Muratus del Mur

i want this integrated in the current announcements so that everyone can see a summary of the announcements before loading them all up. So keep it updated, i will prepare a interface for you or if you can keep a list like: announcement ID ### text 123 ### la la 124 ## etc etc i could use it directly as it is any detail that remains the same i can load by the id from the db , but the short description is what i need Thanks

Its time for a concept clarification. I tried to make md in a very original but also personal view on subjects such as game playe but also the concept of "magic". There are some traps i fell in. Because it requires a bit more "insanity" than i was prepared to have back 6 years ago to say things as they are, certain things I made them as they were "expected". You might think md is original as it is, but from my point of view, things like "limited number of casts" on a spell, the word "spell" itself...scratch my ears and made me think they are very ..commercial. I tried over time to improve things by making them more natural to how I wanted them to be, and some of the steps i did in that direction are relevant. This is one of those steps. It does not involve a tehnical change, because none is required, but it is about a clarification of concept. This clarification is so important for me that I made an announcement about it and shift other things in md tehnical or cenceptual, to fit it. I wanted to make it the milestone that will mark the end of stage X and beginning of stage XI...but i am sure you don't see it as important as I do yet so I will let the stage11 celebrate an other, more dramatic and obvious change/feature. Now, what is this all about. Spells are nothing more than "pre-compiled" memories, complex thoughts..too complex to remember as they are. Sometimes you can cast them without words, achieving the same result through your actions, sometimes you can use words to "cast" spells by bringing their memory fresh into your mind. The words offer a guide, a focus to set your mind in a defined direction. In games, spells became more like ..idk.. pills that you take or buttons that you press and things happen, totaly away from their actual meaning and concept. I am trying to bring this concept more to its reality with certain things like "heat" cost, keeping spells as part of the chat talk and not "buttons to press" and such things. Sadly is not enough, for my standards at least. Thats why i write this here and will follow this concept for the future in a more obvious way. SPELLS ARE THOUGHTS, not buttons, not words you read an do things you cant do. The words are aids to do the things you can already do. Currently in MD it is a huge gap between the spelldocs, that are the closest thing to spell descriptions you will probably ever find, and the "usable" spells. I am working on that part, and i am aware of this issue. At some point inner magic will unite with outer magic concepts in md, and all the development so far supports that sort of update. As i see it, it will probably happen in stage11..and if i get angry enough it will happen in one night of work because things are increasingly clearer for me as how they should go (development wise). Rendril almost finished a major feature that will also be used to reintegrate the spelldocs, so everything is comming in place nicely. I find it outrageous how spells can have "limited number of casts". How can that be? You run out of words? wtf is this bulshit, excuse my language. Regardless how angry I am on the general preconceptions that make people think a certain way, or by the need to balance powers that made me add limited number of "casts" to a unlimited thing, i need to move on and go back to what I consider accurate and real. For that I will shift MD further more on the originality path. There is one case when spells have indeed limited "casts"..it is when they are not yours and you just remember that thought, copied from someone else. In reality, thoughts do not "re-purify" themselves..sadly. But in RL we experience an entropic universe. In md the world is balanced, or slightly inclined towards syntropy, so what I will say next _makes perfect sense_. " A spell has limited uses because a memory used in such way gets slightly tainted by current thoughts and it needs time to recover its purity. Therefore, spell casts are limited, but if you master the spell (as opposed to temporary spells), their "casts" will recharge periodically." (This is a quote from the description added to the spell index page) Note: Normally in an entropic universe, any thought you repeat (i hate the word spell), becomes altered and gets further away from its original purity..but becomes also stronger. Following this sudden change of heart that makes me improve concepts and alter feature just to follow those concepts, I will do different changes to the spell system. Nothing will be drastic, no functionality will be broken. What is now implemented is fine..just some of the words are too standard and i hate it. For example, part of this concept will be a new sort of temporary spells..thoughts that you consume till they are gone then you forget how to recall them. Words alone can only help someone recreate thoghts in their mind with their own "vocabulary" of feelings...but spells sometimes are about feelings that you never experienced and such thoughts can not be reproduced without experience..but can be copied in the presence of someone that masters them. Temporary spells will also change the way MD is played..mainly because now a lot more people will be able to have spells. The spells wont be abusable because they wont be rechargeable! There is a huge range of possibilities that opened up today but it is all based on the previous years of development. [b] In the end I want to remind you all one thing. There is no magic..things might look as magic seen from one side but its knowledge seen from the other side. There is no magic for the magician. [/b]

still happening? anyone else experiencing this post here.

