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  1. Posted

    Have you thought that maybe your deed / fields / mine is oversized compared with your playtime?

    For what one character NEEDS, 15-30 minutes a day is more than enough for chores.

    Now if you have 500 fields of crops or 40 horses it doesn't means you're doing needed chores, but that you're grinding farming / animal husbandry or bulk producing.

  4. Posted

    That was an interesting way to do maths Lando! You subtracted some each time you added more on.

     

    OP, I was considering whether or not to post, since you did say you only want bids and not other off topic discussions, but since you have also posted..

     

    Those seem like nice deeds. They are a little far from my corner of Exo to consider. I do wonder (having watched your forum topics for some time) how much you actually make from each of these transactions, as it does seem sometimes that would be your motivation for doing this time and time again. If you are addicted to wurm, and that bothers you, then yes sell and don't reinstall. If you can come to terms with the addiction, and manage it (strict times to finish each night, or only certain number of hours) then it should be ok. I'm sure many of us have dealt with this at times in the past. Since it seemed you moved to Exo while I was away from the game during a real life move, I hadn't realised that AlexDunphy was you. I'm a bit of a lurker in freedom chat mostly anyway.

     

    Well good luck with the sale whatever your motivation is. I'm sure any screenshots you have can help.

     

    Actually on all my previous sales, this one included, I ended up loosing money not making any profit. On setting these deeds for example I spent/invested like 200 euros of my own money, not counting the time or the money spent on premium. So no, that's not a motivation - lol.

     

    And yeah, pretty much every time I tried to quit, the main reason was the fact that the game just requires much more time then I'm willing to "invest" in a game. Problem was that I never managed to stay away for long (that's why they call them addictions :P); but (hopefully) this should be solved now that my computer decided to die away and help me in my attempt to quit - lol.

     

    Unfortunately no screenshots since, as I said, computer crashed, but anyway not really much built on the deeds, so basically selling them as virgin land. :)

  5. Posted · Edited by Zapacila

     




    Costs 38s to buy a trader from a trader since yours is placed already it's not worth 40.  Rods are selling for 25 on a quick sale.  so 60s together.   Deed is probably worth about 40s depending on how it's built.  Character to hold the deed is worth about 10s.  So that's about 85s total.   Disbanding the second one gives 93s.  So maybe 80e is your top price.   But I'm at my limit.   Good luck



     



     


    Even without contesting any of your estimations, I really don't get it how 60 (what you estimated trader + rod) + 40 (what you estimated deed) +10 (what you estimated character) + 8s (what you get for disbanding deed) makes 93... on my math 60+40+10+8=118s; add to this the 15s in cash and you'll get a total of 133s (which I guess value ~133 euro) even in your evaluation, and that not counting at all any of the items or things on deed. ;)


  6. Posted · Edited by Zapacila

    And btw, why I said I would hope/expect for 100-120 euros.

     

    First calculation:
    - I could disband the deed, reform at minimal size with same name (would keep trader) which would leave me with 20+s (30s for disband - 10s for new forms)
    - I could disband second deed for 8s
    - I could easily sell the new formed trader deed by itself with 40s since is cheaper this way (yeah, it is 38s to buy a trader contract, but to this one should also add 10s to set a trader deed in the first place)
    - I could easily sell the rod with 25-30s (even nowadays)
    - I have 15s on cash

    So, even without selling character, any items, etc, I should still be easily able to get ~110 silver coins, which could be easily sold with 100-120 euros, looking how many WTB threads are.

     

    Second calculation:

    - Even without considering at all the costs for setting a deed of this size (the new owner could shrink to whatever size they would want), the deed should value at least 45s (for the trader + deed form) + 30s (money in upkeep) so 70s

    - I could just disband second deed for 8s

    - I could easily sell the rod with 25-30s (even nowadays)

    - I have 15s on cash

     

    So, again, even without selling character, any items, etc, I should still be easily able to get ~120 silver coins, which could be easily sold with 110-130 euros, looking how many WTB threads are.

