Muratus del Mur

in my opinion, regardless what you do , except some very rare cases, its hard to screw up permanently..if you screw up in one direction it will be better from a different point and the opposite. Of course some ways are better than the others but its not like you are used to normaly in games that you need to do a specific thing in the start to get great things later.

Thank you for "playing" yami, i surely hope to meet more people like you. Personal life is _allways_ more important than any game regardless how smart its done. You can still keep up with the community by seeing what is new from time to time, i suppose that would be fun for someone so involved as you were. Maybe the toolbar will help? Your account will remain untouched, if you gave the pass to anyone else please let me know so i change it. If for any reason sometimes in the future someone will contact you to ask you for accest to your account do not give it please. ...and i sugest you fill your creature slots because creatures get age even if you dont login, who knows maybe in a few years you will return (?) Like i said, everybody...but everybody... quits at some point, the important thing is how they do that...by finding stupid excuses, by getting frustrated, by destroying everything in their path, or by keeping their friends and saying a nice farewell. You never know when people meet again under other circumstances. Good bye

You are missing a big big important thing i allready annoucned. Advertising is stopped for quite a while, probably will be the longest period without ads. People constantly give up, its normal to do so. The number of online players now is the number of players that have been allways open to experiments and online. Ads will stay down for an other month probably, the reason is that i move all that money into SEO hoping to attract more visitors from searchengines without needing to spend so much on ads with a questionable quality of players. Also a server upgrade is sheduled, that costs too. The new rules defenetly affect this, but its not only them.

interesting ideas. thnx. note: convert matter into energy, consider energy disipates into space, consider space infinite ..pufff here it goes ..matter gets actualy wasted . In closed systems the theory is true but on a large "open" system as the universe itself, its false. gg, i get it. ballance considered from a "perfection" point of view, the more effective the surface created the better the ballance/stability of the system, right? awiiya - awsome idea, very close to what i had in mind, i will have to read again all these replyes and see wich ones is helpful and can be applied on the current situation, hopefully a tesdrive of whatever "this" is will be public soon..i can't tell now what it is, and don't try to guess, you will find out eventualy [color="purple"]*looks around nervously and merges Mur's double post* - Grido[/color]

i have a question , maybe someone can help.. how could be the ballance principle be applied on a bunch of living cells? think the cells react base on the principles, each such cell has its own internal principles influenced by what is happening to them, so what could happen to the cells in relation to eachother or with their internal set of principles to indicate the presence of balance principle? thnx p.s no its not biology, its md

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i discovered as i do allways that perfection is nothing without imperfection. I cant build this system perfect, if i do it , it will be faulty in its base concept. The trick is to have imperfection and understand it. There are many things i discovered about what i wanted to do with this, the more i discover the more far away i get from puting it in practice

As reaction to this topic i requested FULL and detailed report of all market activity so far and its tradable goods and their profit share. Kragel will contact Kriskah and get this report to me asap. I also understood that Kragel doesn't feel right to make these things public so i will act as buffer to judge the market situation and decide if its something wrong and fix it if needed. Personal anger and provocation from some people made Kragel react in a way that has nothing to do with a useful answer to this issue, and now he realises that. I understand your fear of this to be a big scam, and i must say i didnt inspected the market situation to close so far and only supported it so it can start running, but i assure you ...both market and the "clients" of it ... that the market will run and exist ONLY if it will be fair, stable, and provide services that will not leave the slightes impression of scam or fraud. I am sorry for the reactions of some people in this topic and i didn't expect neither of you to speak like that. For a RPC thats inadmissible and he will have his moral and penalising in private and hopefuly this wont happen again, for those provoking him and offending, i can only say that regardless of reason such behaviour is not a normal way that you can get any reason from anybody and will only harm your reputation on the long run.

