Muratus del Mur

Thank you for your feedback. What do you say we do it again just for fun and this time with two guards per location, offset timezones better organized because now you know what this is all about... or now that you visited the dominion this won't have the same flavor ? I forgot to mention something in the first post. using more people in the organizing team makes this sort of event abuse proof, in a sense that you might be friend with one or two but you can't possibly cheat by convinsing ALL of the tema members to let you pass just for friendship reasons..or if you can then its your merit. I am willing to do a similar competition again, this time with smaller rewards (otherwise it wouldnt be fair for the current winners), ..by that i mean lets say first 5 to win get a _nice_ reward, everyone else gets nothing once five reach the end. ..or we can make it again on the next major event whatever it will be then, with 'more than decent' rewards.. I am open to suggestions

As i am not very much online lately, i might be somewhat disconnected from the MD-reality of the events I organize. Therefore i created this topic to hear a honest opinion about the "Dominion Journey" event and maybe learn something from your remarks and use that for the next events. I will also share a bit of the concept behind this event. A short dissection of this quest might help some of you to better organize their own quests on other occasions. ---- long read ahead, you can skip --- The concept behind the event is simple. Here are the 'ingredients': 1) The Moment A quest can't start just so or it won't get enough attention. The birthday event was a perfect moment to put in motion something i wanted for a long time 2) The Attractors To put things in motion you need a powerful 'attractor'. My name guarantees the rewards will be 'awesome' and I realize not many quest makers afford such 'attractors', but on various occasions the rewards can and were officially sponsored. The attractor in this case was both powerful and unknown, mystery adds up to the value of an awesome reward, but careful not to disappoint. Attractors are the magnet, the motif that gives energy to an event. In this event there were three attractors: The dominion visit, the rewards in case of success and the event in itself. This last attractor is an advantage of any good quest maker, people learn their quests are entertaining and will participate also just for the fun, that is very important. 3) The Breaks Leaving the attractors out in the open means everybody will storm in to get whatever they can grab ad there is no quest for that. You need some sort of breaks so to speak to slow down the rewards gaining. A single task/riddle would qualify this setup as a quest, but not as a full size event.. big difference! The breaks need to be suitable for the power of the attractors. If the attractors are not so powerful the breaks need to be fewer and less 'breaking'. If the attractor is powerful, you need progressive breaks, not just a big one, because its not a lottery. In this event the breaks were the 8 people in the organizing team. 4) The Flavor This is where i experimented something new, from my point of view. As you know, the riddles and quests were not planned by me but by the organizing team, the 5 challengers and the 3 gate keepers. This means that each one will add to the event his own style and flavor. The overall setup (the deathwhisper tunnel) and the advancing system (fail you start over, win you move on - russian roulette style) were the glue to bring these challengers in a coherent form. This chain of questmakers, both experienced and totally unexperienced provided the variety needed to balance the boredom of the tunnel, in a way. There is a part of the flavor that i will not detail and that one will happen for the 10 that managed to pass the last gate keeper Possible Mistakes: 1) One unavoidable issue is related to the timezones of the people in the organizing team. However i never intend to make things easy, so the only thing you could see as a real issue is if ALL challangers were on same timezone... but as long as they were not, it means all the participants were facing same timezone issue so the odds were equal.. or am i wrong? 2) I gave free hand to all challangers to do whatever riddles they could think of. I think things could have been better if the riddles were entirely non md related and even 'google-able' so to speak. md-related riddles could have been reserved for the gate keepers only. Back doors You might have noticed there was a ap requirement for the scenes. I said you should not jump over a gate keeper, but you could have walked by him if you could 'afford' the action points cost. I could have given the challangers a picke stoc to give to those that fail (or make it automated), ..that could have been very very interesting.. but i thought of it only too late. Joining forces to solve a riddle is not cheating. The purpose of such an event is to entertain, to put things in motion, and doing _everything_ to solve the riddle is in general ok. In my opinion. Trading the gatekeeper items is also ok, someone very skilled, able to pass a gatekeeper riddles repeatedly , could have 'earned' lots of silver for letting others in with the items he aquired. All this might look as cheating for some, but remember md is a realm for both the "good" and the "bad". Thats about it. ----- Feedback is welcome

nah ..she is joking...she is blaming the fact that there is no death in MD but i can confirm that Sagewoman is immortal! Deep roots under the realms surface stand as proof and of course i never interfere I was reading your reasons and i was like "wtf, these are my reasons to leave!" ..lol.. lucky you

