Maxthx

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  1. +1 My Fo priest is a female trapped in a male body and its damaging to her well being.
  2. Bump Spent two hours today gathering 10 woad
  3. How about just making banks available from every token? That would solve all of your coinage issues (I assume). Everything else just sounds like hate on players getting money from Traders.
  4. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that Woad is probably the rarest resource in Wurm with the recent changes. Reasons : 1) Mining (as a comparison) is something that basically any settlement must do in order to function. It is one of the three basic resource gathering skills and if you do happen to have an account that doesn't mine, you either know someone that does or have an alternate account. Therefore, through trade, getting access to high quality resources for mine skill based dye components is only a matter of networking. 2) Farming is also something that basically any settlement must do in order to function. Beyond Farming there is also Forestry, or the transplanting and maintenance of tree stocks in order to get access to wood/fruit/harvestable resources on a wurm-annual basis. You can also plant as many, or as few, of these resources as you desire and with general maintenance receive a crop of any size you desire (in general). 3) Tile specific resources like Clay, Tar, or even Moss are easy to locate because of there visibility on the map and now the ability to create those tiles using special potions. Even if you do have to travel to these locations to secure these resources, you then are allowed to dig as much of the resource as you desire with a near infinity availability to resupply or harvest (in general). 4) Although Steppe is also a tile type that you can either transplant or travel to it would still require either of those actions... and then you have to use a skill which is not terribly easy to level up because of inconsistent availability of botanize options (ie "this area is picked clean"). If the tile has an available botanize action then you still have to deal with the random table of options available under this action which has been vastly expanded with the new update. Even when using more specific botanize options. 5) As a comparison, the new cooking update gave a vastly more significant role to Salt. And it was obvious from the way the old system functioned that new system of generating the Salt resource was needed. It was (I assume) for this reason that the Rock Salt resource was added to the mile layer. So Salt is more widely available and in greater quantities. Woad on the other hand has become drastically more difficult to find under this new system because it requires so many different things to locate. And then even when you do locate it, the quality (which previously had a wide randomized component) is entirely dependent on your skill. The significance of Woad in the Wurm world should not be downplayed here. Every dye in the Wurm world has a Blue component to its nature. There is a literally one third of the color spectrum which requires blue as a component in order to make. And because of the extreme measures now required for it, high quality woad is basically impossible to get in large quantities for these dyes. If you had the Steppe tiles available, and if you had a high botanize skill, and if those tiles had available botanize actions you would still have to deal with the random nature of the loot tree. As a result it can take a full day (6-10 hours) to acquire enough woad to fill one small barrel with high quality blue dye. By comparison it would take maybe 10-30 minutes to acquire the exact same amount of components for either red/green dye (assuming either bugs or copper are available). That is insane. (In My Humble Opinion)
  5. Is it just me or does Nadroj routinely make super awesome suggestions that never get implemented? +1 #SavetheBlue
  6. Part 1 - Bartle's Taxonomy - What Type of Player are You? Part 2 - Balancing an MMO Ecosystem - Getting a Mix of Player Types When I was linked to these videos all I could think of was "Someone should show this to the Wurm Team". What type of game is Wurm? Which target audience is it shooting for? Do you think there is balance? Would you want to change the mix of players? Where do you fall in Bartle's Taxonomy?
  7. Map dumps!

    Is there a set scale for the topographical markings? Like for every 100 dirt or something?
  8. I've uninstalled and reinstalled Java. I've restarted my computer (both before and after the reinstall). I've restarted my modem. I've flushed my DNS. However I am still unable to connect to the patch server nor wurmpedia. After reading through all the threads about these issues I'm convinced it is a DNS issue. Especially after several of them seem to resolve the issue without actual changes. So I need to edit the hosts.ini file with current IP addresses for the update server and Wurmpedia. Anyone have these? Or can link me to somewhere I can find them? -->> Edit <<-- Issue Resolved It was indeed a DNS issue, specifically the IPv6 DNS that my ISP was using were non-functional. I edited my preferred DNS servers to Google's using this document as guidance, https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using Everything is working now. I appreciate the help, wouldn't have found the answer without it.
  9. I haven't made any edits like that. At this point I've completely deleted Wurm from my system and tried to reinstall, however I can't because there is no connection to the patch server so I can't even begin downloading the files. The only significant change I've made on this system since the last time I was able to connect was a Java update. So my only guess is that something in the Java update caused this. I'll try uninstalling and reinstalling Java but I'm not sure that'll solve this. Someone posted about having this issue previously but their issue just cleared up normally. Which is not helpful to me for correcting this.
  10. I have been unable to log into Wurm for four days now because I am experiencing an error that prevents me from patching the game. I do not know if its related, but I have been unable to connect to Wurmpedia in the same period of time.
  11. JK can't do Tosiek missions either.
  12. I updated the wiki with that information based on the fact it was cast again after 19 hours. The amount of information publicly available about the spell is seriously limited. If a bug was involved and you are not currently able to cast the spell again please provide more information so the wiki can be accurately updated.
  13. A really good book. When good things happen to good people. Helping others.
  14. In my personal opinion, removing the local from the game would be the worst change for PvP ever. Maps are huge, without the ability the get an idea who is around you then finding anyone would be practically impossible. The only reason you would ever want it removed is to ambush kill people and run away, which in my humble opinion is not PvP.
  15. I'm sorry, I'm obviously missing something. This sounds like a really ineffective way of trying to fight alt abuse. As it doesn't stop people from using alts, it just gives them a limit to how many they can recruit. But in reality it will just end up turning PvP areas into a closed communities. Isn't there enough stagnation? We don't need to hard code the rules to keep people from joining PvP deeds.
  16. In the very beginning it was the helpful players that I talked to. After several months I graduated to the wiki.
  17. I always liked the inverse champion size error... Having a lava spider model smaller than a bucket run up to you... Looks adorable until you start screaming from the burn wounds.
  18. ah... memories... I miss the old wild cat model. It reminded me of a Lynx instead of a Tabby.
  19. I've seen this with a scorpion stone too.
  20. All chests that were spawned when the server went up are empty. Add an item to them and then remove it to clear the chest. All newly spawned chests will have items in them as normal.
  21. Final map

    Is there a .png version?
  22. I find your lack of mountains disturbing. Where are we going to build all the Epic Structures?