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@baiano: writing every 3 posts that the archer has no targets it will not solve the issue. All it will do is probaby make me delete some of your posts as spam.

It seems MB blew my plan away I did a test: I chose a sensitive subject and I said almost all the bad things I could about it. I knew I will hit egos and I did. You have no idea how much fun I had yesterday writing and then reading your replies. I was a troll and you all took the oportunity to releas your wrath . I do this from time to time. I like to see what egos I can touch and in what way. I did it in the past and it helped me a lot. When they are provoked people get angry and speak their mind (rare case in MD if you ask me cause most of the players are hypocrites ). MB... thanks for blowing my cover as a nice lil' troll. @Wofmister: you still have that warning

I have alts that are on the active veteran's list...So active days are not a good criteria.

Wolfmister: who died and made you head noob? You know there is always at least one option: exit. Don't like it, don't play. Crush your creativity? Are you kidding me? When I don't follow rules I am yealled that I don't follow them. When I do follow them and tell you you're spamming I get yealled at for "crushing the creativity". I suggest you re-write your post and remove the insults. I never insulted you. Oh, and I almost forgot:you have a warning.

After writing a biiig post I deleted it. You know what? Why do I care? After all I can ignore all this RP cr** and live my life without it. I am tired to repeat myself and try to prove something that everyone knows but it's easier to ignore it then to confront the truth. You want to call MD a RPG? Fine, do so but don't start whining you got beaten when you call yourself a RP-er.And stop accusing players of bad RP-ing when they are not interested in this aspect of the game. And stop praising the RP system so much. It's a total <insert bad word here>. You only do it cause Mur said he wants a RPG. If he would say he wants a fluffy pink butterfly you would be praising the wings of the butterfly . No, it doesn't always work like that: testing and then copying. Certain rituals have more then it meets the eye. Remember dead birds? Remember ghost? And a highly used rit : trees on regen. As for testing rituals:I fail to see the relevance of your question.

Storm, take a look on the wishpoints chart: even not all first 10 players have 10 wps and you want to give them 6? I would double think if 1 is not too much. Give them something else but not wps. That will spoil the hole WP idea.

First:I said I might call it a FPS. Too bad I cannot put a big sign called Irony on some of my statements. Second: don't put words in my mouth. I never said the fighting system is perfect. Hell! It's faar, faar away from that. It was almost perfect BTE. I said it's better then the RP system. Waaay better. And nothing can change my mind. To be honest I have no problem with the so called RP. Except the moments I read stupid stuff on the forum about how marvelous RP is and how awful grinders are. And I hate whiners:mommy, that bad guy has destroyed my rit, has stolen my heads and spanked me. Oh...and he/she stole my lollipop! And since that person gets frustrated he/she changes to RP. I always said: fighters/grinders are waay more better RP-ers then RP-ers will ever be at fighting. For me they are just players that have no clue how to put up a decent ritual so they hide behind: I am an RP-er and I don't need to fight! BUT...you see them at GGG leveling their crits. That's pure hypocrisy! You say that there are just few good rits? How wrong you are... Just ask for the logs of the last fighting contest. You'll be amazed how many possibilities there are. I haven't had so much fun in months: the thrill of finding a counter for a really new ritual is amazing. And now, with the new abilities of the old crits I expect new and fun things. ps: I still believe my idea with commenting fights is the best for RP fighting

