Muratus del Mur

please remind me next time to give a public explenation about the reason i admited anyone into SOTIS...

symbols and counter-symbols are like music, you can't pretend to have musical ear and then confuse noise for melody. One mistake shows there is something "not there", but one perfect answer shows there might be something hidden in there (your mind and abilities/senses). Who won the 4 stage recruitment? I don't see anyone in sotis and i don't remember. I looked over all replies again and i know instantly who i would have selected (with a 50% score, but still more than the rest)..but..he is not. I wonder what happend to him... i avoid to say his name for now, because i don't remember the conclusions of that recruitment series. Looking at it now i would oscilate between canceling it or rewarding one person. help my memory pls

I was asked a question by Yoshi, and I think this part of the answer needs to be public, so here it goes; Recruiting for SOTIS will never be the same,so this is NOT a way to get into SOTIS.. This guild will be a collection of people, each different...thats why anything related to previous recruitments can be public...there are no secrets now. Symbols have counter-symbols, there is a rare...ultra rare...skill..better said "sense" that some have, to understand symbols with their feelings and be able to match their counter symbols. To determine such a skill its very complicated...people get tainted by the use of symbols nowdays and even those that have such a skill will judge with their logic not with their heart. So, i divided the recruiting in steps, because someone that has such a skill will be remarked easier this way, and the test itself was supposed to "open" their heart, or to confuse them totally, filtrating in this way all the participants. Pairs of counter-symbols have a special property ... they can describe a "complex thought" . Lets define a complex thought first... A thought that holds the information seen from all perspectives, balanced, without loose ends, that can not be normally detailed without being broken down in many many sub elements, such as a dream or a book, but in essence, its only ONE thought. Such a thought can be imprinted into objects, transfered between people, hold inside yourself...and so on. You can make a very clear and direct association between complex thoughts and magic. All the spell docs are each one complex thought detailed over multiple steps ;) In person i never met someone with this ability..sadly. Looking through history, i found two people only to hold a similar skill to mine...and I will not insist on their name them because i do not think I am worthy to be placed on same line with them,,.. they are from a different level so to speak. Before giving one name i will first expllain something. Like with any skill/ability, there is no sharp line to determine who has it and who doesn't. Someone could learn a skill. someone could partially understand it, while others can be over the line to master it and those people will expand the "borders". King Solomon had this ability, to enclose complex thoughts into symbol pairs. Sadly most of the info you can find nowdays is transcribed severl times and many many interpretations that lose the real meaning.... but the meanings remain in the symbols. A symbol "pair" can consist of 2,4 or 8 symbols, matched with their counter symbol. They build like a small universe if ideas, that are complete, but in their "core" they define a gap. Its like removing the surplus stone to reveal a beautiful sculpture. This is powerful...so powerful that probably anyone in existance mastering such a skill will make history or there won't ever be two people at the same time able to do this entirely. I have just a part of such a skill, (and i am not making history :)) ) so i can assume there are people out there, like me, that have such a skill partially. I saw traces of other people able to do this, some work in advertising, one was a monk...the advertising people are like shadows, in fact i tend to believe that the brain behind this was not the designer but someone else (like his employer) giving the ideea. The monk died like 100 years ago sadly. so..to stop this before its way too long. Symbols matching skills was a curiosity of mine and i wanted such a person in sotis...even with a partial skill..maybe one day it will matter in MD,,for sure. Sadly I realize that people come and go in MD and eventually sotis will remain just a collection of names...or..maybe not. I hope not :)

AUDIENCE IS ABOUT TO END ..what...nothing has been discussed?...so what? :))))))) you didn't expected that did you

