Muratus del Mur

i am reading this topic very slow because i have to check and imagine what each of your suggestions might do. The ln() increase sounds good, it was in plan for a long time, but i am currently not too happy to how fast it drops, making principles useless after a certain value. Keep posting, also react to the changes i will post on the newslog, but remember i will reply late to this and i might also change some of the announced things if i encounter better options suggested by you. Thnx

Here we will talk about Factions, implementation initial setup etc. I will need one faction to start testing on, are the Pirates still ready? If yes, please report crew, intentions etc, if not, next faction.

very true, stupid me i cared to explain her anything at all. She doesn't even have something clearly to demand or argument, and the "private" discussion as she wanted it stoped, i am guessing because lack of any possible reason as usual. I do not need to have "testicular frotitude" (nice one btw) against players, i can have enough after i conclude i did everything to make myself clear. I don't need to protect my image in front of her or anyone else so i was taking my time to explain her those things, but again, useless. Its disturbing and provoking to see someone makign such a big fuss and posing in a victim when i know the situation is not at all like that. I can't simply stand and say nothing, but its true i could end this in a more agressive way. the one thing i am sorry is that i was planning this time to write something much more interesting than to answer to a allready defunct issue such as this.

I do not have persoal issues with you. You started this public so you deserve a public answer. You try to make it now private when you fear others may realise what kind of crap you are saying. Trust me i have better things to do than fighting with you over a matter that you allready lost before you even started. p.s. in a private convo with me i suggest you call in Logan as reinforcement or you might get confused in your own arguments lol. Sorry but after all the headache you given me i cant stop not mocking you just a little bit.

My name for you is Mur, not Manu, you do not know me in person and you realy do not know Manu... oh right...you fear the spotlights, no problem, i will continue this in private if you think its better..maybe you are to shy to present your rantigs for others to judge. Just do not waste my time to much because you allready did so.

No it can't, i know it sounds the most normal way to do but an unlimited number of docs will tottaly mess with the way docs are now planned to be.

Please elaborate the subject here, make sugestions, complains, etc. Try to keep it organised. MODS: please update this with conclusions, thank you.

