Muratus del Mur

im tired to explain, all i had to say is there already. i can just reformulate so you get it better. Adi was not a player, he was/is a brilliant writer that wrote a story discussed with me. ancient lore, means stories that explain the past of md, before it existed. As long as they don't refer to things outside md, md didnt existed before it existed, if you get my point.. I always support historic events that happend for real in md. One of the best examples is the Wodin story, a md character that existed, played, and created his own present. I agree to all histories, stories, legends, that once had a present. Adi's stories outside the ones officialy approved by me that were discussed by us two, never had a PRESENT. Those are baned. I cant approve your madeup stories about an inexistent path, when that path influences everybody. Who is marind, why and how come the angien opened the box, how the lands formed, and so on..these are questions that do not need a lore or history to be discovered. Give them a history and you ruin it. After 5 years of md you could shift the ancient lore concept to events that realy existed. You dont know "recent" history of md but you keep on talking bulshit about madeup ancient stories...i tell you why, nobody can say you are wrong, you can use it as you want and support your present with false memories, i cant allow that and of course those that do it dont like it. You have plenty of memories of things that realy happened in md. Before md there was an empty mind, that slowly started to see its borders, then to see itself. It started to take shape and the reasons of its existance spread across its landscape creating the logic network, like a broken mirror shows fragments of the refleted image.

What I am about to say, is worth reading, even if it will be long, it clears a mystery at the very base of MagicDuel, a mystery guarded for years. The answer to the question "Who killed Marind?", is something almost none of you knew. Some very smart figured it out but kept the secret and i thank them for that. When I had this story done for MD, by Adi, the one writing it, not even he knew who killed Marind. When initial project was done, you can't stop a writer with such a rich imagination such as his to continue writing and made up stories. This resulted in a wave of rumors and myths, all very damaging to how MD is built. Its not his fault at all, its the fault of those of you that could not let the questions STAY, for those that can handle them, and felt they should start ranting and bitching about how totally messed is MD and about how acient lore is broken and missing. Of course people ask, that was the point. You (and you know who you are) failed in understanding MD. First part of understanding MD is to respect its secrets and not share your stupidity and ignorance to others, amplifying their superficial belief that things are somehow wrong around here. A new player, or even an old one, that did not bothered to much about the story, finds it easy to believe when he hears all your ranting and complaining and thinks its the way it is. That prevent some of the most beautiful minds around here to even atempt to understand MD, since they believe its nothing to understand after all. Thank you for ruining the mechanism i tried to build..because in a way some questions without answer were part of that mechanism. MD worked fine untill you people shared your frustrations and incapacity to understand MD with the rest. Thank you for nothing. - . - .-- What is the cube? You all start in this fantasy world, MD, locked in a room with a spooky girls and some candles burning. Slowly you figure out the room is fully closed and that the girl is not a normal person. Eventually you exit that room, Marind takes you out of there and you enter MD world. You will notice Marind is now a ghost, and becomes more unreal as you move on in the story. Marind was very tangible in the room, in fact, in some story branches she can kill you too. You find out if you know how to look, that you came out of a cube, and if you digg deeper into MD ,you find out everyone came from its own cube. Now i ask you, what is the cube? The cube is the created bx around your soul and mind. It is not a natural construction, or it would have been a sphere. The cube is a symbol for borders, artificial borders. We all have our own cube we live in, be it the room we are in, the town , the closed group of friends, but most of all the borders of our own mind and understanding. If that is our own cube, then who is marind? no one else could be in your own cube, except yourself! Marind is just a part of your self. In dream psichology for example, the little girl represents you the dreamer (I found that out later, its true). When you exit your cube, you have to kill some things in you, or they wont go well with the world outside. Childhood dies when you go out in the world, some misteries remain and other peoples worlds interfere. You killed Marind. Each one of you. She doesnt even exist beyound your own cube borders. You seek to find her but slowly you loose her. The story never ends, it was never supposed to end. It has chapter 3, and a planed chapter 4, but it was never supposed to END. Marind dies and how can a ghost die other by forgetting her memory, getting her lost in the rants and the activity that follows after you exit your own cube... The Carnival? you enter a world where others enter the same way, use your brain... As you enter MD world, everything in MD becomes a mirror of yourself. Your fantasy world merges with the one of other people. You are not looking at an outside world but to a world within you. These symbols are not random thoughts that just sound nice. They are a clockwork of extreme perfection. The candles, the land weapons, the land balance, even the individual locations, they all make sense seen from this perspective. Now you see why having any made-up ancient lore stories about who Marind was, is so fundamentally WRONG and damaging.Any bit of additional information on the past will ruin the clue that this world is not a fantasy world planed to be a fantasy world , but one that emerged from your fantasy and does not have and "Ancient Lore". Give it an ancient lore or made up stories about its past and you will alter its present meaning and unbalance all its symbols and its entire mechanism. Respect the question and the answer will respect you. Hurry with an answer and you will get just that, a fancy answer. By what i said explaining this i killed a part of myself and a part of MD together with it. I dont expect those of you that made me do this to understand, but i expect the others to respect MD secrets more. If you think i spoiled you the entire thing MD is about, you can't be more wrong. MD is more deeper than you can imagine, then the people working on it can suspect. If you care and know where to look, everything in MD is a intricate puzzle of logic and feeling. Even within this text i let you see more than one path towards other things to discover. MD is a private challange for each of one of you, but some of you just failed it. This was the "show of force" in my own way.

