Pandalet

...have you been feeding that dragon ciggies? It appears to have a seriously bad cough...

No, no, no, you're stroking it wrong!

Poser.

Probably not related to this at all...

Bit of a nasty stop-gap, but allowing you to set an effective maximum AH skill for breeding purposes would at least get rid of the penalty for higher AH. Fixing the whole thing is going to be a bit of work since it needs balancing, but allowing you to set a soft cap for breeding calcs only would at least solve some of the problems in the mean time.

My bad, Aus - thought that was a Darklords feature.

Pretty much every game image on the site has been adjusted and re-worked using AI. All based on actual game images (so a vast improvement over the completely made-up stuff they replace), but not entirely 'real'. Still, at least they kept the low-res flaming letters - be sad to lose those. To confirm, is it now acceptable to discuss the Wurm financials on the forums, based on the publicly-available information, given the last discussion got shut down?

The silence is partly down to only a very few people actually know what's going on, and partly down to there still not being a CRM. The website is a pretty simple affair, really, so you wouldn't think it would take that long to re-build, especially given there's a 'professional' external company doing the work and the new art has been basically done for some time. The fact that the public website essentially hasn't changed, AI-generated 'placeholder' art and all, since it launched suggests that it's simply not a priority for the guy making the decisions.

You could make a request under GDPR for your personal data to be removed, although that's generally going to remove all your characters (along with everything else about you).

Most paid staff operate as contractors rather than employees, so those costs are probably in services or other external. There are obvious advantages to the company to doing it this way, not least that they don't need to meet the legal obligations in Sweden that companies have to employees around things like notice, paid leave, benefits, equal opportunities, etc. It also likely makes the accounting and tax simpler.

The main points here are public (see Krister's posts, etc), but here's a little extra context. The new website and branding design was done by an external agency / developer, organised directly by GCG, and completely outside the Wurm teams. There was some limited internal review of the branding a month or so before it went live, and the feedback pretty much mirrored the later public feedback in its mix, after which it all went quiet. The first time any of the Wurm team saw the actual 'finished' website was the day it went live, at which point, there was some frantic effort to rewrite the most badly-wrong bits of the text; there wasn't a lot we could do about the graphics given the timing. Some folks in the dev team did an amazing job pulling together what actually landed, but missed a few bits in the rush, like the placeholder ToS (which were noticed and corrected fairly quickly after the website went live). As the people doing the brand stuff were only looking at a (local development copy of) the website, they didn't prep anything else in terms of forums, Steam, etc, and the people actually running those things were not part of the planning; once the first bit (the website) actually arrived, we obviously needed to sort that out before doing anything else. The forums particularly are a bit of a fiddly update, even once the assets have been made, and I'm not sure who of the remaining team has the knowledge or responsibility for that bit now. I have no information or explanation as to why GCG felt that the website absolutely had to go live that day, or why the Wurm teams were not more involved at an earlier stage. I know that work has been going on to fix the website, including the graphics, clunky copy, layout, flow, etc. This was pretty well progressed at the point I left the team, and obviously I have no view after that point - I imagine it's still due to be (re-)launched sometime soon.

Unfortunately, I think all the people who were involved in implementing this have left, so until someone else figures it out, you're probably not going to get much here.

Some staff are under NDA, some are not - it varies with specific position and to some degree, when exactly the individual joined. Folks who are no longer in position have refrained from commenting publicly because we would prefer not to make an already-bad situation worse; that may be a forlorn hope, but nevertheless. I don't think anyone is happy about the current situation, no matter where they sit in the debate.

Moved to suggestions.

Moved to suggestions