Muratus del Mur

you seek for truth? funny.... thats why you tlked things behind my back and refused to say "the truth" when i demanded so in public? My reputation is immune, my reputation is the game, if my reputation gets a certain 'color' the game will get that color too. Like your actions represent you , people judge you as a person YOU ARE, not as a general theoreticaly perfect person as you claim... the same way , i am judged by my work and action ... and so far you are here arguing because of me, in a world initiated by me, arguing against the very things you claim you fight for .. is that just wrong or what? All the peole in MD have their own ideas, MD is built from all sorts of beliefs and all sorts of people, they actively represent the "player base" of md. My ideas can;t be fitting all of their opinions and i do not aim to please anyone with what i think. My opinions and beliefs shape the game but in return players respond to it wich makes me learn something. For me MD is a "living" thing that helps me learn from you and you from me, consider it a ballance. And in case you do not know the meaning of the word LEARN, its not about convincing anyone that you are right, but to complete your ideas with the things missing or to give you clues to improve your theories and continue to evolve. You did not presented it to me as a conflict of ideas, i would have allways discussed that without any hate or bad reaction, ..what you did was to act cowardly in your own favor and to use the power of scandal and fantasy conspiracy theories to attract attention and to convince players of things you and logan imagined. YOU LIED that you have proof and opinions from former players that would support those theories, you lied about speaking with valy about it, you allways lied just to make your point and get people believe what you wanted ... and you speak to me about truth?

[quote]There were two reasons I did not speak in game. One is that Akasha continued to attack me in the chat. I would have spoken if she had, pardon my words, shut up- or if someone had shut her up via chat controls. But the simple fact is that she did not, therefore I did not speak in game. No player should ever be subjected to that kind of treatment- you had the power to silence her and you did not.[/quote] I could have shut you up too , but i didnt. Anyone can speak its mind freely, its up to the ones feeling attacked to react to it. Akasha felt MD was attacked and reacted placing herself in a fight that was hers too as a player of MD [quote]The second reason is simply because of the fact that I did not make such accusations against you and the accusations were said in a YIM chat, which is OOC and out of game entirely. The YIM conversation was NOT a trial against you or any other person, nor did I use my RPC position to manipulate any player into believing me[/quote] You contradict yourself, you say you did not make those accusations but you say there were in private. It doesnt realy matter if you do them in private if you talk to people from MD, people that know you from MD and people that know you as RPC, authority given by me, making your word count a lot more than normaly should. The conversation was not a trial but a brainwash, masterminded probably by logan and actively presented by you. You two ended up taking players one by one to convince them about paranoid stuff how MD is built by secret organisations and how i am some kind of freak erasing your minds. I dont realy care Logan was the mastermind behind this as i suspect,... a man is represented by the ideas he fights for, you fought for logans ideas so you payed for them. I never punished logan for his ideas because back when he was RPC i was not aware of such a thing happenig. Suddenly after he steped tottaly wrong and got demoted, he started to have paranoid beliefs and agitate people for nothing. What a coincidence. I don't care to punish logan, he is no longer rpc he has nothing to lose, anyone can speak freely, but you as a rpc, you have no more business in MD rpc group anymore and on top of that I will no longer let you or Logan scare players with fantasy paranoid stories based on imaginary proof just because they sound cool and because scandal is more interesting to others than truth.

Burns put it better than i could, its all about evolution, ancient lore kept people ignore the present and hide in the past, the present builds the future, the past is the foundation, but in this md world, the past was invented not experienced. Amoran was not demoted to "keep things going" however, but because i won't allow a purson in wich i put trust and authority over others to speak against the world she has to protect and help to grow. Its not about a difference of opinion, is about direct accusations. If she or logan said those things on private it has no importance because it was said to players and in a way targeted to believe that bullshit. And yes, MD is tottaly not at the end of the bag, the stuff i have on standby are at least that big as the entire current MD, probably more, and i will never stop as long as i can go on. ..but some things you are simply not ready for, i am talking for example about the sphere in the AL, the point where the story just stopped for a while..i will continue it when i feel its right. I have many creatures not used yet, but its not time for them because i want different abilities and i will not add them untill the current abilities are not fine tuned. The map is bigger too, and i am not only talking about the things only a few see, but about the things nobody ever saw *except who saw the artworks* I am working on a tottaly different concept of fightng system, factions is also one thing put on standby that when it will be up wil change quite much, and so on. MD has to have a ideology and at the same time respect all opinions, its a dificult task, but without it it will be chaos. Its a big big difference from judging someone for his OPINIONS and juding someone after he ATTACKS you or the things you care for. And on top of all, things are simpler that any explenation, i made you rpc, i demote you from rpc. period. You should be happy i am allways thinking things and dont react by first impulse...because if i did i would have cut this and other bullshit that happens in the realm directly just because i can without reasoning it.

