Jubaris

Princ Rhaegar 820 AD why would you choose me? it's up to you to find a reason. One thing is certain, I won't burden your thoughts like Shadowseeker if you don't choose me x) --- If you do choose me, I reserve my right to quit if I don't find the quest interesting.

keep it up and even I'll use it as my theme and replacing Liverpool's theme is not something to mock with

You will be missed Adi. Adio adi! Best wishes

as much as someone wants MD to be new Middle Earth, it isn't. I was at start a bit frustrated about some things in MD regarding realm's background - not enough presented data, axioms about realm, for you to build on... but later on, you realize that it has to be so. My perception is that our characters represent our spirits, essences, souls... Just, "aspect of RL Ravenstrider" if you get the point. So MD is pretty much related with RL, it isn't some fictional world "far away"... It's difficult to present my intuition clearly to go further into this, otherwise I would make a better "picture". Those characters should represent our nature, and it would be unrealistic for our characters to know they are spirits and that they have a RL self somewhere out there My opinion is that it is ok for someone to form their aspect into a wolf or such, but my opinion would be that it is just a symbolic transformation, representing your need to distance yourself from the world, community and such... getting back to primal instincts and their tranquility of thoughts... In any case, it shouldn't represent in any way your "physical" strength. You can't pretend that you are dragon and that you can eat everyone, or that you're the best frikkin' archer in all the land. Regarding imagining things, I will get to the subject of RP a bit - you are RPing when you are leader of Knights of the Bell, when you DO something in this realm and people acknowledge you for that, but you aren't RPing (in MD) when you say you are a pro dancer, or that you can throw fireballs (when in fact, you don't have no spells to cast)... Well, you are RPing, but you are RPing a disordered lunatic, not a fireball caster Regarding creatures, when I posed some questions about their nature, Mur replied to me that the creatures are manifestations of ourselves. Simple answer yet it checks you back on the right path of the question again.

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I would like to order one more topic: Heretic Archers "How to drop weight in 2 min"

Quickly Pazur, send your discoveries to Mur, he will find them most useful, don't let the knowledge go to waste!

Playername clickable ability would mess with the idea that people should find other people in the realm itself to talk to. (friends list and very old PMs are also messing it up, as Mur confirmed, but I don't think things will get intentionally even more messier concerning the mentioned concept) I would like to see the time of posting tho

New Reindrach - 55$ New Rusty - 51$ New Windy - 100$ Annihilating Ravenstrider - priceless [img]http://www.dodaj.rs/f/3p/YH/x1YjtEt/moj-napad.jpg[/img] [b]There are some things money can't buy... for everything else, there's MasterCard[/b] *disclaimer: no feelings were harmed in the process of creation of this topic

Well, it's been a while but Emerald asked me personally to post here, again just recently, a youngling asked me about Marind Bell, so I answered like this (certain parts are censured due to some spoilers, certain parts are added): well... as you may noticed, identity of the lands was formed by the creator of the game to attract certain attributes in people. Marind Bell and Necrovion, as well as Loreroot and Golemus represent two sides of the same coin. MB and NV are same coin in sense that they are both spiritual in nature, only MB has that lighter motive, while NV has that darker and sometimes sinister. LR and GG are same coin in sense that they are both realistic and non-spiritual in nature, only LR again has that lighter motive (in sense of moral norms) while GG applies "goal justifies the means", something that you may picked up in the sign in front of the GG. MB also as a land (note: I am speaking about supposed nature of lands, not their communities) encourages individuality, and evolving of the individual - new challenges, new questions, new paths to the answer, a lot of that is symbolized in the Stairs through out Marind Bell. As you can see, landscape of MB is 'human-made' settlement, yet, made with co-existance of nature (it did not try to step nature aside) so you can notice the un-destructive nature of MB (in essence), its respect for life. Perhaps even non materialistic nature, at least, that's how I see it, the soul goal of a Marindian would be expanding his "cube", understanding new things, becoming "better", stronger, progress. GG is also perceived as a land with thirst for knowledge, so I have to make some differences. I would see GG as a land that accumulates practical knowledge, something it can use for easier life, while MB would accumulate knowledge of the soul, finding out more about yourself, becoming "better", finding out WHYs not -how we can use-. ----- now to continue, what was unsaid. It is also perceived via certain descriptions in MD, as well as in Story Mode, that Marind Bell also encourages that purity of person, honesty of yourself. Being true. There are also tons of "facts" and speculations about nature of MB in some other things, but I guess that would be a bit offtopic, and frankly, I did it in hurry just to pay my respect to Emerald, bear in mind that I am lazy and that I will be snobbish enough not to spend my energy focusing on describing things to random people. If anyone has a concrete doubt/question, post it here. [b]*disclaimer: this is my opinion, do not take it as granted [/b]

