Claw

Wow. :-( Long before he was famous, Legio used to take me hunting -- I just goofed around in Wurm, but he had his eye on the prize -- he was always training his FS. I remember when bears were something we worried about. It's been a long time since I played, but I have a lot of great DP memories. Now I'm feeling melancholy.

I left a cart on your property because I was going across sea and couldn't use it. I dropped the key in the small barrel next to the cart.

That's not quite true because *some* money is created from nothing. Prayer, for example. Are there any other things like that?

Any chance we can get some kind of an ETA from devs, just y'know so hundreds of people won't be inconvenienced as much. I'm cool with y'all fixing stuff, but drop us some updates?

I followed this thread and tried this game. But I can't figure out how to do anything interesting. If I wanted to kill rats, I'd play Everquest. Is there a way to actually participate in the economy? All the junk I can harvest and craft is valueless.

Wow! I haven't had time to play my GV character, Crud in the last two weeks but we went from a thriving village to NOTHING in such a short time? That's got to be a record. What happened? I wonder how much it'll surprise the new owners next time I log in.

Also, isn't TODAY the fourth anniversary of gold?

You guys that want a Q and A newbie page? Make it! It's a wiki. Create the page. Fill it with entries like: Q: How do I get my referral? A: Q: What villages are recruiting useless noobs? A: Q: How do I find my body after a scorpion kills me? A: Q: How does the trade window work? A: And once you have a few of them, ask us to go answer. We will. Ands when you have more questions, keep it growing. And answer questions yourself when you find the answer on kchat but you think it belongs in a newbie guide.

When we can't agree on what makes a nice road, we're never going to all build to the same standard. I *hate* sand. I don't particularly mind 3-wide roads, but they're not any more valuable *to me* than a 1-wide road. So the roads going in and out of my deed are 1-wide -- no reason to do the extra work. Why would I even consider conforming to someone else's standard?

Xianruflux, Welcome to the neighborhood! You are very welcome to move in. South along the lowland shore, or south in the hills along the road? Either way, do explore the area to get a feel for thing before you start building. See you in-game, Claw

Oh, I'm fine with it. I was only reporting it because the game asked me to. I was able to log right back in.

I was logging in on one PC while already running that character on another. Congratulations, you found a bug in the test client: <FBO not bound.> Please post the console log below on the wurm online forums, and describe what you were doing when it happened. Contents of console.log: Time is Sun May 16 06:24:27 CDT 2010 Running client version 2.7.1d === System information === Executing from <redacted path> Operating system: Windows XP (arch: x86, version: 5.1) Java version: 1.6.0_17 (Sun Microsystems Inc.) &lt;http://java.sun.com/> Jvm version: 14.3-b01 (Sun Microsystems Inc.) [Java HotSpot Client VM] Available CPUs: 1 >>> Main thread exiting. Loading character Claw Loading config default Loading props file <redacted path> Loading props file <redacted path> >>> LoginFrame queue entry exiting. Saving props file <redacted path> Saving props file <redacted path> Loaded pack sound.jar (r192) Loaded pack graphics.jar (r295) Loading props file <redacted path> >>> Launch queue entry exiting. Preparing to enable console logging. 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Startup Phase - Setting up.. Loading window positions from <redacted path>\windows_1600x1200.txt Loading props file <redacted path>\windows_1600x1200.txt Gui initialized Startup Phase - Preparing terrain Startup Phase - Connecting .. Disabling Nagles Writing to <redacted path>\logs\_Event.2010-05.txt Disabling Nagles Login successful Executing D:\Program Files\WurmOnline\configs\default\autorun.txt 'toggle keyboard_hints' has been removed. Right-click the menu bar instead. Starting update of login splash image... FBO turned incomplete: 36055 (0x8cd7) Execution aborted at connection 1, iteration 0 Run time 0s, local time Mon May 17 18:45:40 CDT 2010 Finished loading new login splash image! ====== FAILED ASSERT ====== class.bL: FBO not bound. at class.bL.b(SourceFile:61) at class.bX.a(SourceFile:131) at class.dl.b(SourceFile:1066) at com.wurmonline.client.f.d(SourceFile:259) at com.wurmonline.client.f.run(SourceFile:1386) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

We have priest-enchanted regular items. And we have artifacts. I'm not familiar enough with the role of artifacts in the game, but I think there's room for another category of items. I'm thinking that the master craftsmen of Wurm should be able to create items of such remarkable character that they rival the artifacts of legend. This would happen by crafting an item of very high QL -- maybe it would even have to be the single item in the land with the highest QL of that type. And then the craftsman would have to go the extra mile and actually invest the item with a part of themselves (represented by a permanent skill loss). And at that point, the item would not only be an amazingly crafted thing, but it would gain some extraordinary power. These items would be rare, but they would live beyond their maker's lives and be passed from player to player and perhaps fought over. I think the numbers would have to be balanced so that it is really painful to give up that much top-tier skill-grind so that most people wouldn't want to do it, but some would. I'd love to hear what kind of tweaks you think this idea needs before it's something that would improve Wurm.

I'm glad I have F12.

Also, I expect to have my road (just one tile, but scenic) from Port Anknenon to APintP (just north) done by the end of the weekend.