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it would be if it was about rounding, but the stats obviously have a floor-function^^ that means the system searches for the greatest integer lower than your stat value, like when you have 22.66 it's 22, at 2.9999999 it's 2, and at 3.000000001 it's 3 i realized that very early in the game when i got a little init down in the story, which made me drop to -0.2, and the system made a -1 of it =( ps: floor and ceiling functions are higher mathmatics, you might never hear about that in normal maths classes, so you can either just believe what i say or check out [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floor_function"]floor and ceiling in wiki[/url] =D

that's... great xD the forum activity rises with each hour the server is down, i think i never had that many new posts before when logging on ROFL and i'm sure the server will be back up in no time, and see the pros: your critters still get age, so let them grow a bit older =D

PLUS, we have kangaroos =P i even was in for the last kangaroo-hunt xD people like the idea of having those nice little animals for pets, but sometimes, they hop over their fences, and then we have to hunt them down before they vanish... and my neighbor is one of those kangaroo-freaks LOL so i actually see soem hoppinh around, and we also wear a shirt saying No Kangaroos with the NO crossed out =D

hey, there are also people seriously influencing the game in allies!! =P plus, you will have to give in that the ally chat is useful for planning things with more than one or two other people =) but imo, most players who want to form new allies are driven by a desperate wish to be a leader, not matter of whom... i never heard someone saying that 'there should be an ally for XYZ, but i don't really mind that matter so much...' they all say 'we NEED an ally for XYZ, just look at my role, i need such a thing to play', and by saying that, they mean 'i want to be leader and feel strong and talk about things i don't really know with all the other ally leaders' Now, that's nothing against you Aqune, mainly because your ally would have actually had another purpose than just making you leader, and i'm sure that you wouldn't have minded giving leadership to anyone as long as you get the official right to kick everyone's butt xD But most ally purposes i see round here (as most other new ideas, for that matter) are driven by really selfish reasons... people want spells so their role finally works out, people want to get improved stats without farming them, and they want to become gods of mp3/4 with those spells and bonuses, just to show the world how great they are... Looking at the spells people want, i can't see a single spell out there that's NOT built to win combats with it, and especially in a HC, that powers will be abused. Now, i don't mind what people do with their spells, and if that blacksmith guy makes me drop my weapon, well, i'll just go buy a new one, and if people get spells to enhance their def, i'll kill them off with life stealers and so on, but in the end, most new ideas are just there to make people feel stronger than others... same goes for new allies, of course xD ps: yes, i'm in GG, and it's mainly about being selfish and not getting attacked that often because we don't do that much things atm, but also a little bit because newbies know that i know what i'm talking about when helping them because i have the fancy GG logo =P just my opion on that matters, feel free to flame me if you don't like it =D

dst will always be dst, he's just the one and only...like...superman...xD even if soemone copied dsts stats and gave them to any 'normal' player, it wouldn't be another dst, because there's knowledge only dst himself actually has =D and even now, with his grasan being de-mystified (no, i won't tell you how it works, so please don't spam me...btw, i knew for ages and told a few people about it already, but now that treehill knows it, too, spam him instead =P) he still has powers beyond our imagination...only to think about a counter for the grasan made my head ache and scream in agony... no one can match dst, but nobody else can, no matter what we try...we'll always be just...copycats, i guess =D EDIT: no one, if you had the same stats as dst has on his account (i don't even want to know who of you two farmed those stats on that acc xD), people would also love to become you, but most still think that stats are more important than knowledge LOL

that, and a boost in 'ego-centric view of the world', and that makes your creatures loads stronger with the morale boost they get from thinking they are the middle of the universe xD unfortunately, the huge arrogance boost makes them vulnerable, because in their belief of being invulnerable they stop guarding their weak spots, making them loose more vitality when being attacked... so, all in all, the awesomeness will not help your creautres in any way in battle, except for that they know that they won't die when they get defeated, which makes it easier for them to lose from time to time LOL

now, it may sound kinda stupid, but have you ever thought of quiting the ally? xD just take 2 days off from your ally and then ask someone to invite you again...or, if you don't trust your members (that would be...a signal that the ally is not running that well, to put it in a diplomatic way...), make an alt and invite that one, so you can invite yourself back in ;-) and seeing the honor is not that hard, it shows up when you are in the 'choose ritual' screen^^ EDIT: just saw that you already quitted^^ knowing you need some losses, i'll get you some now as long as i can =D