     

    But I just feel it would be a waste, since I spent so much money on deeds setting / resizing, and maybe there is someone out there who would actually like a large property to make it a living village.

  7. Posted · Edited by Zapacila

    No screenshot since computer died, but once a buyer is found, I could go to an internet cafe and before any payment is made log in, meet in game and show everything (not only as printscreen, but also in "person").

    About the loom though, since it is not in inventory (not pickable), but on deed, If someone can go to my place it should be in the blackdog crashing pad house; think it is visible via window.

    But anyway since I didn't know price for any of the other thing except those having a fixed price (deed setting, deed funds, trader, rod, premium time) I didn't asked anything for them, but just considered them "free bonuses".

  8. Posted · Edited by Zapacila

    Please post only if making a bid; any message not representing a bid will be reported for offtopic. Thank you!

    Hello folks,

    I love WURM, I really do, but it's just too addictive for me. I tried everything possible - making myself a strict gaming schedule, decided to play only in the evening after work, decided to play only weekdays, only weekends, everything. But I failed on that constantly, coming to the point where WURM started to negatively affect my real life (staying late to play one more hour, skipping a getaway just so I can play instead, etc). And, no matter how hard it would be, it's probably the best to quit now and really don't come back (I failed at this in the past too, lol, but I just hope this time it would be different). Also the fact that my laptop decided to die for good tonight (RIP), helped with my decision. If I won't hurry up to buy a new one (and I won't since I don't even have the money for it - lol), by the time this will happen I should be over WURM. ;)

    So I decided (once again) to sell my account, my deeds and pretty much all my WURM belongings. Since the characters are quite new (less than two months old) I guess the biggest "asset" would be the deeds

    The first deed (The Hermitage) is located on Exodus server, on coordinates (X28, Y12) on this map. It is in a very good position - coastal, accessible easily both via land or sea, but still in a rather secluded place, without many strangers messing around.

    The real size is 69x65 (34x32 in deed settings) - 4.485 total tiles, a standard perimeter and it has one guard.

    The deed has 30+ silvers in maintenance (can't check exact amount since my computer crashed, but should certainly be above 30), enough for 100+ days.

    The deed also has a trader.

    Talking about resources, it has at least: iron, silver, copper, tin, lead, marble, tar on deed and clay really close.

    There are also two guard towers - one on deed, one on perimeter.

    Hundreds of trees (including lots of oaks), quite a few animals (20 horses, 10 cows, 5 bisons), a few full BSBs, eight large carts, a small boat, as well as three set of tools are just details I don't even consider worth mentioning.

    It also has four buildings, but nothing really impressive.



    The second deed (The Hermitage High Grounds) is located on Exodus server, on coordinates (X28, Y13) on this map (just south of the first deed, with the two tokens aligned, 16 tiles left between the two deeds perimeters so no other deed can sneak it - that place was though as either a buffer for expansion, either an off-deed orchard or something). It is also in a very good position - coastal, accessible easily both via land or sea, but still in a rather secluded place, without many strangers messing around.

    The real size is 33x33 (16x16 in deed settings) - 1.089 total tiles and a standard perimeter. It has room for expansion in all directions at least 16 tiles. My intention was to eventually expand it to also 69x65, at which point the two deeds would have perimeters touching each other and they would be perfectly aligned).

    The deed has like 8 silvers in maintenance (can't check exact amount since my computer crashed, but should should be about 8), enough for 100+ days.

    If desired, a trader could be placed on the deed (no other traders too close).

    Talking about resources, it has at least: iron, silver, copper, tin, lead, zinc, marble on deed and clay, tar really close.

    The deed is pretty much untouched - no buildings, no big terraforming projects, etc.



    The main character (named AlexDunphy which is the name of a TV character from Modern Family).

    She has premium time 'till March 19th, so more than two months left.

    She has farming affinity, she is level 6 on Path of Love, and 30 faith (ready for priesthood if one would desire so).

