Chewett

I may not be offically or unoffically part of the CoE, but i do care about their revival, and therefore offer my help. I hope you three know this, and accept my help. Im very sporadic about timings, its easier if people contact me about stuff and i try to attend anything. In other news, it seems rants are good after all, no? LOLOLOL

[quote name='Liberty4life' timestamp='1340136550' post='115437'] i dont think that matters, those are medals in here its about item images, so... since avys nor item images arent allowed to be made with epen, then i dont think one is allowed to color item images with computer, especially since there is no visible (or almost to none) difference between epen and real pencil, while coloring images physically and eletronically, difference is easily spoted, so.... [/quote] So for offical medals you are allowed to colour them with computer, but for the "peons" they arnt? sounds entirely stupid to me.

[quote name='Seigheart' timestamp='1340128170' post='115410'] I'm only asking because it's not right to only have a vote with one option. It's not an accurate indicator of the community's feelings on the subject. [/quote] If the community doesnt care enough to make one, then clearly they dont care about them not getting it back. If you feel strongly take some action.

[quote name='Grido' timestamp='1338823763' post='113366'] I thought they were meant to be coloured by hand as well? The page for item image uploads says hand drawn only, however it also says the images should be b/w there, which doesn't sound right [/quote] [quote name='Liberty4life' timestamp='1338835526' post='113377'] thats most likely got copy/pasted from avy upload page onto item page hmm item images can be colored of that i am certain, but seems like we need clarification on how they can be colored [/quote] [quote name='Liberty4life' timestamp='1338805902' post='113358'] is it allowed to add colors with software? i thought that ya are supposed to draw it with color pencils if ya want it colored >_> [/quote] I did the colouring for the MD Awards 2010(?) medal item images, and was asked to colour them using computer software, these were uploaded by rendril and i was under the impression there was no issue with them. Just remembered this when seeing one of these medals.

if a forum is easier... i did say you only needed to send me the details my suggestion would be to have a post per item, with a main pinned post explaining things. Then the items will be in order, and you want have a thread that is 2000 pages long

[quote name='awiiya' timestamp='1340035199' post='115266'] 2. I imagine that Chewett will open up a forum board so that I can carry out the updates that the Council asked for. [/quote] What a wonderfully strange mind you have to imagine me doing this If it helps, i can, i havent been told to do anything. This can be handled via forum pm if needs be

I am looking for anyone who is interested in running and taking charge of how the wikia will progress. Experiance of editing any wiki like pages is useful. Experiance of creating wikia style templates is useful but not necessary. Having previously edited the MD Wikia is good. If you are interested in this role please post here.

Although he doesnt gain anything from this WP wise, he does, in the fact that one more WP has been used and it will deepen his shop. Maebius recently lost a WP garnered from Sieg for helping him make a quest, which should probably be taken into consideration.

I would suggest using the templates provided here: http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/11893-md-7th-birthday-cake-quest/ Samons recipie was accepted for the cake, therefore i would assume it was "viable" as you put it

[quote name='Liberty4life' timestamp='1339788098' post='114957'] oh join left table XD sql... ofc [/quote] what else!

[quote name='Fang Archbane' timestamp='1339785555' post='114943'] like i said. this seems almost... too simple to be right. but thats my two cents. i fully support the talk Awii wants to have with the council, but i suggest that afterwards, however the talk may go, this scene gets made asap, so that we may more easily, effectively, and understandingly, speak, and get to replied to, by the Council. Edit: i realize the Council Members may be very busy indeed, but i feel they could cycle, make almost a time chart, of when one Council Member could be online, then another when the last one needs to get off, yada yada, so that theres some speed in the system, as in person andswers go much quicker o-o [/quote] Less on topic, every idea you have for MD, apparently needs to get put into effect right away Fang, you have said this about multiple very different things, each time impressing on us your newness, yet saying the idea "must be implemented now". And in my view, most of the things you are impressing that must be done "right away" are very important matters that need discussion. See Angiens shrine point where you essentially demanded a role to give out angiens without anyone else even commenting. More on topic, did you read what i was saying regarding singular people making decisions? Unless you give said person a power to make overall decisions on the spot, again there will be bad decisions and we go back to a game manger. As for the ballot, how is that different from emailing? And how by making them ingame, makes it faster? if we assume the same process is taken for pms as is for email, then there will be no change. [quote name='Seigheart' timestamp='1339785866' post='114946'] So, this seems to be a VERY important thread, and there have been others that the Council SHOULD have replied to... it's been a day+ for several of them... Why hasn't there been a reply by Council yet? Isn't this something they should deal with promptly? [/quote] A day in MD is nothing, mur has left important matters for weeks without answer. Posting comments like that, isnt likely to get a faster response, its just you wanting to make another jibe towards them, which definitely doesn't help matters.

does the creatures you initially created, have consequative ID numbers Say you recruited 5, respective IDs: 1 2 3 4 5 If you now had 1 2 4 5, then something might be up, but if you didnt have 1 or 5, its likely you didnt recruit them.

