Chewett

Nepgear - The Inner workings of a memory stone detector - https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19141-the-inner-workings-of-memory-stone-detectors-16th-anniversary-quest/ You have to explain how a memory stone detector works. You can draw too if you feel like it will add to your submission, but it isn't mandatory. Entries will be judged based on how detailed the answer is, how unique it is, and how well does it fit in to MD lore. Rewards: 1st Place: 1 Anniversary creature + 1 Wishpoint 2nd Place: 1 Anniversary creature 3rd Place: 1 Anniversary creature Deadline: April 29th

New quest added: Demonic God - The Mason's Puzzle - https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19195-the-masons-puzzle/ Rewards: Anni Crit + 3 GC Anni Crit + 2 GC Anni Crit + 1 GC Deadline: April 29th

New quest added: Demonic God - Rock Paper Scissor - https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19191-rock-paper-scissors/ Rewards: Anni Crit + Choice between colored pope / colored elemental Anni Crit + The remaining pope / elemental Anni Crit Deadline: May 2nd. Can end early.

@Fang Archbane is now opening the MD Birthday with his mysterious day! (due to miscommunication he is on longer running day 14)

This post I will detail the information of what is going on, deadlines for quests, etc. Contact me if you want something adding here! Day 1 - Wednesday 14th - @Fang Archbane's day, no details provided. Day 2 - Thursday 15th - @Ungod Marind Bell! Day 3 - Friday 16th - @Ungod Marind Bell! 21:00 ST - Punday Night Kickoff - Fyrd at MD Archives building 4_1x2_6 Day 4 - Saturday 17th - Necrovion 21:00 ST - Riddles - Fyrd at MD Archives building 4_1x2_6 Day 5 - Sunday 18th - Necrovion 19:00 ST - CoE ceremony: Join the Children of the Eclipse at 19:00 Server Time, at Wasp's Altar, for a ceremony and initiation. 21:00 ST - Limericks - Fyrd at MD Archives building 4_1x2_6 Day 6 - Monday 19th - @Aia del Mana Loreroot! 21:00 ST - Yarn Spin-Doctoring - Fyrd at MD Archives building 4_1x2_6 Day 7 - Tuesday 20th 21:00 ST - Challenge Element Stories - Fyrd at MD Archives building 4_1x2_6 Day 8 - Wednesday 21st - @Ledah - Lands of the east at 7_localpub_2 21:00 ST - Humourous Stories - Fyrd at MD Archives building 4_1x2_6 Day 9 - Thursday 22nd - @Ledah - Lands of the east at 7_localpub_2 21:00 ST - Shaggy Dog Stories - Fyrd at MD Archives building 4_1x2_6 Day 10 - Friday 23rd - GG 21:00 ST - Fables - Fyrd at MD Archives building 4_1x2_6 Day 11 - Saturday 24th 21:00 ST - Tall Tales - Fyrd at MD Archives building 4_1x2_6 Day 12 - Sunday 25th 21:00 ST - Conspiracy Theories - Fyrd at MD Archives building 4_1x2_6 Day 13 - Monday 26th - @Kaya - Day of the Dead 21:00 ST - Avant Guard Poetry - Fyrd at MD Archives building 4_1x2_6 Day 14 - Tuesday 27th - @Fyrd Argentus - MD Archives 21:00 ST - Inspirational stories - Fyrd at MD Archives building 4_1x2_6 Day 15 - Wednesday 28th Day 16 - Thursday 29th Quests Demonic God - Rock Paper Scissor - https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19191-rock-paper-scissors/ Design a strategy/algorithm for rock, paper, and scissors. Compete with others for fabulous prizes! Rewards: Anni Crit + Choice between colored pope / colored elemental Anni Crit + The remaining pope / elemental Anni Crit Deadline: May 2nd. Can end early. Demonic God - The Mason's Puzzle - https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19195-the-masons-puzzle/ The walls of Tempest Fort needs some repairing - Tetris style! Rewards: Anni Crit + 3 GC Anni Crit + 2 GC Anni Crit + 1 GC Deadline: April 29th Nepgear - The Inner workings of a memory stone detector - https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19141-the-inner-workings-of-memory-stone-detectors-16th-anniversary-quest/ You have to explain how a memory stone detector works. You can draw too if you feel like it will add to your submission, but it isn't mandatory. Entries will be judged based on how detailed the answer is, how unique it is, and how well does it fit in to MD lore. Rewards: 1st Place: 1 Anniversary creature + 1 Wishpoint 2nd Place: 1 Anniversary creature 3rd Place: 1 Anniversary creature Deadline: April 29th Aia - Of Memery and Schemery - https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19154-of-memery-and-schemery/ Create a meme related to MD, or reply to someone else's meme with your own. Any number of entries is allowed, as long as there is only one meme per post. Prizes: 1 coloured elemental 1 coloured winderwild 1 coloured pope 1 16th anniversary creature Plushies for all who participate, commensurate to contribution. Deadline: April 29th Aia - Of the Apothecary's Delight - https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19126-of-the-apothecarys-delight-a-quest-of-the-sixteenth-anniversary/ Discover the new creature that has been released, and come up with creative ways to level it despite its combat ability. Prizes: 1 coloured elemental for anyone who manages to ascend the creature to the maximum level and provides the CTC to Aia 1 coloured pope for the player who manages to provide the most number of maximally ascended creatures to Aia 1 Wishpoint for the first player who manages to ascend the coloured elemental to the maximum level - already won by Ledah Deadline: April 29th Kaya - Scene makeover challenge: Bring some colour to MD! - https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19205-scene-makover-challenge-bring-some-colour-to-md/ Bring out your