Burns

[quote]{free translation} A script on this page doesn't answer anymore. You can stop it now, or try and see what happens when we try and run it again. Skript: chrome://adblockplus/content/utils.js:47[/quote] I guess your script triggers something on ad-blockers, like almost anything in MD does (yeah, it's all spam! muahaha), and if one uses one that's less cooperative, or set on less cooperative options, it might just kill your script instead of politely asking what to do next, now that something goes wrong... I'm not sure about this, though, my adblocker is set to not check contents coming from MD-pages... does that include your script, when it's loading from an outsider-page? Anyways, thought i'd let you know what i see there, might help, and if it doesn't, well, 3 minutes of my life wasted xD

you know that that's life's official alt, right?^^ Lifeline is hidden somewhere, LifeIine is the one he uses to run about;)

contra: We can cheat the alt-system, and if it's un-cheatable, it would also kick out anybody who ever uses a pool-ip (that means basically anybody who doesn't host servers) contra2: The game doesn't care when your birthday is or isn't, really. And even if we did that, what would be the point, 'cept for the game reminding us of getting older?

If it were all spam, you'd be under mod-preview most probably Thing is, even without bad spelling and grammar, most of the things you say are pointless, stupid, not thought to an end, or any combination of the above. That's how you earn negative reputation, not by typos and spelling issues... even though people will probably give you rep for that, too, if they miss a point you actually _could_ have some time because it's illegible... I mean, what do think what reputation is there for? marking spam? spam gets deleted, that's what we have mods for xD

-copy-pastes his whole hate page- You can't beat a system, but you surely can break it. Malcolm in the Middle Only two things are infinite, the universes and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein Dream as if you live forever, live as if you die today. James Dean Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. John Lennon Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. Gerald Seymour Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster, Janis Joplin was only doing a Cover ;-) It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. Tyler Durden When the rich wage war it's the poor who die. Jean-Paul Satre What if I say I'm not like the others? What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays? You're the Pretender! What if I say I will never surrender? I'm the voice inside your head you refuse to hear, I'm the face that you have to face, mirrorin' your stare, I'm what's left, I'm what's right, I'm the enemy, I'm the hand that will take you down, bring you to your knees. Foo Fighters French is the language that turns dirt into romance. Stephen King Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. George Carlin The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and goodwill shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee. Ezechiel 25, 17...no, just kidding^^ One Free Heal token - Gargant

got my santa, please close

If you want to be the best, then why go for beating ants if you could be beating giants? We get bored of grinding eventually, you know... not much reason to do it from some point onwards... There'll always be someone who can beat you, whether you are on mp3 or on mp5 is no difference for that. But there is a difference in whether newcomers notice that everlasting struggle or not.

actually, whoever put that rules-thing up there forgot to update it, by now my newbie vampire-quest is the only thing on it XD

