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[Malena 2,854]

Not really good idea, most newbies in my alliance we told this is possible burned out without even being premium for the first time.

 

When I first started, someone told me about it, but also warned that it will take at least a year to get to the point of being self sufficient. This allowed me to relax and just enjoy the ride, which I still continue to do.

 

So while I totally agree with you that the last thing we want is for newbies to start going aggro grinding and burning themselves out on the game (seen a few do that actually!), I think if it's presented in the right way that it's a goal to work towards in the far off future, it could work.

Edited October 12, 2015 by Malena

[CountZero 58]

a YEAR to get self sufficient?!?!?!?

 

I was off on my own inside a month (maybe two).

[Crowbarella 0]

Was there a reason why this was set for release on Back to the Future day or was it just a coincidence?

[Zenity 728]

Was there a reason why this was set for release on Back to the Future day or was it just a coincidence?

Where we're going, we make our own roads!

 

Comes down to two possibilities, it's a coincidence, or it was picked deliberately, I prefer to think it was chosen specifically for the fact it's BTTF day.

[UnholyReaper 2]

i for one am looking forward to playing wurm unlimited mainly because there were to many players in wurm online and very little places to actually build. i am not one for cheating so i will make it as hard as possible just like i always do. some people will abuse wurm unlimited sure. but i am gonna love the heck out of it i have plans for a huge drydock just like i was beginning to make in wurm online. dont you see everyone you can do what you want instead of relying on everyone else you can make your world the way you want instead of being forced to be the last link in the chain nibbling your way to the top like a half crazed wurm (yes that pun was intended) the biggest problem in wurm online is the lack of resources i was so excited to get my first unicorn in wurm only to find the next day someone killed it for fun. i just hope rolf wont screw us all over and get rid of wurm unlimited after a while

[UnholyReaper 2]

a YEAR to get self sufficient?!?!?!?

 

I was off on my own inside a month (maybe two).

a month??? i was self sufficient within a week....the only reason it took that long was because i didnt know how the heck to make fields lol

[bolero3232 1]

I'm curious about how much growth there is in WO? I played in a village for about 6 months. Very nice and helpful mayor, but it was just the two of us.

Then I tried to start my own village, which was always my goal. I found it to be impossible. The game in general is very discouraging to new players.

So I quit Wurm. Now I'm wondering if WU would be a way for me to get back in the game, or will it be just as difficult for a new toon to start out in.

[vardoj 43]

You can give yourself GM powers so you can make it as easy on yourself as you want.  Spawn any item, set any skill to whatever level you want it to be.

[bolero3232 1]

Yeah I get that.

Well, I'll give WU a shot I think, only because I found WO too newb-unfriendly and maybe it SHOULD go away.

[vardoj 43]

They both have their places.  The draw to WU for me is that I like the creation and exploration of the world, and with the one-time payment I don't feel compelled to play 3-4 hours a day to "get my money's worth" out of it.  The part of WO I'll missing out on is playing with the people I met there and the Inde community.

[Druidnature 1,118]

I'm curious about how much growth there is in WO? I played in a village for about 6 months. Very nice and helpful mayor, but it was just the two of us.

Then I tried to start my own village, which was always my goal. I found it to be impossible. The game in general is very discouraging to new players.

So I quit Wurm. Now I'm wondering if WU would be a way for me to get back in the game, or will it be just as difficult for a new toon to start out in.

I made a deed within 3 days of being on the game, it took me 2(?) weeks to get buildings on it though, because I had to level all my skills, and I had to dig (we didn't have level, in fact at that time nothing had to be leveled for buildings...) to flatten the area a bit, and surface mined.

But I made the entire feed how I wanted it for the time being in about three weeks with literally 0 skills at the start... It's not impossible, it just takes a LOT of out-of-game reading. (Which I agree wouldn't be needed). But it let me know where a good deed spot was and what I would need, how to create each tool, ect. Luckily the wiki (though 50% wrong) helps with the basics.

WO is seeing some growth again but I think it's more due to returning players, will see after WU launches what will really happen. Chances are it will boost up WO a bit, if not a lot (hopefully anyway)

[CountZero 58]

it took me a very long time to get away from the built up areas to find somewhere i could start in the first place and then i died a lot from creatures

[Mark 47]

Purchased, downloading now.

[Audrel 2,223]

Are there nogumps and such on Adventure? Rare spawns? Or do you need to summon those things yourself? I saw a mountain gorilla but that was on a map I downloaded from the forums.

[Eject 407]

I saw a mountain gorilla but that was on a map I downloaded from the forums.

The creature spawn works server side

[Zenity 728]

Are there nogumps and such on Adventure? Rare spawns? Or do you need to summon those things yourself? I saw a mountain gorilla but that was on a map I downloaded from the forums.

