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Ketchupface posted:
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 00:39 |
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GOTY 2012, clearly
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 00:44 |
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Ok so I got foraging and survival skills learned after studying two rocks. Now what? I still can't craft anything outside of piles of wood and torches, the latter of which I can't even make cause I can't make an ax to make a sharpened stick. What do I do from here 
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 01:55 |
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Some gently caress doing a nazi salute just knocked us out hours outside of boston. How do you pick someone up who is knocked out? Seriously I just want to go gently caress off into the wilderness and settle and poo poo. Okay gently caress this poo poo. I lost loving everything. Quantumfate fucked around with this message at Apr 25, 2012 around 02:04 |
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Quantumfate posted:Some gently caress doing a nazi salute just knocked us out hours outside of boston. How do you pick someone up who is knocked out? Welcome to Salem! Expect this to happen every few minutes.
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 02:12 |
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should have joined up with us
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 02:13 |
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Biowarfare posted:Welcome to Salem! I just wasted like two days. The first was getting enough silver for a wilderness guide to take us out to the wild, then we spent all day today walking out to my friend. They seriously need to make it so your group teleports out with the wilderness guide. Now I've lost all my items, it is pretty upsetting.
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 02:17 |
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ill b bach posted:should have joined up with us Join up with who? That Blawrf guy hasn't been on all day.
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 02:19 |
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I still cant see myself 
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 02:27 |
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Cojawfee posted:Join up with who? That Blawrf guy hasn't been on all day. Join IRC or TS people have been joining us all day. You might not be able to enter the area of  but you would at least be able to be in the immediate area.
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 02:27 |
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Smokin posted:Join IRC This is literally the most important thing of all time. If you can't spend five minutes to auth at salemgoons and get the irc/ts/other stuff then you can just gently caress right off forever.
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 02:33 |
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After a few hours of wondering last night, I believe that I almost found the goon camp. The arrows I was following were started to separate a little, and then I saw a naked guy with an ax walk by, figured that was close enough so I logged out for the night. I was pretty excited that I was finally able to build a pile of sticks out of the branches I was picking, woke my wife up to let her know.. she seemed less than impressed. One question I have, after finding enough smooth stones to get the survival skills, do I need to continue looking for them, or is there something else I should be looking for to continue leveling?
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 02:44 |
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I activated my account on a different computer to the one I'm on now, and now I can't find where to download the client. Can anyone help me out?
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 03:38 |
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Oh my god, I just watched a video of a guy who started off by proudly proclaiming that he had found a smooth stone after long last. It turned out to be flint. So he walked, and after several cuts, he found one... on the other side of a river. This is hilarious to me. Will probably be less so when I finally get my download link.
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 04:16 |
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So I got in, left Boston, followed the river west, south, west again, and then north, found two clumps of grass, a rock, and a bench. Am I winning yet? Or at least close to the goone settlemente?
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 06:50 |
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Gonna have to come back tomorrow, need to watch the LP and my net's poo poo at the moment. Got a nice little lean-to though.
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 07:09 |
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They really need to start you out with swimming in this game. It's a bit ridiculous trying to navigate the world when bodies of water are flipping you the bird. That said, it's amazing to see something get built from the ground-up. It's like we're playing multiplayer civilization where we're all the same player.
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 07:31 |
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Alright. I've read the wiki and everything, but I don't get how the gently caress Gluttony and increasing those 4 stats works. I do it and gain levels but I have no idea how and I feel I'm being wasteful.
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 08:06 |
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I can respect the fact that this game has a challenge. I wandered around in the wilderness for 10+ hours collecting smooth stones, devil's worts, tumbleweeds, and other items that provides skill bonuses. All in all I collected about 20 smooth stones and 8 tumbleweeds which provide skill ups. That being said I will need to wander around aimlessly in the wilderness for at least several more days (actual days) to get to any point where I can actually do something more than chop down a tree. The terribly designed cliff faces, rivers that you can't cross for miles got really old. After I had been doing this for about 10 hours and at this point I was finally able to cut down a tree I just stopped and asked myself, "What the hell am I doing?" Really, this game punishes you for playing. I wanted to like this game because I enjoyed Haven and Hearth and Wurm Online, and the concept of this in theory sounds really amazing. But the few very very scarce resources getting started up into this game and the enormous amount of time it requires just to do anything remotely constructive is ridiculous. I might give this another try in a month or so once they iron out some of these issues. I get that they want to make the player invest some time before they just immediately start going out and building anything and everything but I think they have overdone it quite a bit.
