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nice, first use = first abuse.

The dojo is meant for MP2 - MP4.
Any MP5 located there is just teaching or hiding. Both cases are attack-able.

MP5 has no excuse for staying in a dojo without being attacked. If you want to go idle ... there are already too many places for that activity.

But hey. if you didn't understood that already ... maybe you should not be in dojo staff anyway.
Since it is not my decision to include you in such a staff ... I'll enjoy farming on any MP5 there.

If you don't want to get attacked ... then do as Tzaroth747 or as Zleiphneir.


in the mean time ... good abusing




Edit:

hmm, wtf is *Ibruzu* ? hmm, i guess i'm not going that way that often or i'm not paying attention


anyway,
1. just tell the guy that *Princ Rhaegar* is part of "Dojo Staff / LHO" (in *Ibruzu*'s own documents)
2. "Dojo Staff Trainee/Helper" ... "trainee" is the antonym of "trainer" (in *Ibruzu*'s own documents)

And ... SageWoman ... you are one of the worst kind of abusers in this game : "power abuser".
I will not welcome you in the clan.

Blood Princ has been banned for repeated violations in the Dojo at Marind Bell Park. Attacks were made on Staff Members, as well as other Mp5's of all types (Alliances, Guilds, Regular players). Despite Dojo Warnings sent to his Private Message as well as brandings made to his Public Log, attacks were continued to be made.

After much deliberation between Chief of Staff *Ibruzu* and myself, and a consultation with Calyx of Isis via OtherRealm means, it was decided that Blood Princ would be made an example of and banned.

The Dojo works because the Magic Duel community works together with the Dojo Staff and Trainees to ensure that the Marble Dell Park is a place where players of all mind powers can train with each other.

This Banning is a new tool Gifted to only a select few senior members of the Dojo. This is the first time it has been used and it is the hope that this will be a deterent to other players to learn the Dojo rules and know what the consequences may be if they blatently attack players. It is our hope that this Tool will not have to be used again.

Sagewoman
Apprentice Dojo Mistress

Now, for the next 3 weeks (probably) I will have limited access to Internet. This means less MD (maybe not at all).
However I will watch the forum (from time to time) so no monkey business cause I will be merciless.
If you have questions PM me in the forum (I can access it easier then the game).
If you have requests address them to No one. If he has time he will try and help. If not...you will have to wait or search for another player to help you.


Hope you'll enjoy my small vacation


Have fun!


DST

Yeah, I noticed that too
I forgot to mention that the shades are inter-connected..their share their power, and also they share their thoughts (not all the minor details).
They also have an interesting hierarchy...I'll try to get more info about it the next time I'll meet the Shade Sentinel

1.
I met the Shade Sentinel today...very interesting creature.
Here is a fragment of our discussion:
Venger: a thing cannot exist without the other
Shade Sentinel: we are just a result of your tendency to unballance things ...and you will ALL pay for this
*BigC*: u will find it very difficult to make us "pay"...
Venger: I agree...we will pay for our decisions
Venger: but we will not let you conquer us
Venger: if it's not too late, we should try to balance things
Venger: we need to have a set of laws
Venger: saying what there should be done to have a balanced existence
Venger: and in time, everybody should follow these laws
Venger: Shade Sentinel, what do you say ? is it too late, from your point of view ?
Shade Sentinel: the ballance will happen anyway
Shade Sentinel: one way or an other
Venger: I agree...it's the nature's way
Shade Sentinel: but its a matter if it will happen in a world without you or a world with you
...
Shade Sentinel: you realy think you are the only creatures out there .... then you didnt heard about the angiens yet
...
[ I hope I'll get more info from the Shade Sentinel about the angiens ]
So...we need to balance things around us, in order to calm down the shades.
Suggestions are welcomed
Warnings:
- this shade is very powerfull while in Necrovion. I've seen with my own eyes
- treat the Shade Sentinel with respect when you meet it.
2.
Words inside the Shade Sentinel's Quest page:
Listen to me
i challenge you all
find my face
behind the wall
as you rise
so you should fall
As discussed with it, it's not a quest, but a weakness:
Venger: so you have a quest, for us, the mortal ones
Shade Sentinel: its not a QUEST ..its a weakness
3.
I also met BigC there. He's still under the shades'will...the shades are using him in order to understand the humans.
I hope we'll be able to retrieve him from Necrovion soon.
4. A war against the shades is a bad idea for the moment. The diplomacy MUST be the KEY when dealing with the shades.