Dont get me wrong. those didnt asked for the answer. but i need to answer that so that you will all understand whats with the ancient lore and what the big big issue is. I tried to avoid it, but some people still think i am ignoring their efforts and that i did bad baning the lore.... you will soon find out...i am preparing my thoughts so i say what should be said, but keep something for those of you that know how to look. Who killed Marind has everything to do with ancient lore and why i baned it.

Some forget, some do not know, that MD is a very delicate machinery build on logic gears. It is an intricate mechanism where nothing is random. Such a machinery needs secrets buried at different levels of complexity to work, same as a perfume needs incenses with different times of effect so that together they build a delicate and beautiful sensation. Like notes in a symphony that cant sound random for the music to be pleasant. Some of you, most ignorant and disrespectful, "veteran" players, think they know better. Building messenger groups and continuing the shit they started long ago and that i really hoped it ended. Well it seems these people continue to fuel such discontent and distorted beliefs to those they still can. No need to give names, but they know I am talking about them. One of the things that keeps being fueled by such groups is related, again, about how ancient lore is missing and about how bad i did, destroying md, when i baned ancient lore and fairy tales type of things. They complain and bitch about why i have something against about digging up the past stories and inenting things along those lines. I already said that the "ancient lore" doesnt realy exist, and that what ady wrote after the initial plan is not something i approved... you ignored that. Because i am full pass the limit with your bitching, i will sacrifice one if MD biggest secrets, one if its main gears, just for you. You will realise how wrong you were, but it will be too late. In return, i promise you will be sorry you find out the answer, because the questions i will cause after it will puzzle you even more. MD is much more deep than you (*points at specific group*) ignorant and persisting people care to know. I will tell you who killed Marind and all you wanted to know about "ancient lore". Over 4 years i managed to keep this secret and USE it, now i throw it at your feet to show you something. If you understand what that something is, good for you, if not, keep bitching and complaining. I appologise to those of you that do not deserve such a beautifull gear, secret, to be revealed this way, but like i said, MD is still much deeper and this secret will reveal new logic mechanisms. To be continued....

eh eh...? want them? *insert retarded funny face here* Creatable and eatable cookie items to restore stats Maybe sacrifice a creature into component parts to prepare a stake out of a Knaty.... NOT ME PLS! yuummmmmmyyy p.s, of course this means all the other items that will be possible based on same functionality, like potions, fruits, and so on.

Kyphis pointed it very well, the contest CAN go together with usual hc, or other competitions. In fact you can have several Boss contests at the same time if needed, or citizenship based. I think also it is a good plan for the Champions Challange, but for that it needs more testing and the Champions Dome needs to be finalized. Because spells are allowed, i think i will exclude MP6 because of the spells bug.

Oh well thats cute...BUT ITS WWROOONNGGG *quote* i wont be needing your ids for this one. Thanks to Rendril we have a signup page too Makes things easier. Here it is: http://magicduel.com/sitegizmo/bosscontest_signup.php Good luck

no gold avies for now, i need to establish rules for having such avies or everybody will do just gold. Never colored avies, i keep color for illusion avies or special characters. Avatars mush be Grayscale, not even sepia. Please keep the current md style regarding colors.

