With just a few days left ’till the Impalong, I’ve been very hard at work doing Phase 1 of the redesign project. Phase 1 consists of terraforming and paving the new DTH Bypass Route. So far I have managed to terraform the entire route (before and ever since coming back from my initial visit of the Impalong site).
The most time consuming part was flattening down the hill on the South side of the deed (as there was a lot of dirt to collect, and not a lot of places to store it). Infact I have resorted to dumping it in piles on the current bypass route.
Last night, I had finished terraforming the two ramps that will connect to my house. All there’s left to do is to smooth out the terrain between the ramps and the bypass route. Once that is done, the main terraforming part of the phase will be completed.
The final part of the first phase, involves making the iron fence bars and the bricks needed to extend the Perimeter Walls around the deed border (and also to pave the new bypass route(and the house ramps)). After that, I can then remove the old walls. I hope to have all of this done before we leave for the Impalong tonight.
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As a sneak peek, here is Phase 2 (which’ll happen after I get back from the Impalong). It’ll consist of tearing down and relocating the horse pens, the storage building, the cart garage, and then finally my house. After that’s done, the next part of the phase will be to start making the new canals in the deed (and expanding the size of the current one). The final part of this phase will be to tear down all of the current bridges in the deed, and relocate them (including building three new bridges).
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And now to shift the attention to the Impalong that starts tomorrow, I have Tulsi’s and Angry’s responses to their RSVP’s. Tulsi wants to go, and Angry cannot as he feels he’ll be at work (nor does he want to go on the ‘long voyage’ to get there). And that’s fine. This is actually good, because now I won’t have to have B2 following me in his sailboat (incase Angry needs to get back home).
I just hope the Impalong doesn’t suck this year. But…at least I don’t have a red dragon hatchling that I have to keep worrying about if the hunters would get to her. Because it was about this time last year, when she had entered my Wurm life.
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I’m now writing this from the Dragon Hotel in the Glasshollow Market deed.
The terraforming portion of Phase 1 is COMPLETED! I also paved the new bypass route and the house ramps (several times I had to make more bricks due to errors). Never started on the fences, as I figured I would have all the time in the world once the Impalong is over (and/or I get all of my stuff imped/enchanted).
There was a bit of an incident with Xandice and a troll cornering him. It felt like everyone (including myself) wanted to help him, but I found the troll first and lead it to the tower that’s been helping Angry and I deal with the harder mobs.
Then the time finally came to getting ready. With 10 minutes ’till we leave, I gathered everything I could think of that I would possibly need (including re-imping my large maul, which will be needed to bash down the old fences). Might have WoA thrown on it, see if it’ll help speed up the process. And now when I think of it (didn’t at the time), I could had thrown in my small anvil.
Anyway, I was ready, angry was on and I told him how I told Tulsi a long time prior to this point, to be on at this time if he wants to go. He says he would bring him up there if he logged on later, and I thought “if you want to do that, then sure”.
With B2 in my boat, I was about to head out. Had just gotten to the mouth of the canal when angry told me to hold up. Now he’s bringing my old main (Benie) with me.
Nearly five minutes after I had left, Tulsi is now responding and still wants to go. Even though I said how I would leave with or without him, I asked angry to please bring him to me(and parked my boat). I had no idea this would cause such a headache (and I’m not talking about Tulsi).
This headache is some instancing issue, where neither of us were seeing eachother. Instead of just turning back towards the canal, he told me to name buildings as I went West (in order to triangulate my position with him). It wasn’t until I reached Angelkaine’s place (including speaking to the guy in person) of when I finally saw him in local (and his boat). And then there was an issue of Tulsi not responding when being told to get in my boat.
Angry too was starting to lose his patience, but Tulsi finally responded (with no apologies). The rest of the journey went off fine.
Was almost to Glasshollow (it’s now night), when I look to my left over at the barrier islands, and see a lone large crate sitting there. I’m like “:O HOLD up! The Impalong can wait. I see a crate!” A few bearsharks also saw me (one even climbing on my boat to attack angry’s alt). Managed to kill it without too much trouble, then went over to the crate. Looked inside, and there’s 20 iron ore at 58QL (and some peat). I was about to drag the crate to the boat, when I start hearing combat sounds behind me. Thought it was just another damn bearshark as I turned around…it was a ven troll, attacking B2. Quickly ran to the boat and tried to peel out of there. Angry’s alt however had an issue trying to hop back on (due to not having an Alliance(or even a deed) in Xanadu). Had to manually add him and that got it. Told them that I would try to get that crate later (when my passengers aren’t in danger). The whole thing felt like a deliberate trap, and I fell for it.
Angry’s alt had some damage, but I managed to heal his wounds. B2 was DAMN lucky, not being damaged at all. Very glad for that.
Finally we reached where I had parked before, but I was forced to park outside of the deed in order to unload my cart (while Tulsi was spamming me (and even local) about no longer being in an Alliance). Angry set up a team for all of us. And now the studdering is back (and this constant, unplayable micro-freezing). I tried to set a few graphical settings back in hopes to squeeze as much FPS as I could. Seems to have worked, but I’m pretty sure more settings will have to be lowered prior to the Impalong being in full swing once the afternoon gets here.
I need to ask angry if he too had gotten studdering issues here(in order to see if it’s even worth getting that upgrade). I should had done that when he was still online (but it never crossed my mind to do it).. and I’ll probably end up forgetting to ask even after saying this.
So I spoke to a few of the Impalong officials, and they say they’re ready for it (they understand it’s going to be a busy Christmas weekend, on and off the game). Did ask what day the Impalong would end, and one said through New Years Eve (adding how that’s “unusually long”). I doubt I will need to stay there that long while waiting for my stuff to be imped.
We shall see just how busy it is when I log in this afternoon. I expect my computer to be going “…FUCK YOU!! FUCK YOU, USER!!”