I have re-friended Tulsi, after all the things I’ve said about him. I’m really taking a gamble here. He had to re-create his account. Of that thing I said before about Tulsi had removed himself from my friends list, it turns out that wasn’t the case.
It seems there’s this new rule that if you are inactive with a free account for three months, they will delete your account.
B2 and I don’t have to worry about this, as both of us have had prem in the past.
So he found himself back in GV(Golden Valley, aka that little blue dot that’s hanging around ‘Sol’). Ok, I have to say this. This isn’t Earth. This is an Earth-like planet. Earth doesn’t have three moons(with one being planet-sized), and three Gods. So why call the sun Sol? Sol is Earth’s sun (as said so by Elite Dangerous and other space exploration games).
Anyway… so Tulsi’s back. He’s talking to me in Skype. I’m not on the MRT because suppoe suggested that I do this strange thing instead of working on the road when he’s gone. He suggested that I “take a break”. What the hell is a break? Is he telling me to go break the A8 in two? Or go break my bones? What an odd guy, he is.
And back to Tulsi (once again), he’s telling me that he met someone, they talked a bit, and then asked if I wanted to join the person’s village. I’m thinking “hmm.. getting Tulsi off my village? Letting him being taken care by someone else? I’m OK with this!! 😀 ” and told him to go on and join the village, and to tell the guy I already have my own village.
So the two leave Golden Valley and join the Release server. Hmm. Never been to that server. And it would definitely spark my interest in once again wanting to explore all the servers of the Freedom Isles. Anyway, they’re now part of the village called “Harvestmoon”. Which is on the Northeast side of that server.
The guy’s name is “Ultrarecruiter”… “Ultra” “Recruiter”. Sounds like a kid. I’m having my doubts if this person even cares about Tulsi, and cares more about how many people they have recruited. He also doesn’t seem to talk much after I friended him and introduced myself. But when he spoke, he’s sitting there telling me where Pena(Tulsi) is. He then asks me if I wanna join. I assume Tulsi forgot to tell him, so I told him that I have my own village.
He asked me if I have any villagers. Told him my alt. He says how it must be so lonely there. Pfft. If only he knew what I’ve been through with angry since Day 1 of joining Wurm (of the days of JK:H, and the early days of Indy). How bad I wanted to move out and live on my own. And this guy thinks I’m lonely? I’m literally laughing internally.
So Pena’s begging me to come see him. I’m getting a wee bit concerned that I’m at 10% Nutrition and feel I’ll go hungry by the time I get there, but I checked myself and saw I’m “well nourished”. That ended my fear there, and set sail.
Ran down to my Knarr and boarded it. Got in as the captain and sort of freaked out. I was expecting the game to be all “Uhh.. dude. You gotta get PREM to drive your boat! 🙂 “, but it didn’t do this. I was able to pull up the anchor. And when I was able to control it, I was REALLY freaking out! HOLY FUCK!! I can drive my Knarr WITHOUT PREM?!?! 😮
I had to make sure I wasn’t dreaming by asking in Freedom chat. Also asked them of “where’s the catch?” They told me there’s been an update, that people that were prem but are not prem are allowed to retain their ‘knowledge’ of driving boats that they could before (including horses and everything else that only prems can do).
This is AWESOME!! THANK YOU, Wurm Dev Team!
Of course you still need perm to get your skills above 20, but that is perfectly fine! I am completely, 100% happy with the devs decision. This may be the first time I’ve ever been OK with a change that still requires you to do something.
No more forced prem time. I. LOVE THIS!!!! Fucking LOVE this! Sadly, I can’t use this to explore the rest of the servers on foot (thinking with my skills capped at 20, they won’t go down if I die). They actually will. :/
That’s a bit of a downer, but it also makes sense. Can’t make it too easy.
With this out of the way, it’s time to talk about the other bad things. So I sat course for Release, then realized if I used Deliverance as a slingshot, I’ll be able to get to the Northeast side of Release.
But that came crashing down after I reached the Southeast side of Deliverance…that I forgot my really good compass was in my backpack. And that too, is gone. FFFUUUUUU–!!
Was forced to turn back home to Indy, hoping that I still had a backup compass. Returning home, I couldn’t find it either.
But thank lady luck for B2 having it! It’s shit (only 10 QL. Believe this was Tulsi’s old n00b compass), but it will have to do. It’s better than nothing. Time to continue on that trek.
There is also a slight concern back home. A ‘rift’ has opened up almost due West of my village. I hear it spawns a bunch of nasties around it. Almost reminds me of the occasional encounters in ESO (and Oblivion), where mobs just suddenly teleport in. Pretty sure this is something to keep the long-time players online.
Though I’m slightly worried that these high leveled mobs might migrate over and ‘say hi’ to me. I may need to investigate this further once I get back home, and set up (if any) required defenses.
The thing is, the event stops 48 hours (two days) after the rift opens. Don’t know how many times it happens. What I have discovered is, it happens on all servers when it does. I’m going to assume it happens about the same time as Jackal eclipses Sol(which what was happening at the time).
Anyway, tomorrow I’ll plot course for Release.