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Fixed Ann. 5158 - [2021-03-18 12:47:33 - Stage 15] - Permalink - Posted By Chewett 666 likes Like The recruitment cards shown when recruiting creatures are now fixed and correctly display their image.

Summary Today at 18:08 a member on Discord made comments which seemed to imply a number of players were abusing bugs to attack them when offline. After significant investigation it was found that the issue was not due to bugs but because the player was using two devices to play MD and had not logged out of both. During this investigate I disabled the combat system to preserve evidence. This was re-enabled at 19:27 after the appropriate information had been gathered. We take accusations of bug abuse seriously and if you believe anyone is abusing bugs please report it to a game admin. No bug abuses have been found and no further action will be taken. Full Report Today one member of the MagicDuel family made a comment on Discord stating that seemed to imply people were cheating and attacking them while offline. This was concerning given Aia's latest contest so I immediately stopped what I was doing to investigate this. This comment was as follows: This was accompanied by an image that was suggesting a number of players were abusing this with an accusatory tone: The colours indicate each player who was accused, since these accusations have been proven false their names have been removed. Sadly the player did not include information about the times the attack occurred to aid the investigation so it took significantly longer then it should. Fetching attack logs First I correlated the data in the screenshot with the database and reproduced the information I did not have: blue - Sun Mar 14 2021 11:48:17 GMT+0000 orange - Sun Mar 14 2021 11:50:02 GMT+0000 green - 1615722923 - Sun Mar 14 2021 11:55:23 GMT+0000 red - 1615722938 - Sun Mar 14 2021 11:55:38 GMT+0000 orange - Sun Mar 14 2021 11:59:38 GMT+0000 green - 1615723593 - Sun Mar 14 2021 12:06:33 GMT+0000 orange - Sun Mar 14 2021 12:15:10 GMT+0000 Here you can see that the last attack on the player happened at 12:15:10 GMT+0000 Checking logout time I was not provided any details of when the player making the comment had logged out so I correlated their IP address used to log in with the access logs. From investigating this I discovered that they logged out at 11:51:57 +0000 with the browser Chrome 88 Checking browser access logs To finish the investigation I cross-referenced the data against any other account actions and found that there were two browsers accessing the account. The final account access was at 12:17:49 +0000 with the browser Chrome 76. It seems that since the player was logged onto two devices they did not log out from both and was only removed from the online players list when they stopped accessing MD from the second device. This meant they were attacked after pressing logout, but before closing all browsers. Note to everyone Please note that using multiple browsers with MD may cause unpredictable behaviour and confusion to yourself such as this. If you are using multiple browsers you will want to make sure you log out from all of them when logging out. Names have been removed from to preserve privacy because they are not important to the investigation or report.

It being broken made me chuckle

This months quiz is a little late but I have been asked to put it up. Prize is 5 silver for first, 5 silver for fastest https://thewordsearch.com/puzzle/1667411/the-narcissist/

Is there a suggestion about what I can do with the various people (new and old) getting stuck with technical issues and the ridddles/etc? Iv ported some of the older accounts out that didnt know how to progress because I didnt want them stuck forever.

Do we feel that the GWI as it stands works stand-alone enough for people to progress? I currently sit at the dock watching and helping people as I can, but I get various PM's asking for help that I am unable to deal with because I am not on enough time as work is incredibly busy. I think currently, while a good lot of work has been put into GWI, we possibly want to consider pausing people spawning there and allow a quick way onto the mainland again while it is continued to work on. What do people think? Im wondering if we need to, for the moment, make it super easy to get there so people can help out as I don't ever see anyone else helping and I dont know who is meant to be here. To be clear, I dont start this topic to offend anyone who has worked on it, or are tasked to run the island. But to work out what is best for new players and returning vets. I keep getting forum and ingame messages about being stuck there so...

I spent an hour talking with Fang on Discord about Archery, the types of bows in standard worldwide competitions, components of a standard Recurve bow, how to make a personalised arrow legal for competitions, and discussed the meaning of life briefly. @Fang Archbane please comment a review on your learning.

Its been broken since Mur did the php upgrade accidentally. I guess he hasnt had time to review it. I will see what I can do this weekend.

I bet @Ledah smells and cant beat me

@Steno is this not faster?

What did you think after reading it all?

Hey BP, iv sent a message to the people who should be on the island helping you explaining what you said on the PM. I am not sure whether I am allowed to remove you from the island.

What does this even mean?

The work I will do I will ensure that I make them easy to use functions so can be converted to A25 as needed

I have some plans for this. I have some ideas for different "rankings" for alliance leaders, to be specific to the alliance. Its currently in work so I will focus the initial "ranking" in land loyalty, although I am not sure about that as it "fixes" the leader as you cant easily overtake someone.

Would you like me to stop the current work I am doing with alliances in favour of you doing this? Currently I have paused MD work while you worked on NPC talk but you have not spoken to me about this. The last we talked about alliances you were happy about the changes I was going to make and I had already started modifying the DB for the changes. I agree some alliances/guilds should be able to be taken over so if your tools are useful to my work I will be able to use them. I am not sure if my plans for how they can be accessed will work with your changes as I do not know what your changes are. Make the tools if you want but please speak with me in the future when you know I am working on something.

The auction for all items will finish 7 days from the last bid on any item. Any time an item is bid upon, the auction will last another 7 days. This is to allow people to move their plushies to another item if they are outbid.

Item 6 - 120 plushies

Auction Current End Date: 28th August Item 1 - Custom Item, no usability - 35 Plushies @Lazarus Item 2 - 7th Anni - CID 58 - 776716 - 65 Plushies @Aelis Item 3 - 9th Anni - CID 60 - 822371 - 25 Plushies @Ledah Item 4 - 11th Anni - CID 63 - 851617 - 35 Plushies @Steno Item 5 - 13th Anni - CID 65 - 863559 - 20 Plushies @Clock Master Item 6 - Wind Drachorn egg - 2836 age ID 793846 - 95 Plushies @Demonic God Item 7 - Angien Egg (normal), 2836 age ID: 793911 - 25 Plushies @Steno Item 8 - Darkling, 2836 age ID: 793858 - 70 Plushies @Lazarus

The issue, IMO, isnt that. The issue is most of the ecosystem has no natural reduction system. There is nothing to do with a lot of it. It needs an end-goal.

I have had various people contact me pointing out that if you lose your bid, you may want to swap it to another item which might have already been sold under the current rules. Therefore the auction will finish 7 days after the last bid on _anything_. Original post updated.

Very good! I will send you a wishpoint and herbs ❤️

I believe the current bids are: Item 1 - Custom Item (have a custom item created for your role subject to appropriate name/description), no usability. - 25 Plushies @Lazarus Item 2 - 7th Anni - CID 58 - 776716 - 50 Plushies @Aelis Item 3 - 9th Anni - CID 60 - 822371 - 25 Plushies @Ledah Item 4 - 11th Anni - CID 63 - 851617 - 15 Plushies @Ledah Item 5 - 13th Anni - CID 65 - 863559 - 20 Plushies @Clock Master Item 6 - Wind Drachorn egg - 2836 age ID 793846 - 40 Plushies @Lazarus Item 7 - Angien Egg (normal), 2836 age ID: 793911 - NO BID Item 8 - Darkling, 2836 age ID: 793858 - 60 Plushies @Lazarus

Sunfire was the last tricky one, backwards and diagonal!

Item 2 - 40 plushies