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Bump. Anyone else has an answer to this please?

I'm playing WU on my own laptop and keep the server up only for as long as I'm playing, shutting it down immediately after I log out. Then the server stays closed 'till I have time to play again (which is usually the next day). Now here's my question: When I start the server next time, will it continue right from where I stopped it last time (as in my crops, trees, animals stay at same age and no decay happens, trying to mimic save/load feature from a single player game) or it will check the local time and try to catchup (as in my crops, trees, animals will age and decay will happen, trying to mimic a persistent server) or anything in between (as in it would catchup some of the missed time, but not all)?

Presuming that I have a server and a friend has a server, can we link them (and travel from one to another) or they must share same database / reside on same computer?

Character name please?

Hello! Is there any public team speak server where people can stay and just chat about their wurm (and not only) adventures, while waiting for actions to complete?

Are these fixes for WO only or for both WO and WU?

Keeping a backup for cases when things just go wrong (as in files getting corrupted or a failed update going on) is no problem; I set it to do it daily anyway. What I meant was something like, let's say one year from now on, they decide to introduce... dunno... let's say 3D mines. At that point: - the update will just work without breaking up the server - the update might break the server, but would not be forced (as in we'd be given the options to either wipe our servers and start over with the new feature - 3D mines or, alternatively, stop the update and go on with our old server denying us the chance to the new feature and probably any future features as well) - the update might break the server and would be forced (as in all our "work" would go on the drain) I mean, far now, in the 12+ years of history of WO any new feature worked on top of existing servers (maybe having bugs or so, but not requiring any wipe)... will the same policy apply to all future update of WU or we should better treat our servers as somehow "temporary" since introduction of future features might break them and force a wipe...

Are these fixes for WO only or for both WO and WU?

I have a couple of quite important (at least for me) questions: 1. Is it possible that future updates of WU will "force" a wipe of our servers (as in corrupting database and have to start over) or all updates will just add/tweak content to existing databases, similar as it worked for WO in the past? 2. In the eventuality of something like that will happen, would it be possible to block the update so we can at least keep playing the game as it is at that stage? *** I ask that because I wanna know how to plan my future adventures: - (if no [major] wipes risk exist) play it on server settings as close as WO, trying to achieve a similar experience and enjoying character development for years, or even decades to come - (if wipes risk exist) play it in easy mode, true creative experience as in start directly with high skills and low action timers or even GM modes, just for the fun of building things, without investing much time in character development just to have it wiped after one day, month or year

Right from IRC (think we can trust the man): [00:30] <Rolf> cr modifier should be 1 i think and like 30%

What about player combat rating multiplayer or aggressive creatures?

Talking about the map being described here: http://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/132374-volcano-island/ (creation of Army, not mine); the map files are linked from said thread. Totally loved that map and I would love to start playing it tonight once the game is launched, but would like a few small tweaks, and since I'm not smart enough to do them by myself, thought that maybe someone can do them for me (I *think* that for someone who has the map generator installed and played a bit with it, should be simple enough; willing to pay a few silvers for that in WO if you still playing that one too). So what I would like: #1 please adjust the veins ratio to be somehow realistic with what WO has (a bit better would be OK, but not much better as in hit veins every second tile), but also have a bit of addy and glimmer; I think those numbers would be lovely: - iron: 4.00% - gold: 0.30% - silver: 0.50% - zinc: 0.50% - copper: 0.50% - lead: 0.50% - tin: 0.50% - marble: 0.50% - slate: 0.50% - addy: 0.10% - glimmer: 0.10% - rock: 92% #2 please move the two little islands like in this example (or, if too hard, just remove them all together): #3 (for my OCD thing) if not too much of a hassle, please center the island on map (if not already centered). Thank you a lot!

Thank you for the guide, but I still hope that, eventually, someone might assist with this... renting such a small VPS should be in my budget and I'm totally up for it... and if is not such a big deal, I hope that eventually, once they're done with their stuff and have some spare time, someone whom I may give the password to, might do those scary commands for me.

