Burns

good thing that Santa is actually not real, only the Christkind is! =D catholics of middle-europe, let's join forces to extinguish the fatman

Creativity

that happens when you run out of rituals set to defend, yes when no more specified defences are left, the last ritual you set without ticking the box will be chosen

hooray, more birthdays! happy b-day, Schwarzwälder... do you by chance like cherry-cake? XD

happy birthday, mr. king... we should have a party on that occassion XD

happy birthday =)

hehe no worries, the evil-doer will reveal himself in time, and in the end you'll be thankful )

hmm... is there a connection to OS, probably? why do some browsers work for some people?

firefox 3.5.latest, some things are a bit slow, but everything works fine for me... i'm also using opera sometimes, don't do that, half the things fail LOL OS Win Vista 32-bit

I think i haven't seen you, ever... but still, happy B-Day =D

game over, WPs to best Werewolf and Vampire have been awarded. experiment failed unfortunately, participation and activity were... poor, to put it in nice words... I intended to give Kyphis a shiny Pimped Grasan for best activity, but since he sent me a message that all he was interested in were WPs, coins, drachs and shades, bad luck there... He played it for a bit, that's a lot more than most people did -.-

strangely enough, i don't get that issue... all i did was deleting all comments, insert a few names and my id, and it works... you might need to run your script without setting your id as vi once, foreach gives errors when the array is empty, and Chewie kindly told me, try and do a debug on it, if your have NULL in your array, that's the reason for it to fail "debug(@storage[@vs]);" very handy, and working, script, thanks =) edit: yeah... rendril solves things a lot more eloquent, and does so while i try and type things... XD

Best Back Story - Innocence Best Debater - Zleiphneir Best Fighter - dst, for heavens sake XD Best LHO - MasterB Best Personal Papers - Kafuuka Best PL Entry - Gargant on somebody i can't find anymore... too bad, i hope it's still a nomination xD Best Protector - Princ Rhaegar Best Quest - Cutler What Number am I-quest, best ever seen in MD imo Best Quester - asryn Best Role Player - Granos Best Spell Caster - Shadowseeker Best Techie - Cutler Best Villain - Granos Most Addicted - Lazarus? seems like he has no life apart from MD, so... Most Influential - seems that's another Granos... Outstanding Service to MagicDuel - Rendril Renvant Rookie of the Year (between 20 and 100 AD at time of nomination and awarding) - Observer Veteran of the Year (must be on active vets list, only winnable once) - Yrthilian for keeping us busy with a war

'nother reminder, this quest will be over in 24 hours, send your answers or lose the opportunity of getting your WP

i also like the one per year version... sounds nice =) about alts: are there ways to draw a line between active and inactive alts? there are a few people who play more than one character and who'd deserve them on both/more in case, others who actually play one and use more accounts for various reasons, and some who just happen to have alts without using them at all, like name-protection-alts, alts to use when their main is stuck in rp and such, who should defintely not get them... if that's not possible, or no nice idea on how to draw the line is found (i guess that appearance on friend-lists might be an indicator, but not a very good one, or number of PMs... :/ ), i'd rather wish to see them limited per person even though they are not transferable... mutations are, access to places is the same value on main and alt, and the spells can be cast from other accs, too, so it's too abusive for alts to have free WPs imo

that's actually not really a limitation, is it? alts, friends, newbies, inactives... you can always fill up an ally to full seats in a day, and then those spells would go to each and every 'real' member... hard-limit to 1-2? fine, 2 special spell-casters (heal, attack, def, curse, maybe even something stronger like freeze or holy-army) in an ally might be a nice addition to the concept, but a limit that increases with members is no limit imo, it just adds to the inflation of membership... there could also be RP-spells given with one cast for special missions, like actual invisibility, locate, maybe a teleportation, but i don't think that it's a good idea to give more spells/spellcasters to an ally just because they are bigger, the abuses are insane :/

MD is PvP-based, you can either ask people to give you an easy win, which usually comes with offering an easy win in return, or see if you can find people whom you can beat without asking for help... either way, to upgrade creatures you attack other players ^^ i guess you'll best start out with the hardcoded quest of Berserker's Way, that strange device opens new parts of the realm when you manage to solve it

Since there are no borders in Murry's plan, i'd find it exceedingly fitting to have a creature in WishShop that has abilities to take out grinders and token-farmers but i think 4 WP is too much, too, and is pretty counter-intuitiv since all other thngs come with cost of 1 and a certain requirement of spendings... why not have 6 spent WP and cost of 1? or bring it out much earlier in WishShop, maybe 2 spent, or even just 1 spent? I have no idea what you are creating, and your hints don't help me grasp the concept (=P), but if i understood it halfwise, i DO want it 'public', tons of WP mean that mostly grinders have a shot at them, the rest doesn't stay that long... AND i want the crit to have mp5 as requirement XD

no, me thinks that's too easy... ally-leaders didn't come to that position by mere coincidence, but are usually pretty good at what they are doing, so they are very likely to get fresh WPs from Mur every now and then, which are not bound to questing-rewards, but can also be given out for good things done for the ally this looks like you wanted a neverending rewards source like spell-docs so you can give people a reward for all kinds of bs, like... 'oh, you wrote a nice ally-page, have a cook... eh... spell', 'you recruited 3 new members, here's your spell'...

