Ok, whoever is setting random buildings on fire... we explicitly stated "responsible fire". If I find you, your ass is mine.

You were online when I accidentally burnt that guys house, but we rebuilt it. Are there more houses being burnt?

Alright, Saurok has declared the Word of Blake has disbanded. The Talos Cult claims de-facto victory. All Word of Blake members are now currently without a cult. Saurok appears to have gone insane with paranoia.

No this was today.

Yeah I walk around Torhemn and random things are burning, chickens, trees etc. Utter chaos.

Actually, I just got sick ot this cult stuff. I hereby give leadership of Word of Blake to The Gate Keeper.

I'd rather not have control of the cult either.

:P

Then leadership is given to Exo.

Well this whole cult thing went well

I don't see how the whole "factions" thing can work until damage is added.

Talos Cult holds WoB totem. Claimed 20:53 BST.


EDIT: I thought the whole cult thing was working rather well. We have 4 temples built. WoB has one, which we located and claimed the totem from. I don't see what's not working about it really.

Yeah, that'll really do it for me. When they add damage and proper monsters to multiplayer, it'll be a blast. Even better if they increased the monster spawn rate depending on how many players are online. Or have the admin be able to change it, so that at night time it was just a zombie invasion.

o_O

yeah... this went out of hand fast

I'm not a leader, I don't want to lead WoB (or what's left of it). I just like to build things. :shrug:

I must say that the idea of tagging a totem-stealing player by setting them on fire is just asking for trouble.

Can anyone else not connect to the game?

Very true.


Now I just need to reverse engineer that Cobblestone factory and I can start building sky town city is self dependent.

Lol this sounds pretty sweet, and I lold at the sign part in Aldergate, where there more than just, "lol" signs?

I would like to formally declare the existence and independence of New Undonia, in the realm of Nouveau Nova Scotia. My own personal utopia.

Now I have to build New Quebec to rival with another Canadian province. When Biomes will be integrated, I shall build it in the snowy north!


In other news, the search for the Talos Temples is still going. Every adventurer seeking personal riches, walk/sail away! Looting and plunder awaits thee!

And post naughty messages on the temples' walls.

Never mind.

Hope to play some tonight,

New Undonia is coming along nicely. Just got a few more signs and redstone torches to put up and the Hall of Legends will be complete. I wonder if I can make a decent in-game http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn301/FavioSanchezIII/Joe20Strummer20mural20NYC.jpg? I just need a suitably pixelated image to work off really.

So New Undonia is not actually the Undonia which WoB made earlier?

Good luck with that. We built it over a week ago. We have hidden it well. Kerm can attest to the monumental task of its construction, as well as how easy it would be to find except nobody is thinking outside the box. It originally wasn't going to be a "temple", just a secret city. When I conceived of the temple idea and after Undone and Wampbit made revisions to it, we decided to use it as our base.

As for the chaos that was yesterday, I am going to clear up some confusion.

Why Temple Cult Wars?

It all started as a joke between Myself, Povuholo, Sigyl, Pidgeon and Hiomaste. After a while the war idea came to me and I thought it would be a nice change of pace for some PvP action. Many of you liked the idea and many did not. Some liked it at first but quit after realizing (assumption) the task of secrecy and upkeep wasn't going to be easy.

While some of the idea worked in theory, in practice it was chaos. Especially after someone abused the lifted ban that was on fire.

Why destroy Aldgate?

To move along a storyline. The week previous to its destruction we noticed that the game had become stale. People were just off doing their own thing and the overall server population was dim. If you noticed there was about 10-15 players on constantly after the announcement, so it worked in one aspect.

Previous to its destruction we contemplated holding a poll on the forum to see what players felt about the radical changes to come, instead we opted for a surprise. SURPRISE!!!! Didn't work out too well. I hope that next time we have an idea we aren't as shortsighted.

(Sorry Carlzilla )

Some of you asked:

What storyline?

Read the op. Seriously it has been there since day 1 of the Aldgate world. This was supposed to be a RP world and I use the term very loosely as not many of us are actually rping. We felt that since Aldgate had been pretty much abandoned and there really wasn't a "story" anymore that a change had to be made.

Carlzilla stated:

I like the old Hamachi server, when people had to be invited

We would have liked to have some sort of invitation or password system but we cannot. Simply put, Minecraft does not yet have those features and we are not allowed to change the server software.

About Nukls' beach house

We don't know exactly what happened but I may have the most logical theory. I was standing on top of the beach house when Saurok sneaked up behind me and set me on fire. This may have accidentally led to the house fire.

My take on fire in general

Ban it. Some people still can't use it responsibly if yesterday is of any evidential value. Ban lighters as well so that "accidental fires" cannot happen.

My take on TNT

Responsible use. It is extremely hard to come by outside of duping and I highly doubt another Eddard is going to come by.



In closing:

We had hoped that Temple Wars would have alleviated some players want for PvP action. The chaos of yesterday suggests otherwise. Those that couldn't take the griefing.... wait until damage is in, you'll see some real griefing then

Our hard work has certainly paid off!

It sure would be nice if lighters could be banned, but I think Wampbit tried it before without success?

Lol, I play for fun and even though I made a very easy path to follow to my house I accept the fact that my house could be raided and destroyed.

Even though its all stone half block or mined shaft, if it comes down to it there is not much to steal or destroy and I can always pack my stuff and go even further out.

I like living way out in the sticks, and I like feeling that I am doing things that other people can see and interact with, I wish doors worked, because then I would put up iron doors to make it so that others would have a harder time getting in.

I am perfectly fine with anything that may happen, even a complete wipe and reset. I still don't know much about minecraft and there are things I still not have done (until last night I had never seen lava).

Enforcing Rp would really not bother me much, I used to RP in everquest and SWG, but PvP is not my thing. I do welcome player damage and the return of mobs though.

greafing doesn't really bother me, try playing warhammer online or WOW on a PVP server with no one to help you, I doubt it will ever get that bad here. Its just a game, and its so easy to pick up and leave in minecraft I am not even worried about it.

I have fun building, and if some one has fun destroying I can just build some more, if you wanted a safe house I guess one should buy land in town where destruction is off limits.

Besides, if some one does happen to take the time to walk all the way out to my current house just to trash it, I will walk so far away from it and leave no markers that no one will ever find me, ever. Just to see how far some one is willing to go to get to me.

I am here to have fun, everyone else should be too. No reason to get mad or attached to anything in game.