Muratus del Mur

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.

Ok, in order to eliminate any doubts , or hopes, regarding this, i have to spoil something here. Colored avatars will _never_ happen. It is not related to money, amount of work, my time, or anything like that. It is, to keep it short, the same way the scenes will never be colored. The same way tags are given, not set by yourself. Tags will change too, but thats an other story. However, there is one change in plan regarding avys. I plan to allow you to upload your own avy, but don't jump of joy yet..read on. The uploaded avys should perfectly match the style and way the current avys are made. No color, no gold, hand made, not copied, right proportions, no anime/manga, no disney kind, etc. This obviously is not a feature for all to use directly. The uploaded avys will first be confirmed, before you can use them. Cost for one avy change will be still 1 credit. Why you still pay if you create it yourself? Because very few will be able to create acceptable avys, and many will want to trade for them. Yeah, i will eventually finish tradeable avatars feature. This means the artists will pay 1 credit for an avy they put, but will be able to trade or sell it for much more than i currently pay for one. The option to sell the avy directly for the md avatar gallery will exchange it for 4 credits, returning 1 credit you payed and paying you 3 credits for the avy. This feature will allow custom avys and will increase the flow of avys in the shop. Gold avys will remain as they are now, but the time i use now for normal avys i will use only for gold ones. Making your avy gold will probably also be an option again..not sure if for money or for active days or as rewards only, or both, idk yet.. I hope that clears your questions regarding avys. This feature should be ready in summer as part of a larger series of changes i have in plan.

Its the first competition to go without a winner. Now the results that are worth mentioning: INTERESTING ANSWERS (creative ideas that could be right but are not in this case) they are too long to post here, but most interesting answers involved a relation between those locaitons and a principle, the spherical/circle shapes, and the night that is missing. Also rRen found a relation between the locations and the MD symbol, nice. Unfortunatly those ideas could be applied to many other locations too and at least one or two of the presented one had no connection to that anyway. Names: Shadowseeker, *Awiiya*, Mya Celestia, Rendril Revant Some of you sent me realy long and elaborate answers, but that doesnt mean they were interesting or right. There were many answers that were interesting one way or the other, i just selected a few, Sorry if i missed any (but i read them all) MOST RIDICULOUS ANSWERS (i will keep authors anonymous) [quote]Those pictures are there because that's where they're supposed to be ![/quote] [quote]Because we love those places.[/quote] RIGHT ANSWER @Lifeline you were so close, just that after making the right conclusions you draw line and stated the wrong answer, sorry. @Grido, Shadowseeker, Dst, Jester - you had most chances to discover it. It was a change i did in 10minutes tops, i told you to investigate like police, all you did was to stay there and make assumptions. If you were just considering i had so little time to do it, you would have realised none of youe complicated answers could be right. @Awiiya, Lifeline, I am bored - you and probably others i missed seeing, actualy followed a trail i left. If you only entered the temple following the postman you would have seen the clue i left there...but...160 ap or so, to much to do right? Awy when you spoted mur hidden in one of those locations i thought you will win @Shadowseeker - you were so so close to the answer once in chat, but then i switched subject and you totaly forgot your own right question. More focus next time. @Sajura Oninay - you put the right question, Who is watching and recording those locations... to bad i was asking for the answer of that. Anyway, the rst of you didnt realised it was someone watching them and thats why they show up there. [b]@I am bored, Blackwoodforest[/b] - you were the ones to get realy close to the answer. In fact, Iab answer is almost right but i cant award it because it is too vague and is missing the point. It might even be right by mistake, since i talk in many many locations. I name Iab answer becaues Judge yourself: [quote]I am bored: the connection is that you have spoken in one form or another in each of the locations, and it is still in the memory of the server.[/quote] [quote]Blackwoodforest: I assume, the picture shows per click a random player location,means, that one player it at this location at that time. And I suppose it has something to do with your alliance, maybe only your alliance members. [/quote] Its hard to determine best SECOND answer, since none is correct anyway. All you needed to do was to investigate those locaitons and see what is special about what you find there. For example. - how many of you can go to fields of fear? yet it was shown there. You needed - I loged in with postman, knaty, shade sentinel, morpheus, king manu .. i havent done so in ages! - lr back exit is and always will be knatys place. i even pointed out that he is showing up in the scene if i log him in, some of you noticed it but moved on to more elaborated explanations missing the obvious. - Some of you investigated one or the other location, one way or an other you all had the clues scattered one piece with each, but one prize so you coulldn't afford to collaborate and put them all together. The pictures show what these accounts see. Accounts that are well known as my characters and with great importance to the history of md. "Muratus del Mur",******,"The Postman","Shade Sentinel","Summoned Army","King Manu","Knator Commander","Morpheus" If you think about this , it wasn't that hard afterall, especially since i logged them all in daily. You made the mistake to analyze the locations and missed the point that they can show something not only "show themselves". The emerging question was a bit harder. If 7 out 8 show locations where these characters were, that gives one more position uncounted for. Mur was invisible (but thats normal), and he was at the log review room because he was talking there. The log review room was the blank scene on the wall! Yet there was one more location shown, where no character was visible..or maybe too many, the ggg. Now you could have assumed that one of the characters in ggg was one of my alts you don't know about, or that there is an other invisible character.. Since there is no winner , i will not "gift" you the answer to that question..too bad FUNNY FACT Initially this competition was a private contest at first between Jester, Grido, Shadowseeker and Dst that happend to be in that place when i was testing this so they had the first series of tries. During it, i anticipated that their correct answer will be the 4th try, and for your amusament i am sharing it with you so you decide the coincidence on your own: [quote]"*From: Jester (ID:77557) *sent 3 days and 11 hours ago My answer is....... [i]What is a Mur.[/i] (No connection I can find between them)"[/quote] It basically is a question that is more close to the answer than the other answers, since all those accounts are mine, but it was meant as a joke and it doesn't sound as a clear answer to be a winner. Still funny coincidence.