UPDATE: i managed to open yoshis videos too from what i see now, you all used the fast method...the cleanest cut i saw so far is from Azull, Intrigue and Yoshi achieved similar results..with the very important mention that Yoshi put considerable effort in sharpening the blade (at least from i can tell in the video, Intrigue used already sharpened knives, correct me if not so) I want to see a slow clear cut... but if nobody does it i will select a winner from current entries. I've managed to do it with a shaving blade and a razor, just to test if its possible. There is a little catch to it...especially at the end where there is nothing to hold against the cut cig part that will not cut off completely....unless... (i let you discover unless what) I admit i failed to do it till now with a knife in a slow clean cut. I managed to cut it 95% perfectly, but the last part is so damn tricky. You can practice on fine paper tubes, much cheaper than cigs. If someone does it, wins, if it will pass too long time and nobody does it I will select winner(s) from the existing entries Thanks for participating in this contest :)

Intrigue and Azull to consider for the first place for now... I incline to consider Azull's cut much cleaner than the ones i saw in Intrigue's video..in fact..Intrigue's cigs look more like broken than cut with one of the knifes (but one does it acceptable) Yoshi ..I CAN'T OPEN YOUR VIDEOS.. please fix that somehow, upload on youtube or something Still nobody to show me a slow cut ...i guess that will be the final round (@yoshi i will continue o try to open the videos and get back with a reply about them) I guess who thought this is a trivial or too simple contest realizes now its not quite so :D

public council sounds like "democracy" ..and that simply does not work in MD or in any realm that is fully based on your own skills and achievements. I must say I hoped this would work out but I stated my opinion that it won't. You need authority for a council. That is obtained in two ways, wither under the immunity of anonymity or by obtaining it through your role over the years. I believe a public council could work if its made from all the powerful people in md, in rotation.. but .. this smells like corruption over the time, i give it a 50% chance to work, but i am not willing to "try" it myself. The risk would be that all influential people in MD will be "disbanded" as well if this fails, or corrupted, and i do not want to risk that. It is however something to think about in concept, maybe someone finds the missing link that could replace anonimity...then a public council will work (and remain stable over time) Just a note, i am currently avoiding to make any crucial decisions about MD social/organizational structure... I am too "away" from MD at this moment, and that makes me vulnerable to false information, so do not count on me to do such experiments in the near future. But there are people able to do it and i trust them. I only give advice now, not "directives". "One day i'll be back" :P

and i was wondering WHO is taking care of fb page...lol...so..who is it? I want all RL related contests advertised there, with pics and all, but posted by the participants, and a special rewards stock given as extra for those that do that, regardless if they win or not (something constant and not too valuable but still attractive). I was thinking to make an item called Reality Drops, given for anything that brings md contests outside the md realm...fb is still not reality but will present onlly contests rl related...makes sense what i say and why so?

this could be done with some adjustments.. i don't allow credit codes by default, but having a way to convert existing credits to codes, with certain requirements such as an active subscription, could be a useful thing. I need to talk with chew about this first. Generating codes is not hard, but could become a problem when codes get reset and people will start complaining they lost codes, for example. It also needs adjustments to admin so the auto generted credit codes will not clutter the current list, that is clear and tracked. a solution in this direction, with many limits however, is needed. finding a way to prevent one day subscriptions is however a higher priority due to abuse that is easy to do and is abnormaly punished ..while it should be limited by the interface somehow...but that an other story

i think it is sasha lilias 148016 743 5 1 means you have 5 tickets pending and one used

now we have an ice breaker :D do you think it will do the same if cut slower? "ordinary kitchen knife" could be a vg10 steel , depends on budget, any clue how "ordinary" it is? just asking i must admit i nevr thought about cutting it with a fast cut, i only tried with slow motion, i do not yet realize if its harder or easier yet, but i will try. Till i see the next vid to compare, all i can say is IMPRESSIVE! How long did it take from start to success, with the time spend on trying, sharpening, etc, and how many cigarettes you destroyed in the process? :D waiting for more!! ps, i want to see a pic of the used knife to see something about the blade, thanks

Thank you chew. Please put the sql in the coder manual :) Its likely i got something wrong, it came out suspiciously fast :)) ..but gladly there is you arround (even if undercover)

