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

[Xanthippe]

What's the deal with fort guns?  I see the slot on my inventory to use them, I see the guns at the gunsmith.  What stats do they work off of?

[Reg]

Yeah I was wondering that too. Is there any point at all in a Worker even having one?

[Xanthippe]

Incidently, this post outlines what is needed for which levels:

http://forum.westbeta.innogames.de/showpost.php?p=1796&postcount=13

[Xanthippe]

Yeah I was wondering that too. Is there any point at all in a Worker even having one?

I assume so, since there are Worker Towers in which to fight from.

[K9]

The stats used for fort battles are: Leadership, Aim, Dodging, Hiding and Stamina. So workers have the potential to be highly effective.

edit: Hiding is only relevant for fort defense, and stamina is only relevant for fort attacks; all the other three are used by both attackers and defenders.

Just equip a fort gun in your right slot. From looking at our stick we seem to have a huge gap in weapons, with none having a level 4x requirement. It's probably better just to have any weapon right now. Whether guns will appear as drops from jobs remains to be seen I think.

The medium fort in our county has been claimed by some town 2 squares NW of us, which seems odd. Also -LN- are attacking a -FOM- fort three squares east of us tomorrow. I'm thinking I might swing by and join as an attacker, to see how things go, although I can envisage a dogpile as everyone tries to get in to see what's what.

[Samwise]

Whether guns will appear as drops from jobs remains to be seen I think.

I got a rusty shotgun from grave robbing.

[K9]

Ah cool; n.b. there's both a shotgun and a shot gun (each with respective rusty/precise versions), which seems to be a by-product of the translation. They have different stats.

[RUiN 427]

It gives me some weird German warning that loosely translates to "you are not able to continue..." when i try to add my cotton to the supply... any idea what I am doing wrong?

[Reg]

The cotton stack isn't full and there are 3 empty slots even if it were. Are you sure you're actually in the Fort?

Edit: Never mind. Dumb question. I can see that you're there.

[naum]

Sorry to come across as ignorant, but is there a one page synopsis of forts and what they're all about?

I tried clicking through the help link and ended up landing on a page written in German.

[RUiN 427]

Fail, I realized i needed to be in the fort like you said. My bad, going to queue up some union flags and cotton now.

[Polysorbate80]

Next level of barracks unlocked.  Verbal gets 400-ish construction points these days; is it worth sending her over to build anything at this point?

[Xanthippe]

Next level of barracks unlocked.  Verbal gets 400-ish construction points these days; is it worth sending her over to build anything at this point?

Yes, I think so - I'm at about 570ish, but need to wait on motivation.

-- We do need to coordinate building, as any overlap goes away rather than to the next level.  So she ought to post here when she builds (or check Chatzee).

[Samwise]

A bird falls dead out of the sky and lands right on top of your head. You lose 81 health points.

[Polysorbate80]

Says she's got enough motivation to run 3 hours on barracks.  I'll pester her to drop in some cash too, she's just going to blow it on clothes otherwise :P

[Xanthippe]

If you need direction on jobs, consider these tasks:


for Barracks, we need:

Barracks L1 (100 Points) Framing: 4 Roll of Cloth, 2 Cotton, 2 Hammer Per Build: None
Barracks L2 (200 Points) Framing: 6 Roll of Cloth, 3 Cotton, 3 Hammer Per Build:3 Wood, 1 Iron Rod
Barracks L3 (300 Points) Framing: 6 Roll of Cloth, 6 Cotton, 3 Hammer Per Build:6 Wood, 2 Iron Rod
Barracks L4 (400 Points) Framing: __ Roll of Cloth, __ Cotton, __ Hammer Per Build: 12 Wood, 4 Iron Rod


Rolls of Cloth:  Trading
Cotton:  Picking Cotton
Hammer:  Repair Fences
Wood: Cutting Trees, Rafting Wood, Clearing Forest
Iron Rod:  Iron Mining (I have 16 of these right now, we're covered for a while)


HQ:

Headquarters L2 (200 Points) Framing: 2 Tool box, 2 Saw, 2 Map Per Build: 2 Wood, 1 Granite Block
Headquarters L3 (300 Points) Framing: 15 Tool box, 15 Saw, 15 Map Per Build:

Toolbox:  Building Windmills
Saw:  Sawing Wood
Maps:  Exploration - I'm pretty sure this is covered for now, I'm sitting on 18 maps, there are 8 in resource bin
Granite Block:  Granite Mining

