Muratus del Mur

mp6 will not become an other deeper mp5 level...if that is what you are worried about. Lowering the adepts makes it too easy to abuse, and pointless because someone that goes to mp6 just to upgrade creatures will not care about the adepts. Considering this and more things you didnt realised yet about potential issue with mp6 in the new setup, i will have to think of something that changes mp6 not just "fixes" it to work with all this. These future changes are not for debate here, yet, and what matters now is that certain creature levels will be less common because of the mp6 requirement. There is however a pending changed to be announced that will offer a painful alternative, not a replacement however.

people....no...there won't be any overpowered mp3, stop it. if you want me to spoil this , fine , here it is. creatures that require a certain level of upgrade will be usable only on that level, otherwise they will automatically receive freeze during combat. Exception makes mp6 requirement that will still allow mp5 to use creatures that needed mp6 to upgrade. The mp6 stage will be a temporary stage throught the way it will be adjusted, but thats later. The mp3 creatures change is due to be done [u]today[/u].

mp3 = introductory, teasing stage mp4 = trasition stage mp5 = where the madness starts and end mp6 = maybe to visit one day for a week or so mp7 = its an illusion! mp8 = mp2 = was an illusion ..stage mp1 = access denied have fun

I was reading this topic and some of the energic reactions over this change...and i have to say there is a big difference between the vets that learned to trust me and the noobs that run in panic on each thing that shakes them a bit. you will find out more about this on the announcements, the situation of the existing mp3 high level creatures is still a change to be made later today, like the mp6, etc.. there are still some issues you din.t yet realize, hopefully i will fix those before you go berserk on those too... afterall i aim to destroy the game , or your fun, or what was that? obviously not in my best mood today, but you get my point

I am planning a series of concept changes in MD, here are two of them to discuss: XP XP term renamed game-wide, because it is not actually xp, it is more like "Heat tolerance". Make the xp flow, gaining and losing, more fluid. Make "XP" caps dynamic not static (!) Suggest terms to better describe what current xp is. Tutorial story Intro story, what is now known as storyline, will be presented as a requirement to pass, something to allow you "in" what md is, sort of an introductory quest. The story and game start won.t change but part of the interface will be locked and fisrt part of the story will be presented to have the purpose of filtering players, in fact that is what it does. open to any sort of replies

on short term you might see it as allowing abuse, because for a while anyone will be able to reset xp, and that was hard before. My intention is to change gameplay and constant xp lowering will be part of the new gameplay. Its a shift of values so to speak. Creature upgrade requirements are ok as they are. I will announce an other update regarding mp levels but overall the new changes are not unbalanced they are aimed to shift gameplay in an other direction entirely. Most of all, as the vets already know, no accounts are reset or "fixed" in case an official change leads to abnormal powers , it is something you can abuse if you think its abusable but i dare to say the abuse is part of the way things will be in a month from now. I am hoping this change will add more dynamic to the play and have people go to the altar more often not just on rare occasions. If i am wrong we shall see, anyway, even if wrong, you should be used by now to survive and enjoy any feature or bug or any update that is uncertain if its good or bad..you know what i mean, its how MD was in the past years

Enough deep does not mean elaborate your astronomy knowledge showoff or supositions isn't gonna give you access to border research. Some things i saw don't go well with my fragile temper..like "planet MD", but of course each has the honest right to various opinions. my point is , dont get lost in pointless details and forget the question, it prevents others from elaborating their shy but maybe valuable opinion

please point them out darigan, i took you half of your brain for seeing a cube already.....lol

Ever saw the sun? In MD i mean...you see its light, but how can you say there is a sun if you don.t see it? You associate with what you know same way like a night butterfly confuses a lightbulb with the sun. I am not saying there is no sun in md i am saying with certain covered meaning that i am not refering to the sun in md, but the sun in general, in md in universe, the stars tht each is a sun, the star shining in each of us, the continuous light in md, etc. Treat it as you like ..the question remains. I am reading all your replies even if i dont answer each of them. This is also in SOTIS because each of the future members of sotis will have to state their own answer to this, without being a true or fals opinion jus their opinion about the matter. I must say, some of the answers above are valuable. This topic is due to move to border research locked area soon.

