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[Quote][color=#CCCCCC]Ann. 1997 - [2011-08-23 04:43:50 - Stage 11][/color] Shared [b]items will regroup[/b] at their original location on [b]every Tuesday at 04:15 AM[/b](servertime). Try to avoid loading cauldron type items or jars close before that time as they will be taken away automatically even if they are loaded or in use. Do not hoard shared tool and do not use alts to store multiple tools of dame type. These items are meant to be used by as many people as possible so if you don't plan on using them let them there for others to try. You shouldn't sell the items but you can sell services related to them such as heat jar loading or whatever else.[/quote] The curre…

I just ran a quick combat test on the Demo Account creatures, of its 31 creatures only 6 are combat capable. Three of them are Barren Souls, and another one is a Hollow Warrior, leaving only two combat creatures usable, an Imperial and a Joker. Since there is no indication of what will work in combat before it is picked, anyone not familiar with MD will be frustrated by the lack of ability to actually test the combat engine, or understand that it isn't the normal way combat works (ie you learn what happens at the later stage as you reach it, rather than skipping the learning stage and being in the deep end with no instructions) Since part of the point of this account s…

in the tea market , Tribunal lands, you can get teapots and tea recipes (!) the problem is the recipe is or might be wrong. i adapted one submited that was using rainwater and was slighlty different here is the code, feel free to review it and make it better for this purpose. tea shpoulf comsumr water and tea leaves to create 3 cups of tea, tea will be consumable with temporary boost [code] <?php //adapted to md world $instr['title'] = "Aromatic Tea"; //the description will be the only thing to describe the needed steps to the ones that try to help you prepare the recipe //be sure you include all steps in it but tell it so that they wont be iden…

The cauldron type items are designed for group use, their results are also something hard to accept and/or use in the current way trades and ownership of items is understood in the realm. What to do when 10 people join forces to put resources into an item that is then received by the cauldron holder? Its a real question. As much as i want things to go this way, and have more and more people work together to achieve things, this is a real issue that needs to be discussed before releasing these items on a larger scale. For these items to work as i want them to work, resources need to "flow" a lot more and be less valuable. You can't expect everyone to have a few gold to…

You probably know already that i've been playing for the last few days with a new "toy", the Cauldron. Today I made it public, and I will post here the sameple recipe that is currently using. The device is not yet ready, and when it will be ready it will have so many uses that it will totally change gameplay You can see it in work at Tranquil Plains, someone will be there to use it so you can see what it does, compared to the recipe loaded here. This sample recipe is for cooking a random thing, but you could design recipes for a lot of things, from building machines to processing basic resources into advanced resources. Currently the sample cauldron consumes no reso…

Till v.1.0 game stages were called "alpha stages", now they are called "Stages". Currently we are in Stage 10. MD is, as i mentioned before, in "perpetual alpha". There will always be features in progress, major updates to the gameplay, bugs, issues, etc etc. The stage advances when enough updates happen, enough time passes from the last stage change and when developed features significantly changed the gameplay. I intend to move MD to the next "level", Stage 11. As always, this can happen sooner or later depending on your feedback. Since stage 10 started till now, a lot of major changes happend that changed MD a lot and a lot more features are in progress. Other thi…

Please update this topic with any related information about alt abuse situations discussed on the forum, provide just the links to avoid derailing the discussion. I will start with this one. I put my comments there LIST (MODS - UPDATE IT AS NEEDED) [url="http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/7444-item-swapping/page__st__20"]Item Swapping: http://magicduel.inv...ng/page__st__20[/url] [url="http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/10332-wishpoints-items-and-alt-abuse/page__pid__89763#entry89763"]Item Creation: http://magicduel.inv...9763#entry89763[/url] Link: [url="http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/10344-new-policy-on-item-creation/"]http://magicduel.inv...…

This is a public reply to the concern of more people that think viscosity is destroying MD viscosity won't change. it is a change that cant be fully understood by old players that knew things one way, but its inteded to change the way md is perceived. The viscosity increases basically distances in the realm, traveling from one place to an other is equivalent to a larger distance, the feeling of "discovery" is strengthen when you adventure in a place harder to access. You complain this is destroying the game...lets be honest, how much have you traveled till now , when there was no viscosity? You notice its hard to reach certain places only now that you got scared they…

First thing i noticed: Announcement said visc would increase by 2 every 6 hours. That seems acceptable. Now, 5 hours after implementation, i'm facing +12 already, which goes way too fast for my humble opinion. Checking up on lost souls in remoter lands regularly to get them out will be impossible with that pace. PS: Sorry to not give it a whole day, but 4 per hour is just very unlike 2 per 6 hours. I'm considering that a bug, and i don't think playing with a bugged feature gets us useful feedback.

I was trying to get a memory stone enchanted but when I gave it to the enchanter it took all the stones that I had and gave them to the person, would it be possible to be able to split the resources so that we are only giving one away at a time otherwise we will be giving away every stone we have to a single person even if they want a couple. I heard that other resources are having the same problem, so I'm sure they would also like the same thing to happen.

