Muratus del Mur

they actualy DO worship him, since smartalekrj is missing in action .... afterall they are changing leaders easy, and eat them too, especialy if they are bunnies, bunnies taste good, but not as good as drachorns. ps. read the AL from long ago in case you have no clue what i am talking about

"happy traditions" i think thats the best thing i heard for hollydays (except the Murry xmas of course ) ), i will use it too:D Afterall not everybody is celebrating christmas. nice one MB. You better have internet there cause otherwise you will be missing the gifts

Server suffered a brain surgery today without anesthetycs. You should see performance improvement, a great one actualy, but expect failures in the next period. The changes are experimental.

a big _awsome_ avatar pack is about to be released. you will defenetly love this new series.

just a quick note, i haven't read all the replies. Old rpc\s will start to be removed after a certain period. i sill have to work on that system but its on my list. when this happends, the position will be made public and spellpage given to othe rpc.

cryxus, that option was ommited intentionatly, as i said, if its not on the poll feel free to comment it but try to pick something as close as possible, thank you. the reason for that is because i am interested in those patterns only and not about a debate on religion and god in general.

Ok, i know the poll its a bit strange, and no i am not recruiting you in some kind of sect of missunderstood persons LOL. Also i appologise i refered only to christianity , but i do have a good reason for that and i dont want to extend that reason to other religions, but you think of your own religion when answering the questions, its almost the same. As a note, i keep my beliefs neutral, for the public, so dont feel offended or excluded because i wont talk about or include in the list your cult, religion, sect, fangroup, gang or whatever that is that you belive in. Usualy such a poll splitts friendships and kills brothers, and i realise that when it comes from me the effect can terrible, but its better to see a general reaction before moving on with one of the lectures i plan to hold myself in the future. Please answer honestly comments are welcome, but if you cant find your desired answer in the list, TRY to pick one of the existing ones. I intentionatly ommited some so you will have to chose between the remaining.

you prepare it and let me worry how to distribute it I think its a good ideea to make it like a history page of game development and evolution, a mixture between story, social and technical evolution of the game. It can include important things discussed on the forum, newslog entries, head contest winners, story changes if important, funny moments from chat, etc etc etc. one page wont be enough i guess:) but lets try at all cost to keep it at one page. I think this has great potential if made right and its also a good opportunity for players to get involved in the community and help. Maybe having a nice template and make it as a PDF will make it easy to print a hard copy of it by who wants to keep it, i for sure will do so. Such pages could easy become a collectible thing. I can add a code to each page that in turn will give a stats increase, basicaly all you need to do is to get the weekly paper and activate its code, same thing as it was with the calendar, if you remember it. In other words to reward players for their constant activity even if it means reading the newspaper. I want to go even further with this, what if we simulate a real newspaper print, and have a limited number of copies available each week (calculated based on active player number or somethign else). That would make some editions limited and it will also make it possible to give separate serials to each page and organize a lottery based on that. Lets give you a boost in this direction I am offering a [b]substantial[/b] in-game credits startup budget and a stats rewards pack for you to distribute to participants in this project and reward them for their efforts. So you can start recruiting people. Also if things go well, i forsee a guild of editors comming to shape and an other new social formation (i dont know the term). Please contact me by ymsg to discuss rules on rewarding people and guild management. Shoeps will give you my address when you will show him this post. p.s. dont get involved in this project if you are not sure you will have time to manage it, because i plan to torture you with it , at least untill we establish a format.

yes the content still needs to be adjusted, some old links remained there but i will fix them. You can still check the old page at : [url="http://magicduel.com/index_old.php"]http://magicduel.com/index_old.php[/url]

we allready have too much text around here...but if it involves images it could work. Maybe indeed sort of a extended AL, like a small history page from time to time that will put together some important events, some gossip, some site changes and so on, but only if it comes together with images, artworks, whatver, and i am not talking about screenshots. Yuo should talk this with Glordamar and see if he has available artists to back this up. It could be presented as a weekly newsleter, with a nice newspaper looking template. just a thought.

