enjoyment within our Wurm other world homelands. At any rate, beyond all this you have a good long run of it here so I can appreciate a desire can grow to leave it all behind in the past yet taking those memories with you into the future. If this be so, feel no regret for what you leave behind as those who remain will remember you fondly for many diverse reasons, even if they only be for your challenging comments upon these forums. Follow your own visions in your younger years for all too soon they will be behind you where you can never return again. Happy Trails =Ayes=

I feel for you, and I 100% understand what you must be feeling right now (unfortunately). ❤️💔 Not trying to steal attention away from your misfortune here, but I'm going to share a little story about a similar situation to showcase more of the toxic player mentality that actively drives players away: During the first day of Xanadu me and a bunch of friends set out to find the perfect spot to plant a little deed on (nothing extravagant, just a nice little home where we could enjoy the server and play on our newly created characters). After a long walk and lots of scouting we finally found the perfect little spot where we planted our token, and ~10 tiles offdeed we started a mine to get the material we needed since the deed was on a tiny peninsula without a rock layer underneath. Can anyone guess where this is going? If you guessed that someone deeded over the mine to intentionally grief us you are correct. At first we thought that maybe the people who deeded over the mine did it by mistake, since a lot of people want to live by the water. Perhaps they didn't realize that we had a mine there that hadn't yet been gate-housed, and perhaps they hadn't realized that their deed basically bordered ours. So we checked the token to see who owned the deed, because we thought that maybe we could talk to them and see what was up. It became evident right away that the deed was intentionally placed there in order to grief us because the deed motto was "Deed it or loose it" (yes, misspelt like that). It struck us as odd since why would anyone do that? Why would someone deed-grief us in an area where we were completely certain that we were the first ones to ever live? I started walking around in the area where we deeded and noticed that there were deeds outside our local area that all seemed to be in the same alliance, and this is where it got murky. Some of the deeds were planted before ours and some after, but the more I looked around the more I realized that they had counted on being able to control the entire area by deeding in a circle around the water. I also swam to the island that was to the south of us and realized that the deed on it was also part of the alliance, and that the alt that had planted the misspelt turd motto deed resided there. So I started lurking the forums and chats, and realized that these people (after we had planted our deed) had started planning a market area that was counting on our peninsula to work. They seemed to be planning to make two landbridges from the island: One going west and one north, and thus turn the bay into a lake. The problem of course being that we had a deed north of the island. A deed we planted within the first 36 hours of Xanadu's opening, on land that they somehow still felt entitled to. We owned the deed on what was pristine land, it hadn't as much as been dug on before we planted our deed, and yet they felt so entitled to it that they planted a deed on our mine in order to intimidate us enough to get us to leave - Without ever talking to us. If they had spoken to us we might've been able to reach a solution that was amicable for all of us - Maybe they could've bought our deed, or maybe we could've told them not to plant more deeds since their plan wouldn't work out. But no, they went straigt for the deed-griefing. Obviously the support call we made led nowhere, since the "deed it or lose it" yada yada blah blah is so ingrained in people that not even obvious grief can set off alarms. We ended up buying the griefers off using a large amount of ql95 iron lumps as payment, so essentially we were extorted and it still counted as fair gameplay on a PvE server.

Sad to hear you face a shed in the middle of the place blocking redeeding. I understand how that feels you are with no tool to resolve that situation. Let me give some hope though, GM responding your ticket may opt to reach out to the owner of that shed asking them to remove it. I was on the receiving end of such a request, I had a shed at a spot in a desert where a player wanted to build and a GM asked me if I'm willing to remove my structure there. Maybe... maybe such an act would make the owner to demolish that shed.

+1

Yes please. I carry around unopened gifts just for the nostalgia.

+1 year-round. Anytime is a good time to give a gift.

Just came here to say this is beautifully done and it's well worth visiting in person; this is a lovely looking market with lots of attention to detail and decoration and a really nice range of items for sale - tis the only time I've ever felt compelled to buy things from in-game merchants so I am heading back there with my coin purse from halfway across the map. ❤️

more DF screenies With Julie nad rising Sol With Tich at Teeebomb's fountain. Drop ur tent, take sandwiches. U may meet hungry mobs on a slope.

Thank you for sharing, thank you for caring. You are awesome and cute, your poetry is beaut! Pick up your pen and let more words flow, to teach us of turmoil and things we should know. It distracts us from the dramas caused by game bugs, until you post again, here are some Fairy Hugs. Guess this is where my poetry ends, so I bid you adieu. Glad poetry is written by Wurm friends, like you.