Muratus del Mur

for moneybookers i have to receive the payment and manualy add the credits so it might take a while, if its check it takes days untill they reach my account, anyway, please email me if you pay by moneybookers so i can update your account as soon as they enter. i have to say that having such a great community here its amazing, i could never cover the server costs myself and the game would have never grow without a good server and good speed. After i finish moving it to the new server i will spend more time optimizing stuff so that this server will be able to hold many many more players.

mmm, we have something that is paying much better than google ads, the banners on the free credits page are throu a game advertiser that is paying double than google ads, but people dont click them and its about one click every 24 hours per ip so clicking them licke crazy it will only ban us from that advertiser

llaaaaaddiiieesss anndddd genttleeemannnn, we have a winner.... 2U SR-R010 Rack-mount redundant power supply chassis server Dual Xeon Quad Core E5440 2.83GHz 4GB RAM HD 320GB 100 Mbps port 1.5T traffic i just bought it ... will be setup in about 2 days so i still think game will be down for a while untill its ready, hopefully not, but we will see. Anyway keep a link to the forum because forum remains up http://magicduel.invisionzone.com I am not sure how i will pay it next month but i realy hope for the best and this time i will get ads after i pay the sever first. I think this is excelent news, thank you all so much.

moneybookers is allready on the credits page, but moneybookers doesnt support recurring payments unfortunalty..you can still use it to purchase credits the regular way. Paypal works in ireland as fas as i know, they ARE from ireland. and there are several players from belgium using it allready. It can go both with checks, credit cards or transfer, it just takes longer for the transfer like it does with all systems. One of you sugested to actualy put home address public so that ppl can mail me direclty cash, well its not such a bad ideea but i am not sure how many will use it, and i dont know if there are any legal issues to receive money like that by post so... untill i find out more i wont do that . If you know more tell me pls.

we currently have 383$ (there were 250 allready there) ..still plenty to go until 550 p.s.@gaconkzk, i found your payment , and fixed a small issue on the payment page, check if everything is ok now and pm me if its still somethign wrong

we have ads ont he credit page people are not botheering to actual vote (one reasen why i will remove that page soon) ...so NO NO NO ads , i want it to be a clean game, to look like premium version for all players, ads just make it ugly . Think that i almost have no space in the interface to put all things that are now, and i want to add more and mroe features, so ads realy have no place here. Maybe some well integrated ads for sponsors if ti will be the case , but now , its no way i will put ads on the game. you should be happy for that.

yes you can cancel subscriptions anytime, its a feature from paypal actualy its not depending on me so you are not bound in any way. Just if you do so please let me know before so i wont consider you are trying to cheat the subscription system. Any amount is helpful, i appreaciate it.

well i found a server! ... its about 550$/mo but its the server i need, also speed seems faster than with the current one , so combined with the much higher speed of the server i think it will be much better overall. Now the money... i am setting up a new payment plan, please check it out, this will satisfy your needs for bonues http://magicduel.com/pages/info.serversupport.php If you plan to buy credits more often please use this page, it will offer you much better discounts and also it makes us know exaclty on what money we can count on for the server. At this moment the page is under work, the subscription links work , however the system is not fully automated, so i will activate your credits manualy within a few hours after you subscribe. Also subscribers get a medal for supporting, the medal is not available for regular credtis purchase. More changes will be made to that page in the next hours but all players subscribing there will be afected be them, so there is no need to "wait for me to finish it" I can only hope for the best. Anyway, i dont forsee that there will be enough funds to do this within 48 hours so espect the game to be down for at least one day

he was talking about placing ads on the game to cover the hosting costs ... i think that having ads on the game will make it load slower and also will look UGLY, we have to search for a better option, i want this to be good looking game, without annoying ads, pupups and stuff

