[Missing paper from combiner on the island]

This issue has been fixed now. Thank you for pointing it out!

[Public Altcheck Request]

In addition to this, i want to say something about mentoring new players when they are in fact undercover vets, as this happened to me many times and i admit its frustrating.

 

It is frustrating, but if you think about it better, an "OK" alt, should be allowed to go through this process to. In many cases there are fossilized vets, that suddenly realize they lost connection with how md works, and want to experience it allover again, including how to it is to be a noob and work their way from the ground up..and this is fully allowed. Maybe one day you will want to experience this yourself, and you will understand why i support this kind of thing.

[Public Altcheck Request]

While an altcheck will never happen out of public curiousity, it can certainly happen out of abuse concerns, but even so, the outcome of the check might not be publicly disclosed (maybe only if it ends up with a sort of punishment for the involved parties)

Alternate identities to play alternate roles, is a sacred concept here in md, and any alt abuse should be regarded through this perspective also.

 

I will conduct a search when and if i consider needed. If you find additional abuse proof please publish here or send to me, but for now this only looks to me like you grabbed onto a minor thing to try to confirm a suspicion, and i can't help you about that.

[A cat auction!]

Aia won this auction!

 

CONGRATULATIONS!

 

I will arrange transfer of cat and associated things once i find my brain after yesterdays party

[A cat auction!]

To clarify this. 

It is intentional, to let YOU (population of md) do whatever you wish and adjust the resulting value of whatever happens on your own. On my part i am ready for anythibg you may throw to me (=>MD) ..for example you might decide that you s8xh not to continue the bloodline of any kitties..or to infest md with as much cats as possible..i am ready for all.

 

The current female is (will be) in Handy Pockets hands, as the initial gift i made (so much fun it was). The male and female must me under the same account , its your responsability under what terms you do this. MD tribunal will judge the eventuality of such fraud keeping in kind that the tlrisk exists, but the people involved are honorable.

Right now, the cats CAN NOT REPRODUCE , this is future work, and the cats will be the prototype of a new series of functions in md game dynamics.

I can not estimate when this will function, but i am very motivated to do this. 

In the beginning, to speed up things, i might provide an other female for experiments only, to see how this works  but i will try not to dirsupt the "cat economy" with my experiments.

*there might be undisclosed good things for the winner of the auction, but i can not tell them because i am righr now not sure i can provide the things i am planning. The value of the auction is for me an indicator of how much interest it is for this feature and this is proportional to my motivation to work on this further. Right now, the value exceeds any expectations.

 

To be fully honest with everyone  once this auction is over , there will be an other auction with a very cool item, so that rhe top gold holders in md will be less rich :))) and my stock of gold for random gifts will be replenished. (Next year)

[INTERFACE ERROR]

I got the same error but now it seems fine. Maybe he remained with some cache 

[A cat auction!]

16 hours ago, Ledah said:

300 GCs

This must be a record of some sort, i wonder if anything else was ever auctioned more than 300g in md history...

[A cat auction!]

12 hours ago, Aia del Mana said:

Not a bid, but a question regarding the naming and custom tag.

If one were to name the cat (for example if the owner named it "Ledah") then would the custom tag be allowed to be "Owner of Ledah"? I fear there may be some unforeseen repercussions if this were so.

I get your point, and I will try my best to avoid such situations, if possible, but like with any other custom tag, there could be unforeseen ways around it. Think for example if you name your cat steven , get a tag "owner of steven" then register a playername "steven", after, and pretend you are a puppet master. This can be solved by naming the tag like "owner of steven [the cat]" 

However, giving custom tags, regardless of occasion, should include a small chance of creative abuse. This is a spice that most don't agree to, but most enjoy its result.

Eventually its possible that the cat will be the prototype of pet owners, maybe even give a tag automatically, i don't know, but whatever will happen till then, with the future owner of this one and its pet, remains open. 

In any case, i will try to prevent immediate and obvious abuse, but i can't guarantee something will not slip, ..and then once granted, the tag remains along with its implications.