Exactly. Hold with one cut with the other

I reformulated the initial task text to fit with everything i detailed later in this topic. Task: Sharpen a knife blade in such a way that you will be able to cut in one swift (slow or fast) , one direction move, a cigarette, somewhere at the middle of it, while holding it by the filter. Cut angle must be between 90 (perpendicular) and 45 deg. The cigarette can be any normal brand but not "cigar" or slims. The blade can be any material you wish. The cut must be clean and not leave the cut part hanging or tear the paper. I also posted this on MD facebook page... and i welcome anyone organizing a RL related contest to do so ("by submitting the contest details to the authorities" ) :))

Intrigue, Azull, Shadowseeker and me for now update: i lowered the angle on the blade..its probably 3-4deg now... more like a shallow ground razor. The problem is that the edge starts to be brittle and actually lost its smoothness. I will not give up, i intend to polish it back to remove the shattered parts, but it takes time. I am not using any special tools, i am not "sharpening" it with a piece of cloth and one of leather, and used fine sandpaper at first...so it really takes time, but i do it because i enjoy putting my thoughts in order while i do this. My example or way of doing might not be the best...actually for sure it isn't. I am sure there are probably other, obvious ways, to achieve the target of the contest. I am not excluding the possibility that you can grab your existing kitchen knife and just cut the cigarette in one try, who knows, maybe what i am doing is so totally wrong that i don't even realize it .. it wouldn't be the first time to happen so. I didn't try to cut a cigarette again since last time i replied to this topic, but i will soon, just a bit more sharpening before that

I am happy again :) it seems to me that this "mistake" makes more sense than the "correct" version. As you have pointed out, the east lands are divided in two, both owned controlled by Mur and one owned...or is it the other way arround? both controlled by Mur and one owned? haha Anyway, it makes perfect sense now, much better than if it would have been if "fixed". Maybe making it fully latin would have been a slightly better version of it, but WHY and who sais MD has anything to do with latin afterall. Its all about meaning, and as far as meaning goes, this makes indeed sense. I like my stamp now. i will add this to the coincidences that make md happen :)) I was ready to throw it away, so thank you ..not for calming me down...but for explaining it to me what it means so i can decide if its ok or not, and i decide it is more than ok.

the fast answer is that the tickets will be given to any account exceeding 1000 credits, for now, with intent to give them to anyone exceeding 200 once this sistem is fully automated. now it would be too time consuing to do it manually for everyone exceeding 200, you understand. If you have 100 accounts each with 5 credits, it can't count as a total of 500credits. Doing that means that it will be too easy to abuse, because you can count in that any free credits given automatically, count free credits you could get daily, and so on. I thought such things are OBVIOUS. There might be indeed cases of people that spend large amounts on a couple of accouts without exceeding 1000 on each..that is true. I might find a solution to that...thinking of it now, this is what comes to mind: any spent credits exceeding a certain (LARGE) ammout could be transfered from one account/alt to a main. This process will be done manually..so i am thinking to put this limit at 500 spent credits. UNSPENT credits won't be trasferable, ..i dont know why, but i think its less probable to become subject of abuse if i make only spent credits transferable. Please correct me if i am wrong or come with better options. Also, limits like max 2 alts to be summed up, would be good. I don't want to leave an open gate for abuse, but i also don't want to deny spent credits tickets to people that really purchased them in good faith. There is no "rule" to tell you should only buy tickets on one account, and the tickets are aimed for the person, not just for the account...as Sasha pointed out. It also depends on how many such cases there are. We might be talking of just one person here, in that case i can keep this decision on case/by/case basis.

