Muratus del Mur

Lets put it like this, if your king slaps you you dont slap him back or he orders you executed. Shades are what necro people should respect, fighting back regardless of reason is not an option.

NO its not a "hardcoded" thing. Summoned army, like ANY other character that will attack you in MD, has behind it a human mind that can take decisions based on feelings, impressions, logic, or what other things he consideres. In case of the Summoned army, playing that character in true respect to the personality i wanted it to have, the Summoned Army felt in its fellow Necrovians an enemy. Please read the chat log yourself and see if you can tell from the chat who is on whos side. Having a necrovion ally sign on your profile makes you part of Necro, your blade and your actions speak for you. I could check who attacked first who, but its irrelevant! It was not a competition or a contest, it is not a artificial situation that needs an exact measure of facts, it is your interaction with the summoned army, which is not the Shade Sentinel i have to remind you. In your interaction with the Summoned Army, that came to fight against what was going on and defen the stone from any outside influence, you necro FAILED. It does not matter who attacked first, it does not matter if you were attacked because an other necro fighter instigated the summoned army, ..it does not matter because the Shades were allways seen as something close to a natural event. [b]Consider the summoned army a hurricane summoned in your aid, if it hit in its course friendly units it was still a necro representative to fight in a necro location[/b], that should have told you it is not fighting against necro, obviously. You forgot about the shades, you repeatedly mistaken them by humans and interpret their ways differently. That doesnt mean they changed in any way. Shade Sentinel dissapeared from the lands after the Traveler incident, there was a faint attempt to feed it in order for it to regain its powers, the Summoned Army is a shade sentinel without its individuality. The Shades never changed their ways, you wathced the whole thing from a distance, like a show. You join such events and observe them but behave as if you are not involved but then complain when you dont like the outcome. Note: some characters are animals, really animals, mine for example are quite some. Shades are sort of animals or natural occurences, not individuals, knaty is a large beast .. animals have instincts above reason, if an animal feels something is wrong, then for him it is. If knaty feels you talked without respect to him , so it is. Same with the shades .. you never learned to understand then.

Raven, as extravagant as you want to make that sound, no it is not and it will never be "your" word against mine. I am starting to feel that some of you forget some basic concepts around here, when i say something related to the game is in one way or an other, then it is THAT way and no other way. If i am unsure of something or want to lower my influence on things said, i make sure i say "in my opinion". When i say what the summoned army did, this is what it did, not what i think it did or what i had the impression it did. The Summoned army came targeted to counterballance yrth actions. He knew his mission has a high risk of failure and i was going to make things difficult for him. If you enjoy seeing things as "Our word against Murs words" and think this sounds as a scandal topic and you like it, you will only get me pissed. This entire thing allready got me angry anyway, not to mention what got me to make it a Pain Festival in the first place. You people don't know to lose, i will not try to make you all happy, or to find ways around so that each of you is right in the end, i am tired of that. You roleplay you die, and i see it, you die (in game ofc), you attack your own allied forces, you are considered a traitor, as simple as that. You don't like what is written on AL or announcements, live with it. When you will stop complaining and you will bring arguments, then i will listen. At this point i realy don't care if you are hurt, if you feel life is unfair with you, if you find stupid excuses for past mistakes, i really don't care. During good times you kiss my ass trying to obtain things in your favor then you get upset you dont, during bad times you pretend everything is fine but accuse me of nepotisms on other sites where you have the impression i cant trace you (i am not talking about you raven, but in general). You know what, if you think MD would be better without me actualy playing it, then have fun. I can take a one year break to work on MD without announcing what i do, without playing the shade sentinel, the summoned army, the postman, without watching over your wars and friendships and then you will slaughter yourself freely. Of course i can also clean up MD, burn it to ground from all people that i have the slightest feeling that they are unfitted to MY personal view of what is MD. simple as that. So before you lose your respect and dare to say its my word against yours, or start thinking MD would be better off without me in it, think i might think the same about some of you and one day i might stop being the Mur you know that tries to understand everyone.

people ..what uninformed...my head hurts...do you forget who you are talking to? Again, the summoned army, was attacked by necro people, OF COURSE IT FOUGHT BACK. It attacked both necro and non necro after it saw that they make no difference anyway and they keep attacking it. So..it didnt attack back only those hiting it, but all, once you showed no kind of support. Except the fights, there was no support in chat, but even worse, you left the general impression you are curious and want to see what will happen with yrth actions. Don't act surprised or revolted now, you should have been that way back then. The summoned army has no humor, you play games attacking it just to see if you win or not, you might end up complaining on the forum later for the outcome.