its a little more complicated than that. discussions need to stay between same people, not distributed randomly among online lhos, or you will get fractions of a discussion. New players might not reply from pm but use the lho button again to continue a discussion. I need to make it a bit smarter in order to do what you ask, and i will do so eventualy.

yeah, i don't have a fixed list of solutions that work. If it works then its valid. That error means somehow the flash did not manage to send the right parameters to the validation script. You should try again preferably without a popup and on a different browser. Not sure why it happens. Sry to ruin your dreams about finding a new solution

And people complain "research" can't be done... you just have to look in the right direction, and how you know that direction? you don't untill you find it

Belonging to a land means you must obey its rule but you also should have benefits. Or even if you don't obey the ruler of that land he still has some power over you. Being without a land makes you in a way independent, this must come with a cost or else why to join a land? Kings are free to sponsor players without a declared land, but should never sponsor players from other lands. If your king is to lazy or is unreachable for you to ask for a wp code, then its your bad luck. Lands should suffer or flourish depending on their leaders. There are just a handful of players that are without land but do amazing quests that should be rewarded wp codes. In my opinion, kings should try to get those players on their side. If i make wp functional only for players with lands, all this "independent" thing will go out in a week without much argue. But because you have an option, some of you stay without citizenship but still want the benefits of one. At the end it is a personal decision of the king what to do and rewards and reward resources are given only to them to distribute (except items that are random and will remain random). yrth quoted what i said well and its still valid. Considering the hierarchy, there is nothing above kings , except "gods" but gods are more like guidelines not actual forces to change things. Same here, the king has the power to do it, and they will do it based on what i _suggested_ them to do. This means they can still derail from the rules... risking of course to get struck by lightning if they derail to much If you are curious why: Personal decision is a healthy way to avoid monotony and rule breaking. It is the type of flavor i am looking for. A leader is not only a policeman reinforcing the rules, or public spokesman, but they are personalities that change the destiny of their people, in good , or bad. They can be dictators, they can be friendly an open to anything, or worse they can be inactive. I believe the kingship elections elected a very interesting set of leaders for the 4 lands and as i said before, i am willing to risk the stability and future of md, unforseen implications of their actions and decisions, based on the way they will "rule".

*cough* I bet he was hallucin/ogenic/ating if he said that

i cant argue with you on that cutler. offering an alternate activity kind of ruined other activities, yet you did a very cool thing there. (yes i checked it). I will not get involved with these thigns, i always say that, no one hears it. Not the astral plane, not the card game, nothing. sorry, but i have enough to worry about. RP is not your main goal like some suggested, nor is stats grinding. Each will think differently as each likes one or the other aspect more. I've been 'accused' of favorizing the RP part, and i've been accused i was only doing things for the fighting part...trust me, whatever i will do there will always be voices to complain. [b]The facts remain, md is boring because you people say its boring. Think for a second. How many days do you have ..cutler, princ, burns..all of you complaining. LOTS and LOTS. Since you started MD evolved a lot and it has a lot more stuff in it to fill your time with. Now tell me, why should it be boring for a new player? And you veterans would have so much more fun if you would just allow newcommers to get to this point of getting bored on their own, in one or two years of playing.[/b]

