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  2. Posted · Edited by Thorakkanath

    You will need:

     

    • Litd pendulum to locate white shark or marlin spots
    • Perch for white sharks and minnows for marlins
    • A professional reel
    • Braided lines
    • Fishing pole
    • Metal hooks
    • Floats (twigs seem to be the easiest)
    • Lots of time.

     

    As fish do have difficulties (even if not listed) and the ql of the fish determines the weight of the fish, and because both marlins and white sharks are special fish...it will take you some fishing skilling to get to the point where you can catch those at a ql big enough for 75kg.

     

    For me....I started skilling fishing exactly for this purpose and my 75+kg white shark I caught (with quite a bit of luck) at 69 fishing. Under that is not that you don't catch them, but just like with casting, the ql mean depends heavily on your skill.

     

    Fishing is still not a hard skill, I was averaging about 2 skillpoints per hour...once you play a bit with the reels (Hint: the best reel is not the best for everything, for top skillgain you need to adjust the reel to what you are catching and to your skill level)

     

    Hope this helps!

  3. Posted · Edited by Thorakkanath

    I believe I will be closing down access to the map and this thread.

     

    It seems people are unwilling to help but they are very willing to take advantage of others that do the work. (226 views on this forum thread, 532 accesses on the page, so it is getting used a lot..)

     

    Instead, I will switch this to a "if you add something, you get access" type of scenario. Without seeing the map in advance, people could possibly submit the same ones again and again, but at least that way I can double check locations AND in case something new appears, add it to the map. 

     

    Btw, no epic structure posted in this thread counts to get access...

     

    I am still figuring out how to do this, will come up with a solution asap.

     

    I am sorry for the good and fair people out there, but...I don't like or care about free riders.

     

    PS. naturally, the 3 people that posted will get prime access to this :)

  5. Posted

    8 hours ago, Oblivionnreaver said:

     

    from my understanding any structures not just ones built for missions count now so it might be a bit rough finding every single mission structure ever built

     

    Can we get a confirmation on this please? @Retrograde - because on Niarja as well as in-game only the ones completed for missions appear in the area event messages

  6. Posted

    56 minutes ago, Oblivionnreaver said:

    left fist is obelisk 

    passage is pylon

     

    https://pastebin.com/GyrLLaZd is complete list of all possible names for each structure if you need to identify which ones are missing vs niarja's list or soemthing

     

    Thank you! Added

     

    Thanks also for the list....not sure how it can help, I mean I can probably find all instances and then cross them off once they apperar here... but that would be quite long of a process I believe....

  7. Posted · Edited by Thorakkanath

    32 minutes ago, Oblivionnreaver said:

    lefts fist at 1083, 6317.5

    passage to shard is around 6978.5, 5076.5

     

    from my understanding any structures not just ones built for missions count now so it might be a bit rough finding every single mission structure ever built

     

    That is why community support is so important on this one!

     

    And what TYPES are these structures? @Oblivionnreaver

  8. Posted

    Dear Xanadians!

     

    with the new Journal quests where so many missions need to be done in order to get it I thought to turn toward the community for help with this endeavor (for me as well as any other Xanadian around). With help from others (thanks Flubb!), I managed to make a quick website that should act as a guide toward finding Epic studctures fast and solving the missions even faster.

     

    The link to the POI map can be found here:

     

    https://dc-networks.cf/wo/poi/xanadu/

     

    I already started populating the map, but of course ANYONE coming across these Epic structures anywhere can report their location by posting in this thread.

    To make things simpler, when you click on any point of the map except the markers, it will bring a pop-up that will tell you the exact coordinates of that point, so that I know exactly where to put the marker on the map.

     

    For simplicity's sake, please let me know:

     

    Quote
    • The name of the structure
    • The exact location (coordinates)
    • The type (Obelisk, Pylon, Shrine, Gate, etc.)

     

    Xanadu is big....the more people wanting to chip in, the easier and faster and better this map will become.

     

    I really hope this will help everyone!

     

    Ps. I will update this map as often as possible. Just leave your replies in this thread

     

    Best,

    Thor

  9. Posted

    4 hours ago, Flubb said:

    So I have to concede a slight defeat here. The good news is

     

    [01:58:33] As the Rite of Spring is completed, followers of Vynora may now receive a blessing!

