Muratus del Mur

If there would be way to create raw materials, wouldn't it cause a huge inflation of items? The current usable items allow for dynamic item creation, for example you could have an lumber axe and if you are in certain places on the map the axe could spawn a certain number if wood chunks for example. This can be made for example for christals, metals etc. The other items such as tools , could convert a certain number of raw materials in your inventory into a more rare items. This sounds nice I know. There is also a restricted place in MB reserved for a possible mining camp...but...what is the impact of such a feature on the long run...how would you get a manufacturing tool or a gathering tool. I am afraid this will only make strong players richer and will cause a huge item inflation destroyin the importance of items overall. still thinking about it...

I was requested to investigate the demotion of Fenrir Greycloth as a forum mod. Here are my conclusions. Since the forum has a chain of command, in this order: regular user -> forum mods -> forum admins -> me, the decisions comming from the same people that placed you in that position can not be contested. You got accepted as forum mod by a forum admin, forum admins can demote you WITH OR WITHOUT REASON. Moderator job is to keep the forum going alright and clean bad things, organize topics, etc, and forum admin job is to keep a good team of forum mods and take important decisions about the forum. currently Chewett is the head of forum (since the beginning of times i might add), and akasha is also root admin (also since the beginning of times). Forum hierarchy in the admin section is mods->akasha->chewett->me. If fenrir was or was not demoted based on a good reason its irrelevant, because he could have been demoted also without reason. Once i have someone in charge of something it means i trust that person decisions regarding the matters i placed him in command over. In this particular case i think there was a very strong reason to demote fenrir because ALL mods, and admins agreed to his demotion. Even if it was not a good reason at all, the simple fact that you managed to get the other "team members" against you is reason enough for you not to continue to be a forum mod. For general knowledge, demotion up the hierarchy is also possible, meaning that for example more regular users can file a complain to a forum admin to demote a forum mod, for good reasons. The same way more forum mods can file a complain to me to demore a forum admin, but the reasons would have to be ridiculously strong to make me demote either chewett or akasha, so unless you have solid proof of abuse,insane acts, or such, dont waste my time. Forum admins usualy get demoted based on inactivity, so when they no longer come around to handle things when needed, i will replace them by someone else after a certain period of time. As for me, sorry i can't be demoted, you'd wish ..or lets say i can demote myself and get rid of the responsability ...ah, i'd wish So back to fenrir situation. I think that anyone that served the community for a decent period of time deserves a reward. Fenrir was a mod for a decent period of time over half a year if i know right. Being a mod means serving the md community. Regardless of the reason he got demoted, his work on the forum in previous times remains unchanged so his reward should be there for him. The reward will be sent shortly, and will consist (as chewett suggested) in a wishpoint for service to md, and a valuable creature. i will probably slightly change this reward after i think a bit how much time means how much reward. Right now i am not sure if this is too little for 8 month of moderating or too much. (feel free to make suggestions) and a personal note to fenrir: you being a mod wont prevent you from getting baned from the forum for rudeness to other mods or admins.

I was requested to investigate the reasons why fenrir was demoted as forum mod. i will post the conclusion in a separate topic so you can all rant and complain about my decision. On short there was no investigation, there is no need for one when you have a chain of command. read more there please.

postponed, sorry for the delay. merchandise and offers remain, its just me that cant review and sort them at this time. When they will be sorted I will update this topic with the highest bids for each item and we will resume the bidding from there.

I have a curiosity. How many of you are artists, ..i mean in a semi-professional way , like with a personal (or public) art gallery, composers, scultors, writers with _published_ books, things like that. If you have a webpage with things you made and its not just some myspace or deviant user account , but something of yours, or presented by others with your works in it .. post here. I might create a page with your galleries , i love artists of any kind a lot (but not wannabes). Thank you

Yeah, i must admit i was wrong about an aspect of the protection. It tottaly fails in front of mozilla save media feature, BUT its purpose was and still is to restrict people from seeing in advance unreleased creatures and avatars, beat that I will make the requested changes , consider function to be from now: mds_creature_icon(12345, params); the same for the avatar function

Next time i will be sure to hire a secretary to manage such posts 4 pages already. Good that i didn't put up 10 items as i intended. I will start reviewing them and decide the 3 highest bids this weekend, untill then you can keep posting. Mods. Please do not clean this topic, i will do so. I want to read all first.