I will not comment too much on what i think regarding the recent situation between grido ans yrth, there are plenty to do that. In RL when your president does things you don't like, you can organize a hit or a revolt, you can do pretty much whatever you like, question is, will you succeed? I want to say some things that only i can say regarding this. Public opinion is a powerful jury. Here in MD votes will not count as number but as value, so if you plan on doing a voting thing, then you will have to send them to me, with _strong_ reasons, and your personal reputation will count as the vote weight. Having an anonimous ruler is out of the question, don't even bother with this idea, sorry. You want to be anonimous so that you have power but NO responsability? A ruler must have the guts to apply correct measures both to foes and friends, if you fear that because of a friendship situation you will not be able to be a correct ruler, then you are not for this role. Yrth had so far a just behaviour in my own view, but he is not gg as a personal favor, nor is anyone else in his position, so his seat there as a king is under same rules as anyone else. Shacking a king off his throne can't be done out of personal frustrations or grudge. The position as a king of a land has to be SOLID or future kings will not be able to reinforce their decisions because they will risk to be stoned by their people, so think well before attempting such a takeover, a king is not an ally leader.

Ok i've been talking with Cryxus trying to establish the first faction and we both realised some things don;t add up right. I need a feedback on the following questions. I think these questions sum all the things needed to put factions in motion. 1. _Exact_ location of a faction. Exact scene names of where factions members can go, OR if they can go the entire land ? Cryxus faction is the Pirates one, suggestions can go for that or for any other too, anyway i am more interested to see what you think about how factions should be spread across locations, after that i can apply same logic to the first faction i will be working on. 2. Point of entrance. I have two options, a) start of game at register time. It involves faction staff to handle lho support and new players will have no creatures and experience about md. This is best for the ffirst impact on new players but its very dificult to setup correctly especialy with all the new things a player needs. They might enter at MP2 illusion stage but illusions wont be related directly to factions. [img]http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/public/style_emoticons//cool.gif[/img] after story in mp3. Once players are in freemode they can subscribe to a faction and seek admitance. They could select the faction at register time and then have a "mission" to get admited there, but its just a suggestion (i am not sure of the things it involves yet). That also involves that other older players could join factions and its a risk of factions becoming used as alliances, AND I DON'T WANT THAT. 3. Scoring system. I think i can make it related to worshiper system. All worshiping a central leader are part of the faction and are marked with the faction signs. Faction staff can give score points based on faction internal rules such as quests tests etc. This score determines the exit point out of the faction and the end of the training. 4. Appearance. All faction members should have NO AVATAR / NO TAG when joining. That is allright with new players and old players should not join factions anyway! As part of a faction you will get a avy, one that is shared by all faction members (some scholar avy or something related to that faction). The tag will describe your position in the faction and your score! 5. Exit point. Once you fulfill all the training of a faction, you can and should exit it. Upon exit you should receive a reward. What is this reward and how should it be given. a) manually selected by a central leader. permanent stats, rare creature and such (abusable but more accurate and adaptable to players) [img]http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/public/style_emoticons//cool.gif[/img] automated based on final score. Please also make exact suggestions with rewards, giving figures. Thats all, i think with this factions can go live.....eventualy

Phantasm selected. Topic closed. Thank you all for making such interesting proposals.

Yeah, if you really really care then post a comment there. I feel embaresed by the IDIOT posting that THERE. Its no need to tell who i think it is, but please keep your fights with me or other players inside MD gates. Don't prented you like MD and play it but also affect its image so that others will laugh about it. You are not affecting me or akasha in front of a bunch on people that have no clue who i am or who she is, you are only making everybody here look like a bunch of frustrated telenovelists (whatever you understand from that word ). damn, i cant wait for the pain festival to start, i have so much anger to take out, watch out

Looking forward to see more. p.s. what is the reward?

I cleaned this post by making an enormous quantity of offtopic posts INVISIBLE, not deleted. I left visible only the ones that state the alliance plans of those that compete for its leadership. The invisible posts are still visible for me. Please keep posting whatever you think, i will make invisible all those that i consider, but ALL are read and taken into consideration for this decision. Your personal votes and opinions about one or the other leader also count. New leaders are welcome to apply, no leader was selected yet, but one will soon be. Current people that applied: Leucretia Fenrir phantasm Good luck...if luck has anything to do with this.