the info on the right side about honor, win, loss was in a bad place because it was not updating as you played but just showing info since last refresh. That was very confusing and was causing people to ask why they dont see fights count increase or honor changes. The realtime values you see by clicking your playername in the online player list. No changes to the honor system yet, but i am not done.

you like the current homepage...lol..then you will defenetly get addicted when you will see the new one when its ready

So we finaly are at Alpha 8 ..so many alphas that i wonder what will come after 9 I think there enouh changes since A7 and the new MP2 level is defenelty a milestone. You are probably wonder when will be beta?..well you are probably new here if you are wondering that ..veteran players know me better than that Front site face will change also, i am planning to make game a bit more atractive and lower the "human filters". Now that this will be over i can tell you that the ugly front site was such a filter. There were plenty of games outthere that look amazing on the front page but then you find something stupid inside, so i was searching for those that have the patience to test also an ugly game and are not fooled by a nice front site. Now this 'filter' is no longer needed because there is an other filter in mp2 and i also want more users to join. I salute those who are with us from initial alpha and wish that the new ones will stay around to see many more numbers pass that Alpha indication. Mur

You cant compare MD to other games at all. The number of online players compared to the number of accounts is diferent from game to game. In MD there are about 20k accounts lost in the beginning where the email confirmation was not working, then there is MP3 thats indeed a patience test and filters out those that wont be usefull for the TEST. a very small percentage of people remain in game, but this is what i want now, a special selection of people not a bunch of people creating chaos allover. All the stats including those on the login page are real. There are about 3k active accounts / day, 40% of them are of same real person, and online at the sme time it fluctuated between 90-280. Top was 300. Other games have different way of counting online players and also its a matter of advertising. I can push advertising in one day and there will be like 1000 online and 20000 active if i wish so, but that will consume the budget for more days and have the server overloaded. The alpha test is advancing and because of that i will make the beginning of the game more and more easier so that more player remain in the game longer. Untill now i needed a good based of dedicated people and if you are among the first 120k accounts and have over 100 days activity you should be proud. What will follow next in Alpha 8 will be more similar to what you see in other games.... probably next week

asceding from mp2 will have only one outcome ... start of the game as its now, mp3. Mp2 will be the new startig level in a new place, this is one of the reasons i delayed mp4 testing of mp2 becaues i have to stop them from advancing tho their own doom somehow (mp3 start resets everything)

defenetly

this is no bug, alliance members that get ballanced remain ballanced, its one of the things that changed but were not announced

There might be some problems with rpc players and some of the illusions. I need 2-3 experienced players that have spells and rpc status to test this before opening it for everybody. The risk is that the illusion won;t return to the initial state when its done and you will lose some of your abilities or player tag. I cant check all the possible combinations myself and its all about how you combine the illusions to get different results. Any volunteers? Something else, MP4 players will become MP2 and MP5 will become MP7. I dont guarantee what will happen with MP6 and their worshipers if they join this test and i wont fix or repair any damaged account after this test.

This is the current distribution of the Inner Magic Documents. More changes to how this docs will be assigned will happen in time, meaning there will probably be someone responsable of this. Also these are just 50% of the available docs and other docs are on the way, so the game needs more RPC's to hold all the docs. This will probably happen on the next MD Festival or in time. One thing that i predict is that the rpc's that become inactive will take their doc with them in the grave so some docs will become extinct or very rare. I can reasign them to new rpc, or make a doc trading possible. I think i will go for the second option unless there will be enough active rpc's in time. This trading will be probable a major game change together with avatar trade and limited edition trade..but more about that some other time Here are the docs and also the rpc id's, i think first time they are all public The spells are noted with their internal code i hope you will get it what is what, the number next to the keyword is the document level : .simplyzero. (13313) antivant_1 .Braiton. (31629) apaneagra_2 .Jonn. (12826) apaneagra_3 .Khalazdad. (37523) apaneagra_4 .Shade Sentinel. (26578) apaneagra_6 .Bootes. (42972) fulgerele_2 .Metal Bunny. (11799) fulgerele_3 .SmartAlekRJ. (16282) fulgerele_5 .BlackThorn. (54807) fulgerele_6 .Chewett. (1619) groupscattering_1 .GlorDamar. (44846) ineluldefoc_2 .Gargant. (38083) ineluldefoc_2 .Eden. (14589) ineluldefoc_3 .Akasha. (1014) ineluldefoc_5 .Raven. (43469) invizibilitate_2 .alche. (6734) invizibilitate_4 .Muratus del Mur. (1028) invizibilitate_5 .Junior. (43448) leacurileintro_2 .phrog. (8968) leacurileintro_3 .NelyaSetesh. (43964) leacurileintro_4 .Thanasia. (35241) loviturafaratimp_3 .Morpheus. (2616) loviturafaratimp_3 .Gilbert. (20954) loviturafaratimp_3 .Knator Commander. (115) loviturafaratimp_5 .Rex Umbrae Killer. (14308) protectienumerologie2_1 .Morgana Le Fey. (40480) seductie_3 .Calyx of Isis. (66179) seductie_4 .Shoeps. (12996) seductie_6 .Wodin Ullr. (4128) spiritdeconducator_2 .Renavoid. (46797) spiritdeconducator_3 .Speaker for the Dead. (40420) spirituldeturma_1 .Envy of Endurance. (38085) taieturadesabie_2