well, as you all knwo we recently moved on a new server, but it seems that this hosting company sent us the warning that they will close us down too because of to much CPU use .... i am going crazy with this, after setting up the server and losing countless hours of tweaking the site to work on this one now i have to move it again. Instead of working on actual features i stay after the damn server, this is frustrating. The best solution right now is to finaly get a dedicated server, not a reseller account, not a virtual private server liek this one, but a DEDICATED server where we wont care if the site is consuming 80% of the CPU. Unfortunatly i can not cover the costs of such a server, they are not that much but they still are. One possible option would be to switch MDShop to 1Euro instead on 1USD items that would give a 30% increase but i am very sure this will give a bigger drop in sales so i better dont do it. i dont know actualy why i am writing this post, but maybe some of you (the oldest players) will think of soemthing, maybe others jump in. I won't turn this into a payed game even if i will have to close it,..its supposed to be free and will remain like this, and i do everything possible NOT to give the mdshop buyers huge advantages over regular players but just a touch of quality to the game (premium creatures, features etc) The server costs about 5-900$/month, depending on what we will get, this can be more ore less. I am aiming for a dual quadcore with 4-8gb of ram so that we will never have this problem again. There are almost 7-800 active players that are constantly playing, with more joining in each day, such a cost divided could be almost nothing for each one, but unfortunatly its not happening. I am planning to add a something like a "support the server" subscription where each can contribute with whatever they want but on a monthly bases. 1$ for you means nothing but gathered monthly from 700 players means the server for all to play. Like i said there wont be so many people to pay, in fact things look totaly different, there are some loyal buyers that pay a lot and most use the free credits and wait days for their credits, so i can to the subscription thing either , not at 1$ at least .... also maybe some of you have experience with some good hosting companies? i am full of experiments..Any info is useful. i am waiting for a sugestion/ answer , whatever .... server is closing down in 48 hours.

Do you like the new side bar? Does it fit your screen? We could use this new sidebar to display aditional information like current ritual, extra stats, adventure log, news log, and many more.

you are welcome to join and help us translate it

how does the game load for you in general since the server change? There is a 10 seconds time limit , if it takes longer lo load the server drops the connection and you see that page, that might be a reason. Also if you keep more browser windows open with the game you might be on the banned list and experience these things too. Do not over refresh, it will only make it worse. hat country are you, what connection speed?

ok so it looks we will have a italian team assembling? if so please talk to eachother and email me when you decide that you can start. The more people helping with the translation for a language the faster and easier it will go. Like i said i would love to have italian version too, i am sure there are many more italians out there playing the game so you will have to see who else is in for this. English spellcheking will come too at some point, but for now i cant allow access to the english version and also i dont have time to implement the changes you will send for english as i better work on new features than spellcheck old ones. I will go over the entire game and fix things once we reach a new milestone or something.

yup send them to me, if they are at least good, or better than the current ones you will have constant work to do.

i initialy intended for fair loses in real fights not spam attacks indeed. but i cant realy see what would prevent this from happening. the honor penalization for losing its not that efficient. the target of this system is to get self balanced and to allow new players to attack and win against old players. The mp stages should not be a problem because if they all merge there will be just the same, a huge mp level for all. I understand your point of view, i am playing myself without cheating and i can notice how dificult it is to keep the fights balanced (i am at -513 honor right now), BUT i also know players that manage to do that and not by luck. So i think that the main chaos created is because most players dont understand this and even if they need lost fights they keep strong rituals as defence and players that need loses dont bother to ask and they just spam. I could make an indicator like black/white thing to show if a player needs wins or loses and reward more the players that attack players that need the oposite. This will probably make them to self balance, but for that i have to almost cancel the definition of a fight and consider them more like "matching ritual". Losing is also a strategy and as you can see its often much more dificult than losing, itr true but you are not accepting it.

you should think how the game would be if there was no limit in winning ... imagine players with huge armies attaccking nonstop others ... believe me , it will be much much worse then having to fight for getting losses. getting losses has its advantages , it helps out new players that realy want to win , and it helps to the overall game balance. ITS A CHALLENGE TO KEEP FIGHTS BALANCED It should not be easy! you are percieving this like a curse, and losing is just somthing you do in order to keep honor and win later, but actualy keeping the fight balanced is more of the purpose than anything, and its not easy at all. Players with a balanced fight profile will gain stats and xp much faster than unbalalnced players, this allows new players ro gain better stats than old players ... this is a MAJOR feature of the game, and allowing players to recover days and days of playing and overcomming ancient players is something that usualy no other game does like that. Its tru that having to avoid spam fights for loss farming is very annoying thing. ..but i have no solution for that yet. The solution is communication. If you only knew waht type of fight the player needs maybe you could just farm for losses the ones that need wins and the oposite.

