Last post of 2007

With a new syrnian year approaching, I would like to wish everyone a happy new year!!

Have a good night and be safe. I look forward to seeing you all in 2008!

I will leave you with the syrnia trailer made my fristz, for those who have not seen it.

New links added

I have added a few new links to the blog which you can see on the left.

As well as the Syrnia myspace group and a few time wasting games, there is a useful HP calculator on The Legion Base site. The screenshot below shows part of the calculator.

Unannounced changes

A few changes have been made recently to Syrnia without any announcements being made about them.

The most easily noticed is the cursor focusing on the bot check window when a bot check occurs. It basically saves you having to click in the box before typing the number in. This is something I have wanted although I find that if I am chatting, I type half a sentence in the bot check box before noticing. Still a good update though.

A month or so ago the cap on the maximum amount of players affecting the timer at the same location changed. Before the change, the timer increased with every person at the same location up until 20 players. At that point, any extra players who worked at that location did not increase the timer. This has been changed so that the timer no longer increases once 15 players are working at the location.

The last change is to with trading. The code has been finished so that once you reach the levels of 50, 60 and 75 in trading, you actually get the extra benefits that you are supposed to get at those levels. As no one has reached these levels yet, the fact that they didn't work before wouldn't have been noticed by anyone ;)

Timer xp/resources bug

A few players are experiencing problems where their timer gets to 0, starts counting down again but they get no xp or resources.

If this problem is affecting you, a workaround is to move to a new location, move back and start the skill you was doing when the problem occurred.

A bug mod is looking at this issue, so no need to create a ticket about it.

Official competition winners

The official competitions are now over.

There were 75,569 strawberry seeds in the game. The following people guessed within 5% of the correct answer:

LadyM
beavis
Lalma
oJee
koolkitty7272
Dragonslayr7777
Number1
me_again
saron321
a_f_c
Mr_Miyagi
Kingofevil

The amount of steel legs in the games was 15,612. The following players guessed within 5% of that answer:

halo2man01
bdwhite34
BladeOfDarkness
Gomu
WilsFace
hawkingyou
Cookiejar
accipiter
Tha_Junky

All winners get 3 red gifts as a prize

Some updates have been announced

Manda has posted in the announcement forum that a few updates have been done.

Sorry for the late notice, but there was a few changes to Syrnia within the last week. Here is a summary of some of the updates done:

* A new flower was added, the Skull Rose. This is a Skull Island flower.

* Grain price was decreased to 3 gp's at Eully. The old price was too high after the introduction of bread making.

* You can donate again for someone else. The feature was turned back on after some bugs were fixed.

* A few other minor bug fixes were also done.

Readers of this blog will have known about most of them already ;-)

One change which I did not think was news worthy was a change to the bat hide gloves and boots graphics.

Skills poll results

The skills poll has now finished and after 158 votes, here are the results:

32% concentrate on 5 or more skills, but not all skills
31% are jack of all trades and work on all skills
18% do 3 skills
12% work on 2 skills
6% 1 skill only
7% have 4 skills they spend time developing

Two new official competitions

In the Contests sub forum is two new competitions that players can enter.

For one of the competitions you have to guess the amount of Steel legs that are in the game. The other you have to make a guess as to how many Strawberry seeds are in the game.

If you are close enough to the answer, you shall win a prize.

Eully sell price of grain down from 6gp to 3gp

Although there has been no announcment about this so far, you will now only get 3gp per grain when you sell your grain to Eully market instead of the usual 6gp.

I can only guess that the reason for this is to make more players use grain to make bread. Only lower level cooks would bother to cook the bread as it would be good for their xp, especially as no bread ever got burnt.

Before this change it was easier to sell your grown grain to Eully market and buy the same amount of hp food from another player with the gold you got from the market. This saved a lot of time becouse you did not have to spend time cooking yourself.

This alteration will change the value of grain seeds. Keep that in mind if you often purchase these seeds.

Effects of the Syrnia Christmas

Now that Party island has closed, its time to reflect on the affect it has had on Syrnia.

Players who were not interested in the Party island activities got their favourite working spot pretty much to themselves so had a low timer which meant they would have got more xp than normal.

In the past Santa hats were pretty rare so players would, and did, pay high prices for them. With there being more in circulation now, their value has dropped dramaticaly.

Due to being given a choice of present by Santa, many chose gems and Kanzo teleport orbs.

This has caused the cost of Kanzo orbs to drop down from around 7k gold to around 4k/5k each. While many will keep their orbs for travel to Kanzo later in the game, many have been sold to regular travellers who took advantage of the cheap prices. I expect the prices will slowly increase back up to 7k each as they are used and the numbers of them in circulation goes down.

Gems are also in abundance as players chose gems from santa in the hope of selling them. The prices are slightly down due to the amount of them on the market, but as with the orbs in time the prices will settle down to their usual prices. If you need money now, sell your gems, otherwise keep hold of them until the market returns to normal prices.

Santa hats have no use but many players will keep theirs and maybe start their own museum type shop. These along with Elven shoes, snowmen and snowballs make a perfect start to a collection :)

Christmas competitions are over

Party Island is due to close in 30 minutes time but the competitions are over.

Here are the top 10 biggest snowman and the prizes for the top 3 players.

1 Peter596 696.96 centimeter (Won 20,000 gold)
2 Green Beret 690.56 centimeter (Won 10,000
gold)
3 FrozenSapphire 682.91 centimeter (Won 6,666 gold)
4 Jimmybob101 680.56 centimeter
5 Green Beret 680.38 centimeter
6 mcgordon33 678.8 centimeter
7 lilyofthevalley 677.22 centimeter
8 lilyofthevalley 674.01 centimeter
9 timetraveler 672.67 centimeter
10 Risen 672.49 centimeter

Here are the top 10 biggest christmas trees:

1 DELGRAD 689.78 centimeter
2 KeNn 688.37 centimeter
3 ONEMIKE 684.8 centimeter
4 trubble76 684.72 centimeter
5 J-DawgDizzle 672.08 centimeter
6 Nocturus 663.33 centimeter
7 deviance53 654.4 centimeter
8 DaveMonk 648.11 centimeter
9 hellfyre523 645.01 centimeter
10 Green Beret 631.46 centimeter

Evil elfs and Scrooges attack Party island

Evil elfs attacked the port and the scrooges attacked Festival forest.

The Syrnian's beat them down pretty quick, way to go!!

I got a green gift as a drop from both an Elf and a Scrooge.

Pirates are invading

Those sneaky pirates have attacked while everyone is having fun on party island.

You can leave party island to join the pirates at the moment and will still be able to return to party island as a pirate. So now is the time to take a keg of rum to Xanso and join the pirates.

Currently there are 1454 Roughnecks at Xanso

Completed snowman

Heres the cute looking snowman you make with the coal, carrot, small snowball, big snowball and santa hat.

Merry Christmas syrnians!!

Elven Shoes

Another new addition to the game is Elven shoes.

These require Defence level 35 to wear, the same as the other elven armour.

They are dropped by Evil Elfs which I assume are Christmas invasion creatures looking at the kills at Party Port.

Party island has opened for christmas!!

It will be open today, 25 and 26 december.

You can reach it from Port Senyn, Crab nest or Eylsian docks.

The details of what is going on there is not the syrnia news page or annoucement forums but on the dwhq site. So I will just quote their info

To celebrate this year's christmas, M2H has opened up 'Celebration Island' (see Maps section) where all Syrnians can celebrate christmas together. Santa can be visited at celebration center, on Party Island.

When visiting Santa you can choose between various presents, depending on how long you've played:"You sit on santa's lap, and tell him that you are so glad to see him. He asks you: what present would you like this year?

Some shiny rocks (1-2 Gems)

Some yummy food(Fish)

Some building materials (900-1000 Wood)

Some ores (200-300 Ores)

Some seeds for your garden (200 Seeds)

1 Kanzo teleport orb"

You can reach Party island by taking a boat to Port Party from Port Senyn (Remer Island), Crabs nest (Skull Island) and Eylsian Docks (Kanzo Island). T he trip is free!-

In 'Port Party' on celebration island you can make snowballs and of course take a boat back to Port Senyn.-

At the 'Syrnia celebration center' you can submit your christmas trees, the player with the biggest submitted christmas tree wins 2500 gp! The second and thirth best entries will be paid out 1250 and 833 gold!-

At 'holiday lake' you can fish for the well known 'Red Striped Fish' again, and build and submit a Snowman. The player with the best submitted snowman will win 20,000 gp! The second and thirth best entries will be paid out 10000 and 6666 gold.

