Intrigue

"We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness."
—Charlie Chaplin
 
 
In response to this topic:
http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/16042-one-random-act-of-kindness/
 
I have decided to listen to the views and change it up slightly.
 
Every three months I shall hold a "Reward" ceremony for those that have shone in an area of kindness. This area could be by being an outstanding LHO, even simply by giving items, creatures or time and effort away for free. This will be the community's voice to vote for the one they believe to be a true beacon of kindness and selflessness. 
 
The nominations and voting shall be held in a similar fashion to those of the MD Awards, except with one change. There will be no set categories and there will only be one winner.
 
Nomination:
 
Nominations will be held for three weeks at the beginning of the month before the upcoming ceremony.
 
Your nomination should look something like this:
 
Nominee: <Insert Player Name>
Nominator: <Insert Player Name>
Reason for nomination: <Insert Reason>
 
A player may be nominated for more than one kind deed, however, an average vote number will be determined based upon each nomintion's votes received.
 
Voting:
 
Voting will begin one week prior to the ceremony.
 
Voting will take place on the forums for one week, the votes will then be collected and tallied.
 
Rewards:
 
Rewards will vary depending on how outstanding the winning nomination reason is and the amount of votes received.
 
(If you are willing to sponsor rewards please message me in game or via forum.)
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The first ceremony shall be held on: 31/01/2015
 
Nomination deadline: 22/01/2015
 
Please begin your nominations.

Could always play it out like poltergeists. New ghosts can't do much, older ghosts can interact with things and mess with non-ghosts.

Half of the santa'ing is done, I will finish the rest tomorrow due to having to deal with some issues IRL. Apologies.

Start Date: 12/20
Start Time:20:00MDST
Location: Gazebo of Equilibrium
End Date: 12/27
End Time: 20:00MDST
Rewards: To Be Determined
 
This is a race of volition. Who ever gets the highest percent increase of volition in that time frame get first place. All the way to 3rd. 
 
Rules: Arrive 10 minutes before start time. Do not leave the scene. This allows me (Assira) and another judge/s to look at your profile to record your volition. (Update: idling at the GoE or being completely logged off is fine. We just need to be able to get an accurate reading of the volition)
 
Do not use items/mdshop to increase volition stat. Volition should only be gained through the normal means.
EDIT: Increasing Regeneration and ap (pickles, candy, cake, and flying shoes) is allowed.
Must register in advance and please post your true profile link.
 
Arrive on time or idle at the GoE at the End Time. If you are logged off then that is fine. The reasoning for this is that you need to be 'still' while I record peoples end volition. So being at the GoE in person, idling at the GoE, or being logged off at 20:00MDST allows me to record the volition from profile link.
 
 
The profile link updates quickly and I will record those numbers before the start time and after the end time.
 
If you wish to be a judge please pm me. Judges will be anonymous until after the contest ends.
 
Example 1:
 
Starting volition 177.99 which on profile link shows up as 177
Ending volition 178
178-177=1
1/177=.0056
.0056x100=.56%
 
 
Example 2:
Starting volition 40
Ending volition 100
100-40=60
60/40=1.5
1.5x100=150%
 
Example 3:
Starting Volition 1000
Ending Volition 1200
1200-1000=200
200/1000=.2
.2x100=20%
 
So it will be harder for people with high volition to win. But easier for newer players to win.
 
 
Comments, Suggestions, questions, and etc. are welcome.
 
(This is not a MotM sponsored event, this way people in the MotM can participate if they wish. Judges will not be able to take part in the race.)
 
Judge:
Asthir
 
 
Participants:
Azrafar http://magicduel.com/players/Azrafar&override=true
Starting Volition:146
Ending Volition:301
106.16%
Intrigue http://magicduel.com/players/Intrigue&override=true
Starting Volition:224
Ending Volition:229
2.23%
*Eagle Eye* http://magicduel.com/players/*Eagle%20Eye*&override=true
Starting Volition:470
Ending Volition:501
6.59%
Dark Demon http://magicduel.com/players/Dark_Demon
Starting Volition:305
Ending Volition:342
12.13%
Change http://magicduel.com/players/Change&override=true
Starting Volition:53
Ending Volition:79
49.06%
Rophs http://magicduel.com/players/Rophs&override=true
Starting Volition:362
Ending Volition:379
4.69%
Junior http://magicduel.com/players/Junior&override=true
Starting Volition:52
Ending Volition:140
169.23%
 
1st Place:Junior - 169.23%
2nd Place: Azrafar - 106.16%
3rd Place:Change - 49.05%
Dark Demon - 12.13%
*Eagle Eye* - 6.59%
Rophs - 4.69%
Intrigue - 2.23%

1st Place:Junior - 169.23%
2nd Place: Azrafar - 106.16%
3rd Place:Change - 49.05%
Dark Demon - 12.13%
*Eagle Eye* - 6.59%
Rophs - 4.69%
Intrigue - 2.23%

All secret santa presents have been processed and taken, if yours hasnt been taken I havent got it. Send me a PM to submit your final secret santa, Not all of them were valid ITC/CTC's so im waiting til everyone has submitted them. Will be processing more tomorrow night so people might get them sent out then!

