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  1. Posted

    Something you can drop, place or plant that can hold a lantern at working height.  The idea is it would be something portable and would be used temporarily, as opposed to lamps which are generally set up permanently or at least long-term.

     

  2. Posted

    It's also a handy way to shortcut long journeys on Indy or even Xan.  Say you want to sail from the north of Indy to the South, but both on the east coast.  Sail east to any 8x8 then south then west again back to Indy - cut your travel time by close to 50%.  For Xan it saves almost 75%.

  3. Posted

    You can put a whetstone in your backpack so the damage number isn't orange, but otherwise, yes across the board for this.

     

    Whetstones, pelts, ceramics - not really improvable but should be repairable.

    Tents - absolutely should be repairable, AND improvable (and really should be tailoring, not FC, while we are at it).

  4. Posted

    41 minutes ago, Zenity said:

    Epic skill transfer, unique and engaging gameplay, a firm resolution that any features added to Epic remain on Epic, and perhaps, just maybe, Epic will once more be less of a ghost town, and more fun for those who wish to play there.

    That.

     

     

  6. Posted

    4 hours ago, Nestangol said:

     

    I was responding to the suggestion. Not your post. And Sheffie is the first one in the thread who mentioned:

     

    "However,  if you modify the proposal to only kick in once the upkeep has entirely expired "

     

    You know, in that post you liked. And which had been going unnoticed by several people responding to this thread, myself included. Which is why I responded to her later, even more clearly presented post. If you need some sort of credit, yes, you were first to use the word escrow.

     

    As for Ekcin, maybe you could add information to your original suggestion post to make it easier for people to understand your intent? Because it is clearly been read literally as written by most people now, myself included. Only minority seem to be able to read the intent of the post correctly. 

    It isn't about credit it is about coherence.  Oh, nevermind...  I surrender.

  7. Posted · Edited by TheTrickster

     

    On 10/3/2021 at 10:05 PM, Ekcin said:

    this is in no way meant to unseat a sitting mayor in a deed with upkeep fund provided before leaving. It only deals with deeds which would disband without the villagers keeping the deed up,

     

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    I did notice you still have no mention there about this suggestion only kicking in after the actual upkeep has run out.

     

    I am really starting to think there is a language issue here.

  9. Posted

    7 hours ago, Nestangol said:

     

    I was responding to the original suggestion when responding to Ekcin. This one: It would therefore be sensible to let the deed become a democracy once the mayor was absent for, say, a year, maybe half a year. The remaining villagers can then appoint another player as mayor without the need to disband.

     

    That included changing mayor before upkeep ran out. Huge can of worms that way.

     

    Sheffie's solution is much better, but partly lost into rest of messages, which is why I responded to that too.

     

    My point is I had already suggested "Sheffie's solution" before your first comment.

     

    I don't think the intent of the OP was to take over before the Mayor's upkeep had run out, but once the villagers had been paying the upkeep for a period of time.  It wasn't explicit in the original, but I took it that way and it has since been clarified as such.

  10. Posted · Edited by TheTrickster
    wait a minute....

    Ah, cool.  It's been a while but from memory I think the dialog on creation is for a "permanent democracy".  Prob just needs updating.

     

    EDIT:

     

    2004?  From when "dictatorship" could still be elected out?  Actually, that could be just the mechanism you are looking for.   Nonetheless, I wonder if that is still accurate, regarding switching.

     

    Will see what I can find....

  13. Posted

    On 10/4/2021 at 5:50 PM, TheTrickster said:

     I would presume that some kind of upkeep escrow would have to be involved.

     

    14 hours ago, Nestangol said:

    I think I understand the idea behind the proposal. And if there was a fair way of solving it, I would like it.

     

    But. There is some pretty big problems for automated solution like this.

     

    Before going further, can you explain how it would be tracked how much mayor paid for the deed over time? I mean mayor as player, not just character.

    For example, many people use alts as mayors. But they can dump in upkeep from their other characters, who may or may not be villagers. Just comparing mayor vs. villagers can't be reliable as who knows how many of the villagers are actually the player behind mayor. Or how much of none-villager contribution is some generous by-passer or the player who owns the mayor-character.

     

    I find few other ways too, how this could be tricky and/or exploitable. But more of those once I hear solution for tracking contributions issue.

     

     

     

    7 hours ago, Sheffie said:

    I think there would need to be an emergency upkeep fund, or escrow account, or Phoenix Fund. Call it whatever you want.