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 08:08 |
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Cojawfee posted:Join up with who? That Blawrf guy hasn't been on all day. I poopsocked all through the first night so I went to bed early. A twelve hour sleep is not all day 
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 08:50 |
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Primaris posted:I get that they want to make the player invest some time before they just immediately start going out and building anything and everything but I think they have overdone it quite a bit. The people who made this and H&H are I think just making the game for themselves and releasing it to the public as a favour. Okay, maybe not, but if they were you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. The fact that Salem doesn't address the problems with H&H and actually compounds them to an extent (even harsher newbie experience) is crazy. And the UI and everything is still the same abysmal crap. They have no interest in making a "good game" in the contemporary sense. Anyway, the start is rough but once things get rolling a bit it'll really get rolling. Right now we're just a bunch of lean-to's in the bush, but in a while we'll have a small town with farms and a wall and we'll be going out with guns and swords to murder and pillage. It'd be nice if the developers gave a poo poo about making a good game that people can enjoy from the start and whether they're in a group or solo, but in the meantime, join IRC, get to gooncamp, and work on getting some skills to help get the town going.
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 09:22 |
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loudog999 posted:After a few hours of wondering last night, I believe that I almost found the goon camp. The arrows I was following were started to separate a little, and then I saw a naked guy with an ax walk by, figured that was close enough so I logged out for the night. Be careful when logging out, if something occupies the spot where your character was right before you logged out, you lose everything and go back to Boston. Try to disconnect somewhat far away from civilization (and crickets).
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 11:14 |
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Don't go south for hours and hours. You'll hit mountains. I thought they were hills, and I could get over it. Not so much.
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Elijah. posted:oh god I've spent about ten minutes straight laughing at this.
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Lassitude posted:The people who made this and H&H are I think just making the game for themselves and releasing it to the public as a favour. Okay, maybe not, but if they were you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. The fact that Salem doesn't address the problems with H&H and actually compounds them to an extent (even harsher newbie experience) is crazy. And the UI and everything is still the same abysmal crap. They have no interest in making a "good game" in the contemporary sense. Anyway, the start is rough but once things get rolling a bit it'll really get rolling. Right now we're just a bunch of lean-to's in the bush, but in a while we'll have a small town with farms and a wall and we'll be going out with guns and swords to murder and pillage. It'd be nice if the developers gave a poo poo about making a good game that people can enjoy from the start and whether they're in a group or solo, but in the meantime, join IRC, get to gooncamp, and work on getting some skills to help get the town going. The devs seem to have issues with balancing developed gameplay with a smooth starting experience. The skills are a bit much of a grind to acquire, but it's certainly doable. I'd like to see more interactivity in the way characters are developed (rather than study stuff and eat food and study more and eat more), but I doubt this'll happen - like you said this is the devs' social experiment pet-project. I'm sure it'll be a lot of fun once it really gets going, mainly due to drama filled interaction with the general populace, which I'm looking forward to. It'll also be quite a bit easier on newbies when we can provide starter stuff (e.g. backpacks) to all from the get-go. Like H&H, building up a character is a pain in the rear end and is the real "hump" to get over, which is important to the social dynamic by tying some real potential repercussions to aggressive behavior (in that you really consider your actions when they involve risking a character you spent hours upon hours grinding up).
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 13:42 |
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I got my invite today. I look forward to wandering the wilderness for hours looking for a rock. 
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 14:11 |
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Yaaay! Got the invite. Time to do… things.
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 14:28 |
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Sprats posted:Be careful when logging out, if something occupies the spot where your character was right before you logged out, you lose everything and go back to Boston. Try to disconnect somewhat far away from civilization (and crickets). A bunch of stuff appeared in my grounds just now, which I'm guessing was someone logging off near my stuff and logging back in after I had expanded. So, confirming this!