 

[A cat auction!]

updated announcement, winner of the cat will also get a custom cat owner tag to keep.

[A cat auction!]

Fund raising event!
There are currently 2 (soon 3) cats in the realm, but plans are to make them more common later on ... just not too common. I can not promise anything about their future rarity or market value, but regardless, they are very cool thing to have as they can be placed in any scene in any place!
I am putting up a (male *hint*) cat for auction! The price will be exclusively in GOLD (notes and coins), and no silver equivalents. You can exchange silver for gold yourself at the coin minting facility. This is so, because i want to increase my gold stash, but also lower the silver amount currently on the market.

The auction will end at the end of the year, and no surprise last minute bids will be accepted. If anyone bids higher in the last moment, the auction will be extended so that there will be at least a full day or more time for any other participant to reconsider their offers.

By purchasing a cat, you agree that you will accept any future behavior of this animal, including running away from you, mating with other cats and created unwanted kitties, or even if it starts to eat your food. It currently does not do so, but like i said i have plans for this one. 



Meow! (Good luck!)

 

 

UPDATE - tag bonus

The owner of the cat will also receive a custom tag, somethign related to being a cat owner. The tag will be kept regardless what happens with the cat later.

To keep things fair, the owner of the current cat will also receive this if she requests it (pm me). Optionally, the cats can be named ONCE, no name change after.

[Chat emotions]

and its done!

 

syntax is double asterix in front of the trigger word: **silver

the output contains asterix in front and at the end (*message*), to be similar to how you would write your own mood texts, hopefully this will be a hint

there is also the option to add a word or more after the trigger word, and for some moods this will direct the text towards that target, for example **greet nobody 

 

@jakubhi very nice ideea btw!

[Chat emotions]

On 7/2/2023 at 6:52 PM, Chewett said:

A number of special actions already use *** so maybe we just add to them?

no. because those are way to visually agressive. I was planning to change those for what they fir best, like contest managemnt, and announcements and such

however, i used the same structure for these mood ones

 

[Chat emotions special character poll]

I opted for the **word syntax, this will also work with **word** , but just the first ** are enough

 

**greet

[/chat commands]

This is a detailed list of all the current chat commands as of today. Its likely that i will add many more over time and that this post won't be updated, but for now this is the complete list:

 

All the green text is to be replaced by actual values

 

/play tictactoe with playername

opens a dedicated interface to play tic-tac-toe, experimenta game interface so demonstrate interactive capabilities of chat commands

 

/match with playername

opens a dedicated interface for an experimental, nonfunctional minigame, its where i work on chatcommants interactivity experiments

 

/buzz playername

opens a very annoying popup to the target player the also buzzes acoustically, do not abuse

 

SHUT UP playername

classic to MD, the ability to silence anyone you consider for whatever reason you consider, the right to have silence is fundamental in MD

 

/shutup playername

same effect, shuts up the target player preventing him from talking in chat, casting spells, etc

 

*gives number trophies to playername*  [unfinished]

gives trophies (heads) to target player. We call it tophies here, and not heads, to avoid obvious linguistic issue

 

/givetrophies number to playername*  [unfinished]

same effect, gives number of head trophies to target playername

 

/giveitems numberxitemname to playername*

transfer given number of items to playername. Example /giveitems 5xStone to Muratus del Mur

 

*presents itemname for price*

present the item as if you would want to sell it for the given price. Many do not know to sell their wares, so AI can help

 

/presents itemname for price

same as above, presents item for sale in a nicely formulated text

 

*looks for playername*

enquire about a playername

 

/seen playername

same as above equire about when player was last seen

 

*asks about playername*

different syntax for whois

 

/who is playername

different syntax for whois

 

/whois playername

find out some details about a player, to help you better understand who you are dealing with

 

/whereis playername

info about the whereabouts of a player

 

/where is playername

different syntax of whereis

 

/mood playername

use advanced AI to determine the current mood of a target player based on his recent interactions 