Congrtaz Killey have a epic married life. So i guess he said those magic words .." i will do the dishes" ...just kidding hehe
 
Well iam happy to c u guys all happy .... enjoy Xmas and have a blast.... happy new yr everyone :D :D :D

I'm happy because I have great friends and family. I'm happy at work for the most part, and I've just released a new project I'm very excited about.
 
Happy holidays all.
 
Z

All current players will be able to go through the new beginning if they want to, without using alts.
(and as chew said)

It was planned as a quest, so it would just be another quest that you would do. The tutorial aspect of it would be that you are strongly recommended to do it, possibly even forced. But it will be a quest you can compete wherever you are.

The situation is like this...
over the years, the companies that built browser-based games invested insane amounts of money into advertising certain types of games. Also, development focused on fine-tuning those games for maximum addiction. Games are in general a money making factory, literally nobody ares about any other aspect other than the business aspect.
I started and plan to continue MD totally disregarding the business aspect of it.
 
Sadly, nowadays, players are used to think less and just fit within predefined gameplay patterns, they are all, regardless of their IQ level, unconsciously trained consumers that fit well planned behaviour patters. You don't even realize it..but nowadays it is "natural" for anyone to look for resources to build stuff, and attack other monsters for "near to lose" fights that you win anyhow, just to get a level up, that will make you do the same repetitive stuff just with an other zero added to the same stats. It is so natural that you can't even imagine it might be possible any other way...lol.
 
Creativity in game play is basically extinct..or almost extinct ..you can still find it hidden in the variations..but core concepts are all the same everywhere. Just a single core concept if it changes, people need to start thinking more, and need to go outside their safety zone ..this is exciting but not relaxing. MD is BASED on entirely new concepts...so its target audience is increasingly low.
 
There is no way i can change that, the world as we know it goes that direction entirely...not just games...everything tends to be trained to be a much easier to control consuming mechanism, with predictable people. Americans where at some point legendary for being the most predictable and controllable consumers in existance, but this happens now to everyone almost.
 
examples:
Place a contact phone in the upper right corner of a shop, and USA sales will increase by a clear percentage, because they where trained to like that.
Make psychological prices like 1,99 and will sell better than 2.00
Use happy colors to mark things that cost real money
Use more or less than 3 resource types in a RTS game, and you will lose important number of players, because they are all used to manage 3 resource types, believe it or not.
Ask a player to be creative, and you will make his brain consume a lot more power, causing a better experience but more effort, and you will lose a significant number of less creative players..that is bad for economy but good for community.
Money in game is best asked when you already won something single-player related, or when you lose something in multiplayer related gameplay.
I could go on and on with examples....these things i know...they are however not applied in MD because md is my baby not my business.
 
To survive, MD needs to disguise itself into a more friendly and relaxing casual game, where everything is clear and fun to do, at first. Initial addiction levels will increase, old time personality filters will vanish from sight (just from sight)..and MD will start to seem a lot more commercial to the first comers.
 
Because of its current depth/size md can sacrifice a large ammount of the assets it has (locations, concepts, artworks, features) , to become friendlier ..but its current depth will ensure that it will still remain insanely deep and will respect certain concepts.
 
Some marketing concepts will never be integrated, and this will deprive md of more than 50% of its potential growth. However we are not struggling here to grow, we are fighting to survive with minimum damage.
 
You might wonder how i decide what concepts i change in favor of growth and what concepts i keep and why.
Its complicated, yet simple :)
 
The one thing i want to respect most is to give the chance to anyone regardless of age or financial possibilities to become part of this community with equal influence potential like anyone else. As long a 13y old can become king of a land without paying anything ever (for example), then md is in my view fine in keeping this balance between paying and non paying members.
 
My target is and always was, to bring together people of various cultures, ages, talents and habbits, and to offer them a place where a well defined fragment of who they are (their player/character), can evolve and confront other real people... and through that it can learn, change and evolve. My benefit is very selfish,..i do it just for myself :P ..just so i can learn more about myself, same as you do. Learning about you helps me discover myself. I offer you something , you give me back pieces of who i am, thats my trade...
I find joy in learning and experimenting with such things, my life has a purpose when i confront issues in md that require my skills to be solved. I learned to write and to draw, so i could be of more use in md development... i have fun doing this, same as you have playing it.
 