Can Mur bid and win? ..that would be odd...at least ..LOL.. ok enough spamming . Tomorrow when i review your offers...or day after tomorow..I will remove all except highest bids. dont ask what happened, you have been warned

= wow, shadow, i might use it as advertising material... not kidding = creatures you bid , you bid as they are, i will take them intact = i dont have a scale for value yet, i go by intuition. It sais ther This one, I play That means Muratus del Mur, not Manu will value items, as ruler of the land i aquired these items, and not as programmer or developer of MD. For you is no difference, for me it is. One day I will PLAY, as a retired King of my land... then i will pm "Manu" to fix things )) one day i will play, as I did with Knaty, and this auction is one of those. What you forgot Mur is a role too? ps. whats a mur..damn, i knew i,t pfff....

its interesting how your appreciation differ so much from mine

Keep poting incrementaly bigger offers. I have not review all of them yet but when i will do so i will select 3 , one for each item, and we continue from there. Important update: [b]- wishpoints, unused, but active, so no wp codes, can be traded - avatar can be traded!!! - creatures you trade are traded IN FULL, meaning no transfer penalties apply, no reset no nothing. So brag about you infernally powerfull drach - entire accounts can not be traded, unless a bot account or something very special about it. [/b] It will be VERY difficult to decide who bids higher than who, but i tell you one thing for sure, this auction wont go like thise ebay auctions whenre you can win last second with 1 cent difference.. the winning bid has to stand out. Do not try to please me, i am trying to be objective, your offer should be of interest for any MD player, not for me in particular. Private bits should be pmd to me in forum please. I will consider them and if they are winning they won't get disclosed. I am increasing the secret bid interval to two, so you cant bid secret unless two other higher bids have been placed above last high bid. I am open to suggestions for other items of this unique kind for the next auction (later later) ..but please leave the jokes like "Mur account" ..i will be putting that for auction one day but with a few provate bidders that can actualy handle it ... and name wont remain that. jk.or not. .. and i repeat this, auction for this is not selling, its converting what you managed to gather on your account to things you will never be able to get in other ways, to have a true collection in it. ---- Update 2: I will be accepting later advance bids. By that (there is no such term) I mean you can assamble an AMAZING offer and send it to me to se what i can come up with to match it. but later...for now we have this. I think such auctions , again, only for high bidders, are a way on my side to give something nice and on your side to get something unique. If you feel this auction should not take place, please contact me and tell me, or post on forum. I am very careful with such things , like I was for example with the avatar auction that you voted NO to and i respected that to this day, even if i still think that would have solved avatar issue. Wow, i talk a lot.

I don't think its fair to bid directly with credits or cash. What about if i start to delete low offers and leave only the highest? Or will this be rude? This post becomes very long very fast .

Self sacrifice or mutilation is not a valuable trade good. i will post from time to time when i consider your offers to stand out and possible winners that should be matched. I should also remind you this is an auction for items with a certain value, you should not overestimate them but also not underestimate them. If you are curious what will happen with what you pay for these items....Since i don't actualy need for my own good any of them (I probably need more the collection creatures than any payment), i will use them over time for rewards and such but also for a lottery i plan to do. This is not selling of rewards, because you pay with achievements you worked hard to get, so in a way this is a way to convert those achievements into others. PLEASE DO NOT BID LOWER THAN BIDS BEFORE YOU This is not a lottery its an auction, if anyone bid higher you wont win with a lower bid.

you cant save the image easy, try it. what i am more concerned of is that if a bad written script generates hashes for images that are not displayed (so the has gets released) it will cause trouble for other hashes that might collide. I will add the return parameter and update it, so that those that know what to do with it will use it.