crayons and make MD shine like never before! Join the scene makeover challenge! Rewards: Anni Crit + 3 GC Anni Crit + 2 GC Anni Crit + 1 GC Deadline: April 29th Kaya (Samon) - Bringing out the dead - https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19202-bringing-out-the-dead/ Help make the (un)lives of MD's dead a little easier by finding a way to hide them from the corpse collector! Rewards: 1 WP for the winner in case of a great answer Coins and possibly other rewards, details pending deadline: April 26th Ledah - Ease My Conscience - PROJECT: REVIVE GRANNY - https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19215-ease-my-conscience-project-revive-granny/ Ease a murderers conscience and be rewarded. Rewards: 1st: Custom 1 use revival tool, based on your submission 2nd: Use of kill item as per rules here: https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19219-the-caretakers-shovel OR 10GC 3rd: 5GC Anni crit for 1st if 6+ participants, 2nd if 8+, 3rd if 10+. Plushies regardless! Deadline: All submissions by 24/04/2021 23:59 ST - Winner to complete their task by 03/05/2021 23:59 ST or pay the price Quest name: Trickster's ball Link: https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19209-tricksters-ball/ Description: A bouncing ball, can you find the pattern? Rewards: Most elegant solution - 1 Anni crit Most creative/unorthodox solution - 1 Anni crit Fastest correct solution - 1 GC All correct solutions - 5SC + 1 spell stone Lock in chaos Acoustic Remains Teleport to Papercabin Deadline: April 29th Pip's Pacifism ParadeA writing/thinking quest on pacifismhttps://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19208-pips-pacifism-parade/First - Anniv crit and Snowball, Second - Anniv crit and Nutcracker, Third - Anniv crit and Nutcracker, some additional small coin rewardsStart April 14End April 30 (may extend deadline if requested) MaGoHi - Birthday Cooking Quest https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19174-birthday-cooking-quest/ cook a dish that makes you feel nice/good /happy/wholesome Prizes: 3 GC anni crit 2 GC anni crit 1 GC anni crit Deadline: 14th of May (one month after MDB started) Steno Quest: Cognitive Dissonance-Jester's Jamboree https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19198-cognitive-dissonance-a-jesters-jamboree/ Description: The Jester's messed with Chewett's Role/Tag machine! People have been assigned new roles, help figure out what that new role is! Reward: Winner from lottery gets 2GC and 5 extra plushies (if you're okay with that). Winner from community vote gets 1 WP and 1 anniversary creature Timeframe: Now until close of anniversary. Community voting will close within 7 days of end of anniversary. Steno: You're hungover... again - https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19197-youre-hungover-again-re-make-of-last-years-quest/?do=findComment&comment=188400 Description: Political Mystery game. Each team of people are given clues to what happened the night before. They must attempt to get every clue (without knowing how many clues there are) and then piece together what happened-but the twist is, people are allowed to lie about their clues! Rewards: 1 WP for closest to my version (or best by community vote if tie) + Anniversary crit for 1st if 2 ppl, crit for 1 & 2, for 4 ppl, crit for 1st, 2nd, & 3rd if 6 ppl, and so on. If someone guesses who the partners are, or gets the closest to getting the pairs right, they win a random thing from me (literally going to RNG everything in my inventory, and give them whatever it rolls)+Maybe a creature from me. Timeframe: NOW until the end of the anniversary (23:59 ST of the last day). Community voting-if necessary will end 7 days after anniversary. Steno: Chewett's Decree - https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19224-chewetts-decree/ Description: This is a multi-route race. It has three different ways to complete the race after a certain point. Each path represents a different playstyle of many MD players. Choose your route wisely! Rewards: The first person to complete will receive an elu &2GC, 2nd & 3rd will receive 1 old, old crit from me or a just-released crit, and 4th&5th will receive 2 random spellstones and 2SC each. All participants will receive plushies as always. If someone is particularly fast, or particularly over-and-above in their entry, there may be further rewards... Timeframe: Registration opens NOW and closes 4/23 @ 23:00. at 4/24 @ 19:00 ST, I will post in the thread when the race starts. Aelis - Archivist for a Day https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19240-archivist-for-a-day/ Channel your inner Archivist and contribute to the MDA collection by documenting a subject of your choice. Rewards: 1st: Anni. creature + WP (if we have at least 3 entries); 2nd: Anni. creature + 1 GC; 3rd: Anni. creature + 5 SC; Anni. creatures might also be rewarded to high scoring entries not in the top 3; All submissions, regardless of score, get at least 5 SC or a spell stone; If there are at least 6 entries, Kyphis will also award a rare 6th Anniversary Aramor to his favorite entry. Deadline: April 29th summary: help Steno figure out what the answer to his own riddle is. Is this the beginning of a new quest chain? He doesn’t know either! timeline: now until 5/5 23:59 ST reward: all sensible answers-1SC and event plushies. Actual answer 1GC, 10 extra plushies, steno’s gratitude( which may take many forms))

