Aeoshattr

Bumping this, still looking for a host for the 12th of September. I will provide suggestions for topics and activities and depending on performance, payment.

Well, if I don't post here it's like I didn't wish you happy birthday! Happy birthday Lin, hope your day went great.

Nothing went either way yet, as opposed to the situation lashtal is talking about which is done and sorted; there's a difference, not to mention the vast difference in circumstances between what lashtal is talking about and what I am talking about. Which is why I bothered to point out the issue, before an irrevocable decision is taken. But then again, as I myself said, MD is unfair, so I don't really know what I was or am expecting to come out of this, or why I'm expecting to make a difference in the first place. Also, do note, Mallos found a solution to getting out of NC without being killed/revived in spite of it being seemingly impossible, as you state in your first post.

This is a complete farce. One of the judges is openly biased, as per her own post in the previous topic, thus there is no way this is going to be a fair trial. Not to mention that the whole base for this is just... obscene. What's next? Players who were killed should ask for the killing tools of their murderer to be removed (or 'restricted'), and for them to be revived, because this is a restricted, limited power and it was done to them unwillingly? People who were locked in chaos? People who lost alliances, because it was done to them unwillingly? MD is unfair. Many people have unique, or very restricted powers. Up until now, you lot were defending the freedom of use of such powers, what happened to that?

He completed my quest and used a consumable item he was awarded for completing it. I would appreciate you not making assumptions and accusations. Both him and Jubaris, actually, entered nightmode through the same means at the same time, both using up their consumables for it. This would be probably the third thing you're trying to smear on me for whatever reason, which I did not do. Apologies would be nice

You're mistaking the new bringin with the old bringin. New one is given to kings and ex-kings who actually have lands. With Azull and Sy not having a land... guess you'll have to place the blame for them having the old, land-independent bringin on those who left 'em landless, eh?

I don't know about when you were in golemus, but as a Necrovian, I had no trouble obtaining tools or trading with Golemians, which implies the situation has changed (since I didn't obtain them from you, and multiple people were willing to help me).

Had a bit of trouble exiting Necrovion as planned on the 24th and I couldn't postpone the event for later in the night as I ended up feeling quite unwell. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. Thank you very kindly Lin, Mag, Sunny, Z! I must come with further "bad news". I will be unable to host on the 12th of September, as I have academic matters that I must attend to and are likely to eat up my whole day. If anyone would be interested in hosting, please contact me and I'll do my best to provide materials and suggestions (maybe scripts, if necessary).

Oh this is a complete trainwreck... why are we bringing this up again? If you really want the guild back, then "Less QQ more pew pew". Whining about why it was disbanded will only get you contempt. Make heat stones and do stuff other than kill all people (because that will somehow magically fix all the problems MD has, apparently).

Next iteration: Wednesday, 24th of August. Theme: Following this theme, which inspired me... Good Deed of the Day. Perform a good deed (throughout the whole day), or tell us about a good deed and how it affected you or others (at the gathering in the evening). Let's try and be kind, for one day? I will be hosting, again, around 21:00 ST at the usual place, most likely. Announced via mood panel on the day.

What top links do you use? How often do you use them? In order: View announcements Free Credits Adventure Log Quests none of the rest what bottom links do you use? How often do you use them? I think I can summarise this as "WE HAVE BOTTOM LINKS!!!??". antrhing else that you use a lot but takes a while to get to? In the right hand interface, I find swapping from the inventory (specifically) to any other bits (like mood panel, player logs, etc) very very clunky. Seems to reload itself multiple times, I need to click "back", then select what I want, often I click too fast, it's still reloading or something and I need to do it again. Need to observe it closer to describe it better than just "clunky".

It's not there. Sasha teleported it to GoE, but it has been returned inside Necro shortly after.

5 actually.

I actually tried to write less in hopes that people would understand it. I wasn't accusing anyone of anything, as you seem to have understood, based on the tone (and out-of-the-blue assumption). The 3 people I mentioned as active or involved: 1. No One - offers candy or candy boxes in the mood panel. I don't know what the terms are, but he's doing something about the tools that doesn't involve banning around like some mentally impaired duck. 2. Eara - organised the NC tours to give people access to NC tools and resources. Doesn't involve banning, but is related to the tools and their distribution. 3. nadrolski - ban-happy, but you can't argue that he's not doing anything. He is doing something, even if some of us find it outrageous. I didn't say what you should be doing or why you aren't doing anything. But @Nimrodel you clearly aren't doing anything, and you're actually in charge of 2 of the 11 total available Guardian posts. I'm not saying you should go around and ban people, but look at Eara, or if you prefer someone from your own land look at No One. There are things to do and Mur said in his first post that this should be treated as a main role.

Aeoshattr (89024)Heat Donation23 August 2016

I actually had a huge text wall written in reply, but it's not like anyone reads those. This whole set of roles just looks depressing from almost all perspectives; yet another thing that I was really excited about and now is just adrift with a sprinkle of "sort it out yourselves" on top. I'd say only 3 / 10 guardians are actually doing anything, 3 are inactive (and have been inactive since given the role), 4 are... around but not doing anything (either due to lack of things to resolve or lack of interest, idk) and 1 position is still open. Just sad.

