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Best RPC: .Renavoid. Least convincing alt: well, the libs... Best PWR: MRD Best Backstory: Khalazdad Best Personal Papers: I am Bored^^ Most Valued protector: .Savelfuser. Outstanding MD Service award: dst Best techie (Award for technical services rendered): dst (if i understand the category right...) Most addicted award (Based on the ‘You know you’ve been playing MD too much when…): YAMII!! Villain of the year:.jonn., the most evil person in the game =D Roleplay award: Lucius Tarquinius, the Moon Knight

another bug concerning names: when you leave the screen, you leave traces with your real player-name, but with the symbol of the ally you joined with the illusion... those who have casted a warrior tag (sol the mighty, burns the bloodthirsty, whatever) leave traces without the warrior name (MRD the strong leaves traces as MRD, MRP the cruel as MRP and so on) [color="#0000FF"] Playername behaves strange in chat for the session you are in. I cant do much about that (i will try harder anyway). Once you logout/login it will keep the new playername allover.[/color]

weird stuff... Bugged: description and tag I logged off as necro soldier with everything normal, and to see if my name changed back i got a lore soldier for 10 mins. Now, after stopping that illu, i still have the description of the lore soldier and the tag healer, even though i neither logged off as healer, nor did i become one =D and no matter how often i log off and back on, the description and tag stay, even when no such illu is on right now

i like snowboarding better than watching kangaroos hopping around anyway xD

i have just upgraded an archer that needs 6 xpl to be upgraded even though i had only 5 (my max as GG member). As the title says, nothing to worry about, i lost the ap, vit and vp normally, but the xpl stayed. maybe that's an overall bug? i never minded the xpl when upgrading because i don't need them anyways... can someone please take a look at his/her xpl costs next time when upgrading a creature and post about it?^^

there is hardly a way to satisfy you... new weapons are always nice, but it's hard to implement new ones that can be used at mp3 and 4... new weapons are normally better than old ones, and the best atm cost about 20k, so the next step would be 30k... and giving strong equips to low levels is kind of pointless, as i have already explained, it would either not work and get the game unbalanced or grow useless when everyone uses them... it's very hard work to get new items implemented and keep the game balanced, maybe even impossible...

k, weapons solve the problem, you can really only bear one weapon at a time...xD but still, even if only one creature from each creature-group can learn a special strike, and even if that strike is only applied in the first turn, that would be murderous... atm, 6 grasans is about one of the strongest rits, but if that new eature was implemented, i would make a rit with only one creature of each sort, and imagine you face a grasan with "heavy strike" dealing 500 weaken to all, a archer with "rapid fire" dealing 500 damage to all, a knator "supersonic attack" dealing 750 dmg to multiple and a lore archer "thousands arrows" dealing 200 dmg to all in the first round, that makes 1700 dmg to all and 2950 dmg on all those who get hit by the knator, WITHOUT stats-bonus, and people with 400 attack are not that rare, that sums up to 2000/3350 dmg IN THE FIRST STRIKE!! that would take the fun out of the game... with the actual system,only a handful of players CAN do such things to your creatures, but the normal players are far from it, so you can defeat most people with the right ritual, but if any player who attacks enough noobs can get such an army, you will have a hard time raising creatures... and saccing is what we have the creatures for, there's a reason why we have 16 slots and only 6 can do combat at once ;-) imagine what happened if you could grow your max vp by winning: people would start attacking beginners and near-dead even harder than they do atm, and would end up with full sun god set at mp3, making them gods of mp3... that's not such a great idea, is it? =D and if you made that weapons with low vp costs, beginners could get them, and therefore the weapon must be nearly useless, because if you give a weapon that seems good for mp5 to a noob, he is a mp3 god again, and that's what we don't want... strong equips must be over 10k to make sure that no mp3 gets them by accident, and really strong things need a value over 20k^^ i know that it sounds hard for mp3's and maybe even for mp4's, but if some of them could get strong equips by exploiting vp system, the game would grow very very unbalanced, and if ALL could get those equips, even without finding a way to get high temp vp, the equips would grow totally pointless... take a look at mp5, nearly everyone is running around with a full medusa and the sun gods helmet because it's officially the strongest equip you can get, and therefore, equips grow pointless, because everyone's the same anyways...

