Jester

"In my opinion you're playing this game for fights because you can't win in NORMAL combat games" And in my opinion you roleplay because you can't actually accomplish anything that requires effort. And the reason you completely ripped off your role, instead of making a new one, was because you can't think of anything original. Oh, and I don't care what you've been through. Your roleplay isn't worth watching, so generally I ignore you, but when you get all self righteous I feel obligated to respond. I don't play MD to fight. I play MD to interact with friends and occasionally join in with roleplay that is supported by the game, or at least not completely off base and complete fantasy. Seriously, you make up a fantasy of your own to play out inside a completely separate fantasy game? How far removed do you have to be? But I digress. My point is that if I was a mindless grinder, like you seem to think, I would be playing WoW or something, but I'm not. This is my final post on this subject...

FREEDOM FOR PENISFEET! (That would make a good T-shirt) As to actually being banned, its extremely difficult for veterans. People get a first warning and a somewhat minor penalty before getting banned permanently, so as long as you haven't gotten one yet you shouldn't be worried.

[quote name='Aeoshattr' date='10 September 2009 - 07:52 AM' timestamp='1252590740' post='41403'] that is right, udgard. but still... how many DO that on day 1? and how exactly are you gonna back RP-ing up with mechanics? RP-ing offers infinite possibilities in how you express yourself. you can't just make a program that stops you from saying *kills Mur (just an example )* because your attack isn't high enough. even if you do, there might be another godmoder that says *strangles Mur to death* and the program won't stop him, because he didn't say *kills Mur*. Godmodders will always be here. the important thing, IMHO, is not to exagerate. i mean, i think every player here has godmoded at least once, i can even make a bet on that. Perhaps we should hold a lecture somewhere and educate godmodders XD i will attend if you want! Oh, and Udgard, asuming you were a new player, would you play this game for a year and a half, striving everyday to rise your stats, getting beaten up by older players, just to be allowed to say *attempts to kick X or Y*?! and then to be answered *dodges*!? [/quote] If you want infinite chances to express yourself, GO TO A ROLEPLAYING FORUM. Finally, I've been wanting to say that for months... ever since people keep saying "if you want to fight, go to WoW". Anyways... Coming into a game with a combat and spell system already set up, with its own legends and rules, and then saying "yeah, well I'm above them because I have an imagination" is the most annoying, self centered thing I can think of. (sorry for the tone, but I'm fed up with stupid RP that ruins the game for the rest of us because some immature kid wants to feel special)

[quote name='Aeoshattr' date='10 September 2009 - 02:53 AM' timestamp='1252572833' post='41387'] alright, i'll give it a bit more thinking then post the complete idea. and jester, i'm not acting "the whatever role you wrote there",( i'm too lazy to copy it XD), i knew from the first this idea would not be liked. i just didn't expect getting only negative comments :| [/quote] My bad then. My point was more that expecting an idea to fail when you post it tends to make that happen.

[quote name='Aeoshattr' date='10 September 2009 - 01:01 AM' timestamp='1252566092' post='41383'] duhh... that is not what i meant but whatever. the main point of this idea was allowing weak players to get out and socialize without getting busted down the first second they leave sanctuary. i really really don't think of this idea as complicated. you can add tons of disadvantages: for instance, a creature once stabled cannot be returned to your inventory for 2 weeks. besides, the stable could be in a location, not in a player page. that way, you couldn't just go to GGG without creats, bust everyone up, stable your creats then run away. But if everyone is against me (stupid me, all influent players are daily fighters) then i'll just dump the idea... [/quote] Stop playing the "poor me, nobody likes my ideas and won't give them a chance" act if you want people to take your idea seriously. As for the idea... its interesting, a creature stable could have uses. I don't think it's well thought out enough yet, and I wouldn't consider it a pressing enough issue to warrant time spent on it though. Maybe if you think of a way to address more issues than just whiny MP3s getting creatures killed.

