Aeris

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  1. Posted

    19 hours ago, Khellus said:

    Hey there!

     

    I just wanted to get your opinion on why you wouldn't want additional animals.  Is it just due to the variety in existence or is it due to the limitations of the server animal populations?

     

    Both.

     

    I think that the game needs a lot of things, but more types of items and animals is not it for me. It doesn't really add anything beyond a higher item/creature count (and lag).

  6. Posted

    I've also experienced shifts in fighting stance, seemingly randomly since I've only noticed it upon logging in. But wouldn't at all surprise me if it happened during a disconnect and I just didn't notice because the GUI gave no indication.

  10. Posted · Edited by Aeris

    20 hours ago, Spacy said:

    Guess we will expect Mardi Gras to slow down on Sunday afternoon.  Least it is an easy hop due East off xan to the Hollow Canal.

     

    It is never our intention to inconvenience any impalong when we set a slaying date, but I'll level with you: We typically don't delay slayings on account of one of them either. Impalongs often occupy entire weekends (or weeks), and the organizers and finders are people with schedules of their own. Finding a date that works for all parties isn't always an easy task.
    It is also worth pointing out that while we do have an established slaying deed we can only do so much to keep the uniques contained. Some of them sit nicely inside the mine for the most part, seemingly unaware of their upcoming beheading, while others do heavy property damage and have to be dealt with sooner rather than later. This one belongs to the latter category.

     

    (All this to say we didn't intend to be a bother - And we do hope the impalong goes well!)

  11. Posted

    Congratulations to all the winners! 🥳

    As for the question:
    The important part when it comes to contest rules is that the winning submissions follow them as stated, so that all participants have the same opportunity and work with the same restrictions in mind. That seems to have been the case here, which is great!

  12. Posted

    7 minutes ago, Zerobyte said:

    Erm you have completely misread my intentions, by a mile.

     

    Getting rid of the 100 rift goal is a solution, any ideas what we should replace it with?

     

    You have offered no alternative explanation as to what your intentions are, or what you want, so we can only go by what you have actually written in the thread (and how you have responded to people's posts). You can hardly fault us for that. But fair enough, it's a relief to hear that all of us have misunderstood what you're after.

     

    What the 100 rift goal should be replaced with according to me is really not of relevance for the thread we're in, and I think it's unfair to take it that far off-topic. This discussion is already bordering what's relevant to the thread at hand, and that the Journal goal was mentioned to begin with was because it was pertinent to the underlying mechanics of the suggestion.

  13. Posted · Edited by Aeris

    46 minutes ago, Zerobyte said:

    Second point is exactly why it needs to be discussed, so all peoples needs are met 😀

     

    I began my posting in this thread by suggesting a solution for that, i.e. remove "100 rifts" from the Journal requirements and replace it with something enjoyable. You just didn't approve of that suggestion since your thinking is that everyone should suck it up for the sake of the Journal - Even though I literally suggested to make it so that people wouldn't have to do that. It's not enjoyable for people who don't like rifts to hang around while rift enthusiasts milk points at a rift, and it's not enjoyable for rift enthusiasts when people who don't enjoy rifts want to sacrifice hearts ASAP to end the rift.

     

    Replacing the 100 rift goal with something else is a solution that would satisfy everyone's needs. If you have a reason (that isn't self-serving) as for why that isn't good enough I'd like to hear it. And no: Forcing Freedom priests to play on Epic and Epic priests to play on Freedom is not a valid argument as for why people could "skip" the 100 rift goal - People play on the cluster they want to play on, and shouldn't be forced to play on the other.

  14. Posted

    47 minutes ago, Zerobyte said:

    I see it's been mentioned here about trying to get it done as quick as possible for the journal, I'm just wondering why, when that can be skipped to complete the journal.

     

    Let's not pretend like every player has the opportunity to complete all of the goals: You know they don't.

     

    Even if you go to Epic as a Freedom player, to get around being a priest, to complete the improvement goals you're not guaranteed to be able to. If you don't play on Epic it'll be quite the scrounge to come up with all the materials needed to work on your goals. And if you chose not to play on Epic (or vice versa) you likely don't want to be spending a huge chunk of your time on that cluster just because the assumption is that either you do that or you suck up going to rifts.


    Can you ignore the Journal completely? Absolutely! ...But: If you want to complete the Journal and you can do the Rift goal, why wouldn't you? They literally put that in the Journal to encourage people to go to rifts. But when you go to rifts solely for the purpose of the Journal you're suddenly told you're playing the game the wrong way, and that you're "ruining rifts" for wanting them to be over as quickly as possible. Going to rifts as part of the Journal completion was a goal chosen for the players, not the other way around. People have been making the best of it by trying to endure them as best as they can, which oftentimes includes finishing them "early". Up until the rift rewards started being worth ingame moolah this didn't use to be a problem, since most rift enjoyers were understanding of the fact that the majority of players only show up at rifts to complete the Journal goal.

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    Searching for stuff is fun in theory - In practice it takes too long, which means that some people who are eligible for a gift don't get to actually enjoy it. I didn't get to assemble my Christmas stuff until after Christmas was well and truly over, which was a bit of a bummer since they were all holiday themed. I appreciate all the effort that went into the event: It was a really good idea, and it was well executed. It was just too much, and took up too much time (especially in combination with the archaeology fragment hunting).

     

    I don't mind the skin approach - Either skin or solid items is fine by me.

  17. Posted

    The outrage with forum moderators who are doing their job, and providing a valuable service is very odd. I'm all for calling out bad practices when they occur, but this wasn't it: That thread was a shitshow before the removal of a bunch of posts. And even if it hadn't been the thread should've been started in the PvP section (and I don't think the discussion would've reached any further conclusions there either).

  18. Posted

    No. I understand where you're coming from, but I wholeheartedly disagree with that line of thought. I really enjoy treasure hunting, but I don't engage in cartography. If I want to do cartography at some point it should be because I want to make maps, not because I'm forced to do cartography to keep enjoying treasure hunting to its fullest extent.

    But it's not just that it would ruin treasure hunting for me personally, but that treasure hunting is a feature that adds to the game the way it is. I'm sure some people feel that way about cartography as well, and enjoy it for the sake of enjoying it. I went over a lot of my reasoning in this post: https://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/197248-cartography-with-a-purpose/&do=findComment&comment=1957810 so it'd be a bit redundant to type it all out again.

  19. Posted

    1 hour ago, Ekcin said:

    Not happy, due to

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    We're sorry about the inconvenience - We work our times out with the finders, and among the organizers, to try to find a reasonable time. We try to avoid booking a slaying at the same time as another one, to make sure that as many as possible can attend the public slayings. We're doing our best, but we failed to spot that one.

  22. Posted · Edited by Aeris

    The nodes look horrible sprinkled across the server, seemingly using the defunct rift bump code for distribution. IMO they should at the very least be reconfigured so that they spawn in sets of 5-10 in a 2x2 grid rather than sprinkled all across everywhere. It wouldn't just make sense from an aesthetic perspective, but also make it less of a pain for those who have an active interest in using them.

     

    I am very fine with it all being reverted though, and the whole thing just being undone, if too much effort is needed to make it look and feel sensible.

  23. Posted

    I'd rather see empyrean being removed than inventing ways for it to be useful. It never really made any sense to begin with, and it offers nothing that offsets the sheer inconvenience of gathering enough of it to be usable.

     

    And yes: I do realize that there are existing empyrean items that would become defunct, and that not everyone would appreciate them being converted to another metal. I'm simply not a big fan of poorly thought-out features being shoehorned into more areas of the game (especially not when it's the players doing the thinking).