Muratus del Mur

Hired

but consider any other job offerings you will receive. My tasks won't take much of your time, so consider it a part time job.

Now i have to figure out what to give you to do, i dont really have anything but i loved the idea enough to create a job opening just for this

Thank you for your opinions, this is my current prefered variant, keep telling what you think.

- List with "100" hidden items. 
This list will fluctuate based on how i add prizes to it and number of buyers. Sometimes it can be that  the list is almost empty, other times to have 200 items, etc. Over half of the items will be overpowered in current sense. The features provided will however become common in the future through this shop/tombola or ingame abilities (like magic ctc)

- spent and unspent credits will count in 100$ increments as a ticket to pick something from the list. The list being hidden, it means people wont always get what they wished for. It also means people will see what the shop had before but not what it has now, allowing some suspanse.
 Or 200$ ?? 

- wishpoints will count as 40$ spent credits. Or 10$ ..Or 20$?
both spent and unspent count the same


- list with numbers and players will be always public but only once a month it will be revealed to show winnings. event at goe or automated, depends on month mood and time.

- no limit of choices one could select per list. This is important for old players that currently have lots of credits and wp. It means a 100 items list will run out very fast.

- In future, tickets to this thing will be tradeable items so they can be awarded and traded.


did i missed something?



 

here are some banners you could use to advertise this game.
If you put them anywhere let me know the link , i am curios
If you are putting them on a game related website, such as a directory or an other game, (as a owner of that site) , i can put you a banner back here on the first page (banner exchange)

topic closed.
will take me about three days to name the winners, after carefully reviewing each of your entries.


Thank you for participating, i hope you enjoyed it (i sure do!)

Soldiers of The Inner Sun - should go to tribunal and will never have any official status again.
updates about their story and symbols later. I need to prepare this well.


Also my mirror item, with its symbols and meaning for md in general, is to be considered now part of the treasures the tribunal guards.
its secrets also , will be told later, or embeded in the land clues.
I already have a place for it in the land art.


My official denomination/status, together with all its symbolic meaning and later implications is:
Governing Demon

for refering hierarchy and authority in md in general that is just a flavored way of saying demi-god.
I am basically unlimited in power yet accusable by council if needed. I am not human so my role as a king is virtualy inexistant, but i am a GOVERNING power. The word demon was chosen to underline the darker nature of it. It also relates to the position of the land and its balance connection with Necrovion.


The apparent conflict of concepts between Shade Sentinel and a Mur Demon should be clarified, in case its not clear. Shade Sentinel doesn't have a name. Mur in essence is also a nameless name, as i revealed in Whats a Mur topic. Shade belongs to that land as a RESULT of that land. It is a cummulation of shades basically, given a unified reference name, Sentinel. SS is immune as it has same "level" as the land itself.

Mur on the other hand is an independent entity, with personality. something else...


i could talk hours about this so i should stop here


For now digest this info. I warn you i wont be a good king. sadly for you, i am not replaceable by vote.

This turn is totaly new and not fully considered in its possible outcomes towards md in general.
welcome to the jungle

Soldiers of The Inner Sun - should go to tribunal and will never have any official status again.
updates about their story and symbols later. I need to prepare this well.


Also my mirror item, with its symbols and meaning for md in general, is to be considered now part of the treasures the tribunal guards.
its secrets also , will be told later, or embeded in the land clues.
I already have a place for it in the land art.


My official denomination/status, together with all its symbolic meaning and later implications is:
Governing Demon

for refering hierarchy and authority in md in general that is just a flavored way of saying demi-god.
I am basically unlimited in power yet accusable by council if needed. I am not human so my role as a king is virtualy inexistant, but i am a GOVERNING power. The word demon was chosen to underline the darker nature of it. It also relates to the position of the land and its balance connection with Necrovion.


The apparent conflict of concepts between Shade Sentinel and a Mur Demon should be clarified, in case its not clear. Shade Sentinel doesn't have a name. Mur in essence is also a nameless name, as i revealed in Whats a Mur topic. Shade belongs to that land as a RESULT of that land. It is a cummulation of shades basically, given a unified reference name, Sentinel. SS is immune as it has same "level" as the land itself.

Mur on the other hand is an independent entity, with personality. something else...


i could talk hours about this so i should stop here


For now digest this info. I warn you i wont be a good king. sadly for you, i am not replaceable by vote.

This turn is totaly new and not fully considered in its possible outcomes towards md in general.
welcome to the jungle

comming from a person that has no reaction to sleeping pills..i can say that i would gladly trade the way i go to sleep for the way i wake up. Dropdead when exhausted should become stand up instantly when enough sleep, and wake up over 3 hours should become feel sleepy 3 hours untill i cant remember when i fall asleep.

