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what we need is somewhere we can post the account details of proven griefers..... for admins with pvte ds to act on. We were pottering around on a pvt sever for fun until o.9 arrives and it didn't lake long for someone to arrive and killed some of us and then griefed the area we were sheltering in while offline ..they went to a lot of trouble too.., Its password protected now. and we found the culprit and removed their digital presence

hi tkerst ...all is not lost... we are sitting in "limbo" waiting for 0.9 and then we will tell you where we are going. NA 15 got to unplayable wit the kiddies ruing around trying to ruin everything.... we are looking for a place where us mature minded people can create with our brains and not have to do with mindless imbeciles that we saw on NA 15 we shall return... !

actually the base is still there...and as i was getting ready to log out i could hear "ouch ouch ouch" from some moron trying to get on my ship to raid the ( empty ) chests on it and try to steal it. Barbed wire make a great anti griefer barrier ..especially when placed horizontal around your ship and just under the water line .. they get a surprise trying to get on your ship and funnier if they glitch and get tossed or fall off!. Call it my revenge

umm what about divorce?

it did Ane...but there are so many "dead people" around that lagged it, ...many have the same names and same avatar. ( check photos above ... theres heaps more on the ground and scattered around .or on the buildings ) Also we spent a lot of time cleaning up rubbish ie bark resin stone clumps... that there was not time to explore, and finally the griefers with obscene names kept arriving and attacked anyone unarmed or in some cases unaware because they, busy restocking supplies that had been pilfered or building to make their place more secure. Several times i caught some guy/girl running around punching to death every offline avatar standing around, and i got sworn at when i asked them not to do it. When someone new arrived they had to make their building secured in record time before they logged out or it would fill with squatters or get damaged. You cannot gather materials and stuff and build in less than an hour ,.. some of us did by co operative effort. It was not uncommon to see a newly welcomed player floating in the water after morons hijacked their ship before they had the advancement to secure it. It was disheartening, Ane, and many who came left from frustration at seeing their flower gardens ripped up, tamed horses in corrals killed or piles of dead bodies on their doorstep. We decided to move on and do better when the 0.9 arrives and do it on a server where we can invite...or uninvited

Perhaps pvp could be discouraged if when someone dies, their loot lies on the ground in a sack that glows faintly for them to find, and only they, owner can pick it up. After 4 days it "goes". But then that would still not stop those morons who kill not to rob, but who see it as fun.

i would also choose 2, but no pvp however a barrier is needed for those morons who lie to steal and destroy and damage and then squat and clutter in other peoples buildings, rather than look for their brains and then switch them on to create something

NA 15 was a lot of fun ..we learned a lot, found exploits to be fixed and got good ideas for our next adventure. For those who came along and we appreciated their time etc, do not worry... there will new adventures and you will be invited The following final screenshot of NA 15 says it all from me.... The griefers did not win... now they have one less place to play their games, and also we have their BI account numbers to exclude them next time... good people ascend into heaven...... griefers go to hell

is there an end? or finishing line? .....Ylands is not like those other quest style games....its an open ended game..... if you finished it then you had more time than me ( and others who been playing longer) available to play the game...

whats more annoying are the passive griefers... they arrive sit where you are building and eventually die and you cannot move them. I had to make a funny shaped build to cover one to stop making an opening a griefer could exploit. They get on ships, on railings or sit in front of doors ... You go sailing with all these corpses and free loaders stuck to the hull or around the helm... wish for a solution....?

Its still there for the giggles.... I put a barbed wire fence around my ship and i hear non stop "ouch ouch ouch" from new arrivals wanting to either steal it or rummage through the empty storage chests looking for something to take..

Would it be possible for items placed inside a PB area not be able to be taken by others...; ie paintings, decorations etc. I have a sign outside the office building, and a pigs head trophy over the door and illuminated by lamps. I am continually replacing them after they get stolen. They even steal the flowers near the door, and for info. i had a locked chest on my ship ..at the stern but it was outside the pb range .. yes they smashed the chest open thinking there was stuff in it because it was locked . ( it was empty!) But it would be nice if items like lanterns over doorways or other decorations on the wall were more permanent.. only removable or moved by the owner of the PB. Pretty please?

a cat fetish?

what do you do when a friends ship is under danger of being hijacked by 2 griefers working together, and one of the griefers called "p_nisbutt calls you a "motherf...r" and says "what are you going to do about it" and then attacks the ships owner? Well you shoot him in his Butt! and then his mate jumps overboard and tries to hide... swearing at you in chat. 'Bang Bang' ...no griefers. Really, with a name of "P_nisbutt, what do you expect? looks like schools out. Perhaps BI might consider some form of name censorship detection , especially for a pegi7 game...