To create a snowman you need: 1 coal, 1 carrot, 1 small snowball, 1 big snowball, 1 santa hat.-

At 'Festival forest' you can cut christmas trees

Rat invasions

Rats are on the loose and invading Isri, Endarx, Rynir, Unera and Nabb mines.

[0]11:05 Nabb mines and Endarx are nearly cleared of Rats.. But there are still a lot other places suffering the rat plague.

Find those rats and slay them!

Dw-hq has the following list (which donaters see upon login):

There is an Rat invasion at Rynir Mines.
There is an Rat invasion at Barnacle bay.
There is an Rat invasion at Crab nest.
There is an Rat invasion at Isri.
There is an Rat invasion at Endarx.
There is an Rat invasion at Lisim.
There is an Rat invasion at Unera.
There is an Rat invasion at Eully.
There is an Rat invasion at Penteza.
There is an Rat invasion at Rile.
There is an Rat invasion at Ten cliff.

Update on Skull Rose

Having seen M2H at Elven gate, it seems he was testing the new flower as both Harith and Elven gate flower shops now have the ability to send a bouquet of Skull Roses and the occasion is Threat ;-)

As this seems to be the only addition to the flower shops, it is possible that this is the only new flower being added.

The Skull Rose can be found while walking on the pirate island, Skull.

Here is a screenshot of the option in the flower shops. Click on the picture to see it completely.

New flowers in Syrnia

Although there has been no announcements yet, some new flowers have been introduced to the game.

Currently the details of them all are unknown, but I can give you a sneak peak of the Skull Rose ;-)

Invasion on Mezno island

Either fight the invasion or grab a keg of rum and join up with the pirates before the invasion is over!

Stricter enforcement of chat

From the Announcements forum:

"Up to this time the game rules had only been enforced as rough guidelines for behavior, which is what had been M2H's wish from the beginning of Syrnia. Inappropriate language and behavior was loosely enforced, and most players never had issue with this and chat remained a friendly and civilized place to hang out and spend time with Syrnian friends.

Due to recent events over the last few months, with repeated incidents of players intentionally testing the limits of the individual mods tolerances to inappropriate behavior and inappropriate language, It has been decided that these allowances will no longer be given.

Any adult, inappropriate, or lewd behavior including innuendo will no longer be permitted or tolerated. Profanity or cursing will be given zero tolerance as well. ( These rules enforced to whatever degree Moderator deems appropriate.)"

Whilst profanity is a good reason to mute someone, it seems you wont be able to sneeze without getting muted soon......

Are you happy that chat will be enforced with less discretion? Do you not think its a good idea? Whatever you opinion on the subject, feel free to share it here.

Outlands Fighting

Wearing just a steel suit and carrying about 250hp of food, I headed off into the outlands to do some fighting. On Saturday night I found no one there so tried again on Sunday and found a few higher level players fighting.

I got taken down to 2hp at one time when Fritz and Syraid both attacked me at the same time. Fritz and Stormz got me down to 5hp a little earlier. Due to the level difference I didn't do too much damage to them.

On my first ever trips across the outlands, I ran through as fast as I could and I thought I saw many people fighting. It took me a while to realise that each OL location has its own logs of combat there and that it wasn't one log that was constantly updating!! It was later that I also found out that if a player attacks another in the outlands, the attacked player automatically hits back. So attacking a high level player who hasn't noticed you, could still be deadly for you :)

Click image to see it full size

Bandits Attacking

[0] 05:24 The Royals of Syrnia have requested an Announcement to be posted. Please see the forums

From the forums:

Upcoming plans have been exposed. A rogue agent infiltrated the bandit ranks, and have informed the royals of Syrnia of their next massive upcoming invasion.

They are coordinating their attack at approximately 11:00 Syrnia time today.

What say you, shall we ruin their plans?

This is the first time I have seen an advance warning this early before. Hopefully this is the first part of a syrnia storyline... ;)

There is an Bandit invasion at Burning beach.
There is an Bandit invasion at Jungles edge.
There is an Bandit invasion at Port Dazar.
There is an Bandit invasion at Mt. Flag.
There is an Bandit invasion at Aunna.
There is an Bandit invasion at Kinam.
There is an Bandit invasion at Avinin.
There is an Bandit invasion at Wingmere.
There is an Bandit invasion at The singing river.
There is an Bandit invasion at Unera.

Syriet ideas

Fritsz has created a page with some ideas for how Syriet 'could' be implemented into the game and there is an interesting discussion about this in the forum.

Busy this week

I will hardly get any online time this week, so my xp will suffer along with updates to the blog.



Hold tight and i'll be back at the weekend.

Fighting at Ogre town and outpost

With the limited time I have had at the pc this weekend all I have done is fought a few ogres.

At the outpost im making kills in 2 or 3 hits, with the occasional one hit kill. Its taking more hits at Ogre town due to the Rorghark Bonebreakers. I'll post some combat reports in comments

The drops are nice and often you get none for ages then three within minutes of each other. There were quite a few carrots, 40 wood, 6 silver ore and over 200 seeds (grain, strawberry, carrot, tomato, onion and corn) which are all small drops but have a nice value when added together. As a fighter I will grow the seeds for the food.

The better drops I got were:

1 x Amber

2 x Moonstones
2 x Ogre Hatchets
3 x Locked Moldy Chests
1 x Locked Toolbox

Selling the above items will make me roughly 6500 gold, which I will spend to by another 3000hp of food.

Pirates are invading

Currently the pirates are invading, so either fight them to get some combat xp or grab a keg of rum and join them at Xanso!!

Im currently at Ogre outpost so am unable to tell you the locations of the invasions.

Update: Keelhails at Berian (many fighters)

If this invasion is similar to previous ones, the other types of pirates are probably at the other locations on Mezno island.

Syriet Ore

The graphic for Syriet ore is now on the syrnia server and dwhq is showing that a mining level of 85 is needed to mine it.

Expect an announcement soon.

Funny Conversation

Saw this conversation between PhoenixJewels and Calgor and thought it was funny enough to share ;-)

[1] 17:31 Calgor[DW]: Why the hell are so many people eagre to get burned fish? You all want to be like me thats the problem. Ya'll wanna be cool :P
[1] 17:31 PhoenixJewels[mumu]: Oh yea, cuz you are the standard on which cool is judged Calgor Crankypants :p
[1] 17:32 Calgor[DW]: Well it certainly isnt based on you PJ...
[1] 17:32 PhoenixJewels[mumu]: Nope, it sure isnt ^.^ And I know that :p
[1] 17:32 PhoenixJewels[mumu]: *coughs* Unlike some people, my ego fits inside my head rather nicely ;)
[1] 17:33 Calgor[DW]: Mine fits...at a push.
[1] 17:33 PhoenixJewels[mumu]: More like you need the Jaws of Life to fit it in there :p
[1] 17:33 Calgor[DW]: Well with you its not like its competing for space with anything...

Syriet two handed sword

There has been much speculation about the Syriet two handed sword since it appeared on dwhq.

The item exists and the stats are known as M2H was seen at Ten Cliff on Skull with the sword equipped. They are:

Aim: 62
Power: 85
Attack level required: lvl 85

What is not known or clear is whether Syriet ore is being added to the game or if the sword will be a drop. With a lot of high level players needing better equipment, we may see Syriet ore and mining added to the game so that tools and weapons can be made by smithers.

Update: There appears to be a rumour going around suggesting that Syriet bars will be made from a Syriet ore + a Diaspore. This is just a rumour though. Hopefully there will be some official announcement soon regarding Syriet.

Wingmere Hadrosaurus invasion finally over

After taking over Wingmere 5 days ago, the 8000 or so Hadrosaurus have finally all been slain.

Due to the location of the invasion, there was mostly only a couple of players fighting there at any time.

At 59xp per kill, plenty of xp was gained. With the amount of kills Prometheus got, it works out at 257,417xp he got from the invasion. Very nice!