[quote name='Redd' date='27 January 2010 - 06:02 PM' timestamp='1264611731' post='53480'] [color="#FF0000"]First, MP3 is exciting. Everyone has the same exp limit, so they all have the shot to being the top. Tactics determines the strongest. Same goes for MP4.[/color] As the game develops, more tactics are also learned, therefore more opportunity to make stronger MP3 ALTS. Thats why MP3s get stronger. Second, as Chewy told me the other day, 'some people tries to own the lower MP levels because they think they won't last in MP5'(Or something like that) Unlike in MP5, having the right crits in MP3 will basically sum up the whole equation of being strong. (This has some SCARY excemptions, though) So [color="#FF0000"]if a person has access to strong crits and thinks he won't survive in MP5 anyway, he settles in the lower MP levels to redeem his and his drach's proud arses.[/color] [/quote] To start with, i want to stress that i have no troubles whatsoever with people creating mp3-alts to see who's better at the min-maxing game AS LONG AS THEY KEEP THAT TO THEMSELVES. Then, here's the question: if there is no limit, where's the point? the whole cap-thingy has been lead ad absurdum with xp-free wins, and when there is no maximum to get out of it, it's no minmaxing... so, in my opinion, it's not even an interesting game, it's just 'who spends more time at his computer'. But i guess that's up to you to decide. Access to big creatures? I'd laugh, but it's actually rather making me cry when i hear that kind of things. The concept of the xp-cap is stopping you from getting actually strong creatures on mp3, if you think a rit with three drachorns is the end of the food-chain, why, then you'd probably better stay on mp3, anything else would shatter your illusions. And just so it doesn't look as though i created that topic for nothing, here's what lady dawn says in response to that: [quote name='LadyDawn' date='27 January 2010 - 07:52 PM' timestamp='1264618349' post='53486'] [color="#FF0000"]As far GGG thing goes... I am training in there, naturaly. If I wouldnet then my future would be... bleak. [/color] I do have one good word about GGG training tho... and that is, that even if some of you find it as "easy gaining stats" I still beg you to differ. You need to dedicate yourself to be at that same spot for countless hours, to do countless battles and to have patience to do it considering that it is extra boring. So fine, it is easy to gain stats but at same time it is not. You still need to work hard, maybe even harder, considering the fact that some already benefited from it. [color="#FF0000"]So in order to stay at least slightly competive you need to work your ass off[/color] (sorry for the word). [/quote] Obviously the grinding-elite doesn't manage to keep their tiny competition to themselves, no, they drag every newcomer into it by showing off their strenght and making people think that they need that kind of attack stat to play. Here's a newbie seeing one thing: 'OMG, that grasan attacks all and has 500 attack, i can't ever even think of beating it unless my attack is at least the same' How is she supposed to know that a grasan with infinte attack gets smacked badly by various strategies? She can't know about them yet, the creatures are almost completely unavailable on mp3, to her, a creature with more attack than VE is simply unbeatable. And then she goes on to think 'Holy Hell, if that's what i need to play on mp3, what would mp4 be like? How can i ever compete with them? I have to start grinding, too...' How would she know that mp4+ offers ways to defeat insanely overpowered crits in an instant? Let alone ways that are really easy to walk upon, not some barely thinkable pro-stuff nobody but a few find out about... So, yeah, i understand your point, you invested a whole lot of time into strategies that would be compeltely useless on mp5, so you won't advance, but don't give people the impression that a lot of attack would be necessary to successfully fight in MD.

Redd, there are by far not enough of us to shut up all the spoilers, specially because people don't apply any common sense when talking about quests. Let alone considering the players 'helping' for money, as some tend to do... you can hardly charge a silver off a newbie and then give him vague hints he could get on every corner for free... Also, people are more generous with spoilers in PM than they are in chat, should we start reading your messages to make sure you don't spoil? Next logical step is putting permanent mod-preview on everything people say? -.- I'd hope that people had the little common sense that is required to not spoil, but as yoshi already said, people pity the _actual_ newbies, and i honestly pity them too these days, when tons of grinders lurk on mp3... but let's not go into that again... I just mean to say, when i played mp3, there were probably 2 people with lore crits, and it wasn't just uncommon to get in, it was a goddamn national secret, these days half the active mp3 have lore crits, on high levels even, and clearly poor newbie would do anything to get a crit three times stronger than aramors, so blame them for having a huge blackmarket with spoilers of that kind... We as Grido's minions do our best to stop them whenever we see them, and try to keep them out of the cabin, but that's pretty much all we can manange without getting slightly sleep-deprived

competition as in 'other games you could waste your time with', not competition as in 'playtime in MD like HC' )

intersting to have that sort of thing coming from someone who uses the Golden Globe Gazebo... i wholeheartedly agree with anything the posters before me said, but i'll also throw in that a good bunch of people wouldn't figure out how to beat them if it weren't for stupid spoilers and some less stupid lhos, and basically, i'll pick highlighting the way to beat them with red markers and blue candles any time if the other option is having frustrated players leaving before they pick up on how things work round here... It's not like we told them 'two of those and one of that creature with so much pray power and that much VE do the trick', but if they are uncapable of reading the hints, we'll summarize things in a way they understand and tell them that wisdom comes with age rather than leave them hanging in thin air until they leave after a week of pointless tries with aramors and barrens -.-

[quote]There currently no official way you can get rid of your current citiznship so you can get an other, but for now you could join and leave an ally to achieve same effect (later on there will be an other way).[/quote] For the moment, allymembership is simply greater than citizenship, even if you got archives-citizenship granted, it would instantly be overruled by ally-land, and you wouldn't have any after dropping out of the shifters...

you already have an ally-tag from there anyways... Ally > Citizenship In general, Mur _could_ make you citizen of any land, if you are not in any ally, but as usual, he'll only do that rarely, when he feels like, and when there's some good reason to do it

