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Nenjin's comments relate to why I expect the real money AH to be a bit of a flop.  You would be paying to no longer have to play the game.  IE if you buy the best items out of inferno, you no longer have any reason to run inferno, unless you plan to sell the gear you find there.  I found a few items for my wis as I'm leveling, and its a bit disappointing to go 10 levels without finding an item that is an upgrade.

I find panths that gumba stomp adorable (meaning they are in a 1 on 1 autoattack fight with you... and choose to ult, right on you).


Had a ton of bad games on the NA servers, good ones on EU --- and i blame this:

NA servers have been on longer, everyone there had lvl 30, if they are good or not, if they play a lot or not, just the time alone makes people reach it.
EU servers have a lot of people on lvl 30, but casuals/trolls/noobs/perma-feeders did not reach lvl 30 yet and by chance you are matched less with them.

Am I being silly? I have great people on EU, teams that ward and know what ss/mia means and that don't go insta-pick-or-troll all day...

I have a hard time understanding why such poor logic as this is so prevalent.  Whatever is true of the quality of your teammates is true for the quality of your opponents as they are drawn equally from the same pool.  If that pool is really that inferior to you, you ought to stand out and dominate every game.

The simple fact remains that due to the way matchmaking is designed almost every player will lose half the time, and win half the time.

Sadly there is no easy solution for this, you will be fixated on boobs for quite a while yet.  In fact, you may be afflicted for the rest of your life.

As to why the landscapes are shaped that way:  Its due to how the map is separated into sub tiles, each "boob" that is protruding is the size of a single embark map tile.  The erosion algorithim leaves artifacts along the tile borders, which can show up as gulleys.  The same thing happens along the tile borders in the caverns, with a tendency to leaving columns at tile corners.

I just cleared out the last tile for the perimeter road, half of it is flattened/sloped, just need the rest of it leveled out and paved.

I think the problem is that people building a village where our village is is seen as a problem.  I understand reserving land for development of the "town" and strictly controlling what happens there, but what we seem to have is reservation of the wilderness, with allowance to do things anywhere granted.

As someone who has successfully managed player towns in multiplayer games, you should be encouraging growth and activity, not limiting and restraining it.  The best leadership in a building game is to be present, marvel at what people are accomplishing, compliment them for their creativity and initiative, and advise them how best to incorporate their ideas into the larger picture.  I think leveling and walling off a square for people to be creative in is kinda backwards.  Let people be creative, and they will want to protect it, and will be more willing to work together building a wall to protect what they value.

It isn't being a community that people are chafing under, i think everyone's on board with that, its having what they want to do repressed, or if they do build being harrassed about it.  This is a game, people are playing to make friends and have some recreation.  If it becomes unfun, unlike life they have alternatives.

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In a nutshell: We cannot prohibit them, so we have to loosely manage them.

I see the problem in a nutshell: There is a desire to prohibit them.

So reserve the deed, fence off an area for expanding the deed, lay out some roadlines, and let people do their thing everywhere else.

If you can figure out where you are on the map 2 on the first post, I can send you a pm with the grid coordinates of the twelfth bay.

This new update just saps my will to play...

Rare items is a huge step in the wrong direction, and if that's where Wurm is going it's not a game I want to play anymore.

I'll think about it. If the rest of you guys stick around I might keep playing... but as-is I just logged out in disgust and don't have any desire to play more.

I know perception like this is a hard thing to change, and its hard to play a game like this when you can't buy into it.  However I do hope you continue to play.  If it helps at all, the extra time sink will only occur once you are max skill.  Until then its grinding you would have been doing anyhow, only with a small chance of getting something worth holding on to.

And.. if you leave now you'll never get to finish turning me into some sort of godlike creature who steals your pregnant horse to borrow your cart with. 

Quote from: Vactor on March 27, 2012, 09:27:29 pm

Also, Greatorder, I found the loot from your corpse.

A)
hooray!
B)
did you/could you loot it?
C)
if so, please can I have my sprouts back next time I come on?

Yeah, I looted it all.  I've got all your stuff locked in my toolbox.  I should be on tonight and can give it back to you.  ( I've been using your clay jar, hope you don't mind)