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  1. Posted

    9 hours ago, Wurmhole said:

    but it isn't realistic to think they will be able to understand the scope of what it takes to maximize skill gains.

    I think you have underestimated how quick the new players can learn from scratch. And the amount of veterans just don't know or don't care all the strategies to maximize skill gains.

     

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    9 hours ago, Wurmhole said:

    1. Undertanding how to achieve optimal skill ticks (items QLs, difficulty levels vs current skill).

    2. Tool enchants/imbues.

    3. Affinities

    4. Sleep Bonus and all the ways to gain it.

    5. Coffee.

    6. Sweet Spot

    7. Meditation

    8. Diety bonus

    9. Holy site buffs

     

    There are more pieces, like 10. journal reward bonus.

     

    Complexity is the selling point of this game. So it attracts both new players and veterans in general.

     

    9 hours ago, Wurmhole said:

    Just don't make skill gains so complex that only the most hard core players can get the full benefit.

    Well, the hard core new players can get the full benefit too. I dont see the word veterans equal to hardcore players. Is it really about the new players VS veterans? Seems like its more about the hardcore players VS casual players.

     

    9 hours ago, Wurmhole said:

    I really don't know any other games that show so much love to the veteran population, at the expense of bring in new players and making them feel like they have a chance to be competitive.

    Not every new players are looking to be competitive in this game. Some are even avoiding it. Just chill, veterans.

  4. Posted

    Name changes is currently existing and all handled by the GMs right?

    Due to the offensive names that may disturb others. So this kind of renaming create a more delightful environment to others.

    Now, we are talking about the non-offensive names that want to be changed.

     

    How can this suggestion create a more delightful enjoyment to others?

    Yes, if people rename their name shorter(not longer) to make the name easier to type while mailing said by the OP.

    On 12/19/2019 at 2:07 PM, Cipacadrinho said:

    My reasoning is to get rid of a really long name that is also hard for people to spell when they want to mail me free stuff:0

    Alright, i see ur reasons.


    Then how can this suggestion create a more disturbing environment to others?
    Can't find any of the previous conversations or encounter in the log files with the current name.

    10 hours ago, TeeeBOMB said:

    BAM - suddenly I can never find any of our previous conversations or encounters in my log files. Even renamed screenshots that I may have on hand won't help, since they would have the old player name on them.


    Extra work to check the previous name, like hover the mouse on other players names, press more buttons/hotkeys e.g. CTRL+L/just L to examine.

    Pretty much need to do this work especially on PVP servers when seeing unfamiliar names, also the new players, etc. U would want to know the top tier raiders have changed their name or not.

    On 11/24/2020 at 6:21 PM, elentari said:

    1. If a player talks in chat, private or otherwise, you should be able to do something like CTRL + L mouse on their name and see if their name was changed.

    2. A player can also hover his mouse on another player and use "Examine name"  option from a distance to see their Identity. 

    15 hours ago, Etherdrifter said:

    Right click->View name history->Shows a list of names and dates when changed to.  Make it hotkeyable for the paranoid.

  6. Posted · Edited by Coach

    The world of Wurm Online is based on a medieval setting.

    Dragons in western cultures since the High Middle Ages have often been depicted as winged, horned, and capable of breathing fire.

    Shouldn't it base on the colours in the medieval period?

    The video mentioned about the difference between the gold and yellow in the medieval times, and talked about other colours too.

     

     

  7. Posted

    The proposal allows more combinations on decorating player's name.

     

    8 hours ago, Sheffie said:

    If any titles are after the name, the word "the" will be added before them.

    If someone decide to make the 100lv tile of blades smithing called The 50 Shapes Off the Blades,

     

    For expamples:
    Accomplished Occultist Blades the Professional Mercenary
    Accomplished The 50 Shapes Off the Blades Blades the Professional Mercenary

     

    Then the players name can be the Off because there is the word "the" behind the Off.
    This can cause the confusing or limiting the choice to create a 100lv title.

     

    The player name has to somehow stand out in order to make other people to unerstand the name isn't the part of a title, only the word "the" is not enough.

     

  8. Posted

    On 11/19/2022 at 6:34 PM, Gazc said:

    For the avoidance of doubt On Sniper Protection.

     

    S1 - Sniper protection is activated (for the applicable lot) when somebody places a bid within the last 59* minutes of the auction, from the time of the "bid" 1 Hour will be added on "extending the auction end time somewhat, this repeats with subsequent bids until there are no bids.

