Burns

uhm... when their init is 40 plus influence, devided by 6 for a full rit, you can actually be faster than them, and take their sure first strike advantage away? If they have a save first strike, and they do have a save first strike with claw3 with crit-boost, well, then you have no chance, ever. When their first strike is not that certain, and with just 40 plus influence it simply isn't against a rit with just 2-3 creatures instead of 6, then there's a chance to win, does that sound unfairer than status quo? If there's a rit that kills your rit ALL time, you need a new rit. But if it kills all rits that can be built without MDShop 95% of the time, then it's a pretty unfair advantage imo...

Of course it's unfair that you get smacked 100% of the time with an invincible first strike kill, that's the whole point! Is it not the very thing i'm complaining about, that you can't get a chance against a claw3 token without having one or two yourself? -.-

balance goes far, very far, further than one token or one creature. You'll never do a really balanced system with just one bright idea... even though Seeker once got pretty close to it, imo. What we can do much easier is working down the checklist of the worst inequalities and toy with them. If it turns out that the direction was wrong, or gave another thing an impact too big, fair enough, new priorities for the next round of toying. the objective of such simple shop complains is not more balance, but less imbalance, if you get that point. If you want true balance, right now, you'll have to go and re-invent the whole system, basically from scratch... If you don't mind doing a bit more of testing and trying, you can have it with the current system, some day.

ah, but it gives 1333 to ONE creature, and you can have it on all 6 of them...makes... uhm... 8k? i flanked maths, too... I've been doing a lot of grinding, and i mean a lot, really, a lot, but init over 8k? PLUS, crit boost ignores influence, but multiplies tokens? ... What more do i need to say?

As it is, claw 3 boosts init by 1/3 of the principle that fuels it. A whole lot of testing shows that almost everything tokens do to creature stats can be overcome by a bloody f-ing lot of training... except for init in such measure. So, i think it's a too unbalanced advantage, specially with crit-boost working as it is, and would like to see the init-boost decreased to 1/100, and crit boost not influencing init. (morale could still give init imo, that creature is greatly undervalued anyway, and would make way for new rits) Since init is pretty hard to get, 40 is still a major advantage, a lot more of an advantage than 1500 attack, for example. Thanks for your attention

Why can't i ever just agree with Mur? -.- [quote]As you enter MD world, everything in MD becomes a mirror of yourself. Your fantasy world merges with the one of other people.[/quote] Don't even have to start being picky, you already put them together quite well. If MD was just a mirror of each of ours individual fanatasies, how comes it's not empty for me? So, it's a collective fanatasy, you'll have to agree on that. As it is, collective fantasy requires more than one person, which is why Ady's story, great as it was, got banned, for it's just the stroy of one, not the stroy written by the collective fantasy. But that also implies that there IS a past, not the one Ady made up, but since the moment you and Akasha (for the sake of simplicity, i assume she was the first player other than Mur, and it doesn't matter if she is or not), things happened and history got written. So, how can you say that history doesn't exist? Cause, for anybody but you two, something had happened before they came around, and for them, it is history. For you, it might be just past, but for newbies it's history, the happenings of times before they were born if you wish. Therefore, MD is not just a fanatasy world that mirrors one self, but a fanatsy that mirrors all the people who ever were there, and as such, also Ady's fanatasy (once again, for the sake of simplicity i assume that he had an account at least). So, why can't you say that the bits of history he put forward were simply wrong? Instead of having them banned and bad and all, why not simply have them be wrong, like so many other theories out there are? Because up to now, i seriously was under the impression that we are not to mess with the past, rearrange parts we heard of it to see if it makes more sense then, or just wonder how the hell that angien managed to get out of the box and what it means that he existed 'outside'. I don't want to argue about Ancient Lore, i never accepted ideas without proper proof anyway, but there's that fine line between Ancient Lore and History, and as MD grows older, the line gets finer all the while, and specially people with IDs over 70, but also a lot of those over 30 already, don't really know about the times when things started, or met people who still had first hand experience... So how about, instead of saying things are simply bad and banned, which sounds really hardcore, just say 'There once was a guy called Ady, who tried to research the old times, but failed'? That way it might be a lot simpler for people to start digging in the past, because they don't have to be afraid of being yelled at for doing something they shouldn't, but at worst get yelled at for overlooking the <irony> most obvious </irony> facts derived from AL, Announcements, Scenes, Poems, Music etc.etc.

colorless, and 1 spent if i remember right

Can i suggest? Can i? How about cookie being an item that returns to the owner, which is an object, e.g. the chest in DQ, and which are only edible within 30 minutes after taking them out of the 'oven', else they cool off too much and get tasteless, ergo go back to the chest for someone else to take them out? To avoid flooding ones own health at DQ, cookie-cooldown of 30 minutes since the last was eaten, which also makes it pointless to carry more than one? And probably make 'big cookies' an item-function people can script themselves with the item-code ability, cooldown 10 minutes, and fueled by heat? Bah, now i'm hungry...

