Post by splarmus on Sept 18, 2022 20:22:04 GMT
Hi. Thanks for the read and consideration. This post might seem a little long at first and its not required of you to memorize all of this but I felt it necessary to put some of the most basic aspects of living here so that you could make an informed decision. We are located on Liberty server at the following location:
About Gravelton
Our town is one of the oldest deeds in all of existence founded very soon after the creation of Sklotopolis. I have always recruited and helped everyone that I can and have been doing this for well over 6 years now. Helping new people get a good start seems important to me. Instilling in them a sense of excitement about WU and a fascination about the complexity of the game is a great love and pleasure to do for people. Upon first joining the town, most people just love what they see. Large buildings, thousands of enchanted grass tiles and the most white-dotted flowers beds you will ever see anywhere make the town a beautiful place to live. There are NO real rules about living here but there are a very few permissions NEW citizens do not have at first. These are only in place at first to protect resources that everyone uses. That is all and it changes as time goes by. You have vast freedom to do anything you want here. We have close to 66,000 tiles of space currently for you to do anything you want with. We are on Liberty server in the north west tip very close to Novus. If you have chosen to start on Novus you cant just be invited into the town immediately or summoned here. But I can sail right across the water and summon you to my location and bring you here in very little time. There is only 1 single area of the deed you are not permitted into and this is for your protection. I will take you on a tour through it upon your arrival and talk about this more in the 'Animals' section of this post.
You might notice I say 'our town' and 'we' frequently. I am the mayor and founder but do not consider the place to be 'mine' exactly. If you live here this place is yours as well as everything in it. It all belongs to you. Alot of people ask me if they can have things or do things to which I always remind them: Its yours to do with as you please. My only job is to protect the place over the years. Your only job is to have fun. You are no slave who is required to do anything for the deed itself. You will never be asked to do anything for it either. Some people offer to but this is their wish to contribute. There's always some interesting errands I can find if you want to help with something. But by no means are you required to work in any way. We have a decent enchant bonus and rarity window to help you get rares and this is worked on and maintained. If you are an existing player who should decide to join us I will go through the trouble of helping you move your stuff here with a caravel or wagon. I am here to help everyone I can in any way I can. Gravelton is a very safe place to live and no monster has ever just wandered into town. The guards however are off by default and you can call for help in local if you should need assistance. There are reasons for this that will be discussed in the Animal section.
The Town
The town proper of our deed is no maze of fenced paths and confusingly placed buildings. It might seem big at first but you will quickly find it is designed in a simple fashion to make finding your way and getting around as easy as possible. Really the place is not as big as some other deeds you will find. We have a nice homey feeling going on here. The water tiles are placed so perfectly around town its just magical. Perfectly placed as they are is like winning the lottery. We really are lucky around here. We have good active people for you to socialize and play with. We are in an alliance that most north-western towns are also in.
Housing
I have built 12 3x5 houses on a street for people to occupy immediately upon joining. They all have finished marble slab floors, a bed an oven a forge a BSB a FSB and a large chest for you to get an easy start doing what you like with. They all have 4 animal pens with 18 tiles of enchanted grass as a yard for your horse cart or whatever animals you choose to keep for yourself. You will have full permission to change the house in anyway you see fit, build more floors or roof it as you please. Destroy the thing completely and start over if you like to make it the way you want. Many people do this and most of these look alot different. You have the option to build your own house if you want of course but these are here for you to get yourself started in.
Attendance
You are not required to play in any regular fashion. We all have real lives. I work and sleep which takes much of my time. If you need an extended amount of time away tell me if you can so your place will be saved for you. This is not always possible and I understand it. You will never be kicked out of town for any amount of time you are missing. If you choose to come back you will have a home upon your return. But if you create your character one day and pick a house then do not show up again for a month or so I will make you an 'inactive citizen' and take away your permissions. This is only done to protect the people and things here. They will be restored immediately upon your return.
