Muratus del Mur

Maybe if i make a weather related role path, then yes, but the weather system is not advanced enough to justify its own weather tag branch

Has nothing to do with your personal comfort during the competition. I implemented the weather changes not because it was disturbing your fishing, but because I think in general this way of having weather is far more interesting than having it just as a spell with immediate effects.

Immortalising Great Fish
- remains todo, its a bit more complicated than this, there are already forge items that can be used for this purpose, i am not sure is good to create a public item for something others tried so hard to create.
Fishing gear
its fine "hidden" as it is, only true fishers will discover it unavoidable, its written in the tag and in info, you where just hasty and number hungry. You can fish just fine without it, but you would get unly to about half, if you like this activity and want to complete a lake for an achievement and such, you will search for ways, and ways are there.

Some people would like to see more Junk
not all junk was discovered yet, so no need for more new ones, this is not a flavor item shop.

People would like to see all competitions and their results
YES, must have, but we deal with it on the next competition

Sushi
- will do

Pet food
- 0 will do, dna changers as for snakes and such

weather
i agree to the change, but its a change that will affect ALL weather. I will probably make weather stack, so weather forecast can be shown and made, but we need a meteorologist or so, maybe shared tools to tell weather, so a person can get them and document them publicly every week. New weather spells would cast weather only later on in the stack, but you will know when "your" weather kicks in.


Fishing Medal
agree

Different Catching Minigames
the possiblity is there, but i am out of ideeas, something to make sense to fishing , not tetris.


Length
this is not for those people then

Different types of competition
yes, will happen, when you want the next one? :D

Banning all spells / Killing
Absolutely...not. Anything you can do, spells, tricks, anything, is allowed under same rules it is allowed in general in the game. Alt abuse is still alt abuse, dont do it, using items just because you have them is ok as always, except for some special items.

its already a lot on my list, so i will probably not consider later things unless they are really good. Also i will probably not make all on this list but just some...some are really good.

yeah amd will you be fixing the individual issues each one will have with their own custom interface and and handle the chaos when they will startnto complain some new interface thing doesnt fit their own setup?
the current possibility to just reorganise the panels creates enough chaos as it is i think

Most healthy player distribution on the map i've seen in years ..things are looking good.

yeah amd will you be fixing the individual issues each one will have with their own custom interface and and handle the chaos when they will startnto complain some new interface thing doesnt fit their own setup?
the current possibility to just reorganise the panels creates enough chaos as it is i think

Immortalising Great Fish
- remains todo, its a bit more complicated than this, there are already forge items that can be used for this purpose, i am not sure is good to create a public item for something others tried so hard to create.
Fishing gear
its fine "hidden" as it is, only true fishers will discover it unavoidable, its written in the tag and in info, you where just hasty and number hungry. You can fish just fine without it, but you would get unly to about half, if you like this activity and want to complete a lake for an achievement and such, you will search for ways, and ways are there.

Some people would like to see more Junk
not all junk was discovered yet, so no need for more new ones, this is not a flavor item shop.

People would like to see all competitions and their results
YES, must have, but we deal with it on the next competition

Sushi
- will do

Pet food
- 0 will do, dna changers as for snakes and such

weather
i agree to the change, but its a change that will affect ALL weather. I will probably make weather stack, so weather forecast can be shown and made, but we need a meteorologist or so, maybe shared tools to tell weather, so a person can get them and document them publicly every week. New weather spells would cast weather only later on in the stack, but you will know when "your" weather kicks in.


Fishing Medal
agree

Different Catching Minigames
the possiblity is there, but i am out of ideeas, something to make sense to fishing , not tetris.


Length
this is not for those people then

Different types of competition
yes, will happen, when you want the next one? :D

Banning all spells / Killing
Absolutely...not. Anything you can do, spells, tricks, anything, is allowed under same rules it is allowed in general in the game. Alt abuse is still alt abuse, dont do it, using items just because you have them is ok as always, except for some special items.

its already a lot on my list, so i will probably not consider later things unless they are really good. Also i will probably not make all on this list but just some...some are really good.