I also got my hardest hit ever here:

22 You struck and dealt 22 damage to the Hadrosaurus. 0/30

The citizens of Wingmere want to thank the following brave warriors for their efforts in freeing the city from the Hadrosaurus.

Rank Name Kills
1 Prometheus 4363
2 Charos 2256
3 Tora 713
4 Poj 353
5 Cancun 242

Mutings and Mods

With a lot of recent unrest due to unnecessary mutings by mods I am getting a lot of messages about the situation. It sounds like a mod is having a rough time of things and is taking it out on players, which is just plain wrong.

One of the messages pointed out this freezing:

[5] 17:12 (Mod)Moderator: Yoai_princes89 muted, jailed and forum banned, inappropriate name for an all ages chat/game

Having googled and found out what this name meant I still think the freezing was unnecessary. In fact I think the mod has brought attention to the name and thus everyone has looked up to see why it was not allowed. If left alone, no one would have even noticed.

This one was from a clan mate:

04:47 (Mod)Moderator: Rictor, Chat warning. No Norris jokes

Where in the rules doe it say that that you cannot say a Chuck Norris joke?

Is this a case of a mod with PMS? Whatever the reason, modding is getting silly again!!!

A few players said they would like to see my mute history, so im posting it below. theres two mutings missing I believe. I also have saved text of other players saying similar stuff and not being muted. So all those who ask me if mods have got it in for me, you have your answer ;) For those who ask why mods have it in for me, maybe it was due to my first mute, maybe it is becouse I pull them up on all their mistakes/abuse ;) I cant find the details of where the mod muted me for 12 hours for something silly, which later got reduced to 2 hours by another mod.

Checking Poj:
29-11-2007 21:43 - muted
Reason [1] 21:22 Poj[Core]: piss haeeedus
***see comments for the aftermath of this muting from the wedding celebrations**

29-09-2007 18:44 - muted for 3 hours .Reason spamming chat `.

13-09-2007 21:48 - warn
Reason 21-08-2007 12:21 - muted for 60 minutes... removed see mod report : poj for details..

13-09-2007 16:55 - warn
Reason [1]16:40 Poj: after weed you want to eat chocolate :P.

21-08-2007 12:21 - muted for 60 minutes.
Reason muted for 60 minutes for .off.

20-06-2007 14:25 - muted for 60 minutes.
Reason muted for 60 minutes, having someone else do the bot checks is against the rules, please read them.

15-06-2007 13:40 - jailed for 3 hours .
Reason Staff harassment..
15-06-2007 13:39 - muted for 3 hours .
Reason Staff harassment..
15-06-2007 10:54 - muted for 2 hours .
Reason muted for 2 hours...[1] 10:44 Poj[Lair]:selling 12 year old boy.

03-05-2007 15:50 - muted for 2 hours .
Reason [1] 15:32 Poj[OSHT]:makavelli, thats BS ;).

28-04-2007 13:28 - muted for 3 hours .
Reason [1]13:27 Poj[OSHT]:yeah, mod should give a warning first, mod today is a bit of a tosser ;).

Elven Armour

Not much has happened the last few days except JLockmavs & esnow getting married. Congratulations!!

Currently I am training combat and while the elven armour I am wearing is much better than steel, I look like a woman wearing a white balaclava :P

Events

Here is a list of some of the events that have already happened or are still in progress.

There is an Chippeway invasion at Kanzo.
There is an Pirate invasion at Hooks edge.
There is an Bandit invasion at Avinin.
There is an Rat invasion at Harith.There is a contest at Lisim.
A locked chest with 1000 combinations has been found at Ogre lake.
A locked chest with 1000 combinations has been found at Franer mines.
A locked chest with 1000 combinations has been found at Crab nest.
A locked chest with 1000 combinations has been found at Aunna.
There is an Wadjet invasion at Port Calviny.
There is a contest at Hawk mountain.
There is an Fox invasion at Eully.
A locked chest with 1000 combinations has been found at Valera.
There is an Rorghark Bonebreaker invasion at Exella plain.
A locked chest with 1000 combinations has been found at Heerchey docks.
There is an Assassin invasion at Berian.
There is an Elven warrior invasion at Ogre outpost.
There is an Lizard invasion at Burning beach.

Syrnia is 1000 days old today

"There will be a celebration going on throughout Syrnia for the 1000th day in existence!

There will be some random events going on each hour at different random cities in Syrnia. From invasions to Combination Chests(with some nice rewards) and some contests.

Have fun everyone, and there might be a few other random things going on throughout the day, depending upon Real Life situations of some Staff members. Enjoy everyone!"

Kannecat & Indisponente are now married!!

Congratulations to them both. May it be a long and happy life you have together!!

On a bit of a sour note, whoever was modding at the time needs to be shot. Muting people for drinking in game rum and chatting is the most pathetic thing I have ever seen. This mod has duly been named 'Wanker mod'!

Bears attack after their cave discovered in Deep Lemo

[0]16:50 A new bear cave is accidently discovered in Deep Lemo, they attack

Wedding - Kannecat & Indisponente @ 21:00

Tonight at 21:00 syrnia time, Indisponente and Kannecat will be tying the knot and getting married at the Chapel in Rose Castle.

I couldn't think of any two people who are so perfectly made for each other.

Feel free to join in the celebration tonight, drink much and be merry!!

It is believed that their honeymoon will be spent in a special holiday chalet overlooking the beach.

Bandits attack!

[0]19:19 Bandit ships seen on the horizon as the sun sets in Syrnia....
[0]19:31 The bandit fleet arrives
[0]19:37 Bandit reinforcements arrive near the initial attack

Serpenthelm was the target of this attack. Burning Beach and Singing river are now clear of bandits, but the bandits took over the town at Rose gates.

At the time of this post there are 28 Syrnians fighting at Rose gates and there are 978 Bandits left.

Bronze bar contest

The citizens of Eully started a contest: The one to collect the best Bronze bars will be paid 5000 gold

The second and thirth best entries will be paid out 2500 and 1666 gold. The contest ends in 1 hours.

Not much time left folks!

Update: Maranda won the top prize with a Bronze bar weighing 4875.13 grams.

Pathetic modding yet again

I have been muted for 697 minutes / 11.6 hours. Over the top modding by a mod with serious issues.

I very rarely chat in syrnia due to getting muted by mods for silly reasons. Today I saw someone ask for some information and I thought I would reply and ended up having a fun chat. Until I got warned for saying the word "pissed" by a mod.

Having explained to the mod that the word 'pissed' is not offensive, I of course lost the argument and got muted.

While a lot of players kiss the mods arse's, a lot of players have told me that they don't talk much in syrnia because of the modding. If more players said something publicly them maybe the problems will get fixed. I know that players are scared of saying stuff in chat or on the forums because....the mods might get them, but there are plenty of other avenues to make your feelings known.

Update: A senior member of staff has reduced the mute from the wacko 11.6 hour mute to 2 hours. Whilst its good that a senior member of staff can reduce a mute that another mod makes out of spite, I am still fighting the original issue for the mute out of principal.

Pirates Invade

The Pirate invasion is under way!

Berian (All Pirates killed before capture)
Keelhails pirates are invading the town ! Stop them of capturing this town and join the fight.You can not work at this town untill the town has been saved. If we do not manage to save the town it will be in controll of the Keelhails pirates.
There are 245 Keelhails pirates left. Attack (51 minutes left untill capture.)

Mentan (Pirates captured and multiplied)
Roughnecks are invading the town ! Stop them of capturing this town and join the fight.You can not work at this town untill the town has been saved. If we do not manage to save the town it will be in controll of the Roughnecks.
There are 245 Roughnecks left. Attack (48 minutes left untill capture.)

Xanso (All Pirates killed before capture)
Dread pirates are invading the town ! Stop them of capturing this town and join the fight.You can not work at this town untill the town has been saved. If we do not manage to save the town it will be in controll of the Dread pirates.
There are 236 Dread pirates left. Attack (48 minutes left untill capture.)

Franir Mines (All Pirates killed before capture)

Pirates are invading the town ! Stop them of capturing this town and join the fight.You can not work at this town untill the town has been saved. If we do not manage to save the town it will be in controll of the Pirates.

There are 166 Pirates left. Attack (52 minutes left untill capture.)

