Originally posted by WSIMike

I decided to try out Wurm again.. I checked it out in the past (some months ago) and was glad to see that it seemed to be picking up in popularity.

However.. I gotta ask, and I say this in a completely non-offensive way... purely out of curiosity:

How the hell do you people even get started, nevermind make progress in this game?

I created a character... Talked to the NPC, followed the instructions (open character window, open inventory... equip hatchet and shield, etc). No problem.

Then I'm told to leave the village and go chop down a tree with the hatchet. No problem. I wander off in search of a tree. Not a difficult task, since I seem to be surrounded by forest.

Walk up to a tree.. and have trouble even selecting it. Moving the cursor around it seems to want to select everything *but* the tree I'm trying to target... I'm getting the grass patches behind it, edge tiles, stone slabs... every other tree in the area... except the one I'm actually trying to target. Not very intuitive, and rather clunky to be honest.

Finally, I get a tree targeted... I right-click and a menu comes up with options to examine, emotes, etc. etc.. But nothing to do with actually chopping down the tree (I checked and the hatchet was equipped). I try again... no option to actually cut down the tree. Decide to try another tree... Same result... can't do it. I wandered around for about 10 minutes going from tree to tree to tree trying to cut one down.. none of them gave me the option.

Then I come to realize that there are messages showing up in the text window about thorns doing damage to me. What thorns? All I see is grass and trees all around me. I turn around and try to get back to the road... a red glow is growing around the border of the screen, indicating that I'm taking some bad damage... It continues to worsen even after I'm on the path again.

So, here I am... almost dead due to thorns I didn't know were there, holding a hatchet that I can't use on trees that I can't cut down...

I went to the official site and checked the wiki to see what I was doing wrong (not a good sign when the beginning steps of a starter tutorial require you to research outside the game... but anyway).. Seems I was doing everything right according to the FAQ... It just wasn't working in-game.

Needless to say my first impression is not at all good.

I'm wondering how those of you playing and enjoying it managed to get through all that? Are those known issues that there are work-arounds for?

 

Double click the hatchet in your inventory....don't actually "equip it". You only need to equip things like swords and armor to fight stuff, otherwise you just double click it in your inven to activate it.

I find this hilarious, but I get it...you're new and you don't know what to do. You'll learn. I also recommend that you look at the wiki
wurmonline.com/wiki/index.php - its got tutorials and will tell you what to do. If you have trouble, ask someone what to do or how to do something. Easy.

Um guys...did you notice that in the picture of his banmail, that after his ban message it says welcome to eve online? This guy signed up for EVE online right after he got banned, and with the same e-mail adress. I lol'd.

Originally posted by neXeonJesteR

There is a number of great changes that will help continue the advancement of this game. If you haven't already, you should check out the Development Updates section of forum.fomportal.com and see what changes have been done thus far.

Yes, Marko is making changes, but I don't see you changing a thing. Stop the DDoS attacks, and you might want to stop calling viraL to do your dirty work.

Originally posted by Z-Ro

true.

FOM is da shit.

Another great comment by the most brilliant person on the internet.

Originally posted by random11

Where's the one in tortage?

Don't even worry about it....If you go into the tavern next to the entrance and do "night" missions, you level MUCH faster. At lvl 19, you can kill the main boss of tortage, and finally leave. So just wait till 19 to reset your points, you'd only have 9 anyways, so it won't really effect you as greatly as it would later.

It costs 275C to reset it the 2nd time (2 silver and 75 copper)

If this is usefull, I suggest a sticky.

Look for an NPC that says "TRAINER" under their name. There is one in tortage aswell as conarch village.

Co-ords for conarch are 250,491. It costs 50C to do the 1st time.(I'm lvl 26 and have 5 silver - 500C, so its not much)

The second time, it costs 275C or 2 silver and 75 copper, But at higher levels, again, this isn't much. Money isn't that big of a factor in this game since most of the good items you get are drops from creatures or quest items. Merchant items usually have no bonuses. Anyways, back on topic:

Here is the one in conarch village:

(Note that these images have been resized to fit the page.)

So as you can see, its easy to reset featpoints. The conarch trainer is at co-ords 250,491

Look for an NPC that says "TRAINER" under their name. There is one in tortage aswell as conarch village.

