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Szark  5/02/07 12:00:08 AM
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Last week, Wurm Online suffered from an unfortunately timed server crash. The makers of the game estimate that "more than 500 000 hours worth of playing time has been wiped away." The good news is that the game will be up and running on May 5th and players will be reimbursed for the lost time.

The latest off-site backup was too old. We will reset Wurm Online totally. It will once again be that huge forest infested with creatures, awaiting your colonisation.

The game will open again on the 5th of May at 1600 hrs Central Europe/Stockholm (0900 in US/Central), with a promise to make automatic off-site backups and other safety measures we can think of. Up until then we will carefully generate new maps, look over the database structure so that it will put less stress on the disks and write reimbursement code.

Old players will be able to retrieve all gold they ever purchased, and of course retain their premium time plus two weeks bonus. The reimbursement will be based on the email you create the account with. Hopefully we can recover the Ageless title from the backup, and with it the Bok.

Get the details here.

 
the.wired  5/02/07 11:04:31 AM
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Many new players are disheartened when starting a game like this for the first time, finding many of the existing players are so far advanced that they cannot be equalled.

Therefore this really is the best time to have a look at this game, with the reset underway and everyone going back to nothing more than the tools they started with, everyone is going to be on equal terms.

If you feel you would like to make a name for yourself in a new and unexplored world, you really should come along and take a look at this game. Perhaps you can even find your own corner of the world to call home.
 
tigris67  5/02/07 11:42:03 AM
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"You know what happened to the man that got everything he ever wanted? He lived happily ever after"
Wow...well let me just say that if I was an existing player, I would be eternally pissed off at this... 500,000 hours gone? holy crap.

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paulscott  5/02/07 12:08:58 PM
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why do humans build, because it isn''t there
wurm online is a completely player controlled world.  player made towns, modifiable enviroments, 99% of all things are made by players.

 this spot look comfortable make a house right there.  sick of going around the mountain, make a mine through it. 

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wjrasmussen  5/02/07 12:24:39 PM
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Originally posted by paulscott
wurm online is a completely player controlled world.  player made towns, modifiable enviroments, 99% of all things are made by players.

 this spot look comfortable make a house right there.  sick of going around the mountain, make a mine through it. 
That is a great thing!