Chewett

[quote name='Tarquinus' timestamp='1362999448' post='133760'] There seems to be a disconnect because I honestly don't recall any WPs having been refunded, and now I am faced with the loss of access. I'll put it simply: this is not the end of the world to me. Tarq still has a spell to get in Oak Tower, and Necrovion is effectively closed to him at this point, so the loss of access of Berserker's Charge is no big deal. But it's discouraging, you know? I am very much in favor of limiting access to people and I applaud everything you, Chewett, have done. But I'd like to know if there is some way to trace what I spent my WPs on and verify that I did in fact spend "refunded" WPs without knowing I was doing so. If it's a pain in the ass, let it slide for now! This to me is [u]not that important[/u]. But there is a morale factor in it, and I know it has affected Amoran the same way it affected me. I'd just like to think there's some way it can eventually be sorted out. If I can help in any way, please let me know. [/quote] If you are sure that you once did buy the access, and now cannot get it, then it definately was reset and you spent the wishpoints on something else. I have modified the Current and past WP's page to detail what you have used them for. This should allow people to tally up what they spent.

see here: http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/13848-beserkers-oak-tower-and-lr-back-entrence-key-fix-information/

First, before i start any of this, i will point out something. Im not paid to do what i do, i do it because i find coding and MD exceptionally fun. However there are always things that you have to do which aren't fun. I spent a good chunk of my time trying to find out how a very large number of accounts got access to a load of secret areas for no apparent reason. I have still not found it and still dont know what has happened. This is the same with the research since it is rendrils area and i did not code it. But it hasnt stopped me spending many hours on it. This is not fun. There was a choice, between letting many accounts have access to many scenes they shouldnt, or implemented the only fix possible, this one. I discussed with council as to how they wanted but they also did not know what else could have been done. I have also seen people be offensive towards me, personally, both on the forum and on email about the issue. This is also not fun. I have spent my time trying to fix issues ingame and you, MD, respond as you did? Makes me not want to do anything honestly, its sickening how you seem unable to respond nicely. But here i am still making this topic. The fix is bad, it should have been done by mur when he did it, but he probably didnt think of resetting access like this. He could not have known that some big key issue would occur. He did not do it to spite you, nor have i. Previously when you went up a mindpower you lost these keys. Mur originally just refunded all WP's used to buy them, then if you lost them when upgrading a mindpower you could rebuy them. This meant that those who didnt lose them gained a or three free wishpoints. This is why you didnt get refunded WP's now, because you already had been. [b]There are two options for this thread. Either we can discuss nicely the issue and possible solutions. Offer suggestions as to what can be done now and try and work towards another solution. Or you can be offensive, i shall close the thread, and not attempt to help anyone else regards to the issue. You can deal with council.[/b] [b]Your choice.[/b]

[quote name='Shadowseeker' timestamp='1362997426' post='133755'] Theoretically someone who bought the access after the refund now has the wish used in the shop could have lost access with this? Possibly, I don't know if it works that way or not. Easy way to check would just be to make sure everyone who has the wish used also has the key. [/quote] no. All those that hadnt bought the WP lost access.

[quote name='Nimrodel' timestamp='1362916241' post='133702'] I see the point chewett. And thats why I am asking you. Whom am I to blame for the mess I am in? [/quote] blame me, everyone else does. It appears to be the MD way to want to blame people nowadays.

[quote name='DARK DEMON' timestamp='1362912861' post='133698'] [font=comic sans ms,cursive][color=#006400]But I do have access... [/color][/font][font=comic sans ms,cursive][color=#006400] [/color][/font] [/quote] no you dont, try going in.

[quote name='DARK DEMON' timestamp='1362912656' post='133696'] [font=comic sans ms,cursive][color=#006400]I had asked Mur about my access to Tormented Souls without spending a wishpoint, which was apparently not possible cause my story mode was incomplete. He said I'd rather enjoy it for now cause he didn't have time to look into it.[/color][/font] [font=comic sans ms,cursive][color=#006400]Is my access now gone?[/color][/font] [/quote] if you did not buy access you will not have access.