This was a 9 hour lecture subjects range from entropy and syntropy, to religion, symbols, mathematics, infinity and zero, back to principles, secret of magic and human mind. If it goes to the archives, please remove the extra chats like usual and splitt it a bit with subtitles ..its way to long. Thank you all for participating, it was a great experience for me to learn from you by thrwoing my theories to your minds and seeing your arguments boths for and against. Remember i do this to learn not to tell you conclusions. I hope i left enough questions to keep your mind active and that my personal conclusions on the discussed matters only acted as a guide to make you think there is something outthere worthy of analising and not simply accepting or ignoring. Thank you

ah yes..same problem here...i allways tell Mur to behave himself but he allways goes back and complains to Mur that i am harrasing him

[quote name='stormrunner' post='33852' date='Jun 18 2009, 07:31 PM']mur your losing it [/quote] a dark face reveals itself from below Murs cloak, .... He allready lost me.... *diabolic laugh* Curtains close applause

*hears echo* "why why when i have so many things to doo..!!" *hears echo again* "you have a problem with it? Huh?" Omg, i am hearing voices. shutup...no you shutup..no you... *gets away from his mind for a bit* ...lets see, mental disease dictonary.....s....s...here it is...nope...i am not mad, pfeww ...great.......I AM NOT MAD I TELL YOU, shutup *who said that?* ...Mur is that you?...ah good...then it explains it all....i am not mad, just hearing Mur invisible voice.... Whats a mur? shutup i tell you Who me? Mur, thats no way to talk to Mur, signed Mur How many???

ok ..place and aproximate hour announced in newsbox. If anything changes i will update there. make sure you have enough beer, cookies, or whatever that is that keeps you less stressed lon hours in front of the screen .. but come sober ... get drunk on the way

bad news is that hosting sais its not their fault, so server did crashed indeed they are looking into it but i dont expect much result. Anyway, now its good. next time you see errors look if its anything about mysql , thnx i will be updating this with info if i get more from hosting

what do you mean its not working?! O.o (found out - maintenance work, will be finished shortly)

Hmm, 28 to 1 so far, thats acceptable Then tonight? considering there is a 50% chance it wont be tonight? lol anyone has a coin to toss? entropy, cube/geometry, magic plus a bit of spicy insanity, Done. i cant set a time, my watch is broken (internal that is ), so you will have to go with ad-hoc

all references to it if i missed any will be removed. The second necorvion gate will continue to be there, and its special role (undisclosed yet) remains unchanged, what i change is the name and the symbol to it.

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Last pack of avatars got canceled because who made it got in prison for presenting stolen art as his own. As part of Glordamar team, amoran was supposed to be an artist to provide such drawings, yet last time i received anything from her was looooong loooong ago. I am not depending on Amoran for the avatars as she sais. I only wanted to support and encouradge artists from within the game to build avatars because they are much more in touch with the game world than any other arist i can get here, but if its not possible its no problem , i have many sources if needed. The "job" for avatars is open to anyone, they get payed with credits untill a sum then with cash. Submit your samples to Glordamar for review and if you are a good artist you get in the Artisans guild. Untill then, i will provide a avatar pack to cover the huge gap caused by the canceling of the previous pack. As for you Amoran, you are no longer an artisan, or you could stay in the alliance if Glor decides so, but i will no longer want artworks from you, not after you accused me of stealing work fro others without beeing able to argument your accusations...and you were never the only one providing avatars (is that news for you?) New avatar pack is allready in progress, hopefully within a week it will be done. Until Artisans guild gets back on its feet with fresh new members, i will provide the artworks again from other sources. Bounty: I am offering a total of 4 Drachorns with tokens and 4 custom items to the first 4 new/current members of the Artisans that submit to glor at least 10 avatars that get approved (appart from the payment for that work of course). That is one drachorn and one item per member.

