Burns

Dragual and DD got their WPs. Sorry for not responding, i've been offline for flights those last few days. I'm sure you'll find a good solution :)

Back when MDP was more crowded, i kept it alive regularly, nowadays i don't see a reason to maintain it anymore :P It seems you made your own code now, but if you need snippets from my signpost, just ask and you shall get them :)

One per year for eternity is too much imo. If at all, they should come at longer intervals, but what i'd like even more would be fun-points, like 1337 days, 2187 (3^7), things like that, and with big steps between them. Maybe, before discussing where to put points, it'd be worth figuring out how many 'free' points we want to have at all? I think there are 5 age wishes and broken pattern as automated WPs at this point, right? That makes 6 you can get basically for free on your alts, and 5 for everybody who stays with us regardless of their involvement in MD, which seems like a lot of free wishing to me already. The original poll had 2 and 4 as options, and only 4 % of the voters thought that more than 4 would be a good idea already, soo... Maybe we should do a new poll, seeing that the wishshop got a lot of upgrades since 09?

It looks a bit like a frog that got run over and dried up for 3 days <.< Prod me about the reward in 2 weeks please, i should be more active ingame by then again :) Also, as it stands, that'd be a rating of 4, but if you find time to improve it, maybe give it a bit of structure to its hide and other details, it might get a better rating :))

Due to my hotel being cruel and myself not being very savvy on anonymity services, i'll be unable to do pretty much anything ingame as long as i'm here. Luckily enough, the forum doesn't get into their games-filter, which means i'll at least be around to read things once or twice a day, and sometimes respond as well :)

This is most likely the hardest bit for any player at all, but if you hold on to one of the bigger rewards the game has to offer, you need to be able to make enjoyable quests. That doesn't mean you need to do it all on your own. For example, i've teamed up with Nimrodel to produce her big story-driven quests, and before i got access to the charms, i regularly built quests in cooperation with others. Sometimes you run out of ideas an need to get creative input from somewhere, or you need people to play roles in your quests. Since this is the biggest, and most time-intensive part, i've picked this one to run in february, when most students should have a the biggest amount of time to spare, and the least amount of exams coming closer. It's going to run for 6 weeks, which means it's well into the time when i'll have the hardest time to be around and help you, but i'm fairly sure i can work that out :) Your task is to fashion a quest that you would consider worth a drachorn charm. You need to make a design, you need to figure out how it could work, and you need to have everything ready to execute it, too. If it requires coded clickies, make sure to have everything in order so it can start on short notice, if it requires people to work during the quest, plan for the execution during march. I'll be reachable via forum PM to help you along whenever you need it, but i won't do the clickies for anybody. My job is to help you do it yourself, not to do it for you. If you require me to play a small part in your quest, however, i'll behave like any other player, which also means i might deny helping you out if i'm not happy with the role you want to give me. This is a huge task, don't underestimate it. The bad part is, if you think about it all the time, you'll narrow down into a tunnel and be unable to fulfil the creative elements a quest needs. I want all participants to be ready to execute their quests by March 15th. The only reason i can't let you run them as you like is because i don't want to flood MD with 3-5 different quests in the second week of March, if some of you are finished before that time, we can start doing them earlier, otherwise we'll look for a scheduling that befits your other obligations. And make sure to keep me in the loop of the things you're doing. I don't want to hear about every single idea you're bouncing around, but when you're confident that you found a good design, that'd be a good time to PM me. I'm here to help you, not just to judge you. :) Happy quest-making!

Unfortunately this mini-quest only had 3 entries, which i need to blame myself and my lacking advertisement for. Out of the 3 entries, 2 were pretty good, and one bent the rules to make it easier for himself :P I'll have to award the victory to Amerrune for this one, with 3 very solid requests, though none of them particularly blew my mind., She'll be awarded with 5 silver. Assira came in second, with better messages to A and M than Amberrune had, but a blunder in her letter to C, where she freely admitted to not even attempting to do things on her own, but instead tried to negotiate prices for C's services. When looking for help, it's always wise to show that you already have a concept and gave it an honest attempt, asking for a service was not part of the quest. Assira shall get 3 silver. Aelis, in an obvious lack of time, bent to rules to be more favourable to his requests, and asked for simpler things. I've always been a friend of bravery, though, so Aelis gets 1 silver, just because the concept he proposed amused me :)) I'm afraid that i won't be able to hand out the rewards any time soon, please make sure to remind me of them when you see me talking again :) I'll leave it up to the participants to reveal their submissions, if they want to.

how about x=70? That would be enough to convert 2 wishes into 1 rustgold, 1 reindrach, and 1 joker if i'm not mistaken. If i do happen to be wrong about the number of things you need to buy before the joker comes in, please correct me, it's been a long time since i last saw the full extra features section.