All mp levels. you cant exit during the test and , stats damage or partial account damage wont be restored or repaired, and massive issues will be fixed within weeks? Scare yet? if not think also it will cost 1 nonrefundable silver. If you are still not scared, then you can think this will be the next kind of major competition, like level 2 HC. The reward for the winner of this test will be the same, or greater, than the one for the competitions later. I am thinking between a morph, wind, stats damage skill, new medal, a rare item related to this, or maybe a combination of these...not sure yet. This will be a close combat without the advantage of hiding in remote locations. The purpose of the test is to determine if major logic flaws appear, abuse methods or a tehnical issue with the contest itself. Overall it will be the same with a head contest on this test, nothing to worry about unless you don't like blood and heads splattered allover.

anyone can confirm this is still working?? was supposed to be fixed yesterday.

Please note that its NOT the magic wand that you should use! Do like this: Set background to that creme color in the sample. Select the black/white artwork then apply what is called in Fireworks (Adobe) "Convert to alpha" filter, or equivalent in your program. This will turn all white into transparency without cutting it. Magio wand won't work because it will cut the drawing very ugly and will not make transparent the interior white spots. With convert to alpha applied, export as transparent gif with the creme bg set as transparent color. This should generate the perfect export I saw some tried cutting the white spots, its not working and looks very ugly. Hope it helps. here is link : http://www.ehow.com/how_2257364_apply-convert-alpha-effect-fireworks.html

Oh come on, you underestimate me. Of course the name was planned/picked..

I should mention that such anonimous demi-god accounts are free from any responsability, anything they might do is considered as done by me, so there is no pressure on them if they do a bad decision, or if they punish friends or reward enemies. It seems anonimity is the only way someone can be absolutely fair, and full power without responsability makes you stress free . Too bad i can't tell you about the current things that will replace Tengri, as usual, there must be things that you don't know and keep things interesting and efficient I will miss T, i might log him in from time to time to play with it, but other things will take his place, improved things....

[2009-06-29 21:03:10 - Alpha 8] Major secret feature released,.. but ..its secret ... can't tell what it is, realy! ..now isn't this frustrating or what? I post it here so that one day i will have a historic record to know on what date this major change took place. (TNGMGD) THis was an announcement a while ago. Now its over so i will disclose its secrets for all. One day i made a pact with one of you. In exchange of a demi-god account, his Main if anyone speaks his name ever. He managed to keep it secret, but all things come to an end. By now two people at least spoke his name. For quite while there was someone around you that you all thought its me, giving items, performing actions only i could do, having fun with you or why not even punishing you when needed. Such a god-like role could not have been controlled by someone without a fair sense of justice and value. Why is that a "FEATURE"? ..because a god like player of this sort means a human decision factor that has the ability to act impartial just like a computer program but also add creativity to his decisions. "Gods of MD" that is how this feature should be called. Invisible forces that can turn your RP into reality, change destinies, and make things happen. A uncheatable human based system. You already experience this in other md features without knowing it, and each time will be different so you wont be able to predict or assume its effects. The fact that i announce it, only means it moved to the next level, so consider the things i say as they are, bits of HISTORY not of present. Now the question is, WHO out of all loyal players in md got to play with this? Two people started to suspect, the rumors maybe spread, the name of Tengri came out. But Tengri is a made up name for its real owner, and that is the one player that showed he is not craving for power, he can be neutral when needed, devoted to a role, and does not press the red button if left alone in the room with it . Who could it be? That player is Zleiphneir. A guardian of bob the tree that stood there for ages, sticking to his humble role, active in his own way, avoiding crowds, doing his own part in MD story, never messing with other parts just because they were the newest trend or such. A humble "goat boy" with his favorite lonely tree, in secret god-ruling MD in my place....and he did an excellent job i may say. You might think twice now before judging someone, he might have power of life and death upon you and you would never realy find out I write this now, as a tribute to Z, since he is now away from MD , for a while, and his memory should remain as what it is, one of the legends of MD. It seems such legends go much better without the pressure of popularity and power on their sholders. Its like secret service heroes that cant take pride for their achievements. Don't worry, i do not have a rule in picking isolated players that stick to their role as gods of md. In fact i realise that if i keep a pattern it will cause people to predict it and will void the entire purpose of such a feature. Also , praying or begging to an invisible god, is defenetly not something that will help. I did my part like this untill now, and many thought the announcement refers to one of my accounts dieing, funny how i managed to surprise you. Mur might no longer be a "god" of md one day .. but might be one more real and active player, a humble old man that you could trick or mock, but when doing so remember the story of the goat boy Tengri is dead. ps. but then again, do gods die if still remembered?

in work, ill be playing around on shadoww account to check this. Dont transfer avies untill then.

