The State of the Hearth Address

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The State of the Hearth Address

Postby jorb » Sat Jun 12, 2010 4:20 am

Fellow-Hearthlings,

Twoscore and fourteen weeks ago the first Hearth Fires of the world, which to a present posterity has been recorded only as "the First", were lit in this vast and bountiful realm by, indeed, the first of those uncounted brave souls whom it has pleased the vagaries of a peculiar Providence to direct unto us. It is with enduring personal satisfaction that we, therefore, in Hearth's light of this fortuitous annumnal, wish to embrace the opportunity to confer unto the present auditorium a report -- as exhaustive as those natural limitations of foresight and premonition can afford -- on the current and coming states of public affairs.

It is the humble opinion of the Developmental Congress that the efforts exerted over the course of the past year have brought the Hearthlands to a point of advancement beyond what candid and reasonable expectation could prima facie have assumed. The progress of public credit is witnessed, not in the least, by a noteworthy and upward aiming trend in the continual increases of the total amount of both active and registered accounts -- a figure which, as of this writing, in case of the latter, approaches thirty thousands, and, in case of the former, exceeds three of the same.

As is habitual for a natural order undisturbed, new challenges must invariably present themselves where others have been met. In spite of these the fact deserves due mention that the experiences provided a Hearthling by the current order governing these lands is to no small an extent as pleasant and agreeable as they are, also, adequate. Notwithstanding the importance and necessity of further developments and advances within the mechanics that the past year has established, it can be observed that the Pursuit of Happiness carries, among the ranks of Hearthlings, not merely the reverberance of stale dogma, but the confirmation through action of a living principle.

The relative peace and stability consequently afforded compels us to direct the focus of our attention away from temporary expediences, and toward matters pertaining ultimately to the more distant horizons of a longer term. It follows that the length of the development cycle must be proportionably extended. We express our hope and belief that a change of the pace and recurrence of change shall be met by the publicum with the cool and deliberate exertion of patience, firmness, and wisdom.

Among the many interesting challenges that presently present themselves before us, the state of the Server, especially as viewed in light of the aforementioned increases in the sum total of participants in this our common endeavor, merits special consideration.

The proper establishment of a system for the acquisition and advancement of skills, lores and land, capable of replacing that of the Learning Points, while at the same time retaining those aspects of that system that are serviceable, is the object of our immediate labors.

Various considerations render it expedient that the map generator be improved to allow for the impositioning on the map of a more meaningful topology, especially as concerns the macroscopic features of the same.

To increase the value and meaning of manufacture, the resources demanded by those processes of creation must be extended to enforce more interesting complexities, primarily as concerns the dimensions of time spent and ease of execution, the latter not to be determined by the arbitrary rolling of dice. The establishing of specific classes of intellectual resources will be instrumental in the carrying out of said visions.

Gentlemen of the Announcement Forum,
The past year has been one laden with a most sublime and ongoing sense of accomplishment. Your participations, without which the ebbs and flows of development would surely have washed over some other shoals, have been, and remain, our pride, pleasure and sacred honor. We wish to express, in Hearth's light of this fortuitous annumnal, our sincerest gratitude for the year we have behind us, with the fond hope added that you shall remain with us for the one to come.

Happy Birthday, community!

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Small fixes: It should no longer be possible to hird jump walls. You can now exile a village member by targeting his hearth fire. Pepper has been boosted.
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Re: The State of the Hearth Address

Postby Riou1231 » Sat Jun 12, 2010 4:22 am

Uh... yay?
I like apple juice.
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Re: The State of the Hearth Address

Postby DatOneGuy » Sat Jun 12, 2010 4:22 am

Yay.
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Re: The State of the Hearth Address

Postby SlamBliss » Sat Jun 12, 2010 4:22 am

Delicious caek.
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Re: The State of the Hearth Address

Postby arthuratwar » Sat Jun 12, 2010 4:23 am

Fourth!!
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Re: The State of the Hearth Address

Postby Nanothnir » Sat Jun 12, 2010 4:23 am

Happy Birthday Haven and Hearth...
By the way...

THE CAKES A LIE...

And my carrot cake was burning....
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Re: The State of the Hearth Address

Postby martinuzz » Sat Jun 12, 2010 4:25 am

That's one awesome text.
Pepper boosted? Wow. It was great already :D
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Re: The State of the Hearth Address

Postby grunties » Sat Jun 12, 2010 4:27 am

I once thought of myself as intelligent. This update proved otherwise. I am ever humbled.
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Re: The State of the Hearth Address

Postby martinuzz » Sat Jun 12, 2010 4:30 am

On the pepper topic: Would it be possible, to make the game automatically use pepper on foods that are feasted upon, when there's a pepper mill / shaker, filled with pepper on the table?
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Re: The State of the Hearth Address

Postby stickman » Sat Jun 12, 2010 4:32 am

did you make the tooltip for peppered food change or is there still no way of telling?
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