player cleanup will come soon too, it will be based on time since last login compared to toal active days. There are players like Actraiser for example that had to go away for like 4-5 month , and they are active and even work on the game....so deleting them after a month or so is defenetly out of the question. Maybe 6 month of inactivity will trigget their deletion, but for that ...we are not running for 6 month yet ...lol

hi, the lottery type of thing is not something i like very much, i prefere to make different contests better than a lottery, something to have the players fight for it in some way not just see who wins... but i will keep in mind you wished for it, if i find a good way to implement it i will.

i could use someone on text, but your skills have to be realy good. And you must have a good imagination as well, because i am planning to expand the story with more branches. Send a sample text on email please and i will decide if you can handle it or not. Thank you very much.

Sorry but i asked Valentina not to post new artworks untill they are released in the game, Right now people start to select their avatars right from the forum and then push me to give them or make custom avatars for them, this is totaly unacceptable, you will have to pick your avatar from the mdshop and all players that reach that shop stage have same right to pick the best looking one in order they reach that shop level. This also causes confusion because if you like an avatar here but you dont see it in the shop you will start asking questions and maybe that avatar is sheduled in a later release wave. Until later when it wont be such a rush for avatars there wont be any avatars posted on the forum untill they become officialy available in the game. Thank you for understanding, ..and Valentina, later on if you keep up the good work, i will setup a private page where you can exibit your work , not only avatars. I want to make something like a gallery for each artist that worked on the game so far, like a personal web, but right now i am extreamly busy and this thing can take time. This also goes for other type of artists , not only drawings, but more info about this later when i will start work on it.

Well thats very nice to hear. I cant make you a live support while you are still relatively new, but if you keep heling newbs at the papercabin and close to the first creature encounter i will notice it (me or the mods) and you will be recomanded to be mod, this goes for all of you that want to help ... i know you all realy want it and are honest that want to help with the game, but i must keep this hierachy to avoid confusion and missinformation among new players and such. I have mods that i put as mods because i was thinking they are realy devodted to the game and they ended up as inactive player ..so first you have to prove you are worthy of it and then it will come by itself. I want to keep the mod team as a very high quality group of people and not a bunch of poeple that just want but actualy do nothing...so first of all stand out in the crowd and i will ask you myself if you want to be part of the team.

ok new rules to become a mod are to be active on the forum, and by active i dont mean to flood with "yes thats nice" type of messages...actualy posting irelevant messages will ensure you will never become a mod. smartalekr you are to new to the forum for that, i might consider you fo ingame livehelp if you keep up what you are doing there. Reven, i know you for a very long time here, but do you think you are active enough to become a forum mod?

so, .. the story is unbalanced , regarding some points, but the overall game experience is balanced. This might confuse you even further The only things you can do wrong in the story is to DIE, or to chose same path as last time. The story presents a world from different perspectives, so following the same path on each mp level is something you dont want to do. Considering this, regardless if the outcomes are unbalanced, a player experience over multiple mindpower stages should be balanced. Some outcomes are defenetly better then others , but keeping on that path wont benefit you on the long run. Diversity is the key. Chapter 3 will splitt things even worse, all the ends in chapter 3 are unbalanced, and becasue they re "all unbalanced" there is a overall balance to them ... sory but i cant explain better what i see from up here

Yes italian is greatly needed. If the player lacks players from a country that only means the translation in that language is much more needed. However there is a problem, the game is h_u_g_e and if you are not ready to translate several hundred pages , it will go nowhere. I would greatly apreciate your effort but i have to warn you its not an easy task to do at all. plase contact me in-game if you still feel you are up to it and we will talk about it. There can be more people working on a translation but someone has to coordinate it, someone with a lot of free time available.