Only thing to make me go to bed is to know i need to do something boooring, and child stories do the rest. but lately not even that works anymore. There are certain hours that i feel sleepy and i could fall asleep then right away , but they fit badly in the day (6pm for example).

The only thing to make me wake up fresh is christmas day and my birthday when i know presents are there waiting to be opened. Oh , or when i make something cool in md and i wait for the next day to read reactions


If you find a solution to that, share it with me.
Last thing i tried were sleeping drugs for the mentally insane, and they are _no_fun_

My answer is not an answer but a whining of my own problems, i hope you excuse that, but you made me think of it and i wish i was a kid again, sleeping anywhere and waking up fully charged. those times are gone.

comming from a person that has no reaction to sleeping pills..i can say that i would gladly trade the way i go to sleep for the way i wake up. Dropdead when exhausted should become stand up instantly when enough sleep, and wake up over 3 hours should become feel sleepy 3 hours untill i cant remember when i fall asleep.

Only thing to make me go to bed is to know i need to do something boooring, and child stories do the rest. but lately not even that works anymore. There are certain hours that i feel sleepy and i could fall asleep then right away , but they fit badly in the day (6pm for example).

The only thing to make me wake up fresh is christmas day and my birthday when i know presents are there waiting to be opened. Oh , or when i make something cool in md and i wait for the next day to read reactions


If you find a solution to that, share it with me.
Last thing i tried were sleeping drugs for the mentally insane, and they are _no_fun_

My answer is not an answer but a whining of my own problems, i hope you excuse that, but you made me think of it and i wish i was a kid again, sleeping anywhere and waking up fully charged. those times are gone.

Funny now isn't it? don't say i didn't said it month before

The only reason i don't wipe md lands with your corpse in an epic show of force , is that i don't want to create the false impression that i am not open to criticism. I embrace negative comments as a challange to prove my point better or to learn something from them. Many have disagreed to me or even fighted with me, however they had the required decency, and I don't tolerate someone to be rude just because he is against me.

The world needs such people like you, otherwise if we were all philosophers we would starve while admiring the process from a theoretical point of view. Imagine everybody realising money is an empty joke, or that the 4000$ ring they worked for could be very well 4$. Maybe recession will open or permanently close some minds. Someone needs to be the slave in this ecosystem, to sustain us the thinkers. So, Roland, you are indeed a very useful specimen. Don't mind "the bulshit that comes out of my mouth" , we neeeed you as you are.

P.s. i keep thinking about that joke i wanted to do, a message saying "congratulations you won md, you can go now".

appology accepted

@Marvolo
For that kind of arhitecture yes, but for architects that build small worlds, beauty is mandatory and it has to be on paper as well as in practice. MD would not be of any good without its art and just its thoughts and plans...nor would be of any good if it had beautifull shape but crap concepts behind.

am i the only one careful about wording? all punishments i gave were for announced matters, not even for the forum extra clarifications. Of course the side punishments were given for unannounced matters because i don't plan to announce each warning and individual situation on the public announcements. Manda knew very well what his situation is, smart knew it very well too since its about his former role, and lifeline could use such excuse but his punishment was based on the announced part. .. not to mention that a two years old player that happens to be a king has basically no excuse for not caring about what is going on. It is not about not knowing, it is about refusing to care because it favored them not to care, big big difference.

am i the only one careful about wording? all punishments i gave were for announced matters, not even for the forum extra clarifications. Of course the side punishments were given for unannounced matters because i don't plan to announce each warning and individual situation on the public announcements. Manda knew very well what his situation is, smart knew it very well too since its about his former role, and lifeline could use such excuse but his punishment was based on the announced part. .. not to mention that a two years old player that happens to be a king has basically no excuse for not caring about what is going on. It is not about not knowing, it is about refusing to care because it favored them not to care, big big difference.

this was supposed to be an article for the Council, as part of the info i sometime share with them. These are things relevant for ruling MD not playing it. Why i share this ? because it does no harm and shows you certain things that might be needed to known publicly (about the level of things i consider when i talk about authority and decisions in md)


Price
price is an illusion in itlsef. Value does not exist. There is a minimum of "USABILITY" but that comes free. Its only rarity that puts a price on usability and "need". THis is no novelty for most of you. Value only exists in comparison to something, never alone.

There is an illusion that some things are valuable on their own, but its an illusion. What happens actually is that these things compare their value to other things than the common ones but they still compare in order to obtain a value.


When ruling and deciding in a closed system such as MD, one must consider the values. What makes drachs valuable? their attack? no that one is just a usability part. It is their rarity. To prove that the usability of drachs is not relevant i will give you next example.