There is a very simple thing called life. Life its not complicated, its very simple. The things that cause it, are too complex to fully understand. It might be the counter balance of an infinite, and dead, universe. It might be a coincidence, or whatever.. Its results are also complex...but can be described by one word .."consciousness". Of course life means much more, but "consciousness" is "everything" ..and i am to tired to detail what i mean. I was contemplating something recently, and i realized that a very simple and obvious thing came as a conclusion to a series of unsolvable issues and troubles. I want to share with you this simple finding. All of you probably realize it, but maybe if I am the one to say it allover again, you will put more value on it. How do you define a good life? Is it by its length? By its intensity? By how happy you are? by what you accomplish during it? hmm.. the natural answer is that the value of life is a sum of all that. Its pointless to live a long and "stable" life where nothing happens. It is like "surviving" life, preserving yourself for when death comes. Its also pointless to live a dangerous life and die young, you will miss a lot of thing you could have experienced otherwise. There are some cue points in life, like "love" and "achievements". I will skip the details because you all know what i mean. I truly believe that the value of life is defined by how you find that balance of how to live "fully" and at the same time not to shorten your life too much while doing so. I also believe that "life" is a shared thing. my life is your life and your life is my life sort of thing. We are all "one". In this sense, the value of life is shared with those we get in contact with. We are defiend also by how the others see us, not only by how we actually are. Thats why "achievements" are important, they are landmarks for others to remember. We all die. Even the universe dies. It matters how powerful, in feelings, we lived our life. [b]The 'moment' beats eternity.[/b]

Thank you!! wow so many wishes

It is the right of each demi-god to use their powers as they think fit and preach whatever beliefs they think it justifies them, or simply be silent about it. In this case, my separate opinion, one that is visibly implemented in other game areas, is that a collective effort surpasses an individual effort. Again, i do not see this as a counteraction to what a demigod did, i see it more as an individual action where a demigod action was missing. I can only assume such an action was pending somehow anyway, but i wanted to do it so i could also announce the heat voting thing too. The will of many is not always stronger than the will of one, but when it is aimed in same direction it surely should add up and not be ignored.

i haven't!!! lol..how can i deny now this (when i myself abduct people) but wont happen again, i shall increase my security after this OMG i am a slave.....

Nope Sold to you, Z, for 16 Gold! Congrats A very strange item, it might get a side effect to it...

The shop resets will be offered to Shemhazaj and Eon as one spent credits shop ticket (unless any of them have any objection). No gold will be takebn away from the two for this auction. why? - I do not consider 65gold a fair price (its way to high!) I know this is the very point of an auction, so call me crazy to have this as a reason - Eon had a blank ticket to receive one of the auctioned items as a spent credits shop ticket, its only fair to offer the same to the other one competing for the same auction auction closed, congrats

SOLD to duxie for 50gold, congrats! keep gold on self, will be transfered when time comes. (sorry for the delay in ending this auction)

Sold to Ghunny for 3Gold! please provide player id

Sold to duxie for 35 GOLD! keep gold on self, it will be transfered when time comes (sry for the delay in ending this auction)

Eon wins this auction for 50Gold. Congrats! Post your player id here and be sure you have the gold on your account. Provide item name and description as you desire it, however i might change it as i think fit.

hedge wins this auction for 41Gold, Congratulations! Post here your player id and make sure you have the gold on your account, i will do the transfer from db. The item will appear in your inventory when gold will be transfered

Won by seigheart for 20 Gc, Congrats! keep the gold on your account and use it for the tk...i trust you won't mix tk and personal gold. Just to be clear to public, this auction will be paid from personal gold. contact me in two days and i will prepare your avatar

Sold to metal bunny for 15Gc! Congrats please post here your player id and be sure you have the gold on your account, i will take the gold directly from db

Eon 50gc, if nobody bids over it ends tomorow

hedge 41gc, if nobody bids over it ends tomorow

auction continues, next check in two more days

auction contiunues, next check in two days 5 casts

5 casts, auction continues, next check in two days

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auction continues, next check in two days or so.