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crap QL, no enchants make some smoothies or something with it I don't know starting bid is 3s, bid in increments of 50c, ends in 30 hours.

The lag is on a server level.

Should skills that are nearly entirely unrelated to each other share a governing skill?

Heh. I wish. You are mostly right but you have to observe some trends in the industry that severely hinder the kind of progress you're hoping for. Those go hand in hand. But as resources pile up, so do they get wasted in increasing amounts. A million monkeys on a million Xeon E5s couldn't program a backend worth a damn. Languages are abstracting. They're getting higher level and easier to code and deploy software with. That's not a bad thing but there hasn't been any major development in programming theory in a very long time. Those won't magically solve the problems you enumerated. A game like Wurm will never be bug-free. Cross that off your wishlist. Also, the team is rather small and Java is not designed to be a powerhouse language so any optimization they can manage is a godsend. As for server issues, they are most often due to incompetent ISPs with terrible infrastructure. Wurm always felt dated to me, visually. And that's alright. It's not the point of the game.

That's cool. Just saying that Oracle JDK is actually OpenJDK plus a few proprietary technologies (such as WebStart) , which IcedTea provides. Taken from http://openjdk.java.net/faq/

Getting Wurm to run on Linux is slightly different to doing it on Windows and slightly varies depending on your distribution of choice. It's still very easy and quick to do, however. This guide assumes you have your drivers installed and everything else is in order. Step 1: Getting the Java Runtime Environment You will require OpenJDK and IcedTea. Don't be turned off by the names. OpenJDK is maintained by Oracle itself and is considered the reference implementation for Java 7 and forth. IcedTea adds functionality to OpenJDK that is normally only present in Oracle JDK. The most important of those is Oracle WebStart, which Wurm Online's launcher relies on. It is possible to get Oracle JDK on Linux, but many distributions will only include OpenJDK within their repositories. Please check your distribution's documentation and package repositories if it isn't present in this list. If your distribution is derivative of one of these then it most likely will work as well. You may also use the graphical software centers like Synaptic or YaST. Ubuntu sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre icedtea-webArch Linux sudo pacman -S jre8-openjdk icedtea-webFedora sudo yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk icedtea-webOpenSUSE zypper install java-1_8_0-openjdk icedtea-webStep 2: Play the game That should do the trick. Download wurmclient.jnlp from the Wurm website and execute it. Click yes on the subsequent prompts and the game will run like you expect it to. FAQ How does it perform? I have not noticed a difference in performance between Windows and Linux. I am using Nvidia drivers. Will need people with Intel and AMD GPUs to contribute their experiences. Is it stable? In roughly 4 days of playtime I have had very little issues. Three times I have suffered from a memory leak which locked up xorg and forced me to switch to a teletyper and kill the process manually. I'm still not sure whether Firefox or Wurm is responsible however. Why not Oracle JDK? From OpenJDK's FAQ At the moment, all Wurm uses that OpenJDK doesn't provide is WebStart, which is provided by IcedTea. Since most distributions will require a manual installation of Oracle Java, it's usually quicker and easier to install OpenJDK and Icedtea instead.

Can vouch for him. Great guy all around.

This is going to be a rant, so turn back if you don't want to hear it. Wurm is the sandbox MMO by excellence. I've never found anything that matched it. It's truly great. And whether or not you think cooperating with neighbors should be necessary, I'm sure we can all agree that it sates the human hunger for having your own place and building ######. Your own sandbox, in short. With that said, that seems to be incredibly hard to find on Freedom now. You have Release, which is covered in ghost towns. Every inch I've looked that is either inhabited or covered in decaying buildings and depleting deeds. Maybe I haven't looked hard enough, but I think a total of 12 hours spent looking ought to be enough. In short, you either have to join a village or build somewhere that's covered in walls and slabs you don't have the Body Strength to remove. Either way you're playing in somebody else's sandbox, and they get to say where what goes. Now this gets pretty disheartening when you consider that some maps are either littered with mobs that only veterans could clear. On Release there is hellspawn everywhere. You can't stray from a road without getting jumped by a large spider or bear. But then you go to Xanadu and find that there aren't enough mobs for everyone. It boggles the mind. And even Xanadu is still covered in dozens upon dozens of useless pimple mountains that can't be built on and mostly exist to be tunneled through. After so many maps, things out to improve. It just happens that too little of the map is actually liveable. So if we had some kind of console command or karma spell (or whatever) that could teleport you to a random, undeeded spot with trees and at least one kind of mineral nearby then it would save a lot of people a lot of time without making the game much easier. It would only reduce tedium and time spent not progressing. That, or clear up some older maps of all buildings that are above 20 DMG, reimburse deeds that haven't had villager activity in over a month or something so that liveable space becomes available again.