Burns

There's Lost Puppy, too! Or... Dinnah, as some call him

Some people can attack you without you being attackable, and any jerk can force xp on your person without giving any to your creatures And i have seen considerably lower stats on many mp5, don't worry about that... if you have brains, you don't need brawns xD

slow down, a lot. As it is, i firmly believe that this one life is all i got, and i want to do all kinds of things that sound funny and interesting just because i wouldn't want to get old and say myself 'hell, i never snorkled with sharks, i didn't ride a Monster at 180 mph, i never learned to surf etc.'. If there was more than this lifetime, i'd take it easy, do things slower, more thoroughly, and probably find them more enjoyable, instead of trying it a bit and stopping once i learned how to. Live fast, love hard, die young!

Oh, how i love offtopicness... but what i love even more are the stupid characters that put all kinds of magical stuff, evil darkness, badass background and whatnot on their papers, and then help little crying babies, or even joke around with the selfproclaimed demon hunters and the like. And to spice things up a bit, they are incapable of casting any spells at all when asked to show their powers. Judge people not by their papers, they never stick to them. And if you try to judge them, don't let them know they are being judged.

no, it doesn't, because it gives a bonus to people who are out of balance. if balance was a state people wanted, they'd get a lot of negative honor for attacking you when you're just meager 100 losses off balance, and you wouldn't need to worry about the veterans attacking you anymore. the point is not that newbies should have a chance against vets, but that vets have an incentive to stay balanced and leave the off-balanced newbies alone.

pokepoke! [quote name='Burns' date='03 February 2010 - 10:56 PM' timestamp='1265230603' post='53783'] new input to get my reputation lowered: Both balance and tokens screw our combats, and not just a bit imo. Balance is not attractive, and tokens overpowered. So, i suggest to combine them to probably solve both. In my head, it'd make sense in that way: All tokens are set to work with just 50% of their power by default. By being in balance you can improve your tokens to get full power, steps to and from balance working just like the bonus reward. e.g. perfect balance makes +50% on token power, summing up to full present power, 1 battle away from perfection makes +47,5%, etc. As added bonus, you lower the opponent's token power by up to 50% by being balanced. Same system as above, -50%, -47,5%... Figures base on present full power, which is assumed to stay the same and the base for all %-calculations. Example of how things work together: >Perfect balance against off-balance: tokens of perfect balance work with full power (50% normal plus 50% balance bonus [-the part they lose for being attacker in case]), tokens of off-balance work with 0% power (50%-50%) >off-balance vs. off balance: both sides have 50%, no boni for nobody >balanced vs. balanced: both sides work on 50%, each gets 50%+50%-50% (normal plus bonus minus opponents bonus) >perfect balance vs. 10 battles off: perfect has 50%+50%-25%=75%, 10 off has 50%+25%-50%=25% token power Sounds evil, doesn't it? I like that... Why that way? Because for any normal player, it doesn't make much of a difference if their tokens give them full bonus or half, the difference is not _that_ much, and they still could pick if balance pays or not for them personally. But if people want to play in the highest class with their fully tokened crit-boost rits, they have to play balanced, and therefore leave the newbies alone when they can't afford the honor-loss anymore. And if they don't get balanced, well, then anybody who is can make their tokens practically disappear for their fights. This is not nice, and a lot of people will hate it, but if one of my weird ideas still makes sense after i read what i wrote, it's definitely worth being posted xD [/quote]

woohoo, akasha's birthday! Time to celebrate and have some drinks... i already started! Happy Bday, enjoy it ^^

Not at all. The rules are there as a guideline, much like laws. How to interpret them, enforce them, and what people actually are allowed and what not, is not in the rules, but Mur's case-to-case decision. You know how things ended in GGG, that's a very fitting precedence. If it happens again or not is argueable, but i wouldn't bet on him being gracious just because it's a slightly different idea. As for 'what is activity': This debate has been on and off for ages, in RPCs, in allies, in LHOs. Being online is not enough, neither is simple walking, talking and fighting here and there. It's specially not measured in horus of being online. It's measured in what you do. And i bet an account that mainly uses its time to be idle with just one creature is not active enough to count as alternative, it's simply a multi, and won't have a long life outside of jail... unless it gets deleted right away.

And you are fully aware of the alt-rules? It's no coincidence that Mur banned alts in GGG, all alts that are not actively played, but only used for a single purpose are not allowed. Tehrefore, your whole idea is not allowed, and you'll get into troubles with the inquisition (aka the LHOs, Grido, and me personally). Not such a smart idea imo. >.< Don't type so fast, Neo =P

Maximum Offer: 1 gold 10 silver. (NOT available in silver only, i need my change for other stuff) Interested sellers may contact me until 0000 of day 191, that's half an hour after the regular time of Ger-Uru is over. I'll pick the lowest offer then.