I feel like pulling my hair out. people, understand this, before i lose my mind and start deleteing stuff randomly... the ancient role was made to offer an initial background for some of the things to be presented in realm later on. It was never , (never = under any circumstances and by no one) ment to be used as it is used now or to support events that happen in the present. Right this moment i simply don;t care anymore what part of the ancient lore was ment to be and what was madeup later and is bulshit, because of the entire trouble caused by this, the entire "ancient" lore is and will remain "ancient", STOP DIGGING! there is nothing there to digg for! THE ONLY lore you should care about and i will allways support as much as i can is the lore created by your actions, the TRUE history of the realm. Stop hiding behind stories because you are confused and afraid of current REAL situations. Ady, the onw that wrote the initial ancient role, was asked to write that in order to offer a basic background foundation for the questions to be asked afterwards, but the QUESTIONS are the ones important here, not the past. I was fine with his stories while they were regarded as ancient history at the edge of beeing myth, but after that , under the pressure of your questions, he couldt stop, so he decided to write answers to your questions and compose a world that sounded nice for him and gave most of you reasons to believe wrong things or to support your theories. This history is madeup, its not what i want in the realm, its no longer aimed to create a certain state of mind for you is no longer part of the game. Consider it a nice fantasy story, i dont care! The questions about angiens, shades, marind, raven and so on, they all had as a purpose to bring forward ideas that were later on burried under more and more explanations from adi or even worse from other people. Of course you search answers, of course its easier to take out ancient history and pretend its influencing your present, BUT ITS NOT, UNDERSTAND THIS BEFORE THINGS GO EVEN MORE WRONG THAN THEY ARE NOW. NO MORE FUCKING ANCIENT HISTORY, STOP WITH THIS, THE REALM HAS ENOUGH ANCIENT LORE IN ITS REAL EXISTANCE TO BASE YOUR STORIES ON, USE THAT LORE, NOT THE STORIES THAT ARE MADEUP NOW JUST TO FILL IN GAPS..... I WANTED THOSE DAMN GAPS TO BE THERE, TO CREATE QUESTIONS IN YOUR MIND AND BASED ON THOSE QUESTIONS TO ALLOW YOU TO UNDERSTAND MORE OTHER THINGS....BUT IF YOU GET YOUR ANSWERS IN A FICTIONAL STORYBOOK, THAT POINT GETS LOST. I DONT CARE THEY MAKE SENSE, OF COURSE THEY DO, THEY ARE CREATED AFTER THAT TO FIT WITH THE SITUATION! THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS FROM THE "ANCIENT LORE" ARE THE THINGS THAT DO NOT INCLUDE CHARACTERS! IT MATTERS HOW GOLEMUS WAS BUILT, IT MATTERS THAT NECROVION WAS NOT INITIALY THERE AND SO ON, BUT THATS IT... MARIND? WHAT IF ITS NOT A REAL CHARACTER WHAT IF SHE IS A CONCEPT, HOW MANY IDEAS WERE LOST JUST BECAUSE YOU MADE ADY TO GIVE YOU ANSWERS? I RESPECT HIS WORK AND WHAT HE DID AND I THINK HE IS A GENIUS WRITER, BUT FROM A AWSOME STORY TO A STORY THAT SHOULD TRIGGER CERTAIN THINGS IN YOUR MIND IS A HUGE STEP AND IT SEEMS HE CAN NOT STOP WHEN HE SHOULD. THE questions ARE THE IMPORTANT THINGS NOT THE ANSWERS, AND I WILL MAKE THAT CLEAR VERY VERY SOON. YOU FORCE ME TO SPOIL THINGS AND I THINK I WILL DO THIS ONE MORE SINGLE TIME THEN ITS UP TO YOU WHAT MESS YOU WANT TO DO WITH MD.

"yes of course" to Tzaroth747 and Fenrir

i do think that this punishment should be limited to the jailtime and the things i said in the previous post. Thats why i said after the jailtime the crime should be forgotten. i think this subject can be closed now, no need to hit him more, both him and you all understood the situation and decision is final. btw, if i find any of your alts getting pride that you can play anyway if your main char is in jail i will ban them too. I wont "search and destroy" them, but do not tempt me..and i have many ears and eyes. If this jailtime will "kill" you or if it will strengthen you, thats a test that no one knows the answer yet.

