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you completly missunderstood my entire post No one.
1.
it doesn't start with a contradiction. I was trying to say that:
-DD is allways rude to everbody around him.
is not the same as:
-DD sometimes says some rude things to some people
-DD once/a few times/very often/... said something rude to me/my friend/someone i barely know/...
That sentance was like a complaint about the lack of precission in the writing which bothers me greatly because it implies many things that are often not true or not entirely true. Next I used myself as an exaple of a person that DD has never EVER been rude to in an attempt to show you why the sentance "DD is rude to people" is not true (as long as there is one person DD was never rude to that sentance cannot be true) and that a different sentance should be used (for exaple: "DD is sometimes rude to some people" which is true EVEN IF there exists a person/more persons that DD has not been rude to)
After that i talk about possible reasons that he was rude to people. I explained 2 possibilities - first is that he is rude to people that were rude to him first and the vast majority of people complaining about his rudeness are AT LEAST as rude to him as he is to them (not all i admit but a lot of them) and i admit i have no way of knowing who started being rude but as long as both sides are being rude to one another NEITHER has any right to demand change from the other one. Either they both stop being rude or they both continue being rude - myself i would love for ALL rudeness to be gone from the game and the forums but i doubt i'll ever live to see that. In the meantime it is rude (yes rude) to accuse someone of something repeatedly and demand from him that he changes his behaviour while still doing the exact same thing yourself (if that is DD's reason to be rude than he was never rude to me because i was never rude to him). The second possibility i thought of is that he says rude things only when he is extremly upset/sad/angry/nervous. (in that case i guess i was lucky to never talk with him when he was in that state - perhaps it is because i try not to push people in such states of mind) I say it is natural that one can't make completly rational decisions about what he is going to say when he is in such a state. Even a person that you love and know loves you back Will sometimes say bad things to you when they had a bad day at work or something. I have yet to meet a person that hasn't said things they regret while they were emotionaly and physicaly on the edge. I'm not saying you have to accept it, but you should be able to at least understand why someone is reacting the way they are.

2. myth got the point of this part pretty well and it seams you now understand the basics of what i was trying to say but still the first sentance bothers you. I did not use generalization in my sentance i was only negating the generalization used before (by sasha and by a few others as well). I wasn't tying to say noone in the comunity hates DD (i know some might) i was stating that it is wrong to say that the society as a whole hates him because it doesn't. SOME members of the society hate him but the society as a whole doesn't. Of course it is equally wrong to say that the society likes him or anything else you can think of. Hardly ever can you say anything about society or a community without it being a form of generalization and thus at least partly a lie.

This is NOT an official quest (for now at least) so the prizes will only be silver coins from my personal inventory. All sponsors are very wellcome :D
 
Now let's get to the point :) what i want you to do is write down a name of a player that you believe did (or said or perhaps plans to do) something evil and the reason why you think that it is evil. Lastly (and most importantly) explain how much of it you think is actual evilness and how much is it just roleplaying a "badguy" (a hero can  only truly shine when facing a force of great evil so roleplaying a bad guy could be just someone selflessly giving others the chance to prove themselves as mighty heroes). Or perhaps it was meant only as a sick joke? You are to submit your entries as replys to this post so everybody can see it but i will judge it in my own way disregarding any coments about who likes or dislikes which submission (you are still free to post coments like that just remember it won't affect my judgement).
 
Depending on the number of entries i will select one or more winners and the number of coins the winner(s) get will depend on how much i like their submissions.

you don't die for people you love, you survive for them.

how about you have two large boats connected with a rope that floats on the surface of the water so it bends (if the earth really is curved) and at the same time "connect" the boats with a laserbeam that goes straight from one boat to the other. if the surface of the sea is curved then the laser Will go underwater (kinda like a tunnel). you can then use smaller boats and submarines to check the distance between the rope and the laserbeam on different points and see exactly what kind of a curve it is. unless of course you're sugesting that laserbeams aren't straight lines but are instead curved themselves. in that case all you need to do is measure how long the rope is and how long the laserbeam is and the one that is longer has to be the curved one. or at least that one is curved more than the other one. might be a bit costly to try it though :D
also on a flat earth with the center in north pole - how would you explain the fact that when you pass a certain point (around equator) the sun sudenly moves from right to left instead of from left to right? that was something early explorers noticed when they were sailing south along the african shore and for a long time noone believed them.

the sun moves the same for all people - it's all about perspective. if you are on the equator (on one of the equinoxes) the sun goes directly over your head at noon. if you go north you see that at highest point the sun points south (that's something you should be well aware of - it's basic orientation) so during the day you see the sun going from east (which is on your left if you're facing south) upwards and to the right until at noon it points to south (in front of you) and then it goes back down while still moving right until it sets in the west (on your right). if you're on the south hemisphere the sun still rises in the east and sets on the west but at noon it points to north instead of south. so if you were on south hemisphere facing south (the same direction as before) the sun would still move from left to right - but it would go "behind your back". if you want to see it at noon you have to turn north and this turn (change of perspective) makes you see the sun moving in the "wrong" direction. you could make a model (a globe and a disc) and a lightbulb on a Wheel around it. then stick needles in it track their shadows (if shadow moves from right to left it means that a man standing in that spot would see the sun going from left to right). try out both models then move to diferent locations around earth to check if sun and shadows movement matches what your models suggests. to make it cheaper you could have people you trust report those findings so you don't have to visit too many locations yourself. the model that fits reallyty better wins :D you can also try out many other different models just for fun.
as for the other idea it is something i came up with on the spot while reading about spherical triangles (learned a few thing about those in college which helped spark the idea).