True BB.... put out the basic resources and let them make it themselves. The griefer form yesterday was found ...and by the way, he was called "mystic trash" ....very apt. He was hiding in a bunker on a nearby island, sitting with a stack of stolen lot he had not used ( 5 x 10 repair kits, for example). He was removed from the game and the goods returned, and it will be interesting to see his respawn try to enter his deep underground base with the ladders missing!

how did this boar get there? simple! ... the swine flu !

the starter kits had" flint lighter axe hammer chisel knife spade saw fishing rod and lantern" A notice said one set for each player. Some read it and followed it, Most took the lot from all 3 sets There were 3 pencils 3 sheets of paper (For map crafting) and 5 repair kits on a desk. One player took one of each - another took the lot we had baskets with additional items ie some rope, poles shovels etc... there were 9 in each basket,,, again someone emptied the lot With the food ... some took 20 fish ...others cleaned out the entire chest. One took everything and filled it with stone chunks ..probably though they were clever/funny one asked me for food rope wood and such ... when told there was plenty of resources nearby to gather food and to craft rope and make cloth , they acted annoyed. The wanted to be hand fed! The outcome of all this is 90% do not appreciate what was put there for help and are too lazy to craft or learn. A lot ran around trying to open every chest, basket or door! They climbed over boats and tried the anchor/helm .. some even punched the lock, not realizing they were being watched by the " god-chicken" hovering nearby. Then they tried to open the storage chests .. finally stealing as many lanterns they could reach and disappear with them. Later we find them hiding offline in a hole in the ground somewhere.. and have done nothing with what they took. Really, help stations are time and resource consuming exercise benefiting only a small percentage. But then , those that appreciate it make it worthwhile. And yes...., signs plants decorations etc were vandalized ..for no reason. But then who said these people had brains to reason with? But one thing for sure ..if you see us setting up on your server, you are privileged because you are getting a community that's helpful. And I am sure there are' a few pvte run servers who would like to have us

Daniel .... its what you expect when on a public server where the kiddies rejected by roblox/minecraft can come and disrupt because they don't know what else to do As you see, we are not discouraged, but press on..and hopefully the BI team take notice of the difficulties and fix some of them. The problems with griefers were compounded by them being able to flood the server, so that when we crashed, whilst offline we were at the mercy of these idiots, who could enter buildings and steal stuff. One had the audacity to come back and ask for "his stuff".. when in fact it was all objects stolen form others and readily identifiable. ( i use a dye station to customize weapons and Armour etc so its easy to see stolen stuff in use. You will be welcome to join our "adult minded creative group" and no matter what stage you are at, you always have something others can learn from. You can still pop in and see whats there ..its not abandoned , but just don't turn your back on anyone wearing white undies

It looks like NA 15 has run its course.... griefers have killed all the predators and one has tamed nearly every horse in his name ..and abandoned the area. To show you what a community can do co-operating, the following pictures are a dawn shot of all the buildings i could find. There's others too underground.. The last shot is what happened to a griefer who stole a lot of stuff and tried to escape on a raft... sharks love griefer meat! If you turn up there and there is nothing you can use, thats because we get visitors who will not take one of each, but grab the lot! One wonders what you would use 9 each of shovels spades lighters saws etc. for,, I have nearly depleted our reserves of ores to replace tools etc and most of our time now is repairing what griefers destroy ...or replacing items stolen from outside houses. They even tear up the plants placed around to beautify the area and cut down trees just outside the barrier so they fall across the buildings and work stations... what idiots! We are looking around other servers for a while and when 0.9 arrives we might set ourselves up on a DS ..with invite only, or a public one with admin powers to block all the troublemakers we recognize ( we have a admin channel now, where we list the names and ids of confirmed griefers..) Its been fun .. and we have developed a nice friendly creative community

well did we get griefed today! still cleaning up the mess and a series of glitches didnt help ...time out etc... looks like the severs cannot handle 6 players! we had headless guys in black undies clogging the system and theres an inventory glitch ...and also some keys stopped working allowing griefer to enter building that had been locked .. Gonna give ane a fun time with the logs!

