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Make sure if you play on Storm that you make an account whos name starts with AA....since ties obviously go to the one with highest alphabetical order, as that is all the website will display on the front page.

Kick our challenge toons back to GV and let us put our money other places and the problem of having that advantage next round is taken care of, hehehe. Olloch you can not place archery towers on top of each other anymore, that was fixed about halfway through.

Well since you brought it up, achievements had nothing to do with the very end, it had to do with this guy getting over 120 achievements in 2 days by exploiting a hidden variable Rolf refuses to fix before rewarding.

More mobs...cant find hunting...wtf i think you accidentally logged on xanadu bro

Well show me the logs of a death tab where you think Rakki killed an alt of his.

Here are my notes/suggestions/comments: 1. All 3 forward bases should be equal distance from the center hota, with no lakes or anything to get in the way. Last time Firefangs was the closest and Blacklighters had to go around a lake to even get to the hota. 2. All resource spawns should have a 10 tile if not bigger range that nothing can be terraformed or built on. This will make it more of a pvp focus and less of a who can build the most/better walls focus. Now granted, someone could still go and wall in the entire area, but hey that will take much more time and if they get away with it, thats on the people who want to keep access not stoping them. 3. Alts were a problem and big complaint, please attach the epic portals to challenge to allow people to bring their already premium accounts in, then make challenge a premium only situation. 4. Kings and champions need to have some kind of an offline timer. Challenge is too short for people to be taking up the slots and then not playing for a week or more. If the player is offline for lets say 72 straight hours they should auto dechamp or abdicate king, to allow someone active to fill that spot. I understand real life comes up, but challenge is too short to excuse it. Granted someone could still abuse this by loggin in for 2 minutes every day, but it is not possible to make it perfect. You may also consider making it so that kings can be challenged once every 3 days rather than one time per week, with the same 3 times they can refuse the challenge, that way if a realm has a problem king they can do something about it before challenge is over. 5. Hota wins. Can you change this to who caps the most pillars and a single reward. There was some worry that the mayor who won would keep all the necklaces for himself to sell or whatever, the person was not even active at the end, but since they were the leader of the alliance they won without playing for 2 weeks, seems a bit off. The only problem with this system is it will cause in fighting on who gets to cap pillars, so I feel even my way is very flawed, could use some advice/critics on this to get it right. 6. Ruler with the most land... Maybe make it most towers conquered/built/destroyed or something. Again this was rewarded to an inactive player. 7. Is it possible to change most karma to most karma gained from source? As it stands it ties too closely with most battle rank/most unique kills etc since those reward much more karma than source. 8. Unless you can fix all achievements to trigger properly, and make ONLY the achievements that show in the achievement window count (actual achievements), do away with this category entirely. 9. Personal goals no, just no, this is won by making alts until you get one with the most doable personal goals. There are too many personal goals that can not possibly be done on challenge to allow for this category. 10. Give the freedomers something to compete for! Perhaps most structures completed (this would include walls, archery towers, guard towers, each individual house wall etc). Another possibility is most skill titles earned perhaps (I say skill titles to make it fair, this way the freedomers can craft their little hearts out for these titles without someone winning from kingdom titles or unique kills etc). FOR GOD SAKES NOT SO MANY STEEP SLOPES ALL OVER THE MAP. Some nice rolling planes with 20 slopes would be much better than all the 30+ slopes EVERYWHERE. Oh and can we get a special command, or perhaps added to /playtime that tells how long is left on the server. I am sure I missed a few things on my list, if I remember them I will update asap.

That was actually discussed, and suspected of a few people, but guess what Rakki refused to do that, the only alts that he killed ever were other people's alts that were doing shady things in the hota or attacking horses, he never once killed an alt of his own.

Most of those categories he won in required the player actually be a good player. When I said something about him having help what I meant was when he called we went to pvp with him. When I found source I put it in a waterskin and gave it to him daily. I gave him advice on easy achievements so that he could get a couple a day for more overall points. I am not saying you were acusing of this but just in case I wanted you to know that only Rakki played Laststand.

Now if we could just actually get ahold of that money we looted...

Laststand worked hard for them, and had a little help from his friends

How about for that most unique achievements you do a little manual check and log into the accounts and count the number of achievements in the achievement window, cause I can tell you right now it isnt 171 and 172...

Title: Inquisitor(male) Hag(female) Ability: Karma Missle 300 karma to cast, acid burn damage usually around 10 dmg Buff/Debuff: 15% Pierce resistance, 10% bite vulnerability

You may also wish to try launching the jnlp as administrator. Right click the file and choose run as administrator.