[quote name='awiiya' timestamp='1339712908' post='114806'] I'm not necessarily 100% sure of One Leader to Rule Them All. What I like most about the idea, however, is that it gives us a central point to go to and talk with. And it allows us to give feedback in a far more manageable way. We don't currently have that. [/quote] Yeah, its much more useful if we can all go to complain to one single person... i wouldnt want to be that person because that would be hell. See my point RE rendril... [quote name='awiiya' timestamp='1339712908' post='114806'] How more efficiency - appoint someone to communicate with. [/quote] That says more paperwork to me lol. you essentially force someone to deal with the public, all the time. Have fun [quote name='awiiya' timestamp='1339712908' post='114806'] How more creativity - appoint someone in the realm whose job it is to be fun and imaginative. Give them free reign. Let them be public, it's good to have characters that are in front of the scenes. Ask us. [/quote] Its all well and good saying "yeah we know what to do" I can claim that council needs to work on angiens and bring X Y Z into play. But the thing is that not everything can be done right away. I really like the Development Focus threads because it gives us a chance to properly say "we would like X to be done first" because there isnt the time to do everything. What about we, publically, appoint someone to collect ideas, and plans things together, and who relays these to the council? Personally i would think that they will be swamped with all interesting and cool ideas, none of which can be made because of time constraints. How many of you honestly issue personal requests to council asking for this and that? Maebius mentions it. I was always under the impression that asking for personal stuff was considered bad form for Mur, and therefore iv applied it to council. But knowing people, i would bet numerous emails will still be asking for X and Y stuff. Again, it falls back to, how much time do council have, and how are they currently using it, feedback is nice council [quote name='awiiya' timestamp='1339712908' post='114806'] And yes. I do think it's a good idea for the Council to answer questions on the spot. It's not like we'll be asking them to decide the future of MD. More like, Who are you. What do you do. Do you see what we hate? [/quote] Whats the reasoning for "on the spot" answers? I see little use of them, apart from trying to "trick" them into revealing themselves, by saying some form of personal information that reveals who they are. I can see a conversation saying, "yes we are watching" and pretymuch ending there, i dont really see what you want to ask. I personalyl want more information about waht they do, and what they are spending time doing. If X is taking a lot of their time, then we as a public could say "yeah just send offensive messages to everyone asking for personal requests" or something along that line. [quote name='apophys' timestamp='1339720616' post='114814'] Note that Mur being away might be partly an experiment to see how MD handles itself for the most part; to see whether his brainchild has grown independent enough yet. I suspect that Mur may be trying to make MD self-sustaining and, more importantly, self-evolving without his input being necessary.[/quote] Mur being away was not planned by Mur. End of discussion. [quote name='apophys' timestamp='1339720616' post='114814'] Replacing the council with anything without knowing the full extent of their duties is a [b]very[/b] bad idea. They are doing their job, slow and unpopular as it may be, it gets done. Anything new may not do it at all. However, something must be done to fix the issues at hand. [/quote] Si, without knowing what they do, its relatively hard to judge if they are doing it badly. Its very easy to say someone is doing a bad job, when you are ignorant of what they do. You may say, for example, that chewett is very slow with doing forum related changes. But you might not know that i also handle forum backups, hosting details including talking with them, Skin modifications to fix forum related bugs, adding/removing features that invision decide need or dont need to be in it, run the wikia as a representative to wikia.com, and manage md-archives on the admin side, and make backups for it. Not to mention the various works that needs to be just done as the forum admin such as banning and other parts. There is no one really that can judge what im doing, since no one else knows how long i spend on it, and such. [quote name='apophys' timestamp='1339720616' post='114814'] As a first step, we need to get the council to sit down and talk. A discussion, in game or on the forum, is absolutely necessary to gather information about the situation at hand. For this, the council needs a permanent representative, even if this representative remains anonymous and is unable to make any promises or decisions. Master of Ceremonies would do for now, but probably not permanently. [/quote] again, people seem to think a "representative" is a good idea, maybe it is, who wants to be spammed to death. Personally, i think awiyya would be an interesting rep, since they would be dealing with a tonn of rubbish. Although, my only concern in "nominating" them as forum rep, is that the timezone is bad for the majority of people, where most MD's are in EU time-zones. [quote name='apophys' timestamp='1339720616' post='114814'] [b]I suggest that we also elect a representative for the talks[/b], so that the council representative is not swamped with questions from all sides. And we need to make a list of topics that our representative would bring up in talks. [/quote] An organiser, whome runs the event is a good idea, not someone speaks for everyone... need o say game manager again? [quote name='Kyphis the Bard' timestamp='1339749381' post='114831'] I'd assume whoever the council nominates as their mouthpiece (if they choose just one person, they do have the option of discarding annonymity as a whole, remember) that whoever they choose would become nothing But the mouthpiece. ie still part of the council, in that they get all the correspondance, but they no longer get to make any decisions of their own in council matters. Logically, I would assume they just get whoever is doing the job of forum mouthpiece to extend the role into MD >.> But that is just me <.< All that said, from my interaction with the council I strongly suspect that it is organized so that certain types of tasks are handled by individuals. So it isn't necessarily the whole council that isn't working right. [/quote] again, we dont really know how the council works, a meeting or post to at least explain a few things to us would be nice. I dont really care which format its in, just information is wanted by us peasants lol