[quote name='Nimrodel' timestamp='1362910075' post='133693'] I have explicitely mentioned that i am not requesting the areas to be open. I just want people to give up a headsup. So, who am I supposed to rage out on? On mur for the giving out the freebie? On you for fixing the fix? On the council for allowing the fix? On people for not rewarding more wishpoints in their quests? On my bad luck? Any suggestions? Whom am I to ask if all the freebies that have been given before wont be taken back? [/quote] Surely you can see that there was no possible way to give a heads up since it was not known this fix would need to be implemented? This wouldnt have been done if the keys hadnt broken, something that was not expected nor do we still know what is wrong with them. A heads up would have only been someone going "this is going to change in the next couple days" because it was a completely unexpected event that occured. It seems a tad unfair to be demanding a heads up for the unexpected. Mur could not have known this would have happened years down the line. Do you not feel this is slightly unreasonable since it could not have been expected.

While it is unfortunate to have had to taken such an action, this should have been the action mur took before and i can see no other way of doing it. Feel free to make suggestions if you really want to.

[quote name='Shadowseeker' timestamp='1362908572' post='133690'] Does this mean research for clues is in work now? [/quote] feel free to properly contact me regarding it rather than using a completely different topic to ask.

[quote name='Nimrodel' timestamp='1362906726' post='133687'] I don't understand why the wishpoints were 'refunded' in the first place if people just wanted to block access in the future. At least a warning should've been given saying 'Look dude. You might get royally screwed in the future as we will ask you to pay again so save up the wishpoints so that you can use them later when we cure you of the 'side effects of the big fix'.' I don't really understand how the coding works and what all keys were corrected, but wishpoints are really hard to get and I really loved my access to the the closed areas. Don't get me wrong. I am not asking you to give me wishpoints or opening the areas again. I just want to ask you people to give a friggin heads up next time because its really fishin frustrating to get a refund for that beautiful fridge you've always wanted to buy saying it was a result of some policy change, then suddenly taking it away without any heads up and asking for payment saying that the shop policy was just fixed and you'll need to spend to buy it back. Oh well market people, I already spent the cash you refunded me saying the fridge was for free. Now I really need the refrigerator and don't have the money to buy it back. Thank you very much for your genius fixes because they just ruined my magical experience. [/quote] Becuase mur couldnt think of the right way to do it, and therefore choose an easy but bad way to "fix" it. If you prefer i can reset it so that half of MD has access to all of the locations for free. Because something has broken the majority of all the secret keys and im doing my head in trying to work out what it is since i havent changed anything. Same with the Research things.

At this point i consider all Mur wishs complete as i just finished the last one, if anyone has got a mur wish that hasnt been completed contact bugs and cc council into the email.

[quote name='BFH' timestamp='1362697960' post='133590'] Not many care for organizing things. Question is: What they, the people, gain from organizing events, quests or whatever? I might sound rude, but not many do something if they aren't rewarded. [/quote] BFH and i have initiated discussions with two TK leaders and (i think we also pmed it to the most recent one) about rewarding quest makers, but none of them seemed bothered to take the time to plan something nicely and propose it to council.

[quote name='No one' timestamp='1362696089' post='133588'] [color=#0000cd][u]Chewett, I provoke you to collect[/u][/color]. You are making me lazy because I "hoard" resources and I am all for "hoarding" ? I call you lazy for not knowing what collecting really means. If you agree with Chewett, I provoke you too: 1. Grab a tool, collect your first 100 resources. 2. Make some recipes using Mur's initial idea. [/quote] Dowsing: 10 (10.5) Waterhandling: 17 (17.17) Experimentalism: 7 (7.14) *filtering: 7 (7.24) Already done.