25x25x25? I'd get lost even with map and compass... O_o I think i haven't posted in the other thread, so i'll seize the opportunity to say that i love the things you are doing there, logic puzzles and mazes, and still hard enough to not be solved by anybody Keep that work up, pleeeease =)

just a reminder: all participants should make sure to check the chest some time soon, quest ends on saturday or when i have answers from all people, whichever comes first

true enough, that's some sort of problem... guess there got to be a better solution to protect mp5-newbies... if they need it, that is [which they do, imo] that doesn't change anything about the mp3-issue, though... Chewie kindly enlightend us about the situation on mp3, and i think that a lot of people leave MD becasue they have no chances even on their first steps, a thing that should be prohibited by the MPs that divide us, but seriously, it doesn't work obviously... it's tough enough to face rusties and drachorns on mp5, what does a little newbie think? 'Seems like i have to invest 100 bucks into a drachorn and tokens to be able to compete, what a fun game'? 'Uh, look there, if i wait 100 (actually not 100, spoiler) days i can have that nice uber-creature, too, let's do that'? i know that playing god is fun, but if people down there, who are unable to train any creatures anyway and therefore use their best crits all the time, EXIST, they scare away newbies, at least that's my opinion, and my reason to look for ideas...

http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/5680-storymode-change/page__view__findpost__p__48625 Mur mentioned something about skill-caps for each mp-level there, so i guess this is the right time to break off a nice little brainstorming/discussion-session and see what happens... and if Mur gets inspired by us ^^ So, basic question seems to be, do we want people to stay on low mp-levels forever or not? To me, the answer is very clearly NO, since lowleveling destroys the game both for newbies, who get hit very hard very often, and for vets, who have nothing left to kill up there on mp5. What are possible solutions? Do we force people to move on? Do we make mp5 a lot more attractive and see if they move themselves? I think both has to be done, so here are a few possible means: MP3: Yeah, tough one, how do we put a requirement that newbies don't hit before understanding concepts, which can't be circumvented by god-modders too easily... I suggest people get force-pushed to mp4 when they have any creature that has an attack-value of 80 or more, which, if i remember right, covers [spoiler]hatchlings, elite knators, Dark Archer 2s, Huvourers, jokers, elite lorerootian archers and majestics (i used names instead of levels to avoid spoiling too much, but i guess the people i want to discuss with know what i mean with each)[/spoiler] Sounds evil? For those who do excessively low-level, yeah, for the rest of the population, it makes mp3 longer than it is currently Another idea might be pushing people with a stat-limit, but thruth be told, one can sneak around a stat-requirement very easily, so i don't consider this a valid solution toying with various other thoughts (push for first all-hitter, push for multi-ele, push for xp) seem very easy to overcome if you know just a wee bit about what you are doing, the only other thing i can imagine is pushing for wins, but that's not good for active newbies who do a lot of 'little victories' every day without getting their wins on the 'right' creatures, and they'd really be pretty screwed on mp4... i guess, prove me wrong XD MP4: i think that mp4 suffers from the same problem, but there might be a few solutions that don't involve forcing people to play with the big guys if they don't want to, but then they also have to live with a few rights missing (call them the big-guy-rights, if you like) so, possible 'rights' to be taken from mp4 to make them think twice before god-modding: -no access to Wish Shop-items other than give-vitality, invisibility and locate (call them the RP-spells) -no access to some shop-features (i'm thinking about collector-crits and tokens mainly) -no access to the ol' hidden shop and no access to medusa's weapons and breast-plate-thingy i think that pretty much covers all things that make combat cool... leaving people the freedom to stay on mp4 and do their RP as they please without interferance from the evil grinders (*mwahaha*), and forcing the rest of the players to advance, bringing more mp5 into the game for us evil grinders to hunt, but also more weaklings for the 'weaker' mp5 to feast upon until they make it out of the usual 'i get beaten to pulp by 4 out of 5 mp5'-dilemma MP5: Yeah, it's not only their fault that we have nothing to kill, it's also our fault! so: -no stat-reward and no creature-wins/xp for smashing people who have less than 20% of your own active days (leaves you the freedom of doing it for fun, but your gains are null in such fights, obviously comes with a 'too young'-warning so we know who gives us nothing, might make veterans stop hitting newbies on 5) very short list... uhm... i guess somebody can come up with better ideas without completely destroying the fun of vets and grinders... comments? other ideas? better solutions than me? let's hear your voice, and don't forget to cast a vote up there

[quote name='Tipu' date='30 November 2009 - 04:10 AM' timestamp='1259550638' post='48738'] Ho PLZ don't do such a change. let me tell u it will only make strong people more stronger. Plz don't do it. Lets every body get a chance and have a equal Stats [...] Head contest is all what we see a change to even the odds. If u implement Vet to participate i will tell the winners in Mp3 section now itself. Kyhpis, H, Chewette well u can start giving them 7 K Vit and 10 K Vp with 200 attack and defense Stats right away for next month too or perhaps for the next whole years hehehe No need to conduct head contest for mp3 hehehe. [/quote] Bullshit, HC doesn't 'even the odds' at all, and is not meant to do that. The stronger will win and get a nice shiny medal, that's what the contest is about, all other rewards, apart from the 1st place credit reward, are hardly worth the time you waste to win a contest since you can get those stats 10 times faster with casual grinding. 10k VP? 7k VE? what's that, nothing? i get more than that if i sacrifice the creatures i'm not using currently and re-raise them, they surely have their max age by the time i'm done with training my angiens, no big deal plus, the longer this contest runs with the setting of vets being unable to take heads and win, even when we don't get rewards, the less interesting it gets, as Life already mentioned, anybody can just wait for a month with little competition and win the contest without doing anything for it, mp5 win that contests and get their medals for idling in remote places! no tactics, no hiding, not even strenght, they simply get the medals shoved up their lazy *****! so, yeah, i guess i have to support lifeline on that matter, even though i'd like it better if us vets got a seperate contest to show off with a 'real' medal, one which is hard to get, unlike the golden head-medal... -.-

how about ignoring them? it's not like they were worth your time, are they? people send me hate-spam every HC, specially those who think to have a chance... ignore them, or write down their names and wait for a time when they ask for a favor )