    Here's a full skill dump:


    Religion: 0.0
    Alignment: 40.505997
    Faith: 30.0
    Favor: 30.0
    Skills: 0.0
    Paving: 15.27466
    Tracking: 2.4910498
    Prospecting: 20.196312
    Polearms: 2.1453195
    Halberd: 2.2164547
    Religion: 3.3846467
    Prayer: 7.452604
    Healing: 6.767042
    First aid: 14.178706
    Thievery: 1.3747915
    Traps: 1.0
    Lock picking: 1.7495831
    Climbing: 11.3005905
    Shields: 4.7483535
    Large metal shield: 5.3659015
    Axes: 9.105482
    Huge axe: 1.7788825
    Large axe: 2.0332499
    Hatchet: 10.840012
    Small Axe: 1.4450758
    Swords: 18.0604
    Two handed sword: 8.231066
    Shortsword: 16.806921
    Longsword: 20.958063
    Knives: 13.114585
    Butchering knife: 16.64806
    Carving knife: 12.478543
    Woodcutting: 24.801952
    Mauls: 1.6246561
    Small maul: 1.967554
    Medium maul: 1.8440281
    Large maul: 1.8079994
    Carpentry: 45.892475
    Fine carpentry: 25.774921
    Ship building: 13.3732
    Nature: 37.771214
    Gardening: 25.245619
    Fishing: 1.0
    Animal husbandry: 21.029953
    Meditating: 32.37984
    Milking: 3.4219
    Farming: 42.794228
    Forestry: 41.048725
    Botanizing: 27.450415
    Animal taming: 5.2943788
    Foraging: 33.334362
    Cooking: 8.867537
    Hot food cooking: 6.746202
    Beverages: 16.426517
    Butchering: 9.35464
    Fighting: 14.7009535
    Shield bashing: 5.9126987
    Taunting: 1.3793224
    Normal fighting: 23.33243
    Defensive fighting: 8.065672
    Aggressive fighting: 6.1836867
    Weaponless fighting: 20.23173
    Alchemy: 7.5874367
    Natural substances: 17.739355
    Miscellaneous items: 38.93081
    Stone chisel: 6.131354
    Hammer: 19.278227
    Sickle: 28.837976
    Repairing: 24.43028
    Saw: 11.795184
    Pickaxe: 26.492535
    Rake: 30.220135
    Shovel: 36.677128
    Pottery: 33.579597
    Firemaking: 5.1532073
    Digging: 52.488117
    Mining: 25.091509
    Smithing: 15.358446
    Metallurgy: 1.7206658
    Jewelry smithing: 1.4036273
    Locksmithing: 2.2608955
    Blacksmithing: 27.962711
    Armour smithing: 2.8730843
    Shield smithing: 5.2748117
    Weapon smithing: 7.309766
    Blades smithing: 4.751246
    Weapon heads smithing: 2.6769357
    Ropemaking: 3.2906623
    Masonry: 17.163769
    Stone cutting: 11.495944
    Tailoring: 8.089501
    Cloth tailoring: 19.554071
    Characteristics: 0.0
    Soul: 20.564432
    Soul strength: 20.543789
    Soul depth: 23.848001
    Mind: 21.721125
    Mind speed: 20.373764
    Mind logic: 25.433216
    Body: 23.02346
    Body stamina: 21.931877
    Body strength: 23.74845
    Body control: 22.383347



    The character has no warnings and, as a fun note, it never died.



    There is also a second character, named Zapacila, but really the only thing worth mentioning about it is that it has mining affinity.



    What should also be mentioned though are the few rares I have: floor loom (oaken), long sword, meditation rug, spindle (oaken), pickaxe, small bucket (oaken), iron brand, lamp.



    I also have 15 silver coins available.



    I also have a transmutation rod.



    Now about the price.

    1. According to this tool placing the first deed costed 91.70 silver coins, while placing the second deed costed 23.78 silver coins, so for both of them a total of 115.48 silver coins (1.15 gold coins).