     

    The bad news is that it happened to fill up around 23:30 CET and for fear of snipers, we didn't want to wait throughout the whole night to cast it. Half the roster was there and clearly nobody was comfortable with waiting another 8-10 hours. I take full responsibility and apologize to those we had to skip over though and draw some lessons from it. The first being that the "progress info", as far as I am being informed about it, will be back up in the OP so that peope on the list can plan better around when to be online, and perhaps I'll figure out a schedule to know more precisely when it starts (I've been praying for over a week when it was "almost done"...didn't expect that.)

     

    For what it's worth, we managed to pull in some extra people from the chat to get this blasted goal out of the way for as many people as possible (as many as were available at least, 1 link was woefully wasted...because I forgot to summon the person in the heat of the moment, of all things. Got nothing to say for myself in that regard.), and the Flubbregation of 7 Vyn Followers spazzing around a wooden altar is hard at work recharging RoS since it's in such high demand.

     

    To end on a positive note: Despite waiting over 2 hours, durign which I prodded through the backlog, we didn't get sniped, and perhaps we'll push our "luck" a bit further next time since people generally want this to be organized, or at least open to all, so maybe good intentions can win over elbow tactics for once? (Despite their admittedly flawed execution)

    Either way, congratz to the casters:

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    Kain (Caster)

    Gandalfthegreat

    Tamina

    Bunnybuns

    Tamitra

    Xsighx

    Eshaa (Actually just wanted to do a sermon around many people for faith gain and probably didn't seem to understand the implication of their participation. Yet. :D)

    Tulon

     

    The rest I'll see in about 3-4 weeks with new humbling experiences on my part that'll hopefully make things go a lot better.

     

    Unfortunately this is part of taking on responsibility to organize something. As long as no one organizes anything, no one has any expectations - but because you took on the challenge now people expect something from you.

     

    On the other hand, I too wish this was handled better...You said you waited for 2 hours, did you try PM ing the people on the forums that registered? Some of them could have seen the message with plenty of time to spare :)

     

    The last big hurdle to get Benediction for my GF is exactly this. Eveyrihting else can be completed within a day...so in effect, you just set back one person in particular by some time, a person that actually registered for this. I am not upset, it's a community event after all, I am just sad for relying on a system (and that is why sniping happens, because people don't trust a system...) 

     

    In any case I don't want to derail the topic itself, which is very noble - but wanted to point out the irony in what has happened :) 

     

  11. Posted

    Southeners' chipping in!

     

    Priest name: Inspira & Biostar

    Main Contact: Thorakkanath, Inspira or Vitrelle

    Location: Thunderstorm Keep (Q11)

    TImes: all over the place, afternoons Central US time, evenings GMT time

    Gimmicks: runed mailbox, beds (via concierge for now - Inn in development), food, conversions, highway access

     

    Notes: no destroying anything offdeed, especially hedges or oaks - other than that have fun!

  15. Posted

    Dear friends and people looking for a new home!

     

    We were very disappointed in one of the new players and had to let him go. That means we are back to two plots available!

     

    Send us a message if you are interested in joining a community!

  16. Posted · Edited by Thorakkanath

    Hey!

     

    I have a few issues...

     

    1. The slay 20k creatures - can be easily tracked through achievements and I have more than enough, why do we need to go through that again? especially cause it is easily trackable (also does it have a tracker? it shows nothing, even if I killed some animals in the past few days)

    2. I have a good bit over 5000 total skill points, yet the goal is not completed yet - does it not round points up and always rounds down to the full integer? I did not calculate, but maybe because of that I don't have the mission completed (according to niarja I had a few months ago 5035 points) - also the 5000 skill points has no % tracker, would be nice not to need to use niarja or calculate manually :)

     

    I do have to say that all the benefits are okayish, but not nearly as powerful as always +5 power in casting is from benediction

     

    Nevertheless, thank you for the great update so far, I know it must be hard work to balance everything to make it just right

     

  17. Posted

    We are still looking for another player!

     

    In order to keep this community balanced, fun and not male centric, we would prefer to recruit another female into our community - so please get in touch with either me or inspira!

     

    Of course, we will consider everyone! But we wanted to push people that are on the fence or maybe need a small nudge to get in touch with us :D

     

    ...and as always...please no one touch Inspira's weeds!

  18. Posted · Edited by Thorakkanath

    Our community is growing! We now have a second member on our deed, a player that started over 7 years ago but took a long sabbatical away from wurm! With him Plot 3 is now occupied!

  20. Posted

    On 3/11/2019 at 12:15 AM, LordLouis said:

    Apologies for the mess and for the fact I had to log off straight after the slay. I can see why he was left in the centre of the tundra for so long now undetected.

    I am glad you have it fixed up, I appreciate how tundras, and pockets of natural beauty are important to its locals. If you need any transmutation liquid for the remaining missing tundras let me know. I will mail it over with no fee.

