Yeah, looks like our wurm settlement is pretty much dead. Lots of great times, mixed with some pretty bad times. Getting together and building the boat to sail over to the Pvp server was great, and I'm glad we did it before the portals went in. Our first location was hilly and challenging to build on, but it was a beautiful spot and relatively easy to access after the tower went up. The first blow to the fun factor was getting griefed by a group of 10 people. Wurm pvp mechanics allow for, and sometimes encourages this behavior though. Its one thing to break through someones defenses and take coin from the deed and make off with some valuables, but its another thing to kill all our animals, dirt over our crops, lower the ql of all our storage by dumping low ql stuff in BSBs, and just be general dickholes. Not to mention the same people screwed up all the alters on the server, making it impossible for people to become priests.
The second spot was grueling to get to, and most of our expeditions to scout it out ended in our deaths. The challenge to settle so far inland was fun for me, but it was mixed with a lot of downtime due to deaths and masses of angry mobs constantly chasing us back down to the water. We finally got relatively set up in the new spot, put up some walls, and built a tower. But I think by this time most of us had lost our steam, and wurm was starting to become more of a chore.
You all are a bunch of classy gents, and I'm always around if people want to pick wurm up again or try something else.