Combination Chest at Eully

[0]20:40 A strange Gem chest comes ashore at Eully

The Eully combination is between 1 - 2000

[0]20:42 Another Gem Chest comes ashore at Bonewood

The Bonewood combination is between 1 - 1500

[0]20:46 Another Gem Chest comes ashore at Penteza

The Penteza combination is between 1 - 1800

These normally contain a nice selection of gems!

Update: Sammy guessed the combination to the Bonewood chest within 3 minutes of the chest appearing and got 4 ambers from it! The lucky number was 136.

theblissliss opened the Eully chest.

Invasions everywhere

Rumours of rat invasions at various places, gnomes , dark widows at Kanzo and many more creatures at different locations.

Having travelled back to Skull after fighting the Lizard invasion at Rose gates I sailed into Crabs Nest only to find that Pirates were invading this location. Hearing that pirates had succeeded in capturing Hooks Edge, I moved on to there.

The Pirates have captured this city, you can attack this settlement to regain it.
Attack the 1482 Pirates

Some nice XP to be had at Hooks Edge with so many pirates there!

The citizens of Hooks edge want to thank the following brave warriors for their efforts in freeing the city from the Pirates

Rank Name Kills
1 Poj 250
2 nirvanaishdude 139
3 elsabahnur 139
4 Scallywag 133
5 Avalanche 128

Lizards attack and Capture Rose Gates

As I went past Rose gates I caught an invasion of Lizards with 1 minute left to capture.

Lizards are invading the town ! Stop them of capturing this town and join the fight. You can not work at this town untill the town has been saved. If we do not manage to save the town it will be in controll of the Lizards.
There are 43 Lizards left. Attack (1 minutes left untill capture.)

They captured and multiplied.

There are 626 Lizards left.

Elves and Ogres at war

[0]03:29 Elven Warriors make a surprise raid on sacred Ogre land
[0]03:30 Ogres retaliate against the Elves
[0]03:33 rumors spread of the Ogres/Elves fighting...the lizard people send an attack on Exrollia
[0]03:42 scouts report more fighting on Kanzo......
[0]03:56 With the Ogres defeated at Penteza, the Elven warriors were able to attack Ogre with reinforcements

Reports have come in that there are significant amounts of Dark widows at Kanzo and Aloria.

Rats have stopped worked at Exella Plains.

700 Lizard Shamans at Wingmere

Ogres attack

[0]00:28 Ogres send a surprise attack

Ogres attacked....their own towns!!

Earthquake hits the island of Exrollia

[0]18:38 tremors can be felt on Exrollia, as a mild Earthquake hits the island...
[0]18:40 the quake disrupts some creatures sleeping on the island, and they look for something to feast on

The earthquake woke the Pterosaurs at Port Calviny, Oviraptors at Avinin and Wadjets at Mt Flag.

4,235 Amber gems in Syrnia

Manda revealed that at 15:30 today there were 4,235 Amber's in syrnia.

Elzar, Tora and thor666 won a red gift each for having guesses that were the closest to this number.

The figure makes you wonder why there is so many that have not been used. Some will be in shops for sale, some in shops that display 1 of each item, some will be in houses waiting to be used and there will be some held by players who do not play anymore.

Even so, I would never have guessed there were so many!

[Mods], [Guides], Competitions and Invasions

The latest announcement covers a few subjects.

• Spindoc, Manda and Saucywhopper are now displaying their Mod tags.
• Some players who help out new players will get the [Guide] tag to show they can be trusted.
• Manda is the special events and competition moderator

To read the full post, click here.

Bandits and Eagles attack Dearn

[0]16:41 Bandit ships seen on the horizon, approaching Dearn
[0]16:43 A bandit ship reaches the shores of Dearn
[0]16:52 Second bandit ship comes ashore
[0]16:57 Eagles spot a group of fighters traveling on Dearn, and attack

The attacks are all over now. Reports are that the Bandits attacked Kinam and Nabb Mines.

Debate on help chat

The usefulness of help chat is being questioned on the syrnia forums.

Personally I have help chat turned off so dont have much of an opinion on it. If it is stopping a lot of questions reaching world chat, maybe it is worth keeping.

It has also been suggested in that thread that world chat should be removed too. I disagree with this as the chat system is what makes the game fun. Its something to do while you wait for timers to countdown. The modding however does need to be improved as the same players have been allowed to argue daily with different people without much recourse.

Time to join the pirates!

Currently an invasion is in progress, so if you want to join the pirates, now is the time.

Just buy a keg of rum from a shop and head to xanso to join.

The 300 Keehails (level 12) at Kinam have already been slain

The citizens of Kinam want to thank the following brave warriors for their efforts in freeing the city from the Dread pirates

Rank-Name-Kills
1 gieleke 16
2 Preff 13
3 izamaru 12
4 DevilDuckie 11
5 fainne 10

The Pirates (level 6) at Port Dazaar have also been slain

The citizens of Port Dazar want to thank the following brave warriors for their efforts in freeing the city from the Keelhails pirates

Rank-Name-Kills
1 bonsoy 36
2 TrickTickler 27
3 wickerman 18
4 Riedell3959 17
5 kozmik 16

The Roughies will capture, so the option to join the pirates should stay open for a few hours at least.

Roughnecks are invading the town ! Stop them of capturing this town and join the fight. You can not work at this town untill the town has been saved. If we do not manage to save the town it will be in controll of the Roughnecks.

There are 101 Roughnecks left. Attack (9 minutes left untill capture.)

Update: The roughies captured, multipled to around 400, and were all killed

Earlier invasions

Thanks again to readers of the blog, here are some earlier invsions I missed. These are over now.

[0]07:51 The Elves send a surprise attack against the Ogres

100 dark elves @ogre tp.
125 Dark Elves @ogre mines
Elven wariors @entrance1 - unknown quantity :)

Tp was cleared, while ogre mines wasnt - multiplied till 800 :)

[1]11:21 An evil mage summoned 48 Rats at Port Senyn.
We need to kill the Rats before we can continue working.

Kuli summoned the rats ;)

Time Calculator

Syrnia Corner is proud to present a different type of calculator. The time calculator.

It gives you a rough idea of how long it will take to level or to reach a certain level. Due to the variables involved it can never be accurate, but im sure it will be useful to some. I often did this sort of calculation using windows calc.

The calculator will be tidied up and modified as I go along, so expect to see a perfect sized popup window calculator with pretty background pictures etc eventually ;)

Also note that this calculator currently works up to level 110, which should be ok for most people.
A link has been added under links, but you can also access it by clicking here.

M2H spotted hanging out at Rynir Mines

Gromaz sent me a screenshot of M2H at Ryanir mines, taken around the time of the last invasion. M2H has changed his clothes since the last screenshot I recieved a few weeks ago and has the new Pirate Falchion equipped.

The Eagle has landed

[0]16:33 Eagles spotted in Mezno

An invasion of Young Eagles hit the beach of Xanso. The poor youngsters stood no chance due to the number of sword and axe holding warriors that rushed their to slay them.

Syrnia chat still eating some chat lines

Pirate Falchion image added

The graphic for this weapon dropped by Roughnecks during invasions has now been added.

Specs for this weapon can be found here.

Syrnia news

"You might have noticed a lot of bug fixes the last few days as we are still enjoying the ticket system, thanks to all for the (bug) reports.

Other news: Have you (ever) donated but did you not get the donation reward right away ?Then worry not; as listed on the support page you should contact us right away and we'll add the donation as soon as possible. So this is an reminder to open up a ticket with any donation problem right here. However, good news for any future donators: we are currently improving the donation system to make sure any donation is always added right away (in the past mainly the "e-cheque" donations were troublesome). This should be finished within a day. Any donations during this maintenance are manually being watched, so nothing can go wrong.

Furthermore we are busy re-coding the whole Syrnia framework. This means we won't add gameplay updates for a short while as it would only be more work to re-create these updates on the new framework. But this new framework is worth it as this will add more speed, gameplay and layout features. We have already been working on it for a while so you don't have to wait much much longer (Sorry; I cannot give any estimate yet..and I hate making any false promises). We will of course still fix any bugs in the meanwhile."

Fingers crossed that the battlemage arena gets fixed, although I guess the area is not as important as the donation system :-P

Invasion of the killer Gnomes

[0]23:09 The Gnomes decide to try to expand their territory....

They must have realised that they were having no luck at Valera, so have invaded Lisim, Isri and Endarx instead :-)

To see who the top fighters were at each location, click on the comments link below.