At the moment we got someone called Brutt fdf35a running around ...hes killed a lot of the innocent offlines, and stole a lot of building stuf...even took the blacksmith sign over the forge! These are the ones that cause probs for those who want to enjoy the game. Anyway after breakfast ( 15 mnutes..) i will be there and re stock ... build and carry on... the positive people make the game worthwhile!

hi Alfred...we think they starved to death hiding form our 4 resident panthers that patrol the adjacent area..... the panthers attack in pairs so hard to survive with just a sick or a spear! Welcome to the grid...we had 2 new ones arrive last night as well ...one has been following this thread for a long time as got intrigued! hope to see you in ther soon...

Another two new residents are building on our island, under the umbrella of our community. They both have the same story for coming here... simply, they are sick and tired of the pvp actions of the minecraft/roblox rejects who come to pve servers and kill everything because, if the went to a real pvp server they would be wiped out within a minute of arriving. Yup, its easier to look like a big fish in a small pond when you can run around slaughtering unarmed innocent people, most being offline so they cannot respond. face to face combat they scared of.. Same with tamed horses in a corral .. easy targets for the inept. Anyway, the new ones are watching the building methods and learning... ones keen to upgrade her tee pee into a secure area, and although she wants to do it herself, is willing to listen to ideas. Most likely she will end up a master builder! Again we had 5 players online ...we also buried a few corpses that have been littering the place for a week.. A word of warning ... if you come to the base and log out asleep on the beds r provided.. you are NOT safe form childish griefers. The beds are there for an overnight stay for the convenience of shortening night time. Today was another fun day. Although the other half of the worlds now asleep, those from my area will be having fun for another few hours yet. feel free to join in .. but not to grief! Gonna try to dynamite a harbour soon --- should be fun...

keep trying stlnegril9 ....sometimes i have to get in one of two ways ... if playing, usually the continue/join method ..but sometimes for reasons only BI/Ylands knows ---- via the multiplayer pages. And if the weather is too hot or cold, or theres mating cockatoos on the phone lines.... a couple of attempts. But once in its fairly stable

V alfred..when you arrive, you will be in front of BB cakes shop/house... if you have to go offline before you get a secure building she can arrange a "bunk house" style safe place to stay. To get some equipment etc to start out, head towards the buildings at the right .. you cannot miss them.. theres workstations in full view and an office, in front of which are 3 baskets...each has basic starter equipment, ie flint lighter, lantern spade axe etc. There is a covered area with other tools an stuff in baskets ( the bulk stores in chest are locked). the 2 green boxes near the ocean ...onehas clothes the other hats. You can also get repair kits pencils paper for maps and a sewing kit. The workstations are free to use and there is a blue chest and a basket near 2 stoves which has food to get you going. Ignore the guy on the wicker bed ..hes been there 2 days already and distracts the bed bugs fro attacking others! he will probably go at the 0.9 update/move .. Theres sisal agave, bananas nearby and 3 spinning wheels and weaving / tannery area on the roof of the office. Find good fishing in the bay area near the teepee in the air. All we ask is to take just what you need ( some will take everything!) ... and when you get the chance bring back some surplus to help us re-stock. BB is setting up a honesty shop with custom dyed clothing... available for the deposit of wood, bark and resin etc.... a way to get others to tidy the island up! I could be in the office ..if not i would be patrolling around gathering stuff and re-stocking baskets or crafting tools. Or hunting wabbits ( griefers) The energy, chemistry and locksmith stations are n a secure area, and accessible to those we know will not make weapons etc to grief .. A first aid chest is there with bandages poultices and other healing stuff in case one of our roaming panthers takes a liking to you. They are our griefer back up control patrol ..and are very effective it seems by the tombstones in that area.. ( theres at least 4 and they attack ina pack!) We all wear outfits/armour custom dyed, so be wary of anyone in undies carrying an axe or mace! ( we don't make weapons available) I am usually there "downunder" times and that strange letter on a post is actually an "F" that was stolen from the office sign by an ( ex) griefer...and put there upside down for the aussies to read! Hope to see you and come and join in the fun Others welcome too come along as well if you want a friendly non pvp environment. ( we had 6 on line at the same time today! It was like central station... queuing up at the smelters/forge)