I will issue a series of items that will value 200 spent/purchased credits each. What we will do later with these tickets i don't know yet, but this is a first step to revive the spent credits shop. Once these items are given, they could be used for a limited access treasury, similar to the drach cave, where i could place top value items to pick from. Again, for those that are confused what all this is about, it means that all credits that ever reached you will count as 1 gift for each 200credits you have/had regardless of how you got them (gift, bonuses, rewards, freecredits, purchased) I reindexed the list with top supporters. Below you find the current one, with details. Many people are no longer active, i will still give them these items i think. All people in this list will receive several such items because this list contains people that accumulated over 1000credits (5 tickets). Some already received items in exchange so will receive tickets just for the remaining values. These tickets won't be given out automatically from now on, but ocasionally. Anyway once i setup this process once it will be easy to do it more often (maybe once or twice a year? we will discuss this later) playername / player ID / active days / TICKETS Nava 184261 521 10 Zleiphneir 77300 1556 10 Ailith 80963 986 9 *Shemhazaj* 143975 1712 8 Kyphis 104972 1763 7 Jolla 217374 904 7 Menhir 202298 1213 7 Tal 214701 1000 7 Azull 202015 1255 7 Ratbert 198665 904 7 darkraptor 193670 1183 6 Handy Pockets 136253 1508 6 Dayredeemer 109921 866 6 Manda 182380 1212 6 BigC 10213 336 6 Princess Katt 202952 802 5 duxie 208462 729 5 Yoshi 169242 602 5 Lady Aster 10080 591 5 Shoeps 12996 1052 5 MRG 38304 641 5 Junior 43448 1845 5 BlackThorn 54807 418 5 Mystic 104274 995 5 Akasha 1014 2173 5 sasha lilias 148016 742 5 lashtal 221376 968 5 The items will be UNTRANSFERABLE for obvious reasons.

please correct me if i am wrong, currently the only person trying to win this contest is Intrigue? Please state your playername clearly here and say you are participating... i can't tell just from your comments if you are planning to try or just talk about it. p.s. remember the hardest part is at the end, you need to cut it clean off, not just leave it hanging. I did some progress myself, almost there, its harder than it looks, but except the fact that i will probably quit smoking if i keep ruining my cigarettes on this, its a very fun thing to do..the sharpening i mean..and you realize how something so fragile like paper, is still so resistant in front of a mighty blade :D

Sasha, i saw origamy drachs before, this is a simple atempt, does not look that interesting compared to others i saw. My verdict, good but not enough, try again. You could do origami still if you want, but thats no drach there...and maybe you can find something more original anyway...its a drach you are getting as a reward, put some effort :)

So dominium is "above" dominion and the dominion is part of this dominium. That sound very good, yet someone told me it sounds wrong in English. Azull's explenation means also that the land name shouldn't be changed?

I am still analyzing your answers and will change a decision soon.

Rophs, that works :) name your reward and find me in-game to obtain it Congrats! ps.: Tal, you still need to find me, right?

So you say its fine like this?

Ok, thanks everybody for not really giving a fuck about all this. I put it public, i asked your opinion, somehow i missed this tying error, now i've spend a lots of money making this insanely large stamp that i was so happy about ..and now you notice the type error. I wonder if anyne even looked at the initial picture or text that i put. I am just one, and have my eye formed on what was supposed to be writing, thats why i posted here to a bunch of people to double-triple check all is fine. I am really in a very bad mood right now, my enthusiasm to make the process of making these docs public and with public involvement suddenly vanished...i mean what the hell is the point to ask the community to spell check or just give an opinion on something if after weeks of waiting, you notie the mistake the same day the item si aready made. fuck it really. I will make them myself from now on and don't need any of your support, all i asked was opinions, especially on small things i might miss due to my very VERY stressed and busy life, thats the bit that filled the glass. I don't even know if DOMINIUM means something or its just a pathetic spelling mistake. I googled it and i don't understand what it realy means or in what context it applies actually. damn i am angry. I think i will throw it away, and one sunny day when i won't have anything else to do with the money i will try it again, anyhow, this is the last thing i will show public from what will come, the rest you will see them if you get them by post, end of discussion. and topic. If anyone has anything to reply to the meaning usage of the word dominium and if it can be used while in the text below writes dominion, please send me a pm.