[quote]That's exactly why I play MagicDuel. Not because it's not an RPG, but because it is not the common RPG I am used to. I play because it is an RPG with a community that actually role plays. PVP is certainly a large part of the game, but it isn't the game. And it is not what keeps me here.[/quote] YOU PLAY? I have seen you maybe 3 or 4 times in the last months. Just logging in is not playing. There are several so called players that log in just to get their active days. Nothing much. And if you log in and sit in a deserted place "researching" is not playing either. [quote]I may be an exception, but I know of very few grinders. I know they are there because others are constantly complaining about them (I'm not sure why; they don't harm the game), but I don't know who they are. [/quote] This comes to support my above statement: you don't really play... [quote] You're right, there really isn't much of a role play system. But then again, there isn't much need for one. Just because we can hardcode specific rules for combat, that doesn't make it superior. It should be a part of MagicDuel, but I pray that it will never supersede the whole. MagicDuel is a microcosm, not just a battleground.[/quote] Yes, the all time:"we don't need a coded system cause we have our freedom". Then why is HC so popular? Why are the shop crits so wanted? Why is everybody at the GGG training all day? Why do even crits exist? You can do just fine without them. After all you have your personal papers and the mighty asterisk feature (off topic:I just realized...nobody make a poem about the asterisk , yet they made poems things less important then this...). You know, with battles is simple: you CAN become better and if you want you can defeat any player in MD. But with RP you have the god mod-ers and the new thingy Udgard wrote somewhere (bunnying I believe). And you simply cannot stop those players that are doing it. What was the response to this? RP training sessions. But how will you force a player to change his RP style? You cannot. So I see this as the major failure of the RP "system".Not to mention these trainings are subjective. There is no recipe for RP-ing! There are maybe just common sense rules. But if someone doesn't accept them then again, you cannot do anything about it. Ha! I just had an awesome idea for "melting" both RP and battles. Check this: you fight a battle with someone. Then save the log and start commenting on it: I invoke the power of <insert deity here>! *<deity> grants DSTs 5% power making the tokens 95% effective.* Caw 2 activated on my grasan. It gives me 34000 attack points. I do haotic damage on <insert player name here>'s aramor. Aramor gets xxxxxxx damage and remains with yyyy life! Ha! Got your aramor! etc/etc

Hmmmm...let's see: 1)Time and patience is MDs middle name. It's a strategic move. Imagine you could level your crits wow style (or what other game you can think of) where all you need is to give them experience. In 1 week (with GGG and SG) you would have all crits at max. And then what? You have no idea how they work, what they do, how to use them (don't tell me a noob knows why a grasan is such an amazing crit). You'll get bored and leave the game. MD is an endurance game where patience is the most prized of the virtues. You say you get beaten by old players. I had almost the same issue when I started to play. And there were no SG and GGG back then. So, I had to adapt. I had to learn how to protect myself and I learned how to grow, what crits to use and what players to avoid (at least until I became stronger). Noobs do not need to grind. If you say they do then you have no idea what grinding is for MD. There were days when I fought around 500 battles and got almost 400 stat points. THAT is grinding. Not the 50 battles you need for whatever crit that will level in 2 weeks. 2)It is Pokemon style because you need different crits for different things. BTE (before tokens era) rituals were the ones that counted. And back then even a noob was able to defeat the strongest player. How was that noob able to do it? Strategy. And of course at least some knowledge of the game mechanics which is not that hard to get IF you take a minute to read the battle logs. Even now(when there aren't much things to see in it) I really enjoy reading the battle logs because you never know when you spot an interesting thing. 3)You don't need to get to Loreroot for quests. Most quests are designed so they can be solved by new players as well. And getting to Loreroot is a quest itself. Try solving some of the quests listed in the Q list. I agree: right now most of them really really suck but from time to time you can find a fun one. Also there are players that put up quests which are not in the Q list but they use the forum or the mood panel to advertise it. So saying you cannot do quests because you cannot enter Loreroot is bs. Try solving broken pattern if you get bored. You get a wp for it. 4)Forum is NOT for RP. You have the game for that (as you have been told - and I think I was the one who told you about the spam thingy). You wish to write? Perfect! You have soo many personal papers you can use. If everybody would put their stories in the forum then the game would become the forum. That's not the purpose of it. The forum is designed for something else. Yes, you can use it to make yourself known. But not to "play" on it. 5)MD Shop is the life support machine for MD. Without it the game would probably not exist.You can play without the features in the shop. You can enhance your character without ever touching the shop. One thing you cannot do without the shop: be the strongest player. But as most of the RP-ers say (some of them are really hypocrites but that's just my opinion) MD is a RPG (*rolls eyes*) so you don't need to be the strongest. Ugh...I'm going to the twilight zone again and I don't want to so I will stop with this. "Click a link" you say? THANK GOD there is a click a link. And you want extra credits? Win HC. Do something amazing that would wipe Mur of his feet and you might get some rewards. Attend the festivals. Solve quests (some of the players give credits as rewards). There are ALWAYS possibilities. All you need to do is ask. 6)There are several "buddy-buddy" systems. Not exactly what you want but they are. And the first one is the LHO system. They are there to help you, to guide you, to teach you. And I must say that at least from the combat system you have 2 of the finest fighters as LHOs. They can teach you tons of stuff provided that you are willing to learn also for yourself. We have a bad habit here in MD:we like secrets. And we don't like revealing them to everybody from the start. They must prove worthy of them THEN they will receive hints and guidance. Another system is the adept thingy or the worshiper. Usually the "masters" help their worshipers and/or adepts. You must understand that you need dedicated players for "buddy-buddy" cause not everyone is willing to teach a noob. I, personally, don't have the patience to do it. So for me it would be hell. And I know several others who feel the same.

