Aeoshattr

Though I feel that in general, Chew has the same kind of idea about this thing as me (hopefully I understood his post correctly), may I please see where these "being a nice guy"/ "encroachment" rules are? Because last time I checked, people are still being butts (usually about trivial issues) and I don't see them spanked with said rules. Phantasm spent a WP to change the location's name. It's perfectly conforming with the rules stated in that specific wish: Change location subtitle Allows you to change a subtitle on a given location. The new title will remain forever untill someone else changes it and for at least 4 days. With this you can mark locations to support your role, such as pubs, markets, themed gathering places, mark historic locations to remember an important event for all future players, organise group activities, support role play situations, etc. You are not allow to write playernames in this subtitle. Abusing this by writing ofences, advertising or similar will be penalised. The wish specifically states that someone else may change the location's subtitle. Phantasm did not write a player's name in the subtitle. Phantasm didn't write anything inherently offensive or directly advertising. Where's the problem? P.S. I may sound a bit aggressive, and I do apologize IAB. I agree with your idea that it's common courtesy to ask before slapping a subtitle on top of someone else's, BUT I'm rather intrigued by these "nice guy" rules that I have not yet heard of or seen in action. P.P.S. I'd like to review the grammar, spelling and punctuation of items in the wish shop, as I've noticed a few mistakes and I have a feeling they'll be there for a while. If interested/have time for this, please poke me, Chew.

Noooooo! Leave! Leave before they find you!

Happy Bday you two.

I can help :)

I would give every drawing an upvote if I could. Wow!

Why can't I upvote this multiple times.

Technically, I think you can, but you either need to know a bit of HTML or resort to another website to use a "what-you-see-is-what-you-get" editor, which is a bit of a hassle, to be honest. In other words... It is possible to edit your papers with the current, broken interface, but it requires too much effort for something that should be done by the interface without resorting to a third party. I'm willing to help compile a list of errors / bugs, if it's deemed that this will help the error fixing process.

My feelings about this are conflicting. On the one hand, I think that lore-wise, it makes sense for spells to be castable on offline players. But on the other hand, I personally find it a bit irritating to log in and be under the effect of a spell because someone wanted to have some fun while you couldn't react. I onno. It bothers me but not enough to make a whole case on it.

Update! The quest is undergoing re-structuring at the moment, so that I may hold it without the need for assistance from "higher powers". For those that are waiting for the quest. I am currently thinking about making the sermons a bi-weekly event, possibly with a different structure to prevent repetition and try and deliver something new every time. Suggestions? Would you be interested in participating, should I decide to hold the event every 2 weeks?

But I am allowed pictures for my own signature and my bottled emotions, right?

I generally dislike the idea, but I would support it if all items stored inside the strongbox are unusable while there (whatever their use is - for instance you can't contribute tea leaves to make tea if your tea leaves are in the box). I don't see the need to hide your items, and I think if you really want to do it, then it should come with an inconvenience.

Dst, you troll... Also editing this, so I don't spam another reply when not necessary. Chance of the totem breaking - ok. I support this. I would personally scale this with Erolin heat (say... if you want the totem NOT to break, you must store a minimum of X heat inside it when you plan to revert it. For example, when you want to revert the totem to a creature, 10000 heat = 100% chance of success, 9000 = 90% chance of success, etc). But as I said, I don't like random mutation, and even more, I thoroughly disapprove of hard work only providing an "increased chance" of your creature mutating. It just sounds like one of those "freemium" games where if you want the mutation to occur you must pay 10$ or rely on a 5% chance of it happening even AFTER doing all the work.

Knatorwind. SQUAWK! Or... worse... Joke aside, yes, I would like to see this as a feature. I'm personally thinking it would be interesting to have certain ways to "mutate" a creature once it's in a totem. Use specific resources to alter its structure (various types of dust, fenths, Wiiya, etc), Erolin heat, maybe a form of "maturation" in certain locations of power? I personally don't like the idea of random mutation in this case, or chance, mostly because I see totems as a crystallisation, a suspension of what a creature is - if not acted upon, it should remain the same as it was before being totemised. In other words, if you want to mutate it, you should have to work for it, gather resources, etc, not hope for chance.

As title says, I'd like to purchase custom-made item pictures for a few of my items: Aeoshattr's Bottled Emotions Aeoshattr's Autograph Black Rose The only one I'm hesitant about is the Black Rose - are all Black Roses (since I imagine a number of people will have one) going to have the same picture? I honestly don't care, my concern is whether or not I'm allowed to purchase a picture for it or wait for it to be commissioned and chosen by "higher powers". I pay in gold/silver, with the value negotiated with the artist beforehand. I would prefer all 3 items to be drawn by the same artist, but I won't exclude multiple artists. Please contact me via forum PM and I will provide details.

Doubtful, since I have one and from the picture above I take it dst has one too?

Hm. I am very split on this. If I am to respond OOC, then yes. Knowledge is of the utmost importance, whether it is arbitrarily deemed that you should or should not be aware of it (if that makes sense?). OOC, I have found out a number of events that were concealed from me from my early childhood, and despite their rather.... traumatic, negative nature.... I am glad that I am aware of them. If I am to respond IC, as Aeo, then no. Things that conceal themselves or try to escape you are not worth pursuing. They only bring pain, and the pain is not lessened by the achievement or the reward you might get for success. If you should not know something, then there is a reason for you not to know it, and you're better off without it. Back OOC, I found that to be a very eloquent and interesting post, DD. Good job.

I'm not sure if I don't get it. But even if I don't get it, I found it so dry that I burst out in laughter.

Oh, dang it, someone let loose the little Golemian smurfs that powered the servers. Again.