[b]Question: Do people think its a good idea for people to make on the spot decisions, regarding complex issues, with one person that assumes they know best for MD?[/b] [b]aka a Game Manager?[/b] thats essentially what you ask for, when you ask for a meeting to answer questions on the spot, with a single member of the council, and as you can probably tell, im against that

[b]TL;DR: wtf do council do? I NO WANT A STUPID "GAME MANAGER" AGAIN, LAST ONE WAS RUBBISH. council creativity needs to increase. Suggestions how?[/b] -------------------------- [quote name='awiiya' timestamp='1339708212' post='114782'] 1. I don't think anonymity has promoted accountability. Lines of communication between the Council and the MD people have been slow and out-of-game. We can send you emails, but sometimes they take forever to get a response. And when was the last time the Council posted on the forum? There needs to be a conversation between us and them, and right now there isn't. [/quote] Murry clearly made them anon for a reason, is this right? i dunno. I would personally be most interested in asking Mur why council was made anon and not public. Then again, i look at the last time we had one soul game manage (LOL) and... yeah, comments about that below. [quote name='awiiya' timestamp='1339708212' post='114782'] 2. I think the Council has lacked a full understandings of the mechanics of MD's soul. This is rather subjective, but none of the things they've developed have seemed to be pushing MD in a new or interesting way. From what I've seen, they take care of bills, pass out creatures, and generally keep the "order." That's not a way to create an atmosphere of interest. [/quote] Its relatively easy to sit there and go "X lacks understanding" because honestly, i don't think anyone understands it lol. i certainly dont. Please step forward if you are sure you know all about MD's soul and ect, i would like to learn more. The point im trying to make, is that Mur is very much an artist, wheras i see council more as an accountant. They do stuff, but not necessarily creatively ect. Perhaps that needs to change with some more direct interaction with MD peoples. [quote name='awiiya' timestamp='1339708212' post='114782'] 1. A singular leader that people know and communicate with directly. [/quote] Sounds a great idea, having someone public that can be communicated with, is a nice idea, but i would not like someone to "run" MD publically and openly... See my comment about a sole leader below [quote name='awiiya' timestamp='1339708212' post='114782'] 2. Much much much more efficiency. [/quote] I want the council to be faster, better and sexier! its quite a subjective and "random" thing to say. All of you wont know that i deal with the council with regards to forum payments and a few forum related matters that need someone "in charge". For example i went to council regarding the MD Wikia thing. Now, you only need to add a couple of "me" asking them a variety of questions, and jobs mount up. I have no clue what the council does. I know that they reply to me (sometimes lol) regarding questions i have, and i can logically work out that they surely must reply to others, but honestly i dont know what they do, so i dont think its entirely fair to say "they need to be better" when they might be actually doing a shedload more than i ever imagined. You guys didnt know they dealt with all the forum and site related "admin" answers, because i never told anyone. What else do they do? [quote name='awiiya' timestamp='1339708212' post='114782'] 3. A more creative direction. [/quote] yes+++ lol SUPERYES - how? [quote name='awiiya' timestamp='1339708212' post='114782'] The Council should show up prepared to answer our questions. We will not provide a list of questions beforehand [/quote] Ofc, that sounds logical, but... (see next point) [quote name='awiiya' timestamp='1339708212' post='114782'] - this will be the first time that the Council is forced to answer on the spot. If you need to delegate one person to go out of the Council, so be it. Do whatever you need to do to make this work. [/quote] council != one leader... I dont know the internal structure of a council, there might be one leader, if so, ignore this all. But the last time we had one leader, it worked TERRIBLY. For those who remember shoeps... no,,, just no. One leader is one of the worst ideas ever... You get massive issues with biased nature. I dont care how much someone claims to "act unbiased" it cant be done. By "forcing" a council to elect and allow one person to speak for them all, that's just stupid... A council, by definition is a group of people, who make decisions as a group. Essentially you are asking for them to say "X rules MD" which... as i said again, isnt a council. This is, assuming that there is no central "king" of the council, so if there is, ignore me. ----- I like the ideas of this, it sounds really good, but i would definately oppose any structure open or closed where there is one person going "I KNOW WHAT IS BEST FOR MD", admittedly we currently "apparently" have a "council" doing this, but i even prefer the idea of having two people, than one. [quote name='Phantom Orchid' timestamp='1339709104' post='114784'] Furthermore, I hope, for the sake of some very important roles in the realm of MD, that the Council decides to step up and meet, face to face, so we can hash all of this out and move forward. [/quote] Remember when Murry first made rendril his coder? he got tons of spam with people asking for tons of different stuff to be done... thinking about this, i think this might have been the reason council is anon. ---- and even more recollection. i shall recount something murry said about Jonn (for those that dont know, he was the first LHO leader/evil dude/wonderful guy/crazy man/THE JONN) Murry said something along the lines of "I have Jonn so that people think he is the evil one, and that i can sit in the background as the cute developer doing all the evil things and blaming him. Iv talked to people about random crazy theories, but having a council for everyone to blame, sounds exactly like the murry iv always known lol