As Duke of the East I wish to make a statement about the death of Granos. Ledah and Mag combined have come together to murder one of my citizens Granos. As Ledah is also one of my citizens I will consider this inner land politics and ask all land leaders to let us handle it within the land. Granos is free to Murder Ledah as he wishes. MaGoHi is a member of dst's alliance and therefore outside of this proclaimation. However knowing dst I imagine she would say "MaGoHi is ugly enough to handle his own problems" so I declare Granos is free to also Murder MaGoHi.

Hey all, I'm always looking for more people, I'm planning to start the discussions today. If you want to be involved contact me or post on the thread!

I would say that the heal button is probably used most, and that people are biased in how it currently works. Arguably Mur is correct.

Community feedback? Risky stuff ????

The process has not yet begun, so all are welcome to throw their name in (even once it has begun )

DNs should have moved over across the world now... fingers crossed!

Thats the old server, the new one is online! Is it still like that for you?

MD has just moved server, if you are having trouble getting into MD in 12 hours post here and we can try and help you

I think this is fixed?

After some discussion on discord and an appropriately sized bribe by Ledah I have decided that an onion is a herb.

Looks like a bug to me, how very strange. Worrying! ????

That is the primary one to consider but I planned to discuss some other items with you all too. Its kept.

Sunfire is I believe the only person who earned illusions by their good work in the game. He asked to be given the right and he has been. Dst, myself, and maybe Grido earned them by doing various bug testing and our accounts broke to let us use them. Back in the day a large swath of the public were allowed to go to MP2 and MP7 which granted illusion powers. Illusion spells are just spells. Illusions whereby you can enter the illusion yourself have a number of parameters, once in the illusion all your stats and other items are frozen and will be restored after you come out. There are various rules but they primarily boil down to do not abuse them. There are currently a fixed set of options. It depends on the illusion options you pick. Illusions you enter, are purely for your own account. Spell illusions can be casted like normal spells. We ran various events "masked balls" etc with illusions in the past. It was pretty fun! (Would someone like that again?). They are currently lost however I am wanting some discussion about what we think shouldn't be lost.