Ok , i get the "picture" Thank you for your excelent investigation and reaction to this This is the punishment i decided, but its possible it will do more if i find he tried to ensure his "wealth" in the realm by migrating to an other account or abusing things on the last moment. #3 month prison with the mention that once he is out his "crime" will be forgotten. This punishment however will count if he will do other mistakes later. #permanent ban from the artisans guild and denied to submit anymore artworks from now on ever. #none of his pending artworks even those that might be original, wont be used nor payed for. #an aditional penalisation will be decided after talking to glordamar about what advantages or rewards could be taken off from his previous involvement, at this moment i don't have a clear list in front of me The reason for just 3month and not permanent ban and the specified mention is that he didnt vandalised anything, he lied and cheated but with the intent to help. I know him as a good person with potential to evolve. Its not as bad as stealing creatures or trying to destroy everything you can. I hate plagiarism very VERY much, so i consider this a very mild punishment...im not sure why just that, but if he turns on the right track its allright. I also consider his actions not based on bad intend but on excitement to show off with nice artworks. THIS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED A DEFAULT PUNISHMENT FOR SUCH SITUATIONS. IN FACT, IF THIS WILL HAPPEN AGAIN I WILL MAKE SURE THE PUNISHMENT WILL BE MUCH MUCH WORSE. After the demo account theft, some people thought thats the default punishment so they thought if they steal 5 creatures instead of 3 they will get penalised with 3 so they gain 2, what a stupid thing to think. I will allways increase punishments for same crimes, its like with bugs, those that discover them are not punished and even let to abuse them for a little while, the next one are punished mildly, but the next one are hunted down like wild chickens. I am sorry to see such things happen, but i am happy they were discovered in time and that you handeled it and i didnt had to do this myself. p.s. anybody counts? is this the 3rd trial? or 4th? not sure but it would be interesting to count

Question1: are you aware that the gratest damage that you do is not what you do yourself but you influence others to do by your example? Question2: You said that the fighting part is more developed than the RP part. How do you see the RP part in a more developed way? i see the two depend on each other not separated, its just a matter of how you use them, but i would realy like to hear your opinion about how RP could be improved since you don;t consider yourself a rplayer. ... You answered several times you did some things "because you could do them". RP is about self discipline, about things you can do but you think before doing. I see RP as something beyond the tehnical limitations and what you do is to point out that tehnical part can mess things. Of course it can, MD like anything else is far from perfect tehnicaly. And metaforicaly speaking you act like a kid that breaks a delicate glass vase "just because he can".

ok, i will put in play a RP dedicated feature, i will try to make it as non harmfull as possible, lets see what the damage will be. back to coding

i was hoping that factions will be sort of a teaching school for new players to get integrated intoa world of roleplay, i guess we will find out when they will be on. I can't teach you how to RP, i am not a "professional roleplayer", there isnt such a thing. In fact i program more games than i play. Look at those that you learned how to respect and admire in MD, how did they do it, did they spam the chat or crushed everybody? You want to move masses to make yourself heared, you can do that by screaming (not good) or by making the others remember you and connect your name with something. If that thing its a bad thing it wont last long (bad advertising is not good advertising in md), if its a good thing it will bring you further. For example the market... i hope i wont offend anybody when i will say that i hardly knew of "Kriskah Arcanu" untill this event, yet there are "ancient" players that didnt acomplished so much in over a year of playing. There isnt a predefined way of advancing and getting better at RP. You could get better only within your group of people and slowly be remarked outside that group, thats a good place to start. I started a side role as a character that none of you know who it is. I am trying to see how dificult is to be noted for a regular player. Its quite dificult, people are rude, ignore you, you could turn the world upside down and they would still treat you as if you are nothing. The experiment is progressing well, i got some good things done allready, without abusing anything in any way, but its very hard. Most of you that write here are allready popular and have some reputation, not extraordinary but there is, and the reputation is what counts,...the number of people that know you...so i think you are doing quite well. maybe the pwr/rpc promotions are not a good thing, they make people feel as if there is something more out there that they cant yet do... but how else should i do ....

by RP i dont mean spamming the chat with blue text or presenting all your intended actions as if you are watching a movie. I don't mean to increase the ridiculous and tottaly delusional actions some imagine they are doing..i am against that. Quality RP, at least how i see it, is when a character actualy plays his role, not just pretends to do it with fency colored text. Burns, you say you train yourself as a warrior, cool, now you have a worrior character, afterall "what else to do", right? .. like that think a lot and the quality RP slowly disapears and the BS RP comes in from character that gave up long ago to fight against the "warriors" that don't realise they slowly become grinders. I played a warrior you all know, KC was not grinding, it didn't had such a powerful army or stats as many of you do and still was a warrior but not a grinder.