I will try to explain this in a more general way valid for everybody. For the crimes of a few, rules are created to affect and protect the many. Now please find your place in the following scenery and tell me how could i, or an automated system, differentiate between true and false when some people do this: - abusing alts but pretend 'honestly' that they are not alts and act like victims of the system when in fact they are one and the same but just bluffing - when one case can be considered wrong alt association and #fixed# , everybody will swarm to claim that too. - It is not fair to lock two accounts for one association forever, but technically it is difficut to time such a lock, or even impossible to do otherwise without allowing alt abuse but only on certain dates My alternative solution is a project i am working on (playerdetective.com) that in theory has a way to determine alts with an unbelievable accuracy and is able even to isolate two or more people using the same computer. Even so, any system has an error percentage and the people that will go in that percentage will still be dissapointed. Conceptual solution due to how md is designed to be, the ultimate medicine for any problem is cyclicity principle...to speak in game terms. This means in this particular case the following set alt association dynamical , increasing lock time but allowing a cooldown time. This will add cyciclity to the abuse process but will not be syncronized process and this means cheating will be possible in segments and not in groups... but... md is not made to sustain cyclic processes, conceptually speaking. Evntually the spotted alt pairs will syncronize and it will end up with bulk abuse periods followed by inactivity periods. Not to mention the enormous effort to make the altchecker in this dynamic way Human check alternative a comitee of judges with jurisdiction over alt associations only, like a guild able to clear alt logs based on words and reason. Penalty for if you lie this commitee is permanent ban/account rmoval. Checks would involve disclosing personal informationa and presenting proof that two distinc people are using same computer. There can be time logs to check if those people where online at the same time and that would mean you lied. Checking the logs automatically is very difficult at this moment, not to mention they are incomplete, but a human look would spot abnormalities i thought about this many times, because playing between friends is not alt abuse, playing with yourself is....how to solve it without a concept change that would affect everything?

.. [center][size="4"][font="Palatino Linotype"]Ever wondered why there is a sun?[/font][/size][/center] PS. this is one of a series i will call "Question the obvious", and no its not a rethoric question, its not a joke and its not a trick question, its as deep as it could be.

I'll step down from this discussion as i try hard to avoid kilometric posts and the temptation is huge I think I made my point clear, very clear in fact, and i will enjoy to read anything you have to say on it. So far it seems we are thinking in the same lines, correct me if i am wrong.

This already exists not fully public yet, but there is no need to vote it sorry currently the items return to storehouse when consumed, but when it will go fully public there will be a way to call them back based on certain rules.

i am not sure where i remember this from but doesn't matter, it matters is so true: everything is as it is and couldn't be any other way different. Searching for anomalies in a system it became sort of my obsession (for various reasons most related to md history). The incapability of humans to search for the truth you so carefully put as different one for each, is part of how things should be, so that some can notice whats missing and increase its importance. I tell you in short words whats this is about , with the risk of people considering me more crazy than needed. Eventualy, if everybody would understand that nothing really exists would lead nowhere and will destroy this carefully structured construction we call reality. Be it social reality to physical reality, or game reality, the concept remains the same. Once the tention goes of and there is no main untouchable mystery to find, the threads disband and the construction falls apart. Put this in financial terms , for those that cant understand the previous words for what they are, lets say this: Everybody is strugleing for financial independency and dreams to run his own show and buy its freedom (or at least i think so)....or anyway, they dream for better. well these dreams are possible for some as long as the majority is unable to reach them. The rich are rich because the poor are poor, in a world without poor theore won't be any rich either. Existance itself is relative and we living beings, are counterbalancing the very essance of the void, we ARE. Sadly the continuation of that story is beyond me at this moment. Mainly because my answers hit a wall that i refuse to accept, and that wall sais there is nothing , individuality is an illusion, we are all a big big animal with many representations drifting in the void and trying to remmember himself. We might as well be characters in a fiction book from all i know. ...well not realy, i have better clues than that, but i wont ever write those as nobody is ready to hear them , unless it is in a movie or a science-fiction book... its our nature, we need lies to accept the truth. ps : in case you wonder , no i did't flipped , its just 4am and i am tired of treating delicate matters delicately , lol