To be honest, I think MD's problem is more fundamental than just 'lack of players'. Currently we cannot even keep players who stuck around for a year, see some of our "rookies", such as Mago who say they lost interest. We get the odd MP3 now and then, they play for a bit, then leave. I have not seen a new player to 'stay' like some of us veterans to since I returned to the game 2-3 years ago. Not a single one. I suppose you could count Mago and Aethon in here, though Aethon 'retired', I think, and Mago isn't active lately. The way I see it, it's a mixture of community issues, management issues and game issues. Community: Absolutely enormous difference in power and accessibility between a new player and an old player. It can be extremely discouraging to some. This is hugely aggravated by the fact that the vast majority of current MD players are veterans (and thus on the upper end of the power scale). Toxicity. Let's face it, a lot of us flame (guilty here), use people, insult, etc. If I were a new player, I'd want nothing to do with most of the MD community. Management: Huge number of things that are started and never finished. Extremely disappointing, you get hyped because stuff is happening, then it dies out. For months or years, or never to be heard of again. Poor management of conflicts and rules, going back on statements, etc. See the issue with Nad and his grabban, which has implications beyond the fact that he annoyed darkraptor and NoOne. Tbh, I think there's a lot of stress on you and Mur, neither of you want to (or are particularly good) at dealing with people and in MD, dealing with people is probably 80% of the job. Interaction. Game: The game concept, in the first place, is not something that appeals to many people. We have a small target population. MD is very confusing at first. You lack direction. You lack people to attack and train with. "quirky" things. Sure, some quirk is nice, but for instance, having to get inside Necro to get a sword shade, avoiding getting killed, spending time and effort to get it 1000 wins and wait 100 days for it to get to level 2... then you realise you need to be MP6 to level it to lvl 3, another 1000 wins and i-forgot-how-many-days. For what, a creature that isn't even that amazing in combat or other aspects. This can be extended to other aspects of MD that require a stupid amount of effort and the reward is minimal or fades within hours. Availability of game aspects through wishpoints and availability of wishpoints, but also inaccurate or misleading descriptions, inability to reset spent wishpoints and stuff like "I spent a WP for graveyard access and now I can't get in NC". Ties in with the above, usually a lot of effort to get a WP and the reward is often diminished when you get it and see how it works. Overall? I'm not entirely sure we can fix a lot of these issues. We're constantly losing players: few if any join and veterans slowly leave or drift away, and I think it has to do with at least some of the above issues.

2 cents: At most, I'd agree to there being a list of active players with kill + revive tools, and that list ought to be the basis of determining whether creating/giving more kill/revive tools is doable or not (see this ann ) I don't think a recaller is necessary or wise, tbh.

I'm not sure what settings can and cannot be changed on devices that are on display in shops, but another idea would be to set the wallpaper of the device to something... magicduel-y. Something that also contains the website address. This would be more visible than the browser homepage. Just tossing in ideas.

I drew a thing, again. I may decide to properly scan it and convert it to a MD avatar, if the artwork is deemed good enough or if there is interest. http://storenow.net/download/343cad40a858488b77ab51fda279b5b0/flappy.jpg

Not that extreme but...

People who ask for a MP6 protector do not understand what a MP6 means especially indirectly. MP6 is perfect as it is, particularly the lack of any MP6 in the realm. @Chewett - I didn't open any topics, thinking that particularly the Horseman and Sword Shade problems would be considered spoilers (and I'd get caught in a witch hunt). I'll detail a bit, since I gather this is not the case (I hope): 1. Aqua creature was announced, felt like it got into quite an advanced stage of development, but then never got released. I was thinking it could be released, depending on progress made on it? 2. Molima Bugs: topic here. Essentially the molima lvl 3 has an ability that doesn't exist (Drain Darkness) and literally nothing about molima lvl 3 is functional (resource production, combat, etc). 3. Horseman (lvl 2) - cropping on the image is quite bad; cropping on the lvl 1 is not great either (you can see where its hooves are cut off), but lvl 2 is really bad. I'm not sure if this is intended or not. Sword Shade (lvl 2) - requires MP6 to progress to lvl 3. I recollect MP6 requirements were abolished long ago, and there was an announcement about this which I believe I linked in the e-mail. Again, I wanted confirmation whether that was intended or not (since you could use a WP to level it to lvl 3, but then according to the wish shop it would be nonfunctional in rituals so...........)

Next iteration: Friday, 12th of August. Theme: Legacy. Topics for activities (suggestions, don't take them as being compulsory): teaching research MD history I'll be hosting my own little activity around 21:00 ST. Meeting place to be announced via mood panel.

I was actually thinking about opening a topic about stuff that was started and not finished, at least recently. I hope it's related and that I'm not getting it wrong, so here's a short list: Creatures: Aqua Creature Molima bugs (level 3, I think does not have any functional aspect) Horseman / Sword Shade issues (which I've e-mailed) - will add more after I actually wake up properly -

See, I wouldn't give a flying flabberflap if you weren't depleting yourself. That is the issue. The argument about whether depletion is abuse or not is, in my opinion, beyond this topic. The real problem here is that you grabban Darkraptor while you yourself deplete. Why not grabban yourself? You're breaking your own rule based on simply the citizenship of the offender or a personal preference, which is fundamentally against what this role is meant to be. That is the problem. Not to mention the fact that MB has a single water tool that can be used by outsiders, and you still grabban its use. You have a monopoly and a single tool that you're preventing the use of. That sounds like tool abuse to me.