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  4. Chewett's discussion

    in General Forum

    Posted

    I didn't have a chance to join the discussion, so I'll just pour mu thoughts here regarding crafting:

     

    With how me (and the other crafters) have not been very active lately, it would help expedite the item creation process if there are other avenues to which people can go to. However, from personal experience I feel it's best if these are the council members instead of a new person (especially one that gets changed the moment that person is no longer fully active).

     

    One thing that should be kept in mind regarding items is that they stand at the real reality level - they're inner magic with a form. Most item people ask? They're at the personal reality level. And most people who applied to the crafter's guild back then did so because they wanted to create those personal reality level items. This is one of the main factors why it was hard for me to recruit new crafters that could avoid the temptation of creating all those juicy fantastic items and remember that items represents facts in MD's reality. 

     

    If we're looking at a long term system, I don't find it very feasible to find a person who fulfills such criteria everytime the previous one fades into RL. I think it would be a much more sustainable system if this was sent directly to council (personally, I'm thinking of a form that appears when you buy an item making wish on the wishshop where you can put the name/description/materials and submit the request - all fully scripted). Even those who can already create items often create personal reality level item - Council, Mur, Demigod accounts, but at least they are the highest authority in MD so if anyone should judge whether a personal reality item should be created (and thus made real reality) it should be them.

  12. Quest creation partnership - try 1

    in Contests, Quests and Adventures

    Posted

    visibility of clickables based on inventory is now possible. I shall consider new features as i read your quest suggestions, but till i am sure they are done, don;t count on them. Also you will notice a very negative mood in my replies, thats because i point out the issues, does not mean that in the end i might not pick your quest to work on.

     

    @udgard

    - the golem is not available as a creature (not sure what happend to it, does it have artworks and all that? i lost track)

    - i never put on the "it can use" list anything related to npc "woodin-ish" sort of things, i don't intend to

    - having items check creature stats/level is also something that is not yet there

    - i like the general flavor of "building the golem core", could work, its just the way till there that has many obstacles..the big one is there is no golem (artworks mainly).

    - building a creature by collecting its components and merging them somehow sounds good and golem would fit best, just if you could stick to EXISTING features

     

     

    Ah, I might have misunderstood when you mentioned "new features or features variations it will require" and thought I could go crazy with suggesting new features to support this. 

     

    Artworks and descriptions for the creatures are all ready, all that is missing is the combat ability/stats adjustment to current metagame (which I'm totally out of touch with nowadays). If you want to look at it, it's also on the forum private section on this link. 

     

    Most of the quest can be doable with current functions - new feature I mentioned are just suggestions but not really a must for it to work. One exception is probably the function to check for creature stage - I can do without the XP/wins amount but the ability to just check if the player has a certain creature would really be great. As an example the clay golem has 3 stages, and the next tier is the rock golem. Having a function to check if the player has a stage 3 clay golem before he can change it to a rock golem would be very nice (as at that point the game should identify the creature, then take it away and replace it with a rock golem - or simply change the creature type while keeping everything else the same).

  14. Quest creation partnership - try 1

    in Contests, Quests and Adventures

    Posted

    Wow, this is exactly what I hoped was available :D

    I've had a bit of the framework in mind since long ago, but I still need to flesh out the actual details. I do realize that I don't have as much time for MD, so I don't expect to actually get this selected for this particular batch, but I'm going to share the basic idea here.

     

    What I have in mind is a game-integrated quest as a way to hand out the Golem creature as reward, and most importantly make it available even if I am not in MD anymore. Quest would include building the golem core (can be implemented as an untradable quest item that will be switched out for the actual creature's totem - but probably works better as an untradable Lv 1 creature from the beginning, with the idea that they're similar to the eggs, a very basic form for the creature). Quest chains would include performing the rites needed to upgrade the creature to the next forms (with functions checking if the creature has enough xp/wins). 

     

    Features needed (new features in bold):

    - needs: Implementation of the creature (artwork and creature description are all ready, abilities theme as well but I'm honestly not in touch with how combat goes nowadays. I'll need expert suggestions on how to balance the creature abilities and still make it desirable.)

    - needs: Clickies, functions to check creature level/xp/wins, player's principles

    - It can use : new clickable objects

    - It can use : semi-NPC characters (wodin-ish) that automatedly appear at completion of certain objectives (this is just for flavor, can just use the clickable to achieve same result otherwise). Upon further reading, this is actually similar to the clickable that appear based on other inventory items idea you mention.

    - It can use : a quest-specific shared gathering tool. Pickable only by those doing the quest (the tool dispatch location can be made to appear only if character is in quest), returns to dispatch location in one day to prevent abuse, collects unique material for the quest only. No transfer. In the same vein, it can use a quest specific simple combiners.

  16. The absence

    in Historic Documents

    Posted

    A while back, about 600 days ago, My human puppet...sorry i mean..my over emotional and ridiculously loyal human puppet, abandoned me for a GIRL. I had no access to my realm and my access to this imbecile i use to call Manu was cut off by a flood of feelings and brain processes that totally put me on second place. I had no idea this guy could actually THINK that much without my help, but heh..outer world is funnier and more unstable in prediction than my beloved realm. I could realize that from my first visits out there, its ..scary..how things act in a system governed to such degree by entropy. I had to witness day by day, hopelessly and powerless, how my realm needed me and i was degrading without it.