p.s. sorry for the wall of text, i got i little carried away when i noticed there was a wp involved :P

Seeing that there are few different kinds of water as a resource in MD and assuming that they are to have different uses perhaps the device at War Hold could be adapted with ability to interact with different kinds of water?
 
we have
water - gathered from lakes, rivers - used in many activities (plant watering, tea brewing, some other recipes)
rain water - gathered from rain - atm not very useful (perhaps could be used for watering plants as well? it's kinda silly it can't be used that way)
mineral water - gathered from caves and mineral pools - (usefulness of it might be a completely different topic :P)
 
perhaps we also might have
sea water - gathered from sea - used in the WH device to get salt from it
 
now for the device at War Hold:
rain water + sand + heat = water (filtered or boiled to improve it's quality)
water + some kind of dust and/or gas = mineral water 
lots of sea water + even more heat = water + little bit of salt
 
this is ofc just a rough idea, the final recipes should be more complicated,
but what do you think of that?
 

Oh It would matter, It would be dealt with in one way or another, likely removing the leash, the coins and further. However you cant preemtively punish people (see minority report) if you think they might do something bad. From the looks of it Aethon feels that Fang wont abuse his position but if he does, we can deal with it, hopefully nicely :)

Aaaaand I'm back; I can finally enjoy internet and be grateful that my connection does not take 45 seconds+ to load google.
 
Thanks all - the break was needed and I feel much better. Let's do stuff!

That is like half of things up there. Some stuff are debatable. It's a tons of work, so Chew how deep are you planning to dive on the problem?
 
Some things are questionable by design on large scale and are highly debatable, some were as well discussed in Combat Talk and it's sibling topics. "- ability to protect rituals indefinitely" as Asthir put it would fall under that category rather than just fixing/improving/clarifying the current system, it means rework/redesign of combat.
 
 
Comments for above post (Asthir's):
"temporary effect lines" are displayed only when all effects have expired on a given slot.
"Defend killing your creats" was also debated in one of bug topics and nothing was concluded regarding that, I won't get into details, it's a matter of that topic but it's more likely a matter of design issue rather than a bug issue.
"GA spell" since holyarmy/protarmy is basically same spell, it's equally broken.
Slider issue I believe is fixed.
"Battle Log Display, Regeneration gained VE also isn't shown in here" this one is tricky, problem is that combat actually has 2 summed outcomes. One counts everything, the other has exceptions such as energyburn self damage, priests aura, etc. This is both design and clarity issue.
 
 
Short version of list: (with gibberish explanatory talk; hint: don't read brackets)
- I think that every combat related function needs to be checked and compared with documentation to see how things should work or be explained/documented. It's all one big mess currently.
- Log clarity: before round 0 print out all creatures with slot number, creat type id and level as well as all combat stats it has applied
(this is to ensure clarity on who started with what; also helpful when you are trying to see which creat was matched and effected by which creat when it comes to slot specific auras and tokens)
(figure out what to do with creature names they are confusing and useless in combat log; if I use 3 barrens and 3 santas, yet I name my barrens Santa and my santas Barren and set them all on heal, good luck figuring which is which.)
; also prints of ability actions in log need to be better since every other ability leaves you with some info "missing" (mostly the case with confusing part "and is left with X vitality" yet you ain't sure which creat is in question, for example martyrism issue when it says how much target has left ve, yet tree itself burned his own ve and you have no idea how much it had or is left with)
 
No log clarity means that debugging by users is hard and confusing at best, but usually very questionable. In addition to not being able to read the code (which we can't understand in first place anyway) we are also supplied with questionable documentation and explanations on how things (should) work. May the Force be with you on this epic adventure Chew :))

you completly missunderstood my entire post No one.
1.
it doesn't start with a contradiction. I was trying to say that:
-DD is allways rude to everbody around him.
is not the same as:
-DD sometimes says some rude things to some people
-DD once/a few times/very often/... said something rude to me/my friend/someone i barely know/...
That sentance was like a complaint about the lack of precission in the writing which bothers me greatly because it implies many things that are often not true or not entirely true. Next I used myself as an exaple of a person that DD has never EVER been rude to in an attempt to show you why the sentance "DD is rude to people" is not true (as long as there is one person DD was never rude to that sentance cannot be true) and that a different sentance should be used (for exaple: "DD is sometimes rude to some people" which is true EVEN IF there exists a person/more persons that DD has not been rude to)
After that i talk about possible reasons that he was rude to people. I explained 2 possibilities - first is that he is rude to people that were rude to him first and the vast majority of people complaining about his rudeness are AT LEAST as rude to him as he is to them (not all i admit but a lot of them) and i admit i have no way of knowing who started being rude but as long as both sides are being rude to one another NEITHER has any right to demand change from the other one. Either they both stop being rude or they both continue being rude - myself i would love for ALL rudeness to be gone from the game and the forums but i doubt i'll ever live to see that. In the meantime it is rude (yes rude) to accuse someone of something repeatedly and demand from him that he changes his behaviour while still doing the exact same thing yourself (if that is DD's reason to be rude than he was never rude to me because i was never rude to him). The second possibility i thought of is that he says rude things only when he is extremly upset/sad/angry/nervous. (in that case i guess i was lucky to never talk with him when he was in that state - perhaps it is because i try not to push people in such states of mind) I say it is natural that one can't make completly rational decisions about what he is going to say when he is in such a state. Even a person that you love and know loves you back Will sometimes say bad things to you when they had a bad day at work or something. I have yet to meet a person that hasn't said things they regret while they were emotionaly and physicaly on the edge. I'm not saying you have to accept it, but you should be able to at least understand why someone is reacting the way they are.