Dear Amoran, (or Trista, since in forum you say you are OOC, whatever you like best) Some things i will tell you are pretty obvious for most except you but since you do so much effort and agitate so much on this matter i will tell you all this (again) so that it will be clearly stated both for you and for those that hear your, sorry the expression, crap. As far as i can see your view on the situation is that you created artworks for MD for 9 month, received RPC status, then you got screwed up and had that status taken away and your reputation trashed. Its a very disturbed view on the situation and even if maybe you enjoy posing as a victim i feel i have to try once more to explain you my view of the situation, maybe it will help you stop this bullshit and make you more ..relaxed. 1) You did not get RPC for making drawings. RPC is given based on many reasons, yours was your involvement and dedication to MD in that period, artwork creation was a bonus and if you remember our discussion back then i told you this and that your artistic skills could help you greatly with your RPC role. To get a RPC status is almost impossible (or that difficult), to HOLD it requires moral qualities that you trashed yourself, i must say with great effort and for a stupid cause. 2) You are not at all such a great artist as you like to sound you are. I am sorry i have to tell you this news. When GlorDamar was sending me your avatars along with other avatars other artists in MD created, they were acceptable, not amazing. Now that you shout so much that you worked 9 MONTH, i am very concerned all you came up with was a list of very very few avatars and an alliance logo...in 9 month! Thats beginners work. There were people sending in A LOT more artworks of amazing quality. 3) You got payed for the work i used in MD, meaning the alliance logo and the avys. If you drew anything else that Glor sent me and i am not aware of or missed to pay you any of your work that i used in MD, please let me know. (oh yes ..i think i didn't payed you that birthday cake, let me know if i should) 4) Artworks you do in private, or for your personal papers, are not my concern. You created a picture gallery where you probably listed all the drawings you ever made in your life, because i do not recall to see any other creations from you so far. You can't present them you did because they sound as beeing commissioned by me for MD and they have nothing to do with it. Thats why your topic description on those listings will change untill either you remove the ones not related to MD or you splitt them in two clearly named galleries. Your private efforts to draw something for MD do not represent work done and used in MD as you like to make it sound. A lot of players to sketches on their papers and they are not "owned by MD" they are just artworks those players did for their own use, same as you did. 5) When you fight for someones ideeas you share the outcome. You tell me now in pm that you did not believe i was stealing art as you accused me in public, and that it was all Logans ideeas...funny...i do not need to know that anymore. You fought for these theories and acted as a coward when i gave you the opportunity to talk about it and see whats on your mind. You trashed MD image on OOC discussions with other players, and continued to do so even after the situation was clearly wrong, then you were surprised you got demoted. Logan had nothing to lose because he was allready demoted for a tottaly different reason, but you were so ...i cant find other word that stupid ... that you blindly believed his crap and fought in public for ideas that were clearly wrong for most. In my view its very clear, Logan screwed you dragging you in this shit along with him. This doesn't change anything because you as well as any other human beeing able to think, are free to your own decisions and thoughts, and if you picked yours to be the ones of Logan, thats your choice and you pay for that. Results Your actions and the situation created by you is indeed of creat concern to the community and especialy to the Artisans Guild. I say this, because from now on i will be extra carefull to prevent such situations in the future and that will greatly affect the way future Artisans will be treated. Congratulations of almost destroying a guild that i was hoping to flourish. Don't worry, artworks sources i have plenty, and of top quality. I was hoping that in time this source to be from within MD, to make it like a ..ecosystem ..so to say. For your knowledge as an artist, when i commission artworks to an outside artist, they get payed the same, and the artworks come in packs such as 50 avys or 20 scenes, and not 15 avys in 9 month. You will soon see what i mean. I reached the conclusion that MD is a very sensitive organism. In order for it to exist properly i must know the sources. I must know the person i am working with face to face, know him/her as a person before i know him/her as an artist. I hope this cleared out some things for you and for others listening to your bedtime stories. If there is anything else that needs to be cleared out tell me. I do not want you to feel hunted, trashed, and that you did work for nothing and there are two reasons i see... One is that you realy believe this yourself, so i explained it here all, and one is that you like to sound you are a victim, in which case you will continue with the ranting regardless of reasons or explanations. My RPC promotion criterias are very strict and very adaptable at the same time. You will never get there again, because your pshycho-logical profile was hiding a lot of ... instability .. that i did not taken into consideration when promoting you. Other realy potent players do not dare to dream of that status and you wasted it for stupid things. The good news for you is that RPCs will slowly vanish while the wish shop grows and any other player will have a way to get rpc abilities through their efforts and without my personal confirmation. RPC will remain as a decision/leadership group and the source for wishpoints. My warm suggestion is to stop putting more and more crap on your reputation by posing in a victim that people clearly see you are not. If you feel so offended and wish to leave MD, nobody stops you. If you still want to continue, you also are free to do so. In case it will be ever needed, I will let others judge possible things you will do to avoid beeing subjective. I am not seeking for any revenge against you, but you clearly do. I hope i don't see after other 9 month a complain that you seeked for revange and still nothing, it would be a terrible waste of time in my opinion. Mur

What is the most wanted new feature/bugfix/change that you wish for. Only one? (mods, feel free to edit this topic in any way, add polls, update this post with the winning wish etc, thank you) EDIT: Mod for overview.

I allready thought of that when doing this. The solution i could came up with was to have separate q docs for each. I am afraid that if it would be made in any other way, quest creators will just keep a list of quests forgetting to maintain them. If there will be a independent q doc appearing for each quest, they will be more careful , i think. Also its easyer to integrate in the current system and is much more flexible. For example there could be independent q docs for different types of quests. I could start it allready but i am not sure how many need it and how many will just invent short new quests just to get an additional doc ... i must think of rules to give this out, maybe the wish shop ?

An other ideea i was thinking of doing later, when wish shop will be more complete. A central resource with rewards of all kinds, where quest makers, non-rpc including, can pick rewards based on previous rating for their quests, and use rewards from this resource FREELY to give to other players for solving their quests. My english is bad tonight it seems, so lets try again ... One centralised resource, with: - creatures - predefined md shop items, such as tokens, powerups etc - avatars - items - wishpoints Players of all kind that can do quests with their current abilities, abilities that they work hard to achieve, either by solving other quests or by other ways, get the right to distribute some of these rewarding resources to other players. The amount of rewards they get access to will be based on the quality of their previous quests, the more interesting quests you do the better rewards you are allowed to give. This resource will be filled by rpcs, from sanctions, periodicaly. For example after i sanctioned the drachorn holders some time ago, i ended up with a buch of drachorn, creatures that i sometimes use as rewards. In the same way, these creatures, or other things, could be used to stimulate other players to create interesting quests and stimulate others to solve those quests and not only rpc quests. Its a delicate thing, because combined with the wish shop that gives out important abilities, it will compete with the rpcs in a big way. The rpcs will remain the only source for wishpoints, the wp that get into this central resource are wp gathered from baned players, penalties, donated by players with many wp, or other. The creatures will probably be the most common rewards. The items could be made specialy for this resource by the krafters. Its still an open ideea, with a long deadline, but please share your opinion on it. Do you think this will be a good, great or terrible thing for the evolution of md? There is no need to go into details about possible bugs, but you can share your oppinion on logic flaws that you can forsee.