The Crafting Hall
At the end of Gravelton Lane where we house new citizens is a large crafting hall for your use. It is stocked with all the facilities and tools that could be thought of. There are also many low QL materials for your use. When I say 'low QL' this means things 60 QL and below for you to grind skills with. This crafting hall is a free for all zone. Remember that anything in it is yours to take and use as you will. There are many things in there of immediate use for new players that other people have crafted. Swords, shields, tools and much more. Take your time and look through things. There is no real way for me to keep track of it all so if you want something that's not in there please bring it to my attention. I am here to help you in any way I can. There is wood, iron and steel kept stocked in there. If you are grinding a skill like making 30 swords and improving them please use iron. For yourself however you should choose to use the steel for your tools and personal gear. Steel is no harder to work with than iron but is much better for your own personal tools weapons and Armour. There is also slate, marble, sandstone, rock and dirt in here too.
Resources
Of course resources are of great importance to everyone. As a NEW citizen there a few a few things here you wont exactly be able to do right away to protect these things for everyone's use.
-The Mine: The mine is located in the courtyard and has a gold mine door on it. There is only 1 entry/exit point to it. Inside the entrance is surrounded by red lamps to make it more visible but these are not visible long distances away from it. It is about in the middle of the vast open mine. There is every mineral and metal in it including gold. Its not really advisable to mine up or down because we live on low land near the ocean. Mining down you will find yourself in water and up is the surface. As a new citizen you will have the permission to mine rock and iron only. We have everything mined and smelted already if you want them. If you want to mine your own you will be given the permission to do so after a brief discussion demonstrating that you know about vein qualities. Someone new with 20 skill should not choose to mine an utmost vein is all. We have every type or ore and stone type down there. We have every ore and alloy at full 100 QL as well so you do not have to feel any pressure any way you slice it. You will never go without tooth filling dentistry here.
-Wood and Trees: We just made a rather massive tree and bush orchard. There are 1120 of every type now so wood is no longer an issue here. Just chop a few trees in the old small orchard to the west and replant them if you would. Just for edification purposes anyone on the server can come pick sprouts here.
-Minerals and Alloys: I try to make everything available for everyone's use of all QL's. Minerals and Alloys are no different in this regard but they are given out upon request and not just generally available for use for new citizens. You can have anything you want of course but to protect these things for everyone I just distribute them when asked for specifically.
-Dig Dug: We have Moss, Clay, Sand, Peat and Tar on deed for your use.
Animals
Animals are my passion and alot of space is reserved for them and breeding. We have good horses and hell horses most of which are 5 speed or very close so pick through them and get yourself some good ones. I am a bit nuts about animals and breed many strange things. Dogs and rats for pelts and deer for hides. I have even been known to breed obscure things like crabs, pheasants and even hell hounds just for kicks. I do this to completely familiarize myself with these creatures and their quirks. Chiefly though my greatest love are black sheep and champion creatures. Black champion sheep being the hardest thing there is to breed for various reasons. But champion creatures are the most dangerous thing a new player can stumble across in their general daily lives. So I keep these locked away in a special area that you will not have access to. New citizens are not given permission to destroy fences for this reason. If you build yourself a house and have built fences you don't like I will of course give you the permission to do so. I'd like for you to not attack and kill the farm animals in most cases and certainly not other peoples horses for example. There are things I could do prevent this completely of course but choose not to. I want you to be able to lead your horses so you can hitch them to your carts and wagons and to be able to kill your starter horses because they are complete junk anyway.
If you see some strange bull or sheep in the pastures around the outskirts of the deed you certainly can kill them as well. Some people over the years have felt compelled to bring animals here to add to our stock. You can do this for yourself of course but it is not desired that you do this for the deed itself. Wild animals are a pain to deal with. They wander around in their pens constantly making it hard to brush, sheer, milk and breed them. They have no traits. Their offspring will have very few traits and most of those will be bad. This again is more work as well because things like 'constantly hungry' are not tolerated and I have to genesis away these bad traits. Wild animals are just a lot of unnecessary extra work so please leave these strangers out in the wild. The animals we have already are yours after all so you might as well have a good one. I hunt and bring home every champion creature I can get my hands on and have the most vast collection of them of anyone I know of. This is why guards are 'off' by default.
So thank you for the read and hope to see you in game. /tell splarmus hi to get started talking with me if you're interested in joining and hope to see you in game.