Grumpysmith

First I would like to request that the discussion regarding ship speeds have it's own discussion. That is not a BL Libila problem, that is a seperate issue. Secondly, the issue surrounding inability to effectively pursue the Valrei game effectively are from my perspective twofold: 1. Any of the foraging missions simply cannot be done in a timely matter due to myc having to be first removed and then wait for 24 hours to have a chance at foraging or botonizing. Some of that can now be done via planting of herbs, but not all. 2. Finding traitors is the second issue. Without reveal creatures it is very difficult to find a specific creature in many of the wooded or mountainous areas. We spent literaly days of manhours looking for some of the traitors. I have two accounts that are POK and I can check an area of 50 tiles once every 18 hours on each toon. But most people have POI as their meditation path, like I do on two of my other accounts. So in order to become more competitive I restarted an account that I was going to make Tosiek specifically for the repeatable (40 sec cast time) reveal creatures spell. But now I can't and stay within game rules. I have some ability to move members of BL to do things like stockpile various supplies for making things for some of the missions. But there is no point when you always have those missions that require finding traitors, or foraging a specific item that can't be foraged. Where you end up having to wait out the move time and hopefully a better mission. WL has none of those issues with endless green grass and limitless spells.

In reading the Official Responses from the Dev. Team, I have gathered that: 1. We know the current stituation is unfair. 2. The current situation will continue until we have developed the Perfect Solution in 6 months or so. 3. At the point the Perfect Solution is completed we will release it and all will be Balanced and Fair. Therefore, my forcast for my game play is: 1. For the next 9-18 months I can expect to see fewer and fewer Lib Players. 2. During that time period I can expect to continue to receive continued deliveries of Terraforming events as I can't compete competitively in the Valrei Game and there is no point anyway. 3. During that same period I can expect that my enemies will continue to accumulate Tomes and special armor materials unapposed, as well as add more WL & BL Player Gods to their menagerie. 4. At some point in that time period the Balanced and Fair system will be released. I will be told that all is good now. The fact that my enemies have had several years of unapposed play is irrelevant get out there and compete. As a special reward we will provide you with a new New Affliction to rebuild your deeds on because the New Affliction looks more like a moonscape than Old Affliction. Wargame: "A strange game, the only winning move is to not play."

I'm asking myself the same question. I was starting to feel more positive about the direction that things were going. I just restarted an account to be Tosiek to be able to play Valrei game better. Now I am told that not only that I can't, but even if I won godhood that I wouldn't be eligible to play it as BL but would have to switch to WL. How am I supposed to react to that?

+1 Except it should be for all lead animals. I've lost all kinds of animals in walls. Although I did get a chain barding once cause a raider got his horse stuck in a wall.

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What does "Remove internal components of items from missions" mean?

I don't know if I care one way or another about this, but what you are really requesting is a whole new remap of the character. Simply changing from male to female isn't enough, you will need to go through the process of redoing the complete appearance of the charactor. You want a silver mirror in addition to the gender change or your going to have one ugly woman.

On Epic I've encountered similar situations with off deed buildings either with some of my alts in buildings I've built or on other buildings not on someone's deed. Since their isn't any guards or deed restrictions I simply go unlawful and fix the building. As I said this is on Epic and specifically on Affliction so it may be totally inappropriate on Freedom servers. Someone from Freedom can weigh-in on the ramifications of doing this on a Freedom server. But it is nice to see someone who appreciates what others do and attempt to continue to pay it forward. So my respects to you!

@Joelle I don't have any nor have I ever had characters on Freedom. I have no desire to have any characters on Freedom. And I have no desire to play on Chaos. My whole existence for this toon and previous toons has been on Epic. And in truth, all of that time has been spent on Affliction. I don't even have any spy alts.

No - If I wanted to play the Chaos pvp game I'd have already created an alt over there.

+1 to Etherdrifter's suggestion in general. I never understood the bringing of full fledged Player Gods into the system, destroying the lore and balance. In my readings of mythology and religion Gods don't welcome new Gods with open arms and give away their power's willy-nilly to anyone who comes along. I have long thought similar to Ether's suggestion is that player gods should have been minor ancillary gods that received a couple of powers. A priest of one of the main gods could also choose to be a priest of one or two (at most) other gods to help fill out the powers available to him. I would love to have humid drizzle or genesis available to my lib priest. These minor gods would not participate in Valrei games (except as possible weaker helpers) to the main gods. As it stands now it won't be long until their won't be any room left on the game board to place the players to start the game. Even though I say above that I'd love some WL spells on my lib priest, I think that a hard look needs to be taken at the benefits and detriments to the game and game lore to determine if mixing is beneficial overall to the game or if this mixing of spells should be left to the domain of alt renegade priests living on enemy servers as it was in the beginning. However, if you don't have mixing of spells, what is the point of player gods anyway? Which is actually the question that needs to be answered. If the point is just another achievement give them a title, special robes, make them pulsate with light and then send them back to the lands of wurm to live out their lives. Grumpy P.S. Yes, I'm old enough to use willy-nilly in a sentence.

+ 1 to having pickling barrels. -1 to sealing with bees wax since affliction doesn't have bees sealing with a peg is fine.

Also, at this point, there is no incentive to put together a team to kill Drakes and Eagles as all they drop is a Valrei item, gland, and eye. And, since most of them are in deep water you will likely not be able to retrieve them anyway. I get all of the Valrei items I need killing NoGumps, Sol Demons, and SOUs. And I have a chance to get a lump or ointment drop. They also seem to gather in swarms of 3 to 10 spirits making it kind of hard to separate into singles to be killed by 2 or 3 players. So one possible solution would be to make it worthwhile for players to hunt the spirits by increasing the loot drops to encourage players to group up to kill them. With how many mobs are dropped daily on Epic it won't be long until we are in the same boat again even if GM's god kill all of the Val Mobs. +1 to the idea of shorter life span for Val Mobs. Mobs that spawn and become a problem are dealt with in short order. Mobs that spawn in the wilderness are mostly ignored and multiply like rabbits making some areas no go areas for those in the know.

