Muratus del Mur

I was asked countless times about where the magic is in md? well the magic is everywhere, "outermagic" abilities are just an ... illusion )you sometimes miss to see the forest because of the trees.

That was my problem since the beginning of MD and still is ... the choice if to make ti more commercial and get BIG or to keep it exclusive and special. Regarded as a business, i could use my 'skills' to make it into a very popular game with high audience and make it so that 80% of the gamers will get addcted to it ... because thats what you do actualy in other games, not like, but get addicted to. For example WOW (i have something personal against the way it was built) is designed to target the highest percentage possible (around 80%). Since i do not consider MD a business, i will keep it as i feel right with it, exclusive as you call it. The problem is that without many players, the old ones or the ones that the game was made for so to say, will also leave...so we need sacrifice lambs. The game has several filters to kill off players at certain points , the ultimate filter is when you make a difference between the game itself and its community, the moment when you consider yourself an active player even if all you do is to stay on the forum or chat with others, becaues the most valuable thing in MD are its players, not its features. I worked to much on elitist features, even now for example, i am working on the Black Letters, a series of 15 letters that will be sent out to 15 players ... now imagine how elitist is that if not even all rpcs get those. Its wrong, true.. but i do it because i enjoy it and the reason you have MD and enjoy it is because i did only the things i enjoyed to do, so i can not make promises that things will get less elitist around here, even if i realise i should make it more easy at the beginning with the regular npc grinding and hardcoded ladder quests ... like any other old fashioned rpg. There is an other thing you are right about, and if i think better about it , i think solving it it might also solve the first issue too or at least partialy solve it. The powers given to rpcs are lost when those rpcs leave. Thats why i think the wish shop is an essential element in MD because i will put there features that will be rpc-like but achievable by anyone. All games i played grow in only one direction .. "serial" ... but .. i had a dream before starting MD..to have a "game" grow also in "parallel". For example you read a book, that story grows serial, only in one direction, but what if a book had 1000 versions or branches to it.. People enjoy serial growing of stories and game, they enjoy to gain more and more stats and get deeper in their adventure, even if they realise their adventure has only one way of expanding. Even if you have options to pick skill branches or guilds, its still serial evolution. This type of evolution makes money, all business do it, but its no true adventure behind it. I like adventures that give you total freedom but freedom is not free you have to work for it. RPC are more free than a new player, freedom, of choice, of action, this is the trade. There are two ways to be tottaly free, either tottaly smart or tottaly ignorant , ignorant people are "free" to leave.

ok, so buying creats at mp2 messes with the creature icon ... but ..how do you get to creatures in mp2 ?

It happend to me that i saw some banners that i realy hated, and i wanted to disallow them from the google ads...but then i thought better .., the banners you hate, CLICK THEM ..it will sharge their owners ..oh i'm evil Now seriously ... so you think image banners in forum are disturbing ans should be removed? (leave only text ads)

"evil wife of horrible person Mur" Happy birthday P.s. Since she spends more time in game than with me, i had to do this

Sorry but i must laugh a bit.... You seen only a fraction of whats allready in the shop. There are about 35 items there, only 2 are public at the moment. The wish shop is planned to replace the things that are given during the festival and keep the festival for more festive things. Wish shop will have things that are currently not possible, like ability to edit clickable items (4 levels of items), ability to change subtitle of locations for x ammount of time, unique creatures NOT available in the MDS or on the map. Access to different locations (permanent) is also a possibility. Spless with limited uses (not regeneratable like for RPC) will be also there. WP for credits will be removed i think, i don't want to mix MDS with wish shop too much. 4wp wil probably be the most expensive item, and its the K doc because it means basicaly to start a new group and more people can use it after. The cost is divided in two ways, there is the actual wp cost of each item and the requirements to get to that item. For example, an item might cost 1 wp but to get to it you will need to spend 3 wp on other items, sort of like the depth in the MDS, only this time the items wont be visible in advance but you will see all of those you unlock not just few. The wp are not like credits, they count a lot even if used. Actualy the wp count is not substracted, they are only taged as used and for what reason, but if you use 3wp you still are considered that your overall achievment was of 3wp. This score might count later for a top of some sort, or even as base for deciding rpc roles (not sure yet). While regular players will get from the wishshop rpc-like abilities, the rpcs will retain certain benefits such as ability to edit one type of items not editable by anyone else, regenerating spells, reward abilities (spells, items, creatures) , the only one to give wishpoints (!) and most important i think is that the rpc group is the one with the heaviest decision and authority over what happens in the realm. There is a possibility that there will be one wp given out by solving a quest, the broken pattern quest. Currently i am rewarding it with a wp but its slow and i miss to reward some that did solve it, so i think to make it automaticaly, even if its obvious that most will use the solution to get a wp for their alts too..but its just one afterall (and puzzle could be randomized based on player id ). Also there is a problem in how RPC get wp ... well i am still a bit confused about this .. but i do plan something. I have a little surprise for rpcs that will contain about 4 wp, IF they are able to find them, more about it its allready said partialy in an other post, i wont tell it here. (might be ready for next festival, not now anyway)

I prepared something First round will go to rpc, it will also have several 'rewards' hidden within it if you manage to find them. more details later After the first series is out and works fine, i will consider sending it to other charaters too, but at first it will be a very limited series because of the dificult process to create them...they are basicaly a puzzle not just a paper saying congrats.