[quote name='Leucretia' date='08 September 2009 - 04:55 PM' timestamp='1252450528' post='41265'] It amazes me to see people laying claim to parts of the Lands of the East! Let's see... 1. I Am Bored laid claim to the pub. Others have also, so I've heard. 2. dst lays claim to the bedroom. 3. Some guy (All-something)who claims to have Princ Raygar's voice, claimed the last building in the quad for the Savelite Church! Now what is the point of having applications for leadership if people are laying claims? I wonder what Mur has to say about that? It would please me to see people keep mum until this all works itself out. Who has that ability? Is that for admins to use and abuse or is that something from the wishshop? [/quote] That ability is from WP shop. Also, I have 2 screens in the East, jestersdoor and Jesters Streets. Mine are different than the other peoples in that mine are actually official...

[quote name='dst' date='08 September 2009 - 03:10 PM' timestamp='1252444219' post='41253'] One thing though: the bedroom is mine. As soon as I will decide to spend my WPs I will name that place DSTs bedroom! So please, I don't want to see anyone saying something about it! [/quote] 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. [u][b]You are not allow to write playernames in this subtitle.[/b][/u] Abusing this by writing ofences, advertising or similar will be penalised.

I really like Fenrir's idea. It seems difficult to pull off, but if he can it seems very beneficial to the land.

[quote name='Guybrush Threepwood' date='07 September 2009 - 02:52 PM' timestamp='1252356758' post='41127'] I would love to be able to choose to fight without tokens. Be helpful for a lot of things, but this doesn't fix the problem if wars come about. 10-20 battles is enough to slaughter for that purpose. Also, what would happen on defense? I think this may have been mentioned before, but what about capping the token bonus at a percentage of your stats? The percentage could be different for each token and I really have no idea what percentage that would be, but, it would be easy to keep it from being exceptionally overpowered (except on people who are already exceptionally overpowered, so really, who cares.) and it could still be useful to everyone. Also, the initiative bonus from blood 1 is, to my knowledge, always 1 or 0, because it does not take your stats into consideration and as far as I know there is no critter with more than 5 initiative. A bonus 1 initiative might be fun nifty for an MP3, or on an elemental to keep them hitting before a chaos archer (though not that nice) but it's a pretty darn worthless token. Blood III has the exact same problem, it's worthless. Unless of course things have been changed since I last checked, which was a long time ago. I haven't done much fighting with the whole tokens on defense always being 100% issue. [/quote] Guybrush, THE ENTIRE PURPOSE OF BUYING TOKENS WOULD BE IF WARS CAME OUT. You can't seriously think that war should be fair, do you? The only reason I would get interested in combat is if there was a reason. Why spend tons of money on tokens and stuff if you can't use it?

[quote name='skinwalker' date='07 September 2009 - 03:08 AM' timestamp='1252314503' post='41062'] a.personal page is quite good.. although most of the personal pages have been hidden (although if you put it at the personal page, there wouldn't be the second topic, coz you can have it hidden) b. it should be displayed, not hidden, what use is it to have those when nobody will see them? ( having it displayed doesn't mean you are bragging your achievements, it just there to show what you may or may not have achieved yet..) [/quote] Why would I get achievements if not to brag about them? To better myself? Ha.

I'd like to see a top achievers page next to the AL and that utterly useless webcam feature. That could be interesting to check, and would be yet another way for dst to beat us all again.

As you can see, after months and months and months of training, I managed to become the adept of Pamplemousse. [attachment=1109:1mil_ve.jpg]

Tokens are already way too messed up. All removing the initiative from claw 3 will do is make it so a really expensive token becomes worthless. There simply is no way to balance tokens with the way they are right now. That is all there is too it. I have yet to see a single suggestion that makes sense. I think tokens were a mistake, and the only way to fix them would be to completely redo the entire way they work. Since I doubt that will happen, the only thing to do (in my opinion) is wait for a solution that actually makes sense to surface (not likely) or deal with the way they are. If you want I can post an idea of mine about the way tokens could be, but I have no idea how hard it would be to program and doing everything all over again doesn't seem likely to happen to me.

I think that factions were supposed to assign land affiliations and stuff like that.

[quote name='Liberty4life' date='02 September 2009 - 08:47 AM' timestamp='1251902822' post='40766'] burns has the point, veteran hc should be contest for fun and reputation, nothin else [/quote] What, you mean like torches? Only the strongest people fight and nobody wins anything?