2. myth got the point of this part pretty well and it seams you now understand the basics of what i was trying to say but still the first sentance bothers you. I did not use generalization in my sentance i was only negating the generalization used before (by sasha and by a few others as well). I wasn't tying to say noone in the comunity hates DD (i know some might) i was stating that it is wrong to say that the society as a whole hates him because it doesn't. SOME members of the society hate him but the society as a whole doesn't. Of course it is equally wrong to say that the society likes him or anything else you can think of. Hardly ever can you say anything about society or a community without it being a form of generalization and thus at least partly a lie.

you completly missunderstood my entire post No one.
1.
it doesn't start with a contradiction. I was trying to say that:
-DD is allways rude to everbody around him.
is not the same as:
-DD sometimes says some rude things to some people
-DD once/a few times/very often/... said something rude to me/my friend/someone i barely know/...
That sentance was like a complaint about the lack of precission in the writing which bothers me greatly because it implies many things that are often not true or not entirely true. Next I used myself as an exaple of a person that DD has never EVER been rude to in an attempt to show you why the sentance "DD is rude to people" is not true (as long as there is one person DD was never rude to that sentance cannot be true) and that a different sentance should be used (for exaple: "DD is sometimes rude to some people" which is true EVEN IF there exists a person/more persons that DD has not been rude to)
After that i talk about possible reasons that he was rude to people. I explained 2 possibilities - first is that he is rude to people that were rude to him first and the vast majority of people complaining about his rudeness are AT LEAST as rude to him as he is to them (not all i admit but a lot of them) and i admit i have no way of knowing who started being rude but as long as both sides are being rude to one another NEITHER has any right to demand change from the other one. Either they both stop being rude or they both continue being rude - myself i would love for ALL rudeness to be gone from the game and the forums but i doubt i'll ever live to see that. In the meantime it is rude (yes rude) to accuse someone of something repeatedly and demand from him that he changes his behaviour while still doing the exact same thing yourself (if that is DD's reason to be rude than he was never rude to me because i was never rude to him). The second possibility i thought of is that he says rude things only when he is extremly upset/sad/angry/nervous. (in that case i guess i was lucky to never talk with him when he was in that state - perhaps it is because i try not to push people in such states of mind) I say it is natural that one can't make completly rational decisions about what he is going to say when he is in such a state. Even a person that you love and know loves you back Will sometimes say bad things to you when they had a bad day at work or something. I have yet to meet a person that hasn't said things they regret while they were emotionaly and physicaly on the edge. I'm not saying you have to accept it, but you should be able to at least understand why someone is reacting the way they are.

2. myth got the point of this part pretty well and it seams you now understand the basics of what i was trying to say but still the first sentance bothers you. I did not use generalization in my sentance i was only negating the generalization used before (by sasha and by a few others as well). I wasn't tying to say noone in the comunity hates DD (i know some might) i was stating that it is wrong to say that the society as a whole hates him because it doesn't. SOME members of the society hate him but the society as a whole doesn't. Of course it is equally wrong to say that the society likes him or anything else you can think of. Hardly ever can you say anything about society or a community without it being a form of generalization and thus at least partly a lie.

you completly missunderstood my entire post No one.
1.
it doesn't start with a contradiction. I was trying to say that:
-DD is allways rude to everbody around him.
is not the same as:
-DD sometimes says some rude things to some people
-DD once/a few times/very often/... said something rude to me/my friend/someone i barely know/...
That sentance was like a complaint about the lack of precission in the writing which bothers me greatly because it implies many things that are often not true or not entirely true. Next I used myself as an exaple of a person that DD has never EVER been rude to in an attempt to show you why the sentance "DD is rude to people" is not true (as long as there is one person DD was never rude to that sentance cannot be true) and that a different sentance should be used (for exaple: "DD is sometimes rude to some people" which is true EVEN IF there exists a person/more persons that DD has not been rude to)
After that i talk about possible reasons that he was rude to people. I explained 2 possibilities - first is that he is rude to people that were rude to him first and the vast majority of people complaining about his rudeness are AT LEAST as rude to him as he is to them (not all i admit but a lot of them) and i admit i have no way of knowing who started being rude but as long as both sides are being rude to one another NEITHER has any right to demand change from the other one. Either they both stop being rude or they both continue being rude - myself i would love for ALL rudeness to be gone from the game and the forums but i doubt i'll ever live to see that. In the meantime it is rude (yes rude) to accuse someone of something repeatedly and demand from him that he changes his behaviour while still doing the exact same thing yourself (if that is DD's reason to be rude than he was never rude to me because i was never rude to him). The second possibility i thought of is that he says rude things only when he is extremly upset/sad/angry/nervous. (in that case i guess i was lucky to never talk with him when he was in that state - perhaps it is because i try not to push people in such states of mind) I say it is natural that one can't make completly rational decisions about what he is going to say when he is in such a state. Even a person that you love and know loves you back Will sometimes say bad things to you when they had a bad day at work or something. I have yet to meet a person that hasn't said things they regret while they were emotionaly and physicaly on the edge. I'm not saying you have to accept it, but you should be able to at least understand why someone is reacting the way they are.