    I have seen the loss of tundras on other servers with certain people campaigning for its removal. The sole reason apparently being that of things not spawning on it and instructing their minions to destroy it. 

    Very sad indeed, anything I can do now I am back in-game from a crisis in RL, do let me know. 

     

    Ps . Thank you to all who attended, supported and had patience for the public slaying, and best of luck to Bipolar in his hunting endeavours for more uniques. There is a great hunter in all of us. 

     

    Thank you for caring about the local scenery! After working for about 5 hours, we got back to a good situation in the tundra. All I need to complete the work is to repair 7 tiles of tundra. Do you think you can help with that?

     

    Thank you to Flubb and Explora that stayed with me and helped me destroy fences and altars!

  22. Posted

    So this suggestion is helping players, developers and GMs alike.

     

    Currently no vehicle is bashable. And that causes a bunch of problems. For the journal you need to make a small cart, a large cart, a wagon and a boat. What to do with them once you complete the goal if you already have all you need? NOTHING. You cannot bash them, and vehicles decay REALLY slowly.

     

    That is:

    1. Stupid, considering it's yours - you should do whatever you want with it
    2. unnecesarily adds to the (already large) database of items on each server
    3. creating unnecesary clutter
    4. bad, WHEN players leave (notice I said when and not if) mayors are left with carts/wagons/boats/... on deed that they cannot move 

     

    So, this is a two part suggestion here:

    1. allow owners to bash their own vehicles (freedom only for example if you feel it's a problem for pvp; idk about pvp ramifications, and code exists to split this exists)
    2. allow mayors to bash and/or perm override to become owners of the vehicles of other people that have not logged in a given amount of time (i'd say 3 months, just like merchants and just like sped up decay on homes in the wilderness)

     

    Like I said,

    QoL for players is better control over their items (suggestion 1) and deeds (suggestion 2);

    QoL improvement for Devs (less pointless, useless calculations of decay for pointless, useless items in the databases) and

    QoL improvement for GMs and Players (not needing to write tickets about moving vehicles of others parked on or right in front of their deeds - and GMs not having to move stuff all the time)

     

    Thor

  24. Posted · Edited by Thorakkanath

    The House of Thunder of Thunderstorm Keep, the capital of Stormshield Alliance -- is recruiting!

     

    At the beginning of Xanadu we had a lot of neighbors, friends of old. Now we are the only ones left and it's quiet. Don't get us wrong! We like quiet, but sometimes the game is just boring if you don't have others to work together on projects or just chat.

     

    So we are opening our deed to three people! There are a few things we look for in people wanting to join:

     

    • Players that have some Wurm experience under their belt (not much needed, but please not complete beginners)
    • People that want to stay as part of a community rather than just stay here until they have enough funds to get their own deed
    • Due to the configuration of our deed, some light form of roleplay is recommended in order to have fun (the nobility of the inner keep and the aspiring knights/ladies living in the outer keep (you))
    • English as preffered communication language
    • EU/US location recommended
    • Mature players that don't take things personal. Due to cultural differences it can be easy to get your feelings hurt, even when other people did not intend to offend anyone (include here bad jokes...)
    • SOME form of neatness. As you probably will notice from the pictures, our deed is pretty clean of junk and stuff laying everywhere. We would like to keep it like that as much as possible :)

     

    ...onwards TO THE PICTURES!

     

    https://imgur.com/a/wNkAUs3

     

     

    ...the plots

     

    Plot 1

    • The innermost plot, closest to the Inner Keep
    • 12x4 tiles overall
    • 46 tiles effective

    Plot 2

    • At the eastern side of the Keep, next to the Customs and Trading Center building
    • 12x5 tiles overall
    • 56 tiles effective

    Plot 3

    • At the southern part of the Keep, next to the South Gate, this plot has beautiful views on the keep and the surroundings
    • 10x7 tiles overall
    • 65 tiles effective

     

    ...the small print about deed rules

    • no taking stuff that does not belong to you without asking
    • please, no buildings higher than 2 stories (has to do with the light roleplay we were talking about earlier and the overall deed design)
    • do not harvest Inspira's crops (she wants them to wither by themselves)

     

    How to contact us

    • by replying here
    • by messaging Thorakkanath here or in-game
    • by messaging Inspira or VItrelle in-game
    • through smoke signals
    • or by shouting really loud

     

    We look forward to welcoming you to our Keep,

     

    Thorakkanath and Inspira,

    King and Queen of Thunderstorm Keep