The inability to go hunting in WO is one big issue that raised the suck factor for me. When you are done with your deed hunting is one the very few things that are left.
I was thinking about how I would go about hunting on another server. It's not as straightforward as it sounds. The trip is long, you have to prepare for it, then somehow live there for a few days, then manage to bring your stuff back. So I've been thinking about some practical issues.
I don't know where you are going to put portals, I suppose in NT of course, and that's already about 1-1.5 hours away from my deed in the SE, either on boat or on land. Currently I am recuperating at home after an accident so I don't mind, but when I get back to work the one-way trip alone will take all the free time in a day.
Suggestion: put one portal in every quadrant + one in the center. Portal may or may not ask for a 1s donation for magical services rendered
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Depending on the wind, the boat trip may take just as much time.
Suggestion: if possible, make it so every map border connects to the Hunting Island, or at least two opposite ones. The planet is small and round, isn't it?
I do not think Rolf added the feature to load horses into large ships, did he? How safe is it to lead two horses on ropes onto another server nowadays? And bulls?
If the trip there and back take a day each, we will need to stay there for a few days. I am always wary of camping in the wild. Meals decay, you never know what will happen to your horses, no bed for SB, etc. Who's to say that Rolf won't release another patch where aggressive animals attack non-aggressive ones on sight, or another April Fools joke, and then you are left on foot in full plate in the middle of nowhere on another server?
Suggestion: is it technically possible to allow limited deeding and only in some areas? For instance no more than a 5x5 or 10x10 per Steam account (IIRC per account limits was one of the first server mods ever made for WU), and only in coastal areas? Not free but for, let's say 10x the normal price + monthly rates? So that we have a pied-a-terre so to speak, where to rest between hunts, if we really want one?
Will portals bring us into some kind of cities or villages on the other side, where we can leave horses, sleep, etc.
Will we be able to make roads?
Combat: it is too easy on Skloto. I've been killing trolls with 50ql plate and 35 FS, hell hounds were a breeze even before with 32-ish FS and ql50 studded armor. They should be challenging at 70+ FS and 60ql plate (if memory serves me right) IMHO. We need something to look forward to after the deed is done, so I'd prefer it if the Hunting Island did have the proper 1x Combat Rating as in WO. Personally I'd prefer it if we had a 1x CR in Skloto as well or whatever it should be to make as it is in WO, so I start fearing trolls again, but I am afraid people will start
bit whi complaining about it too much.