Chewett

Actually the current situation is neither of the three can achieve MP6 while the other two are going for it.

This quest works the same as Mur's create a drachorn one.

While this is true, She also went around telling people prior to her announcing it. So I think this point is moot.

https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/3592 Ann. 3592 Priority: 1 [2015-06-29 02:38:20 - Stage 13] The odd bug where the game thinks everyone is a fugitive has been fixed.

Note, This is a discussion and explanation of my opinions of announcement 3583 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/3583 This is intended to explain some things, and while I am specifically asking Aeo a number of questions, this is merely to enlighten him and all those that read this post, in our though process (of both this announcement and this case). Apologies to Aeo for being a scapegoat, I will buy you a beer when the World MD beer event happens (soon :P) and thank you for opening such a discussion Aeo. I cannot comment what the announcement was or wasnt aimed at. I wasnt informed it was aimed at anything, so i merely guess it was bad timing (similar to how, I posted the pip leaving things minutes after it, but didnt mean to relate them as I didnt know when Mur was going to make the announcement). In regards to this quest, I dont keep updated on everything that is happening in MD but have spent some time reviewing this all and writing this post. So I have vested just over an hour and a half reviewing and writing this post. As you can guess from the announcement, I wouldnt like to spend an hour or two reviewing every quest however clearly there is some outrage/confusion here so hopefully this post is worth the time. You sure about this? I ask since this makes quite a lot of difference (not accusing one way or another here, merely asking of the certainty) I ask the above question as he was asking for people to find the respective sponsors to give out the rewards and did not appear to be handling the rewards directly. Therefore, it throws into question the statement above that the rewards are in his own pocket. Mur mostly doesnt care where his silver goes. Its mostly "not his" but to be used for the game. I ferried lots of it directly to quest peoples for rewards and such. Which message is it sending? Im a little unclear on what you mean here, that we dont care if people steal rewards? Thats not really the message its intending to send, but please clarify if you didn't mean this. I have made an assumption! (And therefore anyone wishing to murder me, may join the line, Apologies for it being so long) No consequences is rather a fallacy in my opinion. To me this has quite big consequences. For me as a GM, I will reconsider all and anything Aethon does in the future as this is something that, IMO, has been handled very badly. The last I heard of him is that he is busy with exams and while I understand this can be a tiring time. One can spend a minute to log in and update people. The consequences of handling this quest badly will tar. The MD community will see that his previous quest was handled badly and they will consider this. As will anyone sponsoring his quests. I have even had people come to me asking for my help to fix a problem with their quest, for fear none will ever participate in their quests again due to it failing. I think the consequence of being known as a bad questmaker and such do exist. Also, anyone attempting to hoard rewards then leaving, isnt a major issue. These situations can be dealt with. Now if Aethon comes back he is going to have to resolve this before he wants to do anything else, because I see this as a blocker (programming speak, meaning it stops him completely) to him doing anything else in MD. If someone does this and returns, then we treat them according to the MD way, and they are treated as a thief stealing the rewards. Again, we dont know Aethons situation, so I am not calling him one, merely explaining how this would work. At the moment I am treating this as just something really badly managed and that he doesnt show the respect that running and finishing his quest deserves. It mostly isnt, since I dont know if anyone has proof where the rewards are. Well it can be resolved, See below :) Blackriders quest was resolved by my help, since I was personally involved in it before the issues. I was helping a friend trying to run his quest well. Blackrider merely had some "people management" issues, and thats mostly what I do in MD (Looking through my time tracker logger, I only spend about 20% of my MD time coding, the rest its all people management/helping/replying to stuff/etc) so I merely helped him finish his quest properly. Well, This hasnt been abandoned, since im talking! {citation needed} Meaning, again we dont know if they are in his possession :) Actually, the chaos for me trying to resolve this, is just trying to firstly work out what has happened. For this case its writing this massive post, reading through a series of messages Aethon has left and checking through my personal messages ingame about this quest (no small feat). Its been a lot of choas since I sent Aethon some comments about this quest actually. Your reward can be resolved easily. I will just give it out from the coins and creatures iv attained myself, where are you? We dont, unless there is exceptional need, steal creatures items or anything from people who are not playing MD. Its not right. Im personally against removing the avatars to shops too and am looking to stop that also. The simple solution is not just to take a load of things from that person. Stealing things from others causes more mess and confusion. To be entirely honest, I didnt help write, nor was I really involved in that announcement, I see it more as Mur telling you we wont be forced to resolve things (or that he doesnt want to) and for you to remember that just leaving causes major issues sometimes. My recommendation, for things like this, just send me a PM about it and ask me to look into it. Calmly explain whats going on and ask if I can help. I will go out my way to help you guys out, Its what my job is :) While ranty posts on the forum make you (you meaning, everyone, not just Aeo, I like a good rant sometimes :D) feel better at the time, Mur certainly wont see them so they just become a flaming match. We dont know whats going on with Aethon and I dont like to tar anyone a thief or cheater unduly. I'v now looked into this a lot, Aeo we can continue the rest via PM, please send me what you are missing and from who, I should have enough silver to cover the cost personally and not involve "MD offical treasury" in this at all (means its easier to resolve, etc etc) If anyone has similar issues with this or another quest, feel free to contact me. But mainly, we are not responsible for those who leave or mess up quests, BUT I personally will help you try and resolve things satisfactorily and asking me to help will work a hundred times better than a ranty forum post. Edit2: WOO, this was 1224 words 6621 characters after removing the quoting of Aeo's stuff... I can see where the hour and a bit went lol