Protective Barrier:

Protective Barrier L1 (100 Points) Framing: 7 Spade, 10 Beaver trap, 10 Wood  Per Build: None
Protective Barrier L2 (200 Points) Framing: 14 Spade, 20 Beaver trap, 20 Wood Per Build: 3 Wood, 1 Barbed Wire
Protective Barrier L3 (300 Points) Framing: 21 Spade, 30 Beaver Trap, 30 Wood Per Build: 6 Wood, 2 Barbed Wire
Protective Barrier L4 (400 Points) Framing: 28 Spade, 40 Beaver Trap, 40 Wood Per Build: 9 Wood, 3 Barbed Wire

Spade:  Digging Graves or Build Irrigation System
Beaver Trap:  Beaver Hunt
Barbed Wire:  Installing Barbed Wire Fence


Gates:

Gates L1 (100 Points) Framing: 5 Sledge hammer, 3 Nail, 6 Planar Per Build: None
Gates L2 (200 Points) Framing: 10 Sledge hammer, 6 Nail, 12 Planar Per Build: (unknown)
Gates L3 (300 Points) Framing: 15x Sledge hammer, 9x Nails, 18x Planar Per Build: 4 Iron Rod, 2 Wood, 4 Barbed Wire

Sledge Hammer:  Building a Bridge (I have 7 right now)
Nail:  Constructing a Ranch House (I have over 100, we are completely covered)
Planar:  Building Coffins (I have about 17, should be covered for a bit)


Later, for the Towers - we'll need

Ship's Bell: Steering a Paddlewheel
Post Horn: Pony Express
Rounds of Ammo:  Guarding Stagecoach
Oil:  Drilling for Oil (I have 39 oil at the moment, should be covered for a while)
Whiskey:  Mercenary Work
Flag:  Carving Claims



[Modified to reflect actual known amounts rather than amounts from beta]

[Polysorbate80]

Are those all accurate?  I dropped in the second hammer for barracks; it only asked for (I think) 4 cloth/4 cotton/2 hammers?  Or do I misunderstand something horribly?

[Xanthippe]

I don't know if they are or not - I got it from the West forum here

http://forum.westbeta.innogames.de/showpost.php?p=1796&postcount=13

[Reg]

Just started another 2 hour job building Resources which should take it up to 80% or so completion. Someone else should take over at that point as I'll be out of energy and under 90% motivation.

[Amarr HM]

A lot of stuff will have been balanced from the beta server so it's not 100% accurate but it gives you an idea. I think the developers reduced some of the material needs on certain building but again it's all not very well documented so that's about the best info you got to work with. Also I will just remind everyone in this patch level 2 towers don't do anything.

[Amarr HM]

Cool nearly resource stock 4 that should remove some headaches & you guys are awesome 

[schild]

User name: -FoM- Crow Nest
Points: 1403
Fort battle: Today at 11:58 AM
User name: -FoM- Horse Creek 3
Points: 208
Fort battle: Today at 8:09 PM

:awesome:

I can't figure out if they're against us or not.

[Xanthippe]

Those are the forts where battles are taking place.

[sidereal]

Does it actually say 'User name'?  That's some bad translation.  They mean 'Fort name'.  Scheiße!

[Amarr HM]

I put in a trouble ticket few days ago about losing our acid and the devs reinstated it

[Phildo]

And I just bought one!  Now to save up for a fort gun.

[Der Helm]

I travelled to both FOM fort battles and missed both... 

[Amarr HM]

Any idea who initiated the one against the coppers?

[Der Helm]

Any idea who initiated the one against the coppers?

No idea. I don't even know if there is a way to check stuff like that.

[RUiN 427]

as i level up i am sure i will want to duel and partake in battles... who am i not allowed to fight? like do we have any agreements with anyone outside of trammel?

[gryeyes]

It said who initiated it when i glanced. One of the LV towns.

[Amarr HM]

Funny I noticed a few Eagles fighting against FoM.

[K9]

It said who initiated it when i glanced. One of the LV towns.

I think the -FOM- people just stuck that in the splash info for that fort; for other fort battles there doesn't seem to be any way to get information about who's attacking.

[Prospero]

Hover your mouse over the date and it will tell you who the attacker is.

[gryeyes]

I think the -FOM- people just stuck that in the splash info for that fort; for other fort battles there doesn't seem to be any way to get information about who's attacking.

I cant recall how I saw the information but it clearly showed the attacker and defender.