Thanks to Aquardark for pointing this invasion out to me as I missed it!

Abu Yassir Fatti Fukki name change

Abu Yassir Fatti Fukki ** has had his name changed by M2H to Dark Lord Abu.

There has been no annoucement about this but I think its safe to assume that a few players complained about this name being offensive, going by similar complaints I have seen in world chat.

It may also be due to the fact that it seems to be common knowledge now that Abu's name originated by putting M2H's real name into the Afghan Terrorist Name Generator.

** The ki at the end of the name was always missing due to the maximum length of names in syrnia.

40 minutes in the outlands

After finally having enough storage space to hold all my items (except a few k burnt fish and 2k broken glass) I ventured out into the outlands wearing a cheap steel suit, steel axe and 10 mackerals.

Thirty minutes later I had walked around the whole of the outlands over ten times and not found anyone. If I had brought a fishing rod or pickaxe I could have done some work there while it was empty.

While typing in clan chat telling them that no one was in the outlands, I died!!

BlueThunder killed you at The Outlands 12

I'll probably do it again soon as losing a cheap armour suit and weapon is a small cost for the odd chance that you could kill someone and get some nice drops.

Staff update

Some updates are being made to chat and the syrnia forum which add tags to some of the moderators. While the reason for doing this now is unclear, popular belief is that it is to try and show that not every mod is a dw-hq member. Which may also explain why Manda (forum mod obviously if you look at the announcement forum) no longer wears the dw-hq/dw tag and also why Manda's forum avatar has changed from the dw-hq avatar that was there a short time ago.

So far ladyraven143 is the only mod to come out of the closet, although we can expect some more soon.

Invasion + Pirate Update

[0]01:29 ...the deep sea monster peeks his head out of the water...watching the fighters on Mezno...
[0]01:30 ...then goes back underneath the water...

This was seen in the early hours of the morning. Does anyone know if this was just for fun or if a sea monster was about?

The pirate invasion was succesful in 3 of the 4 locations......well sort of. The stockhouse information board said that we had captured Mentan as there were 2 pirates left, but due to the fact those last 2 pirates were in combat at the time..we didnt actually capture. So no gold and no multiplying of pirates at Mentan.

Berian was fully succesful and I got this message from Syrnia as a result:

Arrr matey...
Here is your share of our loot at Berian:+766 gold.
For helping the pirates you got -42 fame.

Franir mines where the Roughnecks invaded was also succesful, but due to a known bug with Roughies, everyone recieved zero gold and fame.

New Weapon

There is a new weapon on the block, the pirates Falchion.

The Falchion is dropped by Roughnecks during an invasion and early reports suggest it has an aim/power of 14/14 and requires level 15 attack to use.

I will confirm these details and add a picture asap.

Invasion

The invasion is in progress, so it happened today after all ;-)

Pirate general Rudilyn has got 336 hours left to attack untill pirates mutiny.

We are currently attacking Franer Mines with Roughneck.
There are 363 left.and we got 58 minutes left until we capture.

We are currently attacking Berian with Keelhails pirate.
There are 324 left.and we got 26 minutes left until we capture.

We caputured Mentan with level 6 pirates but they did not multiply as the last 2 pirates were in combat. Aprently they only multiply if there are pirates left not in combat.

There are 2 left. we have captured this location

Pirate invasion disappointment

Since joining the pirates on Monday with some other players, we worked pretty hard to fill all of the pirate captains requests at the stockhouse, so hard in fact that all requests were filled by wednesday except for one brigantine. This brigantine was finished on Thursday.

Even so, we have not invaded yet. The reason? The pirate captain (Rudilyn) only wants to send an invasion when she is present to watch the whole duration of the invasion. Being as she works Monday to Friday, its pretty safe to say that most invasions will happen at the weekend, even if it is ready to send midweek/2 days after the last invasion.

For this reason I will not take part in any more invasions. I may stay on skull for a small time to bar fight and increase my combat xp though.

If anything I now know why non-pirates can wait so long for an invasion to happen. The last invasion on Monday was within hours of the time limit which would have caused a pirate mutiny and a change of Pirate leader.

The current mutiny time is as follows:

Pirate general Rudilyn has got 225 hours left to attack untill pirates mutiny.

The last few days

The Haloween party island was a nice change from the normal day to day life of syrnia. The last hour was manic with many players trying to trade skeleton parts, so much so that trade chat was moving so fast it was unreadable!

With quite a few players getting Koban masks and striped fish at the event, it will be interesting to see what happens to the prices of these items. It wouldnt suprise me if Koban masks go as low as 5k but no lower than that. In time the price will probably increase again.

Party Island has opened!

Haloween gnomes, skeletons and werew0lfs are the new creatures on the island.

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You can claim your free trick or treat at Syrnia celebration centre on the island.

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The skeleton tells you he's sad that some of his bones are missing, and some of his bones are badly damaged. He'de love to get new bones but is afraid of the fighters currently bashing all skeletons for their bones and can't get new the parts himself. Can you help him?
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The skeleton will reward you if you get him:

2 Skeleton arms.

2 Skeleton legs.

1 Skeleton body.

1 Skeleton skull.

Party Island to open for haloween

This will be the first time I have seen this island, so looking forward to it!

Halloween 2007 is here! Come and join in the festivities. The activities will begin at 00:00 Syrnia time on October 31st. Please visit Port Senyn, Crab Nest or Eylsian docks for a free trip to the Party Island (Note: There's a free trip from Eylsian docks to port party, but you cannot return to Kanzo without an teleport orb).

- come fight new creatures
- try to collect rare items
- contest
- trick or treat

Ahoy, I be re-joining the pirates

Yarr, im back on Skull!!

While im concentrating on cambat at the moment, im sure i'll be doing other tasks here to make the next invasion as succesful as possible.

M2H (or another site coder?) has recently changed some code to stop over-training of certain pirates. Unfortunately at the same time a bug has been introduced that has stopped players of certain levels from training pirates they should be able to train. The higher levelled fighters can train them all, the lower levels do not be able to train any.

Roughneck Invasion at Mentan

While I was asleep the pirates invaded. Luckily they still are which enabled me to join them and train at skull.

The pirates have captured Mentan with roughnecks. As of this post there are still 3800 of them left!!

Clan chat history fixed

Clan chat history was one of the best little updates made but it died soon after it was added. Now it is back and working again!!

Bats attack Port Dazar and Franir Mines

[0]23:03 munch munch munch
[0] 23:07 bite bite bite

Bats are invading the town ! Stop them of capturing this town and join the fight. You can not work at this town untill the town has been saved. If we do not manage to save the town it will be in controll of the Bats. There are 68 Bats left. Attack (10 minutes left untill capture.)

With 25 players fighting there, all the bats will be dead within minutes of this post.

Eagles attack

[0] 23:25 Eagles swoop down and attack the fishermen at Port
[0] 23:43 Another flock of eagles swoop down on some woodcutters

The eagles at port Calviny are all dead as of the time of this post. Im not sure of the status of the ones at Penteza forest although im guessing they wont be there for long!

Thanks to aquadark for the info.

Blog statistics

Having looked at the stats for this blog I thought I would share some with you.

The blog has had visitors from 30 different countries which are listed in comments.

These are the words which have been used to find my blog in search engines:

syrnia corner 29.90%
syrnia 17.65%
syrnia gold 9.80%
syrnia guide 8.33%
syrnia blog 5.88%

Here are the percentages of visitors who use each web browser:

Internet Explorer 51.34%
Firefox 45.08%
Opera 2.15%
Safari 0.89%
Netscape 0.54%

Fixes

The daily 4am lag has been fixed as well as the combat logs in the outlands.

For more information read the forum post here.

Assasins, Barghrags, Pythons and Bears invade

[0]00:54 Assassin uprising at Berian
[0]00:57 Barghrag uprising in Ogre Caves
[0]01:00 Pythons overtake the Mines
[0]01:06 Dark Widow invasion at a far-away island
[0]01:10 undiscovered bear cave found on Skull, waking up the creatures hibernating inside.

Something for everyone in this invasion ;-)

Update:
Assasins and Barghrags are all killed. No idea about the Bears on skull or Dark Widows at the far away island (Kanzo?)

Lots of cobras left at Rose mines, 10 people fighting with 20 seconds per round.