     

    He put me do pathetic things..yeah..i was abuuuseeedd!!! Its funny, in a way quite ..silly, how murrish mind was even used for ..poetry...the love kind, you surely know, the one that makes your mind blind, and your soul glow. To help him survive, i understand, he keeps me alive, in this wonderland...but what i can not forgive, nor can i forget, is the moment his mad strive, became my threat. Enough about my petty human master..or so he thinks he is.. (I could push him to disaster with a simple paradox quiz :D)

     

    -- Mur

     

    So, is this manu dude your master or your puppet, Mur? Or maybe puppet master :p

  18. My neg rep

    in General Forum

    Posted

    Now that we can finally see who has given what rep, I would like to show to everyone my neg rep history. I spent a long time counting each and every post I've made in the past one year...

     

    Plix Plox alone has given me more than 113 neg rep so far. This was the most shocking of all, as I never even had a proper conversation with him, ever. Didn't expect this one bit... reporting now for neg rep spam.

     

    No one has given me more than 82 neg rep so far. I'm reporting now for neg rep spam.

     

    Lazarus has given me more than 42 neg rep so far. Also reporting for spam as I barely talked to him, ever.

     

    Pipstickz has spammed  more than 25 neg rep so far, which I also thought he'd never do as I have never spoken to him.

     

    The rest of the neg rep, especially the ones given by dst, Chewett, Menhir and Nimrodel... I take full responsibility for as they all helped me change.

    ____________________________________________________________________________________________

     

    Mods, please take the respective actions against these spammers if you believe it is necessary. I also humbly request to please remove the accumulated number of neg rep from my account as it may give a wrong impression to some newer ones, which I really don't want as it won't help me help them.

     

    Also, please close this topic. Whoever still wishes to post should not expect any reply. 

     

    I think you're misunderstanding what reps are for. They're not for for a person who in general dislike you to spam red on you; they're for people to voice their opinion on specific posts you make. It doesn't matter whether the person has spoken to you or not before; it's about their interaction with said post, not to you in general. In fact if someone gives you reps regardless of the post's content and just because how they think of you in general, that's the actual spamming.

     

    Now rather than pointing out specific people, why not point out specific posts and complain about those if you think the negative reps there are unjust.

  21. Crafters Guild Disbanded

    in The Crafters

    Posted · Edited by Udgard

    Before this spirals further, please let me explain what I think happened.

     

    Council sent me an email asking if I was ok with disbanding the Crafters, at Poe's request partly because lately our guild only has two active members. I told council that I am ok if this is what they think is the best course of action, and explained the original purpose Kragel had when he formed the Crafter's guild: as the organization for those with item creation abilities.

     

    With Kragel gone, there were only me left. Later we have Yrth getting the item creation interface as well, but I never invited him (and he never asked for an invitation), and I personally thought that since Yrth was the king of Golemus, it just didn't make sense for him to join a LR guild  with the way our guild-land system is established and I mentioned this to the council in my email on why the current guild won't really get (the only) other item creation ability possessor to join. Btw: the creators/crafters were always a LR guild, the creators were a leftover guild from the old alliance system test and when it was given to us, it was already loreroot-based (and IIRC it was during the old alliance system as well - which might explain why the guild becomes lorerootian later on - it was never changed).

     

    It might be bad phrasing on my part that's causing the council to think the yrth refused to join - he was never actually requested to join in nor did he ever asked to. But to confirm I did not mean that yrth told me he didn't want to join, I only meant to say that I don't think yrth would join the crafters with the current system. (actual quote below)

     

    With Kragel, the guild leader and the only other item creator being missing shortly after the guild's conception the initial guild's purpose as the face organization for everyone with item creation abilities/roles has shifted to just the only item creator left (until Yrth got the ability as well, but the land affiliation system means he can't really join the guild). 

     

     

     

    All in all, I don't think the announcement was an effort to throw a "blame": there's not really any fault to blame. I'm not even upset or angry at what happened; and Council also asked for my opinion before disbanding the alliance and only did so after I gave them the go-ahead-if-you-think-it's-best. I hope this doesn't turn into a blaming fest :)

     

    And to confirm, the guild itself is not really disbanded de facto. The alliance tag is removed, yes, but we are still doing our services as usual, just without the alliance badge. Our sub forum will still be there, and you can always contact us or look for updates from us there.

     

    Cheers,

     

    Ud

  25. Forum bug?

    in Resolved Bugs

    Posted

    How do you get the ?p= line?

     

    When I manually change the http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/8052-conspiracy-theories/#entry89611 to http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/8052-conspiracy-theories/?p=89611, it redirects to http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/8052-conspiracy-theories/page-3#entry89611 which does point out to the correct post. 

     

    So perhaps the problem is only with the #entry lines, and the ?p= lines are working perfectly fine.

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