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[quote name='Firsanthalas' timestamp='1300882206' post='81145'] I think you are insinuating the western powers like America, England, France? Oddly enough, it's the other Arab countires that benefit from it most. The conflict in Libya has resulted in an increase in oil prices. That definately doesn't suit the countries in the west that import such oil. [/quote] Arab countries aren't the only ones with the oil (plus, practically whole Arabic world has disorders... so, you are implying they are doing it to themselves too), plus, in some countries, you have oil, but that country doesn't own them, some Companies from other countries own them. In any case, it wasn't Arabian alliance that invaded Libya, it is Nato. [quote] Umm...that statement is so wrong on so many levels. First up, the oil doesn't spring from Gadafi's arse. It's there with or without him. Libya has prospered? If you mean the people that support Gadafi have prospered then yeah. Not much use to the average person there though. As for the oil situation and international intervention.... Well, Egyptian citizens were not being bombed by their 'own' (supposedly in the case of the Libyans I'd say) airforce. Bahrain also has oil and as yet the Americans haven't gone in there all Team America style. It's easy to say the situation in Libya is simply about the oil, but I don't think it is that simple, nor fair to make that assumption. It's a factor sure, but not the sole one. Regardless, I hope that the average Libian citizen ends up in a better situation at the end of all this. [/quote] My point was he used the oil, traded the resource, got some wealth, invested it in land's progress (more technology, more mechanics and such, all that = more jobs. I mean, foreign people came to work there, and it's a lot cheaper to employ domestic people considering they will pay you back with taxes as well and spending money in Libya's economy, logic works that there weren't enough Libyans eager to work, or people didn't need a job, meaning, it's cool ) Gadafi was thorn in the eye of America for decades now. Libya was already bombed before. Libya was already hostile, so they just used an excuse. Bahrein, is very small country, and wasn't that aggressive in politics at all (Gadafi is known for his anti-american attitude). You can't just invade everything, you need semi-good excuses [quote name='Sharazhad' timestamp='1300882700' post='81147'] [color="#2e8b57"][i] Yes Libya had oil and therefore oodles of money but almost cent of that money went into the Libyian Investment Authority. The name of this "investment" was the only thing that linked the country to the money which was stored in it. The LIA was the treasure storehouse of the Gadaffi family. read :- ----> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12626320 Chaos errupted because the people are tired of their country being run by Ali-Baba and his forty theives. When Gadaffi came into power, he was young revolutionist who made many promises to the Libya and the world which he promptly failed to deliver. Ask yourself why did he not step down when the people asked for it? why did promise a blood bath instead? How long do you expect a nation to be oppressed before it screams for freedom? [/i][/color] [/quote] a bit less of BBC, CNN and similar medias regarding politics, and you'll run into some objective articles eventually. (for example, I respect BBC a lot considering numbers of documentaries they did, so many good shows and such, but in politics, they became manipulating media) Do you really believe that NATO will cleanse the land of Gadafi influence, they will follow the Knight's codex and teach the Libyans how to earn more money? They will work to establish a puppet government, after that, they don't care. There are always dictators all over the world, point is, while the dictator is good and loyal (like Sadam Hussein was at the start), it's cool, you support him, arm him and such, but when the dictator steps a bit from the path (like Sadam afterwards), then you nuke 'em, nuke 'em, nuke 'em. "Democratic" principles aren't worth a damn, or the poor terrorized people I heard about a lot of civil wars where major forces didn't intervene. I heard about lots of civil wars in Africa, where people massacred each other. If powers wanted to stop genocides, they would act everywhere, but they only choose to react on SOME of the conflicts, meaning, it has to be something that pays off the campaign (there was an economical crisis recently, so they don't have that money to throw away). [b]EDIT[/b] been writting for some time and didn't see Chewett's post. I just made a post to represent both sides of the conflict, so people don't read only about pro-nato points. Won't do so no more

Now, since you started stating facts... Keep in mind that during Gadafi (no matter how eccentric he is), Libya prospered. Libya had oil, Libya had jobs, Libya had money. It was a general opinion here that Libya was a good place to live (and all the Serbs who were working there and got evacuated back to Serbia during this war, they were confused - like how did all this happen?) Suddenly, Chaos erupted in whole Arabic world (all the unrest). Makes me wonder who profits from chaos there? Gadafi is not at war with NATO. NATO is at war with Gadafi. NATO will eventually kill more people than the supposed "reports" of Gadafi's "crimes" (manipulation of the media is well known to you-know-who) with their bombing - it's not the first time. edit: Dst made a big point too, if there weren't for oil, you think that anybody would cared to waste their resources attacking Libya? People, don't suck everything the media tells you

