Syrian

it boosts the user by the difference in stats (enemy stats - your stats = stat gain to you) so if you fo reg have 1000 stats, and the enemy 10 , you get : (10-1000=-900) so , get a total of +-900 stats, which comes to -900, effectively draining your stats, stat drain creatures dont work in your favour if you have higher than the opponent.
 
edit: this is not really the full picture, or a proper calculation on what happens, just a simple representation of the mechanic 

you can use "*gives heads to [player]*" and it will pass them regardless of MP

you can use "*gives heads to [player]*" and it will pass them regardless of MP

i think MRF and Eon are talking about 2 different types of stat damage, MRf talking about the damage when you reach -1000 losses, and Eon his skill damage stat. i do believe there should be a counter to players getting too many losses , but it doesnt have to be stat damage, though it does serve the function well. as for Eon's, thats a tough subject as its something he earned, but if it was put in place to slow people's stat gain then i'ts already too late for that short of nuking everyone's stats back to 0 which is kind of a non option as thats one of the main draws for people. 

ah, i had forgot about the tablets, then yes there is a use to smaller stacks, my mistake

you can always make an mp3 to do this. it actually does work a lot better and they can interact with you properly without confusing fight outcomes as MP3 outcomes are simplified. i don't really like the idea of new players passively gaining everything they need, idling around while people do the work for them, it feels wrong and unearned, they should be fighting people actively doing the work themselves to advance or balance, with help with defence rituals and things yes, but not doing all the work for them

you can always make an mp3 to do this. it actually does work a lot better and they can interact with you properly without confusing fight outcomes as MP3 outcomes are simplified. i don't really like the idea of new players passively gaining everything they need, idling around while people do the work for them, it feels wrong and unearned, they should be fighting people actively doing the work themselves to advance or balance, with help with defence rituals and things yes, but not doing all the work for them

you can always make an mp3 to do this. it actually does work a lot better and they can interact with you properly without confusing fight outcomes as MP3 outcomes are simplified. i don't really like the idea of new players passively gaining everything they need, idling around while people do the work for them, it feels wrong and unearned, they should be fighting people actively doing the work themselves to advance or balance, with help with defence rituals and things yes, but not doing all the work for them

i think MRF and Eon are talking about 2 different types of stat damage, MRf talking about the damage when you reach -1000 losses, and Eon his skill damage stat. i do believe there should be a counter to players getting too many losses , but it doesnt have to be stat damage, though it does serve the function well. as for Eon's, thats a tough subject as its something he earned, but if it was put in place to slow people's stat gain then i'ts already too late for that short of nuking everyone's stats back to 0 which is kind of a non option as thats one of the main draws for people. 

you can always make an mp3 to do this. it actually does work a lot better and they can interact with you properly without confusing fight outcomes as MP3 outcomes are simplified. i don't really like the idea of new players passively gaining everything they need, idling around while people do the work for them, it feels wrong and unearned, they should be fighting people actively doing the work themselves to advance or balance, with help with defence rituals and things yes, but not doing all the work for them

Dearest Subjects
I write to you with great mirth, from the kingdom of Shoe-baa. I may be a goat in a wig, but until the actual Queen of Sheeba returns you'll have to make do with me. If you take exception to a goat in a wig, or a man in a dress, you can take that up with Chewett, as this quest is all his fault. Also, if you do take exception to either of those things you're immediately banned from the quest. I can't be wasting good sequinned dresses on grumpy prejudiced participants.
Between now and new year I will randomly be online. I will randomly put a wig on. If my wig is on, I will make demands of you.
If you are in attendance and bow to the Queen, you get one point (only 1 per instance of the Queen appearing, you won't get multiple points for multiple bows). If you take part in a royal demand, you get one point. If, as part of the demand, you come 1st you get 3 points, 2nd 2 and 3rd 1. Unfortunately the decision on these MAY be subjective due to the low playerbase at the moment. However, if anyone wishes to play the part of an honorable scribe and help me with this, please contact me. In festive spirit, I shall reward you 5 silver coins for your services to the Queen. Ungod has added to the scribe's fee, and so if a scribe comes forwards they will now earn 10SC & a mirror rit stone. If you bow to Z and he is not wearing the wig (ie: he is not the Queen) then you lose a point. This includes points at which he may remove the wig to scratch his head, so pay attention before you bow, or check with others who have been there longer then you. If you call Z (ie: no wig) the Queen of Shoe-baa you lose a point. If you call the Queen of Shoe-baa the Queen of Sheeba you lose a point. If, when addressing the Queen, you fail to address her as either 'your honorable majesty' or 'Queen of Shoe-baa'....you lose a point - every time. That includes responding to her. Demands will vary considerably.
My initial demand is for you to make a snowman out of paper. His/her face/arms/hat etc can be made from anything you like, but the 'snow' should be paper. You will get 5 points for taking part. An additional 5 points will be given if you put your snowman into a diarama you made yourself OR create a 3 panel story using your snowman and some action figures and a series of pictures. There will then also be the 3,2,1 points as described in the bullets above. Pictures should be posted on this thread - include your playername in handwriting within the image.
Any questions either post here or PM me.
 