So far the most worthy candidate is obviously Granos. Congratulations! Topic closed

Hi Mark (or whatever your name is) MagicDuel will never have computer generated graphics, regardless how professional some might consider that or how many amazing ways there are to do them in 3d then convert them to something that looks like handmande but its not. I could give you a bunch of reasons why that is and why its so important that the drawings should be made pencil on paper and not altered by a computer but i am sure you will have no use of such information. Regarding general design, i hope i don't offend anyone if i say MD never had a "webdesigner" except me. The web you presented (if not taken from a template) is not that impressive. If you could do something like (http://www.disciples2.com/D2/elves/), and i mean art+the 3d glare effects+... then you can contact me, maybe i have a project for you, but so far what i see regarding webdesign you have basic skills. In no way do i want to offend you , and i appreciate you trying to help, but i see you are very persisting and you require an official answer, so here you have it. Thanks

i am planning to make a small icon on the detail panel that appears when you click a player in chat. Clicking that icon will show a list of achievement icons that player has, only the icons. The icon appears only if there are any to show, since most wont have any. The current achievements page (the new book next to wp stars) will be enhanced and better looking probably. There are other plans to do something like combo rewards if you gain all achievements in one achievement unlocker (like the statue now), but not sure when or if that will be. Most likely it will be one WP for achieving all in one place.

the achievements section was not yet announced as done on the newslog. If you found some map area i was working on , that doesn't mean its up. WHen it will be done it will be announced, then you can complain its not working.

keep posting sugestions in the form I posted them and i keep them updated in the first post. The first batch of 30 achievements i posted is in work and after i will gather the others and make an other batch. Also except these, there will be a basic set of achievements easyer to get by anyone (within a week or so) , maybe 5 badges or so. They will be made based on the real cool ones discussed here, for example if one here is collect 10wp (a hard one) the easy one will be collect one wishpoint, which for some is also a very important achievement and hard to get.

its just a thought, what about a closed group HC to run periodicaly and where only those with hc medals can participate. The reward will be a treasure put together by the participants themselves, one thing each. It could be integrated same as the current HC and keep all others out of it, maybe a different color/style for the heads icon. Its much work to do to make it real, and i could remove the heads ability from all rpcs for this to prevent complicated checks and unexpected situations, but what do you think? ... a level II HC maybe?

well its on, i finished over 50% of the interface, some things will start to be visible allready, like the extra space on the wishpoints slots, and probable some more things on the player detail panels. I tested first achievement and everything works fine, i can't wait to see them working because i am a big achievements fan myself Artworks are on their way for the 30 achievements sugestions i listed allready but of course there will be more and the list will keep growing. Also other things will get influenced by this new feaure, for example wishes that allow you to unlock achievements for others etc. Here is the current FAQ for achievements and trophies http://magicduel.com/pages/help.achievementsinfo.php it will probably get updated later with more info if needed. about 25% of the work left to do will be to create areas within the real where you can unlock some of the achievements (unlock does not mean achive them, read the FAQ), something similar with the document dispatch in the archives next news will be on the announcements page *jumping around happy*

positive voting, congrats, means you get SOME of your alts back, as you asked . Please send me list with those you want. ... and i hope I wont see them used again for the same purpose.

that veteran medal will be given based on id, one time, something like 1-10k id range is one rank, 10k - 50k an other, 50-100k, 100-200k ....something like that. Anyway, your id combined with your active days shows what type of veteran you are