That's the point, it's NOT in the rules^^ You can run ANYWHERE you want, and you won't face any serious troubles for doing so =) But if you consider the position of the average player who can't enter necrovion and golemus, parts of the Archives and many other locations i'm not going to tell you becasue of their spoiler nature, it would be unfair to the normal players if those certain few who can leave the normal map and hide in necro, golemus and so on, get points there without the trouble of battling... that was why the new rule was implemented xD you can still hide whereever you want to, but you must now fear that dst or shoeps (who both can tell where you are when seeing your coordinates...NO MATTER WHERE, they know every location^^) come around and shu you out from there back to the 'normal' playground =D remember, the contest is unfair =P but i think it's fairer now...seeing lib won the contest because he/she (shame on me, i still don't know xD) got into a location nearly nobody can enter and got score there... EDIT: damn, dst was faster with copy and paste than me... you can see the rules up there, i'll delete them from here...

not all leaders are RPCs, by the way... Guerilla and MR leader (yrthilian and MRD), just for example, are PWRs, not RPCs ;-)

obviously, i didn't express myself clear enough when starting the topic... Udgard is absolutely right, and i don't think that every role needs to be passed on, but seeing some RPC have unique abilities that aid players on their way to growing stronger (like giving away drachorns and the teleportation ability of simply), i think that those FUNCTIONS should live on even when/if they ever stop playing. Of course the role should be unique, else you could just give the password of smartalek or morgana to anyone who seems appropriate for that kind of 'power'!! I never had the intention to make dragonrider a new smartalek, for example, but i think the abilities of the drachorn master should not be lost forever if RJ decides to stop playing, so there should be some way of getting a new player (maybe with a similar role (cryxus-simply) or a player with a totally different style of playing a role that includes similar abilities (RJ-Braiton)) the same abilities, or maybe a slightly changed ability, like the mutated drachorns of Braiton. I don't want ROLES to survive or to be passed on because that wouldn't work anyway, but i think the FUNCTION shouldn't vanish...and not every RPC has such a function, like MB and Raven, if they vanished, the game would lose some fun, but no special ability^^ And who would even want a new Bunny? The one we have to endure now is enough for a lifetime of mental disturbance anyway... =P

that's an interesting idea awi, but it's far from what abbadun suggested... but it sounds like a great idea to get new creatures into the game, maybe that should be combined with the idea about the 'legendary creatures' for each land^^ obviously, each player could only be master of one creature, so there could even be critters that easier available and such that are really tough to get... i like the new idea as much as i like the old one, but that new is much easier to implement imo =D

i'm an awful journalist myself, but i can help you gathering information and maybe even improve my skills on the field of writing whilst helping you^^ And i know what is spoilerish and what isn't, so for that matter i would gladly help you, maybe as with a gossip column from willows... sometimes, there' really funny stuff happening in chat, and readers at willow's sometimes know what's going to happen in the future before others do =)

again, i have to give in that i like -6's imaginative personality^^ i was not thinking about just making dragonrider a new smartalek, to stick to the (obviously well chosen) example, he has come WAY after smart stopped playing actively... but, as there was a story about RJ, there could be a new story about dragonrider =D (to those who don't know, looong looong ago, the AL started with page ONE (believe it or not, it's the truth xD), to see the whole story of the drachorn breeder smartalek, visit pages 3-90^^) in less than 3 weeks (it took smart only 18 days), we could have a whole new character created... maybe we could even let him find some of the old papers smarty left behind, that would give the AL a nice turn and make the new people read it from the start to know what happened to alek, akasha and bigC back then again, same goes for other RPCs... if manu/we see the need to have that power in the game again, but the user who had it is lost, we could just take a user with a similar role who is addicted enough and create new RPCs by giving similar powers to the new user (principle of cyclicity) =D i know that sounds stupid to those few who know what happened back then in the ice age, but it doesn't need to be made the same way...there can always be new developments and turns in everything, but for me as a guy with the imaginational talent of a tea spoon it's easier to think through things someone else already imagined again instead of bringing up new ideas myself LOL EDIT: as this incident, if we ever happen to stumble across one like in the example i just gave, would lead to a massive change in roleplay with hundreds of people making roles simliar to those already existing, ther would be a great choice if there is a new roleplayer needed once in a while... and others would still pull their own thing off and maybe get 'fresh' RPCs I'm not sure whether players as un-imaginative as me should really have a chance of getting an RPC, but even i could make an eloquent role around the fact that i am giving away drachorns ROFL and others have their fun without running the relatively high chance of having their role stolen by someone who then earns the honor for another players idea (thinking about all the werewolves and hobby-astronomists and whatever comes up once a role gets popular because a good and active player plays it...)