 

/isdoing playername

use AI to determine what a player is currently doing, only using info from the chat not actual activities 

 

/joke subject

Advanced AI to tell a joke about a subject, in the context of the recent chat discussion

 

/reply

Use AI to quickly reply to whatever was spoken in chat 

 

/reply playername

Use AI to reply just to a specific player in the context of the current discussion

 

/sum

Use AI to summarize the current discussion

 

/whatsnew

tell a summary of what was officially announced recently

 

/whatsnew week

tell a summary of all announcements within a week

 

/whatsnew month

tell a concise summary of all announcements within a month

 

/ann subject1,subject2, etc

Highly advanced AI to process the announcements in a given context or timeframe about a subject

Example: /ann what happened to Blackshade Rider, within a year

If this command does not work, it means the subject and context are not specific enough. The AI can not learn the entire announcements list but it can parse it in steps, first finding all the announcements in a given context, then processing them logically. 

 

/how question

Use the knowledge learned from the Questions and Answers -> How do i? forum section, to answer whatever question you have about the game that starts with /how

 

/what question

Use the knowledge learned from the Questions and Answers -> How do i? forum section, to answer whatever question you have about the game that starts with /what

 

/why question

Use the knowledge learned from the Questions and Answers -> How do i? forum section, to answer whatever question you have about the game that starts with /why

 

/adventure Story name, first logic to filter, more specific question, short keyword

/adventure Story name1|Story name2, first logic to filter, more specific question, short keyword

story name = the name as it is written in adventurelog, or similar

first logic =  extract a first round of results to learn from

second, more specific question = a question asked in the context of the first logic results

short keyword = to further limit the query and help the AI grab only the relevent context, you can specify a word that must be contained in all the records if looks for. Don't make it too complex, as it will search for the string as is. A good ideea for keyword is to use a name, something that shows up in all the story pages you are interested to analyze

Use advanced AI to go through the adventurelog and solve a mistery, or even compare a complex situation. The syntax is more complex than other chat commands, but this is very very powerful tool

Example usage:

/adventure the traveler|tales of the cube, how does the Traveler or the Shade Sentinel change, How did the traveler meeting the shade sentinel in Story 1 affect both of them?

/adventure the traveler, How did the traveler meeting the shade sentinel affect both of them?

Wodin seems to be a good fit for the compare type of question as he shows up in "The Shade Ballance" and "Golemus Wizard quest"

/adventure The Shade Ballance|Golemus Wizard quest, what does Wodin do in this story, What relation is between what Wodin does in Story 1 and what he does in Story 2,Wodin

 /adventure The Shade Ballance|Golemus Wizard quest, Wodins summoning, Who knows how to summon Wodin Ullr?,Wodin

 

 

/trade itemname for price

write a sales pitch for selling the item for the desired price

 

/solve

Use advanced AI to determine what could be solved from the latest chat lines, maybe a riddle, or a puzzle or question, then answer it

 

/help

show a limited list of all the chat commands, i say limited because there is a technical limitation of how much text can be shown there, and it can't fit all info

 

/help question

ask a specific question

 

/howto question

answer a specific question

 

/pm playername: message

send a personal message to the target playername, directly in their inbox, and leave a roleplay remark about this action in the chat

 

/msg playername: message

same as /pm

 

Note some are in roleplay syntax *...*

 

 

 

[How do I revive?]

There are multiple ways to get revived, however none should be easy. There are hardcoded quests that end up in you being revived, but also a variety of reviving tools other players might have acquired. Seek for help, explore on your own, eventually there is a way out of death. Some clickies do other things while you are dead. Look for clues on the forum, and ask other people about more specific tips on where and how to start your journey for revival. You might want to look for the Caretakers guild, they know much about death and revival.

[What is a bestiary?]

A bestiary is an item in your inventory that can be used to store the memory of one or creatures. Once a creature is stored in such a book, it can not be used as an actual creature anymore, instead if becomes just like a collectors card. These creature that you store in a bestiary, can be converted into NFT on polygon blockchain and taken out of the game, traded, sold, exchanged. Converting NFTs back into creatures might be possible at a later time, but currently they are just collectibles.