Z/Goat in a wig.
rewards:
1 x WP from Chew
1 x WP from me
1 x GC from Blackshade
Possibly gold coins, silver coins and creatures/totems depending on participation.
 
 
Dst 5
20/12/17 - 1 Bow Point, 1 participation point, 3 task points
Mallos 0
20/12/17 - 1 Bow Point, -1point for incorrect address

Because you asked for a reply.. I will tell you something that i thought its obvious..
There are a zillion things to do in md right now.. Most urgent are actually features aimed to keep the newcommers, same thing you are trying to do. I have no idea why you consider i afford the luxury to work right now on custom features or things only one or two will use. 
I am not commenting on the idea itself, but iam trying to bring you back to reality and to make you understand what priorities mean
Btw
Rejecting prayers is stupid
Rejecting adepts makes sense and achieves same thing. Such a feature makes sense only when mp6 will imply much more than it does now.
 
Very very important
I do not want to turn mp6 into an alliance model..nor do i want adepts system to work any way similar. That functionality already exists and is for guild and alliances
 
My next priorities are for now strictly around the gw island.
 
Keep in mind all the premium items such as the toy box and such that i abandoned for now..pls stop asking new stuff it will not happen..i am lucky if i get to code the ultra crucial stuff i already have to

first LHO was shemmy, he was my LHO contact for all things help and really helped get me used to the smaller things in the game. for non LHO, i think i would have to go with fang or DD, as it was those people that were around me the most in my first few days/weeks.

that is implying that the drachorns we use are the same ones as the dragons they kept, or even the same concept. they could be an entirely different concept and theres also no way to say that "one" equals "they"

the key here is that there is a different between a dragon, and a drachorn, you say you want to return your kin to the glorious creatures they could be, if you are truely their kin, are you an extension of someones else's consciousness, brought into reality by someone else's will and therefore not your own being in its entirety (speaking IC, because obviously draconas will be an extension of your RL self), draconas has his own will, and was born with such, he wasnt born as an extension of another consciousness.
how do you know that drachorns have a mind of their own? dragons i will say yes, they do, but drachs are not the same as dragons. You say that you will look after them in your inventory, and will not fight with them, this means the only interaction they are going to get is you looking at them, you are denying them their only interactions by denying them fighting. what if they want to fight? what if being left in someones creature inventory causes them distress because they feel ignored and have no emotional release or way to channel their emotions into something? What makes drachorns so different than any other creature that is an extension of its creator, when fundamentally they are the same?
You want to stop them being forced to fight, so by this you want to free them from being forced to do things, well is it really freedom if you then force them to do nothing? 

part of being a perma mp3 is to help the newbies i can only think of one or two newbies i refused to help and i ve told a few of the "active" players to send them to me and throw me a message either in md or out for those who have that info. that way i can set rituals they need be it heat or losses or wins and as long as the other mp3 is engaged in the game i dont even mind helping them get what they need quicker by training with them.

adding on to my other comment, sounds like a good concept start to what a heat solidifier would do or look like, a focus that could direct and channel heat into a single place to create a heat stone, using a memory stone to impart the memory of that resource within the item, it would take that memory and the heat and use the memory of the memory stone to direct its outcome. a representation of the process of memory and heat focused into a single object, the representation of the realms memory and the players influence. could also be a little more straight forward in that a circle could be carved into the centre for the memory stone to "sit" and the heat would be directed across the surface of the solidifier and converged evenly through it into the stone. 

For the Mark of the beast. Hope this is satisfactory enough

I have the mark!
 
 

live help messages is the main important thing, and in rare cases movetheyoungling

the question isnt about being too busy, from a personal standpoint, i want to help, thats why i became an LHO, but i dont want to be limited to the gateway island just to do so, when i/m capable of helping out with questions and other things  from the main land.  
another problem is that if you make all current LHO into gateway islands its going to split the playerbase even more, and i dont think this is healthy. obviously you need people at the island to welcome new players but then there will be less players on the mainland so the game as a whole feel emptier than it already is.
i have reasons to want to stay at the mainland, rather than locking myself down to the island, and i dont see why i should be forced to move just to be help out when there exists an option where i dont have to. guardians don/t have to be the new LHO, and if you force all the LHO to the island then you have no helper roles on the mainland.

