Chewett

Php and Sql has been used in my md scripts for ages, so im glad i might be able to incorporate my "services" into objects So i would love to help you test it. and ofc mur (or anyone) ya can ask to see my "MD scripts"

This is my nominal post for the day person/alliance/land/tag This already does this in part, It brings up numbers linked to the alliance and land, You just need to know what number means what. And name is already implemented But yes it would be intresting to have this implemented slightly better It would be good if the suggested syntax and language constructs be implemented as suggested in a pm i sent to you about a year ago, But i suppose that it will have been deleted as "more work!" So my only comment is "KEYS!"

[quote name='Pipstickz' date='23 October 2009 - 01:27 AM' timestamp='1256257671' post='45516'] So...what have Lifeline and Chewett done for Marind Bell lately? They've both been alliance leaders, and have had the chance, but have they done anything? How many Marind Bell alliance members do you see out and about, compared to other alliances? The latest positive change I see in Marind Bell is the Sparring Grounds. [/quote] Very Good question, What have we done. Nothing. But there is a reason, if a bad one for that. Mur. If you read the adventure log there were several meetings with I, Liberty and Him. In those meetings he outlined a plan for Marind Bell that he wanted to take Forward. Changing the alliance structure and also Making Himself the head of The Soe For the period of time. Now in that meeting we were told to do nothing about Soe and Marind Bell until Mur had readied the changes, and then made them. We have followed what he asked of us, until recently when we asked him about his plan, Which he confessed he had forgotten entirely. So, We are to blame in the fact that we followed Murs plan, But i would not say that is something we could have refused I do not blame Mur for this issue, for he is busy, But i am saddened that you Pip are asking what we have done and i have had to say this. All the plans he made with us, Cannot be fufilled. Much time spent preparing the alliances, and waiting for Mur to make the final move. All for nothing. [b]We will move on. We will make Marind Bell Better. And We shall NOT rely on one person to help us do this.[/b] We Do not need the King position to continue our plans, For they are ones that the Kingship only has interrupted breifly. We are now collecting together a new "team" so we can work effectively. If Lifeline is made king or if Pip is made king, we shall follow our plan. For we believe it is a good one. And on a final note I ask myself, [b]What have you done for MB Pip? Or even better, What have you planned for it?[/b] Because the changes Mur had planned were something that would have Made MB one of the most intresting and strongest lands. And we did not want to sacrifice that for a couple of stupid things that Mur didnt like.

Grido is most definately right Dst is most definately right

[quote name='Liberty4life' date='21 October 2009 - 11:50 AM' timestamp='1256122222' post='45349'] unless chew doesnt candidates me votes for ya as well [/quote] My Vote if Firmly Behind lifeline, We shall Be co Running the Land with him king and me being the council head until we have a vote and another person succeeds me. I urge you, If something occurs such as this, wanting to vote for i and not Lifeline, I urge you to vote for him. He holds my principles and Values and know that he will make a great king

[quote name='Fenrir Greycloth' date='18 October 2009 - 03:21 AM' timestamp='1255832499' post='45014'] As I am sure you expected Mur, you will recieve nothing but "finish what you started"s. This is a very good piece of advice. We all anxiously wait what you have planned with the scholars and black letters and the changes to the battle system(I don't look forward to the battle system myself but others do lol). Hopefully we con complete these before Alpha Ten. [/quote] Come one fenrir, Sucking up wont do you any good. You know he only casually mentioned two of these features and you have no idea about them. And really, A battle system change would be a whole stage likely as it would be so big [quote name='Jester' date='18 October 2009 - 05:06 AM' timestamp='1255838763' post='45024'] You consider removing the RPCs is big enough to go to v10? Wouldn't removing a failed feature be going back to the beginning and having to try again? With the way MD is right now I'd say move on to v08, or v07.Torches was implemented, and that failed. Not very many people even try, and those who do can't find people to attack and just sit at GoE or SG.Items are boring and have no purpose except to collect and trade.Achievements have no purpose and can be finished by anyone playing the game normally or with a little help from another, except the LHO achievement, which just makes it so most people can't finish them all. With RPCs gone I don't even know how you're supposed to get the spell doc one.The lands of the East have nothing in them except a place to get achievements and an actual Pub.Combat was utterly ruined by the token system, which I assume was meant to bring in money but will probably end up chasing away all the new players who would spend money if they found the game to be worth playing. Since most of the MD shop items are based on combat, ruining the system that people spend money on seems... strange.I won't bother going through the list Mur posted that has all the other unfinished projects, I think it speaks for itself.This is progress in MD? Am I the only one that likes things to be finished before moving on? [/quote] I agree with Jester on this, On all of his points. You removed quite a lot this stage, and it would be interesting to move back to v8 B or something to show that some things and ideas failed. Ofc we all know you prefer new projects, But the token system utterly broke the Fighting System, The Whole Rp system is now based on the Wp shop and the wishpoints which i see needs some fixing. Everything changes, it would just be intresting to go back to a "second epoch" and try it again, A bit like an undo button on the computer.

