Clearly of what happened last night, I’m in need of a break to help clear my thoughts and try to focus on just what the fuck I’m going to do with my Wurm life. And there’s a lot of shit that’s on my mind; that whole ‘debriefing’ thing I said I was going to wait ’till the 18th for.
I might as well do it now. So, do get comfortable.
First order of business, I realize this ‘living off the land’ thing I was supposed to be doing (if choosing to disband the deed), clearly isn’t working as planned. Ever since I saw the “will not fit” BS when attempting to loot some of those dead deeds, I questioned my true intentions.
Since I’m (obviously) tired of wasting money to make sure I won’t lose my deed, then why am I looting dead deeds? I never once thought of this being an issue, but I believe the reason being that this was from the original thought of having a wagon to loot dead deeds, and take the goods back home.. and this was before I thought of using the wagon to carry my deed with me.
This also defeats the purpose of “roughing it”… *sigh* this is why I wanted to speak to Soleil, to see what he had in his wagon (and compare it with mine). As in, how did he start? Did he have a deed nearly all of his Wurm life (that he stayed at for many years), or lived like a nomad? It would explain so much, and may even say something like how I ‘had it easy’ all my Wurm life; protected behind strong deed walls, and a guard tower ready to assist.
I really need to swallow my pride and speak to him, one of these days (and hope he hasn’t blocked me).
Second thing, my Animal Husbandry skill. With it now 30 something, I can care for a total of four animals now (my four bison). This is something else I didn’t factor in, when I had gotten the bison. The fact my AH is low and I take them back home (and they get ven and die), I’ve lost so much fucking money.
The answer is simple; leave the bison in Xan (or on any other server but Cele, as I’ll be forced to let go of my good horses to protect my bison). Also, the female bison is now Old, which is raising my concern of being able to return to previous explored servers. My idea was to hope I could find someone in Xan, who could (I know it’s not a guarantee, even with high AH) get me some new 5-speeds from her.
I need at least 40.01 to be able to care for five animals (which’ll include the offspring). However, I feel I won’t really need this when I can ‘undo’ until I get a brand new (hopefully negative/neutral trait free) 5-speed female (and the same can go to the males when they get too old to go in the cages).
Aka, there’s going to be a lot of ‘replacement bison’ to ensure they stay young. That’s the plan anyway. But since someone said that bison are harder to get a 5-speed (aka why they’re not as cheap as a horse), this is why I need someone that knows this shit.
Third thing, a possible ‘temp deed’ in Xan. The above idea is going to need a deed where the bison are safe and secure (while the female is pregnant). I’m debating if I should slap down the 4.5s needed to found a deed, somewhere that’s connected to the main highways, and has a mine nearby.
I wish I could say “I’ll just build a bunch of fences and a house in the middle”.. because even on PvE servers, you -can- steal if it’s not on a deed (because that’s what happened to me, years ago). “Deed it or lose it”– the rule of the PvE server.
Slapping a temp deed down (that’ll cover upkeep for two months for ‘free’) would hopefully give me enough time to get a few 5-speed offspring bison. But this is something I’m just not sure of. It’s a lot of money to be throwing away, on hope the RNGods will be nice.
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This opens up a sub-discussion (that I already know the answer to). I wish there was a way to brand animals without having a deed, and having the brand decay (given the QL of the iron). But to make it fair, set a limit to like, you cannot re-brand to reset the decay, and you have to wait a day or two before you can brand again.
Though I see people would want more strict fairness, such as one branded animal at a time. But honestly, having to balance this to be fair for deed owners (and the horse/bison market), would be very tricky.
Of course this is what my common sense says.. my whiny spoiled child side disagrees.
There is, one final thought.. but it’s a thought I had before I got the bison (if I decide to keep my current deed, and this is both positive and negative). The idea is to get B2 to 21.05 in ML (which he’s nearly there right now with 21.00), which will enable him to control a Corbita (that I’ll either buy the ship or the parts (that I cannot produce as I lack the skill) to build it myself (like I did in 2010, when I was still living in OR)).
Now this isn’t going to be his new boat (even though I’ll be selling the sailboat), he’ll be able to control it as my primary means to haul my bison/wagon to wherever I need them to be (instead of my Knarr). Because, 21.05 is a lot more achievable (right now) than 23.00.
The negative side, as I said before, is.. once again, how shallow the lake is. It will not allow a Corbita. It would have to be parked somewhere on the South coast.
A way to work around this problem is to build and utilize a ship transporter, that B2 can drag it (with the ship) to/from the deed (while I protect him from mobs). There I can unload the ship into the ocean.
There’s also a problem with this, as I don’t know how much body strength is required to load/unload the Corb w/ all four (maybe even the maximum of five) empty creature cages + the wagon. I absolutely have to know this for the thought to fully work.
I have something like 29 in that skill, but I don’t know if that’s enough.
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But if I decide to say “you know what, screw this. I’m moving to (server here)”… depending on where I could potentially find a new place to live (which I haven’t really found one yet in Xan, thanks to the damn mountains), a ship transporter may not even be necessary.
If that spot in Deli that I saw along the shore is still available (that hopefully the road isn’t catseye’d by now), I might just move there. Hell, it might even be worth a look to see.
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And so, this is what’s been going on in my mind, and why it’s been so hard to focus on a decision. There are so many variables that I haven’t thought of (that could potentially screw me over).
Think I’ll just stay off until A: I finally come up with a decision. B: The Xanadu community map gets updated (and shows new places that are accessible). C: I have to get back home before the 30 day limit hits on the upkeep. Or D: It’s getting quite close to the Pristine Impalong. One of the four (or maybe all four happening at once) will be the driving force.
On a somewhat related note, a few weeks ago I applied to be an editor of the Wurmpedia, and was accepted the following morning. I’ve been using this new power to finally add some more info about the creature cage (as no one else seems to be willing to do), while also talking to Retrograde to clear a few things up about it. And they were (of course) about how permissions don’t transfer over, and the whole ‘venerable animal may die’ thing.
Turns out, players were warned about the first thing prior to the testing (but I stupidly didn’t get the memo, as I don’t lurk the forum). He said the reason being is “as players can be members of different deeds on different servers.” Hammering (aka forcing) in that ‘multiplayer’ aspect, I see. Let’s just fuck ‘options’; make everyone go down one linear path). 😛
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As for the other one, it seems there is -no- percentage of a ven animal dying on you (when crossing servers). It uses the same mechanics that determine when the animal dies of old age, and begins to tick as soon as you release it from the cage. This means, caring for the animal on every server (if it stays alive for that long) ensures the animal will not die (on a particular server).
He also mentioned about the new alloy that you can make through metallurgy; ‘Electrum’ (it’s no longer a Modded Minecraft thing, even though it’s actually a real thing), made with Gold and Silver lumps, a rune can be made from it. According to him, this rune can be used to rewind the animal’s age.. I can definitely see a market for these things (once they get mass produced by these slavers of the forge). Though I would assume, the market would only exist on the forum.
Hopefully they aren’t terribly expensive (as that compass..).