What is your favorite world and why?

[KoE]

I'm gonna throw in with the World 1 folks - I really liked the generally smaller community and that pretty much everybody knew everybody. The day I log in to find scents - not long after they were implemented - on my steel crucibles and after an hour and a half or so of impotent tracking discovering it was fricking loftar peeking inside them is magic I will never forget. I think it's my bias that I felt the updates were more interesting - I remember setting out across the grasslands (this was the primary biome of World 1, instead of forest) in search of silkmoths, working with Vanigo to discover the secrets of cheese, etc., but I also remember the Symbel, rafts (and other frequent relatively minor things), the discussion around whatever-you-call-the-automated-pathing-things-I-don't-think-anyone-uses from World 3.

Also the constant talk of superplayers in World 1 like some sort of bogeyman (although Blaze was always helpful and Raephire was... well, Raephire)

I'm not sure where burg gets 'no fighting, no politics, no drama' - I doubt it was ever on the scale of a later world, but I remember being tangentially involved in discussions on raiding the goons and a couple of other little skirmishes. The world - and forums, for that matter - were generally more peaceful though, if only due to lower population and the abundance of pretty much everything except wood.

I feel like World 3 was probably the height of the game, though - still regular updates, most of the systems that defined the game in place, everybody seemed to be at the top of their game, etc. etc. My involvement in the politics was always pretty much 'floating around the exterior of whatever Bottleneck called themselves at the time', I'll admit. I barely remember World 4, although it's the only world I was around for the entirety of. World 5 was when the group we'd built up started to disintegrate and I drifted off again so I can't speak to it.

World 2 gets an honorable mention for funnest start for me, though, if only because it was unique for letting us bring our fully developed characters into it. (I remember following Blaze around for some reason on that first day, looking for... something.)

[Wolfang]

I like this type of threads which is why I will post in it

I started playing in World 2. Someone on the Taleworlds forums had posted about the game and I was one of the 50-ish immigrants to join and start the building of our ridiculously idiotic village. We logically assumed a town that wanted to grow should be built alongside a river (like real life) for trade and other stuff. With the 15-ish dutch/flemish speakers we decided to build our own town further downstream from the sprawling metropole of vice the English speaking settlers had built.
We then started building our great village, protecting it from inland attacks by building a great wall around it, using the river as a natural boundary...yeah...

I liked this world because it was so new and different for me. discovering everything, walkign around and discovering patches of vegetables (WWW's didn't exist, they used to be wild plants you had to find)

In this image you see part of the wall which is supposed to defend the village from attacks in the bottom left. (no spoilers?)


World 3 was a great world (my favourite OP). I always loved city building and 'starting out' and I did that three times during that world. I liked how the world progressed from violent to stability in a cold war ish way. I was so excited the first time I got a mine, after which we claimed and found tons in the unclaimed lands to the south. Playing with the bottleneck people was fun, they're very different from any village I've ever been in or been in contact with. I think they basically represent what world 3 was like as opposed to the later worlds, stable, responsible and they like to think about everything and most don't say anything unless they have something to say that matters.

World 4 was very different, and although fun (I just used to read the Bottleneck forums to find out what was happening), I did not do much except help build up the BN village at the start due to having started university. World 5 wasn't my cup of tea, I didn't really like the new LP system. Although the idea behind it was good, it didn't come out quite like Loftar and Jorb expected I think. It seems like it's so easy to level up new chars with curios when your in a big village that raiding and possibly losing a character seems not to have the incredible impact as it did in the previous LP system. World 3 was so stable because dying was something nobody wanted to do, which sort of simulates real life better. Sure botting was a problem, but an active player could just kill the bots and reap up all the LP if he was paying attention.

[crfernald]

I hope loftar is taking notes.

Just to simplify:

-The old mining system was better

-The old LP system was better

-The old animal spawn rate and animal levels were better

-Curios are awful

-Curios are awful

-What the fuck were you thinking when you came up with curios to combat botting?

I think Avu sums everything up even better.

World 3. Everyone who is not a fag and played it knows why.

[DrakenRahl]

W3.
Because Death meant something. It was tough to train up desposable alts for raiding. So losing one meant a week of hunting. errr slaughtering every animal around...lol

to compare
with the change to LP system W5+ Alts are easy. hell this world I can't even count the number i've sacrificed just to i can track back the scents. a funny one was when nijayodler caugth us looting fresno.. i probably could have taken him as it took him a good 5 min to kill me.. as i stood there waiting i stated thinking i should. but the tracking and scemeing was fun too.