     

     

    3 hours ago, Nestangol said:

     

    This sounds a lot better. There would have to be some way to make sure regular upkeep and escrow account would not be possible to be mistaken. But that shouldn't be too difficult to code. Different option at token/character panel than add to upkeep and warning message about it's meaning or something.

     

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  14. Posted · Edited by TheTrickster

    1 hour ago, Wilczan said:

    You just add to upkeep then.

    Or read the next couple of sentences where I mentioned exactly that.   That doesn't protect them, as they are then the ones paying and the mayor is the one who can just come in and clean them out.  

     

    The rejections are basically saying that even if a mayor leaves for some long period without any communication and without paying any upkeep, others should keep paying upkeep while the mayor is gone specifically to maintain the deed FOR the mayor who gets the benefit of everybody's time and money without having to put their own in.  The logic just doesn't hold water:- the mayor is entitled to what they pay for AND what others pay for.  Others are entitled to neither what the mayor paid for NOR what they paid for themselves.  That just doesn't make sense.  

     

    So, if I deed a location, that location in Wurm is forever mine?  If I walk away from it, I can expect that others have to keep the deed going until I decide to take it up again, at which all of their investment is forfeited to me.  Okay, sign me up for that.

     

     

  16. Posted

    I don't fancy the chances of this getting up.  If so many players can so completely misunderstand it, then it doesn't bode well for the devs to see it clearly.

     

    This is NOT about taking a deed off a mayor.  It is about protecting the villagers from deedfall due to a mayor that has gone inactive.  Most of the naysayers seem to think that the citizens are some kind of serf class who have no right to keep what they have built unless they keep tipping in upkeep to maintain a deed in such a way that what they have been protecting could be taken away from them, despite their time and silver spent, by a mayor eventually return to take up again a deed to which they may have contributed nothing for a significant period of time.

  17. Posted · Edited by TheTrickster

    I have decided to go ahead and nominate Lupev as my mentee.  Lupev can object to this at any time, but I figured that as this is someone who is fairly new not only to Stormfall but to Wurm, I might actually have some wisdom to share.  😁

     

    Also, my first day in Wurm - with its five bear-related fatalities - is not so long ago that I have forgotten the sheer frustration of knowing what I want to do but having no real idea how to do it.  (Holy suffering dooley: having to mine iron ore so I could make an iron lump to make nails to make a leggat to make thatch so I could plant grass instead of steppe, because in my head I "knew" I needed grass to feed my sheep - and THEN discovering I could have simply planted one of the many bush sprouts I had foraged!  Mind-shattering frustration at times.)

     

    I have edited my nomination post.

     

     

  22. Posted

    9 hours ago, Drogos said:

    This is a game tho, and Wurm with it's giant spiders, and flaming horses are not really that closely modeled on realism. I vote for a fun game to play over copy of boring real life tasks.

    Oh, yeah, I agree.  The thing IRL there isn't a whole lot that can be done to make stump removal less of a chore.  In Wurm, it already is easy; but making it rewarding would encourage people to clean up behind themselves.

  23. Posted

    12 hours ago, Tpikol said:

    but when the upkeep is gone there is no deed, and if i the person losing their deed had valuable items inside buildings only the mayor could access, now the new mayor owns it all.

    Yes, that is exactly what this suggestion is addressing, so that when the current mayor's upkeep is gone instead of the deed falling the newly elected mayor takes it over.  I would presume that some kind of upkeep escrow would have to be involved.

  24. Posted · Edited by TheTrickster

    12 hours ago, Tpikol said:

    so you sold a deed and got paid for it, now you want it back for free, including anything that person who bought it from you owned since you sold it. that is horrible.

    No, I just want to be able to get my stuff and leave in good order.  However, I can certainly see how you would take it the way you did.  In my head I wasn't thinking I  would be the new mayor, but now that I think on it, the citizens apart from the mayor and me are all alts of the mayor.

     

    Maybe instead of full democratic election of a new mayor there is election of a steward - who can keep the deed going but can't cash it out and if/when the original mayor returns, they can take over again (although how you make sure nobody simply profits someone else paying upkeep, I don't know).

  25. Posted

    2 hours ago, Sheffie said:

    If you're in Australia you might be blocked though, since it's an Aussie show

    I can confirm that.  "The uploader has not made this video available in your country."  🙁

     

    Can also confirm that clearing stumps IRL is typically very much unfun - unless you go for burning or blasting.