This is something of far more value than any money or fame.
That is why i fight to keep the playerbase of md as "honest" and clean as possible and not taint it with outside powers such as money. This doesn't mean i do not need money to survive, or that i do not enjoy it if i have it. I am actually hoping, and consider it one of the "business" targets of A25 changes, to make md profitable so i can focus my time just on it, because now i need to work for others to pay my bills, and this is a terrible waste of time, instead of finishing my second book and to make md better, i lose precious time fixing bugs and coding scripts for others..not fun...you agree with me i guess.
 
 
 
 
 

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HelpXmas!!! (2014 edt.)

(This quest was prepared for last years XMas and as such this quest is targeted to new players and those that did not had the chance to finnish it.)

The Santa's Elf's need your help!!
Go visit their shop under the rock at Gazebo of Equilibrium using the "HelpXmas" words. Be aware that this can be the beginning of an adventure!


Rewards:
 All that sucessfully help the Elf's will win:
   1 spellstone (locate,mirror or silvertongue ) from my stock (or in alternative a 4M heated creature)
 Winner's will choose from Reward Pool:
   1 Gold Coin (sponsored by lashtal)
   1 Bloodpact Archer (sponsored by lashtal)
   1 EarFocus Stone (sponsored by dst)
   1 TeleportPaperCabin Stone (sponsored by dst)
   1 WP ( sponsored by Chewett )
   1 Avatar (sponsored by TheRichMerchant)
   8 Pickles (sponsored by Syrian )
   5 Heat Stones (sponsored by Syrian)

Note:
  The quest have a second stage (a automated quiz) that only will be up if 5 or more (new and non-alt) players complete the quest.
 
Duration:
 It will be up until 2015-01-01 (at least)

Restrictions:
  1. Players that have finnished this quest last year are not eligible for rewards, YET are welcome to play it again
  2. No alts allowed
  3. No Cheating, Please.

Have Fun!!! Merry Christmas!!
 
some screenshots.. :ph34r:
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The chest puzzle:

Meeting the Elf:


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Rewards Pool Updated!
 
Thanks to lashtal sponsorship, a BloopPact Archer and a Gold Coin have been added to the Rewards Pool!
 
 
Thank you lashtal!

I have a few avys in my vault and if someone like some, I would like to sell. will be on sale a couple of weeks, greetings. Offers here or PM     http://storenow.net/my/?f=5a78ddf9ce59476d343dca35459cd64e   http://storenow.net/my/?f=8fc032502acb6f77f1179db5ff62b3d0   http://storenow.net/my/?f=9ccde1a4eac74c9ea6547858dba90bd1   http://storenow.net/my/?f=7deedf7be262e6b3d5d69473cd149a4a   Note. I will be adding more as avys are accepted      

Quoting skype conversations? Rude. :) For clarification, that's "no thanks to Rophs, dst, and DD" (I was skyping Rophs). It could be interpreted as no thanks to only dst and DD.

1) MD isnt fair, biasing it to certain lands means you need to balance it more if you want it balanced

2) Not at all, it means that if you wish to get into certain areas they require it. Makes it more interesting by giving people additional ways.

Chewett logic => If you speak english you are american.

I dont understand everyone's obsession with iPhones...

So it takes pictures - no matter how good the camera is, its still shooting through thick plastic intended to protect the camera, not enhance the image, so there is a natural limit on its ability
So it can access the internet - because of software bloat, the volume of most things outside simple text is resulting in a rapid consumption of the available bandwidth frequencies, so that data prices are increasing rapidly to discourage constant internet usage. It's just another bill really - and its not uncommon for people to spend two or three times as much on data usage than calls, now that everyone is used to free data on websites like facebook and it is being phased out.
So it can play games - never as well as a dedicated platform for them though, and often at a higher price than such games should be.

I much rather my simple Nokia.
It makes calls, it sends texts. If I really need it to, I can even get on the net with it - and since it doesn't support images, it only loads text so my data usage is never exceeded.
It might not take pictures or have many games, but that's what I have cameras and consoles for.
What it does have is a two week battery life and a near indestructible design.

Eroline (female form) comes from Errol (the Weasley's owl in HP).  You've just discovered an old secret that was kept for years:  Mur is a Harry Potter  fan!

Name: Zleiphneir
ID: 77300
Tag: Guardian of Bob
Description: Dedicated friend and protector of Bob the Tree, rallies those who care for Bob when he needs assistance. (I didnt change the desc much when I changed tag so this seemed fitting)
 
Z

Lies
 
These are as ancient as it gets
 
http://magicduel.com/chewett/screenshots.html

MD used to have over 300 players on-line at one time.

regardless what i will do to "fix" the triggers, the issue is that there is occasionally more information that the space there allows. I have a totally different triggers box in mind, but that requires too much work at the moment and i want to focus on the stuff i am working now , not on this.
 
if two columns is worse than one column (when using the display names shop feature) i can revert it to one column, with a view more button. for now.

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