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[Azated]

Is there supposed to be some kind of way we group up or something?

There's no party system, so we can either communicate with private messages ingame, or join some kind of voice chat like teamspeak or mumble. Once we get a deed planted we have what's called village chat, so we can all talk to eachother if we're in the range of our village.

I used to play back in the day but graphic card issues on my old computer prevented me from any sort of meaningful play, however since that computer isn't being used anymore I doubt thats an issue.  So I might be willing to check it out again at some point, which server would we play on?

Wurm isn't really the most graphically intense, but you can get alot of item lag sometimes. As for the servers, we'd have to discuss that and decide what's best for everyone that wants to join.

Well, I'll join too if you won't mind the fact that I'm a freeloader.

We could probably call ourselves "The Fortress of Dwarves", make you the king, wait until you order a dozen gold statues and then arrange some kind of !!unfortunate accident!!. That'd definitely give the game a DF feel.

So where'd everyone join up? I don't know much about this. But seems like I joined Horde Of The Summoned.

Still to be decided. Here are a few links for everyone to look at.

Server types/Descriptions: http://wurmonline.com/wiki/index.php?title=Server#Note_3

Description of the Epic Cluster: http://wurmonline.com/wiki/index.php?title=Epic_Cluster

If everyone is willing to pay for premium time, then we'd have a much easier time finding suitable locations. As you can see from the above links, two of the Epic servers (Elevation, which is the neutral ground between the three kingdoms, and Affliction, which is the home of the Horde of the Summoned Kingdom) Are both premium.

Looking at the maps, Affliction looks like a bit of an eyesore, considering all the terrain is red. Elevation looks relatively green and spacious, so my idea was that we could join HOTS, move to Elevation and then find a place to settle.

Of course, the Epic cluster is basically hardcore mode with PvP, stealing and lockpicking allowed, whereas the Freedom Isles are much more relaxed and just for building, exploring, skilling up and the like.


EDIT: Updated the OP with a list of who we have so far.

[Paul]

Looking at the maps, Affliction looks like a bit of an eyesore, considering all the terrain is red. Elevation looks relatively green and spacious, so my idea was that we could join HOTS, move to Elevation and then find a place to settle.

Of course, the Epic cluster is basically hardcore mode with PvP, stealing and lockpicking allowed, whereas the Freedom Isles are much more relaxed and just for building, exploring, skilling up and the like.


EDIT: Updated the OP with a list of who we have so far.

Isn't the red terrain just the presence of the Mycelium? If you're going HOTS you would want that.

I'm tempted to play again... I still have my old char, but all his stats and skills are super low. I think that was from skill decay when it still existed (apparently they removed it now?). A lot of the ones that I know I used to use are at 1, while others are still high. Digging is still 30.

Also missing random items from inventory. Half my old armor is gone, most of my tools. Looks like I'm no longer HOTS either, heh. No idea where he is, logged in inside a huge pit bouncing all over the place.

[JamesCorella]

I like new places so i'll go anywhere, except premium places cuz I cant. xD

[Evil Marahadja]

I like new places so i'll go anywhere, except premium places cuz I cant. xD

1+

Pvp is nice aswell.

[Jake]

How about starting a settlement in one of the free-to-play servers so the group can level up and accumulate some decent gear in relative peace, then sending out small expeditions to found new colonies elsewhere in the more dangerous regions?

[Reelya]

I'll join up, i need a little more to do.

[Dariush]

While I'm here, how does the game compare with pre-W5 H&H? I used to spend craploads of time there. In Wurm I only played for about an hour since I managed to stumble into somewhere with lots of settlements everywhere, with the only unclaimed piece of land being an almost diagonal slope and ragequit after attempting to level it out.

[Rilder]

Wurm isn't really the most graphically intense, but you can get alot of item lag sometimes.

I wasn't talking about graphical lag.  Just an issue my old computer's graphics card.

Anyways server wise, I'm not willing to put down money for premium or anything. If I had steady income to allow me a mmo subscription I have another MMO I'd rather sub to in order to put forward a plan of mine.

[Azated]

How about starting a settlement in one of the free-to-play servers so the group can level up and accumulate some decent gear in relative peace, then sending out small expeditions to found new colonies elsewhere in the more dangerous regions?

That sounds like a good idea. However, Judging by how things are going we may end up staying in one of the free servers. They're just as dangerous as premium servers, but I suppose they'd have lower quality items in general.

