Muratus del Mur

main url should point nwo to the new ip based url. I expect new server to be ready on monday so we will move again then let me know what you think of the speed of this temporary server..its not a small server either

its almost done, it will take some time to become available in all corners of the world, anything from 0-24h ..but transfer is ready and game is functional right now, i will post back with a temporary url as soon as i finish testing.

death is close any moment but we all think its far. we could die any moment by mistake or live a long life ending in death eventualy. Ones fear [of death] is the other ones war [death's war aganst you] death is eventualy hunting us down in a way or the other , you could say it has a personal war against each one

New server is not yet ready unfortunatly, it will be ready on monday i hope so untill then we are moving on a temporary backup server , that i dont know much about so it might be a terrible experience but its better than nothing at all.

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nice Ruin. Good answers everybody! you were an excelent support team for STF:) ..and the name of the topic, i think it should become a standard name for "support groups" in adventure log situations.

current hosting agreed to keep us until 9 may so that we have time to move on the new server. ..but i noticed the game is slower so i supose they put some kind of restrictions. Playerlist is not loading well, other things work terrible, i know, it will be soon over. New server should be done tomorow so expect a downtime in the next 2 days while we change nameservers and migrate to the new server. After this migration i will start a very intensive optimization work on the game so probably there will be several interuptions , server resets, things like that. After this server issue is solved, i will get back to regular development with new features, more things to the side bar, and a lot more, like usual, but until then i wont be replying to your emails regarding translations, xp resets, avatar drawings or whatever that will be, thank you for understanding. I will however continue the adventure log .

i am talking to a phone payment company now but things dont look so good, their tax is a huuuuge percentage of the payed sum (all do it like this) so even if i receive 0.5$/credit i still have to charge players more per 1 credit so this is weird, you have the feeling that you pay 10$ but actualy i get 3 ... its not that efficient and i think it will drain players and only to benefit from this will be the payemtn company. I will keep searching for mobile payment options but this remains right now something for later. What other payement ways can you think of, what you use or saw in other games?

yeah advertising on forum i agree. anyway i have to change the skin to make it look better and like the site. about sponsorships, well we are not big enough yet, there are games out there with milions of players (web games), we have to grow bigger first, but once we will we wont have this server problem anymore:)

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.