Co-ords for conarch are 250,491. It costs 50C to do (I'm lvl 26 and have 5 silver - 500C, so its not much)

Here is the one in conarch village:

(Note that these images have been resized to fit the page.)

So as you can see, its easy to reset featpoints. The conarch trainer is at co-ords 250,491

EC treated me well too, but I wasn't in EC OB. However in retail, I feel it was the easiest faction for a combatant to get rich quick in, even if they were a new player.

This was my first MMO ever, I enjoyed playing on it for a while. Unfortunately, the game is dieing down slowly but surely. There just aren't as many people interested anymore, because games with better graphics have been developed over the years. It was great for its time, but its time is almost up.

I'd have to say, that when Nexus company owned the game, It had a much better feeling to it. Even the music you heard when you were first logging in (the music you'd hear now in the land of "Abel" in the game) made you felt like the game was truly set in the dark ages....KRU made the game lighter and more friendly, which dosn't really match the theme. Too much grinding for not enough quests, once you get your GM gear and onwards.

With its flaws though, I must say again, it was my first MMO ever, and I had a great time playing it.

GG.

Ojom pulled the plug so FoMs down for now. They're changing parts of the games and making factions races & attempting to improve upon other things. Hopefully the old aimbots won't be able to work in new FoM.

By the way I made this post before the fly hack / aimbot event. Some new info: Appartly a new company is going to own the game, an American company. Hope it grows past what it used to be. MS 2 was released....but www.faceofmankind.com still is on 2006's updates. They dont like to update their website I guess...A shame.

Well normally i wouldn't post about this, but if you're planning on playing FoM, you'd better hear it. It was actually kinda funny, but also sad. A hacker made an aimbot program, which was handed out to about 20 people. Unfortionately, this aimbot program had an unidentified keylogger, which sent out user names and passwords. Smoker, the lead GM, got a hold of the program, and tested it, not knowing it contained a keylogger. When the hacker was satisfied by the numbers, he posted on the fourms a list of usernames and passwords. The hacker used Smoker's forum account to keep posting them. The even worse part is that the hacker went into the game with Smoker's GM and started Faction Kicking EVERYONE. All the HC in the game got faction kicked, along with a few others. The hacker was also able to cause chaos as other players logged onto other peoples accounts and stole money, robbed items and perma killed characters. This made alot of people quit the game, which is pretty understandable. Even though this event was bad, things were happening even before it.

Lets take a few steps back to about two weeks before the aimbot/keylogger incedent. You're standing in New York -Manhattan and see something  weird. All of the sudden someone pops out from under the floor, shoots you with one shot (actually a 10 shot hack) and you die instantly. It turns out that even before this awakening keylogger/aimbot event, there was hackers just roaming around. I saw, on many occasions, 1-4 people fly hacking all around manhattan. You could also see those same people speed hacking, and obviously using an aimbot aswell. The GMs didnt even act then, and it was horrible to just step into hattan and get taken down so quickly and so unfairly. Some of these fly hackers would just fly around pop shoting people, and killing the people they hated. Before you play the game, consider wether or not you want to step into a game where hackers get away easily, dont get caught, and get even more direct (use more hacks) every day.

I have been playing face of mankind for a while now (About a year - ob+retail time) and i can tell you how this game functions. Even though there are some who may say im wrong, this is what ive gathered and I believe it to be correct.

Lets start by telling you a bit about the different factions from the player's perspective.

LED(Law Enforcement Department)- The LED are probibly the most common "noob" faction and the "poliece" of the game. I'll tell you one thing, starting in the LED will either really discourage you, or really help you. It all depends on if you leave the LED home base without knowing what to do or whats going on. Once you leave that home base (sometimes even when your in it) you will be constantly attacked by random factions (MotB mostly depending on their status, as well as BoS and EC). This is because Face of Mankind has an ever changing world, and also because the MotB love to own "noobs." The LED can use stun bullets or a tazer to arrest people - EASIER SAID THEN DONE. Tazering an enemy on drugs (drugs are used by pretty much everyone, including the LED but are sometimes refered to as "candy," and biph and poly e make it so your stamina almost never runs out) has to be one of the most challenging things ever. The zanny which you use your stun bullets in sucks too, so its fairly hard for a new player. I'd give you more details but we still have 7 factions to cover.