 

One place you could get a bestiary item, is from the wish shop, look for Compendium of Beasts item.

[how do i open settings]

On 11/10/2022 at 12:39 PM, Miq said:

its indeed a clearer answer but i need to mark a text answer as the solution because our AI is using the text to learn about the game, not the images.

[Seen chat command removes usefulness of Locate?]

locate and /seen present slightly different information, plus the evolution of these might take different paths. I still believe they are not really competing , but i see the concern about having locate for wp could be too much maybe

[Server Upgrade bugs]

On 11/23/2023 at 10:44 PM, Sunfire said:

Went to mp7 and cast mirrorrit on myself, unsure if its related to servermove.

Too low vitality for Sunfire - auto assigning
[StrategyMaster] Player does not have any available creatures to fight with

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function get_vitality() on bool in /home/magicdue/public_html/core/combat/Combat.php:265 Stack trace: #0 /home/magicdue/public_html/dlg/combatlevel0/liststrategies.php(121): combat->__construct(197614, '262154', '0', 0, '0', 536, 0, '', NULL, false) #1 /home/magicdue/public_html/dlg/dlg.liststrategies.php(395): require_once('/home/magicdue/...') #2 {main} thrown in /home/magicdue/public_html/core/combat/Combat.php on line 265

 it is unrelated to the server move.

I added an additional error message in that situation, you should see :

MIRROR MAGIC unable to load because attacker has no valid ritual

And the fight should not be allowed to happen, because if attacker has no valid ritual, then its impossible to calculate the attackers vitality participating in the fight.

 

 

[Server Upgrade bugs]

- crit recruiting works fine too

- fixed bestiary creatures NFT minting!

 

for sure there are more issues to be discovered later

[Server Upgrade bugs]

fixed a lot of the above due to changes that affected most.

main issues came from restrictive mysql modes - fixed

some issues came from missing php settings, like zlib output buffering for example that gave errors on opening items - fixed

i will check recruiting crits next

[Extreme Magicduel]

Today is a sad day, that probably happend many times before, but this is the first time i catch it. A single person all alone in entire MD. I was careful to check this, it is not a result of some server reset. I actually watched this for a few hours because for a long period of time there where two people. I tried contacting both without success.

 

So.. Antyvas receives a mark of history achievement (whenever we get to chat in-game) ... even it was probably pure luck.

 

 

[Inner Magic experimental interface]

AND THE WINNERS ARE:

 

Wishpoint for discovering interesting ways to manipulate the heatflow, and by that helping me better understand what possible uses this interface could have:

Ailith, Aelis, Aia, Iashtal, Kyphis, Sunfire

 

And the top score for the positive reactions to your creations posted here on the forum:

 

Aelis: 17
Ailith: 9
Aia: 9
Iashtal: 8
Kyphis: 7
Sunfire: 2
Ledah: 1
chriselnenepr: 1
 

The heat spell goes to Aelis!

I was not convinced by your GOTR coat of arms attempts, but some of you got 90% there. I will not give a reward for that yet, because i am sure someone some day, will create it better, and the reward for that would have been a 'joker card' for place in the ally... but next time.

 

Thank you all for participating, i will start dispatching the rewards in-game, and announce it.

 

 

[Inner Magic experimental interface]

I will lock this topic here pending final review of your entries. Will be unlocked once awards are announced. 

[Inner Magic experimental interface]

Try starting with the top branches as symetrical and unconnected as possible, down to up movements, this will make them conect later on on themselves, and as fast as you can draw the bottom roots contour. The particles from the brnaches will emerge on the bottom as they exit the top, and will feed the roots contour.

I lack precision to make the bottom roots as nice as you did, but i believe you can do that better. After a while, i also get an angry face , probably the way you look when you see you missed that moment when to make the screenshot.

The creation does not last long at all