[quote name='Kriskah Arcanu' post='33838' date='Jun 18 2009, 05:03 PM']It was a success considering the contest had almost none publicity.[/quote]
We did our best to spam the chat. I even saw one of the contestants encourage a friend to enter, so I don't think there was almost no publicity. There is room for improvement, but as time passes it will become something that people look forward to, based on rumors about the previous one. (eg reading the papers of the winners and seeing the trophy picture should increase awareness)


[quote]About the score system. I don't see a problems with decimals if you can correct the total sum at the end (I dont know the expression in English, is when you, for example have a result of: 8.6 , that goes to 9.... and 8.4 will remain as 8 )[/quote]
It's unconventional to give marks like 8.6 / 10, while giving 86 / 100 is normal. Mathematically there is no difference, but psychologically there is. And none of us expected there would be a tie. I'm still guessing at what the odds are, it's a bit tedious to calculate since the marks are not uniformly distributed. (if they were it would be less than one in a billion chance)


[quote]I am not sure about a new contest for veterans, it will have to be very different from the one from the festival, with many categories as well. I sure if it is presented in an original way it could be great.[/quote]
What I meant was to use the same rules and format we used now, but change the age requirements. That way nobody could complain about being left out.

So the first edition of this contest is over now. I think I've learned a couple of things while being part of the jury. Among others that I think it's time to update my own papers. Some of the comments I made on other people's papers and bad marks I gave, made me go: 'Damn, mine fail in that aspect too.'

I also consider the contest to be a success. We originally stated that if we got more than a dozen of participants, we'd give an additional prize to the category winners and we did get 17 valid entries. Sadly we did not reach the 25 mark. I still believe that for a first edition 17 is a good number and that it merits a second edition. Logically that would be held 90 days from now, since then we should have all fresh people in the [10, 100] range. What follows are my observations while organizing and should be helpful to whoever organizes a similar contest in the future. (not saying that I don't want to do it, but three months is a lot of time, and if this ever sees a twentieth edition...)

One thing that should change is the score system. We originally thought using 1-5 marks would work, but we soon ended up with a three way tie for first place. After reevaluating those three, we managed to get a winner, but second place got tied. The odds of getting a tie should decrease a lot by simply using larger numbers: at least 1-10, maybe even go for 1-20 marks. (of course you could say that we could've used decimals, but who ever gives a score of 3,14159265?)

Secondly, the roleplay and purpose category. This one is extremely hard to remain objective. Papers are supposed to add to roleplay, so this category does make sense, but it is hard to judge roleplay through papers alone. Some people none of the judges ever met, others we all knew, even though we didn't really knew each other all that well. Actually, in general I don't think it is possible to make perfect categories at all. Each set of papers is different and serves a different purpose. A mysterious character will inevitably have more obscure papers. I'd like to think our categories were as good as it gets and well, no one was forced to participate.

The profile rule... this made an awful lot of sense to me at the time, a lot of people were hard to find online, especially if all four of us had to hunt them and review them in game. However it seems this rule also caused a bit of confusion, and sadly in a couple of occasions things went wrong with the automatically generated profile.
One example is the use of the same script on each page, depending on which browser you use this might crash it, while looking at a single paper in game it works perfectly fine. We noticed it, we found those persons online, happy ending.