fixed land access for those with torches fixed mp display restricted access to recruit, altar and other such areas

answers - you use ap also for attacks, not only movement. - there wont be any single point for just taking the torch to be fixed - access to lands when you hold torch, FIXED - place where you return when you die - land affiliation while holding a torch - lose torch on logout FIXED - show mp group before attack FIXED to check - regen times after first move areas to be built later - top torch holders - land score page - admin for distributing rewards keep posting Thnx

Valy is not playing much, he is online when he has to see locations and such. Like with all the artist that come from outside the game you have to understand Valy is not a player first of all but an artist and then a player (if at all)..so if he is no longer online in game it doesn't mean he left for good. I worked with many people, scattered scenes and creatures allover the realm and especialy avatars are the work of many individuals, 3 of them you never met because they never had a md account ..but over time Valy became my friend and his work for MD is the most consistent and covers now 80-90% of what is here. All what you see its his imagination, like i said countless times i am not telling the artist what to draw exactly (except when its realy something that has to be that way) but i am telling the guides, the main feeling, ideea and concept of what i want to come out, thats what matters for me. The artist is free to do anything that in the end will have the same result. From time to time big time gaps happen between me and him, like it did with chapter 3 art. He is not at all a constant artwork provider, but when he does, he is the heavy artilery so to say. I remember back in the old good days when he was doing like 8 scenes per day, no artist i worked with after him could equal half of that. The best best thing about him is that i can communicate with him without many words, it happend to me that i had to explain people 100 times what i wanted and still didnt got what i wanted, but with him is the opposite, in fact i think even if i dont explain anything at all i will get what i want and thats the most important thing of all. Working for such a long time on MD he allready knows some things about it, things that save countless hours of explaining and reasoning. his main job is not MD however, i wish it was but its not, so Valy works on MD only from time to time, but as a person he is a friend that i talk to constantly.

Happy Birthday!! oldest MP7 in history! ))

all is done *looks with an evil grin and the monster server*

if i dont see it in my list it means its below the 100 pms that the interface displays. entropy is ballanced by syntropy, cant be reversed but can by halted, like time.

the advantage of this feature is that its very confortable for the majority to send lots of invitation with a few clicks...most are lazy u know

stop sending me questions, in round 2 go only questions from round 1. Be prepared to hold a public debate for your question

Myspace and other big sites have an option to enter your user and pass of your gmail/yahoo/hotmail and the site will automaticaly show you a list with emails you have in your addressbook so you can select the ones you wish and send them a custom invitation to MD. You get a credit reward for all that register as your adepts and reach the next MP level. In addition to this i can store a hash of your addressbook emails that you send emails to and give you a fied credit reward (i am thinking of 0.20$ credits for each email adddress that gets a click back to the site. Its needed to keep a signature of the emails on the server to prevent using the same email address twice. The conection to the email server will be done in a secure way, no user/pass will be stored on the server and your addressbook will not be harvested, but of course this is a matter of trust. My question is, do you think such a feature would be useful, would you use it? DOnt just assume what other would do, just think of youerself, what YOU would do. I know i never enter my user/pass on sites such myspace even if i trust they have nothing to do with my contacts, but in my case i have good reasons to keep things private and i am also a bit paranoid .. but since this is starting to be a very popular method on many more sites and its also helping them to grow realy realy fast, i did this poll to see what md people think.

There are now over 450 avys in game, do you see so many players online? I don't. Avatars die together with their owners but right now it requires only a login every 6 month to keep your account active, thats close to nothing. I do not think its fair to keep avatars locked considering so many people could use one. I am not sure what the best thing to do is. My suggestion is to put a requirement or a fee for avys so that only active or paying members can keep their avy. My current price for an avy is 3$, on top of that i do not use all the avys i pay for, they do not recover their price but thats not at all the problem. The problem is that its hard to get fresh avatars because each artist i am working with can produce only a limited pack of original avatars, after that they start to repeat themselves or be crap. I plan to put severla thousand avys over time in MD, but in this way like its now, they will end up to be thousands of forgotten avys instead of having everybody of the current active players with one. Auction for the avys had a negative vote, which is fine because not all the active players with a good role afford to auction for an avy afterall. Suggestions and votes please.

Forum will have soon a gallery section, exactly for this kind of things

i could answer and ......but u know what....answering is a favor. have a happy life.

just tell what you use, not what you think someone should use...leave the prediction to me, just tell me what you do when searching for such games. thnx

I am trying to determine what are the best keywords i should optimize the site for. So ..what is it that you search for on google (for example) when you search for a new game like md? post your suggestions here and i will see what the positions are for the most suggested of them. Thank you.

there are several issues now with the 32bit system. Mysql is not able to load better than this, it could be a lot more better. By better i do not mean only speed. One major issue is that there is a user limit and only a certain number of players can be online at the same time. Also its allways better for things to work better. Why should we pay for such a server if its resources are not used correctly because of a bad OS.

Maintenance postponed for 6 july. Tomorow 1st july is Canada day (so i heard) and level2 tech support will be away for a week, so its better they won't do this today then dissapear for one week, if something happens is better they will be there to assist. Sorry for all the trouble.

Site will be down for several hours while server is beeing upgraded to a 64bit operating system. Backups will be used to restore md and a lot of settings will be different. Expect errors and weird behaviour once it is back up. I will try to fix them as soon as possible and with minimum "damage". At first everything will be installed only on one HDD then if its allright it will be mirrored on the entire array. If something goes bad the downtime will be longer. If everything goes smooth site should be up in a few hours and will finaly take full advantage of the entire 8Gb ram and not just half of it. I will keep this post updated. Bookmark it.