i see ggg as a compromise between players to cover some gameplay issues and 'survive' md. It some sort of giant pact. The big problem i see is that it keeps the very few online players far away from what new players see. This creates a chain reaction and keeps MD even more empty than it is. It is a community created structure and i will not interfere with it, destroying it or supporting it. Thats entirely up to you. In a way it affects MD badly, in an other it unites it and teaches discipline. In one way its far and makes md look and be "empty" in on other way it generates movement across the map. Do not expect a decision from me in such situations because that would totally ruin my purpose of observing what happens. My response will be to create alternate reasons why not to get so many people in one place. This will require time, and i plan to start a series up updates on MD _gameplay_ (so not fixes or new features, but concept changes) starting in two month or so from now. Why so late? i have my reasons. If I were to control ggg myself (i don't want to), i would probably add rules to make it harder and less static to achieve its purposes. For example having a different location each day will at least generate some sort of movement. Having an alliance spell (probably part on the new stuff) so that a group of people can kick out others from a location would allow guards to keep ggg safe in very public locations (send to gazebo can be used now, but its very limited). Putting some sort of daily rewards gathered from a daily "participation fee" would boost up motivation and would turn the ggg into a daily quest-like activity. There are so many things, but like i said its not up to me to alter the natural course of what will happen with player made organisations. Its up to you, and with the tools you have. Public concerns will however trigger a response from me and i might hurry up some of the features o abilities that could influence the situation.... in supporting it, but also in destoying it...so its kind of tricky. Can someone summerize the social history of ggg and its "ancestral" roots, starting with the shop guards gathering place for example? the dojo? the few attepmts to train on massive amounts of alts? There was always some sort of fight gathering in md, where people agreed to rules or at least to the fact they can fight eachother constantly. It is an unevitable phenomenon and maybe it should start to get fully supported or fully replaced/removed....like i said , it wont be me to decide that, even if i know the answer already.

OMG! Thank YOU!

First of all , AL was never something where anyone could jump in at any time. It was/is influenced by what players did but it keeps focus on a certain channel of the events. If it was just a mixture of what anyone did , well, imagine that... Actualy it was such a mixture when i was not the one to write it. I try to avoid salads if possible. Even with the current one, i tried to make them with suspense , even if the events were done long ago and most knew the outcome. I am starting to believe there is a need or some sort of journal where anyone can add its own events. The AL can keep track only of 1% of the things , leaving 99% of the people out of it, if you want it to be interesting and not just a boring report of news. Actualy thats 99,99%. I think what you are talking about its the NEWSPAPER. Its a huge difference between random and decided by me, if you don't see it i am sorry. I will have to consider realy well how such "forcing into story" will take place. I guess thats where the issue is, because you probably imagine something else than i imagine. Some type of events are realy impossible to actualy do, like the temporal trap in the last pages. Thats an addon based on the fact that lifeline ran away escaping necrovion followed indeed by the shade sentinel. The tiredness and temporal trap are added by me to increase suspense, AND TO ADD KEY ELEMENTS TO THE STORY. All i want to do it move further with this kind of modifications. Its also very difficult to follow any influences. Think of it, i have to pick from 300 suggestions for one checkpoint (first test showed so), now, some will repeat but there will still be over 100 different pathes the story could go. What are you suggesting? To follow the events? How? Its anyway my pick which one from the suggestions to follow. The soubtle difference is that i might follow my own suggestions more often. I am not trying to argue with any of you, i am just trying to figure out myself what is the best thing to do, with your help. The voting shows clearly what most of you want, yet i must consider also the negative comments on the "forced story" issue. I think my own words naming it "forced" made it all sound bad, when in fact its slightly different situation if you consider what i said above.

you can also get them by trade. Making them cost much also keeps them more rare. Imagine having them at 5$, everyone will buy one and then it will be even worse between paying and non paying. ..but i am aware the rusy is overpowered at the moment. it was an escape solution for a year ago when hosting sent a 2k$ bill but now keeps a big share of what is going on in the shop. One solution is to make it even more rare, like having it only on certain days in shop, but not cheaper. Making it cheaper will make it more accessible and will unbalance md more.

