Tuesday, 11 September 2007

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.

Monday, 10 September 2007

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.

Sunday, 9 September 2007

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 ;-)