So? It's just another lesson of MD, if you can't win, you can at least reduce the damage to a minimum... In fact, that's one of the more important features of MD... But of course you wouldn't learn about that in GGG, so how could people know, right? -.-

happy b-day, master of clocks =)

Oh, how i hope that mp3 simply finally got over the GGG-thingie, now that there's almost no grinder left on mp3... Everybody is entitled to their own opinion, of course, and just as you can go and spam chat about the gazebo, another person can go and delete your messages. They can't make you stop, unless it's massive spamming, then the LH-inquistion will stop you some time, but they don't have to tolerate it, either. And, as dst said, clearing a message that directs people to GGG can go under deleting spoilers, since it's [spoiler]just one of many ways to circumvent the fighting system not everybody should know about by default.[/spoiler]

aye, that would sit right next to my dream... me likes =)

i'd bid 3, i think 170 age might be just fitting to make it go next to my other joker, i like them as pairs in my inventory =D

Like it or leave it? You know, it's really that simple... If you wish to be a big powerful spellcaster, you don't have endless opportunities to train. If you want to be a big strong fighter, you don't have prot-spells. There is no mix of the two, it's either-or. Some like MP6 better, some prefer MP5. uh, we managed to post at the same time... xD So, MP7 isn't the bigger MP6, it's the illusion stage. Illusionists don't need heat -> no praying to them =P [color=purple]I dont want to spam, so i'll just add here - Shhh Burns, dont tell people not to pray to MP7s, they should! it's fun! - Grido[/color]

How about these reasons: MP6 are protectors, not those-in-need-of-protection, and therefore they don't need to pray to anybody. MP6 have full heat by default, it's no work for them, so the protectors wouldn't even appreciate the sacrifice of heat, and therefore you can't do it. MP6 don't accept to work for any other protector because they have the same powers. More?

Wow, Mur... lightning-fix ^^ I'm just double-posting so people don't think i'm crazy or something... they had the same avatar 10 minutes ago, i promise! xD

Aeoshattr and shadowwhisper are running about with the same avatar. I don't think it's Ren's fault, though, i'd rather guess something went wrong when Mur hot-fixed dst and the lvl3-avatar shop... either way, two people, one avatar. not exactly fitting the unique-avatar concept

Grats Ren, i bet you will start hating us in no time, specially after Mur said that we shouldn't ask you for codes xD

probably take a look at the new fighting? xD I'd start with figuring out the changes in the creatures, there were quite a few, and then get a grasp on the new questing-system And find out a bit about all those new fancy alliances and kings, that's fun ^^

Generally, there'll be a lot of waiting, yes Consider those periods as an opportunity to fiddle with something else, like exploring the forums while you wait in story, finding out about the history while waiting for your creatures, or simply wandering around while waiting for an important answer... And about the storymode in particular, yeah, pick the longest options, it really pays for a starter, there are some stats in there you won't be able to make that easily otherwise... at least not so early in your MD-experience

[quote] Since this feature requires a lot of WP, i assume only smart and hard working players will be able to get it so you will understand this... PLEASE use this powerfull feature right and don't force me to cripple it by adding restrictions over restrictions to it, [/quote] 1 per year, if any at all. Up to now, WPs were fun things that could do fun things in MD, like casting spells or making a clickable show some text other other, let's face it, they only do something advanced for Chewie, Cutler and Rendril. I bet items will do a lot of highly interesting things with pretty basic input and completely other limitations than spells. ... Do i need to explain why that feature shouldn't be accessible for anybody just because they were around long enough?

Spoke the unallied MP4, whose only target is Miq We have better ideas than that, don't worry, but it's going to take some time til we use them... At this point, even our very lame rits usually win, probably going to take a while until we set some better stuff -.-

Absolutely no, Udgard told us why.

I would think that Fyrd implied that he was just as graphically challenged as me... we can't draw more than straight lines, and we need straightedges for that Unfortunately, there's not really much we can do, except for telling awesome artists about MD and hoping that they'll like it just enough to draw for it

My opinions about alts and lowleveling are no secret, and i'm definitely not going to waste my time with making mp3 and mp4 alts, they can come and join me on mp5 if they wish, or get an ally. If you think that any of your alts sitting there would do any good, send me their names, but i'm almost completely sure that you won't be able to set any actually interesting rits with what little xp you have at hand... I needed about 6m to upgrade the critters i plan to use :/