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.