Chewett

All your creatures dying isnt a victory Tipu Eon could have wiped out all my creatures, I wiped out all of yours. One day you shall become strong.

You guys really need to learn to read announcements: Ann. 2525 - [2013-04-02 14:30:27 - Stage 11] Birthday Questing - Have you got your Questmakers Pass? During the MD birthday we would like you to run your own quests. The difference from normal is that we want them to fit certain criteria. All questmakers who want to make a quest for the MD Birthday need to contact council to inform them they will be making one. Once we have received this we shall add you to the list of questmakers. Quests should be fun, inventive and shouldn't take over a week to finish. We ask that you do not state you are sponsoring any rewards for the quests and [b]do not announce the winners until we tell you can.[/b] This is because our rewards will be given out based on a wide range of criteria and want to ensure fairness across the board. You are free to give rewards for the results but we do not want you to state them before hand. For the majority of quests, assume that 1st, 2nd, 3rd position will be given rewards by us. All quests that players participate in will be judged by the new quest voting system, this will give us and the Treasure Keepers an idea of how fun the quest was. Quest makers will receive rewards based on how fun, interesting, difficult the quest was. These are not the only criteria, but if lots of people loved your quest you are likely to get a nice reward. All questers that participate in quests will get points based on how many they complete. These points will be scaled based on a number of undisclosed factors. Quest rewards shall be based on a large amount of categories for competing quests, not just on number. All questers that win a quest will get some form of reward so it is not just for the person who finishes the most. If you want to apply for a questmaker pass so that your quest is counted in competition contact council with Playername Quest name Approximate quest difficulty (easy, medium, hard) Approximate quest time (short <30 minutes, medium <3 hours, long day+) Quests should be run during the MD birthday and should end during or just after the event. This will allow us to promptly announce the winners and rewards.

[quote name='Magistra' timestamp='1366996947' post='135332'] It worries me that it is being tolerated. Ask children in poor countries if they like being a slave, working 16 hours a day for almost no money. Ask them if they like being a slave for older males from rich countries. [/quote] In the previous auction, people have a choice to become a slave, and gained money from the sale. Furthermore they gained an item that is incredibly useful. All three of these points make it entirely different to the situation you describe above among the many other differences. It appears that you havent seen or even taken the time to look into the very simple contracts some people had. The majority of them were only for a period of a month. But it is much easier to rage about some injustice you have no clue about and make tenuous comparisons. When you have looked into how this works properly we can continue to discuss your issues with it because at the moment you are merely trolling the post and it is spam.

[quote name='Magistra' timestamp='1366996005' post='135330'] Ridiculous! You don't joke about things like being a slave. And if one wants to be one or wants to have one, go to a sm website. [/quote] This is a game magistra, something where people roleplay and pretend to be other things. Being a slave in MD conveys certain things, such as doing what the master entails and normally having a leesh. This has nothing to do with s+m and it is worrying that your mind first jumps to it.

This has been updated to use a nicer display for warnings and sucess. See below: [img]http://magicduel.com/temp/better_feedback.jpg[/img] [img]http://magicduel.com/temp/better_feedback_2.jpg[/img] We are planning to slowly move other warnings and similar over to using this format, for a more standardized and easier to use MD.

[quote name='Elthen Airis' timestamp='1366983335' post='135325'] [i]I have a remark in taking account of the latest voting for MD Birthday's quests. It is rather interface involved. If possible it would be better if you actually see a screen that confirms your vote, cause otherwise it's rather unclear if your vote was counted or not. Otherwise, great feature! Elthen[/i] [/quote] It does state your vote has been counted, but i was rushed to do the code so it was ready on time. i plan to make it more visible of voting.

[quote name='samon' timestamp='1366955462' post='135310'] The IP addresses appear to be fixed per train line. I usually have IP 88.128.80.5 or 88.128.80.6. I also occasionally take the train with IP 88.128.80.4 and have most certainly used other trains as well, a while back. [/quote] Cool, that means they are using NAT and not assigning global IP addresses. Thanks Samon, i shall look into this now.

If this is a MD Council sponsered quest, how does this compley with not telling people the winners of the quest?

If this is a MD Council sponsered quest, how does this compley with not telling people the winners of the quest?

