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Chain Mur to his desk and make him only accept / deny research and connections submissions (with small consulting on the side for general running MD as needed)

Bring back monthly heads contest with lesser rewards, and open it up to past winners (or maybe you can't play again for x months after winning)

Complete at least three of the following five tasks to qualify (though, you won't assuredly get one for just finishing three, depends how much participation) for a reward. Obv if you complete more, you stand a higher chance of getting a better reward. What are the rewards? Uh...gimme a break I rushed this together yesterday! Will update later with personal sponsorship(s), and ofc you might expect some birthday rewards too! Incase of ties, your performance in the RP, research and/or diplomacy sections (or combat / resource sections if you feel you did something creative enough) will be judged to break it. To begin, post your ID, playername and a screen of your current win/loss counter and your current resource inventory, all with server time visible. To end, post lots of screens as proof of your deeds! Combat Gain 20 victories and 20 sheaths ***IMPORTANT NOTE*** These MUST be counted on your daily progress, meaning some players will have a disadvantage, this is intended RP Design and perform a dance / ritual / play / event depicting the story of your character as you see it Collecting / Trading / Processing Bring 10 water, 10 lumber, 10 bones and 10 of a mined material -One combined or processed (subject to the judge's discretion) item may be used instead of one set of 10, as long as you provide screenshots proving you didn't have this item or its composite materials before the beginning of the quest- Research What happens when a sworn enemy of Necrovion dies to one of its citizens? Why does this relationship exist, and are there parallels in other lands? Diplomacy Convince somebody to lend you their most precious creature for a day

Whoo, it almost ticked over to the next AD before I realized! 11:11:11, I wish for modular citizenship to ALL LANDS! MUAHAHAHAHA! Get coding Chew! *whip whip*

Seems like a rather easy fix, why at least has this not been acknowledged yet?

The difference of the internet is that it allows intimate connections in a way TV just can't. Whether it's two random people who both like cat videos, or two who both like doxxing and harassing people, for example, such connections were much more difficult to make through TV as an entertainment medium. Though I do agree (I think it's hard not to these days...) that it's VERY worrying how much control, censorship and spying is going on with the internet. I do see some pushing back, though, fighting the fight for freedom of information, and it gives me some small measure of hope in the end.

All the other saws and axes and such have "This item is usable blah blah" in their description, but the Apprentice's Lumber Saw (ID: 9376) does not. I suggest it be added.

Can you not use ITCs and clickies for such things? Edit: I think it's a good idea afterall, and one that shouldn't be ignored

Beginners do have access to timeless dust, just through trading and quest participation. I would almost argue it's easier for new players to find some (small amounts anyways) than average old players.

On an MD-concept level I believe such a thing should have a cost, and I would suggest 1 timeless dust every time the server clock hits 0:00:00 (if easily code-able >>).

I was hoping for insightful / interesting, but you can just pick your friends too, that`s ok. *pats head* Anyways, I'm glad you agree that dst doesn't get wisdom, I wrestled myself on that one a bit with how much she likes reading her logs.

Breath of the Wild is out today and it looks amazing! Any of you who have played Ocarina of Time know that when the Triforce is touched by unworthy hands, it is split into its three component pieces, with one remaining in the hands of the one who touched it and the other two falling into the hands of whoever embodies them most (or something like that...) Here;s how they're canonically arranged / depicted: ............Power............... Wisdom..........Courage Now, imagine your character finds their way into the Sacred Realm and touches the Triforce. Which would you say they're left with, and for bonus points who in MD gets the other two. I get Power, No one gets wisdom, Lost WaNdeR gets Courage

Assuming Grido's disinterest continues, I'll offer to take the task.

I don't expect MD to be what you claim is heaven, no. To put it bluntly, we need hardworking dumb folks as much as the lazy intellectuals we seem to be over-saturated with. So, you think that our millennia-old ancestors, who knew a fraction of what we know today, should dictate how we operate today? We as the human species have rapidly evolved, even over the time since MD was first conceived, let alone millennia. I'll assume we all enjoy MD and we all want to see it continue as long as possible, as I usually assume. Under that assumption, I can say with 100% certainty that we have bigger problems now than "trimming the unfit" and you're* wasting your time if you're doing so. Unfortunately most who do such things have other priorities on their minds that take precedence for them. *General You *salutes* - This is a joke but also an applicable metaphor here. I try to show due respect to the "general you", but unfortunately based on the arguments I've laid forth, I've narrowed down the "general you" to a very specific subset of people, and so my tone turns more blunt. However, I'm not actually trying to stir up drama or point fingers here, I don't want to waste time with that.

