Pipstickz

Thanks Nim! I suppose I'll do the "Let first place choose first, second place choose second, etc." thing, in case anybody values all these things differently than me. Yep! I plan to make entries public, with only slight redactions if requested by the participant, or if the judges decide together there's a secret that's particularly worth figuring out yourself (whether it's "correct" to intended MD ideas or not, by the way). I hope that's acceptable to you.

An update, we have our first judge, who will remain anonymous until after results are given.

I like this idea, but I wonder how the fee could be paid if no citizen is online, for example Is there a way we could introduce debt items to MD? ie. You try to move, agree to the fee, and thus are given an item worth -1 silver somehow?

Happy birthday, sports car- I mean Sunfire! Hope it's a good one

I thought that (other than certain rare cases like Tarquinus and Keith Moon) alts weren't permitted on the forum? I, Pipstickz, have taken the flag from Aia

Ah, I forgot to set a deadline! You have until Apr 30 23:59:59 to submit your papers. Study hard!

@Chewett I tried opening my History of the Elucubration Creature item and it didn't work! This is what shows after I click Open:

I wouldn't say I NEED sponsorship, especially if participation ends up being low, but I'd love to reward some Annivs! I'll leave it to your wise discretion, sir.

Howdy MD! As it's the anniversary, a time of celebration and commemoration, I'd like for us to take a moment to reflect on things that may have been forgotten by some folks. The premise is simple: I want you to do some research on Land Weapons and send in your findings. For transparency's sake, I plan to make all entries public after judging is complete, but if requested I'm willing to redact parts. So without further ado, here are your research prompts, use as many or few as you like, but I do expect some details from each prompt to be in your submission, even if you don't directly address the question. However, the final two are mandatory. What is a Land Weapon? How many are there? Where are they? What do they do? How are they activated? How are they powered? How are they controlled? What would happen to it if a Land were to lose its Weapon, or access thereto? For each Land that contains a Land Weapon, imagine you are a citizen with full control over the Weapon and explain how you'd use your Homeland's Weapon to help your fellow citizens. For each Land that contains a Land Weapon, imagine you are an infiltrator who has seized control of the Weapon and explain how you'd use it to disrupt your enemies. Some might say this is a cheap data-mining attempt, so to offset said cheapness I'll be personally sponsoring a Tainted Angien, to be rewarded if: 1. There are at least 10 entries, each with at least one interesting idea in them. Doesn't have to be original, but it must to be interesting. 2. The judge(s) determine that one entry stands above the rest as particularly insightful, well-researched or creative. So now it's an expensive data-mining attempt! Take that imaginary critics! I'll also be sponsoring a pack of Molima-related resources, which includes 5 glue, a skull and some garbage, maybe a couple others (I need to check what he costs again to be sure, will do so once I return to the mainland), as well as one History of the Elucubration Creature item (I promised this item to Zleip as a sponsorship for one of his quests in the past, but that was years ago, so I'm invoking the statute of limitations. Sorry Z!). These rewards will go to either first and second or second and third, or may be distributed differently, pursuant to possible further sponsorships. NOTE: It seems the History of the Elu items aren't working...I hope they're fixable! I'll make a bug report. Speaking of which, other sponsorships are, of course, very welcome! Entries are to be forum PM'd to me. They can be as long or as short as you like and may include images if you wish to do so. Anybody willing to help judge would be greatly appreciated. The only prerequisite being that you have what you consider a good baseline knowledge about Land Weapons. I'd like to specifically request Chew or Mur to help judge this (and especially to help redact the published answers!) if either of you have the time/energy, but if not we shall make due! If nobody wants to be a judge, I'll instead write up some criteria and have each participant mark other entries, and average that score with my judgement on the same criteria. Get crackin', folks!

Pipstickz 29677 I'm in!

Uh...is it 3 or 5?

Should entries be submitted in this thread, or privately?

By no means do I wish to discourage participation, my MD time is rather limited and I'm trying to plan carefully. If others are on the fence, I wholeheartedly say give it a shot, do it for me! I'd personally just rather not gamble with my very participation:

I figure it'd be best to start a new topic for this. Anyone else wish they could participate in more tournaments, but "the rules" (heh, rules are for fools!) are holding you down? Let's brainstorm/discuss. My first thought was using head control to annul stats and tokens for everybody participating for the duration of any given fight or tournament, would that work? PS: In case it's unclear, you're free to run your quests however you like! Just want to put some ideas out.

So you must be afraid of losing! (just kidding) Sounds to be like I'm preemptively disqualified again.

I feel like I ask this every time a combat tournament comes around, but I'm going to ask anyways. So, players with no untokened creatures aren't allowed to compete?

Topic can now be closed as far as I'm concerned. Thanks Chew!

I haven't set aside the time to properly read this topic yet, so pardon me if this has been addressed (or already disproven even!), but I'd just like to state a challenge to your seeming assumption that shades cannot move, by instead asserting that they can move freely in almost every land, but there's one they have a tougher time with. Though, if you're strictly talking about only the Shades at the stone and not Shades in general, then I'd probably agree with you that they can't move.

Thanks Chew! A few more specific questions if you have the time: Player x and y were considered alts but are played by different people. Time passes and neither requests unalting. It's possible they'd be unalted regardless? And what if y requests it but x does not, would x be notified if the request was granted? And thanks for trying to help, Fang. I was more interested in the general answer, not the implied specific case that I wan- ...I mean, my friend wanted to know about...

Would anybody have been unalted without directly asking for it? Asking for a friend...

Is it specifically cracked, or might you say it's go an "imperfection"?

It wasn't my intent to offend either, apologies if I did.

So an angien can move itself anywhere it wants, but only in an egg And only if it's not in my creature inventory That's your claim? Well, you could say I'm heretical in that I'm the only one in this topic other than yourself so far to take your idea seriously. (with the possible exception of Chew >>)

How do you know the case is that it can move, and not, say...someone moved it? It was created where it sits? It's not actually there it's just an illusion?