Chewett

We are interested to know what you thought was the best thing to happen to MD in 2013. Was it Eon coming back to slaughter you or the new RE~2: PM format that saved your inbox? Tell us and be entered into a prize to win... something.

Happy New year to one and all :)

The images need to look good when scaled down to "creature sizes", You have creatures, so look :) Format doesnt really matter as long as it doesnt distort the image. Jpeg/PNG will be fine. It should be black and white. No colour. If it is accepted then it will be coloured by one of the MD team, possibly Mur.

I really like this, all of it actually (perhaps with some tweaks :P). Thanks to no one for bumping this idea (on a PM exchange) so i shall bump it publically. Specifically the "work places" bringing people together with teamwork. I really want to try and add a lot more recipies into the game so that resources are actually used. The recent item combiners makes recipes much easier (instead of having to do all the talking in chat you can just combine things and get an item) so this is on my list of "to do". I also love the idea of creatures working to do things. Makes sense when we have creatures that produce resources. Is there anything people think is a "really good" idea and that should be worked on first? This is a massive list and some items are going to take considerable amount of time I would quite like to do it all in some form or another. For me, the thing Im probably going to focus on first will be adding more recipes into the game using these new item combiners. Anyone else want to comment on the idea? I only see two people lol.

I read all posts except some of Murs philosophy, which interests me less. If you are talking about reasoning for a feature im very interested no matter the time. Why do you think i have so many posts on the forum? I reply to prettymuch everything lol.

While i cannot speak for Mur i read (nearly*) all posts, especially the longer ones because if someone has spent the time to write it out, you should spend your time to respect their views and read it. Edit: *Nearly: I normally dont read the long posts about philosophy and such mur posts, immediately, mainly because when i wake up at 6AM i dont want to be reading deep philosophy

The code is shonky and has been on my list of things to fix for a while. But i havent got around to it. I looked at it a while ago but realized there were deeper things i needed to work on.

If the object isnt clickable, you need at least one piece of artwork to turn it golden and make it clickable.

I dont agree that locking collectiable is the way to control depletion. Depletion is a social aspect and should be cured socially. If someone can show me a good plan of a quest that would require granting and removing keys, i might consider doing something to this.

This was brought up by Grido, he was wanting the ability to give/remove/give temporary keys for gg-deep. I said that, in that case, I wouldn't be granting tools to let him remove keys or giving temporary ones as GG is the only land in a position to limit access to their collector items and i was disinclined to give them even more power to control these tools without giving the other lands similar powers or boons.

The question which is more important to "Why not" is "Why"? If we had infinate time, we could implement lots of things on a whim, but since time is a big problem, anything we work on needs to have a reason.

I refer you to:

Change is exceptionally right. If you want to change something like this you will indeed need to write something like a paper explaining why your new idea should go against past documented explanations.

Changed above post slightly, edit reason "Minor change from will be implemented to May be implemented"

Currently? No. See the other topics for full reasons.

Possibly judging by the lack of response, however you have asked only a day ago during a holiday period when many people are not diligently reading the forum. I would wait a couple more days before declaring it pointless :)

I didnt get very many entries and was waiting for a couple of people who asked me not to close it. Since they havent got back i will consider closing and reviewing this in a couple weeks.

Ann. 2866 - [2013-12-27 15:27:30 - Stage 12] Posted By Chewett Santa IV The forth level of the santa creature has been released. This forth level requires 3 years age to upgrade to. Thanks to Duxie for providing this years drawing.

Yes. Soon.

Fixed.

Ann. 2859 - [2013-12-24 03:58:34 - Stage 12] Posted By Chewett We have probably identified the issue that caused the server to stop and will be looking into the issue. The server should be fine for now and we will announce further tests as and when they are going to take place so people know if the server is likely to be down.

Yeah im running a number of tests trying to reproduce the error, it should be back at the moment.

Mur has restarted it and we are back. I shall be running a load of checks to see what happened.

Update: The server MD runs on seems to have failed catastrophically. At the moment we dont know what the state of the server is in and we are unable to access it. We are waiting for Mur to get to a computer and ask hosting to restart the server to i can get on and fix anything that needs to be fixed. Luckily just before the auth system update i did a full backup so we have recent backups. We wait now, it may take a while for hosting to restart the server since its during the holidays... Sorry for the downtime, we are annoyed at the waiting too.

We do not have an ETA for when this is going to be fixed as we are having major server problems