You are attacking a Python (9) at Rose mines.

There are 10 people fighting here.

There are 1314 Pythons left.

Fishing Contest in Lisim

Another competition in the early hours of the morning. Its a shame it didnt last for longer than 2 hours so that players in other timezones could also take part.

[0]05:24 Kooks A. Bunch[Fish]: Good morning Syrnians. I'm a resident fisherman stationed in Lisim.
[0]05:24 Kooks A. Bunch[Fish]: I wanted to find out who else can catch some of the larger mackerel's here at Lisim.
[0]05:24 Kooks A. Bunch[Fish]: I decided to put up a 4000 gold prize for the person who catches the largest one.
[0]05:25 Kooks A. Bunch[Fish]: Please submit your mackerel to me at Lisim, and I will measure it.
[0]05:25 Kooks A. Bunch[Fish]: The contest will last for 2 hours. Good luck everyone!

M2H Spotted on Skull Island

Riding his horse while naked except for a santa hat and some boots!!

The pirate life

While the last invasion was on I grabbed a keg of rum and handed it over to the pirate recruiters at Xanso.

Upon arrival at skull I was imprisoned in Crabs nest jail for over 19 minutes due to the 220 fame I had aqquired. The recruiters didnt mention that to me when they took my rum! :)

The main thing I noticed on the island is that the timers for the skills are short. For example cutting wood in Bonewood.

Bonewood
There are 8 other players working here
55 second timer

And smelting ores:

You have 12 Iron bars, you have 5 Iron ore left.

Smithing level: 14 (11150 exp, 2196 for next level)

There are 0 other players working here.

33 second timer

There is a shop at hooks edge which has been setup by a player for you to steal from to get a 25 second travel time to Skulls nose at the other end of the island. Skull nose is where the pirates storehouse is located.

The more you contribute to the stockpile, the more money you make out of a succesful invasion. The good thing is that you can smith ores that someone else has put into the stockpile or cook donated fish using donated wood. This allows you to get xp in these areas without having to aqquire the raw materials. At the same time, the pirate life is about team work otherwise everything would fall apart.

Training the invading pirates is not as straight forward. First you need to have the right combat level to train them and secondly there needs to be enough resources in the stockpile to create/train them. From what I could tell, there have been issues with people over training certain type of pirates so as a result, some of the raw materials are not put into the stockpile straight away. If there are not enough iron bars in the pile for example, then pirates cannot be trained/created.

I threw all 17 iron bars the pile and trained a roughneck. At the bar you can choose to start a bar fight or recruit. Notice how the xp works out when training.

You trained 1 Roughneck !

You gained 8 experience in attack,defence, strength and health.

There are 0 other players working here.

Due to having a clannies corn crops growing in my farms, I only stayed for just over a day. I knew that you needed your own boat to leave Skull island, but I didn't know that it wasnt that simple!

At Crabs nest you get the following screen:

If you got your own boat you can try to escape the Pirate island...You will betray the pirates. They won't be happy with you....
Use your Sloop to escape to: Port Senyn

I tried to escape 4 times before I was succesfull. The first 3 times I was caught escaping.

A pirate spotted you trying to escape !

You are send to jail.
Locked up, you rogue ! You have been locked up in the Skulls nose jail.

Reason: Betraying the pirates.....You will need to wait untill you have paid for your crime.

Every time you get caught you spend 10 minutes (590 seconds) in the Skull nose jail. This means you have to walk all the way back to barnacle bay every time you attempt an escape!

Eventually I escaped and ended up with 25 seconds jail time in Sanfew due to having zero fame since I lost all my fame when joining the pirates.

Pirates invasion and staff initiated invasion

[0]05:22 A large earthquake strikes Exrollia Island....the citizens there are shaken up from the powerful quak
[0]05:26 it seems the earthquake has awoke some sleeping creatures from hibernation
[0]05:26 they are hungry and start looking for something to snack on
[0]05:37 bandits see lots of ships sailing to Port Calviny to help in the invasion
[0]05:37 They send in their main fleet to pillage and plunder
[0]06:07 With the pending defeat of the bandits main force, the reinforcements decide to redirect their attack at the other end of the island

As well as the above invasion started by staff, there is also an invasion started by those pesky pirates that we love so much. Kannecat reports that was over 3000 Roughnecks ( Level 24) at Mentan.

You are attacking a Hadrosaurus (24) at Avinin / There are 640 Hadrosauruss left

Im sure there are more I dont know about too :D

Sea monster & eagle invasion

[0]18:57 Some Eagles are spotted looking at the yummy bat
[0]19:01 a sea monster is spotted peeking his head out from the water...but then disappears again
[0]19:07 rats begin to rummage around, eating up all the blood and carnage from all of the battles

Just my luck that I logged off just before this happened! Thanks to Indisponente for letting me know what i missed :)

Centaur Axe

Having reached Attack level 30, I purchased a Centuar axe for 21k gold.

Ideally a Koban axe would have been my weapon of choice but they are too costly and rarely seen for sale.

So I tried the Centaur axe out on a few cobra's as I had been fighting in Jungles Edge and I got a max hit of 16 against a cobra. Im not sure if I can hit harder until I do a little more combat. My hardest hit before when using a steel axe or ogre club was 13.

Fighting Lizard creatures in Thick Jungle is now easier, often killing them in four hits, sometimes less. See comments for some combat reports.

Im wearing some +armour and +aim steel items which may make a little difference too.

Syrnia is down again

No maintenence message at all, so maybe a server issue.

The problem started at 13:03 Syrnia time.

Update: Its 'hoped' that syrnia will be up and working by 17:00 syrnia time (gmt +1). Its not guranteed, it will be back then, but a rough estimate is better than nothing ;-)

Update2: The server is back up and working again, as of 17:25

Invasions and chests

[0]04:54 surprise Gnome attack in multiple towns
[0]04:58 Raptor attack, scouts report multiple towns affected
[0]05:05 scouts in Ogre cave report lots of creatures flying through the caverns there
[0]05:15 The citizens of Valera congratulate the fighters for clearing the town, they drop a combo chest
[0]05:16 the citizens of Eully congratulate the fighters for clearing the town, they drop a combo chest
[0]05:26 a combo chest is dropped at Ogre Tradingpost for clearing the bats

Yet another staff initiated invasion started around the same time of day.

[Core] Core Rage

A new clan has been created, of which I am a member. You will probably notice the [Core] tag around in world chat or beside Blackloters name on the high score table of dw-hq's main page.

All eight members of Core were previously in Lair but left to join the new clan which is based on some fundamentally different underlying principals. Try saying that after a few drinks!! ;-)

Current members are:

Bhorg
BlackLoter
FarinSongteeth
Impish
Indisponente
kannecat
Poj (me)
thesunisdeep

More invasion

[0]05:14 Storm clouds approach Elven Island...seems a nasty storm is brewing
[0]05:17 the storm comes ashore, ravaging the cities of Elven...
[0]05:18 it seems creatures were using the storm as cover, as they attack from the air

White bats attacked penteza forest.

Maybe its time I started a campaign to get these admin/staff initiated invasions happen at a time when europeans are awake, due to fact we pretty much always miss out on these.

Invasion

Thanks to kannecat for messaging me these details while I was sleeping like a baby.

[0]03:38 The bandit ships arrive

Heard there were some at Unera


[0]03:45 gamans do a sneak attack from the caves

(arch caves some where)

Im not sure if these were admin sent invasions or sent by the pirates.

Muted for 3 hours

I was muted for 3 hours for saying 'hail' too many times. Hopefully they will get banned completly soon.

I am working on a link that will allow muted people to see chat in realtime. It would be a benefit to the syrnia server too due to the amount of data loaded each time the history button is pressed ;-)

Works fine running offline as a file, has the added benefit that you can see a lot more chat at once too.

AFK Combat

Lately I have not spent much time sitting at the pc, which isnt a problem if you are doing most skills as you can just come back and do botchecks when needed. With combat/fighting its not so simple...

Currently my combat level is 31, im wearing a full steel suit of armour and my individual stats are as follows.

Defence 26
Attack 26
Strength 24
Health 29 (giving me 34 hit points)

At this level you can fight fairly high level creatures as long as you have plenty of food (and your health bars are more than the creatures maximum hit). But fighting while away from keyboard is another story.