I am planning a series of concept changes in MD, here are two of them to discuss: XP XP term renamed game-wide, because it is not actually xp, it is more like "Heat tolerance". Make the xp flow, gaining and losing, more fluid. Make "XP" caps dynamic not static (!) Suggest terms to better describe what current xp is. Tutorial story Intro story, what is now known as storyline, will be presented as a requirement to pass, something to allow you "in" what md is, sort of an introductory quest. The story and game start won.t change but part of the interface will be locked and fisrt part of the story will be presented to have the purpose of filtering players, in fact that…

I talked a while ago about a secondary shop / permanent tombola , that will consider your total supporter status (spend plus current credits) and allow you to pick certain things from a list. The details about how this shop will function should be discussed there (or moved here by a mod maybe?), i am opening this topic to start making a list of potential items in this gift shop. I call it gift shop because you wont be spending extra on them , they are things you can pick for having credits or spending them on other things. All previous values, everything your supporter tag sais will be considered. please reply with your suggestions, and most important, vets, please w…

While I like the idea of disabling the sorting cloud, I would very much like to have the option to put stars on a topic for easy reference. What I would like to see is instead of just a box to click, to have a drop down with the options: [Advanced Sorting - Cloud], [Basic Sorting - Stars], [No Sorting]. I am also wondering what this option section acts like if you haven't unlocked the cloud? Would be good for it to say [Option locked - Unlock in Credit Shop]

I loved this game, the story is so original, there is no syncretism. But i was wondering, when you will put some South-America countries in the list of the cellphone regions to donate. I am Brazilian, and i am still waiting for you to put the Brazil in the list Thank you, Northed

I am thinking to make tombola somehow permanent event. There are however some things i don't like and prevent me from doing so. Other things i like very much and make me search for an option. I dont like: - too much random picking - too much dissapointment if you are unlucky. if you keep spending and you dont win anything month after month you will be very upset - creates the feeling md is only for those thay pay - people will pay just when tombola runs so they get tickets, otherwise why to miss it when credits can wait anyway. I like: - its a way to reward those that support md financially the most with things i cant put in shop - gives a reason to purchase cr…

this was supposed to be an article for the Council, as part of the info i sometime share with them. These are things relevant for ruling MD not playing it. Why i share this ? because it does no harm and shows you certain things that might be needed to known publicly (about the level of things i consider when i talk about authority and decisions in md) Price price is an illusion in itlsef. Value does not exist. There is a minimum of "USABILITY" but that comes free. Its only rarity that puts a price on usability and "need". THis is no novelty for most of you. Value only exists in comparison to something, never alone. There is an illusion that some things are valuable …

Now check this out, MD server seems to have 11 cores now...idk how that is even possible, or what happend, it should have 8 , but i don't mind. looks nice .. And i won't ask hosting what happen or they might just fix it. I know they migrated hardware that day when MD was all day down. We are probably hosted on one of their infernal monsters because the company is no longer offering dedicated servers but was keeping us still. Since my deal with them is for dedicated server they won't place restrictions on resources. It might be cpanel error, i really don't know..but sounds good [quote] Server load 0.97 ([color="#FF0000"][b]11 CPUs[/b][/color]) Memory Used 51.69% …

Please post here if you have suggestions or bugs about the new ritual creation interface. When posting a bug, please include the following: - Description of the error - Error code the page gave you (if any) - The browser you are using - Browser version - Error console (only the errors that are applicable to the ritual creation page) Post only issues that arise from the ritual page, the rest of the combat system is still being enhanced.

Loreroot archers...anybody explored their full potential? When i made the change on them i thought it will be devastating, since they are supposed to do percentage damage, making them really good against ultra powered players...but it seems i was wrong. Believe it or not i am not a fighter, so what i see from "behind the (st/p)age" might be totally different in the "battle field". Maybe their ability is not working as i intended or their settings need to be adjusted..idk

So, since no one started the topic yet, I guess I'll start one. I have some concerns on the new species grouping of draches, windies and the premium draches. Quite simply, at the moment there are 4 types of different drachs, but the limit is 3. That means there will be no way to put one each of them in the same ritual Is it possible to change the rules a bit? While directly raising the number limit to 4 will cause too much boost, maybe dividing the sub-types of draches could work instead. Considering how the GG drach and the windy is more the damage type, while the rusty and rein is the support/boost type, maybe a separate species for them could work? Like, 2 lim…

I should start by mentioning that i am not insane, i know how many things still need to be done, fixed, etc, i know i allready started other new features (like the other combat system) that i never finished, or the bot, or the factions, or mp7, or fixing tokens, or the translator, or the torch competition rewarding system or many more .... but without playing around with new features, i cant exist .. i dont have fun in md without doing this so .. LET ME PLAY So, achievemtns page, new feature in work (i promise i'll work on it only after i do a bit on the pending stuff each day ) Main ideea: a section within the interface with medal looking items, that will activat…

Before moving on to the next step on a creature (you know what it is), I would like to ask the community's opinion, just to be sure =) What do you think of a 4 WP (cost) creature, disregarding whether it is strong enough or not to be worth 4 WP (strength can always be adjusted later). The underlying question is whether a creature with such requirements will be considered another long-term goal that can be aimed for (a good thing), or just simple lunacy/idiotic idea (bad thing). For consideration, we already have a creature that costs somewhere near 4 WP, the wind dragon. Obtaining one requires the sacrifice of a GG drachorn, which some people will gladly trade one or …

Please state your opinions about the Adventure Log and the recent modifications.

[quote]Peace - I am with Chewett on this one.... Chewett - How the hell can you continue a AL with one person having left, Another one lazy enough to not bothered to even stay in his own land instead he is farming Alts, and i rarely see HP around and moving... [/quote] How can i continue? by telling what already happen!! How selfish can you be to say that and ignore that those events already happen. The story was not finished and will continue with the rest of the following events then it will shift the the new kind of AL i described in the docs of the new AL page. Thats why AL can't be written by any of you, you see it as a reward of some sort to whoever appears th…

If you feel like expressing you views and opinions upon the new dark archer abilities then please ppost them here.It should be interesting seeing how everyone feels about all of the changes. I believe the changes are GOOD.The new abilities shall give weaker players a stronger chance at defeating a more powerful, tokened, enemy army. When people get used to using them they will wish they had always had the ability to sap principles. [u]Pro's [/u] Allows weak players a higher chance of winning More varied rituals …