    2. The first deed has in coffers at least 30 silver coins, and the second deed has in coffers around 8 silver coins, so for both of them a total of 38 silver coins.

    3. A trader contract costs 50 silvers.

    4. A transmutation rod costs 50 silvers.

    So the total cost for the deeds would raise 2 gold 53 silver 48 coppers (hard verifiable facts, no need to trust my word on this). At the shop price of 160 euros / 1 gold, that would mean 406 euros.

    5. Also talking about hard verifiable facts, the premium time left on the character (even including any skill dumps) would value at least 16 more euros and the 15 silvers in bank account would value 24 more euros at shop price.

    6. For the small rares collection and everything else existing on deed I don't add any amount since I don't really know how much would they value.

    Anyway, the idea is that the whole package values (again, hard verifiable facts, no need to trust my word on this) at least 450 euros - not including any work done on character, any rares, any of the assets from inventory or from deeds.

    But of course I don't expect to get that much, since I realize that on selling out you never recover the money you invested in a deed / character.

    So I don't expect to get 450 euros. Not even 400, 350, 300, 250, 200 or 150 euros.

    What I honestly hope / expect to get is something around 120 euros (and for this amount offered as buyout I would let the whole package go right away).

    To be totally honest, I would probably be happy even with like 100 euros (but in this case I would let the auction run till the end).

    Anyway, I am decided to leave so I won't hold on price; If I don't get any buyout offer up to my expectations I would let it go for whatever the highest big is (there is no reserve, so if the only bid is 1 euro, then that one will get the whole package for 1 euro :P).



    Starting bid: 1 euro

    Increment: 1 euro

    Buyout: 100 - 120 euros

    Reserve: none

    Duration: 72 hours

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  9. Posted

    Sweet, the only thing I really wanted to read :P

     

    Thanks for the info, hadn't tried with the priest, just the mayor. If it works, it'll save me some headache.

    If you don't have time to test it, no worries, man. I'll give it a try when I get home from work tonight. :)

     

    So... have you guys solved the mystery? Because I'm curious too...

  10. Posted

    Hi,

    most other games reimburse what's actually lost (plus a little bonus sometimes, as redemption) - prepaid gaming time.

    Is it really this hard to implement such in Wurm?

    Have fun!

    When we had a long downtime (that ddos attack) we were reimbursed all premium time lost and even some extea.

    But in case of a server crash, fixed in 30 minutes, what do you want - 30 minutes of premium? Just keep track of it and when you come to two months of downtime send me a PM and I will buy you two months of premium, if you are really so cheap.

    About the SB, again... it's a free compensation, not something you earned or you are entitled to. So just be happy with what you got, learn to say Thank You, move on and stop crying that you didn't get the toy the other kid got.

  11. Posted

    From your complain it looks like you need one. :P


     


    Now for real, there is no need for templars. Is just convenience.


     


    - You can just live with no templar, pay no costs for them, and handle all by yourself (and many people do that)


    - You can hire just one (what most people do) and let him "save people from MOST creatures"


    - You can hire more than one and let them handle any mob trying to venture around (yeah, even champ trolls) or even high skill FS players you have KOSed


     


    Is a matter an options, and one option is to hire more than one templar.


     


    So there is already an existing solution to stop trolls from bashing things on deed; if you are really scared about the risk they will do it, you know what you can do. ;)


     


    And I personally think that is good to have this extra layer of complexity and a way to generate a bit more money for the game.


  14. Posted

    There are absolutely no hidden fees and actually you can get much cheaper than this:

    - first option: buy one month of premium and 5 silvers option (it costs 16 euro, paypal only), sell your referal (at 6s it sells quite fast), and you also get 2s free for first purchase; so you'll have one month of premium and 13s, more than enough to buy the deed (on top of this you can also get 1-1.5s for your sleeping powder)

    - second option: buy two times the one month plus one silver option (costs 2 * 10 = 20 euros), which gives you 2*1s=2s, 2s for first purchase and 6s from selling your referral, so 10s enough for settlment forms (and you can even gain 2-3 more silvers selling your sleeping powders)

    - third option (cheapest, but somehow risky): buy two months of premium (16 euros), get 2s for first purchase, sell referral for 6s and (here is the risk) you must also find a customer for sleeping powders

    Now one more thing: minimum maintenance is 1s per month, so there is common sense to have a deed as big as possible, without going over this limit.