[Eemerald]

I actually prefer this was of collecting lp than how it used to be in world 4 and before. but then I am not a hunter or raider/killer. Trying to grind craftable items to build lp got old quick in world 4. I prefer making curios, sticking them in and going about doing things knowing after a certain time i'll have that lp coming in.

[joojoo1975]

I actually prefer this was of collecting lp than how it used to be in world 4 and before. but then I am not a hunter or raider/killer. Trying to grind craftable items to build lp got old quick in world 4. I prefer making curios, sticking them in and going about doing things knowing after a certain time i'll have that lp coming in.

You peeps who started on W4 or later, prolly can't grasp a lot of what's been tryin to convey from the W3 and older folks(I'm not trying to insult you here, i'm being deadly honest)

I mean how do you describe the color green to a man who's been blind since birth.


But, nevertheless, I shall try.



I would like for you guys to remember how a slice from a loaf of bread tastes.

Now, we eat the bread from stores for most of our bread consumption. there has been times it's been dry, stiff, bland, etc etc etc. Now imagine the only thing you ever ate was store bought bread. that's how it was when new LP system took over. Now imagine if you will, that your born a slave. and when you do get to eat, your served bread, moldy, hard as a rock, Weevils crawling around in and out of it. that my friends is W6 atm. But now, imagine a Top notch Chef in your country wants to reward you for saving his business, his wife, his family, hell you saved the whole World. and this chef, has decided to make you his best. First off, he gathers the best grain money can buy, and lovingly crushes it into flour. secondly, he picks the best oils, eggs, yeast from his fellow chefs and friends. Finally he travels to Vellamo of Finland to find the purest water known to man. He then begins to prepare this. . . Ambrosia, and he serves it to you, piping hot out of the oven. That, my friends, was Not W3, but it's kind of close

[HarryDresden]

It's a damn shame I missed w3, I've been looking for a game like Haven all my life, but honestly, I've found some aspects I loved and detested in every world.

I loved world 4 because I started in it, first day, with a group of 30 people, all chasing after 1 rabbit, trying to make a fucking saw. It was a catastrophe. Seriously. And the first time someone tried to mine, and it killed him in a cave in? We didn't know about them, so we flipped the fuck out when we discovered one of our guys, dead and alone in a cave, in the middle of nowhere by a swamp. What do we do? We move to an Island, because no one will ever find us there! Well, needless to say, when that went south and we ended up running over 3 supergrids to get away, myself and another player hid out and bucketgrinded the enemies forest away to nothing. It was hilarious all in all. We were so bad at the game, but we were all having fun.

w5 came along, BAM! Everybody in, half our people quit because we had just put forth a lot of effort into getting a Silver mine, and then *poof*, it's all gone. We ended up making Bear Lake, and having a lot of fun, training new people, dealing with the new systems, etc, etc. It could have been worse, Sodom ended up taking us into their loving bosom when we were raided and murdered, but still, we found ways to enjoy the game.

W6 has offered quite a few fun times, a lot of drama and other bullshit, but really, the people crying about it need to qq more, sure, it's a broken game, bugausers are fucking it all to hell, but why is that stopping you from having a good time? Go out, kill animals, forage things, if you die, you die. Oh well, start over. Enjoy the small things while they come.

[toshirohayate]

World 3 was my favorite. For the LP system, as well as the people who played at the time. Also, the hair styles were bad-ass.

[painhertz]

being realistic come World 9 or 10 (Assuming they ever get back to developing) Those of us who started in World 4 will be all "Omg World 4 was so much better!" it's just the nature of the beast. I played with the old LP system and honestely I'd love to see a hybrid system that still included curios but gave lp for player kills/animal kills etc etc. making steel is such an ass awful time that it should be rewarded with lp, same with certain cheeses and other shit.

[Flame]

the world where devs added the boat after a while and where there was the Ring of Brodgar City to trade. (world 2?)
Why?
Cuz is when i started to play and i still didn't knew the cruelty of this game.
before i've been killed, this game was wonderfull and i played with lots of my friend, enjoying everyday.


Then, a killing spree changed my way to play H&H. No more big projects or build something good to see and original. Are useless 'cuz you'll loose everything before you'll be able to finish it.
So just play with few friends in a world corner, caring less about the game and using alts, so no matter if u die.
Real life ask to spend in better way your time.

So W2 was the best, but just cuz i started there.
The curio system is not so bad for me. I'm not an hard player and i like to not have to grind in my playing time. I let my chara grind while i'm offline and i Play while i'm online.