but still, as you have said, it's up to the indvidual coder to do so^^ of course, if you just need a pro to do some maths, you can take your time to polish it up a bit, that's what i did in my classes most of the time because coding maths-problems is not that hard xD but manu is NOT coding a pro that multiplies whatever you put in, that realm he created is much more, and it takes much more time just to figure out what's coming next, i wouldn't want to know how much lines the illusions take... and there, logical errors make your script break down, and not just get the solution "can't solve" or "syntax error"... i guess that manu is kind of absorbed with the illusions without correcting typos atm...and when that's finally done, he will be busy with madmans or whatever hides behind the gazebo of chaos or golemus and necro creatures, so i guess the typos will stay there for some time xD and, just to destroy your illusions: atm, manu is doing it all by himslef and doesn't give the source to anybody, not even dst and shoeps, so why should he give it to normal players to mess it up while trying to correct typos?

very interesting ideas... i especailly like the weapon idea, but i'd go further and suggest that there should be a set that enhances certain creatures, else i could take my medusas pants for loreroot creatures, my sun god helmet for the no mans creatures, the amazons fury for all archers and the royal guards gloves for marinds creatures, and all in all set a rit with creatures two times as strong as they usually are... i'd say there should be a whole set that makes one certain type of creatures stronger, and that set should be one that is "weak" in overall stat-bonuses, that would get some kind of individuality to the realm... but i don't agree with the new abilities idea, usually, i grow creautres to a certain level to sacc them to get more stats and grow stronger, if a creature would gain something endlessly, i would start farming 6 creatures and make them get killer-attacks that take my enemy out in the first strike... who cares for stats if you could also get a ele with all-ability and 50 power? xD assumption: i like the second idea, but i don't like the first one^^ but i assume that setting new equips is hard for manu, because the things need to be somehow balanced, and to some players, 30k vp is no problem, while it seems out of reach to others... dst, just for example, could get the new equip within two hours, test it and get himself a new killer-army within a week, while players who are just starting mp5 have absolutely no chance to get the value points needed for the latest equips...

ahmm...23rd december would be a tuesday xD sunday is the 21st^^ and i suggest not making it on the weekend before christmas, better in the week before ( between 15th and 20th), or on monday/tuesday before 24th, because i guess most of us will have some way of xmas celebrations at work or with their friends on that weekend... and after xmas there is xmas vacation and new year, that's a bad time for a bigger event^^

It surely is important, but it's not very exciting to correct misspellings... if you were to create a game and expand it's functions, would your priority be to expand your own and your games horizon and create new features that need some coding effort and of course the intelectual work that's needed for the script, or would you stop doing the fun-stuff and read through everything you've already done to correct the typos? i can really understand why those mistakes are still there...

Servas ("austrian"(no, we are NOT GERMANS xD)) if you have time, visit the alpine region, people will say that everytime they see you^^ we are very friendly people =D

when you read IT by stephen king and start asking yourself which level Pennywise might be... ps: i think it's 3 =P

1. you are bored. 2. you missed the Personal logs paper-symbol =P 3. yes, i read (most of) it. 4. i seem to be bored too...xD

if it's not too late, i want to participate: Burns ID:53832

4k is max heat^^ you won't go up to 6k by releasing 6 orbs, so better just release 4 of them =D

Page 327 [2008-11-07 00:07:28 - The Inner Sun - Bo.] Bootes lifts the lid of the box, eager to discover what is inside. He pulls out a strange object and studies it for a moment. It is long and metallic with several sliding pins set at right angles to each other. He also notices there are letters on the pins. Bootes turns it over, [u]slides a few of the pins back and forth[/u], noticing how they lock in place. “Is… is it a Key?” of course you are right shadow, i forgot all about the key in AL up to now, it obvious, bootes will have to slide all the pins that are not spelling the name he wants in because a lock won't turn if there are too many pins on the key... then he'll just have to stick the key in and turn over, without turning while sticking it in deeper or while drawing it out^^ and i'm still sticking with the order that the riddles gives, even if your ideas are really eloquent on that point...