The issue with bridges is complicated because this is NOT a 3D game. Once you realize that the game is 2D with a height map, the fact that they even got multi story houses to work is AMAZING. Java makes it easy for them to make the game cross platform, Mac, Winblows and Linux users can all enjoy the game without the devs having to make seperate clients for each system. While I agree completely that a different, or custom engine would be amazing for Wurm. That is a huge undertaking for a dev team that consists of what 5 people sitting in a small office with a handful of volunteer helpers. It would take a AAA company 6+ years, multi million dollar budget, and a staff of 50-100 people if not more to make wurm on another or custom engine...and guess what, it would still have bugs.

The numbers are hard to judge, on one hand you have a lot of people gone out of town without their gaming computers. On the other hand you are competing with all the christmas releases of new games. You also have people that want to win and got behind and gave up after a couple of weeks. When there is nothing permanent things tend to drop fast because if they are not in the running to win a prize, why try, they go back to their mains and work on their deeds, or pvp for meaningful rewards depending on freedumb or epeen players. They stated challenge was meant to be a test server, an issue of fun and fast paced action, perhaps also an attempt to bring back people who quit because of the grind. In the aspect of testing I really think it was successful. People tested things like trebuchets, archery towers, siege shields, and balistas in a real playing envioronment. Not on the test server where you set up specific situations, but a real working dynamic playing atmosphere. Now trebuchets and balistas still do not work granted, they did do some massive fixes to siege shields, spike barriers and archery towers. Ordecc and myself hit the achievements hard, and got some really good test results, which were reported to the devs, some of them were fixed, some are still broken but the devs were made aware of them. This is also a successful test in my opinion. A lot of raw and recorded data in a condensed period of time to allow the devs to fix problems with the system. In the view that challenge is a test server with rewards, I feel like it was a great success. It is a temporary atmosphere, being successful on player numbers over the entire month is not even a point in my opinion. Rolf really wants to make pvp work. Thank you freedumbers for keeping the game going. I am not and never will deny this, Freedom pays for the game and has for a long time. I am very happy that you have a system of Wurm that you guys like. I am also happy that the devs have been giving you candy to decorate your nice and safe deeds with, like thrones, bookshelves and junk. However there are pvper's too and there are lacking points and issues with the pvp in Wurm. Challenge is a great way to get new features and adjustments tested in a working environment, attracting players to do these tests by giving competitive rewards, and get some things worked out before introducing them to epic/chaos without breaking those servers. In conclusion I feel like Challenge is one of Rolf's best decisions in a long time, as a test server. If you try to look at it as a successful populated server, sure it failed. However the later was not the intent. Thank you dev's for allowing us to have this fun, I hope you do another but please space them out and try to fix many of the issues, and make a better more balanced map.

Got deforestation, even before the patch. Environmental Hero I can confirm is bugged, we tried many different ways. Drag cart 1250 I can confirm is bugged. Rider of the Apocalypse some people got some people didnt, had a few allliance mates get it. Lord of War I can confirm is bugged. Pirate, confirm You Beaty was fixed with the patch, I got that one after patch. It only worked with gold, it did not trigger with an adi ring. Demolisher is bugged, I destroyed many many structures with a catapult. I believe the problem lies with the new debris system. Under the influence required 5 potions. I got that one. I had ambitious for doing 100k actions, in my achievement list.... Chief Mate and Cap'n I could not trigger, another one some people got and others did not. Just a cold I got, using 4 bison in a 1x1 pin standing with them overnight. So to review, I got several that you couldnt, I was on death tabs many times getting the many different weapon ones, the warrior for 1100 rank, had all 3 for the 3 different types of kingdom titles, and drakeslayer which you were not a part of...so... I demand a manual review before any award is given. I would have been ahead anyway but my net went out at 3am, I had 5 more lined up.

Bump, vacations over devs Hope you had a wonderful holidays.

why not, on a priest alt, while watching netflix

The main ones I am concerned with in this thread are the ones others get credit for but some do not like some people got credit for building all boat types, some for all hell but I did not. However on a side note I just drained the same deed for the 3rd day in a row. I got the debt collector silver popup in the upper right all 3 days, but never got up the drain.

Clumsy as well, I just went running off the side of a mountain for 50% falling damage and nothing....

To further on this I just noticed on my challenged profile page, it says I have 9 personal goals...I have 11 done (that actually worked I have 3 bugged ones there). I swear it said 11 a couple of days ago too. This may need to be looked at as well, perhaps the real winner is not winning because of this problem in the Personal Goals category?

Some achievements are giving credit to some people and not others, this is a very serious problem in a competition setting. I have 2 achievements that I know of, possibly more that I have done but not gotten credit for. These 2 in particular others say they got credit for. All Hell and Build one of each boat type As such I would request greatly before giving any rewards you compare all of the top 10 achievers with their database vs achievement possibilities and weigh appropriate credit so that the actual winner wins! Thanks