Muratus del Mur

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

Interesting post about food and front page all combined. While a more tasty and roasted front page increases the registration rate, it also brings lots of low-medium quality players that expect an other kind of game and don't bother to understand a different one. Weird thing is that registration rate actually increased and i can't realy explain that. Most of the players that stick around more than one day and i asked about what kept them here told me about things on the main page less advertised, such as the small disclaimer text or the principles. MD search engine optimization is bad, because i don't want to spam it with keywords aimed at an other kind of game. The kind of people that stay in md are interested in something else than a casual game. Think what kept you here or what made you register in the first place. Now i find it interesting how vets see everything so collapsed and destroyed, not functional and me trying to drive people away in masked ways, while those not cought by this "MD is boring" paranoia still enjoy it. I am kind of bored of this all-knowing-everything-is-down attitude. Think of this, the best players registered while main page was a total disaster and are still around...so let me worry about such things.

someone maybe can get me that mysql error so i can see what it is with it. Thnx

SInce some of you participated a lot of things changed. I am seriously thinking to re enable HC for all again. I have to find a way to differentiate reward because if you already got a reward once you should not get one allover again, especialy a medal...but participating for fun, or a dufferent reward (maybe items??) should become possible for anyone. Its a long story, dont start talking about it here, i have my ideas how and when, i just wanted to let you know that it might happen.

read the announcement i will post now about this. its something i missed to mention, sorry.

how the hell do you add a game on mmohut , bigpoint , browsergameslist and some other there? I searched and i cant find and way to add one, some have a contact link and i emailed them but most have not even that.

fixed, keep notifying me when you find other

seems to be solved faster than i hoped (my damage wasnt that great, just one thing i missed) thnx masterb for notifying me. ill close this now.

This is entirely my fault. I was performing a mysql/apache/php upgrade on my own, assuming it will work and it obviously didnt. I don't think the damage is to big, but since the situation with the hosting is kind of tensed right now, i dont expect they will see it that way. Anyway, data is safe, just sites are down. Weird thing is that all services are running fine. I suspect that it is a dns issue and i should have started some kind of service i never heard of. Good thing forum is separated. Now i shall go and slowly suicide fearing the negative response from hosting. I am way to tired to wait for a reply now, they will probably do so tomorow anyway (omfg its sunday?!?!?!)..or monday O.o. If it goes back up in the next 10 hours or so can someone from Romania sms me please (***number removed***)? I will constantly check of course but just in case i fall asleep to much and miss it. It will probably come back with lots of erros. Thanks

Exactly CrazyMike, and i am kind of full of complains coming from alts. If non-aly ap were lets say 40ap, new players would still be OK and just desire the citizenship more..but most that complain compare with their current status. I don't say i always take good decisions, this one wasn't even mine(!) , but i believe this is a good one that should have been so for a much longer time. Of course is useful to see both pro and contra arguments.

The saddest thing is that in a week or so some of you will pm me about "a bug that 90 ap is not enough to enter or upgrade some things". It usually happens with old players not with those new. The suggestions the kings made are by far better than what i had in mind. I would suggest 70ap for normal players and slower timers. Of course you would say its insane, but only if you compare with whats now. Seeing it "from scratch" is harder than it seems. A new player should discover the game with lower settings and later get it "faster". What you do its like arguing that a new player cant recruit a Grasan on its first day and see that as an issue. Makes me laugh when you say i am driving people away with such changes...you should see whats coming.