    - a 17x17 deed can be set without any aditional cost, maintenance is 1s, you have deed funds for like 4 months

    - a 19x19 deed costs 0.22 extra silver (22 coppers), maintenance is 1s, you have deed funds fir 3 months

    - a 21x21 deed costs 2.5 extra silver, maintenance is 1s, you have deed funds fir 3 months

  16. Posted

    Hey,

    Can't overbid since 1s was all money I had on my name, but I would like to offer you a trade instead: a rare bronze lamp 50ql for the cap (you handle delivery taxes) :) PC I did returned a value of 2-3s.

    So what do you say? :)

    Cheers,

    Alex

  17. Posted

    I like the idea, but with some limitations to prevent exploits and to make it more a luxury gift then a comodity item:

    - enchant power is limited by gem quality+10 (for example a 60 ql gem can store maximum 70 power enchants

    - there is a small risk (fixed, dunno 10-20%) that the enchant would shatter the item, which makes it somehow risky to be used on very precious items

    That would make the enchant quite expensive (for a 80 coc you will need a 70ql gem, which by itself values 1.4s), and less reliable compared with chance to have a direct cast by a high skilled priest so it will still be a better deal to make it the old way.

    Still, it will create a market for low-mid range casts, for peole not knowing a priest or not using forums, etc.

    All numerical value are just examples; may need tweaking.

  19. Posted

    1.  Rather than giving out items every month, give out a fixed number of Loyalty Points (LP) for each month of premium.  No need to reset counters.  Its simple.  1 month = 1 LP.  

    2.  Provide items of varying "value" from potions that cost maybe 1 LP a month's points to more expensive items that may cost several LP.

    3.  This makes the whole system PROACTIVE rather than PASSIVE so the players have reason to strive to reach a certain number of points to get those much nicer items.

    4.  It will be easy to implement because you dont have to calculate anything.  Just give 1 LP per month and let the players pick what and when they spend their points on.

     

    I love the idea, but in order to stimulate people to not have "breaks" in premium time, maybe it will be better to work like this:

    - first month of premium: 5 points

    - second month of premium (consecutive): 6 points

    - third month of premium (consecutive): 7 points

    - fourth month of premium (consecutive): 8 points

    - fifth month of premium (consecutive): 9 points

    - sixth month of premium (consecutive): 10 points

    - any following month of premium (consecutive): 10 points

     

    If you take a break you are back to 5 points.

     

    This way, you still get points for every month, but you are also encouraged to keep the premium up all the time.

  22. Posted

    Run out of likes for today in this thread alone...

    My experience with WURM community was a rather bad one and I honestly considered it the worst one I ever encountered.

    Though, reading all these stories, things I would be way to selfish to do myself, I realize that it was wrong to judge the community by a few bad apples, especially considering I didn't reacted very friendly myself.

    So... no, no gift for me this year. There are many more people in here deserving them more than I do.

  24. Posted

    It doesn't turn it into 99ql does it?

     

    I recall a friend using one a while ago, and they had to look around for an utmost vein or rock tile, and transmuted that into the ore they wanted.

    (This may have changed, hence my asking :))

     

    Rod of transmutation turns a normal cave tile into the ore vein of your choice. Although the vein will have the same prospect QL as the rock tile it replaces, you will be able to mine ore up to 99 QL from it, and will allow for about 10,000 mining operations. The rod is destroyed when used.

     

    Source: http://www.wurmpedia.com/index.php/Rod_of_transmutation

     

    And grats for your 1,000th post... :D