Alts. If anyone submitted an alt, please raise your voice in a triumphant 'hah I fooled you' way. If you did not win anything, I'll reply with 'suits you sir.' We were worried about it, but it doesn't look like anyone bothered to write papers for a few silver coins. In order to win you would've needed quite an amount of effort, and in some ways that would've made me care little about the usage of alts. Part of our fear for alts came from the idea that veteran players might feel cheated or ignored. If this were to become a regular contest, it might be fair to also hold one for veteran players because there was none when they were the required age. (And before someone mentions the best paper award at the festival, there are a lot that are too old for the paper shaper, yet young enough to not even have heard about it.)

In any case, we made decisions and stuck with them, but now is the time for people to say 'I could've done it better'. Worst that could happen: I refute your claim, or I make you do it next time.

And finally, I'll take this opportunity to thank my fellow jury members. It was nice working with you!
Kafuuka

My main concern is that wishes should be unique, while the wish shop makes them generic. To actually make an unique wish should cost any number of wish points greater than zero. Some wishes are small, some wishes are big, some are impossible. The way I would design it, there could be four possible outcomes such a gamble:
1. Your wish is granted.
2. Your wish is conditionally granted: you get a vague description of what you must do and upon meeting the requirements it gets granted. This might include sacrificing more wish points.
3. Your wish is ignored. (you do get notified of this though)
4. Your wish is interpreted wrong and you now live with the consequences... if you are still alive that is.

The more you ask for in your wish, the more likely you end up with a bad effect. Personally I would also reward originality. Also it seems like so much fun to think of wrong interpretations and considering who will get to have this fun, this makes an excellent persuasion to implement it. I don't think it will take that much time to review, since this feature is not going to be used daily. There are not that many wish points given yet, a lot are probably already used and how many people would take the risks? You could loose more than just a wish point.

[quote name='Shadowseeker' date='20 July 2009 - 03:44 PM' timestamp='1248097476' post='37539']
total of 100? make it 240 I think..rough number, but I'm positive it's about that number total.
[/quote]

And how many of those aren't already spent? And how many of those that are still available would people be willing to spend on a gamble?

I'd appreciate it if people were to answer those questions instead of just giving me negative reputation points. My estimate of what would be left for gambling is about 10 wishpoints. Starting with over 200 distributed points, in the next few days half of them will be spent on access, xp resets and creatures. And then people will hold on to the remaining points for really cool and tangible rewards that might be released in the future. I doubt more than 10% will gamble with their points. And given the possibility of adding a previously spent requirement... I don't think reviewing 10 wishes is going to take that much effort and after the initial ones, it will take a while for the 'daring' people to get new points; to the point some might argue that it is going to be so infrequently used it might as well not be implemented.

I had no idea that the park and the sanctuary were connected! Okay, at least we have the stop button,that is a relief. And I agree, we should keep nationality and country out of the conversation.

Let's make this clear: there is an offtopic section. USE it! That is what it was made for: junk topics and sorry but that topic was junk. I would have closed it and deleted it but Grido got there first so I did not want to interfere.
And when 3 mods tell you that you're topic is *cough* crap *cough* spam you should think at least twice.

Clear enough?

My new and improved record:
Venger's Pimped Grasan does haoticdamage to multirandom creature(s) of xxxx and:
- hits haoticaly and does 25630509 damage to The Keepers Jester creature DIES!
- hits haoticaly and does 36538232 damage to Destructive Keeper creature DIES!


Ok, I admit...it's what I call a test account but still

[quote name='Burns' date='07 July 2009 - 09:50 AM' timestamp='1246949417' post='36426']
NOW grinding is not part of the game anymore, so we'll all have to put up with it
[/quote]


Why do I feel the need not to agree with you?
For a grinder there are always ways. As long as there will be battles in which stats count (ok...nowadays principles count) there will ALWAYS (Coca-Cola ) and I say ALWAYS be griders.

[quote name='Pipstickz' date='03 July 2009 - 03:05 AM' timestamp='1246579533' post='36018']
Well I think it's quite rude to kiss someone without asking or anything...but you can't blame him, really...who wouldn't want to kiss all of you?
[/quote]


ME! I wouldn't kiss any of you! [img]http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/public/style_emoticons//blum.gif[/img]

But how does God feel when he is referred as Mur? O_O