I should start by mentioning that i am not insane, i know how many things still need to be done, fixed, etc, i know i allready started other new features (like the other combat system) that i never finished, or the bot, or the factions, or mp7, or fixing tokens, or the translator, or the torch competition rewarding system or many more .... but without playing around with new features, i cant exist .. i dont have fun in md without doing this so .. LET ME PLAY So, achievemtns page, new feature in work (i promise i'll work on it only after i do a bit on the pending stuff each day ) Main ideea: a section within the interface with medal looking items, that will activate one item when you fullfill certain requirements. Expansion ideea: probably allready implemented from the start, the ability to create custom achievements so that they can assigned to individuals (rpcs, wishshop, side quests etc). An other thing, "on demand" achievements, for example you are assigned a task that will give you a specific achievement, untill you are assigned that task you will never know that achievement medal existed. Achievemtents will be mainly granted by a system check based on some rules, but it could be also a custom rpc ability, for example for achievemtnts that involve communication or trading skills, and a human to decide who gets the medal. Tehnical issues: It will be very server intensive to constantly check achievements especialy if i plan to make them so highly configurable and personalizable. Thats why, they will be checked only on request by clicking a "check" button under each pending/disabled medal (let me know how it sounds or if you have better ideas) Artworks: i don't have them right now but they wont be a problem once i decide the main list. They will be colored probably and looking sort of alliance logos but with a medal-like feeling. Logic: Here i need your help. I do have plenty ideas, but i defenetly want to hear suggestions, in an organised form please (list or other way) Achievement ideeas for example: - "Full glow" :: get all creatures max level and minimum 6 creatures - "Beasts mark" :: get vitality and value points at 666 at the same time - "Noob trader" :: aquire a creature by ctc, one that was allready traded before and has before transfer at least 50 days. - "Master trader" :: all you creatures were transfered by ctc at least once - "Burst Burner" :: trigger a certain number of bursts - "Combo Fighter" :: have 3 active rituals with 100 won fights (combo) - "Above money" :: increase max vp over 100k - "LHO" :: be promoted to lho (regardless if you get demoted after) - "Apprentice Spellcaster" :: master at least 3 different spells - "Mark of History" :: get something in the realm marked permanently by you, like place name, or other - "Persistent Traveler" :: get over 500 visits in a place - "Spellcaster" :: aquire all spell docs up to level 6 for any spell - "Spell medal ??" :: one for each complete spelldoc series you have - "WP collector" :: For reaching 10 wp - "Creature collector" :: For having at least X creatures and each one of different kind (regardless of level) - "???" :: for having at least 20 creatures all of a non damaging type (no other creatures) - "Rich Nabab" :: for spending X amount in the mdshop - "Creature Master" :: for having all creatures at max level and at least 20 - "Colored Creature Master" :: for having all creatrures at max level and premium and at least 20 - "Navigator" :: For visiting 100 different map locations - "Explorer" :: For visiting 200 different map locations - "???" :: For visiting 300 different map locations (there will be one for 400 too, soon) - "Mr/Ms Popularity" :: For having over 100 friends - "Stigmata" :: For doing something realy bad but still managing to remain unbanned - "Alliance Leader" :: For getting leadership of an alliance at least once - "Protector" :: For reaching Mp6 - "Rotten egg" Having an egg in your creatures for over 200 days without upgrading it. - "Unholy gathering" Having 12 or more maxed unholy priests at the same time. - "Sleepwalker" Stay online for 48 hours straight without going idle. (not sure i can) - "That gotta hurt" lose 300 figts in a row. (thinking on more, keep writing suggestions in a clear form pls) both very easy to achieve things and dificult things Interface: i could splitt up the page in dificulty levels or just let a huge achievements page scroll, both sound fine to me....so let me know your clear list, based on the things you think they could be possible to count/masure/detect in the current system (as much as you know it) On the character detail panel when clicking an ohter player, i think there can be a small sign to show that when clicked it will open on the entire panel a list of achievement ICONS

Well ..goddbye, thnx for sticking arround so far. Anyway, keep an eye on the changes from time to time, some things might make you ..curious at least

docs are kept in a db not as files and there is a limit on how big they can be. That limit wont change because it could turn into a major security risk. Its huge as it is anyway. What i can do is give you a private space on mdrpc.com to upload your files as FILES and link to them from your papers. mdrpc.com is not only for rpcs but for all that realy need it and have the required reputation so that i can trust them enough, and i think you do.

so .. bugs: - tokens are still at 100% when ritual set in defence is 100% (instead of beeing 0%) - some tokens still give huge bonuses making them usable instead of personal stats. first one will be fixed. For the second one i need a token list with the tokens causing issues, and i also need 3 profile samples of what you all agree to be: - "normal" stats - "high/good" stats - "huge" stats so that i make sure what i consider to be good stats is also what you do.

i think i missed this... any logs?

Jester, Kafuuka, Phantasm - received Q doc, please check if it works. Fenrir - fixed i want to remind all of you that you will be able to keep it ONLY if you use it to setup _interesting_ quests. Consider it a competition.