+1 Because on Affliction in the Land of "Libila the Forsaken" you can't botanize mycellium in any event. Although I do manage to keep maybe a 1000 tiles botanizable (probably not a real word) by spending time everyday running through thorn bushes and absorbing the mycellium as it creeps in from the edges. So using planters is really the only way to have some kind of supply. Oh and I've given up on Bees ever appearing.

+1 to the OP and + 1 to Steveleeb's suggestion. Adding to Steveleeb's suggestion. The innkeeper should have a short list of meals that he can provide. For example a low quality casserole or stew that just fills the food bar & a High quality meal that also works on the nutrition bars. The meals provided set by the inn owner and only those meals in the owner's recipe book. The innkeeper has a small cupboard that holds the ingredients for say twenty meals that has to be restocked by the owner. (Alternately, just let the innkeeper hold twenty meals.) Water should be provided automatically with other drinks available for sale as provided by the owner. Since there are so many obsessive people in this game that would likely bring their own food ingredients there should be an innkeeper's fire place (heats food only) that is available with internal cooking equipment that could be used by the traveler with their own ingredients. The Innkeeper's fireplace would be like the merchants stall, be required to be built inside of a completed building with the Innkeeper placed inside the fireplace "stall". And finally, in order to make inn's new player friendly, let the bar tender be like tokens, merchant's etc and be able to buy stuff from noobs to provide enough money to afford a night or a meal.

I responded to a post by sailingsuzye (below) about saddle bags, that I would like to see pack horses. It was suggested that I start a new thread, so that's what I'm doing. I have long thought that it was strange that in Wurm we do not have pack animals. To me the easiest solution to this would be to allow to attach pack panniers to horses and then lead them. Pack animals should be available to all players either being lead by a rider on a horse or someone on foot. This would allow new players that can't ride horses or carts the ability to move a small amount of supplies, maybe 250kg without having to carry it in inventory. They could still then out run many predators since they aren't carrying a bunch of weight. This idea was brought back into focus for me recently with the removal of crops as sacc'ing items for my Libilia Priest. While Libilia as always had the option to sacrifice butchered items, the amount they weigh as always meant they were left behind due to the ease of using crops. Along with using chopped veggies I now also collect butchered items and forage for all the new cooking items. It doesn't take long to get a lot of weight in inventory. Wandering around the back country on horseback is much easier than driving a cart. While I think that using horses as the pack animal is the easiest for coding, there may be other issues that argue for another type of animal such as a mule or donkey to be used as pack animals. This would provide for additional breeding options. For more information on Horses vs Mules vs Donkeys then you ever wanted to know you can visit this site like I did : http://luckythreeranch.com/lucky-three-ranch-training/mule-facts/ Comments?

And if we can get saddle bags, why not be able to have pack horses? For those times when you need to haul just a little bit, like foraging excursions.

Only important to HOTS, but the ability to create a tile resistant to Myc but still able to be planted with Fruit Tree's or other resource bearing shrub (for example grapes) which could then be harvested without the need to absorb the myc. The ability to change dirt or sand tiles to be converted to a "Mulched Tile" by the addition of "Saw Dust". The "Saw Dust" would be created using a saw on a log. I suggest the creation of "Saw Dust" to prevent the accidental conversion of ordinary tiles to the new "Mulched Tile". This would make it feasible for HOTS to have large fields of resource bearing trees and shrubs, similar to other servers which don't have to deal with Myc. Secondly, the ability to rummage clay tiles to get enough clay to make a quick clay bowl to make a meal. In real life you could scrape enough clay with your hands to make a bowl. This way you wouldn't have to carry a shovel everywhere you go. I needed to make a meal last night, and could not find a "branch" to be able to cook a pig (my sword, knife, everything else I had with me can't dig and I can't cut a "branch"). If concerned about littering the landscape with bowls make it a special bowl with high decay. Or, alternatively allow making a single-use wooden bowl with a carving knife that could be left in the fire to be consumed.

Is the login server down? Unable to connect to Epic. Just says connecting to server, but never times out. I was connected couple of hours ago. Edit: Just got logged in finally.

Very interesting reading! I would be interested in knowing if there are any floor or ceiling levels beyond which values won't go. For example, in the miscellaneous list Web Armor is said to slow an attacker by .05 seconds per power. So a 100 power cast would mean a player would be slowed by 5 seconds. So an attacker with a small sword would only be swinging it every 8 seconds vs the 3 second base rate, cutting his dps to almost a third of normal, while someone with a 5 second attack timer would only be cut to half of their normal dps. In some other games I've played buffs/debuffs are limited by some formula or hard number. Knowledge of any floors or ceilings would be important not only in determining the weapon you want to use but also in how much effort/resources you want to put in to achieving higher numbers of, in this case web armor.

I think I was just being an idiot this morning. Everything seems fine. You can close this if you wish.

I'll take another look at it tonight after work. Maybe I was still asleep. Confirm Quality etc.

After the update today was doing some spell casting on some items. Prior to patch I could sac 8 garlic to get 70 some favor, now I have to sac 16. I had to leave for work so I couldn't test it anymore to see if it was all sacc items or if this was just Garlic.

Last time I checked Teamspeak it was free for up to 15 players. I had set one up about a year ago and that was the case.

I have 50 Silver, simply because I bought silver to re-start my deed and then changed my mind. Otherwise I'd be at the bottom of the pile with whatever money I'd have collected from rolls.