Attention: Very important information for all players!

[Zentetsuken]

Note from moderators - Take this with a grain of salt. With that out of the way, lets move on to the ranting!


WHERE SHOULD YOU LIVE?

It has come to my attention over the last 2 months that one of the most important aspects of doing good in this game is knowing your location.

LOCATION IS KEY.

I highly, highly, highly recommend that any new or any existing player find out exactly where they are from as soon as possible.

Adventure and explore, travel far, search for villages, ask question, figure it out.

This is not simply because of trade agreements and crossroad travelling, it is due to the people who you will need to deal with when you actually start to make a notable difference in your SG.

While there are many powerful villages and many well known griefers in this game, one major faction of assholes that should be avoided at all costs are goons.

While I am sure that they can be trusted for the odd high level ring trade, I highly recommend never dealing with them in any way.

This includes every single IRC operator on the #haven channel, as well as many other allied villages.

The only surefire way to avoid dealing with goons, to the best of my knowledge, is to move to the west side of the world.

There are several villages and areas that should be avoided at all costs.

PYR8
The Xanadu area
Fnord
The A.D. area
Killville
any SG surrounding D4, or S1E1 for about 2 SG's in any direction
the entire southeast corner of the world basically

by doing this you can basically ensure that you will not have to deal with the painful and incessant faggotry that is an inherent part of being a goon or one of their allies.

You can now freely explore/claim abandoned settlements, villages and mines without worrying so much about who you are pissing off.
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HOW TO NEVER BE KILLED BY ANYBODY EVER

Fnord, as well as many other goon/griefer villages like it have discovered the key to invincibility in this game.

They are accessible enough to not be destroyed by Jorb, but so irritating that not even the most high level Sodomites can be bothered breaking in to them.

Here is a picture of Fnord.

(click for a large version)

If you can replicate this village ... do it.

Once you have built your invincibility fortress and put your HF inside of it, feel free to break, steal, kill and grief as much as you want.

Nobody is ever going to be motivated enough to ram through your walls, no matter what you steal or who you murder.
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That is all for now, I will update this post when and if I find out more information about the location of griefer/goon villages.

[Potjeh]

What's your beef with D4?

[Zentetsuken]

it's very close to, if not the SG of PYR8, Altdorf and Xanadu.

All of which belong to/are used by goons or villages who are allied with goons.

living in any of these areas is dangerous for explorers because if you break in to a seemingly abandoned area you can expect to be punished, taxed and griefed by any bored goon or goon-affiliate who gets your scents or finds out otherwise.

[Potjeh]

Xanadu is in D5 or E5, not sure. D4 is owned and ranged by us Buyan folks. BTW, Xanadu is abandoned AFAIK.

[exewu]

living in any of these areas is dangerous for explorers because if you break in to a seemingly abandoned area you can expect to be punished, taxed and griefed by any bored goon or goon-affiliate who gets your scents or finds out otherwise.

This is actually true everywhere. You should always be careful when leaving sents, regardless of the place.
Anyway this topic gets my seal of approval, settling near a major city and leaving sents is a death sentence.

[Potjeh]

Yup, crime will get you killed in our grid too. We tend to just give a warning for small theft (a tile of crops etc) if it's a first offence, though.

[Zentetsuken]

This is why I said "the surrounding area" in my main post as I was unsure.

I have never had a problem with Buyan, and I know a few good people who live there, but their SG is fairly close to bored griefers, and unless people from Buyan would like to break in to Fnord, (they don't) there is nothing that will change this.

So my advice is stay away.

and my other advice is to build a fort like the goon-owned Fnord.
that way you can essentially live anywhere and be invincible

[exewu]

Yup, crime will get you killed in our grid too. We tend to just give a warning for small theft (a tile of crops etc) if it's a first offence, though.

Can I come harvest a tile of your hq fibres? I can live with a warning!

[sabinati]

you should probably stay away from angkor as well

[sabinati]

oh yeah, and i declare myself Lord of the SouthEast