[quote name='Death Bell' date='18 October 2009 - 01:38 PM' timestamp='1255869513' post='45061'] yeah he has only 6 posts [/quote] This made me burst out laughing, If i say he can make a gallery, he should be able to make a gallery!

With the magic of magic, you can now make a gallery! Please add them

Im a "former rpc" if anyone didnt know so im going to put forward my view. Firstly, Mur if posting this small section at the top of this post will mean you will read it then fine. When the rpcs are complaining to you there are two differnt "types" Some that are annoyed they lost their "special" powers and some that are genuinely annoyed that they will have to go quest for things. I know many of the rpcs that didnt quest for Wishpoints as they had what they needed and wanted to do quests and such. Now its a double blow that wishpoints are more rarer as they wont regenerate on old rpcs (confirmation needed) and that they need to get them to Do their quests. It will mean a lot of hard work for the rpcs that had planned a quest or were halfway through a quest. You say that the old rpcs have nothing to lose? You may assume from the response you got about removing rpcs that rpc status was the only thing that rpcs could lose. Really, i value my friends in the game much higher than some dots. I am not annoyed at losing the status, merely that i now have to work for something that i didnt plan to have to. If i had known about this change earlier i would have collected some WP in the period when they were given out for spelling your name. I have always spoken my thoughts to you, Yet when i spoke to you this time it was that i lost my toys and have "nothing to lose". You know i was never a one to follow you like a sheep, We had some viscous arguments on some issues, But they were always resolved. I don't know what the other rpcs said to you when they were rpc, But the status meant nothing to me. Respect given freely is utterly pointless. Earnt respect is much more worthy than respect gained by a title. I do not disrespect you, im still very in awe that you managed to create a game such as this and run it all, without (For the most part) it falling into pieces. I present this opinion speaking to you as an equal for i believe that however much people think they are "better" than others, every opinion is valid. So, Please i have always given you my honest opinion, and am not going to stop now just because i have "nothing to lose" as you think. And to everyone else, I accept the consequences of my posting my opinion, But i believe Mur hasn't changed from when he said "opinions will not be punished", So i post it freely without fear of consequences, and shall accept any that come my way for just saying my opinion. Here are the main problems that i see with no rpcs: Leadership - Whereas the next level up from a normal person was generally an rpc, Many issues could be directed at an rpc as they have been officially recognised by Mur. Now you will either have to pick a player that you trust to deal with whatever issue comes up, Or it will just be sent to Mur. Since there are no one who has been officially recognised then there is no "immediate" person who you could look at it and take the problem further or sort it out themselves. This will i believe them create a mass of paperwork that will be sent to Mur because he will be the only person who is "official" and can "officially" recognised. King Positions (aka rpc^2) - There will be one king per land, And it seems that these will be the replacement for rpc's, now the problems i see here is that the rpc's who actually did work were already overworked, Now if you are replacing 10 rpc's that did work with 4 "kings" then the workload will increase massively. Since they are now the "official" next level from normal players they will likely be in undated with pms that would have been sent due to problem 1. so if i look at the current "likely" kings/queens, Peace stepped down as NS head since there was too much work, I haven't seen any Loreroot Nor MB possible Kings have had experience with general admin. I don't personally think that anyone will be able to see the problems that no rpc's will cause. I meant no disrespect, i am merely worries about the amount of paperwork that you will have to deal with. Wishpoints - Now unless i have understood this incorrectly, Old rpc wish points will not regenerate. Now this is a massive problem in regards to distribution of wishpoints. But i see Mur has found a solution, Look through who is online and see if he likes their papers. Now last time i checked he wanted automation. This is merely some form of "rpc" status where he checks peoples papers and rewards them accordingly. This just seems the same to rpcs where he personally selects people. This is unfair just like how the rpc status was, where Mur checked things and if its based on him looking its just like rpc status that mur said he didn't update quick enough. Also I have already seen people starting to "bribe" people for wishpoints, and just a while ago people wanting to know a list of who got wishpoints so they can purposely do their quests. He said he would reward Wishpoints to good quests, But unless he is either told about the good quests it will be the same rpc problem of him not recognising good quests and such because he is busy and focused on something else. Kings = Game Managers Divided by 4 - So far we know little of what the king accounts will have access to but from what you have said "Absolute power" it just seems like you have split the duties of each land to 4 people and pronounced them "king". This status is akin the game manager, as he was described as having absolute power over us. And we all know that Mur didn't want one of them because it was just too much power for one Person. So now there are 4 Kings that have the power that Mur previously wielded and assigned. Surely this is a step backward in as it still relies on a few people to decide. The added problem is these players are now so different from normal players that they can do what they like. Any arguments with a king is utterly useless as you will never be able to progress without a king as Mur wont be running it. Wheras Mur is objective sometimes i see some candidates that will hate me for writing what i write, and therefore if i were in their land i wouldn't be able to progress. Rpcs have just merged with the Game managed, (that Mur said he hated the position) to create a couple of Game managers, People with the power to destroy a person, And we all know what happened last time. Kings will be different from GM's in one way, Kings will be able to be voted out. But then you have the other side in that some people who perhaps have the vote power but are not likely to be good "kings" will be accepted because the vote counts. So it might be potentially be more unstable as people who are popular are not necessarily good leaders. The good thing about a GM was the fact that it was picked my mur, and if he And now i return to a holiday that has been interrupted