My post will be primarily focused on this point of the announcement:
" Ideal characters for this role are ex LHO, ancient players. The lho playername decoration *..* will slowly be removed or assigned only to guardian role. "
I'm all for guardians on the island and think they are needed, what i don't like is how its a role that is going to force people to stay there on the island, signing up with limited information, and how the LHO decoration is going to be removed. As someone who puts a good portion of time into helping others and answering questions (as limited as they are at the moment) , i'm quite saddened that its come to a point where if i want to continue then i have to become a guardian and leave the mainland if i want to keep my wings. 
 
The idea that the guardian wont be able to leave the island is obviously a necessity, but that isn't to say that these guardians are the only ones that are able to answer new players questions, and then what about any help/guidance when they have left the island? Why should the current LHO be expected/forced to join the guardians and stay on the island if they want to continue this role? 
 
I also understand that  they can somewhat continue this role of helping people without the wings, but without the wings then they will be removed from the live help button which is one of the primary ways that newer players ask for help, and i'ts easier for people who do need that help to reach out. Removing LHOs and replacing with the guardians creates a dilution of the help base, not every LHO is going to want to move to the island, and if you make them the only LHO/helpers then you're reducing the amount of players (and potentially the hours that are covered) you have to help people with their questions. 
 
In short, i dont think lowering the amount of help base is going to be helpful, yes we need guardians to direct new players, but that doesnt mean they have to be mutually exclusive to the current LHO base, both can operate at the same time. 

the question isnt about being too busy, from a personal standpoint, i want to help, thats why i became an LHO, but i dont want to be limited to the gateway island just to do so, when i/m capable of helping out with questions and other things  from the main land.  
another problem is that if you make all current LHO into gateway islands its going to split the playerbase even more, and i dont think this is healthy. obviously you need people at the island to welcome new players but then there will be less players on the mainland so the game as a whole feel emptier than it already is.
i have reasons to want to stay at the mainland, rather than locking myself down to the island, and i dont see why i should be forced to move just to be help out when there exists an option where i dont have to. guardians don/t have to be the new LHO, and if you force all the LHO to the island then you have no helper roles on the mainland.

the question isnt about being too busy, from a personal standpoint, i want to help, thats why i became an LHO, but i dont want to be limited to the gateway island just to do so, when i/m capable of helping out with questions and other things  from the main land.  
another problem is that if you make all current LHO into gateway islands its going to split the playerbase even more, and i dont think this is healthy. obviously you need people at the island to welcome new players but then there will be less players on the mainland so the game as a whole feel emptier than it already is.
i have reasons to want to stay at the mainland, rather than locking myself down to the island, and i dont see why i should be forced to move just to be help out when there exists an option where i dont have to. guardians don/t have to be the new LHO, and if you force all the LHO to the island then you have no helper roles on the mainland.

My post will be primarily focused on this point of the announcement:
" Ideal characters for this role are ex LHO, ancient players. The lho playername decoration *..* will slowly be removed or assigned only to guardian role. "
I'm all for guardians on the island and think they are needed, what i don't like is how its a role that is going to force people to stay there on the island, signing up with limited information, and how the LHO decoration is going to be removed. As someone who puts a good portion of time into helping others and answering questions (as limited as they are at the moment) , i'm quite saddened that its come to a point where if i want to continue then i have to become a guardian and leave the mainland if i want to keep my wings. 
 
The idea that the guardian wont be able to leave the island is obviously a necessity, but that isn't to say that these guardians are the only ones that are able to answer new players questions, and then what about any help/guidance when they have left the island? Why should the current LHO be expected/forced to join the guardians and stay on the island if they want to continue this role? 
 
I also understand that  they can somewhat continue this role of helping people without the wings, but without the wings then they will be removed from the live help button which is one of the primary ways that newer players ask for help, and i'ts easier for people who do need that help to reach out. Removing LHOs and replacing with the guardians creates a dilution of the help base, not every LHO is going to want to move to the island, and if you make them the only LHO/helpers then you're reducing the amount of players (and potentially the hours that are covered) you have to help people with their questions. 
 
In short, i dont think lowering the amount of help base is going to be helpful, yes we need guardians to direct new players, but that doesnt mean they have to be mutually exclusive to the current LHO base, both can operate at the same time.