Harion

i love the song. ofc i often have my speakers turned off so i don't hear it much i haven't even heard all the music in MD.

thank you all for the kind (and unkind) words you gave and all the advices given have been carefully taken into account and heeded i have already made my decision. sorry Gargant, your offer was just a bit too late. i have already offered to be the adept of lightsage. @lightsage, i humbly come to you with an open-mind and a willing heart. may i be a testament to how good a teacher you are. @Burns, I pray your offer still stands when I emerge from lightsage's training more knowledgeable. perhaps then i will be more of the student who won't inconvenience you much. to all those who offered help, thank you very much! it may be that i've chosen wrongly, and you may be the better choice for what it's worth, you've gained a friend in me your kindness will never be forgotten. i leave the mods now to close this topic. good day to all.

[quote name='Burns' post='31807' date='May 21 2009, 11:04 PM']you totally and completely failed to see what adepts are good for XD when a player wants to go for mp6, they need 40 adepts, that's the one big use we make of adepts... that regen thingy is worthless, as we don't regen our creatures per hand at any time, we just let them fight til they are back on full vit LOL so, if you search for a teacher, search for a teacher, but there's no point in becoming that persons adept at all, in fact your teacher will most likely tell you to help an mp6 in spe :lol:[/quote] thanks that's one more thing you made more obvious that i really need a teacher if i don't even know that one single, most knowable fact in MD i am so embarrassed that i totally failed to know that one happy you had a good laugh at my expense

oh i misread that yes, it's $15 to the referrer idk abt adepts then referral system kind of sucks i must've referred more than 15 players already to this website (and they all registered) but only 2 used my referral link most just opted to ignore my referral link and register completely fresh someone even told me they just did it because they're evil and don't want me to get the credit for referring them back to benefits from getting adepts still, even without the free credits adepts still give higher regen per ap so by and by, the mentor still gets more advantage than the student so the only way a student can benefit is if the mentor is actually an effective teacher besides, i have received enough offers to become an adept offers that are obviously just selfish offers one even asking me to register a new account and get it to be an adept of his alt others camp the paper cabin and use their LHO status to farm adepts i can see a mile away offers which are obviously just ploys to benefit selfishly and not really an offer to teach so again - i am not insulting anyone when i ask for qualifications or when i ask: what can you teach me? i am really serious when i am saying: i need a teacher but i need someone that will really do that job and not just be after me like some meat to be discarded after having been sucked dry so do you still think it should be the other way around?

[quote name='dst' post='31624' date='May 20 2009, 01:12 PM']Just playing the devil's advocate: Why should someone take you under his/her wing especially when you ask for this : "state your qualifications benefits you can give me strength and role in MD" Shouldn't be the other way around?[/quote] it would be the other way around if: you're a highly sought-after mentor and you only take one student at a time then, and only then does the mentor have the right to ask those questions the way i see it, allowing myself to be an adept of another player in MD only benefits that player (because for sure he or she will get that extra credits since i am ready to break MP5 anyway) if i will not learn anything useful beyond what i already have learned by myself in MD from that player then why the hell would i give those $15 worth of credits to someone who totally doesn't deserve it? any reasonable student scouts potential schools before they enroll in them no different from what i am doing here if you'll have no use aside from being a wallpaper mentor then, thanks but no thanks, you can stick that snobby mentorship of yours up your... if you're going to be my teacher i really need to know you can teach me otherwise you're just after the free credits i can give if you're looking for someone worthy to be your students test them and not ask for their qualifications @willem, someone who already approached me to be their adept mentioned you as a possible mentor when i asked him if he could recommend someone other than himself. @jester, i haven't yet decided if i'll be violent and crazy @intrigue, thanks - we already talked via pm didn't we?

am offering to translate the game into Filipino/Tagalog how do I do this?

i have been playing MD for a month now i found the game on my own through some link while i was searching for browser games hence i'm not an adept of anybody i'm already an MP4 and almost ready to break to MP5 and i just think if someone can really give me great training then i'll be willing to be their adept anyone willing to be my teacher, guide, mentor? state your qualifications benefits you can give me strength and role in MD also, i am interested in being an adept of someone with a very interesting role and if that role happens to run along the line of what i like i may decide on that but i'll also favor heavily someone who knows a lot about fighting i'm really lost on this aspect of MD and i just blunder into my wins and losses by chance post here or pm me

thanks!