Bumpy bump I know my ingame presence is lacking currently, stupid flash hating proxy is getting in the way :( This is still a thing, and i'll not accept submissions that come later than Jan 31st.

Maybe you could consider having different values, depending on how deep you put those things in the wish shop. To prevent 'free credits', maybe have the first conversion wish available at 3 WPs spent and make that one grant 10 credits, then another one at 5 WPs spent and make that 15, and one at 10 WPs spent that gives 30-40? And the last one with 3-5 charges, maybe, so people like dst who have too many WPs to sensibly use don't sit there with 'worthless' won quests? Just a quick thought i wanted to share before i head out to explore this amazing town again :D

+1 to dst, if you have more than 1 drachorn in your inventory, the wish mutates a random one. If you provide a fresh drachorn for it, and the benefactors of this deal already has a raised one, it's a 50-50 thing that he'll lose his drachorn and end up with two fresh hatchlings, one gg and one wind.

Must be a problem caused directly by ultrasurf then... at least i still have the forums, they're not in cyberoam's game-filter :)) Thanks for your help :) Also, thanks for your hints, EE, but it's not about me not having a flash-browser, i did get that fixed before i left, it's about the hotel here not allowing games in their internet filter, so i need to use certain... anonymity tools, and the one i found to work in this case kills chat.

here's the screenshot, done in opera, on the page i mentioned before. unfortunately, the top part of the error report is missing, hope it still helps :)

http://magicduel.com/mobile/?p=ch unfortunately no screenshot, i'll see if i can make one tonight :)

I'm currently tied to a flash-free version of MD, thanks to the evil hotel i'm staying at using cyberoam to lock games and my inability to work a real proxy service, which leaves me with ultrasurf to get here at all... long story short, going to the chat on the mobile version gives me a syntax error, err number: -2146827286 I hope that's helpful and that it can be fixed easily, because i really don't want to miss out on everything <.< Also, sorry for not following the bug reporting guidelines, this thingy makes using the forum way too slow to do the searching. :(

I'll be going on a bit of a vacation tomorrow, with a scheduled return on Feb 18th. This means that all my ingame activity will be greatly reduced, you'll practically never find me ingame (because i hate the way it works on my phone). I'll try to check the forum as often as possible, but i'm uncertain how/where i'll get a connection to the internet during my trip, and i'll probably be off the grid for days at a time during my vacation. My current quest goes on, maybe with a slight delay in judging and rewarding, and i'll try to get the 2 gold rich is supposed to be getting to him in some way :) See you around, folks :D

[table] [row][column] [/column] [column]presentation[/column] [column]contents[/column] [column]viability[/column] [column]orignality[/column] [column]extra points[/column][column]sum[/column][/row][row][column]rich[/column] [column]5[/column] [column]5[/column] [column]8[/column] [column]5[/column] [column]3[/column] [column]26[/column] [column]loved nurbs :D[/column][/row][row][column]assira[/column] [column]7[/column] [column]7[/column] [column]6[/column] [column]5[/column] [column]5[/column] [column]30[/column] [column]very good short story[/column][/row][row][column]draconas[/column] [column]7[/column] [column]7 [/column][column]7[/column] [column]6[/column] [column]4[/column] [column]31[/column][/row][row][column]aelis[/column] [column]10[/column] [column]10[/column] [column]8[/column] [column]7[/column] [column]5[/column] [column]40[/column] [column]almost perfect[/column][/row][row][column]azrafar[/column] [column]5[/column] [column]7[/column] [column]5[/column] [column]6[/column] [column]4[/column] [column]27[/column] [column]some newbie-mistakes about shades destroyed the flair, sorry :([/column][/row][row][column]junior[/column] [column]5[/column] [column]0[/column] [column]7[/column] [column]0[/column] [column]10[/column] [column]22[/column] [column]Bravery should be rewarded![/column][/row] [/table] Without further ado, this is the final table! 2nd and 3rd were a very, very close race imo, but the #1 stuck out clearly to me, and shall be rewarded greatly. Aelis wins a Melodic Charm for his dystopic masterpiece! Draconas and Assira will get their rewards from Rophs, who graciously sponsored some very rare wiiya bubbles. Please find him in-game to claim your rewards, they're custom made. Azrafar and Rich came in head to head as well, but i must admit that i liked Azrafar's story a great deal better than Rich's. In fact, Azrafar might have come out as second in this contest, if it wasn't for the way his shade doesn't work out with pretty much everything i know about shades, but i think it's justified to give Azrafar a bigger reward than Rich nonetheless. Thus, Azrafar will receive a Rustgold Drachorn from my collection, and Rich gets 2 Gold! Please find me ingame so i can hand them over. Junior came in last, and while his entry might not be very good, it takes guts to do something like that, and bravery must always be rewarded. Junior wins 1 warm handshake! Come find me ingame to claim your reward! :D Thanks to all of your for your efforts, i had great fun with all of your entries, even the ones that were dark and evil :))