i thought about tokens as something to be implemented as part of the gameplay, not only the shop. Now you do realise that that changes the entire problem. Imagine tokens could be aquired in altars, by saryficing a similar creature will get you one random token on an other one. Or something like that. I stoped integrating tokens in other parts of the game and let them only in shop....not sure why...but i will resume it eventually. Creatures are indeed unballanced. One thing i was hoping you learned in MD untill now is that things change, they allways do, and before they do you should enjoy them. If tokens are ultra powerfull, fine, use them, your stats wont get resets because you gained them with tokens. Complain about them, that is even better, it makes me FIX the issue much faster, but do not "suffer" from it. In the "future" of md, tokens might get to be something tottaly different or of different importance, and you will all laugh at whats now. Once there was no xp cap if i remember right, nothing else than attack and steal life, ..and so on. If all of you "abuse" then game is ballance, if only some do, then i need to think why those do and others not. In case of tokens the issue is money, and regardless how BAD the situation is, because its really bad but i stopped complaining, i don't like tokens or drachs to be a sneaky way of draining money out of the players. Long ago drachs were what literaly saved md from being closed, now the combination of highly unbalanced things in the shop is what keep it alive. Probably when things will become better worldwide, i will be able to ignore income and focus more on a balanced shop. If i do that now, there will be a ballanced shop but i will have to pay expenses myself and i wont do that anymore. So thank the ones buying whats in the shop, get them if you can for free, by trading , free credits, whatever, because its possible..complain about it, enjoy it... but don't let yourself get morally crashed because of it. Things will change, sooner or later...and regarding tokens probably sooner. (drachs later) What is the worse scenario??? you get "beaten" by others ? Come one..really now, you purpose in MD is to be the happiest grinder of them all and beat anyone you can see? Actualy i can name a few well known fighters that got there without paying 1$. More and more things will get fixed, but they are not actualy broken right now. As long as you can still be in MD and do whatever you are doing, things should be considered "fine" or at least "as they are". The rules are the same for all. Unless someone si cheating and you have no ideea how (note the mention) then you can worry and that person will get punished (for not sharing the cheat ) I am a bit sad to see things getting better than they were, yet complains to remain at same constant level. The good part is that at least now people take their time to actually make GOOD suggestions that i can use, and thats very important. Speaking of that, new regen times and alliance/land changes comming soon, decided by your kings. p.s. do you realy want me to remove all tokens and also all drachs? will that make things better? Its almost a retoric question, but think of it and you will see why things are not as black as they look.

As a rule of the internet, if a website ever asks you for the password in writing, it means its a scam, they are too retarded to actualy go without it, or they are too lazy (like me). The only case when you can give a pass out, is with your server admin that NEEEDSS it ... or you can ask him to be reset then you change it back. Most sites cant get your password but all sites can reset it to something else if needed. Also basic scam tehnique, you are requested to login to the site, when actually the link points to a ip site or a similar looking domain BUT NOT THAT domain. Of course your password will get "cought" by them, you will get some stupid waring or error , and bye bye your real account ..later. You need to be paranoid to survive. At least if you are to be scamed, let it happen when they fake yahoo dns for your isp, then there is realy nothing you could do or know.... but few do it right You should be honored if someone steals your accounts with that methid. (meaning you see url as http://yahoo.com, it looks like yahoo, but behind it its not) If i ask you for passwords in md, remind me i don;t need it and pretend you are busy! Then ask me next day if it was really me asking

I don't see the ritual as a main way to lower xp. THe xp lowering is just a small bonus added to its ...otherwise rare use. Its not like it will reset all of your xp. except that, even with shop resets, you cant get to it just so, you sill have to consume lots before it. Now lets think what will happen on the long run ... stronger mp3, missing mp4 and stuck mp5? I cant resist to see lots of mp3. It could actually be good considering most players leave at mp3. Increasing the player base at mp3 is actualy very good, but won't happen don't worry. I wish it would but it won't. Very few people resist not to advance. Problem remains with alts of MP5's ..thats the real issue with MP3s I will count again how much xp the ritual can drop, not sure what the total is now for the entire stock. It should not be larger than the entire xp. That would make a full xp reset for each shop reset (and lots of purchases untill that). That indirectly means also more new players, money=ads=more players. Anyway its a good point worth considering. Keep this post updated if you realise other interesting things about this shop item. Thnx