Do you just fight someone you are 100% sure you will be safe until a botcheck? How would you know when to move on? Watching combat in a new location and seeing how much health you lose between botchecks is not a gurantee as to wether you can survive there. Random creatures and critical hits make it hard to be sure.

Having fought gnomes for what seems like forever, I decided to move on to Lemo woods as valera is always so busy and the long timers means you could only get 10xp per minute. Lemo woods is great for afk'ing. The most health I lost between botchecks there was 10, most of the time it was just 2 or 3hp.

At times Lemo woods gets busy too, which means slow xp gains per hour of fighting there.

Deep Lemo is very tempting being close to Lemo woods. But alas, even though my CL is 31 and im wearing steel, I cannot fight afk there!! After watching my fights there for 10 minutes I noticed that I often got 2, 3, or sometimes 4 bears in a row. These bears were stripping me of my health at a rate of up to 10hp per bear. Check out comments for a few combat reports against bears.

My next stop will be jungles edge. While the xp per creature killed is a lot less there, im hoping I can afk without having to worry!!

Accidental thieving

After checking out the thieving levels of everyone at my location to see who would give me the quickest travel time across the island, I thieved someone and suceeded instead of getting my speedy travel to the jail.

You stole 1024 gold from xxxxxxxx, without anyone who saw you doing it

One half of me is thinking I should give the gold back, the other half is saying that its part of the game and the prize for spending time levelling the skill. The later half won the argument, im keeping the gold ;)

Mod Spammage

Not sure what I can say about this, except for post the chat history of the mod spamming world chat. He of course didn't get muted ;-)

[1] 19:01 (Mod)Moderator:spidey101, didnt you read the warning?
[1] 19:01 Merls[gr]: im good thanx u?
[1] 19:01 Dragonlord has logged in
[1] 19:01 resque[Resq]: also did you notice our two missing women who I was about to dump for not being around for 1 1/2 months popped in yesturday?
[1] 19:01 (Mod)Moderator:spidey101, didnt you read the warning?
[1] 19:01 (Mod)Moderator:spidey101, didnt you read the warning?
[1] 19:01 rat7thirsty[Drunk]: Merls!!! *glompifies*
[1] 19:01 (Mod)Moderator:spidey101, didnt you read the warning?
[1] 19:01 (Mod)Moderator:spidey101, didnt you read the warning?
[1] 19:01 fishing_god has logged in
[1] 19:01 JaninaLynn[DoF]: how are you doing honey?
[1] 19:01 blakesanders has logged in
[1] 19:01 thesunisdeep has logged in
[1] 19:01 Merls[gr]: Janina!! *hugs*
[1] 19:01 resque[Resq]: think we'll have new member hopping on in minute...just tried recruiting some one
[1] 19:01 Merls[gr]: evil red text ^^
[1] 19:00 lucifer12 has logged in
[1] 19:00 Merls[gr]: Your hatchet broke, you can only continue woodcutting if you got another hatchet.
[1] 19:00 JaninaLynn[DoF]: Merls! *hugs*
[1] 19:00 spidey101[EotD]: no, sorry
[1] 19:00 (Mod)Moderator:spidey101, didnt you read the warning?

Lag & bugs

With syrnia having a nice shiney new ticket system I wrongly thought that this would solve all the outstanding issues. How wrong I was!

Over 10 days I created 5 tickets.

Chat totally freezing, requiring logout/login
Chat (eating lines)
error --> Work 1 bxz
Elven Casino Botcheck
Battle Arena

The only one solved (and was fixed pretty quickly) was the elven casino botcheck causing 2 sets of every frame to be on the screen.

Error --> Work 1 bxz was marked by the bug mod as solved after telling me it was probably due to lag. With the problem still happening, I dont really see it as solved. The error message that players get now says that the issue may be due to lag, probably to stop people creating tickets when they encounter the error.

The 'Chat (eating lines)' ticket was also put down to lag by the mod reply to my ticket.

Heres the reply from my ticket of the top issue of chat totally dieing which many players experienced:

2007-09-25 15:54 Moderator
Sounds like a lag related issue...

Which leaves the Battle arena ticket which I created on 2007-09-15 17:00. Almost 2 weeks without a reply of any sort, even though I have added to the ticket to try and get some sort of response. Players have also posted in the feedback forum and got no reply.

A simple "this wont be fixed for a month at least" or "we are trying to get it working by next week, but make no promises" reply would be better than being ignored.

Having set my goal to getting to CL29 to fight in the battle arena with optimum stats, I have been left for ages not being able to make use of the hard work I put in to my character. Im also unsure wether to train combat more or not as I am basing my combat around the arena and medals (which still have no use after a promise months ago that they would become usefull).

Im beggining to wonder if the bug mods job is to introduce new bugs and not fix them!

Standard "Syrnia is broken message"

The official word is...oh, there isnt any offical word. Hopefully the new announcment forum is going to be used to announce a huge update, as it wasnt used to announce any aknowledgement of the current issues.

Update: Syrnia is back online again

Inventory missing

Currently there are a few issues, including all items in your inventory gone, which means you are unable to work at all.

Was kinda hoping that whoever is working on the code (M2H isnt the only one who fiddles with syrnia code) would fix bugs, not create more ;-P

Announcements Forum

An announcements category has appeared on the syrnia forums.

Many people miss information on the syrnia news page so the announcement forum will solve this issue.

This also means that m2h is about and doing some coding, which means we may get some bugs fixed too. With there being so many bugs we can only hope that he has time to make updates as well ;-)

M2h's other game got an update a few days ago too. While most of the work was done by players, m2h had to implement them. So its good news that m2h is concentrating on his games for the time being.

The invasions have finished

Just turned up in Xanso and there is no option to join the pirates, which means the invasion is over.

The invasion was small and lasted only a short time, probably becouse it was 2 or 3 days earlier than usual so less pirates were made/trained than usual.

There are 360 Dread pirates left.

You are attacking a Dread pirate (12) at Unera.

There are 32 people fighting here.

At 40 seconds per round, its not really worth fighting here for xp, but if you want to kill pirates, these are a nice level for most players.

You are attacking a Keelhails pirate (18) at Aunna.
There are 12 people fighting here.
There are 203 Keelhails pirates left.

Only 23 seconds per round for this, a lot better if you can handle level 18 pirates.

Syrnia Chat Dead again

Chat is currently down as of the time of this post.

This chat problem has occured about 3 or 4 times today, which is a pain in the butt if you are trying to trade or was chatting (obviously).

Hopefully someone has raised a ticket about it ;-)

On that note, im still waiting for a reply for the ticket I raised 8 days ago about the broken battlemage arena. Double frame bug in Elven casino was fixed quickly and my other 2 tickets were put down to lag... funnily enough, one of those tickets was to do with chat eating up lines that were said, ie I was typing them and some were not appearing in chat. If anyone else has had that problem, raise a ticket!

Rats summoned by orb?

Saw this announcement in world chat today and it looked strange as it was in white text and bold, rather than the usual red.

[1]13:55 An evil mage summoned 50 Rats at Arch. cave 4.7. We need to kill the Rats before we can continue working

This must be what you see when someone uses an orb to summon rats.

Arch caves is a good place to summon them if you want all the comabt xp to yourself ;-)

Bandits invade

Thanks to Kannecat for messaging me the following, as I was sleeping when this happened:

[0]05:51 bandit ships seen on the horizon....
[0]05:54 the bandits attack
[0]06:00 The bandits drop a combination chest at Port Senyn to distract incoming fighters
[0]06:15 with the bandits taking over Port Dazar, the rest of the fleet arrives there, instead of invading other towns
[0]06:15 they unleash their force of critters on the rest of the island since they weren't defeated at Port

Invasion in progress...

Im at ogre at the moment so don't have all the details of what is where, but im sure the pirates wont be hard to find ;-)

New ticket support system

I'll just paste whats on the news page as most people dont check the news page ;-)

"We've added a new ticket system to replace the current email & message support. All support now runs trough the ticket system, which you can also use without owning a Syrnia account.

This should really improve our support to all players. We will try to answer most open questions from the current emails and moderation messages, however we suggest you to open a ticket for any pending problem/question you've got.

Any website quests (guests?) can use the ticket system via this link, this link is presented to players who have trouble logging in, activating their account etc.Now, let's hope you'll never need the ticket system ;)."