it doesn't, but smartalek is a great example because he has a kind of 'obviously-game-influencing-power' with the whole drachorns thing...most other rpc's are more or less pulling the strings from behind the scences, and therefore don't jump to the eye of non-pros here^^ here is just about GG creatures, and Drachorns are amongst them =D

but it doesn't seem right in that way, at least not for me... let's say smartalek loses the interest in MD (i took him because that's not very likely to ever happen^^), then there we have an inactive drachorn master... what should then happen to the drachorns? would they vanish? would smarty pass be given to another player who shows more interest? would that work, as persons are very different in here? imo, it seems better to demote smartalek from being the drachorn master and a new player should get that in addition to the role he is already playing, eg there is dragonrider who would surely love to be drachorn-master =D and if smart ever comes back, he could ask mur whether he could have the job back, and if mur thinks that smart was doing better than dragonrider, smartalek gets the drachorn master once again same for all the rpc's...most of the good roles are just given away by now (archivist, artist, warrior, bad guy, carrot...they are all occupied^^) but there are new peple out there who are doing great jobs with their roles and don't have the chance to break through because that special role is already taken (best example imo: cryxus(the pirate guy) vs. simplyzero(you know that one^^))

while typing about the drachorns in the GG creatures thread, i stopped to think about the RPC and how little of them i see around... There are some really inactive RPC's by now (that was different when i started, i remember) and i don't know if they should stay in the RPC position forever... now, i don't want to be an RPC because i officially DON'T roleplay, but it seems a bit unfair to the players who are really active and are trying really hard to roleplay and get some spells and stuff to enhance their role... we keep telling them that there are already enough RPC, but if they never log in and play and do all the fancy RPC-stuff they should be doing(quests, mainly xD)... besides, i need new quests that send me all around the map, finding people, places and stuff, and the new 'everything is a hidden trigger' thing mur implemented a few days ago seems to be THE chance for new RPC's to show what they really got behind all the talking^^ now i want to hear what you have to say about that matter, and you doesn't include n00bs who want powers without doing something for it...neither do i want to hear something like 'i want to be an RPC' by any PWR or other roleplayers... with that said, what do you think? =)

what happend to drachorns? they actually come from golemus, don't they? i understand that not everyone should have one, but once upon a time (at least it feels like that), smartalek stopped playing and the quests for drachorn eggs with him... are they now completely vanished, or are they still there and waiting for a new master? or is there already a new master, and i'm too stupid to find the quest? xD

but sending it out as ingame-message would take a huge amount of server space, and sending them out to the out-game e-mail seems a bit...strange... facing the fact that most of us use spam-mails for signing up to games for safety reasons, i think some wouldn't even find the cool paper between all the crap flooding in all the time...

LOL lib lost the heads for losing, but still won the contest overall, that's what the "i still won" means =D

severin is talking about the story you play at the beginning (with killing the shades and stuff) (yes, some people actually manage to get stuck there xD), but i don't think that's your problem, that doesn't fit with the screen you posted... if you were actually stuck in story, the game would tell you what to do, and not show you an error nobody knows =D

Just...great... the slideshow on the left side...the screens from king mur himself...everything is just great^^ ps: the .:HOME:. button bugs me a bit...it doesn't fit with all the other artwork on the page... maybe a simple shade of grey - brown would fit better than violet...and another font, maybe [font="Book Antiqua"]Book Antiqua[/font], or [font="Century Gothic"]Century Gothic[/font]^^ plus, it should be either on every page or on none (i'd prefer on none, the navigation on top is cool enough) but that's just me searching for hair in the soup =) it's still great^^

what about seeing the newspaper as advanced AL? i'm sure you (myrrh, i naturally assume you are editor in chief^^) could find loads of reporters writing about events for you, both what really happens and they have witnessed AND (much cooler) all sorts of pieces that improve people's personal role^^ the really hard work for you would be coordinating your permanent reporters and choosing which (amateur-) article should come out first, because you will be flooded with pieces if the idea comes out =D maybe manu could even make a new part of the 'right side'( where rpc list and AL are now) with the 'MD post' or whatever you want to call it

it's not a stealer... grasans have a weaken power of 150, don't they? =D i never watched them that closely, i just watched the damage raising per turn xD

no, there are no special creatures you get for being in an ally x( if you have read closely, GG-members can't enter GG freely... by being in an ally, you gain a homeland and house bonus on your stats, homeland bonus being constant and house bonus altering with the number of other ally-members online (eg if 4 members are online, you get 8% of the max house bonus) yes, we can fight other players normally (8 min on normal players, 1 hour on other allies), and we gain loyalty from winning against other ally-members and lose some loyalty for losing against other ally-members^^ cons: there are none =D except that you lose loyalty, and that you will be asked all sorts of stupid questions by n00bs because they think you are a god-like being...if none of these two things bug you, there are really no cons

dst, you can't see it because you are in an ally ;-) neither can i, for that matter... but hey, who cares for honor, the system tells you once you go under -500, and as long as that doesn't happen, why should i mind my honor? there's nothing you can gain from having high honor anyway =D