[quote name='Liberty4life' timestamp='1339703326' post='114767'] i think murry meant that he as character mur is now lower rank than council, but as manu he is still in charge, so yeah.... [/quote] yeah, i agree with ya. But say awiiya goes aheads and demotes council... with no murry for now, what happens lol

[quote name='Seigheart' timestamp='1339698829' post='114757'] Mur is on hiatus to deal with his personal life. Council is in power. BUT, I do NOT think Council over rules anything Mur has said, unless it is something that has changed. (rules and such) [/quote] Not according to this Sieg: Ann. 1688 - [2010-12-01 22:45:18 - Stage 10] I also grant the council authority to judge over my actions in MD regarded as a demi-god player (like Tengri was for example), as opposed to the untouchable status of a god-like character. It will never be the case that i will argue with the council, i know that, but its an important official statement to make clear the hierarchy. Its also important to know that my actions from now on do not reflect the ideology, aspirations and things MD as a now selfsustaining organism values --- i thought there was some announcement about council "taking over" from mur, but that was the most relevent one i could find ------- actually thats quite open to interpretation, seems there was never a clear announcement one way or another...

[quote name='awiiya' timestamp='1339635828' post='114682'] The clock is ticking Council. You know, even though ours aren't official or in an announcement, we keep trust points for YOU too. And you're running just about empty. Awi [/quote] as an interesting point, with mur gone, if you depose council rashly, what do we do now? Its all well and good saying "i think X should replace Y" and i disagree with some of the things they are doing, but if you remove the only other people who have the power, and more importantly, the ability, to add new features, you essentially leave MD to stagnate? Food for thought. I might not like decisions made, but i acknowledge that decisions being made and MD moving in some form of direction, is much better than the whole project being abandonded? Or would you prefer that?

[quote name='Fang Archbane' timestamp='1339673238' post='114723'] hrm... well, it is possible the game lagged/glitched/twacked out/Mur got bored, ya know, but still, it seems odd o-o [/quote] Learn what deterministic means. No, show me something going wrong, and i shall show you the triggers to repeat it again and again

its not, not for them to magically dissapear how did you "get" them?

vote for the lulz top step of GoE

vote against me, simple decision

[quote name='SageWoman' timestamp='1339452137' post='114422'] To stop this bickering, icky "brown finger" pointing, will not one of you who actually HAS a charm, STEP UP, and revive Chewy and be done with it? Heck, give it to me, and I'll even make a big production RP out if it (to fulfill my fellow RP junkies out there) and revive him myself. Or not but it would have been fun. [/quote] did you jump in and not read what i said? someone has offered to revive me, for free.

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[quote name='Seigheart' timestamp='1339442712' post='114394'] Rhaegar, we both know that Chewett has a heck of a lot more influence to get things done than I do. The general populace would do as he suggests, than myself. [/quote] Yet as i said, i dont have the time, if you had come and asked me about this instead of killing me out of some random revenge and claiming it to be "helping spar" i could have given you some ideas i had to help him. Which as i said, i didnt do as i dont have time. Currently i cant help myself, so i guess im just going to drift away.