[quote name='I am Bored' date='09 November 2009 - 01:52 AM' timestamp='1257724376' post='47018'] the game is about role playing, not stat grinding[/quote] Cut the cr**! If i read one more time about how MD is a RPG and not a PVP I will delete the entry instantly! Is is THAT hard to understand that it's NOT a RPG? Or at least not the common RPC you are all used with? Hey! I might even call it a FPS! After all i chase players all over MD to get a decent amount of xp these days! Shish...Who are the most known players? I will tell you: the grinders. Except Z and Tarq nobody from the so called "good RPers" are as known as the grinders. And they are know because they were also RPCs. Sorry but as I already said a thousand times: combat system is superior to RP system (which actually almost doesn't even exist). Shish...again...

Now that you have reminded me: may I close it?

*cries her eyes out* I am not in Bucharest!!!! So, please take pics and post them!

@Elthen:tokens without principles are useless. And to get tons of principles you need to grind. So basically we are talking about the same thing. I would love to go back to the times when only stats mattered in combat but things changed and I had to adapt. Oh...one last thing:read this in case you think I am against grinding. http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/3867-flame-the-grinders-corner-formarly-interview-with-a-grinder/page__hl__grinder__fromsearch__1

You cannot please everyone. Not to mention that having 5k wins on archers is pure grinding. Shall I remember you all that grinders are not welcomed in MD? I have been told that every single occasion. So they will not be listened. Not to mention that some of the changes related to crits/combat are consequences of grinding. Or they are punitive measures (like the skill damage).

Huh? I knew I will be mentioned in this topic from the moment I lay my eyes on the title but huh? I don't get it Chew? Am I a place? So evil resides in me? Cause I would say something else...

Topic closed. Oh...and giving me negative rep will not help. Just because I don't care about it. So find another way to get your revenge.

So..you want to see what the new ability does? 2 examples: Dark Archer II does draintimpului to random creature(s) of xxxx and: - TAINTED! Defender has lower Time Principle, attacker LOSES principle points! - Drain power: 1.9571429% ( tried for 9.82% ) - Permanently losing: 1545.212 Time Principle ( left). and remains with 3425 vitality Chaos Archer does draintimpului to all creature(s) of xxxx and: - Drain power: 280.007% ( tried for 7.92% ) - Permanently draining: 437817.99 Time Principle (-281458.33 left). - Draining 43781799 vitality from Dark Archer II creature DIES! And from principles w****** (yes, MB's favorite word some time ago regarding stats ) look where you can go if you know who to fight: Rustgold Madhorn does haoticdamage to all creature(s) of xxxx and: - hits haoticaly and does 1606691 damage to Elemental V creature DIES! - hits haoticaly and does 784667 damage to Grasan Huvourer creature DIES! - hits haoticaly and does 1602427 damage to Imperial Aramor Assassin creature DIES! - hits haoticaly and does 1219246 damage to Rustgold Drachorn Hatchling creature DIES! - hits haoticaly and does 1587078 damage to Drachorn creature DIES! - hits haoticaly and does 1053448 damage to Kishani creature DIES!

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. So deal with it. Log off in places where you know you cannot be attacked (there are a few). This glitch fals into the category:"we want to be able to create rits without having to open the attack page". Every single HC only the new players are complaining. HC IS unfair. Maybe, in time this glitch will be fixed. Maybe not. Until that I will close a lot of topics on this subject. To resume:may I close this topic?

Hello world! This has been like this since the clickables have been implemented. It's annoying sometimes but we can live with it.

I am no coder either. And I guess the majority of the MD players are not coders. It's just common sense . And Rendil already told you what half of them mean. So it should be no problem to understand the rest.

Q docs do not work.

Explain what? Except the something=1 everything is self-explained.

Yep yep yep: perfect leader . Congratz Azrael!

Pip, I used an expression. I did not say YOU invented it. Read my post, think at it THEN reply.

*does the little WP winning dance* Thank you Ud . The quest really really KILLED me! But I won! Yay!