 

Mountain gorillas and Hyenas are 'kingdom' creatures, they'll spawn in areas influenced by a particular faction, mountain gorillas for Mol Rehan, Hyenas for Horde of the Summoned.

 

Valrei creatures normally spawn due to Valrei events, which are influenced by missions.

 

So you'd have to have a server set at least for PvP to be able to set the three kingdoms on for kingdom creatures.

 

I've not had a mission spawn valrei mobs yet, so I have no idea if that works yet, but time will tell.

 

 

You can of course spawn anything using the Ebony Wand, if you so choose.

[LouisC 74]

I can understand the reasons for this move, but hopefully this does not mean the official servers will become abandoned, desolate wastelands.

 

Are there any plans to incentivize people to actually transition to the "original" servers like Xanadu at some point?

Xanadu is NOT an "Original" server.. Old JK Home and "Wild" were "Original"

[athamoboy 0]

Could not create window with selected width and height. The error was: <Pixel format not accelerated>

It's possible you might figure out what's wrong from the log file below, but if you can't, post the full log on the wurm unlimited forums, and someone else might be able to help you.

Contents of console.log:
Time is Sat Jan 23 18:48:01 EST 2016
Running client version

=== System information ===
Executing from C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Wurm Unlimited\WurmLauncher\
Operating system: Windows 7 (arch: amd64, version: 6.1)
Java version: 1.8.0_60 (Oracle Corporation) <http://java.oracle.com/>
Jvm version: 25.60-b23 (Oracle Corporation) [Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM]
Available CPUs: 2

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Loaded pack sound.jar (null)
Loaded pack pmk.jar (null)
Loaded pack graphics.jar (null)
Loading props file PlayerFiles\players\Athamo\playerdata_test.txt
Loading props file PlayerFiles\players\Athamo\stats.txt

Preparing to enable console logging.
Now logging to PlayerFiles\console.Athamo.log

