Chewett

[quote name='Kafuuka' post='32527' date='Jun 1 2009, 05:57 PM']Alts: it takes a lot of work to make an original character and write a background story. This is true even more if you are an adept writer because you will never be satisfied with your work. "For every sentence I kept, I have thrown away at least one page of writing." (don't remember which writer said that) No matter how good you think you are, there are no guarantees to win and there aren't any retries either. And there is a chance people will notice your style. The only reason people will try it against all odds, would be that they have too many active days to participate and too much time. I'd propose a side contest with a smaller reward, for older players/alts... but it'd be silly to have good character designs go to waste after the contest is over.[/quote] If i am going to speak for myself then i would most definately make an alt and Rp him. This would be mainly for the reward. But because i rarely Rp as Chewett and none of you have found out some of my better alts (no not Chewett the Noob) then i would say i would be able to give a good go at this competition [quote name='Kafuuka' post='32527' date='Jun 1 2009, 05:57 PM']I also suggest having the candidates sign up for this and have them idle in a designated place, especially if you use a small amount of judges. Timezones make it hard to read everybody's papers.[/quote] Perhaps they could not blank their personal page? Then they would be able to see it on their profile? [quote name='Watcher' post='32528' date='Jun 1 2009, 06:04 PM'][i]Hold the contest every six to eight weeks.[/i] This may mean lowering the awarded sums or changing the award itself. However, this would give new people incentive to become creative and work toward integrating themselves into the world in which we play.[/quote] Would it become too devauled if it was this often? Then many people would get an award. How long can this go on for? It would give me much more chance to win or place. [quote name='Watcher' post='32528' date='Jun 1 2009, 06:04 PM'][i]Established characters as judges who are not RPCs.[/i] There are many who are very active in this world, who are well known, and who play their characters exceedingly well. These are the people who you would want to judge the stories and papers of others. I would suggest staying away from those who have been established as RPCs only because they have other duties to which they are to be devoting their time. Characters such as Keith Moon, Awiiya, Innocence, Willem Redbeard, and Firsanthalas are the some of the best. These would be the kinds of people to approach to judge others.[/quote] Im sure (and i only speak of my knowing some rpcs) that some of them would like to judge a contest like this. Some of the best role players are rpcs. But not all of the rpcs are good roleplayers *cough* me *cough* [quote name='Watcher' post='32528' date='Jun 1 2009, 06:04 PM'][i]Public displays.[/i] Those who have been nominated for this contest should have portions, if not all, of their papers viewable by the public. This could be having everything displayed on their personal page or opening a topic on the forum that would allow them to post something about themselves along with selected sections of their papers. A limit would be called for, however, as you would not want all contestants to use 50,000 or more characters. In this case, a forum post should be short and simple. Paper length, of course, would be up to the discretion of the individual.[/quote] Again i say that all their papers should be on public displey on their public page. It would be so much easier to get rid of the problem of timezones. [quote name='Watcher' post='32528' date='Jun 1 2009, 06:04 PM'][i]Multiple criteria for judging.[/i] As you have already noted, there should be several categories to aid in the selection of a winner. Consider participation in the world as one. This might discourage alternate accounts, though nothing is certain. If one has to be active in the world to be considered for this award, it would reduce the likelihood of someone creating an interesting story and then sitting around in a sanctuary, hoping to get noticed. Otherwise, you have already mentioned several other criteria which should be evaluated.[/quote] It wouldnt discourage a person who wants the reward really. only some of the people who would like it. Have you even seen Chewett in game? Really? I dont really play Chewett as i prefere obscurity. Its intresting to see how people treat a nobody. BTW: if you are trying to work out my alts i use proxies. Most of them are from the US but at least one is from romania

Isnt this just a step in between pwr and Rpc? not that that is a bad thing. Several problems i see. Quality of english will be key in addition to how you play your role. Also what do you propose to do about alts? It would be very easy to create an alt and ship the reward back to my main. Also how do you propose to judge this? is it in addition to the rpc's that Mur makes and the rewards that he gives out? This isnt a criticizm but some ideas for you to consider

Tom. You have to move MD into accomdating your alliance, Cryxus has been waiting a long time and of all the alliance ideas his is one of the best. He is even now an rpc but his alliance has still not been created In other words if you really want to get an alliance you need a following and Prove you can do what your alliance sets out to do even without an alliance. When you dont need an alliance to do what you do but you still do it then you will get one. As Cryxus said this isnt to discourage you but you need to do a lot more than just get a few members and write a post on the forum Try getting more members and holding a rally of some kind in game and start roleplaying your alliance.