Anyone observed that there is no "paid" browser game out there? Or i don't know any yet. They are all "free to play", but when you actualy try to play them they require lots of money just to be able to play them. I tried one these days to see whats new in that niche and i was shocked to see nothing changed. On top of that, it was total suicide to play without paying. I did pay, then it only moved me in a stage of the game where if i didnt paid more i had the same choice like before, to quit or watch my account get eradicated by paying members. You all know this frustration i believe, its nothing new. The STUPID thing is that the game was not playable without payment after a certain point. You end up in a situation where you should train, but you cant train because there is no one to train upon, all being super high level (the npc i mean) BUT...but... you do have a "XP card" in the shop that you can buy to receive more xp. On top of that, you find treasures that make you think you are so lucky you found them, yet when you want to open them ..of course...you need to PAY. Doesn't matter what game it is now, the issue is here about MD. I want md to be a "free to play" game and not a pretended free to play. That means that you should never reach a point where only a paid feature could save you from a situation where no other free option can. I am not talking about using free credits to get a rusty, even if that is possible is way to difficult, but not having a rusty wont prevent you from building a strong ritual for example. There are ways around it so to say. If by mistake or ignorance, i added things in the shop that prevent non-paying members to do something they should be able to do, something that affects gameplay, then please shout about it here. If it makes sense, i will probably move those items to the wish shop, since WP are not for sale but can be achieved. Please do remember that the md shop is the only income that keeps MD free so it has to be attractive to the buyers , but not stupid or to hinder gameplay as some other games do. Thank you for your feedback.

Just to clarify this, it will never be removed from the side panel or top menu link! Just added or not added on the first page after login. By longer sections i mean expanding the one page wiht more details, BUT NOT WITH MORE EVENTS. So instead of wrtiting it short, i could make it more detailed and better presented. The order of events and how they are split into pages wont change. (the poins IS that you should want know more events, its what keep you curious and excited about what the next page might hold)

In fact i was planning to make it shorter. I tried several long and complicated ideas and they can be written there if you keep it short. Its so short to prevent players from showing off with roleplay events or with entire action suggestions. Its also so short to be easy to review, think i will have to read hundreds of such entries each time! The shorter it is the more it will focus on the idea and not on how you express it. Hopefully this will make more players and non english native speakers to interact with the story or get rewarded for good ideas that match the next page. But this topic is not about the lenght of that so thanks for the remark but lets keep on topic for now.

Red AL entries mean higher importance , key elements described or checkpoints. Gray entries mean less important entries, notes that are not essential, remarks. Most entries are normal importance, in black. It happend this last one was red because it was a checkpoint. lifeline escaped necrovion and story takes a new path. There are just a few more pages that will describe what happend in those days. After that, new story starts...of course related to the previous, one way or an other, even if its not always obvious.

Please state your opinions about the Adventure Log and the recent modifications.

How is it called that year when your birthday comes at the exact same week day as the day you were borned? I know it happens every several years or so, just a few times in your life but not at regular intervals. I know it has a name but i forgot it and i wanted to google it for more details but i couldn't find any lead to start with. Thnx

ITS NOT MANDATORY! clicking the Tell / Continue button will "continue" regardless if you write something or not, i thought is obviousl because of the name of the button.

I didnt let him out. Not that i put a time limit for his imprisonment, but for sure 2 days is not acceptable. I wont start to run around md to cach him now, because i am realy short on time, but if i see him out or find out who took him out...........I am alsmot starting to feel my decisions start to be ignored. No problem. Speaking of ignored decisions, Czez, you still didnt changed that PL entry, i asked nicely. I will change it and its one warning to you, next time...

But maybe a stupid suggestion is actualy unexpected enough and might be what i was lookign for. If someone will filter out opinions then that someone might start to remove those players that he/she dislikes too, disregarding their actual comment. An intermediary is not good i think, better lets find some "score" that can separate players in those that can and those that cant participate. Active days do not show the actual involvement in current days but more like loyalty towards MD. Maybe there is a need for an other score. What about wishpoints? or they are hard to get and should be at the end of the AL not at the beginning? Idk... Purpose is to have under 50 form over 320 and keep those that are realy creative and interesting, but not exagerated with creativity. Maybe the kingship voting score? what about that?..but its not updated constantly. brainstorming.

Update is done but i have to move it now in the root. Will do this probably tomorow. Also I have to do a design, right now, all their templates are crap. http://md-archives.com/newarchive The template i picked is suggestive don't you think? Don't worry structure and layout will change too, right now its everything as it was imported from old site.

No, i recovered a backup from february this year. I am uploading files right now and then try to perform the upgrade once more. I think only my article about self healing was lost, but it is on the forum too.

Ok so its like this: Hosting replied with a big stupid grin on their face that there is no other backup and that my payed remote backup feature was actually not working because it was not set up. Nice time to find this out, good that its not MD that needs the backup. We have a version from july up, so i will need the december backup. I have recovered something that looks like a backup file and is newwer than december, if i can get that working, fine , if not, Chewett pls email me that backup you have.