2. myth got the point of this part pretty well and it seams you now understand the basics of what i was trying to say but still the first sentance bothers you. I did not use generalization in my sentance i was only negating the generalization used before (by sasha and by a few others as well). I wasn't tying to say noone in the comunity hates DD (i know some might) i was stating that it is wrong to say that the society as a whole hates him because it doesn't. SOME members of the society hate him but the society as a whole doesn't. Of course it is equally wrong to say that the society likes him or anything else you can think of. Hardly ever can you say anything about society or a community without it being a form of generalization and thus at least partly a lie.

you completly missunderstood my entire post No one.
1.
it doesn't start with a contradiction. I was trying to say that:
-DD is allways rude to everbody around him.
is not the same as:
-DD sometimes says some rude things to some people
-DD once/a few times/very often/... said something rude to me/my friend/someone i barely know/...
That sentance was like a complaint about the lack of precission in the writing which bothers me greatly because it implies many things that are often not true or not entirely true. Next I used myself as an exaple of a person that DD has never EVER been rude to in an attempt to show you why the sentance "DD is rude to people" is not true (as long as there is one person DD was never rude to that sentance cannot be true) and that a different sentance should be used (for exaple: "DD is sometimes rude to some people" which is true EVEN IF there exists a person/more persons that DD has not been rude to)
After that i talk about possible reasons that he was rude to people. I explained 2 possibilities - first is that he is rude to people that were rude to him first and the vast majority of people complaining about his rudeness are AT LEAST as rude to him as he is to them (not all i admit but a lot of them) and i admit i have no way of knowing who started being rude but as long as both sides are being rude to one another NEITHER has any right to demand change from the other one. Either they both stop being rude or they both continue being rude - myself i would love for ALL rudeness to be gone from the game and the forums but i doubt i'll ever live to see that. In the meantime it is rude (yes rude) to accuse someone of something repeatedly and demand from him that he changes his behaviour while still doing the exact same thing yourself (if that is DD's reason to be rude than he was never rude to me because i was never rude to him). The second possibility i thought of is that he says rude things only when he is extremly upset/sad/angry/nervous. (in that case i guess i was lucky to never talk with him when he was in that state - perhaps it is because i try not to push people in such states of mind) I say it is natural that one can't make completly rational decisions about what he is going to say when he is in such a state. Even a person that you love and know loves you back Will sometimes say bad things to you when they had a bad day at work or something. I have yet to meet a person that hasn't said things they regret while they were emotionaly and physicaly on the edge. I'm not saying you have to accept it, but you should be able to at least understand why someone is reacting the way they are.

2. myth got the point of this part pretty well and it seams you now understand the basics of what i was trying to say but still the first sentance bothers you. I did not use generalization in my sentance i was only negating the generalization used before (by sasha and by a few others as well). I wasn't tying to say noone in the comunity hates DD (i know some might) i was stating that it is wrong to say that the society as a whole hates him because it doesn't. SOME members of the society hate him but the society as a whole doesn't. Of course it is equally wrong to say that the society likes him or anything else you can think of. Hardly ever can you say anything about society or a community without it being a form of generalization and thus at least partly a lie.

1. DD is NOT rude to people. He is rude to SOME poeple SOMEtimes. This a huge difference. I treated him nicely and with respect and he allways responded to me in the same manner. If he said something rude to you then you have to think about why he has done so. If you were treating him badly he has every right to respond in kind. And even if he was rude to you but you weren't rude to him there are other things to consider before judging him (things like how angry/sad/nervous he was at that moment). If you have been arguing with someone the whole days it is completly natural that you need some time to calm down and before you do you are very likely to say inappropriate things - even to people that have nothing to do with the argument you just had. That is not DD's problem that is completly normal and natural human behaviour and if you have a problem with that then it is your problem not DD's and you're the one that has to learn how to deal with it. (this is directed to all the people complaining about DD being rude not any specific person)

2. The comunity/society/people of MD doesn't hate DD and "we" don't have a problem with his attitude. Saying things like that is generalization at it's worst and is (imo) far more unacceptable than any rudeness i've ever heard (read) from DD. If YOU feel some way about someone (or some thing) than either have the guts to say it like that (and don't hide yourself in the crowd saying it's the comunity's oppinion) or don't say anthing at all if you don't want to put yourself in the spotlight. I have had more than enough of people expressing MY oppinion. I'm as much a part of this comunity as anyone else and saying: "the comunity thinks this" is saying that 'I' think so aswell. I will not tolerate this any longer. If 'I' have an oppinion on something I will express it myself when I want it to (if i decide to express it at all). If you want to show you have the support of other people than feel free to name anyone that supports you (and gives you permission to express his/her oppinion) but leave me (and anyone else that feels this way) OUT of it. Any future post trying to express MY oppinion will be reported (and if i don't calm down soon many of the past ones aswell).