     

    example 1 - somebody bids 20 minutes before the end of the auction, the new end time for the auction would be 40 minutes after the original end time.

    example 2 - somebody bids 2 minutes before the end of the auction, the new end time for the auction would be 58 minutes after the original end time.

    example 3 - for the avoidance of doubt!!!! somebody placing a bid 61mins before the end of the auction will not "activate" sniper protection!

    It shows OP is an experienced auctioneer. Those examples are great for players.

  10. Posted

    6 hours ago, Shrimpiie said:

    We can turn the ground under a planted bush/tree into a lawn with scissors

    This is in a progress turning the tile into a complete lawn. It will eventually turn into a complete lawn after the bush/tree die. Bush/tree on a lawn tile can consider as a half-way lawn.

    6 hours ago, Shrimpiie said:

    but why not allow sprouts to be planted onto lawn tiles as well, retaining the lawn?

    After complete the lawn, it should not have any sprouts.

    6 hours ago, Shrimpiie said:

    Weird that I have to wreck my lawn tile to plant a sprout, to then turn it back to lawn with scissors.

    This is a preparation to create a good condition for the the bush/tree to grow successfully. Remove the grass, wreck the lawn, cultivate, maybe even mulching, etc.

  14. Posted · Edited by Coach

    Unicorns are highly resistant to disease and starvation/hunger issues faced by other animals while living in less than ideal conditions. They can still suffer from these issues but typically take much longer to experience them due to triggering conditions than most other animals.

     

    Unicorns can have the Hardened/Champion animal condition which increased defence unlike hell horse/horse.

     

    Assume they are equal in speed as OP have said.

     

    Lets not talk about the advantage of unicorn can hold two peoeple while riding.
    Lets focus on the hitching on cart part.

     

    Make unicorns stay hitched to vehicles after they get untamed. Meaning as long as people dont unhitched them manually, unicorn is possible to stay hitched to the vehicles like forever until they die.


    Imagine a same speed as OP have assumpted, highly resistant to disease and starvation, higher defense, stay hitched to vehicles forever, stay peaceful to the rift creatures and mobs.
    A cared for hitched unicorn with silver horse shoes, people dont need to avoid rift mobs or uniques to keep the animals alive, dont need to check the age of the animals, dont need to find the animals when it unhitched at certain age while u afk/log out, dont need to social distancing to the animals.
    That sounds OP.

     

    The major downside is that people need to do extra work while crossing servers, because it requires people to hitch and unhitch them. It can turn into a minor downside if the people have high taming skill/unlimited tame materials/fo priest, or just park unicorn hitched carts on every servers.

     

    IMO, the adavangtages of letting them stay hitched to vehicles after they get untamed, makes these(the limit to certain type of horse shoes, extra time to breed, grinding to high taming skill) a minor downside.

    That just mean the suggestion make the unicorn OPer than hell horse if poeple are willing to spend more times and efforts.

     

    But thats just the mechanic. I think the main focus should be on the lore of the unicorn in medival period.
    According to the wiki: Medieval knowledge of the fabulous beast stemmed from biblical and ancient sources, and the creature was variously represented as a kind of wild ass, goat, or horse. The unicorn, tamable only by a virgin woman


    If they are wild and tame with certain condition, that means people should not see them get hitched and tamed commonly, like seeing people using their cart with hitched unicorns to go to the rift, park on every servers, etc.
    The unhitched after getting untamed mechanic keeps the unicorn go wild. I think that is their intention to keep up the lore.

     

    23 hours ago, Borstaskor said:

    Would not unhitch at a certain age.

     

    22 minutes ago, Oblivionnreaver said:

    Unicorns unhitch at old same as hell horses do

    Which one is the truth? The wurmpedia didn't mention about the age thing on unicorn page.

  16. Posted

    5 hours ago, Blacklotus said:

    I just think everyone should have a more fair and equal chance to enjoy the endgame content for Wurm. I don't find the current system fair or equal so say what you will.

    If u are looking for a more fair and equal chance to enjoy, that mean u may not looking for a fair and equal chance to enjoy, otherwise u wont choose the word more. More fair Vs fair are two different concepts.
    The word more make me feel u are trying to compare now and the future. The future doesnt have to be fair but the future have to be more fair than now.
    If this endgame content is more fair compare to now, then u can accept that its okay to be an unfair system?
    Thats what i am getting from u.
    Do u think the rift is a fair system?