but i already said that, the nothing is balanced by the everything. The concepts are hard to understand and even harder to play with. My balance model is 2481 with duality as a start and unity as a result... now i am having a hard time to find a way to describe what i would call now "the causing result" . what i mean is that things start actually with their end and expand backwards in time to cause their roots in reality. In that sense , one=complete, dual=base. I wish i could say more but i dont want to spoil the best parts before i find a way to write them better...and also to find a way to avoid religious touch because thats probably the biggest pitfall in such things. Think of the words "god is one" for example, it actually means exactly that in my opinion. 1 equals zero and is the counterbalance of it, like in full vs empty. dengerous concepts, very very dangerous, because so far all the "logic" is i may call it so points to one answer too few are ready to understand and might be mistaken with nihilism.

rewards..well..the score over the entire tc history is kept for when the rewards as you call them will be decided. but remember its for the land not for the individual. I keep delaying this because i want to be something not consumable but also not abusable, long story.. anyway, no torch for a while, not because of the spoiling or becauseof the fughts but because upcomming birthday event.

i can't resist sorry Order by Chaos .. by ME ) (see all pages) [url="http://md-archives.com/articles/order-by-chaos.html"]http://md-archives.com/articles/order-by-chaos.html[/url] Basically you are right in what you say p.s: 42..oh..yes..

in case you didnt realised it , my fun in this stage of the competition (since i cant participate) is observing how the teams form out of a total chaos ... (observations so far : "wooaaaaaaa" )

PM from TTL: [quote]Since i said i will not reply to my topic again i will not do so. Though i wish to ask you one question and you may reply publicly about it: People staying inside the lands after the TC is over is also intentional? What about the idea of automatic transportation after TC has ended? (I tryed answered it myself but since i am not fully understanding the anyway hidden logic behind the TC spoilers i would really apreciate it if you made your views public about these two as well) Yours TTL [/quote] Actually, no, my intention was that people would be transported to thei capitals when torch ends and transported to gazebo of chaos when they die. Remaining in the land will defenetly change eventually. Its true the bugs of the tc alter its purpose badly. but anyway, it has a certain boost of curiosity that spoils things but also makes noobs realise there is so much to spoin so to say. Maybe i explain this better the following way: I played a game once, long ago, might have been neverwinter nights, but i am not sure anymore, maybe not, doesn't matter anymore. What matters is the following thing. At some point i discovered a bug. One of the quest rewards became repeatable. I only had to go back to the character giving the reward (a shop keeper) and do the same boring dialogue again and i got the reward again, and again, and again. Because i was kind of bored with the game, i said fine, lets abuse it and see what happenes eventually. From where i was used to buy armor in the 10 to 1000 gold range and own not more than 3-4k gold maximum, i stood one day and one night like a maniac and i abused that bug. After my eyes were glued to the screen and my hand fixed on the same repetitve series of clicks at 5am after abusing the same bug for 12 hours, i ended up having several many millions gold. My surprise was that the game was ready for that too. I discovered armor in that price range, the characters became more strong also , to fit with my purchased enhancements, everything adapted so to say. It was a pleasant shock. I realised then that what i thought to be a bug to destroy the game or "rule" it, was in fact nothing, but still the same fun. You get my point? You think TC spoils things for you? maybe it makes you change objective once you realise your goal in md is not to enter Loreroot, then after you get bored of visiting everything due to TC, you realise hey, there are double that much locations still hidden..how do you realise that? simple, when you reach a goal you start observin other goals that appeal to you. the spoilers never realy end. MD is deep enough for any of you, on any level, game or not game. What it is not, its not organized in such way to take you from one thing to an other...thats really hurting its popularity. The planned spoiling will keep a new player several more days in md, making him think he abused something or discovered a secret, when in fact , those few extra days will integrate him better into md environement. Like many other things i started but never ended, this tc is doing only a part of its role and therefore it might indeed be damaging as it is. An other thing missing from tc are the attractors. Whats that? Sorry but i won't give you such trade secrets Lets just say the tc points are useless and thats not good at all.