Even the most creative minds can get stuck when their ideas can't be integrated. Thus, a proper Drachorn Guy also needs to be able to effectively convince other people that their ideas are great, so they'll be implemented. This isn't limited to huge things, though. Sometimes you just need somebody to help you with a particular html thingy that you're not capable of doing on your own (Thanks, Chewie!), at other times you need access to certain spells that you don't have on your own (Thanks, dst and Grido!), or to places you can't reach on your own (Thanks, Azull!). All those things are easy to do when you're on good terms with someone, and not so easy to do when you're not. For this part, we'll pretend you need something from somebody you rarely ever talk to. In fact, from 3 somebodys you rarely ever talk to, because that thing you wanna do takes a whole lot of effort. Pretend that you're planning a very big quest, with puzzles, racing, and hunting pink mice. The whole package. Person A has access to a certain place in land N, which you don't. You still want your treasure hunt to go through there, though, so you'll have to convince him to either: -work for you, and stand in that place himself, or -let you into that place, which he greatly dislikes because you don't belong to his sacred ground. Person C has vast knowledge of HTML, which you don't. You want your quest to use picture-puzzle in a clickable, but you don't know how to set up any of that, so you'll have to convince him to either: -do it for you, or -show you how to figure out how to do it yourself. Person M is the only one who can do concept changes to MD (i'm pretty good at hiding whom i talk about, right?). For your whole quest to work out, you need to have the power to turn drachorn into wind dragons, so you have to convince M to: -give you that power, or -give you any form of temporary access to that power. You don't talk to any of them on a regular basis. Person A is known to respond to roleplay and the exchange of favors, Person C is analytic and helps when the cost-benefit calculation works out, and Person M responds best to solid game-related reasoning. You only get one shot with all of them, so make sure to give it your very best. Luckily you figured that out on time for your questing efforts, so you can take up to 2 weeks to figure out how to best approach them. Discussions with everybody you feel like discussing with are absolutely encouraged. A good drachorn guy doesn't need to do things all by himself, you can rely on your trusted friends and have them help you with such things. Send me 1 PM with your attempts to convince A, C and M (one attempt each) to help you out by January 30th. * Any resemblance of quest-characters to actual characters within the world of MD is purely intentional, but not to be taken seriously.

Scores and rewards will be announced tomorrow, something got in the way tonight, sorry :(

They are 4 separate items, as the titles indicate. On the crit-slot items, you have 20 of the same kind, and it makes sense to bundle them, on this one, they have different effects, and it doesn't make sense to bundle them, imo. Trade records + - http://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/1351 Trade details + - http://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/1352 WP records + - http://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/1355 WP reasons - http://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/1356

Obviously, the quests are always open for all to enjoy, and i don't think there's anybody who has absolutely no chance to become my apprentice in the end, either... Though some people have better odds than others, of course.

You lack of knowledge is quite disturbing. I thought everyone knew the cube, which is not a theory, but MD artwork.

Put a few posts into a new thread http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/16077-shape-of-the-map/

http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/11060-grasan-ferment-from-constipated-grasan/ Ancient, from when the Grasans were released... and sadly without mur/chewie response, but there was some dabbling done in between nov 28 and dec 3... 2011.

The new and improved Lair Keepers are coming! As most of you know, i've been the Drachorn Guy for quite a long time, and never saw a reason to revive the Lair Keepers. Now that i'm not working alone anymore, however, i've asked for the Lair Keepers to be returned, so i can invite the people who're working with me. Right now, i'm still in a recruiting/trial phase. The people who carry this badge hold it because it makes it easier for me to set up meetings and group chats on short notice, and because they want to pick up on my job offer as drachorn apprentice. More people will be invited as those mini-quests move on. Generally, there's no reason to ask for invitations into Lair Keepers. I'll invite people whom i've successfully worked with in the past, and people who impressed me in the Drachorn Apprentice quest-series. Currently, you can consider the people in Lair Keepers as my little helpers. They're mostly useful to carry messages to me when i'm not available personally, but they can also answer simple questions, for example 'Can i buy a Melodic Charm?' (Answer: No) and 'Why not?' (Answer: Because Burns said so). Seriously though, the people who are in have a distinguished role of their own and quite some knowledge as well, but that doesn't mean they can answer for me just like that. If you can't find me personally, for example due to time zone issues, you can use them as messengers for now. Their skills will be upgraded over the next weeks, and i'll make little announcements here to let you know what they are currently capable of on their own. Thanks for your attention! Current skills of the Lair Keepers: -Personal Messengers -Certain useful skills as personal slaves