(This one, I play) I am opening an auction for some special things. Feel free to auction whatever you can, and i will decide if the offer is accepted as higher than the previous or denied (meaning i consider it lower so not accepted to surpass the previous offer) Please keep it clean and don't flood it with useless talks. There is no reserve, auction starts this time at 1 silver, but will obviously end at a huge price, considering the merchendise auctioned. I am allowing nonconsecutive secret bids. This means you can bid something that will not get public, if the previous bid was not private too. I will decide if a private bid is worth more or not. Winner is decided for highest bid that stays unmatched for over a week! THIS IS A HIGH-CLASS AUCTION FOR COLLECTORS MAINLY Here are the items! 1st item Dark IV A rare creature, probably the first drawing i personally made back long ago when designing MD. Its creature ID is 1000, that makes it very special for collectors. It has 4 levels but you get the last one. Creature type id is 6 (because 5 other were added before it in the db). The creature comes with FULL TOKENS, no transfer penalties for the winner of the auction, you get exactly what you see with same stats and age. The auction is for its rarity, i don't know if it is efficient in battle or not. It does steallife on multiple with a power of 24 but also the effects of all those tokens. Regarding its rarity, i might have given a similar creature some time ago, but not this ID or stats, i will hold one for my collection and as with all other its possible to give it later under certain circumstances. Overall its a very rare and interesting creature and a _unique_ addition to any serious collector. [attachment=1409:dark4.jpg] 2nd item Spelldoc Collection 5 spelldocs of your choice, ANY AVAILABLE LEVEL including the unreleased levels (levels above 6). You can pick any docs from any spell and any level that it has. As a rule, you will not be provided with a full list of options, you must kow what you ask. I will tell you the number of levels available for a given spell but not the spell list. Concerning rarity, level 1 docs are rare, and high level docs that are not yet released are _extremely_ rare, meaning nobody has them for now. Spell docs were given by RPC players but since there are no more rpcs there is no current way to give them out...yet. When there will be a way to do so, and there will be one, the higher level spells will not be given. Use this pack to complete an existing collection or to discover the secrets written in the high level docs, your choice. 3rd item The new morph creature. By now you probably found out what will it turn into and what it does. It does double freeze, its the only creature doing that. Its also a limited edition creature available only with such auctions, maybe future contests or rewards but mainly in winter. If you already own one, which is unlikely, this auction guarantees that you will get a different version of the morphing than you already have (No, you can not pick one). Regarding its rarity, its currently the most valuable collection item for those that love the "Limited Edition" tagged creatures. Its rarity will be respected over time but its not an extinct or unique creature. Right now i do not know how rare it will end up to be but i believe it will be slightly more common than the wind drach but a lot more rare than the other creatures with the limited edition tag such as reindrach or santa. Once morphed it can not be transferred again. It can upgrade fully very fast compared to other limited edition creatures and it defenetly looks awesome. Its the wish of any serious collector that wants a complete christmas collection series and makes the regular premium creatures fade. So these are the items i am opening now for auction. I am hoping them to be really high class items for the most serious collectors. There will be more auctions in time but for different items. I will try to bring to such auctions the things that you have no other way of getting and i accept in turn any achievements, coins, items, creatures or anything you can bid with. The auction is for what you see, nothing more nothing else. Happy Bidding. p.s. Please share your opinion about such auctions for the future, but better do so on a separate topic so that we keep the auction offers clear on this topic. Thanks.

function can be adjusted to return the path of the picture, but its risky because if not displayed image will remain active and will take up resources for nothing with a bad written script. If you think of improvements or other info related to this that you might need, let me know.

Wishing Star and Mr Mystery - baned for repeated abuse against new players. This is a one time decision, don't take it as a rule. They received info to contact a mod to get out, its up to you when that will be. note: this is according to the rules, more players complained, as dst pointed out.

mp3 cap for vp set to min zero, OR, based on active days, meaning players under X days will never get negative vp. That will protect new players but will also make md more unpleasant the more you stay in it. Anyway, as long as this is done only by two players , there two can be warned, then baned if they continue...BUT..this can get easy out of hand and become an easily abusable reason for ban and i don't like that. Anyway, keep an updated list, warn them, and if it turns to be an isolated event I will ban them for a while. I will be working on the general solution with the vp cap too but might not be done in time. p.s. ads are running like crazy and it would be a pity to scare newcomers away like that

Some time ago i posted an announcement for fighting schools to prepare tutorials to replace the one now linked in the interface (right column) Please send them to me, or send me link to them if they are on forum. I need only final material, not in work or unorganised. Also please include a list of people that worked on it and what exactly they did or how much their contribution was. Thank you

the browser check is there because some features don't work well on other browsers than the major ones. Its true this is like that for a very very long time and things both in game and in browsers changed a lot since last time i checked. I can remove the browser restriction and attempt to do a test again to see how some browsers perform..but i run only ff , ie and safari so if any of you is willing to do a complete test on a different browser, i will need the exact browser headers to allow them for the test.

Its mainly for GG king to decide. If you want gg weapon public place, or train in a very restricted area (that wont be seen very ok by many), don't ask me, thats why there are Kings and Queens now, so i can decapitate them if anything goes wrong

I surely hope you will pass by from time to time to see whats going on, in general. What about the Libs? Should i go on with making them a public army? Farewell

Buying something else has nothing to do with seeing gifts or not. The only reason is if you already got them last year. If you did a shop reset, you can see them again. If you used them already last year and you never reset shop since then, then you don't see them. They are like normal items just that they appear on these days only.

If your account was made in summer 2008 its likely you used them up at the end of 2008. The items in the shop get hidden by checking if you already have bought them. Its a bit difficult to check whats going on with one account because the info is not kept in clear, but if there are others that are 100% sure they should see the gifts there but they are not, please post here and if it turns to be a bug of some sort i will try to fix it in time. Unfortunalty i will not investigate this if its just one or two isolated cases, i am very very short on time, i hope you understand. Thanks

You probably have a dynamic ip that is changing very often (or each time you connect?) Be careful, playing with so many alts is dangerous, if you for any reason will get in trouble later and i will check you and find out you have to many it wont be good, so take it easy. I don't see what you could win for creating countless new accounts with 5 credits.