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The charm is consumed when it's used. You can take one thing, that's all. (Or store one thing, if you wish so.)

Happy birthday

That's obviously the case. There's also a clear advantage to people who don't have any appointments on this fine sunday, to people who can control their heat, to people who were balanced before the quest started... It's not my fault if somebody else creates a quest that doesn't allow you to play normally. I don't even require a sign up, something i very much intended to do to have better control over alts. You are free to come and play, or not.

Happy birthday Vanilla! Have a great one

Hey folks, as promised, here goes the first Drach Charm Quest! I've ran around with my trusted Drachorns and searched for 6 stones around MB and NML. I've had each stone engraved with a number, then turned it over and had my babies breath onto it to heat them. As they are, you probably won't get to turn them over, they are just too hot. But over the next day, they'll likely cool off again. If you find a stone, you need to use the password 'Hot Stones' to get in. You win this quest by sending me a message with the SUM of all the numbers i left behind. Drachorns Flames are tricky, though. Some will find them hotter than others. The closer you are to balance, the cooler they will feel, and the more heat you carry around with you (including erolin devices), the hotter they will feel. So you might want to rid yourself of your heat and get balanced to increase your chances... And if you feel sneaky, you can invest your own heat to make the stones hot again and make sure the others who want the numbers can't get them... Good Luck, and i honestly wonder how this will play out. Only one prize, a drach charm. (Also, the stones have an evil log that shows me if you saw the number or not. You'd better show up on all 6 logs if you send an answer, obviously with the one account that wants to win.) [Also, for the sake of fairness: There is one location with more than one stone, and one stone is NOT on the ground.]

problem solved. We can do our work without your help, BFH Just give us a little time, we have other things to do, even more so with Chewie forum-dead

I don't as long as the supplies are there. If i want something and know that the chance is slim for it (or me) to be there the next day, because somebody else would deplete or the location is hard to get to, i'd take it.

Of course. Mostly to provide quest rewards, a few for sale, and some for my own use.

A nice thought indeed. So nice, in fact, that it deserves a thread all to itself. Split to New Ideas. I'm not sure if the worshiper-worshiped connection is quite as big as it should be. I mean, without intending offense to any of the recent MP6, but we don't quite match up to the earlier protectors, imo. Even Raven did more, and i think most vets would agree that he did a rather poor job compared to Savelfuser. I wonder if you have any thoughts about how to rate this, though. One might be a highly capable protector and foster worshipers very well, but they could demand impossible things and just grab the compensation. The protector still can't pick his worshipers after all, they can just come and go.

Maybe i'm missing something important here, if so please enlighten me. Seeing that the WPs 'remember' what they were spent on, wouldn't it be possible to reset them point by point, technically? Obviously that's not a good idea for everything, like points spent on research points, locations or clickable access, and possibly also for the 'increase VE' thingies (not sure if they record how much that increase was at the time), but maybe it could be possible to the take wishes back that you spent on spells? For example, if i had spent a wish to get 4 guardian army, and decide that this spell just isn't worth it, i might want to take that wish back and spend it on something else instead, maybe another spell, maybe access to scripting, who knows. That could, for example, be implemented as shop feature somewhere deep down the extra features section, probably 3-5 uses per reset, and each credit spent allows you to, for the lack of better words, relocate a wish. [This might also help with complaints about spells that work in questionable ways, compared to their description.]

Closed as requested.

Happy Birthday!

Hey buddies, I think the majority heard of me one way or another already, so i'll skip the introduction. I've recently been granted the ability to give out Drach Melodic Charms, the item that allows you to take something from the Drachorn Lair. That includes, but isn't limited to, Drachorns. I'm in the lucky position to work with very little restrictions on my role, i can basically give out charms as i see fit. One thing that won't happen is that one gets sold by me, and i hope you all understand that any attempts to get one in exchange for... well, whatever you think i might want, i guess, will be ignored. I trust that good old dst will have an eye on me, too. I will create as many quests as my schedule allows myself, i aim for one every two months. I'll also try to sponsor quests from other people if they look promising, and some will be granted to (relatively young) people who put in their efforts to make MD a better place in general. Specially for that last point, i also request help from the people out there. If you happen to play a quest, a game, or anything else that you found particularly well made and entertaining, let me know. I won't have the time needed to try everything myself, but it'd be a shame if something great went unrewarded. Summary: Don't try to get drachs from me, you won't succeed, and if somebody makes something happen that you particularly like, let me know. I still read everything on the forum, if you just give a quest a thumbs up, i'll also notice. Thanks for your attention, and now get to your desks and write the quest that'll earn you your charm!