Any of our very creative people up for the challenge to recreate the Lincoln Island from Jules Verne's novel The Mysterious Island? Here's the original picture from the book (low res): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Ile_Mysterieuse_03.jpg And here's a better looking colored picture (medium res): http://i.imgur.com/xXaL6hA.jpg A drawed colored model (medium res): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lincoln_Island.jpg Finally a image of a player made map from another game (high res): http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/18/17238/21.jpg

Well, I thought a fair price would be in line with how much it costs for a hosted server of other similar game, and I took as example the LIF recommended hosting providers (list from here: http://lifeisfeudal.com/Hosting-Partners-for-LiFYO-Dedicated-Servers) since I assume consumed resources would be about the same. - Blue Fang is offering 16 slots server for $14.99 / month - Black Box is offering 20 slots server for $19.99 / month - Ping Perfect is offering 32 slots server for £10.00 / month - Kill Servers is offering 20 slots server for $20.00 / month - Nitrando is offering 4 slots server for €4.00 / month - Plug Pay Play is offering 8 slots server for £3.04 / month (7DTD, minecraft and other similar servers have about same price ranges - at about $1 or 1€ / slot at most - actually most of these games hosting providers offer similar services for tons of other games). So, based on these prices, for a tiny server like I want, with only one player (or well, let's say a maximum of 5 slots just to be on the safe side), I would find anything in the range of $5-$10 / month to be a fair price.

Yeah, basically what I was trying to achieve here was "2" from your list I first searched for game hosting companies that announced hosting WU servers (and found none; even mailed a few I knew from LIF or 7DTD and asked them if they plan to offer that and they said they don't know yet) since CC didn't announced any partener one. And when I saw that I can't find any, I thought on asking over here, maybe someone who is hosting a big server can squeeze my tiny one on the same physical machine (shouldn't eat many resources and since they will install their own server guess it wouldn't be a real hassle to just install one more) and charge me some money (hopefully not much) for that.

1. Well, first of all I'm behind a firewall, so couldn't connect from work/school, even if I would leave it open. 2. Considering the prices I saw on other sites for small (1-5 people) servers - for example this one for LIF: https://www.plugpayplay.com/services/gameservers/lifeisfeudal , I highly suspect that just paying the electricity bill for a non-stop open computer might cost me more. 3. That not counting that the computer itself would get used and risk breaking down, it will slow me down while doing other things and so on.

I know I'm probably crossing a line here, but well... if you try you have two chances, to get an yes or a no; if you don't try at all, you're stucked with the no. So... any chance you might make one more edit and make a version with the small islands a bit closer to the main one (may be only one, or the same two, or even more than two, but just closer - you know so could eventually link them with bridges and have them serve as outposts. Maybe something like this: PS: Even if you give me a "no, that is too much, get lost already you spoiled little brat", I would still think you're awesome.

You are AWESOME! Thank you!

The idea of hosting it locally has a few disadvantages: 1. Can't connect from work for example. 2. Since it will not be up during my offline times, things like crops, trees or animal growing will just not happen. 3. Extra pressure on my local computer's resources, obviously affecting client's performance.

I would like to play Wurm Unlimited in solo mode, on a tiny server all by myself (understood from previous thread that minimum map size is 1,024x1,024 (probably not more than 256x256 land mass with no more than 1,000 creatures or so), but this can artificially be shrinked by having lots of water surrounding the central area) so it should really not require much hosting resources, but problem is that I don't really have the hardware or technical knowledge to do this at home. So, since I heard there will be some people who plan to host biggish servers anyway, maybe there is someone out there who could squeeze my little server on their hosting machines so I can play too both from home and from work (think they can just assign me a different port, so no need for different IP or anything like that) and with a tiny map and one player only the consumed resources should probably be really low. And if anyone willing to help with that, how much would you charge me for this? Alternatively, do you think there will be games hosting companies who might offer this as a normal public service, just like there are for minecraft, life is feudal, 7 days to die and other "similar" games?

Awesome. Love ya!