FDC(Freedom Defence Corps)- The FDC are pretty much the "military" and help the LED out, except (when i was an FDC, it was the best part) when civil wars between the two break out and the FDC own the LED. Guys if you're gona start in a faction START IN THIS ONE. FDC actually hold usefull training classes and teach you of the game (they call them 101 and 102). The 101 is the bookish class and the 102 is weapons and combat. Well anyways the FDC are pretty damn good when it comes to fighting compared to the LED. The FDC are known for zerging (amassing large ORGANIZED forces and overrunning the enemy) and are fairly well at it. The FDC are considered "matched" when it comes to strength when it comes to EC MotB and BoS (well the BoS sometimes get ALOT more users). The same thing might happen to you once you leave your home colony as the LED, but the FDC tend to get owned MUCH less then the LED.

VI(Vortex Inc.)- This faction is kinda so-so. The combatants it contained when i was in it were good but there were DEFINATELY not enough of them to combat huge forces (MotB, BoS, FDC and now EC). Vortex Inc gets a deduct on vortex tickets, but vortex tickets at most cost 100 uc and thats really nothing at all. Vortex is a semi mining/producing and combat faction. If you join Vortex, don't expect to get many missions....

CMG(Colinization and Mining Guild)- This faction is the SMALLEST faction. The people are really nice, but it consists of majority of traders. The CMG pretty much stay neutral on everything, and if you want to mine, the CMG is PERFECT, if you choose trader as your profession. At Rank 2 you get a nice deduct on mining cost, and an even bigger deduct at rank 3. Again dont expect to get many missions from this faction. I was in this faction for the faction-wide meeting, and all the members (about only 8 active) could have fit in one tiny apartment. Again the CMG is perfect if you want to just mine and make cash.

EC(EuroCore)- Ah the eurocore....what a strange faction. This faction maily consists of an organized set of troops (about 5-8 at a time) who farm missions. The EC used to be known as the hackers, but these rumors were mainly made just because 1 EC hacked a while ago, and now due to recent updates was unable to hack again. Alot of people talk behind the EC's back because the EC are lead by people who were low ranks in other factions, but had a better time in EC and stuck with it. If you want to make cash AND fight, EC is considered a great faction There aren't that many traders for EC and im not sure if they get any benefits. Like I said its a corporation faction and was supposed to be more of a producing faction but along the lines it just turned into another fighting group. The EC HC basicly take care of their members and train them. Get rich quick = EC.

BoS(Brotherhood of Savage)- The BoS are very unique and strange. In Face of Mankind they must abide by a certain code, which consists of not undercuting brothers (other BoS), and also the consequences to go with it (a harsh set of consequences actually....). A funny thing about the BoS is that they contain a certain group (these guys arnt friends and prolly dont know each other) who made their names vent de mistral, aura de mistral...ect. The BoS actually recognized the mistrals as a sort of "Elite" family and even have "mistral worlds" or places they took and basicly made mistralfyed. I havn't particularly been in the BoS for a long time, because this faction is SLOW. Unless the BoS are at war, you might go CRAZY because they dont want you to attack ANYONE. They dont even do as much missions as EC so I guess this could be your faction if you found something that I havnt...good luck with that one.

GoM(Guardians of Mankind)- The GoM, or in slang, Gombies are the peacefull people. If you like shooting and killing things, dont even look at this faction's icon in the "create avitar" screen. The gombies are sorta the RPing faction of the game and also refered to as the "tree-huggers" or "hippies" of FoM. These guys are PASSIVE. They have changed their ways a bit and i have never been in this faction (never wanted to). I fought against these guys though, when FDC was somehow at war with them... and they pretty much got pwnt by the zergs. If you want to RP I suggest this faction, if not, leave the gombies alone.