So, this is what we have so far:

~No complaints about PvP, so it looks like the Epic Cluster is the way to go.
~Some people comfortable with premium, some not. We'll probably just go with one of the free epic servers, which is either desertion or serenity. There won't be much PvP there as both are home areas, but it will still be reasonably dangerous.
~Few to no players with high stats/good items. May be a good idea for everyone who already plays to simply start a new character to make the entire experience equal for everyone.


So, if everyone is happy with free/premium combined servers, we can either choose between Desertion, the home of Mel-Rohan, or Serenity, the home of Jenn-Kellon.

Once we decide on these, we'd need to hash out what kind of area we'd be looking to settle. Centralized with easy access to other villages, or remote, relying only on ourselves? Do we want a heavily forested area or clear plains? Mountains or Oceans?

If you could all post the type of terrain you'd like to colonize, I'll combine them and find as accurate an area as possible.

We'd also need a name for our area. We can decide now, or we can wait until we see what the area we're going to is like and decide then.

Once we've done that, all we need to do is log on and begin the epic adventure.

While I'm here, how does the game compare with pre-W5 H&H? I used to spend craploads of time there. In Wurm I only played for about an hour since I managed to stumble into somewhere with lots of settlements everywhere, with the only unclaimed piece of land being an almost diagonal slope and ragequit after attempting to level it out.

I don't know what W5 H&H is, so I couldn't really help you there.

Wurm is the kind of game you need to be pretty careful and about, always being aware of your surroundings. You can easily get lost, even on a main road with signs AND the map open in front of you.   

[Dariush]

~Few to no players with high stats/good items. May be a good idea for everyone who already plays to simply start a new character to make the entire experience equal for everyone.

Won't having good characters help the settlement?

Once we decide on these, we'd need to hash out what kind of area we'd be looking to settle. Centralized with easy access to other villages, or remote, relying only on ourselves? Do we want a heavily forested area or clear plains? Mountains or Oceans?

I vote for heavily forested remote area with ocean.

We'd also need a name for our area. We can decide now, or we can wait until we see what the area we're going to is like and decide then.

The Twelfth Bay, anyone?

I don't know what W5 H&H is, so I couldn't really help you there.

H&H is Haven and Hearth, another pretty popular multiplayer-wilderness-survival game, W5 being World 5 when things went to shit there.

[Vel]

Having played Wurm in the past and having read about the Epic servers, I wouldn't suggest starting brand new characters over on Epic.

The Epic servers are mostly for players who've been around a while and gotten their fighting skills to a respectable level already.


Edit - Which is to say, you will be constantly murdered and pillaged by both high level players and insurmountable (as in, the entire village could gang up and still would lose) NPC enemies.

[Paul]

Hah, I logged in my old char and got jumped by a spider. Managed to escape, but got a nasty wound. And it's going to slowly kill me, because my character utterly fails at life.

I've attempted to make healing covers a total of 57 times using mostly ingredients I still had in my inv including a bunch I botanized. I successfully made 23 of them good enough to treat the wound. I failed 23 times in treating the wound.

Well, my char died a slow death due to the wound (which started at 20 and kept going on up, despite my numerous attempts to bandage it). No idea where I was, either, since I never so much as saw a road in my wandering. Was heading toward the white light, but it was a long ways off. And my bag of keeping took damage due to the stupid feature they have that makes it take damage if you die with less than 21 strength (which mine now is, thanks to logging in without a premium account). Why would they give a special reward item to the players who registered early on, then add in a feature that screws them over if they log in later without premium and die before getting their bearings again? All my skills above 20 dropped to 20 on the death, I assume because I didn't have premium. I was actually thinking of getting premium, but features like that just make me not want to even start again.

It's like they programmed these features specifically to say "Fuck you, returning player! We don't want your business again!"

[The Scout]

So where are we starting?

[Scelly9]

I might be in. Lemme check if my computer can run it.

[Jake]

I might be in. Lemme check if my computer can run it.

"Estimated minimum system requirements for Wurm are as follows; Java (1.5 or later), Java Web Start, 512 MB of RAM (1024 MB recommended), 1 GHz CPU or higher, graphics card with 32 MB of Video RAM (128 MB recommended) additionally it must be capable of using OpenGL 1.3+"