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[quote name='samon' timestamp='1366914559' post='135286'] Basically Chewett wants us to spoil him how to easily get his mp3 alts into Loreroot. Anyway, this seems like it'll be fun enough, so I'll try to get some alt out to defeat them. Is there something like a deadline, or can we take all the time we want? [/quote] Definately, you got me. Damn! When someone does it, i will announce, and then wait a bit longer, depending on "how" they do it. Some ways will be nicer than others. The more effort needed that a newer player wouldnt necessarily be able to do, will affect the reward.

This is planned to occur in half an hour

I primarily want to prove that it is possible, without too much money or help. Iv talked to a lot of people saying it is impossible, but i wanted to test that.

I have a quest for all mindpowers, It is to beat the LR guards (both of them) at MP3. If you are not MP3 you should create a secondary account to do this and participate in the quest. Some methods to beat the guards are not permitted to win the quest. I shall not detail them due to the fact this would be a spoiler but you can contact me to ask if something is or isnt permitted. A winner will send me full logs and a description of how they beat them. Including important details like creatures, anything used, and stats. There will be rewards for anyone that can beat both, also rewards for peolpe that can beat one. Any guenuinely new MP3 that can beat them will also eligible for a prize no matter if the initial prize is claimed. I am still in discussions with the council, but i believe at the moment since this quest is a theory one and not possible at other mindpowers, i will reward any of the winners accounts the reward. This is however open to discussion from the council but i do not see any issue with this. The reward is likely to be either a WP, or something that the user wants, i have a 6th anni aramor that possibly could go to a better home, along with a variety of creatures and spells. Essentially the winner can ask for something and we can discuss it. This quest is to see if any of the smart MD players can beat them, so that we can work out how and if they need to be changed, due to changes in how some of the creatures in the LR guards army works. Good luck to all :) ==== UPDATE: Ann. 2894 - [2014-01-11 20:42:50 - Stage 12] Posted By Chewett Ary Endleg was the first to present a strategy and win against the LR guards at MP3. For this effort he has been rewarded a wishpoint. The contest to win against the guards at MP3 will remain open but further wins may not necessarily give a reward.

Ann. 2542 - [2013-04-25 02:40:18 - General] Planned maintenance is scheduled 22:00 to 23:00 to work on some of the scenes in MD. During this period of time you may be unable to move or see scenes. Further information will be posted on the forum during the work and any issues you are experiencing can be posted on the appropriate topic. We hope to minimise the disruption during this time however please be aware of these issues during the time. Thank you

[quote name='SageWoman' timestamp='1366676054' post='135178'] Eagle Eye, I am trying to upload my submission and they keep failing. They are well within the parameters. I am getting this Uploading is not allowed message. Who do I speak to of this? [/quote] upload them on any one of the thousands of image hosting websites

[quote name='samon' timestamp='1366495374' post='135109'] Quite a few murders were, in a way, a punishment, only not one from council/Mur. [/quote] I agree in that that many killings were punishment, but not from Mur/council/authority. [quote name='samon' timestamp='1366495374' post='135109'] But back to the point, I don't think the jail system really is there to be nicer than banning. I believe it's rather there because MD is what we make it, so banning a player is like banning a part of MD. It's the same reason why you can't get your account deleted. When you remove a player you remove part of MD history, which should only be done in the most extreme cases. [/quote] It seems we are saying the same things its nicer in regards to keeping MD as MD, in that as you said, banning removes a player. Actually one such player has actually returned after a ban, but i wont name him as he may not. So its not necessarily as final as it seems.

[quote name='Tom Pouce' timestamp='1366493470' post='135105'] But since about 1 year that i play i get not that impression, personnaly i was threaten of banning first intead of being contact with explanation or nice discution firts (for my participation in gardening), [/quote] I would ask if you have proof of them saying you will be banned, rather than being jailed. I would think you more misunderstood if initially, not understanding how things work. Trust me, Ban has only been used by massive spammers or those who have attempted to maliciously broken the game rather than you advocating growing and smoking illegal drugs. [quote]nd i have seen many death just for fun of it (and that is really an disguise banning for undertermine length , depend of others players or concil ) . in fact what i see in forum , is more the feeling of jumping to threaten or judge "apriory" with the most severe outcome first, and look only after ...[/quote] No one has ever been killed as a punishment in my knowledge. Feel free to point out where someone has been killed as a punishment.