You are missing a point here, you are always missing THIS point everytime, sorry to say this. Maybe the item list should be made so that there is a chance to hide something somehow. Where is the fun if everything is perfect? When situation demands it i make restrictions from the interface directly, like restricting creature trades between alts (of course they are still possible but require much more work and collaboration). Let me point out the extremes so you get my point. I could have made the checks so that you will only see abnormal activities in item tradings, or even determine alts by them. I could have also display all trades, on pages, or enable a basic search by id, item, etc. Hell i could even make it email you/me when something weird is going on. But the logs are not there as an ultimate way to prevent "bad" things regarding trades, they are part of the game, and part of the game means they should be possible to use if you really want it, but difficult or impossible if you don't care so much. Also its actually better to see coins and items mixed so you can see when what happens without comparing dates and hours. For example someone sends 10 silver, then an item is sent back to that someone, then its clear what the trade was for. If there is no item you could suspect it was a creature trade, or somehting else. If i separate the coins (i could) then you will only get more logs, a bit more confusing, and it will be to easy to track item trades. If you realy want it so bad, there is a way. Copy paste them in xls and keep a track of daily logs, then you can hide the coins to see the rest. And whoever uses 200 coins to hide a particular trade, well we will see then, but i doubt i wont be realy curious to see what he or she was hiding

arghhh damn it, forgpt about k docs. whats the error? should have some number at the end. (just buying time here, since i can see for myself what the error is, but then..)

This is the list Yoshi sent me just now. Compare with it and lets have one list with all in it. Don't pm me, write here pls so all can see and eliminate duplicates. http://www.afreegaming.com/ http://www.gamesites99.com/ http://www.gamesites100.net/ http://www.gamesites101.com/ http://www.gamesites200.com/ http://www.gamesitestop100.com/ http://www.gamessiteslist.com/ http://www.gametopsites.com/ http://www.gamezone.com/ http://www.jagtoplist.com/ http://www.mmorpgtoplist.com/ http://www.top100arena.com/ http://www.top100gaming.com/ http://www.topfreegameservers.com/ http://topg.org/ http://www.topgamesites.org/ http://www.xtremetop100.com/ http://gamingtop.org/ http://topofgames.com/gamingsites/ Thnx

I've tried to do this several times, but every time people asked to do it vanish or forget. The current toplists md is on (free credits links) are old and i haven't researched for new sites for a very long time. What i want is that someone, best if more but organized, can sweep the internet for browser games toplists (not general toplists) and see where md is and where its not. Where its not, i need a list with them so i can register it and add the link to the free credits links. Please do not submit it on your own, i need to do that so i can have control over it, to buy it premium if needed and such. Before flooding me with a bunch of toplists, remember i need you to actualy check if md is there or not, and if the link is already on free credits page or not. No point adding a site twice, right? So? anyone dares? Good luck. p.s. NO random links sent to me, i need organized list, not "suggestions" where i should check.

thnx , keep it updated, maybe if i have a time table i will be able to compare it with whats running on the server to see what could cause it. It might however be a network problem (from hosting not from you) since its working fine for me and doesnt seem as a generalized issue....or is it?

sweet you take the opportunity to brag about your systems, but writing down exact times and location would be much more useful. thanks.

I am bored and Blackwoodforest, since you were the closest to the answer, you will get a reward. Iab, if i know right you still have accounts in prison, thats why your reward will be first to get these (max 3!) out of there. Sorry but i can't reward someone thats in prison, so first thing is to get out. PM me accounts you want out. Blackwood you get a wp. The rest, sorry, next time. I wished i gave a medal but without a right answer I wont give a medal for a second best.

) that was sweet. actualyy , a much better question is, in what year?! I can't promise anything but if things go as i plan, this change should happen within 3 month from now. Might happen faster, right this moment i don't know. The change itself doesn't take that much to do but it depends on other things.

please ask him kindly to remove offensive words and reformulate his insult in a more decent manner. refusal to do so has only one outcome. i'm tired being a policeman, and i'm worried what you would do if the policeman would be someone else. I don't want to move the center of md in prison you know.