Talk:Strange Contraption

I thought this was supposed to revitalize Yew (remember it was a swamp-land after the LBR quests?) but since there was little participation the developers just revitalized Yew anyway when ML came out. Not 100% sure. Gettingbetter 10:10, 27 August 2008 (PDT)

It was part of the early Solen events. You purified water for one of the Solen Queens. In return, pulled back the overland Solen spawns. On most shards, I'm pretty sure it's only "infiltrators" that spawn overland. Those are Solens from the rival "tribes." (One in Tram, one in Fel.) Obviously, the Black Solen Queens can't stop Red Solen Infiltrators, and the Red Solen Queens can't stop Black Solen Infiltrators, but they CAN, and did, stop their own soldiers. Anyone remember this differently? If you do, feel free to undo the edits to the article I'm about to do. Galen

It was always intended that Yew be turned into a swamp. The only thing you could affect was whether spawn remained or not. Years later player complaints led the developers to just decide that Yew should go back to normal, so it did. Kind of defeated the whole purpose of a world altering scenario. - JC the Builder 11:58, 27 August 2008 (PDT)