I initialy had the foolish ideea that if i give all of you lots of tools to play with and build your role you will use then creatively and for improving , changing, adapting a role. However, some of you, i wont say just dst and the celebrity grinders, showed me that this is impossible. A lot of you will abuse thse tools without even realising its an abuse, and maybe its not an abuse. from 110% speed in bringing new fancy things i droped to less than 10%, because i have a fear of such people that can destroy things realy easy and be happy about it. Character classes ? u must be joking ... so what i said so... yes its a very very cool idea, and could turn md into a much more fun place allowing peope to actualy do their role.... so what? ..what if just one of you realises that he can use this supposed new feature to cumulate spells, or to do other things i never intended to be done? It takes ONE person to abuse things and then even the hardcore roleplayers will follow and do major damage. Look at what happens in MD now, take for example alliances, the loyalty frenzy. NO no more fun stuff you (some) of you are happy to find ways to avoid rules, and never realised MD is not about such rules, then rules you will have, all of you. I wont say more for now because i don't know what the solution will be and what steps i will take, but i hope you get my point so far. and a little more.... go play WOW, thats a game tottaly dedicated to grinders, such games make money, cause addiction, keep you active a lot more. The difference is like between a work of art and a crap that just keeps you entertained.

while reading your posts i had an ideea ...what if we call alpha stages AGES... so we could call it that we are now in age 8. that will turn it from alpha to something else and will never end. what do you think? its just a thought.

I want to hear your objective and subjective opinions about how you see the evolution of MD, both technological and social evolution/involution. Please take a look at first Alpha 8 entry in the newslog and see what steps have been made during A8. I want you impression about declaring it as Alpha 9 and consider Alpha 8 a finished chapter of MD history. As you all know i am very strict about jumping development stages names, chaning the name is more important than it seems, it means major functionality or social evolution changes took place and they are considered final and with the new stage, new features will be developed that will shake things even more. Its not good to stay at one stage forever and its not good be hasty and declare endless version changes. So , is the game the same without changes done in A8, can they be considered final? even if unfinished? And speaking of names, means A10 = 1.0 Beta ? will there be a FINAL version ever? i don't think so, but i want to hear what you think about it. Declaring a new stage is like a new coat, it might protect from wind the same as the old coat, but it gives you a good fresh feeling and improved moral, are we ready for that, or do we need to adjust the current coat a bit more before accepting a new one.

The market was indeed a good initiative on a allready prepared background. The items and the chaotic trading needed such a thing, and i must admit the slave auction was indeed briliant. From a briliant ideea to fraud is a small way especialy when large funds are involved, i can only hope you will never need my intervention and you will be transparent and i wont hear complains about cheating people and such. I will contribute to the market fund as soon as i see a well organzied system in place that needs support. This is probably the first spark of an economy system we have in our small (in)sane society, and i am the central bank that can boost economy BUT only if there is a solid base to do that, otherwise pumping funds into an uncertain system will cause inflation, will discouradge the actual flow of the economy and will only give power to a limited number of people, eventualy causing something similar to a recession, probably manifested by a lack of trust to the market, illicit transactions, complains and massive paranoia. You just need to look at our RL to see the future. ...so bottom line is that i have to see when an "investment" will help groth and when it will just increase inflation Once again, congratulations, i consider this an important step in the evolution of the realm. I wonder what will be next...

true . mp2 influences are new to the contest, uncalculated, probably will be prevented for next contest. but hey...thats why the contest is unfair... things can happen anytime, so don't get so worried, consider it a unexpected diversion. ..like i said..unplaned

just to clarify this dst.. taking something from someone (something that does not belong to you) and replacing it with something else, its still stealing. If i enter your home and i take what i like then leave something else back, don't you call that stealing? ..and i never said you were the one to take all the creatures away, i have no clue who took "the last" creature, if that matters for you so much. Btw all the taken creatures (the penalty) are on the demo acc.

just a short note, why don't you make it also a archives doc? most of the info here is valid as a permanent resource.

honor was ment to be something to grow if winning against players than win more than you do and drop if beating up players that are allready losing. That is honorable. What is not honorable anymore and turned into something else, is how fights are used to manipulate honor. The name honor is kept currently for "tradition" mostly, to avoid confusion renaming it everywhere. At some point won and lost fights got renamed too , since lost fights are not as bad as it sounds. I am still hoping that the "honor" system can be adjusted to work better, i defenetly don't want to remove it, but i admit is not as i wished it to be. its mainly a thing about mood..my mood unfortunatly ..when i feel like fighting and competing i do things like head contest and torch competition, when i feel otherwise i do things like items, honor adjustments and so on. Right now i am in a fighting mood so i will be working on such things .. at some point i will calm down and try to improve the honor system, the battle log, loyalty system, and take it easyer on the fancy experimental features *cough*tokens*cough*