the ballance issue and the behaviour of the players its not something i can change so easy without running into other problems. I am not ignoring this but all in good time.

just that you know, numbering of accounts start with 1000 not with 1 so if you are id 1600 it means you are player no 600 ..thats soemthing! King Manu account was indeed a cheating account, used for testing and to show off back then, it is also the account with id 1 ..as a symbol of the starting of the game. id's from 100-200 are reserved for NPC characters and some other special characters like knaty. Btw, who has acc no 100000 ? its one player "kensmoke", i hope he becomes an active player it will come a day when you will consider yourself lucky if you will have accounts under the million range )))

not everything, some things wont come back, there is a limit for activating certain items that have no point of paying again for them such as features or others that have a limited number like energy storage slots and even some creatures i think

yup, sender will see it also as unread

you dont have to use your game email for the surveys, just create a junk email for them and never give out credit card data. The offers are indeed crap, but they pay, so for now i keep them. When i will find a better way for alternative free credits i will remove that crap from the site, untill then feel free to find ways to exploit them, as long as you manage to get the credits the game will also get its payment and we are all happy ...except those that sell strange things or have suspect offers ...pff i read some things in those offers that sound realy retarded...but what can i do

SoulTear, you say you spent 3$ on avatars so far ... well just that you know it costs me 3$ for each avatar in game and in general players buy it once so they spend 1$ for it ... well except of amorte that insists to work for free, but i will find a solution to that too There is no real gain financial for the game in buying avatars other than a quality gain because unique avatars make the game special and i simply love the ideea. Having avatars expire could be a solution to free them, but i think it will ruin the "legend" part of a the game where a player writes history with his character and then someone else comes and takes his avatar because he was on vacation or away a longer period. An other option i was thinking on was to have avatars just for subscription, that could be an effective financial solution but i still don;t know if its too moral. For now i will go with 1$ avatars and simply try to cover the costs of additional avatars and push this as far as i can..for now. Amorte, you say lvl2 avatrs should be rewards, thats a interesting point, but because the rewarding system is not yet objective and its up to some people and rpc's that decide that, i dont think its something to be done yet ..maybe with the new wishpoints system could work The real big importance of an avatar is the influence it will have on a possible role, custom avatars, even if i dont allow that now, will be something very common after the artists team will be larger and there will be an better way to controll rewards. Ideal is that the avatar comes as an acomplishment of your role or as part of a quest, like this only dedicated and smart players would have one and not only the rich player. however, for now, i have to think of recovering the money on the avatars so that i can ensure a constant flow of new ones, and also to find a way of keeping some avatars allways in mdshop. Imaginge new players that buy the avatar upgrade and then the see there is no avatar there, not today , not tomorow ..thats much worse than selling avatars at a higher price! I am still waiting for the votes and your comments on this to decide what to do, so far my thoughts are to create lvl2 avatars auction based and lvl1 as usual, but as i can see in your reactions you wish for the avatars to remain as they are now, regardless of level..if so, so be it... i will wait more before taking any decision.