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