Not easily.

Ann. 3587 - [2015-06-25 23:23:55 - Stage 13] - Permalink - Posted By Chewett 9001 likes Like More bugs with story mode should now be fixed, the most recent is that those who were unable to see any NPC's should now be able to see them, ~2000 accounts fixed.

Its still in my list of things to do, a number of more important things came up in front of it but I will try and have only just got back from event that was on in the last two days but I will look at it today.

Example report: I clicked on the top bar link <link here> I entered "useful reports are useful" and pressed enter The below printscreen shows its broken <broken image> I expected it to "show me kitties"

Apologies, I have been away helping an international competition today and yesterday and only just got back.

Please. when reporting bugs, do not just give me a screenshot and let me guess how you reached it, but detail it too. This helps massively as it gives me something specific to try rather than randomly trying to break it myself.

As a note, I still havent seen any steps to reproduce this bug :( I could probably reproduce it, but if you do report a bug, you already know the steps to do it so...

The order chosen isnt defined in the query, but since its indexed in ascending id, it means that for now it will select the lowest ID I believe And yes, you do need a grasan.

Something you might have forgotten, I was the one who provided the extensive list of ID's to playernames and helped you with that script. When I was later a coder I liked the idea so I implemented. It wasnt leaked :P

To focus on the positive points of the post, how do people think the interface could change. The optimial width of MD is planned to change to 1280. This fits the majority of screen sizes and this should be taken into account. If this discussion gets interesting I might leak the prototypes :D

As a note, you can call it what you like but it is still not allowed. You are modifying the behavior of MD to allow you to do things faster. This is an unfair advantage and who knows where you stop. Would you say that "Oh writing a bot to trade lots of items is fine because its just using MD", or what about a bot to attack again "im just using MD". I personally have wasted a lot of time where people have installed such scripts and forgotten or didnt know what they did and either they broke them, or the scripts were badly written and broke their MD. Although interestingly the new interface will have a large amount of customisation since we plan "slots" of information to move around the page. We know a number of people use scripts to gain an unfair advantage and some even brag about it and this isnt really fair. If script use becomes widespread we will have to just ban those using or making them because it is unfair.

ok then.

Rophs?

This will be worked on when I have finished the chat testing scripts.

Was fixed :)

Marked as not a bug for now, Its a wider issue and need a rewrite of the regen tick system (If you arnt around lots of things dont happen).

was fixed

Mur has said he has planned "some" way of replacing the things lost in story mode. However I dont know what that is. I shall contact him but he isnt working on MD atm as he is busy doing other things.

Potentially, I only mention it since I believe Grido gave his view on a number of things we discussed previously. Grido never found a solution he was happy me implementing as an improvement

There was another thread where grido replied to a number of these points giving his views.