Wurm Online - a BYOND guild?

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Nov 23 2006, 4:15 pm
For those of you that don't know what wurm is, you can find it here: http://www.wurmonline.com/

It is essentially a life sim rpg. Combat is a minor part of the game, and it centers mostly around building villages/cities and whatnot.

I was wondering if any of you would like to try this out, and perhaps make a BYOND Guild/City?

I haven't played this in a while, but I'd like to hop back on and play with some familiar faces.
Nov 25 2006, 1:05 pm
you could make a 'Village of Deadron' (like Enron), or 'Silkvale', or 'Tavern Crispy', or 'Alathonia'...

:P
Nov 25 2006, 2:21 pm
In response to digitalmouse
I suggest "Bathenbyond", preferably if it's sited on a river or coast. =)
Nov 30 2006, 2:51 am
I actually really want to get onto this, once I've got the internet in my room (hopefully after Christmas) I'll be able to play, or if it isn't too super graphicsy I can play it from downstairs (but not very often/much).
What're the lowest settings the graphics can have?
Nov 30 2006, 3:23 am
In response to Hazman
The graphics are fairly basic (Some of it is nicely detailed, but all considered it's pretty crude), but since it's a 3D java applet, it's SUPER CPU intensive. So don't bother running it on a bad computer; even my PC with an 1.8 Ghz AMD Athlon, 1 gig of RAM and 5500 Geforce graphics card couldn't run it well on the medium settings.

When you first login you can expect it to be majorly laggy (CPU intensive that is, not network lag), but that's because the settings are turned right up. So get into the settings and fiddle until you can find something more suitable.
Nov 30 2006, 8:27 am
In response to Elation
I don't think I'll try - this PC is a PIII 500mhz with a Voodoo 2 or something so it'll probably just murder it completely.
Nov 30 2006, 10:02 am
In response to Hazman
Yah, you've got no chance on that thing. Weird how you can use something like that when I'm going out of my mind using a 1.5 Ghz Pentium 4... it's so slow I can't stand it. Maybe I'm just spoilt. =/
Nov 30 2006, 10:05 am
In response to Elation
Elation wrote:
Maybe I'm just spoilt. =/

Maybe you just run windows XP, with all its updates, and some other TSR-type programs that run all the time, etc. :P
Nov 30 2006, 10:11 am
In response to Jon88
Jon88 wrote:
Maybe you just run windows XP, with all its updates, and some other TSR-type programs that run all the time, etc. :P

I've stripped this down to it's bare bones. It runs the bare minimum processes, all the graphical options of XP are switched off, the page file is as large as it can be, everything is defragged and optimised... it's actually depressing me that the more I do to make it go faster, the slower it gets. It can't even run many flash files well anymore, which is worrying because before I started using it a lot a few months ago, it could run all that fine.

Am I killing it?
Nov 30 2006, 10:19 am
In response to Elation
Elation wrote:
Am I killing it?

It's Windows XP. You could try re-installing everything, but it's not likely to make much of a difference. I'm of the paranoid belief that half the microsoft "security" patches are really just excuses to give you code that slows down your computer. That way you need to buy a new computer, with a new copy of windows. >.>
Nov 30 2006, 11:30 am
In response to Elation
I use it as little as possible - my 'real' PC is sitting upstairs in my bedroom with a 2ghz processor and 512mb RAM but it has no internet.
Nov 30 2006, 12:46 pm
In response to Jon88
Jon88 wrote:
It's Windows XP. You could try re-installing everything, but it's not likely to make much of a difference.

I was considering it, because it was glitching out slightly- trying to access, say, the display settings in the Control Panel will take an age, and the "open with" menu will often take 10 minutes to appear.

Maybe I should just give it some more RAM (it has 512, but in reality only 400 because some is stolen by the integrated graphics card).

That way you need to buy a new computer, with a new copy of windows. >.>

I don't see that as such a bad thing right now. :P A new PC would be great.
Dec 1 2006, 10:49 am
In response to Elation
Elation wrote:
Jon88 wrote:
It's Windows XP. You could try re-installing everything, but it's not likely to make much of a difference.

I was considering it, because it was glitching out slightly- trying to access, say, the display settings in the Control Panel will take an age, and the "open with" menu will often take 10 minutes to appear.

Maybe I should just give it some more RAM (it has 512, but in reality only 400 because some is stolen by the integrated graphics card).

That way you need to buy a new computer, with a new copy of windows. >.>

I don't see that as such a bad thing right now. :P A new PC would be great.

I have a 1.4ghz Pentium Centrino, 1gig of ram, an ATI Raedon Mobility 9000.

That said, with 9% FREE harddrive space (that's right: packed out) I can run World of Warcraft on full graphics, Guild Wars on full graphics, Eve Online on full graphics, and can run 30fps or better on all of the above, except WoW which gets about 18fps.

The only high quality settings I can't run are 2x or greater antialiasing and antroscopic filtering.

When I run in low graphics I can get 50-60fps on any of those games. Your computer needs supr sayan powrlvl!!! :P


~Polatrite~
Dec 2 2006, 12:37 pm (Edited on Dec 2 2006, 5:30 pm)
In response to Polatrite
i got a AMDX7 proccesser YAY! the favorite proccesser of all gamers. oh and silent i got the copy i got one word for ya CRAPPY it may be free but it still sucks. i paid for a game similar called "AoE dawn of life" it may be a cost one but it is worth the money. (oh thats not off-topic because im comparing wurm to ADOl) i ran the graphics on high its still crappy my gosh

edit: oh my gosh i clicked the wrong link. lol im so tottally dumb. yeah its cool not as good as ADOL though