  17. Posted · Edited by Coach

    46 minutes ago, Blacklotus said:

    The devs know it's a broken mechanic/system, its needed to be fixed for the last decade and it just hasn't been because the people who make money off these events don't want it changed

    Of course it makes sense, it won't change if the people u are talking about are the devs.

    If the people u are talking about are the normal players which exclude the players who are also the devs, are u trying to say the people who make money off these events don't want it changed hold the power behind the throne?

    What are u trying to say?

    How did u know the devs havent fix this system because the people who make money off these events don't want it changed?

  18. Posted · Edited by Coach

    3 hours ago, Blacklotus said:

    I agree we don't necessarily need another rift. I also agree that private slayings can be magical experiences however, it doesn't serve the community with the current game mechanics surrounding uniques/legendaries.

    If the community enjoy the magical experiences in private slaying, how come it doesn't serve the community with the current game mechanics surrounding uniques/legendaries?

     

    People gonna need to ask the devs the intention of making a unique hunting mechanic. Which part of community are u targetting since this is a mechanic require people who are willing to put a decent amount of efforts?

    Are u still willing to talk about turning it to rift or move on to turn it to archaeology?

  19. Posted

    Feel like a trick to change the date that has already said.
    Feel like a treat to gain an extra 1 hours sleep bonus on the event.
    The time to trick or treat is over. Mariah is staring at the naughty kids with a classic smile.

  21. Posted

    8 minutes ago, Sklo:D said:

    Not sure if I understand what you are looking for, but let me try:

     

    If your question is can everything in Wurm be predicted, then the answer is yes and no.

    In theory yes, you can predict every success and fail of every improve and creation action in Wurm and you also can predict every result of the /random command long before the execution. 

    In practice no, you would need to know the exact amount of actions that have been calculated by the RNG before and also need some additional information you just can't get from the server.

    Yes, u are on track.

     

    9 hours ago, Coach said:

    Does it matter to u if they use only TRNG or PRNG or mixed in different game features?

     

    25 minutes ago, Coach said:

    Do some game features in wurm depend on luck? like the /random, creation or rare, etc.

    Now, these questions are the open questions to people.

  22. Posted

    4 hours ago, Sklo:D said:

    However, I think people misunderstand what random means. It does not mean "even distribution". So failing 5 times in a row at a 50% chance is something that can and should happen with random numbers. 50% chance just means in an infinite amount of tries every second attempt will succeed.

    That is the similarity of TRNG and PRNG. If the creation chance is 1% to succeed, it is possible to succeess 999999999 times in a row in both TRNG and PRNG.


    But i am trying to focus on the differences between TRNG and PRNG.


    The TRNG is a device that generates random numbers from a physical process, rather than by means of an algorithm.
    In theory, the physical process is completely unpredictable for as long as an equation governing such phenomena is unknown or uncomputable.
    This is in contrast to the paradigm of pseudo-random number generation commonly implemented in computer programs.

     

    The random number from pseudo-random number generation is somehow predictable.
    Do some game features in wurm depend on luck? like the /random, creation or rare, etc.

  23. Posted

    Since this game has a feature called /random.
    Is it generated by true random number generator (TRNG) or pseudorandom number generator (PRNG)?


    Also the chance of creation and the rare roll, are they caused by the TRNG or PRNG?


    Does it matter to u if they use only TRNG or PRNG or mixed in different game features?

  24. Posted

    On 4/26/2022 at 9:23 PM, Keenan said:

    With regards to conducting a poll, one thing I've asked of the development team is to dust off the in-game voting mechanic and figure out a way to deduplicate votes from alts to have a more fair and accurate account of what the player base wants. I do not want a person with more money or silver to weigh more heavily than a person who simply keeps a single account going, so it's important to me to get that right. This isn't our highest priority at the moment, with the coming update taking precedence.

    This new website seems like a start to there.

  25. Posted · Edited by Coach

    The cartography seems like a simple feature that create in-game map but the maps are useful in different gameplays, like playermade treasure hunt, event games, collection, decoration, puzzle solving, looting, etc.


    The holy sites seems like a feature to gain skills quicker and gather the players to do sermons. And gossip in the local that inappropriate to talk in the global chats. And spread diseases.


    The goblin camps just like another mob slaying. But the Rogue Goblin ambushing feature seems like a new experience of gameplay that other mobs slaying don't have. The goblin's faces look terribly ugly amazing. Time to put away the troll mask.