The usability of drachs can be obtained by converting a useless but rare item into its value and then buying the drachs for their usability. Basically , where the value originates, is not usability but RARITY.


"Mastering the "void" so to say, to make an analogy to the book, means not to master the wealth of md, but what is missing.
This concept applies to a lot more things in MD and in RL very much alike.

Christmas in MD represents an intentionate ripple. The things gifted during this event get balanced by other things that i consider more valuable to me. For example, it is useless that everyone in md gets a drach right now, if after 6 month only very few will be around. That is the way i balance certain , otherwise hard to balance, events. No i win't give drachs for chrismas, i just gave an example.

Lack of weath or of a certain value is what puts things in motion, not the value itself. I go buy cola, make money to get it, move my ass from computer to the shop, all because i don't have it not because i have it.
When a rarity limit its reached, some things cant get more "value" added to them. For example, state can make money out of plain paper, but if it makes it out of degradable buscuits, it wont work. The same way, morphs might be the rarest thing around (or not) but because they are basically unobtainable by normal ways, their value suddenly drops because people no longer see them as a target.

Its this sort of things to consider with pumping something with value (like closing the cave) or reaching certain lower limits of interest while keeping rarity (unachievable creatures).
THe beauty is that these things apply even when they reach out of our view/understanding range. For example, one can make something scarce for increasing its value (diamon mining corporations destroy diamonds to increase their value) , but ... things can go further. Something can reach zero and maintain its value. It happens with extinct things, where rarity went to zero limit. It happens when a person dies and suddenly his ignored work becomes "valuable".

There is also a hidden use of this. This is the way to create attractors. It seems our mind is sensitive to more information that we are conscious about. Making a piece of info hard to get is one thing, it will defenetly attract, but consciously. Making a piece of info unobtainable, under the right conditions, will act as an invisible attractor.

Spelldocs (now on hold) have just 5 (was it 6?) public levels. Yet it is for their 7-9 levels, the secret levels, that a certain category of people get unexplicably "attracted" into md. A lot of you know the strange feeling i am talking about. This can reach extreme limits, i could for example dictate the preferences of people by taking certain things beyond the unachievable limit. For example, you have not way of realising this now, but if i move mprphs entirely beyond the achievable limit, make them gone from md, it will create a unconscious need for color and every single things talking about color or having a little bit of color in it will become suddenly more appealing to you. This is like homeopathy just not with chemicals but with ideas, unseen ideas, and NO these are not subliminal messages, is something different...i dare to say unexplored before.


The build materials of an arhitect are not bricks and mortar, they are lines on a paper that make those brinks and mortar to be a certain way.

I hope you found this article usefull,
and my "excuses" to the council for making such things public, but for them i reserve better 8 fold balance, one day, but it wont be me telling it, it will be them grasping it.

that would be correct ONLY if the cave were closed by the GG king, but it was not. This was not something to solve between the lands. The matters to be solved between the lands/kings were left untouched by the decision.

just a thought:
what if members can donate from their loyalty to the leader, except alt. That way the ally can support its leader in case its needed, or maybe as a condition set by the ruler to join.

So I might get excommunicated for this, but I find most of everything coming out of your mouths a bunch of bullshit. Life is what it it is. You look to deep for meanings right in front of you. I appreciate the fact that everyone wants to look beyond, but well see: Look to your own heart, it speaks the truth and is sometimes the most broken mirror of all. Stop bitching and start apprecitating what lays before you. I mean seriously???


OFF WITH HER HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this was supposed to be an article for the Council, as part of the info i sometime share with them. These are things relevant for ruling MD not playing it. Why i share this ? because it does no harm and shows you certain things that might be needed to known publicly (about the level of things i consider when i talk about authority and decisions in md)


Price
price is an illusion in itlsef. Value does not exist. There is a minimum of "USABILITY" but that comes free. Its only rarity that puts a price on usability and "need". THis is no novelty for most of you. Value only exists in comparison to something, never alone.

There is an illusion that some things are valuable on their own, but its an illusion. What happens actually is that these things compare their value to other things than the common ones but they still compare in order to obtain a value.


When ruling and deciding in a closed system such as MD, one must consider the values. What makes drachs valuable? their attack? no that one is just a usability part. It is their rarity. To prove that the usability of drachs is not relevant i will give you next example.

The usability of drachs can be obtained by converting a useless but rare item into its value and then buying the drachs for their usability. Basically , where the value originates, is not usability but RARITY.


"Mastering the "void" so to say, to make an analogy to the book, means not to master the wealth of md, but what is missing.
This concept applies to a lot more things in MD and in RL very much alike.