UPDATE! Winners + bonus round? I have now received 3 correct (and only) answers, therefore I can announce the 3 winners! The correct answers, as per requested format are as follows; I have also included the clues I left at each location. ANSWERS: [spoiler] 1. Marind's Roundabout - tile next to arrow - Love - Lady Renata Clue at location: A white rose to bloom, In my mind I must have you. A white page on my tomb, For my pen is dry without you. 2. Willow's Shop Interior - the shopkeeper - Pain - Mcvities shadow Clue at location: The pain, the pain, The pain and the black. Night is your bane Yet any light you lack. Her name you still carry, Bound To the ground, You follow her down the alley. Every move you mirror, In bright light we have played. You always get nearer; Darkness you are yet of the dark you're afraid 3. Heresy Lane - the hut - Home - *Mya Celestia* Clue at location: On the wind's wings you fly An angel Or a bird in the sky? The root. Fly high To the sky And you may find Your heart left behind. 4. Defensive Tower Interior - the chest - Flame - Flamewarrior Clue at location: Dance! Jump on the logs. A tiger, A warrior nevertheless. In the bushes, Waiting to pounce. A fiery name In a fiery vein. 5. Fountain of Dark Vibrations - the fountain - mystery - Aeoshattr Clue at location: I Am A Shattered Soul [/spoiler] WINNERS: First prize: Lintara Second prize: Dark Demon Third prize: Asthir Note: If requested, I will provide screenshots with the date/time of the received correct answers from each player. BONUS: I will award 5 credits myself to whomever is able to tell me WHY I chose those five names (I.E. what do they have in common?). While I will accept very punctual answers (E.G. "You chose them because they're your friends" - no, this is not correct), I will rate the received answers based on their level of detail as well as correctitude. Therefore, if following the example above: "You chose them because they're your friends" vs "you chose them because Lady Ren meant this to you, Mcv's shadow helped you with this, etc", the second answer will win, despite not directly stating that they were my friends, but being closer to reality due to detail. ((Does this need clarification?)) Note: I will require two impartial judges, which I will contact myself and update this topic once more when I have their confirmation to help, as I believe it would be unfair for only myself to rate the entries. Anyone can participate, except for the judges. DEADLINE! 8th February. Don't be afraid to send answers, absolute accuracy does not matter. If you get a part of the answer right, you still have a good chance of winning! Judges confirmed! Bonus stage is ready to go! Find out why I chose those particular 5 names for this quest. Send me a forum PM with your answer - be as detailed or stylish as you wish. Detail and style will get you extra points!

So far, the descriptions I've read for veteran and fossil don't really match, imo. Fossil is given during MD awards, and not necessarily to old players. Aeoshattr is 6 years old and he doesn't have one. I suppose NoOne's description of "acknowledged as an old player" fits better, even though seriously, to be acknowledged for that you should only need the account creation's date? I'd rather go with something like "old and frequently active" as a better description, judging by the criteria for being awarded with the fossil medal?

I think there was a distinction made at some point between Erolin heat and Stored heat. So if I were to guess, I'd say Erolin heat is the pure energy one, whereas Stored heat (and subsequently stats, VE, VP, etc) is given some form of identity when it "becomes one" with the player, if that makes sense? Thus Stored heat wouldn't be pure energy, rather energy with some form of identity.

Yep, someone borked MD. Getting the same error. Sad times.

*grabs popcorn* But since some may know by now, I can't help it, here are my 2 cents: Seeing resources depleted is frustrating. Especially if you want to use them say to craft other usable items like tea, etc. Also, annoying since AFAIK you can't trade resources 1 by 1 (but I may be wrong, I tried a few times, it transferred the whole stack). So people that hoard them may not be willing to trade just a small number of resources (as they essentially have to dump a huge stack of resources on someone, as opposed to being able to trade say... 5 at a time). IDK. That's something that I'd personally change: allow players to transfer a specific number of items from a stack, rather than just 1 by 1 (as with coins) or all at a time (as I have personally seen with branches, for instance). People will always be greedy and deplete or try to hold some form of monopoly over various resources. It's how people are and people don't change - I've seen this happen in multiple games, the only difference being a more lax trading system. I don't mind buying resources from someone who has the time and devotion to hoard them. @dst: Greed = "Intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food" (from Oxford dictionary). While not inherently evil, it does hold bad connotations. You could argue that greed for knowledge is bad, if in obtaining that knowledge you harm others. Same for the other greeds you mentioned. I'd say there are always good and bad parts to any kind of greed, as in my mind at least, it involves one form of excess and an excess of anything is harmful.

Since this is open to debate, I'll throw in my opinion and say I find this achievement rather silly. I agree, it takes a lot of effort and dedication, but I find it silly because of the reactions it seems to have gathered, with Rophs wanting to buy branches to get his, MRAlyon posting something related to this as well in a different thread. I mean... I could demand this achievement for posting 666 sets of "..." in the chat. I don't know who'd count them and all that, I'm giving a rather preposterous example. Though I'm pretty sure it will be overlooked, my point is.... It feels this kind of achievement is rather arbitrary and might end up being used as a precedent for some people to ask for similar stuff when they haven't put in as much work as NoOne seems to have done. Solution? I don't know, don't think there is one. I don't really want to restrict or enforce any other kind of rule upon medal/achievement rewarding, since I like this aspect of MD that if you do something for a long enough time, you'll be rewarded somehow. I think it's important to highlight that NoOne harvested and passed the flowers to dst one by one. Passing 6666 flowers one by one would take an awful lot of clicking and overall effort. Getting 666 somewhere in your screen for some reason shouldn't qualify as achievement material IMO. If you worked to get that 666 to an extent comparable with NoOne... then sure, it's achievement material.

Oh god. I hope everything will be alright.