- As a king, threatening you will quit, regardless of reason, means you don't see your role for how important it is. [color="#FF0000"]It will cost you one penalty point.[/color] - You think kings/yourself are just a WP dispenser and nothing more? [color="#FF0000"]You are incompetent. Kings should use their limited resources in a creative but also [b]proactive way[/b], meaning sponsorships, "kingly" rewarded activities, initiative to DO things, etc, not just wait for others to ask you for the wp codes.[/color] - You feel like you are waiting for "Buttons" so you can do "Stuff"? [color="#FF0000"]Reality update, use what you have, convert authority into actions because you can do that. Ofc you can keep asking them, thats no trouble, but if you go all frustrated that you didnt receive them, when there are ways around them..not good.[/color] - Annoyed with your citizens? [color="#FF0000"]means they are annoyed with you too. You can fix that, but as you "fix" that keep in mind that a one citizen land won't be really a land in the end[/color] - A global..better said cubical problem bothers you, want to change concepts in MD? [color="#FF0000"]Highly possible, but I wont change one thing to affect all lands just when one kings asks it. If all kings/queens discuss it and agree something needs to be done, then i will consider it[/color] [b] [ joke removed, also the replies to it ][/b] It seems my sense of humor when i am angry sounds like mockery..maybe it was..maybe it also was in the hope to be so in a constructive way. Either case, removed.

it started at higher values, 20 or so. the announced settings are still in place. your feedback is appreciated but when i say give it a day means give it a day.

this is a community project so the donations should go to individuals , for their efforts, and they will have a choice if they want to spend those things on the project or not. Sponsoring an event directly means that it will be kept alive regardless of who keeps it alive and in this case its the opposite way. I hope I can attend this event but i might miss is, However there are enough people that will contribute if there is a good reason to do so

it is wise to prepare while you can. I announced viscosity in time because once its in action it will be kind of late to get organised. I wish to support this initiative somehow, not sure how (without influencing its effectiveness, because that is supposed to be your effort). My support should be of a more symbolic nature, you won't get "more ap" or "gold" because it has nothing to do with it. However this might be a chance for items or flags or evena guild? we shall see

I should start by saying i read just the first post of this topic, mainly because its 5am now and it is long and based on what i saw briefly you don't need me to read it fully nor should I suggest "legendary players" otherwise if i do i should reward them myself immediately My sponsorship of this event, to be distributed as the organizer thinks fit: - 8 wp codes (can be converted in wp and given out as codes or as wishpoints, as you think fit) - 3+1 Tainted Angiens (one goes to the organizer, 3 to be rewarded to participants) these are [b]negociable[/b] based on what happens during this event. If i missed anything and the rewards should be greater or they are to big and should be lower, please contact me about it.

I want to advertise MD in a "themed" style. Here is the new series of banners , let me know how you like them The reasons behind why they are so i don't want to explain here and now..i know they are not really commercial and such but i hope they keep md spirit. The advertising will be paid per click, so the purpose of the banners is not to get most clicks but to get most interested/ing players to click them, eliminating certain others. [img]http://magicduel.com/img/banners/necro_y6_160x600.jpg[/img] [img]http://magicduel.com/img/banners/marind_y6_160x600.jpg[/img] [img]http://magicduel.com/img/banners/loreroot_y6_160x600.jpg[/img] [img]http://magicduel.com/img/banners/golemus_y6_160x600.jpg[/img] [img]http://magicduel.com/img/banners/innernecro_v2_280x540.jpg[/img] [img]http://magicduel.com/img/banners/innernecro_280x540.jpg[/img] [img]http://magicduel.com/img/banners/innernecro_160x600.jpg[/img] (ps. yeah there are more with necrovion, pretend you didn't notice that)

