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  1. Posted · Edited by kimbuck
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    Some time   ago,  during the   echo chamber  era ...the period of the  great silence ...   i made the comment  that  after the  enthusiasm of  announcing Tencent  involvement,  we suddenly  get  mobile based   mini games  ( very popular in Asia) ..and a new Asian  Biome ..(which looks  great). 

    But   exploration was forgotten.  The  PVE players  were forgotten.  A group of us   felt like we were un-paid  game testers,  as every time we played,  the game would  crash and we sent in bug  report  and  output logs. Some of us  spent  more time waiting to log in or sending in output logs   that we spent  actually  in game.  ( if  we got in and  didn't get  kicked out  after 10 minutes

    Thankfully  Adam  arrived  and he listened to our  pleas to get the  game playable ... but  did they listen to him?

    It was obvious  to  some of  us  that  Tencent  was  funding   Ylands ... because as the saying  goes   " He who pays the piper,  gets their  tune  played".   and  what we were hearing  ( when something was done)  was not  music to the  regular players  ears.

    I stuck with Ylands  because of  P1 and   Red ... we had a community that was initially  working to  help Bi develop the  game, with  scripting  enhancements   and  suggestions that  made the game  playable  and   a community that interacted.

    Suddenly the  rules  changed after tencent  partnership was announced ....  the  servers   changed,   other things  changed,  and all the  coding work was  tossed  out and those who worked their  butts off  trying to help  were literally  ignored.

    And  so were the players.  The exodus  began.   and is  still going on.

    We would  send in log /bug reports and  there was not  even acknowledgement.

    And i   found out   as soon as i posted here  a positive criticism designed to  highlight  an area  of needed improvement ,  my posts were literally  pushed off the  front  page  by a  orchestrated   wave of   "fan-boi" postings waxing  lyrical  about the  mobiles  or  mini games ..

    It was obvious  they didn't  want  people to see any criticism...  even though it was intended to  be  helpful in fixing  something  important.

    Will i stay with   Ylands?  Its  basically a good  game in concept but  rather than  fixing   what they have   got,  there's  still talk of  adding mythical new  shiny things.

    Guys...  all you are doing is  adding  pretty flags and shiny decals to a  car   that's got  no wheels and a broken engine.   

    I play  Ylands  as i have an old   computer... and its capable of  running the game , but not powerful enough to run  other games  ...like   Journey of  Life,   Subsistence, etc.

    I am saving up  for  a new  computer,  an  i7 with the  top  NVidia   graphics   card.   When that arrives ...  Ylands will be  collecting  dust on a shelf  along  with the original  sims,   donkey  kong, ...

    Unless the game  improves...       but  i am not  holding  up  hopes  from  what   i  hear ...and  see  at the  moment.

     

     

    PS   Just saw Bojo's   post  ..agree  100%     We didn't  buy this  game to  fight   boss monster, level up    etc ...we bought it based on the original  road map .    look at he original log in screen and see what we expected.

    If you want to  bring  the players  back,  bring  the original concept  back.

    But it may be too late.

     

  7. Posted · Edited by kimbuck

    All but one of  the traders  on  my sharegame   disappeared ....    are there  union rules  regarding  NPC  holidays?  ..or  do they have a use by  date?  maybe they got  bored and  wandered  off..

    or ... as they say in  Oz ...  "a dingo ate my  traders..  :)   "

    anyone else   encounter this  'oddity" or is it another Ylands  feature?  ?

     

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  10. Posted

    This "being offended" reminds me of the story of the   90 year old   woman with a walker checking into a  hotel ,  then  ringing up the reception with a complaint 30 minutes later.

    She complained  when she  looked out her   window  she could see a naked  couple...

    The manager went up to investigate ..and  looked out the window ...all he saw  was a fence .

    Then  the  old  woman  said  " you  have to  jump  up and down on the bed ,  when you  jump  high enough you can see over the   fence  and into the  bedroom of the neighboring  unit...:"   :)

     

     

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  11. Posted

    Whats  annoying    are the  anti-vaxxers spreading    conspiracy tales and  false  stories ... like the  vaccine  causes  sterility,  it  alters  your  DNA ,  and   (believe it or  not)  it  makes you susceptible to   effects  of  radiation from 5G phone towers...   ;0

    Next they will say it  will  attract aliens to  abduct  you... :)

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  14. Posted

    ok  tried  that  ...one  file  failed to validate and is being  re-acquired ...fingers  crossed   that this is it  ;0

    tried again ...same error message...   re validated files ....got an ok ...restarted  steam ...still no   go.

    Another  player reported in discord that they had the  same issue.

  15. Posted

    I tried a restart ...no   change ... so i   did a complete  shutdown ...    took a "comfort" break and  did a cold  start.    Got a message  'updating  steam' which looked promising ...  but  tried to log into game ...same message.

    I have heard i am  not the only  one  finding this.

     

  16. Posted · Edited by kimbuck

    i operate through  steam  ..i  have tried  15  times today and  get the same message ..  will try again now ..

    done ...    ..same  message .. checked  for  steam updates ..says i have the latest version.

    Ylands  version is    1.5.1.102629

  19. Posted

    I logged in 3 times today and  water still has no animation on the P1  server...   sailing, there is  no  bow  wake .

    I travelled to another  mp  game  and  lo and behold  ..water  was working....    bow  wake and ship  moved accordingly.

    returned to the P1  Pt2  server ..and  ...yup...  water   had no animation.  The ship  jumped around and  stuttered.

    you already have the logs

     

     

  24. Posted

    Surfs   still not up  ;)   .. went in last night ..only one on server    stationary  waves .... went in about an hour ago ...  same ...  logs  attached

    noted: when someone arrives on server   massive  lag spike ...         believe   other   lag spikes  might be  from  players   unsuccessfully trying to access    the  island  without a password  or   dlc..

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