[center][size="7"]Eight[/size] [size="7"]∞[/size] [i]The opposite of the center[/i] [/center] Balance. What means balance? First of all it is a word with many meanings. The word itself could even refer to accounting, or to justice, or stability or sound or other things. When trying to communicate something to someone, first you need to be sure the words you use have the same meaning for the one you try to communicate them too. Excuse me if i assume that you think about the balance i refer to as a good-bad, full-empty, male-female sort of thing. Well, its not that far from what i mean by balance, but it is two complexity levels less than what i will eventually reveal in this book. A very interesting and accurate meaning of balance is this one: Balance = desirable point between two or more opposite forces (source Wikipedia) In general, this is close to the meaning of balance i will need you to understand in order to fully understand the things i will try to describe. I will use on different occasions different wording for balance because it will put more focus on one or the other meaning. When I was little, my father asked me one day what I think about each thing having its counter, something to balance it, something opposed to it. He talked about things like fire and water, good and bad, but with a certain feeling that there is more to it than just opposing things. He obviously was talking alone and just needed someone to pretend to listen to him and I was the perfect subject for rhetoric talking. I guess he never imagined I will take his question so seriously that 20 years later I would elaborate an entire structure model on how things balance and even do wild experiments with this. If you are already familiar with my previous book “Mastering the Void” you already know I will not limit this to a simple metaphysical talk about general mysteries of life and universe and such useless talks. Anyone can ask general questions and pretend to be smart talking hard to understand shit to people that want to believe anything. No, the things i share here are secrets, discoveries of my own, applied things, things that you might consider theories but for me they are based on reality, not just potential truth but actual facts about things i did and managed to understand only much later. Of course i will keep certain things for myself because they are beyond what i can explain in words, or too dangerous in the wrong minds, or simply because i want to enjoy abusing them before sharing them eventually. The deep secrets I won’t openly share will be written in this book in concealed form, but the concealing is not visual, but logical, structural. I will give you the right seeds to grow in your mind and discover the secrets on your own. In this way only some will manage to do that, but they will feel the things they understand after this are so natural and obvious. [center] [size="5"]Stages of balance[/size] [/center] A stability point between points can be found between any number of points. Take for example a group of people each with opposing views on a given subject. Eventually they could reach a middle point where all could agree on or give up an equal part of their original view in order to agree with each other. Its no doubt about that. In the same way two opposing forces will find a middle point where they will be canceled or made equal, same way this will happen with regardless how many points involved. Nature however gives as a clue. This balance makes sense as long as they are more than one forces. One, be it point of view, or force, is balanced in itself, unity...and you shall see soon that nothing is one. Or better said Nothing IS one... that is if nothing could be anything at all, but “nothing” isn’t and therefore it “is” all the impossible things that are unreachable by the things that “are”. Confused? You should be. Our brain can’t normally handle concepts such as NOTHING or INFINITY but it can assume what they are or what they mean and as long as you understand you can’t understand fully certain concepts you will actually understand them much better than those that assume they know. Its a paradox, i know. For example a child could consider “one billion billlions” as equal to infinity, but an adult would have a more respectful appreciation to what infinity is and wouldn’t give it an actual value regardless how big that value is. In the same way, ignorant people could consider “void” as a space with no air and no particles, sinply because a space without even the space wouldn’t make a sense. Now try to respect the fact that none of us can understand “nothing” for what it is and stop considering it as an empty space. -- Hey that's enough reading! ... a teaser page from what i am working on now, hope you enjoyed it. It more like a note and might end up different in the final version. It will be signed Mur i think, not Manu, mainly because i lost my fucking mind in the process...nono, i mean, beacause i will use a slightly styled way of putting things, something that only my Mur side of me could do, and actualy its responsable for the discoveries so ... i owe "him" that I am still having a hard time deciding if i should totally separate symbols analysis from the 8fold balance subject. I could combine them nice, but it would limit the symbols subject pretty much. I am thinking to write something extensive about symbols, both graphical and logical symbols (not sure how to name symbols that have no drawing). I realised nobody ever wrote the things i have to say on the subject, but i am lazy, i cant even move on with the "Eight" subject.. i shall see...