Syrnia down again

Update: Syrnia now working again

"There has been some maintaince today, this had to be done because of the strange errors popping up everywhere. The cause is known, and we hope we've fixed it now."

Having seen lots of errors today I assumed this would happen at some point. I wish just 1 minutes notice could be given before they do this as I was halfway through a fight with an ogre...

Update from main page:
"Status:
The error we're repairing right now has caused the 2 maintainces from a few days ago as well, so we hope we're able to permanently fix this problem."

Eagle invasion

Update: Looks to be over now

[0]20:30 The red eyes can be seen in the trees, looking down at the Syrnians below....
[0]20:32 The Eagles swoop down and attack

Apparently at Lemo, Valera and Unera.

Hidden bug invasion

Today I came across a bug invasion while in arch caves which im guessing no one else spotted due to its secluded location. For once I kept silent about the invasion and managed to get to level 28 health.

While the bugs are only level 1 and give 7 xp per kill, the xp added up quickly as the timer was so short (11 seconds) and most of the kills were one hit kills. Being able to fight while afk was also handy. Hardly any food was needed either!

For once I remembered to remove my good armour and weapons before fighting them. Learned that the hard way from fighting gnomes with good equipment and having it break. ;-)

Gained 9.2k xp from them today. As im going to bed now, I might as well tell everyone that they are in Arch cave south so others can get some easy xp too. Keep in mind that you have to do a quest before you can get here and you need Combat Level 25 to be able to do the quest. As well as giving a guy a few thousand gold peices for the quest, you have to pay 500 gold to get to heerchey too. Nice and easy huh? :-P

You are attacking a Bug (1) at Arch. cave S.
There are 0 people fighting here.

12 You struck and dealt 12 damage to the Bug. 0/6

There are 925 Bugs left.

Syrnia is down

Update: Syrnia is now up and working again!
Update 2: Early reports suggest that the trading posts are now working again

"MaintainceSyrnia is temporary offline for maintaince, please stand by for more news.We will provide an estimated downtime if possible.We're sorry we couldn't warn, but we hope this won't take long."

I guess with all the problems lately we saw this coming. I cant help but wonder if it was to do with the optimizations done not so long ago...

For those who are bored senseless, you can use this url to read and talk on the forum if you was already logged in when the server went down ;-)

Errors and broken trading posts

Syrnia is throwing up a lot of errors today. First there is this sort of error:

error --> 54433333333 1189406125- Poj

Secondly, no trading posts are currently working.

Apparently the bug mods know about the problem so dont need it reported to them, I guess their inbox is mroe than full already. The word on the syrnian street is that the problems are being worked on.

Armour and weapon stats debate

Since the stats where changed for saurus, centaur and rose equipment a debate has been started about the affects of these changes.

I agree with the notion that some of these changes make other equipment pointless and that a some balancing needs to be done.

Read and participate in the thread on syrnia's main forums.

Syrnia Status

Update: Syrnia seems stable again

Lot of error messages and lag at the moment. Logging out and back in has sorted this problem out for some. Still a bit slow and pings to the server are timing out.

Chest at Eully

[0]16:01 because the Eully chest was the first to be successfully opened, the city drops another chest

Within 30 seconds of the chest arriving at eully, botherham guessed the correct combination with his first guess!! The number he used to unlock this chest was 232.

'The last chests wich was found here was succesfully opened by boterham'

Thieving, LTB's and LMC's

Its going to take a while to collate all the stats to give a proper guide to thieving so for now i'll post things as I go along.

Being a level 18 theif means you can steal 2 and 3gp items succesfully most times, about 9 times out of ten. Today I stole a 12gp cabbage, then got jailed for try to steal a second one.

Locked mouldy chests sell for between 650 and 900 gold, with the most common price being 750 gold. The items or gold you get from them are usually worth around 400 to 500 gold. So selling them will make you more money but if you want to increase your thieving level, its worth opening them for the 125xp they give each.

Here is what I got when opening the few LTB's and LMC's I had:

You opened your Moldy chest...It contained 1 Ogre pickaxe !
You opened your Moldy chest...It contained 461 Gold !
You opened your Moldy chest...It contained 59 Onion !
You opened your Moldy chest...It contained 1 Ogre pickaxe !

You opened your Toolbox...It contained 49 Gold !
You opened your Toolbox...It contained 25 Gold !
You opened your Toolbox...It contained 25 Gold !
You opened your Toolbox...It contained 10 Gold !
You opened your Toolbox...It contained 25 Gold !

Opening all these gave me 750 thieving xp.

Todays invasion

At about 2pm Syrnia time today I went past Xanso with the intention of seeing if an invasion was happening as those pesky pirates were about due. No invasion, everything was peaceful...

At around 7pm when I get back home and login I notice that invasions have happened and finished at Xanso and Franir mines. After waiting a week for them I miss them, typical!!

There are some level 25 bonebreakers and level 18 Keelhails at Mentan and Berian so some xp will be gained at least ;-)

The Keelhails pirate died. You got 44 health experience.

See comments for a few example fights, to get an idea of how much damage they can inflict.

Mining in Ancestral mountains

Ever had a good idea which didn't turn out to be so good?

I decided that I would have a break from combat and level my mining a little bit. Due to the fact that Heerchey has a cost of 500 gold to get too even if you own a boat, I figured it would be quiet and not many people mining there. I was so very wrong!!

There are 6 other players working here

At least I can do some digging while im on the island, sucks that the mines are so busy though. In future I think I will mine iron at rose mines on Serpenthelm. Seems to be a bit quieter due to the fact you have to fight to get there and its not listed on the dw-hq mining guide page, although it is mentioned if you look at the Serpenthelm map there.

Login issues

Update: Just managed to login, hopefully the problems are over.

There is definately some gremlins in the system today. Currently the main Syrnia page loads up ok but after entering your login details and clicking the login button you get a simple 'error' message.

From what I can work out, its only people who are trying to login who have problems. People who were already logged in are ok.

From playing with urls it seems that the server isnt creating news sessions for peeople who login.

Forum urls work ok...

Syrnia online again

No reason given for the outage yet but syrnia is back online. Must have have been a lot of people waiting to login as there was about 40 logins within the first minute of the server working again ;-)

Syrnia currently down

I have no idea why syrnia is down or when it will be working again. If I hear any scraps of information about it i'll post here.

In the mean time, no tears about all the xp you didn't gain this morning due to the outage!! ;-)

Shaman Invasion

Gotta love the increased activy lately, heres the latest:

[0]22:03 The increased slaughter of foxes at Lemo, has caused the Wolves and Wild dogs to become hungry
[0]22:32 As the Syrnians slaughter Witch Docters for fox tails, the Lizard Shamans plan their attack
[0]22:33 Looking to steal the Witch Doctor's territory, they attack in full force

Foxtail competition reloaded

Seems like the bug that thwarted this competition last time has been fixed.

[0]21:19 Dean of Unera[Syrnia]: Hello fellow Syrnians, my name is Dean and I run the university in Unera.
[0]21:20 Dean of Unera[Syrnia]: My judge is back from last week, and am ready to do that contest again
[0]21:21 Dean of Unera[Syrnia]: I want to find the best fox tails for my Lady Rose
[0]21:22 Dean of Unera[Syrnia]: Please submit your fox tails to the judge at Unera, and I will pay 5000 gold to the best one
[0]21:22 Dean of Unera[Syrnia]: Good Luck everyone :)

Early morning invasions & chests

More early morning events that I missed. Hopefully a european mod will start some in future so we get them at a decent time ;-)

[0]05:41 Scouts report bandit ships on the horizon
[0]05:45 bandits attack
[0]05:50 the sun starts to rise in syrnia, but it seems to have an evil red color to it....
[0]05:53 the creatures of syrnia are acting very strange, an evil red glow in their eyes
[0]05:55 the last thing heard from a woodcutter, was the sight of hundreds of red eyes..

[0]06:05 the morning sun reaches the shores of Exrollia, bringing the evil along with it
[0]06:09 The city of Xanso drop a chest in celebration of the successful defence of their town
[0]06:13 The local doctors on Remer are reporting a strange increase in the number of spider bites....

[0]06:25 The Giants of Elven sneak past the Ogre guards, and search for prey in the caves

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