Since there are so many rewards in here that only come out if there are 10 or more participants, i'll sponsor this with 1 Melodic Charm ONLY IF the requirements for Mur's rewards aren't met. (Also, this was planned since the quest started, but i needed to wait for the Wookie to hit the magic buttons... Can't sponsor stuff i don't control, can i? )

Feedback after upload: In the first part of the bugs and exploits section, it says 'A bug or exploit is a mechanism that was not supposed to exist in that manner. You can contact us regarding these matters at', and then a blank field. I assume this should be the bugs address in a similar style as the council address?

You're most likely frogged. Log in with your ID or your e-mail address instead. Moved to Q&A.

[color=#0000ff]Lots of content moved to http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/13754-massive-mod-power-abuse/[/color] [color=#0000ff]Further posts will be moved there, too.[/color]

So, the title says it, i spent a bit of time moving, merging and other fancy mod things to get this thread together. Also, i'm not sure if it all works as i want, so bear with it if i need to edit a bit. There are different points in the posts i moved here, and all of them have some importance, but my point is that Fang is abusing the model of the poll with his 'petition'. It very much reminds me of the 'elections' some countries had lately, where you can pick one choice, or stay at home. And then the outcome is a wonderful 90% approval, leaving out all who didn't vote, of course. So, here's my poll, which i honestly don't care much about because i don't want to achieve anything with it. I'd just like to have it at hand if Fang shows up with his 'petition' backed by maybe 10 anonymous votes and declares that he is enacting the community's will. And yes, you can discuss all you want here, because discussion is the base of forming an opinion in my understanding. And, other than some advocates of the use of polls,, i ask all mod to NOT hide posts here. Valid point or not, they can stay unless they are against the rules, this is why i started it in offtopic. If people abuse the privilege of free speech to clutter my thread with spam, i'll handle it myself, because that's my massive mod power abuse thread. Bah, and now it looks as if i edited Darigan's post. Mhew, happens. It's the massive mod power abuse thread, live with it.

Many thanks for the compressed log [color=#0000ff](And sorry for editing your post )[/color]

I'll request Grido to ban you for a month everytime you go to MP7, then. Because that's my ideals. You see how ridiculous you are, right?

I wasn't joking at all. You have a bunch of spells now, there's no competition from real fighters anymore, you very rarely have people abusing privileges to be in locked locations during stage 1, and with viscosity you can hide pretty well... It's very fair in comparison to some quests, even. Sometimes somebody says that they are treated badly, but when all are treated equally badly, i don't see an unfairness. Edit: And i don't see how more fairness would lead to more participants, either. There are no fighters left to participate. You're complaining about how evil we all are, and how unfair HC is... Of course it seems unfair to the one guy trying when he gets treated just like all the others that don't. You run and hide while others play, then you get ported to GoE and suddenly you lose your heads. Ohh, the unfairness, everybody else didn't waste time running, i did, and still we're all here... That's one of the fairness tweaks put in action. Just go through the announcements. We all won already, and none of us can do anything anymore. We can't even trigger stage 2 to make it quicker. 90% of MD just sits and watches the other 10% 'battling', which, in most cases, is reduced to 'Oh no, you can have the heads, i'll go for first place next time, do what you like' That's where your participants are. They either have a medal, or don't want to risk coming in second in a real contest, because they know fully well that the field will be a little smaller next time around, and then they can win uncontested.

HC is way too fair already. Give us the ability to take heads again, that's when unfair comes into play. I do agree that HC shouldn't spread out over several weeks. Just turn it off til we find a proper solution. I'd think that the HC just outlived its purpose. It doesn't determine the stronger fighters or better tactics anymore, we're all just waiting for it to end. Maybe we should just reduce the time on the contest, it just drags out too long... We could try it with 24h stage 2 and 2k score to start, maybe? Then we'd at least have the winner being the one with most dedication to it...

Not a bug, moved to Q&A. Though we'll undoubtedly get it again next time around

So, the contest for the top fighters would just be the intro to MP5? And when i don't want to fight during my early days and just advance to see more levels, i can't play HC because the top level fighters are just not included? Sorry buddy, but you didn't think that one through before posting.

If your main issue with being a dummy is that you don't have fun while you're at it, you're doing it wrong. You need to be active, create your own fun, and talk to people, then the people who hit you talk back. Of course, if you're just an idle target anyway, nobody will bother to interact with you. That way you're just the punching bag in the gym, use it and forget it. That hardly even qualifies for a role, which is the one point that you try to make, but a sole farming alt.