Christmas in MD represents an intentionate ripple. The things gifted during this event get balanced by other things that i consider more valuable to me. For example, it is useless that everyone in md gets a drach right now, if after 6 month only very few will be around. That is the way i balance certain , otherwise hard to balance, events. No i win't give drachs for chrismas, i just gave an example.

Lack of weath or of a certain value is what puts things in motion, not the value itself. I go buy cola, make money to get it, move my ass from computer to the shop, all because i don't have it not because i have it.
When a rarity limit its reached, some things cant get more "value" added to them. For example, state can make money out of plain paper, but if it makes it out of degradable buscuits, it wont work. The same way, morphs might be the rarest thing around (or not) but because they are basically unobtainable by normal ways, their value suddenly drops because people no longer see them as a target.

Its this sort of things to consider with pumping something with value (like closing the cave) or reaching certain lower limits of interest while keeping rarity (unachievable creatures).
THe beauty is that these things apply even when they reach out of our view/understanding range. For example, one can make something scarce for increasing its value (diamon mining corporations destroy diamonds to increase their value) , but ... things can go further. Something can reach zero and maintain its value. It happens with extinct things, where rarity went to zero limit. It happens when a person dies and suddenly his ignored work becomes "valuable".

There is also a hidden use of this. This is the way to create attractors. It seems our mind is sensitive to more information that we are conscious about. Making a piece of info hard to get is one thing, it will defenetly attract, but consciously. Making a piece of info unobtainable, under the right conditions, will act as an invisible attractor.

Spelldocs (now on hold) have just 5 (was it 6?) public levels. Yet it is for their 7-9 levels, the secret levels, that a certain category of people get unexplicably "attracted" into md. A lot of you know the strange feeling i am talking about. This can reach extreme limits, i could for example dictate the preferences of people by taking certain things beyond the unachievable limit. For example, you have not way of realising this now, but if i move mprphs entirely beyond the achievable limit, make them gone from md, it will create a unconscious need for color and every single things talking about color or having a little bit of color in it will become suddenly more appealing to you. This is like homeopathy just not with chemicals but with ideas, unseen ideas, and NO these are not subliminal messages, is something different...i dare to say unexplored before.


The build materials of an arhitect are not bricks and mortar, they are lines on a paper that make those brinks and mortar to be a certain way.

I hope you found this article usefull,
and my "excuses" to the council for making such things public, but for them i reserve better 8 fold balance, one day, but it wont be me telling it, it will be them grasping it.

this was supposed to be an article for the Council, as part of the info i sometime share with them. These are things relevant for ruling MD not playing it. Why i share this ? because it does no harm and shows you certain things that might be needed to known publicly (about the level of things i consider when i talk about authority and decisions in md)


Price
price is an illusion in itlsef. Value does not exist. There is a minimum of "USABILITY" but that comes free. Its only rarity that puts a price on usability and "need". THis is no novelty for most of you. Value only exists in comparison to something, never alone.

There is an illusion that some things are valuable on their own, but its an illusion. What happens actually is that these things compare their value to other things than the common ones but they still compare in order to obtain a value.


When ruling and deciding in a closed system such as MD, one must consider the values. What makes drachs valuable? their attack? no that one is just a usability part. It is their rarity. To prove that the usability of drachs is not relevant i will give you next example.

The usability of drachs can be obtained by converting a useless but rare item into its value and then buying the drachs for their usability. Basically , where the value originates, is not usability but RARITY.


"Mastering the "void" so to say, to make an analogy to the book, means not to master the wealth of md, but what is missing.
This concept applies to a lot more things in MD and in RL very much alike.

Christmas in MD represents an intentionate ripple. The things gifted during this event get balanced by other things that i consider more valuable to me. For example, it is useless that everyone in md gets a drach right now, if after 6 month only very few will be around. That is the way i balance certain , otherwise hard to balance, events. No i win't give drachs for chrismas, i just gave an example.

Lack of weath or of a certain value is what puts things in motion, not the value itself. I go buy cola, make money to get it, move my ass from computer to the shop, all because i don't have it not because i have it.
When a rarity limit its reached, some things cant get more "value" added to them. For example, state can make money out of plain paper, but if it makes it out of degradable buscuits, it wont work. The same way, morphs might be the rarest thing around (or not) but because they are basically unobtainable by normal ways, their value suddenly drops because people no longer see them as a target.

