ThirdEmperor wrote:Where is new brodgar? I'm lost, alone and all my neighbors are a couple miles away past a river and never seem to be active.
Try to start searching for a village around your grid. It has a mean-looking red scull icon visible on mini-map. As soon as you found village, you can ask its name and start orienting around it.
Mapping helps a lot too. You can make maps ingame using cartography skill, or there`s some tweak to Pacho client that allows you to merge maps while you travel. When you have considerable amount of your neighbourhood mapped, you can compare what you`ve got with the maps posted on forums (i personally use the ones on havenandhearth.ru), thus finding more people.
And remember, world is vast, you may have to travel far. World consists of 5x6 grid structure, each grid is 5000x5000 tiles (5000x5000 pixels on minimap).
Rivers+boats allow you to travel far more or less safely and faster than by foot.