As commented in the previous one, it is a better idea to send bugs to bugs@md, instead of deciding yourself if its a bug, due to the more limited experiance you have with bugs and the fact that the land rules superseed any for contests and others, stating that you need to email bugs. Really you should change your rules so they dont contradict the official rules and confuse people

[quote name='Zyrxae' timestamp='1362631578' post='133558'] The brief poll on this topic and points raised in discussions with several individuals, including my conscience: -> People are still far less likely to [i]consider[/i] buying based on a very subjective description than if they see an image up front. A picture is worth...well, several gold, potentially. -> Avatars belong (in the mind of the public) to their wearers; seeing an avatar in a shop doesn't devalue it --> Not so; seeing an avatar anywhere but on its wearer is a small sacrilege. (A sole voter in the poll and no one I talked to agreed with my conscience in this statement.) ---> If other people don't see an action of mine as wrong, I'm probably the one who should back down. The ends (suiting mental images to visual ones) justify the means (openly displaying the latter sort of images). Besides, I should be less headstrong overall- Flexibility- I'm open to input in deciding how long to wait before removing images of previously sold avatars from the shop. Leaving the images and prices up gives potential buyers an idea of their worth, but people might be turned off knowing that their avatar of choice would remain on public display. [/quote] Legally all the artwork belongs to MagicDuel and therefore you are not permitted to rehost them. However provided you remove them as soon as you sell he artwork and state that you are using the images in a way that conforms to fair use policy then it should be fine. Did you speak to the artwork approvers for the legal aspects?

[quote name='Fang Archbane' timestamp='1362594301' post='133539'] My pm system has been breaking recently chew. I don't receive a good half of the PMs I should. Idda logged it as a bug but "mp7 is broken". [/quote] Congratulations. That comment made me angry. You succeeded. Why don't you try viewing the FORUM pm I sent you magicduel.invisionzone.com/index.php?app=members&module=messaging&section=view&do=showConversation&topicID=24176

[quote name='Fire Starter' timestamp='1362591785' post='133536'] Shem, you need a proper Chinese or Japanese, so you can be sure the tea has been prepared the right way. Of course, I always offer my services when it comes to tea, even if I don't belong to those two obvious nationalities, just because tea has become almost a religion for me, aside the pure chemistry. [/quote] Shem stated It was a crafting event and not a role play one so I don't see any problems here.

[quote name='Nimrodel' timestamp='1362586819' post='133532'] Why chewett? [/quote] Do not contact me for this. Fan has issues nicely talking thugs through and I was hello him with regards to PR but since he has decided to break some of the promises he made with respect to it I shall be unable to help him with this. I have sent this privately but it appears he has ignored it. Quite hard when it pops up going "you have a pm"

Dear Murry, Thank you for all you have done for MD, Its been a great 7+ years sharing MD with you and everyone and i am exceptionally pleased i found the game. Thanks for taking the chance to let me do everything you have. Its really changed my life. I hope you have a great birthday and im sorry i cant be over in Romania with you to celebrate it. Have a pint of tea for me! Chewett [size=2]------[/size] [size=2]PS: Traditionally its rude to wish someone a happy birthday before it is their birthday, considered a slur in parts, Since i agree with this i have created this thread as a proper birthday one, to wish my thanks and best wishs to murry. I would ask it is not merged.[/size]

[quote name='Fang Archbane' timestamp='1362475344' post='133437'] I rarely use the pickles for myself Chewett. Fyrd says a pickle or two for self use on occasion isn't bad. The only time I used them solely for myself, was when I got lost in the maze on purpose and mapped it. And even then, I Only used 2. I do not abuse these pickles. I will not abuse these pickles. Please do not insinuate that I do. [/quote] As you wish... i dont have time to continue this discussion with you. Please remember the reason they should be given out for.

[quote name='Chewett' timestamp='1362474365' post='133431'] Will you now use your [b]pickles to aid yourself more[/b] than you did before? [/quote] [quote name='DARK DEMON' timestamp='1362474533' post='133432'] [font=comic sans ms,cursive][color=#006400]Fyrd wouldn't just hand over his jar to anybody.[/color][/font] [/quote] Im not saying he would hand over the jar... please read the question DD, this is where your communication problems cause arguments. I specifically wanted to know if fang is going to abuse the pickles he claims are for others more, now he has a limitless supply.

Why are you applying again? Will you now use your pickles to aid yourself more than you did before?

[quote name='Seigheart' timestamp='1362344441' post='133362'] He hasnt logged onto the forum since Dec 31st. He's long gone now. [/quote] he cant login because he requested to block himself. However as Ackshan said you can read the forum freely or with alts.

As tarq said, it was probably CF breaking out site becuase nothing was amis on the server. Wonderful cloudflare... and people wonder why i didnt want it.