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 14:42 |
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I'm in and submitted auth stuff. First day I found a smooth stone and I stole a chestnut from under a guy who couldn't figure out how to pick it up and this dude yelled at me in korean chasing me for about ten minutes, it was great. Looking forward to lots of e-tears, this looks hard as gently caress.
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 14:43 |
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The game is neat. hosed up, and creepy, and impenetrable. But neat.
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 15:13 |
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This is a terrible game and I don't know what Paradox was thinking but yes it does have some great moments.
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 15:24 |
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Quantumfate posted:Some gently caress doing a nazi salute just knocked us out hours outside of boston. How do you pick someone up who is knocked out? You should note, those were goons. We're not going to be nice, even to our own people 
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 16:34 |
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... Got my BETA key, works for my Paradox forum account, but i cant tie my paradox forum account and my Seatribe account together with the same beta key. Fuckkkkk Any ideas
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 16:34 |
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I'm still waiting for beta, and the Lets Play videos on youtube by Paradoxwhatever are absolutely great (that guy should do radio), but drat if this isn't one of the most hilarious MMO threads. Total schadenfreude going on here, you all sound miserable and confused and it's wonderful.
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 16:54 |
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ill b bach posted:This is literally the most important thing of all time. If you can't spend five minutes to auth at salemgoons and get the irc/ts/other stuff then you can just gently caress right off forever. Someone decided the IRC webapp on the website shouldn't break tables, so it is useless. You also cannot open that link in a new window by itself, anymore. And my IRC client can't resolve my host name and uses my IP instead, so forget that. I got on TS last night to try and coordinate and get a grip on what I should be doing to to meet up with goons and goon around goontown. Yeah, good luck. No one would stfu for even two seconds in there. Even the guys trying to get tech support done for the custom client had to give up and go elsewhere, because you literally cannot get a word in edge-wise with all the sperging going on. Funso Banjo posted:You should note, those were goons. If goons are going to be treated like pubbies, then what's the point to this?
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vty posted:Total schadenfreude going on here, you all sound miserable and confused and it's wonderful. I am unconscious with no way to do anything, at all, and almost nobody in the game can do anything to me. I am literally at the whim of one random person I can't even identify, or I would spend the rest of eternity as lawn furniture. It's pretty cool.
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PoisonedV posted:Alright. I've read the wiki and everything, but I don't get how the gently caress Gluttony and increasing those 4 stats works. I do it and gain levels but I have no idea how and I feel I'm being wasteful. This gets asked a lot. When you go into gluttony, every time you eat enough to completely fill one of your humours that one goes up by 1 and the progress for the other humours resets. The general strategy is to load your inventory with highly replenishing foods, go into gluttony, and eat everything you have. I guess there might be strategy involved or something, but gently caress it. Chow down! Apple Craft posted:If goons are going to be treated like pubbies, then what's the point to this? Please note they never talked to us in irc or teamspeak, and at the time they never identified themselves as other goons. This game is so obtuse, how were we to know? MrGreenShirt fucked around with this message at Apr 25, 2012 around 17:10 |
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Apple Craft posted:Someone decided the IRC webapp on the website shouldn't break tables, so it is useless. You also cannot open that link in a new window by itself, anymore. And my IRC client can't resolve my host name and uses my IP instead, so forget that. Just go to mibbit.com and enter the info. If your hostname isn't resolving it's most likely your ISP. And your IP isn't that big of a deal, nor really that hard to get unless  Apple Craft posted:If goons are going to be treated like pubbies, then what's the point to this? They aren't generally. But loving with goons is a time honored tradition. The guy above wasn't identified as a goon so yeah of course he's going to get treated like a pubbie. I repeat, this is a terrible game and if you can't do a lil (lot) of footwork then just save yourself some trouble and give up now.
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MrGreenShirt posted:Please note they never talked to us in irc or teamspeak, and at the time they never identified themselves as other goons. This game is so obtuse, how were we to know?
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SuperSpiff posted:I repeat, this is a terrible game and if you can't do a lil (lot) of footwork then just save yourself some trouble and give up now. Did you like Wurm? You'll like this game, and find yourself running away less from giant spiders and bears. Did you think that Minecraft should have skills before you can craft or do things? Then this game might be for you aswell.
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