Pukaria

I am overall definitely happy with the AH update, but I do think mules are a lil OP and I wish it had been a bit more in depth by roping in Animal Taming to get hybrids. Horses and unicorns woulda been perfect imo.

It's not inexperienced players that will be running the template kingdoms though. So ultimately experienced players abilities to control the map via template kingdoms will be buffed, and there will be 0 reward for the money spent and risk taken to PMK?? Joemog wants it easier for him to get the JK crown. Why will template kingdoms have a crown at all after PMKs are released? Epic home servers didn't have crowns.

No PMKs by Black Light and White Light, but people can stay in the starter kingdoms and deed the lights?

My understanding is that the situation is still a bit unique, since on Chaos you can sail from Freedom and build a Freedom tower, then convert to a PMK. Since we portal to Defiance, there's talk of either needing to chain influence from starter and/or bash towers to remove influence, and then PMK. But of course if the towers are of our own pre-PMK kingdom, we can't bash them (except the builder, but at this point there are many towers built by inactive players). This is why to me it seems a tower wipe or even map wipe would be timely when implementing PMKs.

Great news!! Will we also have something roughly laid out for how PMKing will work? As far as I'm aware, this will be the first time PMKs are enabled years into a server launch, which might cause some unique challenges.

Haha i messed with some AI art Wurm prompts too and also got the UI elements. Interesting stuff!

I want PvP to be approachable for people, but it's a fine line. One of the places Wurm really shines is rewarding you for getting your skills up; most skills have more than 1 benefit to gaining levels. If I spent the unholy amount of time required to get to 90 body strength, I'd be super upset if I didn't have a pretty steep advantage over someone with 50. It's more than twice the time spent. If you're too harsh taking away the rewards for playing the game, you take away most of the point of playing.

Defiance already nixed the actual gamebreaking things like meditation paths, salves, and tomes. The skillgap isn't great enough to justify keeping the populations separate anymore. Public uploads from mostly Freedom accounts doesn't prove anything. I never played SFI, I don't love grinding, and I'm still not worried about beefy SFI characters coming to play with us. The more the merrier!

Again you have no point. Anyone playing PvP knows most PvPers don't upload their skills publicly. You can't compare the publicly uploaded accounts from SFI and NFI and draw PvP conclusions from it. Notice you're not on there yourself? Over 20 active people and only 3 have uploaded.

Your points are irrelevant and false. Defiance has opportunities to skill even faster than SFI and Wurm is a small game that shouldn't fracture its even smaller PvP community across too many servers. Wipe the map and open the Defiance Portal to all.

I'd be kinda bummed about losing the items I've accumulated (and even paid for!!!) on Defiance, but ultimately I know it would be better for the community and the game. +1

The map is too restrictive. Also, BL being rebalanced was discussed months (years?) past. Is this still in the works as well? I'm not sure we'd PMK given this proposition anyway, but I also hate being forced into BL if we do PMK, because they are so overpowered compared to WL.

It should be more like:

This seems an extreme map. Ideally in my opinion, players gain experience and move away from template kingdoms. Eventually multiple PMKs are crammed into less than 1/3 of the landmass? Seems it should be the reverse.

I hope they never merge clusters myself. But letting everyone portal to Defiance would be cool!!! Actually maybe they could apply that to Freedom as well. It's really just all the items on SFI I don't want making their way over here. Going by portal fixes most (all?) issues.

+1 all the buoys at Bifrost Canal on Harmony are sinking and it's a sad sight

[13:34:41] 136 other players are online. You are on Defiance (715 totally in Wurm). What is the ETA for PMKs again??? 😅

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This is not a bug. https://www.wurmpedia.com/index.php/Faith_bonus

CoD to Pukaria please and thank you.

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Well, you're right. Like I mentioned earlier, I never did healing covers for skill. So I was making an assumption that alcohol would apply to healing covers. It doesn't!!! lol Very inconsistent. Thanks for the catch!! So the best you can do, if you want to do healing covers, is use low ql activated item. It's so easy to harvest too high ql; you can lava items to lower the ql if needed.