Bwuaha, Ter knows my pain.
The worst part of Wurm online is putting a lot of work into a village just for them to stab you in the back. It made me so frustrated that I wanted to make my own version of wurm where that could never happen again. :)
(That is what Pondera is, oh ...and it isn't a mindless grind, it is intended to let you build what you want without all of that awful skill grinding just to get where you want).