"- "Mark of History" :: get something in the realm marked permanently by you, like place name, or other" Grido, you should head down to Jesters Streets in the Lands of the East. I'm not sure if that's permanent, but there is another screen that is.

[quote name='Burns' date='25 August 2009 - 08:35 AM' timestamp='1251210934' post='40227'] interesting thoughts... we have stopped quarreling over rusties because they are expensive enough, if people really want to buy them, they can also use them... they don't show their true value to people without golemus-drachs anyway, and for those, you need to quest or trade... mainly trade, these days XD tokens, on the other hand, come for as little as one (1) buck and have insane powers, in fact powers huge enough to destroy all the people who did pretty much stat-farming for a pretty long time... and, seemingly a way to get done with grinders, they are now just making grinders a thousand times stronger than normally, so i guess a nice way to deal with the issue might be making tokens progressively weaker with active days... like, i'm not sure about this since it just popped to my head, but how would it sound to make tokens start losing their power after day 150, with... say... half a percent a day, finishing in 0% (useless) tokens at day 350? of course that puts the issue of uselessness to some players, and all players after some time, at hand, but to me it would seem like a solution to make the tokens do what they should, give players a chance against the old-age-grinders... same could be thought about with stats (as mur is doing right now, i guess), starting to make them weaker after 500 atk, and ending in useless tokens at 5k atk (this is a random number i just came up with, don't hang me on that, please) to bring up the same effect, that i think to be the desired one... [/quote] If you used the idea to make tokens weaker with active days you could change the slogan from "a newer player can beat an older one" to "a newer player can beat an older one, but an older one can't beat a newer one" because there is no way I could compete with someone with 150 active days and tokens no matter how much I stat trained. That's a terrible idea. Either that or I would make an alt and just give all the creatures to him.

Does reputation affect anything? If not, why do you care? If it does mean that much to you then try to look at which posts have negative reputation and then figure out why they do. I don't really see this as an issue that deserves time spent on it, complaining about it will just get you more negative reputation probably.

Does this apply to remote areas of the map with only a few friends around? Could I silence one of them as a joke, as long as nobody else is around to see?

If your defense ritual (the farthest one down) has less than 301 Ve on it then the game will pick random. It doesn't matter if you have other defense rituals over 301, the game doesn't use those until the current defense ritual is actually broken. Also, if you have no defense rituals, the game will automatically take the offense ritual that's farthest down on the list and say "too low Ve" and use that ritual instead of an actual random ritual. Also, I don't like these guidelines, they seem to just give all the answers instead of explaining how something works and letting people figure it out themselves.

Happy Birthday, oh great and fearless leader. *spam*

[quote name='aero' date='16 August 2009 - 10:16 PM' timestamp='1250482594' post='39669'] I'm fairly certain my logic is sound jester. It may not be the way you would like to think but it is true. I would like you to try and name any instance where anyone has done anything that was not intended to gain something. [/quote] Logic has less to do with things than you might believe. We should debate this sometime. And for the record, I wasn't calling you dumb, I was calling the idea dumb. I find ideas I used to have and then discard later extremely stupid.

[quote name='aero' date='16 August 2009 - 02:01 PM' timestamp='1250452898' post='39650'] People will never do anything unless they believe there is personal gain involved. When someone works at a soup kitchen, (a free kitchen for the needy and homeless)It is not to help people, but to make yourself feel good through helping people. We are all inherently selfish that way and there is nothing we can do about it. On the other hand, a serial killer does not kill people to kill people, but because they believe that they will gain something from it that outweighs the mental cost of killing someone, which for them is very very low. Because of this there is no evil, only what others percieve to be evil. For no one will ever do anything that they truly believe is evil, unless the gain is greater than the cost. There are no exceptions. [/quote] That happens to be one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. I used to think that way, but then I realized how wrong it was. I will explain why by editing this post after I figure out how to phrase it correctly.

I'd like one as well.

[quote name='(Zl-eye-f)-nea' date='12 August 2009 - 05:28 AM' timestamp='1250076505' post='39261'] Dragoonus. He has to have a memorial in my opinion. He was a phenomenal player. Z [/quote] Seconded.