The West (as of 3/09, Bat Country will be on World 8)

[Der Helm]

And he strikes again. 

I just took back the lead on best dueler. I love the charlatan set.

[Aez]

Lead on who?  Cause I'm #21 in the duel ladder, just saying   

[LK]

I could use a re-invite now that my Adventurer Quest business is done.

[Samwise]

Invite sent.  You'll need to get schild to re-promote you to Founder, as he's the only one left.   

[LK]

Huh. Alright.

[Der Helm]

Lead on who?  Cause I'm #21 in the duel ladder, just saying   

I am talking about our mortician stats, of course 

[K9]

I want to find the fucker who wrote the 'need 8 wood planks' and 'need 10 wood planks' quests and shove a lumber mill up his ass. Nothing like spending the rest of my natural born life gaining 9 XP an hour AND NOT GETTING ANY WOOD DROPS. I could be hunting grizzly bears for fun and profit, but I wanted to bang out a couple of quests. In short, I am a moron.

I just got those done too. Looking through west stats there's a later quest for 20 wood..... The whole quest system is a bit schizophrenic really; I'm in a dry spell at the moment where I can't actually do any of the jobs to get items for quests (Granite Mining is way off, Telegraph Poles should be doable once I ding, Saddles are a level or two away), so I'm just grinding out Orange Picking and Cow Branding for xp, which is really rather dull. Still, guess I'll money and xp grind for a while until I can do something, or there's space in a town.

This picture is all the resources used in forts, though it doesn't show the number needed.

Fort Resources

A lot of them are from fairly high end jobs. I think there's some advantages to waiting and then building a second town near the fort we want to capture. That gives us a base to work from when we're attacking / defending / building it.

I have quite a lot of some of those, I'll keep hoarding them more carefully now. Hope you don't need too many Union or COnfederate flags...

[schild]

I'm almost exclusively mining iron these days, so we should be OK on that front. I also trade a fair deal when mining drops below 60.

[Nebu]

I'm beginning to question the point of being a trader.  Yes, I can make money.  Yes, I get higher drop rates as an adventurer.  After I complete the Charletain set, money will be valueless and likely all be donated. 

Is there any point in this game to be anything but a dueler, soldier, or builder?

[K9]

I'm almost exclusively mining iron these days, so we should be OK on that front. I also trade a fair deal when mining drops below 60.

I normally stop jobs when I go below 90% motivation, can you push it that low and still get good xp or cash rewards, or are you solely after the products?

[Kageru]

Well it's not really a game that has a lot of end-game at the moment. However building forts takes substantial money and a lot of items which adventurers are best suited for. Other people seem to focus on working really high luck jobs with ideally 200 labor points excess to see if they can find unique drops. And failing that if you think duelling is more fun you could always save up and respec.

[Samwise]

I'm beginning to question the point of being a trader.  Yes, I can make money.  Yes, I get higher drop rates as an adventurer.  After I complete the Charletain set, money will be valueless and likely all be donated. 

Is there any point in this game to be anything but a dueler, soldier, or builder?

Builders can't build without money, so if your goal is to help build up towns it's just as useful to be an efficient cash generator as it is to be a builder yourself.

The overall "point" of the game is a bit up for interpretation IMO.  

[Nebu]

Thanks for the input. 

I think the addition of forts will help.  I also enjoy getting drops and the idea of hunting for unique stuff seems fun.  I willl be happy to donate nearly all the cash I get once I'm finished building my set, so playing that role in the "team" suits me fine.   

[naum]

My toon (name: Trimble) close to cracking level 10 now (and in BC vicinity)…

…would be happy to join the tribe…

Contemplating picking the Adventurer class…

[sidereal]

Is there any point in this game to be anything but a dueler, soldier, or builder?

Wait, there's a point to being one of those?

[Polysorbate80]

Trammel gunsmith v. 4.0: Rusty dagger (bleh), Precise Shotgun (not so bleh)

[Amarr HM]

Trammel gunsmith v. 4.0: Rusty dagger (bleh), Precise Shotgun (not so bleh)

Cool, I will buy this without joining as long as we know the surplus cash goes to Trammel treasury, I've heard that's what happens can anyone confirm?

FAKE EDIT: Actually it doesn't matter, cause it's not available unless I join but still anyone know about the above?

[Samwise]

Trammel gunsmith v. 4.0: Rusty dagger (bleh), Precise Shotgun (not so bleh)

Cool, I will buy this without joining as long as we know the surplus cash goes to Trammel treasury, I've heard that's what happens can anyone confirm?

FAKE EDIT: Actually it doesn't matter, cause it's not available unless I join but still anyone know about the above?

The treasury only gets like 5% of the purchase price or something.  You're much better off joining the town, buying it at the 75%-off discount, and donating the rest to the treasury yourself.

[Amarr HM]

Yeh that's a good thing to bear in mind, I only have about one level to go before I can use the Muzzle loader so I'll hold off for now.

[Amarr HM]

I've been informed by the dumbass moderation team that "Gringo" is a racial slur, I wouldn't have though it to be dunno about that one.  Ohhhhh, I see.

[Nebu]

New quest: 24 wood.  Yay!

I should have listened to you guys a month ago:  Save everything! 

[schild]

Ahem.

Apparently, because I'm *the* founder now, I am getting emails about people attacking FoM.

Do you all want me handling the diplomacy? Shit might get heavy.

[Kageru]

The hornet's nest seems to have been well stirred already. Got attacked by several FoM people today, got 100xp off one of them.

[Amarr HM]

Do you all want me handling the diplomacy? Shit might get heavy.

Definitely yes.

[Ghambit]

I've been informed by the dumbass moderation team that "Gringo" is a racial slur, I wouldn't have though it to be dunno about that one. 

Ummmm.. if they were worried about racial slurs they shouldnt have made a game about the Old West
(nvm the fact the only black avatar is tar-baby lookin' with a canepole and a straw in his mouth and we're basically playin cowboys and injuns)    

[Amarr HM]

nvm

[Kageru]

Do you all want me handling the diplomacy? Shit might get heavy.

Looks like the diplomacy is well in hand 

http://forum.the-west.net/showthread.php?p=245405#post245405

[schild]

Nah, I've got this.

[Amarr HM]

Schild you're probably gonna get warned for that and then will be removed, the moderation team is ridiculous.

[schild]

So?

[Musashi]

I'll defer to your riot insight.

Also, this is the best money I've spent on gaming in a while.

[schild]

I have not spent a dime.

[Samwise]

Apparently, because I'm *the* founder now, I am getting emails about people attacking FoM.

Feel free to re-promote other people to founder status.

[schild]

Apparently, because I'm *the* founder now, I am getting emails about people attacking FoM.

Feel free to re-promote other people to founder status.

Then they might start telegramming other people! MOB RULE, EVERYONE IS A FOUNDER.

Just kidding. I say we get in a war with fucking everyone, cripple their builders from our one horse town so that no one has time to get resources for forts.

We're doing just fine, I have huge stockpiles, and I'll run my shit down to zero every 48 hours on the major resources. I'm sure our other builders will too.

[Amarr HM]

So?

Just giving ya a headsup. Moderation team is made of fail.