Its this sort of things to consider with pumping something with value (like closing the cave) or reaching certain lower limits of interest while keeping rarity (unachievable creatures).
THe beauty is that these things apply even when they reach out of our view/understanding range. For example, one can make something scarce for increasing its value (diamon mining corporations destroy diamonds to increase their value) , but ... things can go further. Something can reach zero and maintain its value. It happens with extinct things, where rarity went to zero limit. It happens when a person dies and suddenly his ignored work becomes "valuable".

There is also a hidden use of this. This is the way to create attractors. It seems our mind is sensitive to more information that we are conscious about. Making a piece of info hard to get is one thing, it will defenetly attract, but consciously. Making a piece of info unobtainable, under the right conditions, will act as an invisible attractor.

Spelldocs (now on hold) have just 5 (was it 6?) public levels. Yet it is for their 7-9 levels, the secret levels, that a certain category of people get unexplicably "attracted" into md. A lot of you know the strange feeling i am talking about. This can reach extreme limits, i could for example dictate the preferences of people by taking certain things beyond the unachievable limit. For example, you have not way of realising this now, but if i move mprphs entirely beyond the achievable limit, make them gone from md, it will create a unconscious need for color and every single things talking about color or having a little bit of color in it will become suddenly more appealing to you. This is like homeopathy just not with chemicals but with ideas, unseen ideas, and NO these are not subliminal messages, is something different...i dare to say unexplored before.


The build materials of an arhitect are not bricks and mortar, they are lines on a paper that make those brinks and mortar to be a certain way.

I hope you found this article usefull,
and my "excuses" to the council for making such things public, but for them i reserve better 8 fold balance, one day, but it wont be me telling it, it will be them grasping it.

just a thought:
what if members can donate from their loyalty to the leader, except alt. That way the ally can support its leader in case its needed, or maybe as a condition set by the ruler to join.

Someone sent me a pm mentioned i should try to do yoga
..so i did a little "research" and here is my (friendly) reply

oh but i do..yoga..here is proof.

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Now...*hic*..how sho.ld i ..explain..hic..
drink after me: yooo..hic..ga....

I find it amuzing (i am sorry i find it so when it actually hurts me), that you forget the cause of all this whining and cries and you take the opportunity to complain about a more conceptual thing that never happend. Don't worry, i still remember the initial cause. Its been an abuse, its been punished, and an admin spell that i allowed was taken back for good this time. thats all.

I am shrinking the cube? I am limiting your freedom and i am taking away what makes md special? Customizations as opposed to AI?
I am at the edge of flipping and losing my nerve here.

You considered this a "show of power" as malaikat said? It was a show of weakness or mercy of me and still is.
I should have done much much worse just because of all this offtopic crying.

I give you an example Lifeline, or anyone considering this incident to be a lowering of MD "special" flavor, or your liberty.
Consider this and be very honest withyourself. What would have you invented if i were to take your spell and give it to someone else? heh?

You try to make it look as if THE GAME has to suffer, "oh my", but..face it, its you not md. If you want to have a decent talk about concepts and md development trend, i am always open, just don't insult my intelligence and pretend its about this incident. A crime is a crime.


I always leave open opportunities for people to abuse, or customize things based on individual, look around, or kingship blinded you? Oh or wait, maybe if it is not a player that deserves your royal gaze upon him you won't consider it part of MD existance?

I've been around more than any of you, and i see this pathetic story every time. Remember the spell casting panel? those very few of you that had it started to cry that md is not playable without that panel, cried and whined about it in the same way, trying to point out how much damage i did to their role or to md by removing their toy... imagine the horror, they had to gain heat to cast spells, oh my, how could i do such a horrible thing to them.

And back to reality please ... you are wasting my time with all this shit because of what? because an overpowered spell? because a kingship point you don't even care about? because being inactive in jail instead of a cave?

The rule restricting the cave was there for ages, you had plenty of time to complain about conceptual things if your opinion was that closing the cave is a bad thing to do. You just reacted when you account was affected so don't get me more angry than i am.

oh you mean i should step back and let people do what they can? ...Like taking away GODLY POWERS SUCH AS CHASE and let them walk allover where their tiny mortal feet can take them? Yeah, its exactly what i did.

just a thought:
what if members can donate from their loyalty to the leader, except alt. That way the ally can support its leader in case its needed, or maybe as a condition set by the ruler to join.

As much as i am sorry it went this way, i am sorry but i can't allow you to post in this "martyr" stance without replying to you..

[b]What was it that you discovered after two years of md? That there are announced rules that _are_ applied? Or that even ancient players get punished if they behave like careless noobs?[/b]

don't bother to reply, it was rethorical. All I had to say on this matter was said already.
If any of you questions the influence of a rule, please from now on debate it before you break it. I am always open to any constructive criticism, regardless what you may think.