you completly missunderstood my entire post No one.
1.
it doesn't start with a contradiction. I was trying to say that:
-DD is allways rude to everbody around him.
is not the same as:
-DD sometimes says some rude things to some people
-DD once/a few times/very often/... said something rude to me/my friend/someone i barely know/...
That sentance was like a complaint about the lack of precission in the writing which bothers me greatly because it implies many things that are often not true or not entirely true. Next I used myself as an exaple of a person that DD has never EVER been rude to in an attempt to show you why the sentance "DD is rude to people" is not true (as long as there is one person DD was never rude to that sentance cannot be true) and that a different sentance should be used (for exaple: "DD is sometimes rude to some people" which is true EVEN IF there exists a person/more persons that DD has not been rude to)
After that i talk about possible reasons that he was rude to people. I explained 2 possibilities - first is that he is rude to people that were rude to him first and the vast majority of people complaining about his rudeness are AT LEAST as rude to him as he is to them (not all i admit but a lot of them) and i admit i have no way of knowing who started being rude but as long as both sides are being rude to one another NEITHER has any right to demand change from the other one. Either they both stop being rude or they both continue being rude - myself i would love for ALL rudeness to be gone from the game and the forums but i doubt i'll ever live to see that. In the meantime it is rude (yes rude) to accuse someone of something repeatedly and demand from him that he changes his behaviour while still doing the exact same thing yourself (if that is DD's reason to be rude than he was never rude to me because i was never rude to him). The second possibility i thought of is that he says rude things only when he is extremly upset/sad/angry/nervous. (in that case i guess i was lucky to never talk with him when he was in that state - perhaps it is because i try not to push people in such states of mind) I say it is natural that one can't make completly rational decisions about what he is going to say when he is in such a state. Even a person that you love and know loves you back Will sometimes say bad things to you when they had a bad day at work or something. I have yet to meet a person that hasn't said things they regret while they were emotionaly and physicaly on the edge. I'm not saying you have to accept it, but you should be able to at least understand why someone is reacting the way they are.

2. myth got the point of this part pretty well and it seams you now understand the basics of what i was trying to say but still the first sentance bothers you. I did not use generalization in my sentance i was only negating the generalization used before (by sasha and by a few others as well). I wasn't tying to say noone in the comunity hates DD (i know some might) i was stating that it is wrong to say that the society as a whole hates him because it doesn't. SOME members of the society hate him but the society as a whole doesn't. Of course it is equally wrong to say that the society likes him or anything else you can think of. Hardly ever can you say anything about society or a community without it being a form of generalization and thus at least partly a lie.

1. DD is NOT rude to people. He is rude to SOME poeple SOMEtimes. This a huge difference. I treated him nicely and with respect and he allways responded to me in the same manner. If he said something rude to you then you have to think about why he has done so. If you were treating him badly he has every right to respond in kind. And even if he was rude to you but you weren't rude to him there are other things to consider before judging him (things like how angry/sad/nervous he was at that moment). If you have been arguing with someone the whole days it is completly natural that you need some time to calm down and before you do you are very likely to say inappropriate things - even to people that have nothing to do with the argument you just had. That is not DD's problem that is completly normal and natural human behaviour and if you have a problem with that then it is your problem not DD's and you're the one that has to learn how to deal with it. (this is directed to all the people complaining about DD being rude not any specific person)

2. The comunity/society/people of MD doesn't hate DD and "we" don't have a problem with his attitude. Saying things like that is generalization at it's worst and is (imo) far more unacceptable than any rudeness i've ever heard (read) from DD. If YOU feel some way about someone (or some thing) than either have the guts to say it like that (and don't hide yourself in the crowd saying it's the comunity's oppinion) or don't say anthing at all if you don't want to put yourself in the spotlight. I have had more than enough of people expressing MY oppinion. I'm as much a part of this comunity as anyone else and saying: "the comunity thinks this" is saying that 'I' think so aswell. I will not tolerate this any longer. If 'I' have an oppinion on something I will express it myself when I want it to (if i decide to express it at all). If you want to show you have the support of other people than feel free to name anyone that supports you (and gives you permission to express his/her oppinion) but leave me (and anyone else that feels this way) OUT of it. Any future post trying to express MY oppinion will be reported (and if i don't calm down soon many of the past ones aswell).

1. DD is NOT rude to people. He is rude to SOME poeple SOMEtimes. This a huge difference. I treated him nicely and with respect and he allways responded to me in the same manner. If he said something rude to you then you have to think about why he has done so. If you were treating him badly he has every right to respond in kind. And even if he was rude to you but you weren't rude to him there are other things to consider before judging him (things like how angry/sad/nervous he was at that moment). If you have been arguing with someone the whole days it is completly natural that you need some time to calm down and before you do you are very likely to say inappropriate things - even to people that have nothing to do with the argument you just had. That is not DD's problem that is completly normal and natural human behaviour and if you have a problem with that then it is your problem not DD's and you're the one that has to learn how to deal with it. (this is directed to all the people complaining about DD being rude not any specific person)

2. The comunity/society/people of MD doesn't hate DD and "we" don't have a problem with his attitude. Saying things like that is generalization at it's worst and is (imo) far more unacceptable than any rudeness i've ever heard (read) from DD. If YOU feel some way about someone (or some thing) than either have the guts to say it like that (and don't hide yourself in the crowd saying it's the comunity's oppinion) or don't say anthing at all if you don't want to put yourself in the spotlight. I have had more than enough of people expressing MY oppinion. I'm as much a part of this comunity as anyone else and saying: "the comunity thinks this" is saying that 'I' think so aswell. I will not tolerate this any longer. If 'I' have an oppinion on something I will express it myself when I want it to (if i decide to express it at all). If you want to show you have the support of other people than feel free to name anyone that supports you (and gives you permission to express his/her oppinion) but leave me (and anyone else that feels this way) OUT of it. Any future post trying to express MY oppinion will be reported (and if i don't calm down soon many of the past ones aswell).