Tips Some story branches will kill you. be careful what you chose in the story.. Perhaps some of these should be changed or taken out

Here in Canada, there are various such things in the schooling system. On the extreme end, some "special needs" students are paired with an adult who helps them through school. On the more light side, kids were often encouraged to join extracurricular activities (granting different social / physical / mental / creative opportunities) which I saw take students from failing to above average and some struggling students were given a supervised work period rather than one of the 6 "open slots" for spare period or extra classes (it surprised me how many were in this, people I considered at least average) where it's a classroom where many students work on different things and the teacher just tries to engage them and make sure they're doing alright, much less structured than regular classes were, for a focused enough student it was the same as a library work period. As for transferring students, I never saw anything like that happen. Children were, however, placed in either standard, modified, or advanced classes (normal, easy, hard respectively) probably depending on how their primary schooling went and how they do in grade 9, where none of your classes are worth credits. As for trying to "force" reason into these people, I think an authority figure like a teacher is there to do exactly that. What's the closest parallel to a teacher in MD? Adeptors! But also players in official-seeming (to a young player) roles. If you can't name any such players, maybe it's time to make an alt and try to see MD through MP3 eyes again. So yeah, you're (you the average MD citizen, not you No one) free to ignore them or to do as some do and chase them out or force advancement (I think Nadrolski and Fang are both such cases of forced advancement, but I could be wrong) on them, but just realize you could be actively damaging MagicDuel as you do. Teaching/Coaching is a difficult and nuanced job though and not everybody is cut out for it, so there's no shame in some such things, but it's important to be cognizant (sort of the root word to "recognize" for non-English speakers and Americans ) of how your actions affect other players at least when they're young. Edit2: tl;dr I think there`s more we can do, and I think there`s more we are doing, to help new players, but our structure is weak compared to other games Edit: Also I don`t understand this part but that`s fine, it seems unimportant anyways, but thanks for saying I`m good I guess.

I would argue that gradual discovery of more and more information is a key concept in MD, so it may make sense to employ similar things in the forum, but that's just one suggestion, if you don't like it that's fine. My personal views on this matter align more closely to yours, however: I believe in MD, and I think it should exist forever, even if one day it's empty it'll be the mausoleum for pieces of all of us. I consider myself a stakeholder in MagicDuel and so I try to think about the best thing for the game as a whole, from my perhaps more unique perspective than I like to think*. And when I start thinking like that, things start to look very different... *I was in the Advertisers for a while under different leaders, same with Treasure Keepers until I finally gave up and took co-leadership. In the past I've generally tried to apply for odd jobs, even though I've given up and gotten lazy on some, notable ones I remember atm being illusion testing, the large scale PL-spam-edit thing that happened years ago, alignment of TB map dots (which I never finished, I'm sorry </3), and now GATEWAY. To summarize all this: Maybe after all that I know some things most players don't. I'm not sure, though.

(Perhaps this is already in effect but...) Could some boards be hidden to users with under x posts, so they appear to new users as they start using the forum more?

Link for when this becomes ancient history and nobody knows what I'm talking about To be clear, I 100% agree with Chew's statement here. Fang added nothing (or very little) to the discussion in that topic. However: I'll put all my cards on the table here (at least in one of my hands), so I can hopefully make my point more clear: I was 13 when I started playing this "game", and I'm 22 now. You have all watched me grow into an adult (whether you realized it or not) and not only watched me but sculpted me. So given that, here we go: As a younger man, I found it much more easy than I do now to engage with my passion for justice in MD. That's what I believe Fang was doing in the topic in question, and I don't think that should be shamed or stopped, at least not from an administrative standpoint such as the one that Chewett represents (whether he likes it or not, I should say), because (to be quite blunt) doing stupid things is how one grows and learns, and if it's somehow seen as "against the rules" to be passionate in the way that Fang was, I think it would be to the detriment of MagicDuel as a whole, based on how much I grew by being allowed to spew my own brand of BS back in the day (and even right now, what you're reading will probably be BS to me in the future). Sure it clutters topic and bothers everybody to read, but that's what the reputation system is for, and it's not like we have a lot going on here right now anyways. That being said, I'd love to learn your thoughts, and I'm making this a topic rather than a PM because it's ultimately up to you: Do you want a slightly censored and more convenient forum utopia where everybody has positive rep, or an open forum where things get stupid, annoying and messy? NOTE: I'm not casting blame or anger at Chew. Just want to make that especially clear.

So then neither will Fang? Besides, number of the beast is (traditionally) 666, not 66

MD trades require goodwill and trust on both sides. When that trust comes into question, it is a best practice to wait until the trade in question is over before complaining, because calling BS on someone after a trade occurs leads to much stricter consequences, and a loose trade embargo will follow naturally from any accusation, true or false, and this is a good thing. Obviously such an image or set of images should include server time to verify that bids were placed between your bids.

I traded 30 bones for 55 iron ore

Then ask for timestamped proof when the auction is over.

You want an achievement for something that had a 100% chance to happen? I had 2015 active days a year and a half ago.