Most healthy player distribution on the map i've seen in years ..things are looking good.

Most healthy player distribution on the map i've seen in years ..things are looking good.

BREAKING NEWS
Our eagle eyed reporters have uncovered corruption DEEP WITHIN MagicDuel

We cannot name reporter who passed this to us for fear of retribution.
Rumour has it that Ledah has recently taken posession of a killing tool from the caretakers.
WHERE WILL HE STRIKE NEXT?

Cause: the root cron job backup_md.py starts at 12:00. It dumps the 2.9 GB database to an uncompressed file, then compresses that file. The slow log shows the dump's large table reads in that same window.

timing matches your report

I don't like the idea of someone being able to put large quantities of points into a specific thing, e.g. buying large quantities of gold. I like how it doesn't necessarily encourage whaling by giving a selection.
I already have a concern that forge is Pay-To-Win where those who have lots of cash can just keep making OP items.

That shade would fit the Air slot only, since I said this needs to be something the engine allows, you need 3 other parents that would match the other elements. Also, for creator influence, should it be Aelis?

I think the fight was pretty good but I would have liked to see one detail different:
(I sent my 1g to Ledah)

The outcome of this fight will be announced at 13:00 server time :D

its intended. its about people present, and even if guests, they are still people, many times they actually are real players under cover anyway

I confirm this is an official encounter :D
The secret special abilities each owner will define for their primordial will be considered for the battle at run time.
Bets are guaranteed, so if you say you bet something , you have to pay for it if you lose.
Currently there is no interface support for this kind of bets, maybe there will be, but in case it wont be in time, then we handle bets manually.
Ledah or Syrian should handle this please, you gather the bets , you split the win with the winners.
There is no escrow for this for now, but i hope none is needed.

I will be charging a portion from the winners pool, not that i need the gold, but i need to figure a way so we could organize this kind of contests in the future again, and the "movie" will cost creating, so that needs to be covered somehow. I am thinking 10%? too much? too litle? its not fixed, i am open to other suggestions.

I am also working on a free text version of such encounters, so any of you can battle their pets with their special abilities, but we all agree i think, that a movie is far more entertaining :D

Nobody will know the outcome till this happens. You are free to add animations and the owner to set new special abilities up to thursday.

I confirm this is an official encounter :D
The secret special abilities each owner will define for their primordial will be considered for the battle at run time.
Bets are guaranteed, so if you say you bet something , you have to pay for it if you lose.
Currently there is no interface support for this kind of bets, maybe there will be, but in case it wont be in time, then we handle bets manually.
Ledah or Syrian should handle this please, you gather the bets , you split the win with the winners.
There is no escrow for this for now, but i hope none is needed.

I will be charging a portion from the winners pool, not that i need the gold, but i need to figure a way so we could organize this kind of contests in the future again, and the "movie" will cost creating, so that needs to be covered somehow. I am thinking 10%? too much? too litle? its not fixed, i am open to other suggestions.

I am also working on a free text version of such encounters, so any of you can battle their pets with their special abilities, but we all agree i think, that a movie is far more entertaining :D

Nobody will know the outcome till this happens. You are free to add animations and the owner to set new special abilities up to thursday.

I confirm this is an official encounter :D
The secret special abilities each owner will define for their primordial will be considered for the battle at run time.
Bets are guaranteed, so if you say you bet something , you have to pay for it if you lose.
Currently there is no interface support for this kind of bets, maybe there will be, but in case it wont be in time, then we handle bets manually.
Ledah or Syrian should handle this please, you gather the bets , you split the win with the winners.
There is no escrow for this for now, but i hope none is needed.

I will be charging a portion from the winners pool, not that i need the gold, but i need to figure a way so we could organize this kind of contests in the future again, and the "movie" will cost creating, so that needs to be covered somehow. I am thinking 10%? too much? too litle? its not fixed, i am open to other suggestions.