Plainly and simply it doesnt work. a Bug.

Yes he said he wanted crits in a previous post but that had to be deleted for certain reasons

No alliances are being created at the moment. Only alliances that have a purpose before being an alliance will be created ie bank together a group of people and you may get an alliance if it is deemed useful

ok. i know exatly what is wrong so a fix should be done asap.

are you sure some of the rewards arnt too high? i was thinking of the creatures (because i have a lot of creatures) and the increase in vitality and value points. Also would the effects stack? because i would think that the effects shouldnt so you couldnt be to overpowered Currency needs to be used up and this may be a way to do it

Welcome Riddle. I hope you work out what this game is about. And by the way when you do ... could you tell some of us? Most of us still dont know what the principle of the game is.

Look at your personal messages [url="http://magicduel.invisionzone.com//index.php?act=Msg&CODE=01"]Here[/url] you should have a pm from Mur. and you have already asked about the principles [topic="4155"]here[/topic] so there isnt much point answering the questions again

hmm. im pretty sure ALL resets were not going to be allowed from now on. I will point Mur in this direction to see what he thinks about this. Otherwise i would recommend just making a new account. Sorry

another very good writeup of a good member. Keep it up Awiiya!

hmm i cant seem to find the banner. could you point me to the banner please

what format do you want it in? html or bbcode or something else?

Very good and accurate description of him. I applaud you Awiiya

Some more infomation please Is it all K documents? Are you sure its not Locked? Examples of people that suffer this?

So has anyone got any concrete ideas on how we could appoint "legends"? I like the idea that "legends" are appointed as poeple can be bothered to write about them. If someone can spend some time writing about a specific player about how they are ledgendry then they must be something special.

Lol i was keeping the Mod logs quiet so i will be able to deal with any underhand actions by an Mod but it doesnt matter now. Lightsage is correct. All Moderator actions are logged and i review them every week. I keep a close eye on everyone. Yes so anyone touches any important polls i will just restart the poll and remove the mod.

[quote name='Synex' post='32145' date='May 24 2009, 11:37 AM']1. The currency is accepted through out MD. So on issue with that. But what if we come up with currency for each of the lands and their exchange rates and stuff. So it would be intresting and all the currency will have an authenticity. Also this will help individual characters who are glued to their lands.[/quote] no. i dont like it because then it makes MD seem more like a real economy. It wouldnt really add roleplay values but make it harder to play due to exchange rates and everything also the econmy of Magicduel was orginally based on bartering. the introduction of coins has changed it dramatically and anymore forms of currency are in my opinion are bad idea. [quote name='Synex' post='32145' date='May 24 2009, 11:37 AM']2. For the above one to work each player should be a permenant resident of a land and in that he should earn a place to live. So at first all land is owned by the government of the respective land and then the individual players is able to buy them from the government for competetive rates. This gives so many possibilities for jobs and way of income for the MD inhabitants and it spreads the wealth.[/quote] Jobs? what type of jobs do you propose? I cant think of any at the moment that would fit into the MD world. [quote name='Synex' post='32145' date='May 24 2009, 11:37 AM']3. Government of each land should be elected as requested by the citizens of that land. This can be dictator, dynasty, democracy or anything they wish, So all governements report to a MD high council and they are elected by Mur or the people or both.[/quote] Well this is already happening. LR being ruled/govererned/whatever by the HC ... as all lands are governed. But i dont think that this is seen as a government. This again links Magicduel to the "real world" and where there are a lot of govermental problems.

This is what is confusing everyone. I too thought that they wanted to rule Loreroot due to the lack of documents avaliable for me to learn about them. Perhaps provide some more things (as the bunny said) about your goals and aims so that people may make informed opinions. If you are not going to rule it what are you for? I have no idea really. Care to inform me? Average casual players view

[quote name='Grido' post='32020' date='May 22 2009, 05:14 PM']in game messages are the best way you'll have to find him ingame to send him a message[/quote] Which isnt likely to happen Email him at manu (at) Magicduel (dot) com

lol This is just a test MB. i just need to do some testing with the polling system and Grido was able to help me.

lol i didnt see that the how many people have voted hasnt changed. Oh well i will keep needing to test things so this will stay up. Are the votes better now?

Ever heard of humility? *cough* you might want to check those stats MB. It seems as if my heard of helpers have ... Helped Grido Along.

Its not really surprising. People make the scripts and they will work onthe specfic forum type that they made it for. If you have car you dont just us it to go to work and back. You drive other places with it. If you have made a script you want to (ab)use it as much as you can to get as much trafic as you can.