I am trying to make a better integration of pwr to rpc charactes. all the rpc abilities will become available for anyone in exchange of wishpoints, so anyone can become pwr, and pwr will be almost the same as rpc, and the rpc status will be kept as a "nobility" level, rpcs beeing the ones with the voting/decision/rewarding power. Rpcs are selected based on constantly changing reasons that try to group people in such way that will benefit MD (including keeping a much needed tension sometimes). MD as a program is not advanced enough to make such decisions based on a predefined system, and will never evolve if its entirely program based, thats why rpc will be allways selected by humans, be it me, or other rpcs, or random selection of players asked to vote. Trust me, you will never know exactly how to get rpc and the moment you ask for it you are 10 steps back from getting it. maybe a bit offtopic, but useful to know.

Lets imagine the situation reversed. No one/dst What if you are the quest creators and someone that you hate for personal reasons comes and wants to do it. ..Do you feel its allright you should be obligated to allow that person to enjoy the work you did and reward him even if you feel bad doing it? How would you feel if you were forced by me/other rpcs to give rewards to peole you do not want to talk/interact to? Or lets put it in an other way ... you go to an interview for a job , and you are an EXCELENT professional ..and during the interview you present the situation like this .."hey you bastard, you must hire me because i am the best, i don't care if you like me or not" ..does your life experience tell you that you will actualy get that job? Of course the reason will not be how good professional you are, or how well you do the "quest", and if the law prevents sometimes personal reasons, the person will seek , and find, reasons accepted by others, but still you will not get that job, or be rewarded for that quest. By personal reasons i mean reasons of such nature that do not need to be presented public or their meaning is important just to the person that decides...just to make sure you understand "personal" does not necessarly mean "irrelevant".

You all want prizes... but did anyone at all bothered to do a debate and engage others in a talk about ANY of the questions here ...

As part of the RPC's regulations, they are allowed to deny participation to a quest to any player or group of players they want based on any reasons they want. RPC's spend time and put a lot of effort to create quests so its only them to decide if they don't want someone to participate in that quest. Seen from the non-rpc side, players should understand that these quests are first of all based on a human relation and you are not doing quests against a machine. The first person in the quest you have to pass is the person creating the quest. It is a favor to be accepted in a quest, not an obligation. Regarding the threats, many allready do what you are threatening to do, the difference is that you also do it but you also use it as a possible manipulation tehnique to scare others. It is my "duty" and fun to find ways to improve the tools that rpcs have so that they will be able to better organize quests and avoid having fixed solutions to their quests and by that spoiling will be more dificult. As a personal note, this attitude falls into the category "make me rpc or i quit" and you know my reaction to such attitude.

i don't think removing paid things is an option, mainly because those things help players get permanent benefits such as stats and i have no way to know what stats someone has because he used that mighty rusty for example. An other thing that could be close to what you want is MP7 level, in mp7 all stats are zero, characters fighting with their "empty" rituals, magic and other such things. ..still a lot of work to do for that level

A dojo representative please send me a list of desired changes, changes to fit the discussed issues. The opinion of the ones against the dojo i assume is "no more dojo". The worst state the dojo can get is to be taken his ban spells away or other penalisation ways. There is nothing to dissolve because there is nothing "created", and there is no reason to forbid a dojo. Also, making a sanctuary for the dojo nullifies the very meaning of the dojo, but if you do want a sanctuary i will redirect you to the closest sanctuary allready available. I also think mp5 have nothing to do with the dojo, but its a personal opinion. The only real issue i see , is if the dojo should be in such an important and central place. It was a mistake for me to support the dojo with anything at all. The reason the dojo existed and had a meaning was especialy because it managed to keep understanding and organised fighting WITHOUT strictly forced rules. The second the dojo had any power to force that, the trouble started. A central position is harming the dojo and is forcing its protectors to use whatever means they have to defend it, causing a silent or not so silent war between dojo and the rest. I want the dojo to be set by players for players so to say. If i had any wish to reinforce anything or force the existance of the dojo, you wouldnt get to the point to discuss the issue at all. In my view the dojo is a great initiative, but also an optional thing. You cant be a dojo offender if you do not believe in the dojo ways. Of course that leads to other issues, but the ultimate thing is this .. what if in place of the dojo was a sanctuary?? what then? Because then you couldnt attakc anyone there. I see the dojo as a player agreed sanctuary ..can it exist GOOD, if it cant, thats it...