Quite good idea, Shadow, but we could also list them alphabetically, or in a timeline starting with Nov 10th, or in the order in which they got named... i guess we should stick to the riddle because you have thousands of ways to order them (well, not thousands, but 120^^) once you stop sticking to the riddle. AND, most riddles are solved without knowledge that is outside the riddle itself, and the latin names are just other names for words that are already there in the riddle, so i guess we have to stick to the order these words get mentioned in the riddle...but i can be mistaken here as well as you can...

i agree with awis suggestion, but as there are five locks to be opened, i guess the third lock would open to LIBRA, because between lupus and aries there's the word Balance written with caps, while all other words (except for the four already mentioned) are without caps. so the correct keys are Orion (the hunter) Lupus (the wolf) Libra (the balance) Aries (the Ram) Cetus (the Sea Monster) and you could also get them by sticking the key in all the way and then drawing it out while turning the correct letters to the position, which is most probalby up, but knowing the system, Bootes can try all four directions on my idea plus four more for awi's suggestion of spelling backwards in no time, so that's no problem xD btw: congrats awi, great idea^^

i voted YES i think an ally of bored people could be fun, their ally chat would be a bit deserted, but hey, that's only their problem, and we could get easy wins from those bored people who are too lazy to set proper defs, so why not have that ally? xD And IAB will keep on making useless and stupid polls and threads until he is finally back in game and has something else to do, so why not let him have his very own ally?

i loved the ideas so far, even though the picture riddle was really huge... the riddle was old, yeah, but you're not supposed to google riddles, you should train your brain solving them =D and sometimes the old riddles are simply the best^^ i wonder what's left to come...maybe a code like lady nelya used it in the first part of her quest back then, or a riddle like alche's that needs some creative solutions, or maybe a puzzle with numbers in the old "open the safe" fashion... i hope you have some things left for bootes =D

it obviously comes up whenever the playerlist gets refreshed WHILE you are trying to attack someone. If you don't believe me, try this: you click on somebody's name so you have the normal choice "attack this player", and then you wait for, let's say a minute, i'm not sure how often the list gets actually refreshed, but in a min, it will be once at least for sure. If you click the (still normal) attack button after the refresh you'll get the ban message, even if the player is still here and attackable.

now, i guess i don't know the proper english words, but i'm very very sure that my answer is correct... i've just googled the word for the last point, i think it should be "raze", and it can occur in desert lands, it means that a whole civilization can be destroyed in a single sand storm because of the polishing effect of sands at high speeds, the castle can be destructed completely and without trace within hours. and i quite like the iron idea, but it seems a bit far to say the iron holds the lenses of the glasses... and the idea about the swords seems not too bad, but you won't destroy a castle with swords, i'd rather say tools could be the iron things to help you... still, i stick with sand, just because i've already heard that riddle hundreds of times and everyone says that the slution is sand =P

old and easy, it's [spoiler]sand! you can make glasses of it or it blinds you in a storm, you can build castles with it or use sand to extiguish them forever.[/spoiler] i thought i'd rather set it under spoilers because people might like to think by themselves =D ps: yippie, the first riddle in the forum i solved first :yahoo:

obviously, my english doesn't allow me to say what i want to say xD i don't want to say that complex rules are bad and would make the mods unefficient, that's no problem as long as there are exceptions for emergency causes, it's much like a law system, you are not allowed to hurt the rules, but there are exceptions, like when you seeing someone threatening another person with a gun, you are absolutely allowed to break his arm to make sure the other person gets saved. I wanted to say that all the rules you have written above need some exceptions and that it will take a looong time before they are ready to be implemented in the forum, and in that discussion period, some new minorities will come up and want to be noticed, and if every single position wants a rule that suits them best, we will be in troubles setting any rules at all. So, we have either the way to set some rules in a monocratic fashion (meaning one person setting them and the others obeying) or in a democratic process (which is perferable, but will take longer and need loads more rules). Now you can choose what is better: monocratic rules or democratic laws, and take in consideration, 1.)if you say monocratic now, we need to find out who suits the position of leader best, and even if i like all your ideas so far, i'd still vote for chewett, and as most others would do so too because he's doing a great job, not much would change, and 2.)if you say democratic, there will be the need of setting up numberous threads and discussing all the rules with everyone, and we will grow tired of bringing up the same points over and over again, and in the long run, the whole idea could be dropped because of frustration. And i just thought that this points need to be clear for all the people reading this thread, because anyone can say "yep, that's good" or "no, maggot's rules are crap", but most of them won't stop to think and consider what each of your rules means and how they might need to be changed before they can really be laid down as rules. i hope i managed to write my arguments in a way that can be understood even if you don't speak english as native tongue =D