*distored image in the mirror* Murs answer A seal was made a seal has now been broken. Account Dmik King (age 702!) was sacrificed in return of Granos life. A deal is a deal, Granos has been released. I remind you that the lock on the account was not a punishment for something. *Mur looking at a pitch black mirror, reflecting nothing* Murs answer ..nothing..literally..nothing..i wonder if i can grab it *Mur standing with the back to the mirror, not seeing what it reflects* Murs answer Are you who you once were? am I who I once were? Time makes scars, scars make character ..i will leave now, who walks behind me in that mirror i shall never see. (..confused? then then you might respect the fact that these words are just for those that understand them)

i can go to mp1 in under one minute..... still has nothing to do with a show of force but more with the "extreme md" topic. Even if you would write a show of force topic in the sense i started it, i would probably release a decree and banosh the attempt by "law"..or the forum would give a random error just when saving that title funny fact, when i saw the title today i was "omg i need to go to a comp and read it, there is a new episode up"... speaking of insanity, i just forgot i was the one writing those and i was curious myself what could be in episode 5 ... :|

finally I have proof! God exists, he is Romanian, a bit bald, a little fat, about 1,60m tall and he was spotted about an hour ago in a train somewhere west while he was fighting satan himself. If you didnt notice the funny part of this yet, repeat after me .."ha", "ha ha". Now what is this all about? I am traveling randomly across the country, the train is a beautiful place to rest your mind. Traveling without a purpose or destination is my ideal state of mind . I usualy end up in strange places or meet weird people when i do that. Once I met a lady that she insisted she was saint and that she was speaking with the vergin mary on a daily basis, how awesome is that. I think she had her phone number too. Oh and I forgot to mention she was a nun.. dressed in a green nun outfit. I wonder where she got a green outfit. But the truth is, i have to admit, she was one of the most "glowing" person I ever saw, too bad her brain was so messed up. (If you don't understand what i mean by glowing, no problem ) Today, I met God himself, more or less ..he was quite uncertain about his name, sometimes refered to himself as Savaot (look for Sabaoth on google, very interesting), but sometimes as some name with merf/mafab something i couldn't understand. The guy, that was quite human and badly mentally deranged, in case you didn't realised yet, was speaking with his imaginary enemy, quite agressively. I always wished to have a chance to see what is inside the mind of such a person, so, i made an experiment. I treated him as decent as possible without moking him or making bad jokes. Even if now i present it as a funny experience, it is a very sad thing. It goes even more sad when you go deeper down the path and see the torment in his mind. It is nothing to laugh about the person, nothing to judge, his intentions were good, he just wanted to save the universe he created from an evil dragon/demon ("balaur" in romanian is like a multi headed dragon). I promised him to keep the demons name secret and I intend to do so even if its just about an imaginary figure in a madmans head it is still my word. The few hours we stood in the same train compartment I had the unique opportunity to listen to his story in full, disvuss with him as if he was a sane, fully function man, ignoring for the moment the strangeness of his tale and the obvious mental insanity. I told him directly that his behaviour isn't quite standard, to avoid worse words, but i am seriously interested to listen to what he has to say. I was shocked of his reply. He told me to wait a few minutes so he can calm down, so in a few minutes he continued... I will use his exact wording (transled as best as i could), because some things are quite interesting. He claims the world we live in was just one in a million billions worlds he (sabaot) created to destroy this ~balaur" he fights. Each world drags the 'balaur' down from his true form and forces him to be represented in the material world so he can destroy him. The final trap is to cath him between two flat universes. FLAT universes.... i considered it interesting so I asked him how else can the universe be if not flat (played stupid). He answered it is made of "four", we see "three". Since I am currently writing about 2-4-8 fold universe model you might think I altered what this guy said to fit my theories, not at all. The flat universe, he said, is