I am currently looking to start discussion groups relating to various areas that I see as important to improve in MagicDuel. I want MD to work a bit better by encouraging meaningful activity that changes the game. Putting the "player ran" back into MagicDuel and hopefully making it stand out from all those other games. These groups will work with be privately to flesh out some of the ideas before we present them more publicly or add in features. I will listen to all the ideas of those involved but at the end of the day I shall have the final say. This is your big change to influence MD in a dramatic way for the better so please do come at this with an open mind. Anything is open for change so do not worry about how things currently work, if we can improve it we can change it, and I am sure we can improve a lot of things! I intend to slowly add in changes which will hopefully allow them to be tested and tweaked to properly fit into MD. If you want to get involved please post on the respective topics: Land Loyalty - A project to review how land loyalty works and make it more relevant. Resources and "job tags" - A project to review what we are doing with resources and then how we can make a "proper" economy. Illusions - A project to review what illusions currently do and what we think it would be interesting to do with them. Gateway Island Rework/LHO/Tutorials - A project to review the Gateway Island and the tutorial

For full details of what the MD Rework 2021 project is please read the main thread. Land loyalty is somewhat of a silly concept because it does not relate to how loyal you are to a land. As the current implementation is it is better described as a "land presence". The aim of this project is to: Review how land loyalty is gained Review what it is used for (so we have a list) Discuss whether we think its uses are useful (or whether we need to change them to work with something else) Discuss ideas to improving it, or splitting it into multiple metrics I could quite easily see this project removing the "original" idea of land loyalty and instead creating a new "land loyalty" system which would more accurately describe loyalty to each land. We shall see how the discussions pan out! If you wish to be involved with this please post here and I will contact you all when I am ready to begin. We have been having some of these discussions on Discord so if you haven't joined it, this would be a good idea to if you wish to get involved. We may have meetings on Discord to facilitate faster replies depending on timezones.

For full details of what the MD Rework 2021 project is please read the main thread. An economy needs inputs as well as outputs, if you have too few inputs them your system will be starving and not function properly. However if there are not enough outputs there will be less reasons for people to participate in the system and items will accumulate inside the system. A good example currently is that gold and silver is piling up in the MD economy (I believe) as there is less to spend/use it on. This project aims to attempt to create a small economy which encourages people to use it and then slowly improve on it. In doing so we need to review what it currently does well and what we could do better. As an example, one idea that Sunfire has proposed that I had been considering from another game is land buildings. This could be something that would require continual upkeep. This is one of the ideas that will be discussed in the later stages. The rough stages of the project will be: Reviewing the current distribution of resources in active members (this will be done via an admin interface to see how resources are in the game and may be very interesting for those interested in stats). Reviewing the current tools and methods to inject these resources into the game Considering how the resource skills are progressed and how that could change Discussing "job tags" to force people to specialise Discussing "end goals" for the system to see if we can create something whereby resources are removed from the system because people actually want the products. I could see a big change in resources coming from this project because resources currently are somewhat under-utilised. It is quite likely this may result in the current resource methods changing and having skills degrade to reflect the change in how skills work. Possibly your current resource stats/items may become useless in the new system (although we may consider "moving" them over or compensating them. If you wish to be involved with this please post here and I will contact you all when I am ready to begin. We have been having some of these discussions on Discord so if you haven't joined it, this would be a good idea to if you wish to get involved. We may have meetings on Discord to facilitate faster replies depending on timezones.

For full details of what the MD Rework 2021 project is please read the main thread. Illusions are currently somewhat underused, primarily because they are buggy and have "zeroed" out people's accounts so they have lost everything. There is currently a manual process to backup accounts put into illusions but restoring it is complex and time consuming. Part of the work I plan to be doing on this is stabilising the system so it is easier to use and not likely to break an account. The project has two halves, the first will be something I will be working on behind the scenes: I will be slowly pausing all illusion entering methods so I can safely "pause" illusions Once done, I will carefully bring out every account from an illusion (some really old accounts are stuck so we need to handle it carefully) Then rework the core code to properly let illusions "work" The second half is where I will want ideas and opinions: I will be wanting to hear from people about how illusions "should" work and what people want from them In additional a discussion about what an illusion should/shouldnt be able to do will be very helpful in their re-implementation. I can see this project being very fruitful for both those who know how they work or those who want to learn more. Illusions allow you to radically change someone's account temporarily and this can have a lot of interesting and useful side-effects. If you wish to be involved with this please post here and I will contact you all when I am ready to begin. We have been having some of these discussions on Discord so if you haven't joined it, this would be a good idea to if you wish to get involved. We may have meetings on Discord to facilitate faster replies depending on timezones.

@Ledah and MagicDuel (Originally posted to Discord)

Interesting opinions, thanks Ungod! Whats problematic about the loading times? The "not in your scene" bug is probably A25 bad sceneloading, I probably need to do some performance optimisations on it after it was implemented by Mur. It is what it is, but it can change. I always listen to those who listen to me