Brilliant title, no? But I’ve reached the point where no deed redesign is going to satisfy me..I have to move. Since coming home, this is the only thing I can think of that’s keeping me from leaving the game altogether (or giving people on the Wurm forum some tasty tears to drink (and the popcorn they’ll have of me asking “why am I still playing”)).
The song “I Bet My Life” from Imagine Dragons works perfect with this, except for a ‘few’ edits to the lyrics.
“I remember when I told you that I would never play again. Remember that you broke me down to tears (with your ‘wogic’)? I know I’d played solo which is clearly wrong for me, and you gave me hell throughout the years…..”
“So WHYYYYYYYY, DO I PUT UUUPPPPP…DO I PUT UUUPPPPP…DO I PUT UP WITH YOUUUU-UUUUU..UuuuUuuu?! WHYYYYYYYY, DO I PUT UUUPPPPP…DO I PUT UUUPPPPP…DO I PUT UP WITH YOUUUU-UUUUU..UuuuUuuu?!”
Moving on, I’ve weighed the options several times of either moving to Cele or staying in Indy. The main reasons why I haven’t gone gung-ho (after I first saw that really awesome, secluded spot), is simply…I don’t know if it’s worth throwing away 5s to found a deed. The mounting “what if”‘s are also another reason (with the main one being “What if I don’t like it after I plan it out?”)
I’m taking a gamble, and I just don’t like the odds (especially with my reputation of never being happy with what I have built). If I could get my money back (after disbanding the deed if it doesn’t work out for me), then I would had went for this a long time ago. 5s is a lot to just throw away on a 50/50 chance that what I try to plan, would (or won’t) interest me.
However, I feel (well felt at the time.. not anymore(not without serious help)) that I have a chance by using Deedplanner and map out the area, then from my current deed, I would plan out what the place would look like. With this, I would finally know if this move is a good idea. The only bad part with the program, is there’s no Day/Night option (to simulate where best to put lamps, and how many). It also won’t simulate shadowing of trees and buildings (which to me also factor in to the overall ‘coolness’ to a deed(such as what trees to be planted where)).
Though I had forgotten one flaw, and that’s to make sure the area is still available!! I haven’t seen that side of Cele in over two months, and anything could’ve changed by then. So I set sail. Tried to find the east canal to get me into the bay. The first order of business was to find a horse. Wasn’t until sometime after passing through the east canal, that I found one near-ish the shore. It took 9 grass until it went submissive; must’ve had ‘strong-willed’ as a trait (or the RNG wasn’t in my favor).
Anyway, with the horse I made it to the other canal, and it was a quick sail down where I saw the area…is still available! Yay. Pulled into the ‘turn around’ canal-like docks. Right ahead in the distance, I saw a troll. This is exactly why I needed a horse.
Got out and attempted to lead to the guard tower that I remember (which was still standing). I also saw a champ goblin. Tried to get guards on the troll, then engaged (and killed) the Goblin. Got some damage (but nothing major), and LT against a nearby spider helped heal it all. Noticed none of the guards were actually on the troll (no matter how many times I called for help). Managed to get a single guard.
Had to assist in the slaying. Guard dies, then the troll dies to my axe sometime later. Did a sweep and made sure all hostile creatures in the immediate area were dead. Time to start planning!
Though while I was sweeping, I saw a single person in Local named ‘Pryath’. Saw this was my chance to ask if they know anything of the area (that could help me with planning). Asked asked if they lived around here, and if the lake once had an official name (aka, part of thinking of the name for the future deed). They told me no(of the name), yet mentions a South canal. A south canal, huh? This proves what I was thinking when I first saw something that looked like one (yet the top was too low for it to be considered one).
I spent all of that day, attempting to map out the terrain in Deedplanner. However…let’s say I knew I was going to have difficulty, but not THIS much. There’s no way to have a custom-sized new map; it always defaults 50×50, and any attempts to shrink it are pointless. So I tried to work with what I had, trying to match the changes in height. Yet everytime I tried lowering the slope of a tile, it was greatly overdoing it. Was feeling the program was laughing at me (and very not happy with it).
Asked in GL-Freedom, praying someone could come over and assist. I then noticed Saintdouglas, the one that gave me several ideas of my deed. I remembered him showing me a plan he was working on for one of his future deeds (which sparked the idea to come here and try myself). I asked him if he could possibly come down to where I am and to please help to map out the area for me, and telling him I’m having a ton of difficulty.
He said sure, but he would do it tomorrow afternoon. That’s great, though I did decided to go back and try to do the work myself. All I could think of was “how am I going to pay, so he’ll feel it’s worth coming here, when I have only enough silver for my deed?” I will talk to him tomorrow about this.. maybe even pay in bricks (or planks). He’ll need to be paid somehow for this work he’s going to do.
Overall, I got fed up. Did figure out (with his help for telling me the correct option to use) how to lower the slopes to a specific point, but I just got…mmm. I can see this taking hours, by hand, having to hand-recreate the area (and it probably won’t be fun for him either). Tried to think of other options, such as attempting to find the midpoint in both directions (of where the token would go) and then go from there. But even that was hard, because I got to count X amount of tiles in all four cardinal directions and make sure they’re even numbers (at least a 10×10, which is the default size given when initially planning). Having to remember ‘the power of 2’ is important when it comes to keeping things symmetrical. At least, that was the days when deeds (that were called ‘villages’ and ‘homesteads’ back then) had to be perfectly squared (I’ve just been sticking to this ‘rule’).
I counted, re-counted, and re-re-counted tiles over and over, and then divide them by 2(to attempt to find the center of the two numbers), yet it was either “a tile isn’t the center point(it’s the border)” or “haha, you can’t divide by .5 without getting .75!!”
Going by the tile counting, the overall size of the land (including roads), is 31×39 (except this doesn’t factor in the power of 2, which is why both are .5 when divided). In order to fix, the two would have to be 30×38. Tried to go smaller (using where the shoreline is one tile in the lake as a reference point), and got a size of 26×28(which does use the power of 2). Now we’re getting somewhere!..or so I thought.
Somehow I was getting thrown off in my calculations, because I kept having a tile border be the center point.
Was at this for a good half an hour, wracking my brain over this BS (while also having a hellhound and a black bear try to kill me for getting into their aggro radius). Decide to just say “fuck this”, slapped down my tent, tamed the horse, got the gear back (incase of a server hiccup while I’m gone..I don’t want anyone passing by assuming they can get lucky by taking the horse and its pricey gear). I know lockpicking isn’t allowed on the Freedom Isles(minus Chaos), but I don’t want a “WARNING..BUG WITH LOCKS!!” server-wide thing coming up(like what happened with locks on cave dwellings). Just..making sure.
I’ll try to tackle this again tomorrow. All I need to do is fell a few trees and use the logs as markers. Then and only then will I be able to have an accurate measurement of the mid point (and then start planning around it). If I get done before the guy shows up (and I pray he can give me an exact copy of the land), I’ll move the edits I made to his version.