1. DD is NOT rude to people. He is rude to SOME poeple SOMEtimes. This a huge difference. I treated him nicely and with respect and he allways responded to me in the same manner. If he said something rude to you then you have to think about why he has done so. If you were treating him badly he has every right to respond in kind. And even if he was rude to you but you weren't rude to him there are other things to consider before judging him (things like how angry/sad/nervous he was at that moment). If you have been arguing with someone the whole days it is completly natural that you need some time to calm down and before you do you are very likely to say inappropriate things - even to people that have nothing to do with the argument you just had. That is not DD's problem that is completly normal and natural human behaviour and if you have a problem with that then it is your problem not DD's and you're the one that has to learn how to deal with it. (this is directed to all the people complaining about DD being rude not any specific person)

2. The comunity/society/people of MD doesn't hate DD and "we" don't have a problem with his attitude. Saying things like that is generalization at it's worst and is (imo) far more unacceptable than any rudeness i've ever heard (read) from DD. If YOU feel some way about someone (or some thing) than either have the guts to say it like that (and don't hide yourself in the crowd saying it's the comunity's oppinion) or don't say anthing at all if you don't want to put yourself in the spotlight. I have had more than enough of people expressing MY oppinion. I'm as much a part of this comunity as anyone else and saying: "the comunity thinks this" is saying that 'I' think so aswell. I will not tolerate this any longer. If 'I' have an oppinion on something I will express it myself when I want it to (if i decide to express it at all). If you want to show you have the support of other people than feel free to name anyone that supports you (and gives you permission to express his/her oppinion) but leave me (and anyone else that feels this way) OUT of it. Any future post trying to express MY oppinion will be reported (and if i don't calm down soon many of the past ones aswell).

1. DD is NOT rude to people. He is rude to SOME poeple SOMEtimes. This a huge difference. I treated him nicely and with respect and he allways responded to me in the same manner. If he said something rude to you then you have to think about why he has done so. If you were treating him badly he has every right to respond in kind. And even if he was rude to you but you weren't rude to him there are other things to consider before judging him (things like how angry/sad/nervous he was at that moment). If you have been arguing with someone the whole days it is completly natural that you need some time to calm down and before you do you are very likely to say inappropriate things - even to people that have nothing to do with the argument you just had. That is not DD's problem that is completly normal and natural human behaviour and if you have a problem with that then it is your problem not DD's and you're the one that has to learn how to deal with it. (this is directed to all the people complaining about DD being rude not any specific person)

2. The comunity/society/people of MD doesn't hate DD and "we" don't have a problem with his attitude. Saying things like that is generalization at it's worst and is (imo) far more unacceptable than any rudeness i've ever heard (read) from DD. If YOU feel some way about someone (or some thing) than either have the guts to say it like that (and don't hide yourself in the crowd saying it's the comunity's oppinion) or don't say anthing at all if you don't want to put yourself in the spotlight. I have had more than enough of people expressing MY oppinion. I'm as much a part of this comunity as anyone else and saying: "the comunity thinks this" is saying that 'I' think so aswell. I will not tolerate this any longer. If 'I' have an oppinion on something I will express it myself when I want it to (if i decide to express it at all). If you want to show you have the support of other people than feel free to name anyone that supports you (and gives you permission to express his/her oppinion) but leave me (and anyone else that feels this way) OUT of it. Any future post trying to express MY oppinion will be reported (and if i don't calm down soon many of the past ones aswell).

1. DD is NOT rude to people. He is rude to SOME poeple SOMEtimes. This a huge difference. I treated him nicely and with respect and he allways responded to me in the same manner. If he said something rude to you then you have to think about why he has done so. If you were treating him badly he has every right to respond in kind. And even if he was rude to you but you weren't rude to him there are other things to consider before judging him (things like how angry/sad/nervous he was at that moment). If you have been arguing with someone the whole days it is completly natural that you need some time to calm down and before you do you are very likely to say inappropriate things - even to people that have nothing to do with the argument you just had. That is not DD's problem that is completly normal and natural human behaviour and if you have a problem with that then it is your problem not DD's and you're the one that has to learn how to deal with it. (this is directed to all the people complaining about DD being rude not any specific person)

2. The comunity/society/people of MD doesn't hate DD and "we" don't have a problem with his attitude. Saying things like that is generalization at it's worst and is (imo) far more unacceptable than any rudeness i've ever heard (read) from DD. If YOU feel some way about someone (or some thing) than either have the guts to say it like that (and don't hide yourself in the crowd saying it's the comunity's oppinion) or don't say anthing at all if you don't want to put yourself in the spotlight. I have had more than enough of people expressing MY oppinion. I'm as much a part of this comunity as anyone else and saying: "the comunity thinks this" is saying that 'I' think so aswell. I will not tolerate this any longer. If 'I' have an oppinion on something I will express it myself when I want it to (if i decide to express it at all). If you want to show you have the support of other people than feel free to name anyone that supports you (and gives you permission to express his/her oppinion) but leave me (and anyone else that feels this way) OUT of it. Any future post trying to express MY oppinion will be reported (and if i don't calm down soon many of the past ones aswell).