how do you add friends here in your list?

thanks for all the tips hit and run ninja tactic seems to be working for me but i had to discover how to make dummy def rits correctly (i didn't know how before, well, i thought i knew but i was stupidly setting 100% VE everytime)

i don't know any of the spell docs a list and some kind of description would be handy

[quote name='dst' post='30830' date='May 12 2009, 02:40 AM']Combos do not affect the rituals in def. So if you have high combos on the def rits they are useless.[/quote] i know that i wasn't talking about combos in def just stating that before i didn't know combos had any purpose in rituals and then i discovered exactly what it does (need i say it here?) back to my problem, setting up dummy def saves my impt rituals but kills the crit set up for it, right? so i have every single crit in my collection set up for dummy defs they all get killed, no one gets xp i try to win fights on my own all crits get killed, again, no xp my problem isn't abt ritual it's abt gaining xp i'm all fine with losing so long as my crits gain xp @GgSeverin, thanks i feel that this week has taught me more here in MD than my 1st 30 days here i spent my 1st 30 days mindlessly fighting and then getting accidentally bumped up to MP4 even when i was avoiding it since i kept getting smashed out there, i started doing quests and exploring more heh, looking back, i think i may have been to GG by accident already (not sure) if it was that portal - then yes i saw it glowing and entered it brought me nowhere (i think) anyway, whether i got in or not - i will not secondguess myself

i have that but you know that once that crit dies the next def will be auto-assign i have no trouble keeping my rituals now before they always get broken i never knew before combos were impt in rituals so i just let them get broken but once i learned its importance i went crazy on def rits that still doesn't solve the problem that my crits still die and that they still do not gain xp because they cannot survive fights

when i turned to MP4, i had A LOT of wins and few losses so i was fine with losing continuously but now that my fight ratio is near to equalizing, i'm finding it hard to win any of my battles it would've been fine if after every fight some of my creatures survive then they would still gain xp but each time all my crits are killed so i cannot even level up any of them to make matters worse, each time i go to a crowded place i am immediately jumped upon and preyed on by stronger MP4s so i never have any breathing room to look for weaker players and defeat them since i would again spend time healing my crits all i've been doing this past week is hiding out in sanctuaries and healing! each time i go out i get obliterated with the way this is going on, i do not see any way of upgrading my crits any longer which is bad as i am also stuck with having to defeat the 2nd shop guardian i did fine at MP3, but the 2nd shop guardian at MP4 is way stronger and i cannot defeat it as there are always MP4s stronger than me always camping out at Willow's Shop a lot of my crits would be dead before i can even attack the damn guardian any way for me to upgrade my creatures and win some battles without getting murdered? the jump from MP3 to MP4 was so sudden i feel no one could've been prepared for the power gap they will encounter i cannot even find an MP4 weaker than me sure, sure, the correct rituals will beat stronger players but how can i even go on experimenting and learning with them if i always end up with dead crits before i can even start learning?

you are not alone i was already MP4 before i learned how to activate quests from RPCs and even then, i haven't finished one! the quests and puzzles are filters hopefully, Mur can amass many of us smart and patient ppl so we can rule the world, lol

i agree with Mur's punishment but i think 2 more things should be added 1st, a public apology complete with apologies to all artists he stole from (and this letter should be sent to all of them) and a disclaimer that MD is not responsible for any copyright infringement he may have done and a categorical admission that he alone should be held responsible this letter should also contain a valid id and signature completely tying up the document to his real person (if he does this, i believe the prison sentence should be lessened) 2nd if he refuses to produce said document, a RL case should be brought against him