MotB(Mercanaries of the Blood - Forgive my spelling)- The MotB has to be the TOUGHEST faction for a "noob" to go into. The MotB like to sometimes "initiate" new players by....well killing them. This can be very discouraging. If you are new, or are known to suck at fighting, someone will pick a fight with you or ask you to duel just to loot your armor and send you to cloning. The MotB are sometimes real JERKS, but how can you blame them? If I was given factionship with no strict leaders I'd go ganking(killing in FoM) too, which I did. The LED are almost always after these guys, sometimes the FDC too. The mercs just recently got their cell system back, which made the game contrat-land again. The MotB accept contracts (bodyguard, assassination, ect) alone or as a cell. The leaders of this faction will ignor you and any complaints you have of say...a respected rank 4 (a person who the High Cmmand LIKE) ganked you, or even a verterin rank one. This faction is survival of the fittest (survival of the best aiming more like it) and its philosiphy is basicly "If we don't like them, **** them" This is 100% true for most of the MotB leaders. I can really write about this faction because ive been in it the most. I was more respected for my skills to hack security doors at DMC (when the cell system was gone), so that I got respect enough to not get pop shot (randomly shot and they just turn away....). The MotB is the most laid back and they mess around the most. I guess the corrupt leadership is alright if you actually get in good with them (they HATE ass-kissers, and if you say kissed up to one HC, the other HC would pwn you). I guess its all worth it when you're fighting alongside these guys. The mercs have the best "skilled" fighters and can pretty much dominate. Sometimes the farming is real heavy in this faction, sometimes missions dont even  go up because no one of "interest or respect" needs a mission. Again I suggest staying away from this faction unless you have a really good way will dealing with BS constantly as a "noob" or atleast untill you know how to fight and prove yourself.

Tips-

1. BUY SEED OF LIFE CLONE INSURANCE -10,000 uc for a week - unless you buy this, you will have a short life in this game because of all the ganking. If you decide to be a trader, you can just buy vitus clone insurance, which is alot less but only restores 20 hp every time you die.

2.BUY DRUGS ASAP - You need to buy biph or poly e right away, and only "clan" members (GoM, BoS and MotB) can produce them. If you are an LED or FDC buying drugs, you better do it in a LITTLE secrecy ATLEAST. The faction leaders of these two factions mentioned use drugs too, but it IS against their faction's code, so they gota do something if you flash it in their face. Remember that ql3 biph and poly e are about 100 uc each and are much better then ql1, and ql2 is ok i guess.

3.FIND A FRIEND - If you dont find one fast to "mentor" you, you're gona REALLY hate the game.

4.AVOID 1V1 - For "noobs" 1v1 has to be the worst scenario. You will get owned and your dead body will be pretty much danced on. Remember - the veterans only find pleasure in this game by REALLY pissing off "noobs," well atleast some of them.

5. AVOID MotB AND GANKER ALTS - The MotB and other factions have ganker alts, and as a "noob" you gota know that. They will trick you and lure you in any way possible, just get the hell out of this situation and find help. If no help, hide and log (takes 10 seconds) and when you log back in you will be in your apartment.

6.MISSIONS- Missions are pretty much the only way for combatants, commanders and medics to make money. Traders might want to do basic missions aswell. The lowest payout that missions currently have is 5k.

7.Shadows- Shadows in this game generate a HUGE lag for some computers. They're easy to turn off, just by unchecking the box in the game options tab.

8.Tutorial - Complete the tutorial before going out into the rest of the game. Unless you're completely ignorant, you'd do this anyways.

Ganking-

-Ganking, or killing without being attacked first  has a negative, penalty points. The more penalty points you generate, the more chance you'll get on the most wanted list.

-If you gank, the person you gank automaticly get a "murder card," and once a murder card is submited, your name is shown to the person you killed. Once a person has your name screenshot in the chat window, they can submit it to your faction's HC, where they can fine you credits and pp, and even demote you from your rank.

Rank & Missions-

-Your rank will increase from 1-3 automaticly judging on your exp. When you get 10,000 exp you reach rank two. When you get 50,000 exp you reach rank three.

-After rank three you have to have HC promote you to rank four and beyond (the top rank is rank seven, the leader of the faction, who is a game master).

-Rank fours and above are the only ones who can create "player generated missions" which again payout a minimum of 5k, depending on your faction's mission payout. If you do one mission in a campaign, when that campaign ends and is successfull (60% success), you get a low, medium, or high campaign bonus depending on the campaign's "priority." The campaign bonus payout is displayed where the mission payout is, in the faction setting tab. It dosn't matter if you do more then one mission for a campaign, you get the same bonus.

Well this should cover some basics on the game. This isnt everything but it should be enough to get you started. If you have no life you'll point out everything i misspell. Bye~