1. DD is NOT rude to people. He is rude to SOME poeple SOMEtimes. This a huge difference. I treated him nicely and with respect and he allways responded to me in the same manner. If he said something rude to you then you have to think about why he has done so. If you were treating him badly he has every right to respond in kind. And even if he was rude to you but you weren't rude to him there are other things to consider before judging him (things like how angry/sad/nervous he was at that moment). If you have been arguing with someone the whole days it is completly natural that you need some time to calm down and before you do you are very likely to say inappropriate things - even to people that have nothing to do with the argument you just had. That is not DD's problem that is completly normal and natural human behaviour and if you have a problem with that then it is your problem not DD's and you're the one that has to learn how to deal with it. (this is directed to all the people complaining about DD being rude not any specific person)

2. The comunity/society/people of MD doesn't hate DD and "we" don't have a problem with his attitude. Saying things like that is generalization at it's worst and is (imo) far more unacceptable than any rudeness i've ever heard (read) from DD. If YOU feel some way about someone (or some thing) than either have the guts to say it like that (and don't hide yourself in the crowd saying it's the comunity's oppinion) or don't say anthing at all if you don't want to put yourself in the spotlight. I have had more than enough of people expressing MY oppinion. I'm as much a part of this comunity as anyone else and saying: "the comunity thinks this" is saying that 'I' think so aswell. I will not tolerate this any longer. If 'I' have an oppinion on something I will express it myself when I want it to (if i decide to express it at all). If you want to show you have the support of other people than feel free to name anyone that supports you (and gives you permission to express his/her oppinion) but leave me (and anyone else that feels this way) OUT of it. Any future post trying to express MY oppinion will be reported (and if i don't calm down soon many of the past ones aswell).

1. DD is NOT rude to people. He is rude to SOME poeple SOMEtimes. This a huge difference. I treated him nicely and with respect and he allways responded to me in the same manner. If he said something rude to you then you have to think about why he has done so. If you were treating him badly he has every right to respond in kind. And even if he was rude to you but you weren't rude to him there are other things to consider before judging him (things like how angry/sad/nervous he was at that moment). If you have been arguing with someone the whole days it is completly natural that you need some time to calm down and before you do you are very likely to say inappropriate things - even to people that have nothing to do with the argument you just had. That is not DD's problem that is completly normal and natural human behaviour and if you have a problem with that then it is your problem not DD's and you're the one that has to learn how to deal with it. (this is directed to all the people complaining about DD being rude not any specific person)

2. The comunity/society/people of MD doesn't hate DD and "we" don't have a problem with his attitude. Saying things like that is generalization at it's worst and is (imo) far more unacceptable than any rudeness i've ever heard (read) from DD. If YOU feel some way about someone (or some thing) than either have the guts to say it like that (and don't hide yourself in the crowd saying it's the comunity's oppinion) or don't say anthing at all if you don't want to put yourself in the spotlight. I have had more than enough of people expressing MY oppinion. I'm as much a part of this comunity as anyone else and saying: "the comunity thinks this" is saying that 'I' think so aswell. I will not tolerate this any longer. If 'I' have an oppinion on something I will express it myself when I want it to (if i decide to express it at all). If you want to show you have the support of other people than feel free to name anyone that supports you (and gives you permission to express his/her oppinion) but leave me (and anyone else that feels this way) OUT of it. Any future post trying to express MY oppinion will be reported (and if i don't calm down soon many of the past ones aswell).

1. DD is NOT rude to people. He is rude to SOME poeple SOMEtimes. This a huge difference. I treated him nicely and with respect and he allways responded to me in the same manner. If he said something rude to you then you have to think about why he has done so. If you were treating him badly he has every right to respond in kind. And even if he was rude to you but you weren't rude to him there are other things to consider before judging him (things like how angry/sad/nervous he was at that moment). If you have been arguing with someone the whole days it is completly natural that you need some time to calm down and before you do you are very likely to say inappropriate things - even to people that have nothing to do with the argument you just had. That is not DD's problem that is completly normal and natural human behaviour and if you have a problem with that then it is your problem not DD's and you're the one that has to learn how to deal with it. (this is directed to all the people complaining about DD being rude not any specific person)

2. The comunity/society/people of MD doesn't hate DD and "we" don't have a problem with his attitude. Saying things like that is generalization at it's worst and is (imo) far more unacceptable than any rudeness i've ever heard (read) from DD. If YOU feel some way about someone (or some thing) than either have the guts to say it like that (and don't hide yourself in the crowd saying it's the comunity's oppinion) or don't say anthing at all if you don't want to put yourself in the spotlight. I have had more than enough of people expressing MY oppinion. I'm as much a part of this comunity as anyone else and saying: "the comunity thinks this" is saying that 'I' think so aswell. I will not tolerate this any longer. If 'I' have an oppinion on something I will express it myself when I want it to (if i decide to express it at all). If you want to show you have the support of other people than feel free to name anyone that supports you (and gives you permission to express his/her oppinion) but leave me (and anyone else that feels this way) OUT of it. Any future post trying to express MY oppinion will be reported (and if i don't calm down soon many of the past ones aswell).

a25 is a total concept adjustment, md will change 50% after it, but still respecting some core concepts and using most of its current assets.
Don't worry, you will absolutely love it i am sure. I designed it in a very smart and unique way, yet a way that is easy to assimilate by players already trained to play games a certain way.
Md wil not be easier but will be a lot more playable and relaxing than it is now. For hardcore amateurs, deeper stages will remain intact...concepts will remain intact, just disimulated in a much more commercial form, so that nowadays players can cope with them.
 
