I quit too, its impossible for me to play as a moderately violent hermit with the current siege mechanics (before and after any of the "fixes" they have recently made) & hold down a job at the same time. Haven was infinitely better (before the lagpocalypse), and I don't see how they can "fix" salem anytime in the near future. It was fun for the first couple of characters, but I can't see myself going back unless something changes dramatically.

Basically, the game is too hardcore for me to be able to keep up, and IMO it only works properly if you are part of a large group. Also the community is rather obnoxious, and the person who I liked best and really enjoyed talking to quit a while back, so I lost most of my motivation for playing.

Serejai

6007 Posts

February 16 2013 16:44 GMT

#423

Few random updates...

They added wallpaper to houses and some other things.

Priorities... they're doing it wrong.

seRapH

United States9756 Posts

February 16 2013 17:44 GMT

#424

happy birthday serejai~

Serejai

6007 Posts

March 02 2013 00:21 GMT

#425

This game is now in open beta if anyone was interested in trying it out but was unable to do so during closed beta.

Serejai

6007 Posts

April 29 2013 02:04 GMT

#426

I'm playing this casually with a friend and looking for 1-2 more that might want to mess around a bit. Unfortunately I'm only interested in people I know from previous games (sorry, new posters) in order to prevent griefing issues.

If you've played anything with me before and are interested in casually playing this for a bit (preferably people with experience) then toss me a PM or reply here and I'll give you my hearth secret and get you started.

KtheZ

United States813 Posts

April 29 2013 03:30 GMT

#427

Lol still playing this game.... masochist

seRapH

United States9756 Posts

April 29 2013 04:30 GMT

#428

Serejai

6007 Posts

April 29 2013 07:26 GMT

#429

Yeah yeah. I keep holding out that it will improve -_- so I'm trying to staying somewhat up to date on it.

Serejai

6007 Posts

May 01 2013 19:41 GMT

#430

Oh man, people on this game get so butthurt. Worst gaming community I've ever encountered. Even the moderators are racists and go around yelling "FAGGOT" all over the place.

Stole from some guy today on my ~15 humor alt. Threatens me with death. Six hours later a group of six people, all with 400+ bugged humors, comes and kills me. They proceed to whine and bitch for another hour afterwards in IRC once they realize it was just an alt of mine they killed and they can't figure out who my main is.

I don't remember Haven being full of this many angry teenagers. Maybe it's the 3D graphics?

I might start blogging about the daily activities of one of my other alts for shits and giggles. The few players left on this game are all so anal-retentive that it should make for some really fun reading.

Serejai

6007 Posts

May 02 2013 20:23 GMT

#431

They pushed a new update that made mushrooms poisonous this morning. Eating a Witch's Hat reduces your humors by 20% each time, so all the superman characters with 400+ humors were eating a ton of Witch's Hats to drop down to 5 Humors, then eating high purity food to get back up.

This resulted in players having over 1,000 Humors after the poison debuff wore off - something the developers said wouldn't be possible to do.

Either these are the two worst developers in history or the two greatest trolls. I haven't quite decided yet.

KtheZ

United States813 Posts

May 02 2013 21:10 GMT

#432

How do you even kill someone with 1000 blood O.o

Serejai

6007 Posts

May 02 2013 23:19 GMT

#433

Well even before this change it was impossible to raid any of the large villages due to the retarded way defenses and raiding in general works. Now it's also impossible to kill any of those players out in the open, too.

Someone else on the official forums put it best when they said that these developers keep adding half-finished features and then moving on to something else. They're essentially like goldfish.

If a massive patch came out that finished all of the features that are currently added but not finished... this game would be incredible. Instead they can't seem to focus on just one thing and keep half-assing a dozen different things.

I've never in my life seen so much wasted potential.

Oh, also found out the reason I died yesterday was because the developers, who I pissed off during a livestream they did a few days ago, gave out my location when the person I stole from on my alt turned out to be friends with them. What a clusterfuck of a game this has turned out to be.

TyrantPotato

Australia1541 Posts

May 03 2013 03:10 GMT

#434

400 > 5 > 1000

how can they screw up something so badly. I cannot understand teach plz.

Serejai

6007 Posts

May 06 2013 02:39 GMT

#435

Haha. There were 50 pages of people complaining about the latest update. Devs decided to prune all of the negative comments. Only 16 pages now, mostly of positive ones.

These devs... how on earth did they get a publisher?

plated.rawr

Norway1676 Posts

May 06 2013 21:02 GMT

#436

Actually, that was techxknight pruning the thread. He's a H&H veteran who's also a mod as well as a part of the Salem alpha team, but that's about it.

But yea, in general, jorbtar seem to be very... flexible... with their developing plans. For better or worse, I suppose.

KtheZ

United States813 Posts

May 06 2013 21:39 GMT

#437

How does one go about pruning a thread? I have never seen anyone "prune" a thread before, and it seems as though pruning a thread would simply bias it heavily toward what the moderator wants it to be.

plated.rawr

Norway1676 Posts

May 07 2013 10:11 GMT

#438

Hey, don't look at me, pruning's the term he used. If you want to call it slaughter, maim, butcher, censor, mutilate, delete or whatever, that's all fine too.

Serejai

6007 Posts

May 07 2013 18:02 GMT

#439

Any of those terms would be accurate.

Serejai

6007 Posts

May 23 2013 02:52 GMT

#440

by jorb » Thu May 23, 2013 12:55 am

Hi.

For the past few weeks we have attempted to keep a somewhat forced pace of development, and we've found the effects of that to be detrimental not only to the more long-term development of the game, but also to our own sense of purpose. We feel that we've picked a fair amount of low-hanging fruit among our development and update priorities, and that the impact of the updates has thus perhaps been lesser than is actually desirable, in that many updates have felt like fine-tuning and adjustments of what is already in place, rather than steps along the way toward some meaningful goal.

For this reason we have decided to redirect some of our efforts to contemplate more fundamental aspects of some of the core systems of the game (Gluttony, among others), and how they pertain to the future evolution of the same. That is not necessarily to say that we'll redesign the game in a fundamental way, but rather that we need to find out where we stand and whither we want to go.

This is not to say that we do not aim to try to provide you with the frequent updates we know you love to hate (and we still aim to provide the previously mentioned land leveling tool to the extent that our creative energies are not primarily used on meditation), but merely that...

... we wish you were here. There'll be an update soon y'all.

<3

AKA, WE FUCKED UP AND HAVE NO IDEA WHERE WE WANT THIS GAME TO GO.

I totally called it. Damn shame, really - such lost potential