I am also working on a free text version of such encounters, so any of you can battle their pets with their special abilities, but we all agree i think, that a movie is far more entertaining :D

Nobody will know the outcome till this happens. You are free to add animations and the owner to set new special abilities up to thursday.

I confirm this is an official encounter :D
The secret special abilities each owner will define for their primordial will be considered for the battle at run time.
Bets are guaranteed, so if you say you bet something , you have to pay for it if you lose.
Currently there is no interface support for this kind of bets, maybe there will be, but in case it wont be in time, then we handle bets manually.
Ledah or Syrian should handle this please, you gather the bets , you split the win with the winners.
There is no escrow for this for now, but i hope none is needed.

I will be charging a portion from the winners pool, not that i need the gold, but i need to figure a way so we could organize this kind of contests in the future again, and the "movie" will cost creating, so that needs to be covered somehow. I am thinking 10%? too much? too litle? its not fixed, i am open to other suggestions.

I am also working on a free text version of such encounters, so any of you can battle their pets with their special abilities, but we all agree i think, that a movie is far more entertaining :D

Nobody will know the outcome till this happens. You are free to add animations and the owner to set new special abilities up to thursday.

I confirm this is an official encounter :D
The secret special abilities each owner will define for their primordial will be considered for the battle at run time.
Bets are guaranteed, so if you say you bet something , you have to pay for it if you lose.
Currently there is no interface support for this kind of bets, maybe there will be, but in case it wont be in time, then we handle bets manually.
Ledah or Syrian should handle this please, you gather the bets , you split the win with the winners.
There is no escrow for this for now, but i hope none is needed.

I will be charging a portion from the winners pool, not that i need the gold, but i need to figure a way so we could organize this kind of contests in the future again, and the "movie" will cost creating, so that needs to be covered somehow. I am thinking 10%? too much? too litle? its not fixed, i am open to other suggestions.

I am also working on a free text version of such encounters, so any of you can battle their pets with their special abilities, but we all agree i think, that a movie is far more entertaining :D

Nobody will know the outcome till this happens. You are free to add animations and the owner to set new special abilities up to thursday.

As you already know if you checked announcements lately, i am currently working on the evo shop. This will be the place where you will be able to spend evolution points that you can currently gather for all sorts of activities.

The shop is designed to bring a more massive change to MD than it first seems. In stage 17, the announced direction is one of chaos, because chaos is womb of creation.
Several of the stuff you got used to (i am talking here to the ancient players), will change, one way or an other.

Several super rare things will become more common, and other unique stuff will become more easily available. The essence of valuable stuff has shifted more towards the personal items you hold, and in the way the Forge is now capable to judge your direction in the realm.

Getting heat slots was difficult and rare, not to mention spells that turn heat gathering obsolete (heat and heatboost spells)... now these things will become slowly more common.
The forge was tweaked to not give single use items, so that will also be a direction of constant value inflation.

But lets admit it, the value accumulation in the realm was a thing that had to change. The realm has enough to offer to keep those that deserve it, hold their distinct advantage over those that don't try so much.

I was suprised to see how much of MD was not really reachable. Many things designed just for custom roles, many things requiring truly difficult to do chores... so the evolution points system changes this direction significantly. The Evo shop will unfold a lot of md, but give you a limited choice. While the points are grindable, their use is not. You will not be able to buy everything in the evo shop, every stage of the shop is a choice you will have to deal with the rest of your character evolution.

Thats why, even if you can spend your evo points on stuff like the summon spell, or super rare creatures, or on spells designed for particular roles, its a choice you have to make, and when you pick one, you give up an other.

This will work hand in hand with two other systems. The Forge, you already know it, and the tag dispatchers (will be revived, the system is there just not used much).


