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I am about to make a major change to how story mode goes. Dont hurry with the opinions untill its done and you take a look at it (yeah i am encouraging alts for this test, but when its done) Plan on short: - when you receive the cube, you will actualy get a customized cube item, with your name on it. - you exit story mode right there and go into free roam - cube can be activated later, and you enter it and see the entire spooky marind story Issues that slow me down: - what happens on the long run, 50k players means 50k new items, cube (as trade item) infaltion will be hight. - what happens at mp4, mp5, will get an other cube, of course not, then how will it go.…

I finaly made these changes. I wanted to be like that since the very beginning, but,doesnt matter now why it wasnt like that. The beginning story now considers players as actial players in front of their computer and not spirits or fantasy. I am talking about a few rows placed at the story text in tutorial/intro. Don't hurry to test it please, you will have time to see it after the next wave of changes in tutorial i am about to make.

[quote name='Mur' date='23 July 2009 - 03:13 AM' timestamp='1248321001' post='37723'] A major change in the weapons and armor system happened today. From now on, weapons and armor will modify your profile in percentages not in fixed values. The current character modifications of the items you have and that are available in the weapon shops are already changed to represent percentages. This makes weapons much more important elements and not only vestimentary items and keeps their importance both for beginners and for old players that have huge stats. Please express your opinion on this on the forum, notify about any possible issues or about abnormal values in the current …

I think the changes that happened in A9 are quite important. They changed the gameplay and also big concepts in MD. Considering all the things added or changed in A9, including the ones during the festival, do you think it is time to declare MD at the next change? Possible things that could still delay next stage could be factions getting done, tokens fixed. More wish shop items and achievements and other things are irrelevant because they are only "more" but not new. Please review the A9 changes in the newslog and share your opinion about this. Also take into consideration how many changes of what importance were done between other game stages. The next stage wi…

I think that you (Mur) agreed with something i said in the Kings thread, about not having to obey the leader of the land, but pledging to the land rather than the leader of said land.... but you've put at the bottom of the tab; "By submiting this form you agree to obey the laws of the land you selected and obey its ruler." I don't agree to "obey" the leader, and i think you agreed with the point i made about it in the other thread, so could this be changed please? As a side note, since this is work in progress section, anyone else with comments/issues, post here?

I've read over the announcement several times, and can not figure out where to go to apply for this. Could someone please clarify where to apply for the Non-RPC Q Doc please?

So, here it goes. One of the concepts i was most proud of, has to stop. I concluded that giving power to a person will destroy its creativity. The stress can increase even without a real base. Tell someone stories about how much he has to do and how high is his responsability and he will crash in stress, even if he has nothing to do. The opposite goes to, give someone a lot of work to do but make it so that he does not see it as a duty or responsability and he will work but not get tired of it. One of the things that bothered me most with rpcs were the inactive ones. How can i keep reputation up, people to respect you, when you are not active. If i start to demote rpc…

Here we will talk about Factions, implementation initial setup etc. I will need one faction to start testing on, are the Pirates still ready? If yes, please report crew, intentions etc, if not, next faction.

Ok i've been talking with Cryxus trying to establish the first faction and we both realised some things don;t add up right. I need a feedback on the following questions. I think these questions sum all the things needed to put factions in motion. 1. _Exact_ location of a faction. Exact scene names of where factions members can go, OR if they can go the entire land ? Cryxus faction is the Pirates one, suggestions can go for that or for any other too, anyway i am more interested to see what you think about how factions should be spread across locations, after that i can apply same logic to the first faction i will be working on. 2. Point of entrance. I have two optio…

well, what do you think ?

its just a thought, what about a closed group HC to run periodicaly and where only those with hc medals can participate. The reward will be a treasure put together by the participants themselves, one thing each. It could be integrated same as the current HC and keep all others out of it, maybe a different color/style for the heads icon. Its much work to do to make it real, and i could remove the heads ability from all rpcs for this to prevent complicated checks and unexpected situations, but what do you think? ... a level II HC maybe?

Sacrifice altar at the Fenths Press in No Man's Land The sacrifice altar is under testing. feel free to share your opinion about the exchange stats given for each creature. Don't ask what the logic behind the conversion is. Also before you judge those values, think about the following things: - reward cant be to great or players who exchange creatures will get ultra powerfull by just doing that - players that exchange creatures get a permanent bonus but they still have upgraded creatures so they will be able to upgrade others fast - permanent stats are more valueble than they seem, for example max value points can make a difference between upgrading a creature or not…

What is the most wanted new feature/bugfix/change that you wish for. Only one? (mods, feel free to edit this topic in any way, add polls, update this post with the winning wish etc, thank you) EDIT: Mod for overview.

its not that bad best translator i ran into anyway from several attempts, i only ran into some minor problems, but the sense of the sentence stayed pretty much the same edit: i was trying sentences in Serbian

This is for all types of players, and is basicaly a part of the factions system but presented outside of it for now. If the voting goes to NO, it will be left for later when factions will be done, if its YES, it will come sooner and integrated with factions later. I am thinking of a page where each rpc would have one entry available to enter: Quest name short description (250chars) rewards given Area where quest giver can be found (not exact location) Other?... Maybe a filter on mp level, age, xp, whatever, to display the quest announcement only to players fitting the requirements. Problem with filters is that i want new players to see available quests within t…

Finaly! no more limit. In just 2 days of advertising you can see the high number of online players. It was all because the damn 32bit OS.. thousands of dollars lost on ads for nothing, good at least that in the last couple of onth i stopped it entirely arrgggggggggggg

I want a option for south america!!!!I want to get credits(im from brazil)!

Post your impressions about the past Alpha8 stage and wishes for the Alpha9 stage here.

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i think i finaly got something to take the combats in MD outside the usual "fighting" so common in any game. Its kind of dificult to explain what i mean because there is no comparison to anything else i seen before, but for now there is no need to explain anything. I will be updating this post with test links, questions and other things that could help me to finish this. Please understand this is not a discussion, i will not comment, reward or test all or any of your sugestions, but it greatly helps my thinking process to see opinions from you and also some ideas might be obvious for others while total obscure for me. ---------- the new fighting system will not rep…

I feel i need to clear some things out for those of you that noticed a significant slowdown in development and the activity on the site in the last period. Things that kept me busy: - new/alternate combat system, that will not replace the current one but it will complete it. I hope a test interface will be given to the most hardcore players for initial testing before release. (no, do not ask me, i will pick who) - my "book" i was talking about in the newslog, thats something that i realy realy want to do and its sort of a conclusion of all the things learned in the past years. Its not related directly to MD but its written in a very "md style" way, as soon as it wi…

I want to hear your objective and subjective opinions about how you see the evolution of MD, both technological and social evolution/involution. Please take a look at first Alpha 8 entry in the newslog and see what steps have been made during A8. I want you impression about declaring it as Alpha 9 and consider Alpha 8 a finished chapter of MD history. As you all know i am very strict about jumping development stages names, chaning the name is more important than it seems, it means major functionality or social evolution changes took place and they are considered final and with the new stage, new features will be developed that will shake things even more. Its not …

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The 3 helmets in willows shop: Swift Lament, Bronze Helm and Crested Helm all give the same stat bonus +1 defense even though they cost very different amounts of value points. Shouldn't they also have different stat bounes to make them unique even if they costed the same number of value points?