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Major Changes Coming to Chaos #WurmOnline

stargrace April 23, 2012 0Comment

There are some pretty big changes coming to the Chaos server, and I’ve been trying to wrap my head around them. From the client notes:

The Chaos server will be removing some of the PvP restrictions that doesn’t go well with it being a PvP server. Effectively, some time after the 1st of May the changes listed below will be introduced. Up until then those of you who wish to leave will receive free disbands effective only on the Chaos server! (minus the free upkeep added). Any traders on deed will be removed and you will receive 20 silver as a reimbursement.

The major changes will be to remove all penalties for attacking eachother and give battle ranks and affinities for slaying premium accounts, as well as removing the requirement to declare war before raiding.

Right now Chaos is sort of between pvp rules. Which makes some people happy, and others angry. Since I don’t actually play there nor have I ever participated in pvp in Wurm Online, my personal opinions are pretty one sided. On one hand, I think allowing premium players to obtain multiple affinity is a nice idea, but I worry about how it will impact the other Freedom islands, seems like it’s an extra ‘bonus’ for those pvp orientated. Which is also not necessarily a bad thing, after all, there’s risk involved. If you’re fighting a creature on Freedom chances are you can walk back and get your corpse. Not always the case on a pvp enabled server. It may also bring about more players, the Chaos server has been quiet (from what I’ve heard). Of course with more players comes more destruction and grief, which is almost always encouraged in a pvp setting.

I’ll be interested to see how it works out in any case.

I’ve been working up my weapon smithing. It’s slow. Really slow. I mean so incredibly slow that I’m still only at 15 skill so far making level 30 weapons. Pictured above is my proud weapon rack where I’m keeping all of the items in between imping. It gives me time to work on my other characters, my mag priest is slowly coming along as are the Fo priest and Vynora. The Vynora has managed to start landing some pretty nice casts of circle of cunning. The Fo priest has been busy taking care of the fields, I’m almost at 40 farming, which makes me very happy.

I hope everyone had an incredible weekend, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

My Precioussss… #WurmOnline

stargrace April 19, 2012 0Comment

Aside from exploring, one of my favorite things to do in Wurm Online is pillage. Don’t get me wrong, we’re not talking about stealing here, stealing is wrong. If you’re playing on the Freedom servers and you have to bash down a wall to get at something, you probably shouldn’t. Sure, there are technicalities that you can get around (you can technically bash down a fence if it’s not secured in a proper enclosure with at least a 1×1 house in plain view) but I prefer not to have to find loopholes in order to find treasure. Causing intentional grief to a player is never my idea of ‘fun’.

That doesn’t stop me from exploring and finding broken down ruins that have treasures just rotting away on the floor. Waste not, want not is one of Arkenor’s favorite sayings in alliance chat.

So it was that I found myself wandering, the sun had set and I stumbled into (quite literally) a broken down house. I noticed two forges, a coffin, a bsb, and a fsb. The forges provided me with 9 new frying pans which I eagerly claimed. Then my eyes settled on the coffin and the fsb. I’m always eager to collect more food stuff for myself (and the alts of course) and this one proved to be worth it. A few hundred cooked meat, some onions, and pumpkin enough to last me for a while. Turning my gaze to the coffin is where I found my greatest treasures. A handful of mid quality gems, and some very nice enchanted tools. I filled my large cart, took whatever I could in my inventory, and set out for home.

I repaired everything I took and was pleased that their quality was still excellent. I also found a container with 60 needles inside, they’re very easy to improve due to the small amount of iron they use, so I stored them safely away. It had been a while since I found such a treasure trove, some times I’m working on my own deed so much that I simply don’t have the time to wander off and explore. It’s always an exciting feeling to come back home with goodies. Deliverance is so small (and still relatively new) that finding treasures isn’t always that easy. I’m hoping for another cross server trip to see some new sights, I promised Moxie I’d come by and look at her Exodus deed, and I’d love to travel to Chaos some time. If only there were more hours in the day!

As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

Rows of Fields, and a Lot of Dirt #WurmOnline

stargrace April 19, 2012 2Comments

Yesterday was spent evening out my rows of farm. My farm still slopes and I love that, gives a great view from my house, but one end of the row would be 26 slopes from the other end, and that wasn’t going to do. Because I hit rock with 13 slopes still to go, I decided to raise the entire row. Thankfully I had some dirt stored up in my bsb and the extra I ‘borrowed’ from Moumix. I now have nice rows perfect for planting on. It used a lot more dirt than I had hoped, but I think it was worth it.

My Vynora priest has moved to the East Coast of Deliverance, a little deed called Kiyo. I split half of it with Moumix who has a non-priest there to handle the things my priest can’t do (like everything involving construction). The deed is cute, I’ve already got a little stone house to myself and some gardens to work on which is pretty much all my priest wanted aside from some trees and water. It’s a coastal deed, and the neighbours (so far) have been friendly. It feels a bit odd to be playing a character named ‘bigbadspell’ when my two other characters are Arysh and Stargrace, but because I purchased the character and there’s no rename ability, there’s not a lot I can do. A male character at that. Very little time (if any) is spent actually looking at my character so I don’t really mind. I’ll be posting screen shots of the little deed before too long, and I’ll probably make a video or two of the three places I spend most of my time at.

As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

A Dock Completed – Next? #WurmOnline

stargrace April 18, 2012 2Comments

I’ve mentioned before that a large part of Wurm Online is figuring out what you want to do – and this is true for pretty much any sandbox game out there. I decided what was the point of having this amazing sea front property if it was completely blocked by trees, so I trimmed back the trees in the center view (so that my house up above can see out to the ocean) and worked on a dock which is now completed. I have to admit, I love it. There’s usually a willow tree growing beside the house on the water, but it aged and died, so a new tree is growing in its place. Willows take a bit of time to grow, so for now the landscape looks a bit empty.

Because my property is on a slope I have a tiered garden that moves down the hill in rows. Hordern pointed out one day that the fields were not flat and that they too sloped, and that if it were him, he’d have to flatten it. I let it go for months but the more I looked at my perfect dock, the more I noticed the slope. It started to weigh on my mind, and before I knew it, I was fixing it. It’s quite a bad slope too, one end of a row of field was 22 slopes down from the opposite end. Of course, it’s not just a simple matter of fixing the slope, either. I hit rock 2 tiles from the end, and I still haven’t decided how to fix it yet. I can try to surface mine the 13 slopes down with my other character, but I’m really not a fan of surface mining, at all. I could also try to raise the entire slope by 13 to fix this, which is probably what I’ll end up doing in the end. Just a shame that I didn’t get to rock until I was almost done.

Once the fields are put back in order I’ll post a few more screen shots to show what I mean.  It is feeling more like ‘home’ every day that I work on it, which is awesome.

As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

A Girl and Her Gator #WurmOnline

stargrace April 17, 2012 0Comment

I was walking home from visiting Arkenor yesterday when I spotted this (really hard to miss) incredible creature right in the middle of the road. A champion venerable crocodile! She was beautiful to look at, her girth covered the entire road and because I was wandering by on my Fo priest, she didn’t attack me.

Of course, I had to bring her home. I convinced Moumix to wander over and tank the creature for me while I cast charm (18 seconds is a long time to get hit by a champion creature), thanks to his tanking, she was loyal, and mine. I brought her back to the pen pictured above, which she now happily shares with my rooster.

Now I just need to find a male…