=== Wurm options ===
animation_playback_self = 0
auto_mipmaps_enabled = 2
auto_run_source = 0
cavedetail = 2
censor_chat = true
collada_animations = 3
color_black = 0.0,0.0,0.0
color_cyan = 0.0,1.0,1.0
color_error = 1.0,0.3,0.3
color_fuchsia = 1.0,0.0,1.0
color_green = 0.08,1.0,0.08
color_grey = 0.5,0.5,0.5
color_lime = 0.0,1.0,0.0
color_maroon = 0.5,0.0,0.0
color_navy_blue = 0.23,0.39,1.0
color_orange = 1.0,0.5,0.0
color_purple = 0.5,0.0,0.5
color_red = 1.0,0.0,0.0
color_royal_blue = 0.23,0.39,1.0
color_silver = 0.75,0.75,0.75
color_system = 0.5,1.0,0.5
color_teal = 0.0,0.5,0.5
color_white = 1.0,1.0,1.0
color_yellow = 1.0,1.0,0.0
compressed_textures = false
compressed_textures_S3TC = true
contribution_culling = 150
custim_timer_source = 1
customTimer1 = -1|-1
customTimer2 = -1|-1
customTimer3 = -1|-1
customTimer4 = -1|-1
customTimer5 = -1|-1
debug_mode = false
depth_clamp_enabled = 2
disable_select_all_shortcut = false
display_settings = false:true:0:1024:768:32:-1:false:true
enable_contribution_culling = false
enable_debugs = false
enable_lod = true
enable_shift_drag = false
enable_vsync = true
engine_multithreaded = 0
event_log_rotation = 2
exec_source = 0
fast_yield = false
fbo_enabled = 2
first_person_mode_disable_on_close_component = false
first_person_mode_disable_on_combat = false
first_person_mode_disable_on_open_component = false
first_person_mode_sensitivity = 10
fog_coord_src = 0
font_antialias = 2
font_bold = 11
font_default = 11
font_header = 24
font_italian = 11
font_monospaced = 11
font_static = 11
fov_horizontal = 80
fps_limit = 60
fps_limit_background = 30
fps_limit_enabled = true
game_client_thread_priority = 2
glsl_debug_loading = false
glsl_enabled = 2
gpu_skinning = true
gui_opacity = 3
gui_skin = 1
has_read_eula = false
hide_inactive_friends = false
hide_menu_examine = false
hide_menu_no_target = false
hide_menu_spam_mode = true
hide_menu_stop = false
hide_personal_goal = false
high_res_binoculars = true
hint_texture_scaling = 1
impColumn = true
inverse_mouse = false
irc_log_rotation = 2
irc_notif = 0
item_creature_render_distance = 3
key_bindings_source = 0
keyboard_layout = 0
loadInventoryStartup = true
local_list_in_event = false
lod = 1
log_extra_errors = false
log_gl_errors = false
mark_text_read = true
material_as_suffix = true
max_texture_size = 2
mega_texture_size = 6
model_loader_thread_priority = 2
model_loading_threads = 1
mount_rotation = false
multidraw_enabled = 2
no_brightness = false
no_terrain_render = false
no_world_render = false
non_power_of_two = 2
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offscreen_texture_size = 2
other_log_rotation = 2
outline_picking = true
player_texture_size = 2
reflection_texture_size = 2
reflections = 2
release_context = false
release_context_on_jogl_sleep = false
remember_password = true
render_distant_terrain = true
render_glow = false
render_sun_glare = false
resident_models = false
save_skills_on_quit = false
screenshot_file_format = 1
season_override = 0
send_extra_tile_data = false
setting_timestamps = true
settings_version = 3
shadow_level = 0
shift_drag_default = 10
showKChat = true
show_body_in_inventory = false
show_old_quickbar = false
silent_friends_update = false
skillgain_minimum = 1
skillgain_no_alignment = true
skillgain_no_favor = true
skydetail = 1
sound_al_gain = 15
sound_buzzlevel = 2
sound_cache_enabled = true
sound_doppler_enabled = false
sound_engine = 2
sound_footstepslevel = 10
sound_music_level = 5
sound_play_PMAlert = false
sound_play_ambients = true
sound_play_buzz = true
sound_play_combat = true
sound_play_door = true
sound_play_emotes = true
sound_play_footsteps = true
sound_play_music = true
sound_play_weather = true
sound_play_work = true
start_dedicated_server = false
stipple_enabled = true
structure_render_distance = 3
submit_client_data = 0
terrain_bump = true
terrain_res = 2
test_attach_equipment = false
test_mode = 0
thirdPerson = false
tile_transitions = true
tiledecorations = 2
togglePushToTalk = true
treelist_outline = true
trees = 3
update_optional = true
use_alpha_particles = true
use_anisotropic_filtering = 2
use_antialiasing = 1
use_color_picking = true
use_fast_clock_work_around = true
use_fbo_color_picking = true
use_nagles_algorithm = false
use_nano_timer = false
use_non_alpha_particles = true
use_phobia_models = false
use_tree_models = true
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vbo_enabled = 2
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Setting up Collada Model Loader
Executing PlayerFiles\configs\default\keybindings.txt
Translating legacy key PAGE_UP to PRIOR
Translating legacy key PAGE_DOWN to NEXT
Translating legacy key ENTER to RETURN
Word filter loaded: 23
Starting job manager with 2 worker threads
Failed to create window (Depth=24, AA level=2)
Failed to create window (Depth=24, AA level=0)
Failed to create window (Depth=8, AA level=0)
Retrying main resolution (1/4)
Failed to create window (Depth=24, AA level=2)
Failed to create window (Depth=24, AA level=0)
Failed to create window (Depth=8, AA level=0)
Retrying main resolution (2/4)
Failed to create window (Depth=24, AA level=2)
Failed to create window (Depth=24, AA level=0)
Failed to create window (Depth=8, AA level=0)
Retrying main resolution (3/4)
Failed to create window (Depth=24, AA level=2)
Failed to create window (Depth=24, AA level=0)
Failed to create window (Depth=8, AA level=0)
Retrying main resolution (4/4)
Failed to create display: 1600:900:0:0 (false)
Wanted mode: display_settings = false:true:0:1024:768:32:-1:false:true
Execution aborted at connection 0, iteration 0
Run time 0s, local time Sat Jan 23 18:48:35 EST 2016
Destroying game window
====== CLIENT CRASH ======
Could not create window with selected width and height.
org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Pixel format not accelerated
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.nChoosePixelFormat(Native Method)
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.choosePixelFormat(WindowsPeerInfo.java:52)
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsDisplay.createWindow(WindowsDisplay.java:252)
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.createWindow(Display.java:306)
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:848)
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:757)
    at com.wurmonline.client.LwjglClient.initRegular(LwjglClient.java:458)
    at com.wurmonline.client.LwjglClient.initWindow(LwjglClient.java:101)
    at com.wurmonline.client.WurmClientBase.run(WurmClientBase.java:1491)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

 

[bigsteve 378]

Update your graphics drivers dude, your have graphics drivers that don't support OpenGL

and there is no reason to post it multiple times.

[athamoboy 0]

is it me you talking to?

[bigsteve 378]

1 minute ago, athamoboy said:

is it me you talking to?

yes

[athamoboy 0]

21 minutes ago, bigsteve said:

Update your graphics drivers dude, your have graphics drivers that don't support OpenGL

and there is no reason to post it multiple times.

 so just new graphic card ok

[bigsteve 378]

Just now, athamoboy said:

 so just new graphic card ok

with the up to date drivers for it

[athamoboy 0]

tht fine

 

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With the new skill gains some servers 5x some 7x has anyone found any new tricks for skill gain?

 

I've found creation to be great for some of the smithing skills, BUT it EATS ore. Every creation is 100% a skill tick. And it's higher than the imp skill tick.