I'm not against it because it's new, i'm against it because it's just another addon that's, in the end, disturbing the roles! Currently, items are something exceedingly special, you get them either as gifts from Mur for playing something, like people got woody's seal fragments, or for paying with a WP, probably the last thing in MD you CANNOT buy with cash. If items were to be made with silver, what does that mean? More alt-abuse with free credsto get silver, craft something and transfer it? More people who happen to have a coin or two and see a very nice idea, and just go 'hey, me too!', and bang, they have a shiny sword or a telescope or a cube doing something or other with a custom description, too? I'm not against it because i don't want people to have items, i'm against it because i don't want people to have items just because, without any reason, without any role, without anything that backs them up... And this is where having easier access to items inevitably leads to, anybody will have anything just because it sounds fancy, not because there is a reason to have it! Without reason, what are things worth? When i look on a person's inventory and they hold a spear, i can expect them to be a warrior who knows how to fight with a spear, when they have a flute, i can expect them to have some musical and/or lyrical gifts, and act accordingly, eg keep a wary eye on the warrior, and ask the musician for help when i need help with a poem or story. If 'simple things' can be made with low costs, anybody could have the flute, and anybody could have the spear, and it won't tell me the slightest bit about a person anymore

I don't quite understand that concept... Would the infected crit change to your side? Would it be attacked by opposing crits? Would it still be attacked by your own crits? Would the parasite still be a creature that can be killed, freeing the target? Overall... i don't see how a battle with an infected crit works out :/

The K-docs are bugged, Awii reported it ages ago, they are still waiting to be fixed... Unfortuantely the issue seems to be not very high on Mur's list due to the little number of players that actually write in those documents (your own are invisible unless you are in a K-group, which you'd need to get invited to, or create your own for the... 4th? Wishpoint in the Wishshop)# [color="#FF8C00"]Hm, my bad, i thought they went to wishshop with 3 requirement and 1 cost... [quote][2009-07-29 23:42:42 - Alpha 9] To adapt to the depth structure of the wish shop, the K doc price changed from 4 wp to 1 wp with requirement of spending 3 other wp before. Players that purchased a K doc before will be given back 3 wp.[/quote][/color]

it's not just alts that do nothing but holding items, but it's also that some people don't even care to move with their item-holders, even when they keep all profits on the holder... they have enough accounts to not care if one is almost completely unable to do anything because of weight-restrictions, and they just have to wait til a bit of grass grew over the deal, and transfer the things they want on another account then, as part of their normal deals, sell a drachorn for an aramor, there's no rule against that, is there? don't read me wrong, i'm all against what they do, but i'm yet unable to find any restriction that makes it impossible/veryvery hard to do it without making any material-holding completely impossible, and sometimes people hold to a materila simply because nobody wants it, ever thought of that?

and it wouldn't change a thing for the hoarders, they are using alts to store their stuff anyways LOL

No, and NO! I don't think there should be any 'standard items', and i don't think it should be easy to get a hold of raw materials. period. The prices people currently want are a joke, but if it's their strategy to make money, why not? It's not like an item was an essential part of your role... And while i do think that the few who have all materials should sell them for a 'normal' price, it's after all up to them what they do with them, we had a life before items came, and we can have a life without them even when they are there.

*couhgs* as you say, you have a spell to show them the land if they wish to... and not only you, other lorerootians have it, too... What do we of Golemus get? trouble with stuck newbies... again -.-

mps are easily seen, the black dots on the left side of the playername indicate them, no dot is mp3, a tiny dot in the middle is mp4, a big dot on the bottom mp5... And... the scrolling would be horrible, as well as waiting for all my crits to load their icons evertime i set a rit -.-

1. I'm not a pro, but wouldn't having timers on all players in your current scene even add to the server-load? As in, read out and send data for players you wouldn't even want to attack? apart from that, where does a little timer go, it's pretty crowded on the scenes already... 2. Hardly possible since we have 3 different requirements, at the beginning xp is the problem, in mp4 it's wins, and on mp5 people are waiting for age to upgrade, which one should be displayed? should they be mixed into one upgrade-bar, and if so, how? And, again, wouldn't reading out stats for a creature you know you can't upgrade add on traffic, instead of lowering? 3. Checkboxes would be easier, but not really a lot... just a change from one system to another... Having all on one screen might be really handy for veterans, but i guess for newbies it would be too much information at once, the way it is they can think about the things they do step by step, which crits, what should they do, how much influence, def or not, chaaarge, if all was on one screen they'd probably get even more confused at the beginning... time would tell :/ 4. I like the buttons, but having them a tiny bit bigger wouldn't hurt probably XD

happy b-day, paladin *bumps a random sword against a random shield*

definitely LHO reward, Grido gave them out yesterday evening