Enola

Your reaction is understandable, but in vain. Do something with your energy now and invest it into looking for an even greater place and deed it right away. Don't let actions like this get to you too much. It's not worth it. Serenity, my friend.

We all have experience in something we hold dear. Or something to that effect. Anyways, no. It's not really obvious.

Because you have extensive experience?

Creepy...

Rivers will be complicated, as that would put quite a strain on the server for calculating the flow in real time (as you can, at any given time, alter the flow by terraforming). I wouldn't mind some more aesthetics, though.

Time for a (polar) bear hug!

Clearly, ten minutes before a shutdown/reboot isn't really that good. In Wurm, traveling takes a lot of time. Getting your stuff to safety in those ten minutes is quite complicated at times.

You won't find any rules because there are none. You can do with your referral as you please. Just the limitation that you can only refer who already at least once had premium.

Better than Wurm Online? Unthinkable!

MD, you're right in that. I do, too, hope it won't be part of the client but an additional download, IF it gets introduced.

That's understandable and that's why I've said it. Don't get me wrong, I am against this idea, but I am because I do know the specifics. Ayes is just getting on my nerves because he isn't unfortunately as half as intelligent as he wants to seem spouting out things that clearly show he's not understood half of what's in that article and insulting people who, in one way or the other, participate in it. So, to help you guys decide easier on it: a) Bitcoins aren't illegal or shady. You will not supply anyone computational power for "shady things". All the bitcoin client does is trying to find the solution to a mathematical, cryptographic, and, most important, arbitrary problem. Noone, except you, is going to profit from using your own computational power. You can install the bitcoin client on your computer. It's open source, so anyone who wants to can look at the source code and verify it doesn't do anything bad. You can even change the source code and make it more efficient. Based on the vote of the masses, you cannot change it to do things that aren't allowed per rules, as everyone else will just dismiss your solution if it wasn't gotten properly. c) You can have your client connect to a server, if you wish. The server will send all connected clients part of the problem until one client finds the proper solution. The server will send out the solution to verify it and if verified, will grant all clients who helped an amount of the return based on their performance. Typically, the server will keep a small part of it as payment for hosting etc. THIS IS WHERE YOU CAN BE CHEATED! If the server admin keeps everything or doesn't return enough, you will, though, find out pretty fast. d) The bitcoin client that does the calculation can be configured to either use a specific amount of free resources or use all available sources. It must be noted that this will, in any case, increase your electricity bill and increase the speed of your hardware breaking. e) As of right now, the difficulty is so high and the worth of bitcoins is so low that you will invest more money into electricity than you will receive back from the net worth of what you will get out of it. f) Bitcoins aren't 100% anonymous and it is discouraged (and dangerous) to conduct illegal activities with them. All transactions can be reliably tracked down to the wallet addresses. Those addresses are just seemingly random strings, but as everything can be tracked, once the owner of a certain wallet has been found, you can find out make out what went where. g) If you start the client, and that is probably most important information for people, you will get a window telling you that it works and what happens. If you close the client it stops calculating and won't start again until you tell it to. It's not a virus (if you get it from a reliable source, which you have to check with everything you download).

It's funny how you use fancy words, trying to mask that you have absolutely no knowledge about what you're talking about. The "nebulous entity", how you describe it, is yourself. Your PC does the calculations. It tries to find a certain string of data that fits some target features based on the current difficulty and the previous successful data aquired. It then sends it's solution into the network, which is an anonymous, uncontrollable peer-to-peer network for all to check your solution. If it's found to be valid by calculating the solution once again based on what you've found, it gets validated and your pc basically will add the solution (which is worth 50 BTC) to whatever wallet you specify. The thing about those solutions is that it's a cryptographic hash-calculation. Basically, hashing something means to create a string of data with fixed length out of any input you give it. It's one-way and cannot be reversed. It's as if you had 2+2=4. You can always see the 2+2, but you cannot see how you reached the 4 (just a bit more complicated mathematically). That's what the computer's power is used for. To get to the target, you cannot reverse the target, but have to try all possible calculations until you find one that meets the target criteria. There's absolutely no-one behind the scheme and if all you do is mine bitcoins and store them on your computer, noone ever will be able to take them away from you. And based on how the network works, noone is able to take it over or fake them, as you'd have to have computational power that is stronger than the rest of the network to outvote them, which by now is impossible to achieve for a single authority. Please, before you guys go on a rampage, read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin first. Educate yourself on it.

Does it really surprise you guys that a planned system to generate strips of data is worth something to certain people? But it doesn't surprise you that people pay 100, 300, 600 € for Wurm Online accounts? On a side note, every day, way more hard cash is used in illegal transactions. That doesn't make money, funnily enough, shady. Not saying that this is a good idea. I'm against Rolf utilizing that, but you guys are against it for the wrong reasons. That's the fear of the unknown.

In the case of bitcoins, I shouldn't harm the game's image, really. If, of course, people are educated enough (pc parts weardown and increased electricity bill). There's absolutely nothing shady with it. See it as something akin to seti@home. Just you may create some data and there are some people who are willing to buy this data from you.

Bitcoins aren't shady. The negative part about them, though, as WKM has mentioned already, is the electricity bill. Bitcoins are currently worth less than what you'd have to invest in electricity to get them. The only people right now making profit with them are the exchanges and the pool owners. I won't participate because I do know how it works. //edit: MD, there's nothing that anyone really gets out of it. That's how stuff like this works. You cannot create an indefinite amount of them, that's why they can be used as a currency. And some people do use them for that. The more bitcoins are mined and the more people do mine them, the more difficult it becomes to find a valid one. It's all in the maths

a) leather armour sucks pretty much compared with, for example, chain. I have over 80 mining and around 85 BS now. It's been waaaaay easier to get up mining and smithing than to get my leatherworking (72) or "ash making" skills up. I can easily produce huge amounts of 80+ql iron, but getting good enough leather that's not getting myself crazy trying to improve something's terrible.

I have heard reports of medium wounds getting worse. But I've never ever had that happen to me. Once I stood around all day with my priest having a med and nothing happened. Not even a tiny 0.01 increase.

Actually, a way to construct traps that would yield a tiny bit of meat at irregular intervals by catching "imaginary" critters like hares and such sounds like a nice idea and would fit perfectly with Wurm.

Medium wounds usually won't get worse. They just won't heal. Bad and severe, on the other hand, can take you out, though, and need immediate attention.

Yea, you're not supposed to stand on the high corner when flatraising

I've been digging a lot and I've never actually encountered that.

Digging your own grave, huh?

Does your ISP shape internet traffic? I've read of problems for some people who's isp shapes traffic that looks like filesharing and Wurm was considered filesharing by them. No idea if that's still a problem but you might have a look into that. Another reason could be corrupted packets. I had that once when my cable was starting to break. It didn't show up as packet loss when pinging something, but it was clearly visible if, for example, I opened google picture search and just clicked through the sites for the search "test", for example. Every now and then there was an image with only half of it showing up and the other half looked distorted or was missing entirely. Wurm's reacting extremely wonky to stuff like that.

That means your chance of success is way off the required 50% for effective skillgain. It's either too high or too low.

Why did this have to be changed at all, anyways? It used to be fine. Fishing rods did last quite some time, but broke from time to time, too. They shouldn't be much different from other tools when it comes to damage/breakage.