[quote name='Grido' date='12 October 2009 - 07:21 PM' timestamp='1255371680' post='44495'] Not sure if this applies to anyone, but would it be possible to have dual citizenship? It can happen irl, not sure how it would in MD, but wondered if it was possible? [/quote] I: could there be duel Kingship Mur: if its considered a council and a CLEAR rule is made on how decisions are taken, expecialy those that not both agree on

aha lol i see, i actually thought you had used you brain and thought of something, oh well, i can keep wishing

Ofc, i expected no less than to be banned from all your future quests, And you have a method of checking crits? ah, so you have found another way, mine is limited to rpcs... so i have no idea how you can be 100% sure, As if you check my profile, i have no crits but actually i have around 60ish

My photoshop skills are superb, Wheras my memory isnt Some may be shocked by this, But i did the same with the broken Gazebo, and admitted it was faked once mur had said he would give me a puzzle badge, And Grido can confirm my intentions as i spoke to him about this before going ahead. And Fenrir, read the pm, i can check for definate if people have crits, if you want my help ofc

True true, But i havent really seen any really good creatures yet.

[quote name='Grido' date='29 September 2009 - 07:39 PM' timestamp='1254249557' post='43182'] the community needs to be able to see what stats you would put on it, so that they can say if they think it's too strong / already implemented, or some other comment [/quote] Grido is right, If Mur is making a creature then we dont need to know about its stats, But when the community wants to make one, Then it needs all the support it can get and has to be well thought through. Mur wont make it because one person likes it

ah who cares, lets post it up anyways i found this screenshot, i knew i took a screenie of all my important crits before sacking, im just pretty semtimental lol here it is! so, Whats the reward? EDIT: well the upload didnt work, here it is!

Here is part of it, i sent this to a friend to show my crits Do you really need anymore? you can ask anyone that i had creatures previous [attachment=1174:part.png] EDIT: if you really want i can search my 1gig+ MD folder and find some? but they will be old, And also any creature posts on the forum is a spoiler

Having no crits is cool, i boasted my stats quite a lot and now cant lose anymore honor!!! So, Whats the prize apart from losing no more fights? [attachment=1172:no crits!.jpg]

write exactly what link is it then mail memory.

I was not refering to your idea

Factions have been long since put aside for the moment. If you want to do something with a faction, Do it yourself. Asking Mur to help or implement an idea is the best way to stop it from EVER happening. The best way to make something offical is to run it unoffically, If it works without Murs help he may make it offical. And honestly the ideas here are intresting at best, But nothing that would fit in to MD, Asking for a whole new land? really?

At the moment the current idea is to remove the accounts but keep them inactive i believe But we can also merge the accounts so all posts on both accounts are attributed to one and then the other would be removed, Would perhaps anyone prefer that?

So, When i say A year ago "we should ban all accounts related to the necrovian and cain" and then find all of your accounts, i was ready to ban then all. But no, obviously one who knows less about the forum will make the decision that no they are most definately different people because they sound different. Not that people can play different roles or anything... WTF really, this is why i have taken a break from md, I am pretty annoyed at this.

There is no issue with the system, Just a difference in values allowed.

[quote name='Udgard' date='23 September 2009 - 05:56 PM' timestamp='1253724999' post='42461'] Spells can be farcast? I tried farcasting my spelldoc and that doesn't even work. I wonder if more serious spells can be farcasted.. [/quote] Spelldoc doesnt but some spells can be farcasted, Not sure generally what but i know the Goe Spell can be