I tried to find a better place to post this , but i cant post this under the "university" so here it goes to general topics. You can move it to a better location if you think so. -------------

The centralised quest announcing page will only tell a short summary about who has what quests. I understand your point and it was mine too when not adding a addressbook or a fast way of reaching someone...you want to find that someone, you have to realy search and find him...but currently its very dissapointing to search for a possible quest giver and find out that after a loong search he has nothing up and running. I this page will be just as its named, a place to advertise quests, not a place to spoil them. The first step was allready made, now when you click your Q doc a small announcement popsup before you can edit it. In place of that announcement you will see a form asking you to fill some short details about your current quest, or to update them if anything changed. The contents of that form will be centralised then on a page that anyone can see. I have an other thought about this and its possible that this quest announcing page will be presented in a map location not in the game menu..maybe in the archives? idk now, maybe both in menu and in location, with some more info on the one in the map location...i will see that when its ready. Thank you for your votes, and keep posting if you have any other suggestions.

Please someone give me the exact ID/Playername of the banned player, i can't seem to find anyone baned by that name. thx

Dojo has the ban spell for quite a very long time. In all this time i am not aware of them abusing it. The ban was supposed to be a way to scare dojo offenders but with the mention that older players should be talked to _repeatedly_ and not banned. A new player that is told that "this is a dojo" and explained what that means, should respect that and only later when he will know enough about md will he be able to take its own decisions about it. A new player that goes against "the rules" from his first steps, will probably cause trouble anyway later. Respect is one very important thing, at least untill you fully understand the things you are into. Old players, and mp5 are old regardless how slow or fast they got there, should not be judged based on that. The ban spell gets more and more restricted to use based on how popular/old a player is. Think for what reasons player have been banned in general. The dojo has the ban spell and managed to use it without "using" it so to say, or at least not on players that should not be judged by the Dojo. My mistake is that the ban spell is the same for all and has no predefined time. I have two possible solutions to this: - change the ban spell of dojo into a long duration attack-lock spell, but then it might be irrelevant since the punishment will come anyway after the offender attacked a lot and he can continue later. - change the ban spell to represent predefined time in jail with auto unban and give dojo a 1 day ban spell, but then people could take advantage of it to get "prison trips". The powers of the Dojo must not be absolute, dojo, same as MR training grounds for example, is an organisation created by players and it should be hold alive by them. I had to give "powers" to people initiating such organisations because currently, untill the wishShop is complete, they have no other way of gaining those powers themselves. The dojo is a great initiative, even if its almost defunct right now, i still think it can be much better. But on top of all, repeat, its a player made organization and that means other players can take action against or for it and things will change based on that reaction. It the duty of the Dojo to find diplomatic ways to sustain thei cause and i am sure there are plenty of ways to do that and avoid such scandals. I will unban Blood Prince now, based on the voting, but next time on such high number of votes in favor, anyone with the unban spell can do it, since you have the spell to use it based on your own judgement.

sac reward is calculated based on the creature cost. The more expensive it is to buy or upgrade to that level the more reward you get. In case of the joker i think its only req is xp and that makes it return only principles. I can only hope there are a lot of them. An other painfull situation is the santa. I am not sure if premium and limited edition creatures should give a huge reward or just like it is now. I think its somehow more ballanced if those creatures do not give any particulary high sac reward, but its still open for debate.

keep first post updated if you find new locations. I will get to this at some point. Thnx

This is for all types of players, and is basicaly a part of the factions system but presented outside of it for now. If the voting goes to NO, it will be left for later when factions will be done, if its YES, it will come sooner and integrated with factions later. I am thinking of a page where each rpc would have one entry available to enter: Quest name short description (250chars) rewards given Area where quest giver can be found (not exact location) Other?... Maybe a filter on mp level, age, xp, whatever, to display the quest announcement only to players fitting the requirements. Problem with filters is that i want new players to see available quests within their first 3 days, not after month (beginner quests, later to be related to factions) The permission to announce quests could be granted also via a wishshop feature so that pwr can use it too. Please also make suggestions, not only votes. (for example what fields structure you think best, other things that could go well with this possible feature)

recheck now pls