- "player base" is a technical term refering to the total number of player accounts and you have nothing to do with it, you probably mean you supported players in the realm or brought in friends to play, wich is appreciated but all do that without braging so much about it. - the artworks you did were greatly appreciated, rewarded as well, like all other artworks i use (as opposed to stolen as i was accused) and they can be counted on fingers. Other people helped with many more avatars or even scenes and they didn't used that as an argument to threaten players that they will stop doing that, like you did on several occasions. How many month ago was your last avatar for md, did you actualy do any scene for MD as you say? what are the artworks you talk so much about? a few avatars long ago? Anyway, i never judged you by this, i didn't made you rpc for your drawings, that was only an advantage that could help you to better support your rpc role with custom artworks. Glordamar is the one to decide the members of the Artisans guild, i just interfere when situation requires it. - about speaking and me not hearing it.... i guess the RPC meeting logs and your overall attitude speaks for itself. And i am glad i am a horrible person, i was starting to think i am to soft sometimes, lol. - Like i told Logan on his demotion some time ago, i tell you too, this time in public because you seem to be the type that likes public talks ... You should learn something out of this all, you should learn that ideas that breed in your head are useless if not confrunted from time to time with the surrounding reality. You should chose to speak when something you care is at risk, you should learn to fight for the things you believe in or to stop believing in them if you realise they are not worthy to fight for. I would have listen to you if you would have defended your point of view and not spread rumors behind my back, in fact i actualy did this for you, opening the discussion about my accusations in public and challenging everybody to argument any part of it...... but, like Logan, i don;t expect you will learn anything from this. maybe next time you will find yourself in a similar situation you will remember what i told you now...i wonder if it will be too late ... On my side i learned that i will never again try to value someones opinion when that person doesnt value it enough itself to argument it in front of other minds and open it for debate. p.s.: as for "my wife", unfortunatly i treat her like i do with any other rpc, as far as game related matters are discussed, she has no preferential treatment and yes for that i am a horrible person, as you say, because normaly i should have kicked you out the second you argued with her just a bit..just because she is "my wife", yet i didnt do so, think about it.

i had enough. I dont see anything more to learn about this situation. I will post conclusion on the newslog. Issue closed.

to Kittiness, nobody tells me how to run MD , dont worry about that. Akasha's issue is no a personal issue, she just had the guts to bring attention to it, but the issue is not a personal fight between Akasha and Amoran, as you can see for yourself. In fact, i think Akasha is lowering the importance of the issue by making it sound as personal and keeping to get in this fight. THe accusations against me and MD in general are not accusations that concern Akasha more than anyone in MD. to Fenrir, of course everybody is doing it, its like when i talk now, i am trying to make a point in what i say, so i use words to do that, the same way in MD i use other things such as colors shapes and gameplay sensations to make "the point" that i want there. Its not marketing research, the purpose is not to sell better, but to put you in a warm atmosphere to stimulate your imagination and give you a confortable feeling. The world i am creating has as purpose LEARNING/CREATIVITY both for me and for you. I enjoy what i do, you could say i am doing experiments, but its tottaly different thing from what i was accused of. All other games are focused on marketing research to increase sales and keep addiction, unfortunatly for me thats not what i aim, and you can see that in the exclusive nature of the players that stay, in the limited number of people that get anywere far and by the hi IQ and creativity requested to survive around here. I have no use of a cold game machine that will be suitable for 80% of the gamers, like wow type games are. MD is first of all a community, the game is just the filter to that community, of course i am doing everything i can to improve that filter ... and thats why you are here, thats why amoran or logan are here ... I might even write a book about how you can shape the playerbase of a 'game' by using numbers and colors... that doesnt mean i am hiding anything or have dark purposes or whatever other bulshit i was accused of...and it doesnt mean that for me MD is a game..its not. I do not respod well to attacks of any kind, but to an attack to what MD means i respond even worse, however i am still having a small amount of hope that this issue can be self regulated by MD itself, by rpcs or the rest of the players, or if its not, at least i learn something out of it before i take an decisive action. So far i do not understand Amorans actions, i do understand Logans however, i suspect its related to the demotion. ...so you see...yeah i am using even them as lab rats..observing their actions instead of simply crushing some skulls and moving on. In this sense Amoran was right, lol. ..but, what is the solution recomanded by you (all), how do you see this situation? what would you do, what do you think i should do, i am curious what arguments you have. I feel like reacting bigtime and it would be a pitty not to consider all options before i do, don;t you think?

i run into a big issue. I dont know if nature is simply random or my script is simply broken, i believe the second is true. i am taking a small break before i hit delete and try it differently here is the current progress, [url="http://magicduel.com/dlg/test.gp.php"]http://magicduel.com/dlg/test.gp.php[/url] this is on my side the most fun and experimental programming i ever did.

i guess you realise now what this was all about.