made of ~2~ but can exist only 2 and 2, paired. When I heared numbers and such , my brain immediately started all its engines and i was prepared to go wild talking about the subject...but I almost forgot he was just mad and really couldn't detail much of what he said. I asked him if he is figthing this enemy for a long time, and he told me it was "now", as if it was yesterday ..but mentioned year 1989. In that year the revolution against communism in Romania started in that area (Timisoara) so probably some tragic event marked him back then...but I am not his shrink, so I didn't asked about details of what might have happend in his personal life. He was convinced anyway that he saved human kind back then, preventing this demon to unite with his forms in the other universes. So..in case you lost track of who did what..here is a summary: This guy, aka God on a train, diluted this ~pure evil non-being" as he called it, over a million billion worlds to make it less powerfull so it can be destroyed. He tried ~static sunrais~ (cool concept for a fantasy movie, admit it) but it was uneffective, so now he plans to use two flat universes to trap him. I must make a remark here, the way seals to trap demons were made, the two circles used to close a seal, has _VERY_ much to do with something that could be described as "two flat universes~, each circle being a symbol for a flat universe in 4 points. But back to his insanity, it gets more interesting. The problem when talking to him is that I never understood why he was calling himself savaot , but moments later his other personality was cursing savaot , same name, for taking credit for the world the (the man) built. It was confusingand he was not very helpfull in explaining this blatant logic conflict... but nevermind, lets go on as it is I guess..only ~god~ can be as powerful as ~god~ so both him and his arch enemy woud have to be one and the same for his mind to work through his insanity barrier. I asked him, wht would be so wrong to leave human kind to be destroyed by that demon. I always wanted to ask that to someone that wants to "save the world" ...WHAT FOR? He freaked out, ofc, but also gave me a very cool description of why the world should be saved. Honestly, it is the best reason i heared so far. He claims that this demon is incomplete, he would integrate in his own being all the humans he could, but they would be mixed together. One mans foot will go through an other man's eye and one thousand thirty three people , an infinite amount of times, will be merged together in this horrible way, with body parts missplaced all forming one giant monstrosity. This would harm his beautifull and infinite order and would make it impossible for him, savaot (THIS TIME THE GOOD CREATOR GOD, NOT THE BAD DEMON) to complete his work. Interesting...the reason to save man kind is to prevent chaos. I was thinking we bring chaos ..heh. The way he mentioned the number 1033, i wrote in letters because he repeated it several times each time a little different. It might be 1000 and then 33, or 1033..idk..i know 33 was clear. This is without doubdt connected to the notion of ~Legions~ used to described the size/power of a demon, but he presented it in such an original way. I agreed to him. having humans all glued up in one big monstruosity is reason enough for me to save them. Its not death that you save them from , so makes sense...for now. Interesting, i tried to see if he understands what i mean..and told him that humans are already glued up together in cities, we live in groups, we get "merged" with the identity of people around us..and so on. He said that is nothing compared to this..because in a city there are just a few people, but this "balaur" will glue "1000 33" an infinite number of times both in past and in future". Now when he dded this little remark..both in past and in future...the infinite number started to make more sense. Now the interesting part is over and the sad part of this mans reality comes up. He told me he is immortal. i told him i believe he might be immortal, but his body is not and he should make well to remember that. I get out of the train while he took it very personal and started to scream nothing can destroy him, that he is infinit and immortal, and he was luky the window of the train was locked or he could have taken his only chance to prove he is not that immortal afterall. I hope he will have rest one day, in his mind most of all. He was obviously exhausted, claimed he didnt slept for days. He actually took a nap of about 15min in the middle of the discussion then he continued right where he stopped...quite creepy. Thats about it. Not so funny afterall, makes me think a lot