 
I estimate less than a year till md will die, unless i finish a25...yup.
 
You wouldnt believe it how easy a community based game could die..once you drop under a certain player number, it becomes an unstoppable chain reaction. Money will prevent me from keeping it online anymore, and its structure that was build based on active players does not support single player mode(!!!), so a new start is nearly impossible.
 
Thats why i am so agitated to get a25 done, because it is the most important thing i could do to ensure md does not die suddenly.
 
 
..not to mention i have a strong feeling this is the last major change i will do in md myself, so it has to come out right, or it won't matter at all.
 
...
today i visited my martial arts teacher...and i realized we know eachother for 18 years..much of how i ruled md was influenced by his teachings (non-verbal/physical ones). I realized his school became a lot more commercial, for the same reason..people are more and more used to comfort and are less available to get out of their comfort zone to learn new things. So he made it more easy for them to assimilate, less painful and less scary...but for old timers, he keeps private training sessions. This is something i will not do...i guess my learning stops here. I will not split md in old timers and newcommers ...even if i wanted to do that initially. There won't be any private quests for old players from this 'era'...MD is enough splitt as it is. Even if it will be much more easy and commercial in the first part, the deeper parts of the gameplay will remain hardcore as they are now, for everyone.
 
By hardocore i mean , ..it will still be the sort of gameplay that crosses the border of virtual and comes into your life and changes it.
 
MD will not turn into a casual game, it will just pretend to be one, so that more will give it a chance.
Deep inside i still believe we are not all brainwashed consumers and that somewhere there, there are still people of real value.

I often code stuff that after a while i forget. There are lots of features that i simply don't remember anymore how they work and how they can be used and such.. Chew knows most, but not all, and i fear its hard even for him to keep track of evewrything, especially with all the madness i started with A25
 
There are illusions mode for example, a thing so complex that could be a mp level in itself, yet i FORGOT how they work and how to set them right.
 
Heads contest also, if i need to activvate heads contest now, i don't know how :(...i have huge memory issues, all i remember is the direction not the details (long story, not now)
 
NIGHT MODE is also something done and abandoned....i remember it works, i just needed to finish some things i finished now in a25 , so tht i could make a way to activate it.
 
The hidden letters, same
 
I don't even remember what there is to remember.
 
What i am trying to say here....i need disciples. I need people that will be fully dedicated to a section of development in md and document and get familiar with how things work there, code level, internal logic, pending features, bugs, all of it...WITHOUT access to the source files (sorry)
 
In return, you will get the benefit of "ruling" that section of md, ...for example, you deal with creatures and how they are implemented, what all features do, what the unused features are and how they are set (like the jump ability of the elucu) ..you will get new creatures as they appear, test fun features, get shop crits for free and things like that, plus a well established role in that direction that who knows where it might lead you.
 
What is needed? You need to be VERY smart, very persistant, and digg the info on your own. You will get bits of info from me or chew, i might spam you with random messages after a long work night just telling you what new features i did and how they are set at a technical level...you need to document those. You need also to investigate and see how you can find out everything that might be included in your role. I do not have the time to properly organize and send you all this...this is YOUR responsability.
 
 
 
Kyphis is already doing this with the new a25 features, i started to stress him with this without even asking if he wants, i had no choice.
 
 
Define a part of md that can be isolated in concept, examples: heat veins, torch contest, heads contest, creatures, shop items, inventory items (and their functions), illusions (mastered now by dst), clickables (mastered by Kyphis)
 
and there are probably more, please find them if they are.
 
Contact me telling me of what section you want to take care...i will pick one, and we shall see after that.
 
lol, just remembered, player dna is also somethign left in mid air..i don't even remember what each number means, i can find out, but for what, if i forget agin, ...thats why i neeeed to pass all this info to someone else.
 
Research interface..also something lost in space
 
Affiliate system ..there is a huge admin with tracking and stuff like that ..lurking somewhere in the depths of md, never used.
 
I don't know how to add a new armor! :(
 
please..help...
 
 
DO NOT APPLY IF YOU ARE TOO NEW, this is not an experiment. If you fail, there is no punishment, but that part of md will die with you.
 
(k docs, just remembered....you see...so many things and nothing is documented)
 
LETS START DOCUMENTING MD FEATURES AND THEIR USE, AND DO IT MD STYLE WITH ROLES AND LEGACY. One feature per player. I wil send info to anyone from the people i select, you will need to work well together, because i wont have time to properly organize my answers, so if i send to one of you something related to a thign someone else deals with, you need to know who to forward it to.
 
 
I am expanding my memory with yours :)