I think you overestimate the common sense people apply in MD as long as they haven't seen MP5 Most people only stick to the rules of SG while it pays for them to do so, that's how selfish most people are. They still think that they can't be bested by anybody, becasue the haven't seen MP5, and what people actually can do to them. Only few MP3 believe in SG after the point where they survive the attacks of its defenders, same goes for MP4. Some people simply don't have common sense, and most don't apply it in their firm belief that MD is so linear that the poor folks they annoy can't have their revenge. And i'll wait to see a lesson of yours before believing that they are not spoilers XD

It won't work. People don't stop using their best rits just because you ask for that. Neither will they stop using full influence. It doesn't pay to risk losing while you still have something to gain from winning, and it doesn't help any newbie to have people with lol-defences like the people who formerly used ggg. You need either people who see a future in that and want to help you, or have an incentive for people, like rewards for sticking to your rules. You also won't scare people too much with your spells, they are not permanent enough... Also, whatever you plan as lesson will turn out to be a spoiler. Grido won't agree with spoilers of such scale in a location as public as the park. I haven't been around to see things myself, but if what you put on the signpost is your actual plan, you probably want to consider burning the blueprints and start over... Else your building might crash, and who wants to listen to architects whose structures fail?

nuuuu, i'm late! Happy B-day, you know why i missed the topic

Many things that are called 'grade 4' are not, and even more other things that are not 'grade 4' can be edited with drade 4 access. It's just the way things go xD Find the hidden cracks to test your scripts, if you want to script something everybody simply has to find and click, get higher access

SMOOCH!

Happy b-day Sagey, may you ever more POOF into the cabin with joy in your pack =D

Happy b-day kets =D

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/02/weekinreview/02basicB.html can't tell how accurately researched that is, but it seems right xD

3 drachs is okay imo, what i don't really understand is the decision to group lores and heres together and allow them 4 times... I mean, yeah, 3 bps and a token archer are still lamer than a drachie with 2 rusts, but it still doesn't sound like a sensible solution to me. Also, i think grouping santa and unholy priest together is not exactly interesting, they have nothing in common... and 'any' group doesn't sound too bright, really xD I rather think that the priests should get their own group with 3 as usual, and maybe a group 'christmas' should be opened for santa and nutcracker^^ What else?... I'd love to see jokers and dream mutations in seperate groups, mainly because i can't set my beloved carnival rit anymore

different accounts - different things. You can't go and say that you own different accounts and then shove things from a to b because it's more convenient there, for sake of rp, or trade. Different accounts accquired it, therefore it belongs to different accounts. Even when the same player sits behind both. That's how i see it.

sorry, got things wrong at first... here's the actual thing: my crits don't regen anymore, which is even worse than what i thought before XD

That's what i meant with using the alts to give each other more slots. Basically, what you do is making sure that everybody knows it's your quest, so your reputation goes up, without making space on your own slots to store the rewards. That is an abuse per definition. What you could do is asking people to keep the creatures until you actually need them, which would of course increase the price.

When you bought them with free creds, it's obviously alt abuse, because you are speeding up the process of cred-gaining. If not, it can still be an abuse if you want more coins, but not want to reset your shop, it's also benefitting your other acc. Simply storing crits on an alt for use as rewards was mentioned as alt-abuse somewhere, too, as it's giving you more slots than what you have. Usually, nobody will complain about that, but when you use 'stolen' coins (gathered by an alt so you can spend them with another acc, also on the way of giving them out in a quest hosted by another alt), you're moving on very thin ice.

confirmed, there are currently empty rits appearing instead of randoms update: [quote] Too low vitality ritual alert - auto assigning Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/magicdue/public_html/core/class.combat.php on line 729[/quote] ^errormessage at top of combat screen [quote]FULL LOG: No one is preparing new random strategy Load *Burns* creatures Load No one creatures Applying 100% of *Burns*'s energetic influence Applying % of No one's energetic influence Influences for *Burns*: regenaura, regenaura, regenaura ###### *Burns*'s J.D. cant find any enemy creatures to target, skipping turn ... *Burns* WINS![/quote] ^battle log

Maybe increase the piercing damage with influence? Right now, their damages go around piercing plus 3-5%, which is not really a strong attack... If they were considerably stronger than stealers, they would probably find more uses. Like... Uhm... Say, piercing damage could get increased with 50% of the attack-influence that's put into them, and the added damage increased via having a lot more base power? I currently only have a lvl 2 and lvl 4 of them at hand to check, but i'd think of 5-8 times their current power as new base power.