In five years of MagicDuel, i trusted only once someone to work on some of MD code, and that wasnt even the game itself but a separate admin . I am proud to announce you that finally there is someone that will actively work on MD to finish features and add new, later fix bugs and even more, i hope. This will allow me to plan things better, but also to manage things better, or work on other features (...and why not maybe later also play yey!). This person is Rendril, rumors already spread long before, i know. He managed to fulfill the requirements needed, and they go beyond being just a programmer, programmers i can find anywhere. Please understand that you should not send him requests, "friendly" favors, questions, bugs, problems, issues, NOTHING. This will only make him lose precious time and he wont be able to help you, since, paranoid as i am, i will be keeping an eye on what he does. He is forbidden to do anything in favor of any of you, or even fix anything without me aproving first, regardless how obvious the issue is. It is a delicate role he has. His programmer role in MD world should not interfere with his social role gained through his efforts. Consider me cruel or ungreatfull, but working on md code doesnt mean he has authority or decision power other than the limits that his own character gained. He will however benefit from different things he works on or tests, thats a big advantage in its own, but its a well deserved one, same as other players have from time to time. For example those that test new features, items etc. If his social role will be matching his administrative role in md, that should be entirely his merit, so he still enjoys md as what it started. I will update next on changelog the first MAJOR feature he finished. You will love it. Please remember these are his first steps in messing around with md code so have some understanding if things will go wrong (i dont think they will). Please... bugs and issues go to forum or me, as usual, unless I say otherwise, or he will end up flooded with such messages and he will crush same way i do sometimes. Respect that request please. I will write in annoucnements a " - R " to features done by him, and later he will add his own announcements signed also. Applause go to Rendril

search in pms will get implemented.

I dont select their content, it is selected automatically by google...indeed weird choice sometimes.

Recently i increased the number of ads in the free credits section and the forum. Is that bothering anybody? You think they are to many now? Do you even notice them? I just need a feedback to see general reaction/imression. Thanks

Peace should have some cool stories

i removed it from wish shop (well its at 999 wp so its same as removed). The item you have its from my tests yesterday. I will use it for the test and when its done it will remain with the editing capability. You will get the wish too once its working because i will be using your acc to test this since mine is beyond messed when it comes to access to items, and with the new logs i can't afford people seeing who my alts realy are

removed

im working on mdscript right now, but that one was supposed to work. It seems i my account is way to messed to check this, i see it working but might be because of my insane hardcoded exceptions.

Let me put it this way. Amount of new players is NOT decided by the front page. It is a constant, believe it or not. Think of it this way, ads are calculate with a pay per click way, that means if front page is less attractive it will still generate same amount of clicks but will require a lot more views to do that. Changing the amount of info on the main page changes the kind of players that join. Those to bored to bother with readin it will not join anymore, while those that look for more will be pleased by it. I am just moving the "give-up" point to before the registration instead of the first day after registration. New registrations increased slightly from about 65 to 75/day, but player kind changed a lot more. This goes for the banners too. It is actualy much more convenient to have ugly banners with lower click rate than beautiful banners with lots of clicks. This is because you pay for those clicks but not for the views, so a very ugly banner will receive clicks only from people very curious or very interested, while a very nice banner will receive clicks also by people that dont realy want to play anything but are just impressed by the banners. The reason MD has nice banners right now its because of the attitude i want it to have on the market, sort of a brand image, it costs me more (indirectly) but people see it with better eyes than when i used the ugly banners. So stop with this Mur-wants-people-out conspiracy theories, i know what i am doing.

People, of course its a aprils fools joke.... you should know better, active days wont be ever taken away from an account regardless what else happens to it. It was funny hearing you worry about it, but i must admit i have weird sense of humor