Seen from outside its easy to think that there is a certain group of interest, ancient players that leave no chance to the new players and so on. In the same way people expect to see "character classes" or wish to reset their account to start over and such, new players judge MD by what they think it is and by what they are used games or online communities are in general. I have no intention to advertise it differently or keep noobs in silk and promise them things will be better. If they survive MD they learn something out of it. I keep it as my personal (_PERSONAL_) goal to be fair in a world in intentionally advertise as unfair. Fair does not mean confortable in any way. Fair means you take all factors into consideration and judge things without compromise. For me, some important factors are loyalty, respect earned among players, perseverance to guard personal concepts, ability to see when you are wrong and admit it, ability to see more than one factor when analyzing an issue. I consider those as well when judging things and when defining what is fair and what is not, so there is no way i treat everyone the same way. However i do give everyone the same initial chances and I even do that after they ruin it, again, and again, if i consider they changed. Sharpwind, when you get born in the outer-world, as a living human being in a society, nobody tells you the entire set of existing laws, nobody treats you the same way among people that are much older than you or more experienced in a field of activity. You are not even born equally capable with everyone else. You need to earn that respect and reputation. You do that by fighting your way into an unfair world. I considered a good idea always, regardless if it was presented by a new or an old player. Many times new players don't consider several things that older players know better about so of course a suggestion is ridiculed or ignored at first (i never do that, its not too polite, but i do ignore uninformed opinions). The balance you are used to call balance, where abuse is abuse and needs to be punished , has nothing to do with the way i see md, where to discover an abuse is a merit if you help fix it, and a crime if you dont. Complaining without being sure what you are complaining about is in my personal view a good enough reason to ignore what you are complaining about. Because enough people were concerned enough to reply to you about this topic (that as MB said was brought up several times already), makes me reply to it as well..for them..but don't worry, i am not much concerned of how you consider md in general. Your irony in the initial post makes me act the same, and yes, if you were older player, more involved in the community, in any way at all, i would feel more concerned about your remarks.

maybe next time make with radio buttons not checkboxes looks like everyone is marking everything almost. But this is very useful to see what people don't want that much. upgradeable armor got some interesting results too

bets should not be refundable, if your participant gets disqualified you lose the bet basically. The coins get splitted between those that have bet on whoever wins.

no bug, just not all of it announced properly. codes got changed, mostly removed, and will stay so for a while. Trips to deep tribunal won't be easy.

what about a service to reset owner for an automated payment of one silver? I am thinking many items might end up given away by their owners or recovered when an account is deleted for inactivity and then what you describe can't happen. To avoid seeing the source for one silver, in case of quests, the item script can be removed on reset. Alternatively this can be done as player roles, i can dispatch a series of lets say 20 items with the power to do that and eventualy market will settle and each person with such ability will ask his own price for the service, do it for free, or simply vanish due to inactivity.

no..isn't too often so. I don't deny there are some issues, but usualy the point of view changes maging it look as if the path is wrong connected. I am talking in general, idk what specific location you talk about here

i turned them into cows..i love cows, in fact i plan to chnge all creature sorts in md into cows,unless ofc you manage to terminate my horrible dictatorship till i ruin some more things.

i will bribe the one to discover my most atrocious crime in a desperate attempt to buy my freedom ) *starts packing* ..oh NO..rp in chat, damn, i did an other crime :|

current participants list: *dst* Ivorak Junior *Shadowseeker* Eon *Clock Master* *Shemhazaj* sasha lilias *BFH Lightning* Ravenstrider Hedge Munos ..and me but dont bet on me i am not participating to win but to test very few people considering the prize

this is a contest for hardcore players so info wont be easy accessible, but it will be. I will tell things about it during the contest, on forum, and so on, but wont update the contest page with it or the announcements. There wont be a centralized place to track tips, on purpose. It is up to you how much you care about such tips or if you consider them useful, or you will just go with whatever you will 'notice'. tip: stage 2 will last 72hours

I must say, this will be fun, so if its obvious you can't win against the major fighters, 1 gold its still an acceptable fee to pay for having fun in a hardcore heads contest that will be full of surprises

It seems this role was and continues to be something highly depenent on a motivated person, not on a group of people. I am disbanding the Advertisers guild, and BFH remains the one person to handle such matters from now on. As i see the collaboration with him, i believe this will be a long term role. Helpers will be assigned from time to time if needed, by him, and rewarded based on their efforts, but there won't be an advertisers guild again. The advertisers forum remains to discuss like till now, matters related to advertising MD and/or keep BFH's work organized. This was discussed and agreed with BFH, that is currently the only member of a guild that turned now into a singular role. BFH is free to change land, join whatever ally he wishes or do whatever he wants, he is no longer bound to the tribunal or to an ally. This forum will move IF NEEDED ONLY, to an other land or to a more general section of the MD forum.