for the start, I don't understand how can you ban it? Gifts are allowed - you are allowed to transfer creatures, you are allowed to donate credits to any account in MD, so how can you ban someone to transfer a creature to someone else, stating that his intent was illegal? Similar thing Chewett posted here: http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/8653-rules-for-central-market-forum/ Now, Chewett's topic has the same problem as I mentioned above, only his topic is justified at point - he was feared that money was redirected from MD; yours Grido, ain't that so. If someone wishes to spend a lot of money for getting creatures, then so be it, it helps MD, and a person having reindrachs, GGs, and such creatures won't be nor first nor last. Some people are rich, and some people want those riches in RL - that's life. Cutting off RL matters with MD matters would be impossible. And also, technically, even without those transfer of creatures, someone investing 1000$ in MD shop, and using the spent credits wisely, could quickly rise to be one of the stronger fighters in the realm. side note: I never spent money on MD, so I'm not saying anything for my own ambitions

any rewards, Burnsy old champ?

honeymoon in Romania? how did you tricked your wife into this? )))

damn... should have payed more attention to the calendar, and stay till 00:01 just for this Happy birthday Dr Snickers! Many luck in this year!

How about everyone who paid up the minimal amount of credits for Tombola, gets the equal chance for the main prize as anyone else who participates in the tombola (no matter the amount of money), while the biggest spenders also get secondary prizes for investing the most money during tombola... Like top 3 spenders. I think that would be correct for main-prize-equal-chance concept and it would be correct to those who invest more money

[b]spoiler alert[/b] ---------------------------------------------------- now... Revelations only for you Pip (People should pin this somewhere btw) this what I got from Mur some time ago when I asked about ancient lore (just wanted some clarifications like Pip does) [quote Mur] Consider MD a net of logic connections, now, these connections have natural conclusions that come out of them (research purpose) but also background that becomes obvious (ancient lore). See it like a double pyramid with one up and one down (GG capital). I setup the story of what you call now ancient lore, to have it as a mirror of the present, a guideline to the story and the balance of the lands afterwards (present). The only thing valuable about ancient lore are certain base concepts, everything else is Ady making up things because he was unable to stop when i asked him to, and didn't understand the pig picture I was trying to create. Back then (5-6years ago i think) my english was very bad so i needed a story writer. Both story and graphics were created to point towards a thing, even if the artists or the writer working on them had no clue what they were doing. The important things in the ancient lore were ment to remain at a rumor level, but you people insisted of digging up details in the stories and ady couldnt understand why he should stop, so eventually everything went bad. See the ancient lore as a mirror of the present, one single wrong detail could point to a wrong outcome, and current ancient lore is full of wrong details built around what was once a solid and correct core. Three wizards, is a symbol. Their looks, their relatives, or persona lives are irelevant and is wrong to go into that. All that matters is that there are three creators, and 4 lands. Each wizard mastring one element, yet in the end 4 lands get created. The idea is that 3 elements are enough to build the 4th, to improvise it, but it comes at a terrible cost. That cost self balanced in what is now Necrovion. [/quote]

[quote name='Udgard' timestamp='1299588443' post='80360'] Ud's stamp of approval. [/quote] I think THIS settles it

yeah, I would like to use that pretty much. List of tokens I can read on the token section, but when I watch the simulation of the battle, I want to watch the simulation of creatures battling, not 300 pictures summed in 3 centimeters after which you can see everything BUT the creatures

Happy birthday Muratus

not that special but still... 10k loyalty circa [img]http://www.dodaj.rs/f/2S/xm/ERgJysQ/10k-loyalty.jpg[/img]

[quote name='Raviir' timestamp='1299336301' post='80134'] Oh my God, and here I thought I was being original. I should play that game. I've played Oblivion... Which is better between the two, in your opinion? [/quote] Morrowind is Elder Scrolls III (Oblivion is IV), so in terms of the game engine, graphics and such, Oblivion is better of course, it is the newer part of the same series BUT to me, Morrowind has a much better story, is much more interesting in general. Perhaps I am just sentimental, and I played Oblivion only a little (but I ran to a lot of forum-discussions where people had the same opinion like me about their comparison), but I would pick Morrowind as the better game. I also felt it as more realistic in some thing (I hated that NPCs in Oblivion get stronger as you get stronger in time... local bandits having the best armor is ruining the mood for me in Morrowind, everybody stayed just how they were at the start, so to take out some strong individuals, you needed to get stronger around, from caves, from missions before challenging those strong ones...)

I also thought about that some time ago, specifically the creature having the history of whom it belonged... It would be 3 years from now on like... "Wow, I use the sacred drachorn Lifeline used!" (or something silly as that )