oh my..what drastic options. (you fail to see an intentional point in spoiling things with the TC but fine , lets ignore that point because i am not willing to explain its logic public) .. why not limiting TC to invited only, and/or limit attacks to only people invited during that competition (not necessarly holding a torch that moment). Each King cold appoint a general to decide who fits for the land and who not, sort of an army structure. Think of it, if a land gather a bigger army the other lands will need to gather more fighters too. The spoiling "opportunity" is intentional. don't think to much why, i won't explain more...but it can go. [color="#C0C0C0"]The main issue in my opinion with the torch competition is somethign none of you thoght about...the timing/frequency. For those that understand, an event goverened by cyclicity in an environement not designed to sustain it will fail or collapse with ugly side effects. I intend to make TC a triggered event, not at all a sheduled one...but this doesn't affect HOW the TC will run, just when it will run, so it is not the sbject of this topic and not debateable either.[/color] Dst idea with taking out mp3 and mp4 out of this is interesting too. Or..what about age reqirement to enter TC? it would justify the spoiling better, afterall if you are 3-4 month in md you should deserve a chance to see LR aaaaannyyyyway... compared to the things there you don't know about, the TC "spoiling" is nothing wait to see on md birthday party what i mean. tic tac..tic...

oh and...the birthday festivities will take place on a ...*cough*...new map...did i mentioned that? don't worry there are plenty other things you still have to find out about this event hehe

As some of you already know, MD birthday party is just a litle more more than a month away..well almost two but anyway, not THAT far The event will last as usual an equal number of days to the number of years we celebrate, that would be 6 days this year. When is it exactly? Well you have ways to find out The festival (six days party can be called festival don't you think?) will host a competition. This is the main reason i am announcing this now. This competition requires preparation. [b]MD Birthday Festival Competition:[/b] All of you that want to participate, regardless of Social rank, popularity, age, stats, achievements, guild, land or whatever else, will split in two teams, just two not four or more. Each team will have to select its members so that each one will bring its addition to the team success. Each team will have to prepare quests and challenges, things that should remain secret until the competition starts. Espionage is unavoidable so be careful at least you should protect the solutions of the riddles if you can't protect them entirely. Each quest, puzzle or riddle should be solvable within a few hours not more than 4-5hours but preferably a lot less time per quest. 1hour would be ideal. So no huge impossible quests or riddles. The teams will have to communicate so that both will have the same number of challanges ready. [b]Competition rules:[/b] Understand these well so you know how to make your quests better During the festival, each team will put forward a challenge for the other team to solve. The other team needs to solve it and will get a small score for solving it but also will rate it based on how entertaining and challanging it was. These two scores will add and form the scoring that will determine the winning team. Basically, each team will give points to the OTHER team if they enjoy their challanges. Of course you could just be mean and pretend you didn't enjoy the challenge and therefore you could give a low score to the other team, but i am hoping on your honesty...something rare these days. Be honest and you will have lots of fun, be greedy and you will just get an "empty" competition. Can you rate your opponent? its up to you. Don't worry about the rewards "budget" for this event, it will be as usual insane The event will be managed by Ailith because she already has experience in organizing large scale events. Yeah , she seems to be still alive, i poked her once and she seemed to move..might be a reflex idk, we shall see Teams are NOT defined, I will let that up to you , not Ailith and i am sure it will be a hard thing to decide and get organized with. For things related to this event that you need to contact me for please talk to Curiose, she will be taking my messages related to this event. There are a lot more surprises related to this event but for now this is enough to start preparing....and you should start preparing , two month time will run out fast! Good luck.

this topic will be closed in one day. some of you will be contacted with further instructions about this. Thank you all that posted, sadly i can't make this public on a forum that can be checked by anyone (outside md i mean) but soon you will figure it out and those selected may share the info just NOT in a public place. This post will be removed eventually

hehe..it is a bug in the sense that it wasn't intended, but since its not causing any harm and leaves the possibility of using it as an achievement, Rendril is right. However, i think the display should be fixed. It should say actually 100%+ not 105% or so, and maybe link it to activate an achievement or something. Thanks Rumi for the explenation, it makes sense. There are other things with higher priority than this so it remains up to Rendril when or IF this will be done.