Chewett

Aethons bid: Thursday at 12:58 AM My bid: Thursday at 07:41 PM You updated and sold/removed Aethons items: Thursday at 09:37 PM Obviously at the time of bidding I was bidding on the full set. Its not a massive issue, but as you saw I was asking for clarification since you couldnt accept both Aethons and my bid, since they were supersets. I will review the item list and obviously adjust the amount I am to pay since the list has changed.

How was the chatban performed? thanks for the bug report

Helped someone debug a rather complex set of driver kicks

Thanks aethon for finding it and dst for reporting it its definately an unplanned regression so I will look at this when I'm back from this party

Oh ok my bid was before you accepted aethons but I see the items are no longer on this list. I will have another look over the list

No person? An absent person is the same as no person. But no person invites the possibiliy of a person personing.

Please clarify which bid was accepted.

1.5 silver per normal item. for all of them.

Then lets demote those that do nothing and make new ones, or have them adrift. We should make the adriftness official if the guardians do nothing.

Wow that is magnificent.

Thanks I will talk to mur.

I will see if I can work out what Mur actually wanted done with this, I know a vague plan but Im not sure what he has done :S

Dont worry, MD wont die while Mur and I are around. Even if we close it for a couple years to rework it, its not going to disappear

Details? PM?

Saying what a few years? What would you change? Read as above The work being done to the system is not being targeted at the 5 most loud players, but our community (current and future). Also, we dont have game managers, havent since simply, it didnt work. Although perhaps we might again. As for the core of the game interacting with people. Yeah I totally agree here, but the problem we had was that you need to keep people in MD for a period of time to get them to start interacting on their own, and you need to ensure that some of those that dont like interacting (as they are as important as those that do) ahve things to do that keep them in the game (and keep forcing them to interact). Was it not you who said you could play MD without anyone else, by hiding in your lab? I was skeptical and did say then that the core of MD was the interaction. Its good to see you understand this now. ---- Ideally Mur and I would work on this as a job and life wouldn't happen. I would enjoy working on MD full time but we cannot fund ourselves in this way at the moment. Mur has been lucky to be able to partially do this over the years but cost of living is much much higher in the UK and I am not in such a great place financially as he is. Not to mention that over the past couple years my health has been somewhat poor along with other events have meant I lost a lot of time I would have liked to devote to MD. Obviously this is quite a personal response to how the game is, but since we are but two coders running working on the game we love, the response must be personal. ---- Im here if people want to talk, I really did love the game and want to make it thrive again but we must address the problems that got us here. Just continually pumping money into MD didnt work over the past years we those people didnt stay. Hope you are all well Chewett

I think that might be an idea. However when I was spending the time to fix up and change up the fighting system people didnt really seem bothered. So in the end I stopped. Are people interested in this? A word on advertising. We don't spend money on advertising (unless something changed over the past couple months and I haven't seen it in paypal). When we had a lot of players in the game,we weren't actually seeing a lot of "players" but we were seeing a lot of players passing through. There was only a small set of players that were actually "alive". The game has problems at the moment and we need to fix them before we spend a lot of money again on advertising. I dont have a concern we can spend the money and get a load more players in the game but I (and I believe Mur agrees with me here) that we need to fix up the problems in the game so that the people we pay for (in advertising) stay. If those in the game wish to work with me to improve on the parts you enjoy then I thank you all involved.

Or I could start it next weekend, its a cool idea. I will have a think.

One of the things that dst has touched on, and I feel similarly, many of these items were worked for. It seems a little unfair to remove them. There have been one or two cases where we have removed the use of some more abusive items but left them with the owner however these are rare. I assume from reading that you mag feel the recaller should only be used for those items on old forgotten accounts?

Thank you

> But I think that tools of inactive people should be taken back into some sort of "tool pool" (maybe after a year of inactivity) where you (the admins) can distribute them from to people that deserve them for RP So you would remove those tools from people older than a year? How are they determined as inactive?

What about the social aspect of stealing a tool and the activity that generates?

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I think that is fair. It is planned to distribute it to the mainlands.

To sum up the idea quickly. Each day you can get one "thing" which is determined by how many days you have previously got your thing. This thing is given by a player using a spell for doing something for them, then the spell gives the player their reward. LHO's or mp6's might have this thing giver and would be giving out the tasks. As time goes on rarer things would be given out.

I like the images you used. We should put this all ingame next time. Pm me about it Will sort out the stuff this weekend