Why the paradigm shift

MD was designed to have the human factor as the final decision layer. This is a good plan still, but the number of people in MD does not allow it to function properly. There must be ways for everyone to convert effort into achievements, and most important, ways to reach the highest "levels" in md through these ways.

The way things were designed so far:
players do whatever they can, human in charge judges and grants abilities, the chain continues with people having more altering the lives of those that have less. Natural, but stuck for "single player mode"
Many worthy players never ever got what they deserved, and the leaders where impossible to contradict and overthrown
Society never self balanced, it always needed a leader
Anomalies truly changed the realm, but limited to how much the leader(s) (me) believed in that direction.
A central decision factor shaped the world and kept it true to a set of core concepts.
The way things will be now:
Players can turn effort into benefits via the evo points system. This, together with active days, count for their raw activity.
Their actions are carefully analyzed by the forge and turned into usable items, these realizations count for their personal direction and role.
Evo shop turns raw activity into tools, forge items plus tools create a role.
Tag dispatchers allow unlocking of curated roles, that the entire realm "believes". The forge considers tags as an absolute truth, same as leaders were supposed to.
Society self balances without needing the top leadership
Anomalies will emerge, but they will shape the realm. Core concepts might be ruined in this process, but the central decision factor will shape the tools in such a way to compensate, no longer the characters directly.
By central decision factor i mean of course myself, but often others with full powers where directed to replace my decisions on countless occasions, so its a general concept, not a person.

I tried to delegate this power many many times, and define myself more as a tools architect than a community leader, but this worked only on few occasions. Hopefully with more freedom, and chaos, things will rearrange in more interesting ways for all of us.


The new rarity measure
If all the options are now there on the table, what defines rarity? Until now, rarity was defined by the items only i could build, custom creations, and the standard rarity given by the deep shop branches. In the new system, rarity will be more defined by the role items you create using the forge, since the forge always creates unique stuff, always tailored to your character (even when you dont like it, and thing its not matching your character, the issue is not the forge).

The depth remains the pool of rarity in the evo shop as well. You will get awesome stuff the deeper you get, but anyone getting there will have the chance to get the same, so its more about how you craft your role with the stuff that you get, in such a way that the forge will be able to create you the unique stuff you deserve.


Objectively the most valuable things in the realm right now
- magical forge fires
(these are forge fires that last longer usually, and do not consume your items when forging)
- a25 tools
(still a part of md power structure that i have not yet decided where it fits, these are portable admin tools of sorts. not for playing but for game masters to build the game for others to play)
- Player tags and medals
(these where always powerful, but now even more so. These are considered sources of truth by all the automated tools. Humans might diregard them, but the forge and other tools in the AI team, will consider these the absolute truth. If your tag and description say you can shut down the server, the ai will do its best to give you tools to do so, or do it itself for you. Premeditated chaos and risk, i always loved it)

Worthy mentions: `condensed` status in items, these are a promise to the forge, that the item forged with these ingredients will be usable, and if the promise fails, the item is returned unharmed.

- - Enjoy,

Mur

i wish it was so, but its not.
yes maybe mdscript needs an update, but no, what you say cant happen as you say itm

I think it would be excellent for newer players, not necessarily people who have been playing 20 years ;)

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what was missed was missed or rejected, the rest i relied to got implemented.
When i saw even one negative vote on any feature i skipped it without reading it. These are all optional things, so if you dont agree to them, i dont agree ti them probably.

Some are quite big features, i might announce some. Thanks for the good suggestions!
I will check back once in a while on this topic to implement more, keep them simple and clear, screenshots are welcome, and dont vote randomly, i will consider your likes/dislikes. Focus on telling me what you want, not on excusing yourself asking if it could be added. I wont communicate mostly, i will just let you know "yes" to those that are being implemented, or say no/ignore to those not going to be implemented.

I usually read this thread when i am already tired and too stressed to take some huge implementation on, so i will fill my time with some small cute qol tasks.

Next round i will continue reading from here