[quote name='Phantom Orchid' timestamp='1366164328' post='134981'] If you can catch me running around as a fugitive (jail is so easy to escape), [/quote] You are correct, Perhaps you should read about the reasoning why jail is so easy to escape. http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/13988-did-you-know-jail/

Over the past couple days iv had a lot of questions and in both chat and PM form about Jail. Why can people escape? Why are they allowed to play? Why are they not just banned? and i thought it might be interesting for me to post the responses on the forum. [b]What is the difference between Jail and Banning?[/b] The main difference between MD and other games is that there are two primary punishment methods. Jailing and Banning. If you are Jailed you are sent to the jail scene and marked as a convict. If you are banned you cannot play, cannot login, cannot do anything. In MD's history very very few people have been banned, the preferred mechanism for punishing people is jail. [b]So why have two methods?[/b] When you are banned you are essentially not permitted to play the game. However when jailed you can still do a large number of actions, including escaping, sending PM's and still being involved in the world. Being sent to jail can just be part of your character and a number of players have successfully woven this into their characters history. Jailing a character allows them to continue to do what they were, and gives a much larger range of actions than just being banned. Jail as a punishment is the exclusion from the main "outside" world, many people treat jail as a ban, and dont bother logging on, but a smaller subset has roleplayed their being in jail, given jail "reports" on the forum or escaped and continued to play. [b]Jail is so easy to escape![/b] Over the past years iv seen numerous convicts stating that "Jail is so easy to escape" rather smugly, as if it is some achievement. Its humorous to see that they dont know very much about it. Jail is designed to be relatively easy to escape. I didnt understand why it was so easy to escape until i talked to Mur about it and being able to escape fits in perfectly with letting people "play" while being punished. If we wanted to, we could easily stop you from escaping it, and if we wanted to go all the way we would just remove jail completely and ban you. But thats not what MD is about. MD is different. Just like resetting the GoE piller combinations, methods to escape the jail have slowly changed so that they are not entirely widespread, It keeps it as a level so that people need to do some work to work out exactly how to escape. But the likelihood is, at least while im around, there will always be a way to escape, provided you are smart enough to work it out, and have some friends to help. If you are sent to jail, you can wait out your sentence, or attempt to escape knowing you are going to be in there longer if you are caught. To add more roleplay value there is now the fugitive system so that people could be "caught" if a number of people want to send you back to jail. Its all about having something unique, giving players the ability to change their own fate, become that criminal that keeps getting sent back to jail. or someone who is evading the law to prove their innocence. ---------------------------------- If people like this sort of thing, i might post some more up when i get a bit of time. Some of the design decisions, and lore of MD is interesting, and it appears many people have forgotten, or never heard of some of the genius behind MD. So comment if you are bored/like/dislike this so i can get some feedback

[quote name='dragonrider7' timestamp='1366339204' post='135046'] As an artist I would definitely support this....here is a boost for this quest. I sponsor a Wish Point (If I am allowed). I am having a WP with me for a long time, I was keeping it for my dragon quest, but I aint getting time to bring it up, so I am sponsoring now (I haven't ever granted a WP to anyone, I guess it would work he he). -rider [/quote] In discussion with dragonrider he can sponser the WP, he will need to reward it however.

I will sponser a WP if the MD council are not sponsering it and dragonrider cannot. Mainly because MD council can give out better things than WP's

[quote name='dragonrider7' timestamp='1366339204' post='135046'] As an artist I would definitely support this....here is a boost for this quest. I sponsor a Wish Point (If I am allowed). I am having a WP with me for a long time, I was keeping it for my dragon quest, but I aint getting time to bring it up, so I am sponsoring now (I haven't ever granted a WP to anyone, I guess it would work he he). -rider [/quote] To sponser a Wishpoint you need a wishpoint code. If your wishpoint is in the top right of your screen, and given to you by someone you will not be able to give it away.

[quote name='Pothos' timestamp='1366207798' post='135000'] Much as I might disagree with Tipu on his uses of 'u' and 'b4', On this I must say I agree. I saw the anouncment, and I read the forums posts here, the one thing that jumped out at me was that it didn't sound like poe to me. If only to ally the minds of those who think this, Or even to sate my own questions, could the logs be checked for the IP adress that Poe's account was logged in from, and what she normaly logs in from? If it differs, could a check be done to see who else uses the newer ip adress? (this is said with an understanding that IP adresses do change, by location, or by a few other reasons.) [/quote] Iv just performed a check and her IP address hasnt changed in a while, not since at least 2013-02-19 from just pulling some of the more recent data. So while it is certainly away from her initial character of "dreams are sacred" it appears it was indeed her.

[quote name='tankfans' timestamp='1366206441' post='134997'] What's a Mur Egg? [/quote] Could be anything. Who knows. Turn up and we shall find out.