i think i finaly got something to take the combats in MD outside the usual "fighting" so common in any game. Its kind of dificult to explain what i mean because there is no comparison to anything else i seen before, but for now there is no need to explain anything. I will be updating this post with test links, questions and other things that could help me to finish this. Please understand this is not a discussion, i will not comment, reward or test all or any of your sugestions, but it greatly helps my thinking process to see opinions from you and also some ideas might be obvious for others while total obscure for me. ---------- the new fighting system will not replace the current, but will probably be integrated as a slower competition fighting mode, spell casting or a lot of other possible things. ---------- basic concept forces involved are not oposing eachother but INFLUENCING eachother, that means the purpose of the fight is no longer the destruction of the oposing force but reaching a third objective. For example X and Y forces "fight" to keep Z force stable. I know it sounds allready confusing. ---- [color="#8B0000"][b]Possible example:[/b] player A, B, C, D (yes more than 2!!) combine certain percentages of principles in order to controll a aditional player/force named here "Z" , this can be for example the growth of an organism, like a tree, a creature, or to keep a flow of energy stable for a defined period of time. The fights will have two possible purposes, to unballance/destroy the Z or to ballance/amplify it. The win/loss will be considered like a bet between the involved parties, each player will aim for something. All players could aim for the same thing, but that wont mean it will be simple for them to achieve it.[/color] ---- The mechanism behind is as realistic as i can make it, the involved principles will actualy controll a flow of particles and each principle will act as it sais in its description. I currently work on a graphical representation of this process, and its possible, nut not certain, that the "fight" will generate a nice (or ugly) pixel map of what happend. When the system will be functional enough i will focus more on its looks but not right now. I hope you realise that this is unprecedented in a game, as far as i am aware of. There is no term of comparison and there is nothing i could use to learn from so i can make it work.... in other words, this is as experimental as it can get. [b]game mode disclaimer [/b] because things have to remain fun and playable, i am aware that at some point i will have to change this system to be more playable than realistic. Do not search a precise mathematical proof of what is going on behind the scene. The initial tests will be probably weird and with results hard to control, but as soon as the base of the system is working i will make them more friendly. What i need from you is an opinion on how intuitive this system is and how fun it is or how frustrating and annoying it is, i don't want hardcore testing, that will come later anyway, for now its important to understand how usable it is as a competition/fighting system at all.

I feel i need to clear some things out for those of you that noticed a significant slowdown in development and the activity on the site in the last period. Things that kept me busy: - new/alternate combat system, that will not replace the current one but it will complete it. I hope a test interface will be given to the most hardcore players for initial testing before release. (no, do not ask me, i will pick who) - my "book" i was talking about in the newslog, thats something that i realy realy want to do and its sort of a conclusion of all the things learned in the past years. Its not related directly to MD but its written in a very "md style" way, as soon as it will be ready you will get the first chance to criticise it. - total lack of advertising for the last, long, period. I am trying to drive more traffic from searchengines and therefor i redirect all available funds into seo (backlinks and such), so far no much results, but these things take time (at least one or two month to see something) - no progress on the BOT, but i will soon add more player DNA questions that will help with it. - minor changes to the front site, including a definition of magic (that i am very proud of), fantasy records page, other improvements and cleanup of pages. - other projects i was working on, like "thegrapher.com", improvements to "browsermmorpg.com" as well as 3 other gameing related websites that i plan to finish and they will all help MD to grow. (Btw i am looking for a content manager for these new sites, job is to manage the sites, add content when needed, contact other webmasters, answer emails, very low payment(i cant afford much), very little work, if anyone interested) - a big big surprise in MD that you will all see within a month i hope - my greatest "achievement" for over 9 years of work as a web developer, i FINALY am "unemployed". Few days ago i lost my last client in exchange of a trip to the mountains i decided to take instead of taking care of his website, and i must say, i cant feel better than this. Of course lack of cash will be painful, but the extra time will make me do much more for the things i realy care about such as MD...but not before i will go wild with "Company of Heroes - Tales of Valor" (yeah i do play strategy games not rpg games ..you cought me), so you will see the "madness" development status after a good healthy period of childish and irrational behavior while i sit glued in place playing this and hiding on messenger or pretending i am ultra busy for those that still don't know i am actualy not....but psst... don't tell. - oh, i will also be busy hearing out stories and rumors of how i am an evil monster playing football with everybody's mind *diabolic grin* "muhhahahaha", or who knows what other shoking/stupid things i heard recently, which is fun, and sad, but leaves me completely cold too. Some people cant see the difference in what i doo. So, thats it.....looks to me like summer mood starting to takeover, and i had to tell you all this so i feel less guilty for the apparent lack of activity lately I still have some things on my list that realy scream for a little attention and i WILL finish them as i planed to...eventualy..., things like factions, angiens guild, some gameplay fixes that are badly needed right now, and so on. damn..i stop here.

if/when ch3 will be up, you will be amazed that it will still look one step into the future. stop dreaming about ch3, if/when it will be up you will see. MP3 stage will allways remain the one with the story, the big change with the factions was for MP2 level and it will turn mp3 story into a sort of a embeded quest. The game beauty must be sacrificed a bit in favor of the game dynamics. Fixed story wont write itself, but factions is something "alive".

one thing left from the past, heading to a direction that i now admit as being stupid, now is fixed. The second necrovion gate will be there but without any relation to others work. The "gate of the gods" that allows entrance to a different necrovion will be again there but in a tottaly original way.

I am backing up the MD Silver Coins rewards. Consider them double, and may i sugest increasing the top positions to 5 if there are more than 25 contestants? Also first 3 will get an item fit to their role.

because trading is usualy coected to money, that phrase needs to be there. In MD coins are ITEMS, you can trade for coins or equivalent, but coins are not (yet) the same thing as money.