Current Focus & Dev Diary #3

If you have not already seen it, watch the Video Developer Diary introducing the subject.

We are currently focusing on the first 5 hours of Gameplay. We need to do a lot more in order to make it easier to get into the game and we have decided that this is a good time to do that.

Plenty of new features in development aiming at giving a better gaming experience to New and Old players alike.

You can read all about it and discuss the updates in this Forum Post.

Sincerely
/The Wurm Online Team

Community Assistants Wanted

What is a Community Assistant?
A Community Assistant, also referred to as a CA, is a player that volunteers their time to answer questions in the CA Help channel in game.
Community Assistants are pillars of the Wurm Online community, assisting new and old players alike.
The reward is the pleasure of helping others. Also future prospects as It is the entry level staff position where all of our Game Master’s got promoted from.

Requirements for becoming a Community Assistant:

  • Positive track record with the community
  • Helping out in the CA Help channel
  • 30 Days of In game time
  • Any applicants with prior bans (macro/chat/game) will be turned down.

Please answer these questions and message EnvyODB on the forum for consideration.

  1. Name of your character.
  2. Why you want to be a CA.
  3. How much experience you have.
  4. What server you are on and time zone you usually play on.

Regards,
Lead Game Master Envious

 

Item decay catching up

  • An old bug with item decay where everything decayed as if inside was fixed. This will cause items in the open to catch up decay and quite a bit of lag after restart.
  • You should now be able to destroy buildings properly in enemy villages
  • Some bugs with catapulting and hunted status was fixed
  • Villages on home PvP servers now have a Notoriety value based on offensive actions of their citizens. It is only if Notoriety goes above a certain amount (currently 50) that other villages may declare war.
  • You may now loot corpses of players that was recently attacked by a citizen of an enemy settlement
  • A bug with the /support function was fixed
  • Farming yield has increased to a minimum of 2 if you farm the field at least once
  • Mission description text now wraps

Alliances fix

  • You can now form alliances on Freedom servers again
  • A bug which caused teleportation near off-deed gates during pvp should be fixed. Like off-deed doors they will remain open for 2 minutes if you are near enemies.
  • Houses without writs will now decay faster. If a house you own lack the writ, please contact gms and they will try to retrieve it for you.

Reputation stuff

  • You will never leave the world if logging off on an enemy home server deed
  • Village war declarations are now active again on PvP servers. Diplomats may declare war on players, walls, fences and tokens. The war will begin when the responding deed accepts or after 24 hours. If this option is abused by other kingdoms to grief on enemy home servers and defenders don’t manage to help eachother out the option will probably have to be removed
  • The bug that has crashed the servers now and then should be fixed now
  • Fixed a bug in the spy prevention system
  • We found a bug with things growing on Affliction so it should start working now.

Developer Diary: Record Release

In the second instalment of our brand-new Developer Diaries, Rolf takes a moment to talk about the recently commissioned new Wurm music, entitled “Meditation and Work.” It’s out now on Spotify, iTunes and Amazon, and you’ve probably heard it already in-game too!

The Dev Diaries are produced & edited by our latest full-time team member, Johan. He’s going to continue to bring more to the table in regards of marketing Wurm. Expect to see more of his work in the future!

If the video does not show, click here.

Links to the music release:

Servers are up again

The hardware issues were resolved this morning. and the servers are up and running fine with no data loss. You have received sleep bonus to compensate for the downtime.

Epic cluster unscheduled downtime

  • The hardware for the epic cluster had to be restarted in the middle of the night Swedish time and it didn’t come up again. This means that we have to go to the hosting center tomorrow morning and fix the problem. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. We currently do not want to give an ETA on when the servers will be back online but we are optimistic.