Muratus del Mur

once all ancient accounts that are still way over 4k get "fixed" i will probably default this to 4k.

first of all you are at the edge of getting rude to me. As grido pointed out this is not america, is md. limiting potentialy copied avatars from shop protects the players that could have them taken away later. potentialy guilty untill proven innocent, thats how it works. I assume any work could be copied and ask for confirmation when needed to be sure its not. Its a big difference from shooting first then asking. Like i said the ban is a restriction not a punishment at all. It just locks the upload interface untill check is done.

don't get this wrong. the baning is done first before any message or warning so that you cant upload more untill the others are confirmed. Its a standard process and doesn't imply you are guilty of anything , its more of a pending status that can be lifted anytime proven innocent. Consider it a temporary hold. Your artworks show different styles and different quality and its normal i ban untill i see high resolution scans to prove you own them. If they are copied from somewhere thats an other matter, i hope/believe they are not, but thats not judged here and now (later). Also may i suggest you scan them slightly different then adjust from software untill you get a nice drawing with not to much contrast or "burned" effect. They could look so much better. The dragon, please crop it so that its not cut. i wont accept cut images or deformed, slightly rotated ones. If drawing is already made cut, then try adjusting it at least in the wings side, and next time remember not to make it over the paper borders. thnx p.s. i will review scans tomorow and lift ban if ok, until then you can prepare the adjusted images.

Avies are payed with 3 credits when a user sends them to shop, but they cost 1 to use it. That credit will be recovered only after repeated changes and most avies never get changed. Compare it to the use of a temporary powerup, is that still much for a "face lift"? All prices in the shop are the same and will remain so. Some things recover for other things. I believe in the case of avatars they recover for themselves. In time the ugly avatars get changed the most times so they gather the most profit, profit to compensate for the avatars that are beautiful but get never changed. I also don't like to see players changing avatars all the time, imagine the mess if avatars get shifted between players constantly (if they were free). Avatar=personality=role. Paying 1 credit shows some effort on your side.

please specify if you want RO version or the EN version (original), The ro will be available not sooner than 6 month i think and for now i don't know about how it will look or price. The en version you already know how cover looks and price. For current EN if there will be over 10 in same order there will be a quantity discount that they offer. Current EN version ([url="http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/mastering-the-void/10670085"]http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/mastering-the-void/10670085[/url]) @Darigan (you are from RO?? i don't think so, you can get it with very low shipping directly from there because publisher is in US. @Shemhazaj (you are in RO? if not, the link is the above one, this announcement is for people in Romania so they can save on shipping) @blackwood forest (book is written in english, you cna get it anytime from that link. there will be a romanian translation later this year that wont be sold outside romania) So far these are the ones that want it: Indyra x1 dst x1 Totenkopf x2 Emerald Arcanix x1 Grido x1 (l.o.l ) I will take a few too, 3 maybe. total so far: 9 need a few more i'm still waiting for more, if none, i will order these. If you change your mind or have any questions, pls let me know. update: i did the math for ordering 15 books , discount is of 10% and shipping drops to 2.5$/book or 3.4$/book (depending on shipping method) instead of around 8-12$ that is now for same shipping options! its still a lot compared to book prices in Romania. If price is what keeps you from getting it I can gift you a part of it, i don't mind, but just if you really cant afford it (pm me).

(writing this in English for respect to the other people, but its mostly only for people living in Romania) If anyone wants the English version of the book, i will be gathering orders to save on shipping costs and then I can meet you and give them. The shipping is quite expensive since publisher is in US. For those wanting the book in Romanian, it will be available in 6month or more, but i am not sure at what publishing house yet. Anyway I don't think i can get it without ads on back cover or a more commercial cover, unfortunatly. I want it THAT simple as it is now, but publishing house will not take a project if it doesn't sell and to sell i needs to be shiny. I might print the english version here, because price might get significantly lower, but I don't know anything yet for sure and i don't think it will happen before autumn either. I will keep this post updated if i have any news. If you can read english please get the english version not the romanian one. I already tried two translators and both interpreted some parts of the test text according to their own beliefs and thats soooo annoying. I will supervise a future possible translation (if i will do one afterall) but i wont be the one translating it (don't ask why). Untill then, let me know who wants it (email, pm, forum pm, post here, call, whatever) and i will keep a list and inform you of price depending on how many orders i gather. Thanks.

change what? it still does that, just 1/20 instead of 1/3

what creature page exactly u mean, cant remember where i placed it. thx ps. or u talk about token list in box?

claw 3 bonus reduced to 1/20 instead of 1/3 lets see how this one goes.

in fact...id doesn't set in MD...hmm, i wonder why... )) but i get the point.

i didn't named anyone. I can just hope they will stop intoxicating new players that ask normal questions and let them understand on their own md is not normal. The old players already got the point from the other post, even if they agree to it or not.

3rd wont get approved

Technically you are allowed to "hire" an artist / get a friend / to do your MD stuff, i don't mind that. Problem is i need a very sure way to know thy were done for md and not stolen by you. Thats why i need a high resolution scan sent on email so i can confirm you have the original. If you have the original, you can use it.

You put it better than i could

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