[quote name='cryxus' post='30168' date='May 4 2009, 04:09 PM']well i suppose you have an idea of what it is you desire, no? perhaps you should explore "why" and i dunno theres a fine line between original and doppleganger, it's a matter of how you portray yourself, and im sure if you act with conviction you can pull off whatever, mate. Just because a path has been walked before doesnt mean it's unusable...[/quote] thanks - that at least allays my fear somewhat [quote name='Gauge' post='30137' date='May 4 2009, 11:35 AM']I don't know how to respond to this other than say I disagree with like 90% of what's said. I myself am not even yet a month old, and already feel like I am finding a place on this realm. Just stop looking at the glass from half empty and you will have a much better experience here.[/quote] my character is 35 days old if that means anything and also, i am not saying i'm having an awful experience here quite the opposite in fact what i'm talking about is the feeling of inadequacy i feel the feeling of awe and enormity at how big of a shoe i need to fill if i want to be at where the others are now it's not a complaint and nowhere near of whining i am stating an emotion i feel it's like being a caveman and then standing in front of the NASA space station thinking: how do i go from caveman to astronaut? it's like seeing the pyramids and being in awe of them the whole place - the whole history daunts me have you ever felt that? for example when i read a little bit of history about [spoiler] .wodin ulr and how BigC's absence caused a big question to appear, and i read about hints of how great of an impact his character had in the game[/spoiler] - it makes me gape in awe and say to myself: who am i to think i can accomplish even half as much? am i even up to the task of being half of half of what the greats had been? i can't presume too much and yet i can't also help feeling the desire to presume just as much does anyone understand me? have anyone even felt something like that?

[quote name='cryxus' post='30164' date='May 4 2009, 03:33 PM'][center]just think about what it is that you enjoy doing, and then find a way to make that into your role, i think that is the best way to become a legend as far as this [quote]but perhaps the greatest fear i hold is that everything that might be worth doing and worth role-playing have already been taken and done many times over by the veterans not literally, i know - what i meant was everything that i like or probably would have done if it hadn't been done before[/quote] there is so much that hasnt been done. imagination is not just a principle on a piece of paper, there is always a way to accomplish what you desire, if you have the dedication, will, and ability look for a way it's not so hard to forge your idea into a reality, that is part of the beauty of Magic Duel. Look at it this way, and i hate to use myself as an example, but do you think that there was a strong pirate presense? and i dont know if anyone even considered themself a pirate in MD prior to me, but the idea spread, people saw the dedication and desire and eventually accepted me. ~Cryxus~[/center] [/quote] it's exactly that what i'm talking about as i said, i didn't mean literally everything being done but only those that i might have liked to do or thought of if i were here before others thought of them, you get what i mean? for example, what if what i'd like to have done is carve myself out from something someone already did? it's not that there's nothing else new i can do there is - i know - the possibilities are endless but the things i like, the things i believe in and hold dear those ideas may already have been taken [quote name='Bootes' post='30150' date='May 4 2009, 12:38 PM']Ok, I apologize, though Now I'm confused what point your post had...[/quote] i think it has something to do with what we call "sarcasm" [quote name='Bootes' post='30132' date='May 4 2009, 10:56 AM']There is no chance that all the things you might think of have been done by some veteran before you, there is after all infinite possibilities when you use your imagination (of course I can't promise that the Simpson's won't have done it before .[/quote] yeah. good thing i'm not too much into piratey stuff which leads me to ask, does MD have a hospital? it's the very 1st thing i thought of when thinking of what i'd like to do here put up a hospital and an alliance of healers after all, it's just the natural progression of my RL - me being in the medical profession and also, healers are always my characters when i play rpg

it's just now that i'm starting to get deeper into MD reading old threads and scouring MD history and lore though there are some i don't read intentionally for fear of encountering spoilers too great it will break the game for me i've asked a few questions now and then, but prefer to explore on my own until i hit a blank wall reading some of the old threads and MD lore i got struck with what i can only call as MD awe it's something that will be very hard to shake off for everyone else like me who joined the game at a point when MD is already more than 2 (or is it 3?) years old it makes me ask the question: how can i, a lonely beginner ever hope to catch up to a veteran players and hope to make something of myself and perhaps even become a legend someday? it's not even simply the fear of being deficient in form and substance of discovering every secret in the game it's the fear of having totally missed out on much of the crucial experience in the game when it was just being birthed, or while it was growing that is giving me this feeling of inadequacy for example, even if i do catch up and somehow matches the level of veterans here i won't be able to say in the future: i was here at the very beginning when MD was being made - when thrones on each land was just being contemplated when there was no history before until Mur said the word i also can't quite escape the feeling of being an outcast somewhere along the line of MD there formed a clique of who's who and who's not and anyone else new coming along can only either become a worshipper or a follower but never a pioneer this is not a rant thread, but simply a way of telling how i feel about MD from a newbie's perspective more than feeling inadequate i feel sad that i have lost a great opportunity to be here when MD started even though having "lost" an opportunity i never had in the 1st place since i never knew of MD before as something silly of a concept, i still feel sad only because now i'll never know i'll keep on second guessing myself how did i fail to find MD when it was just starting? lastly, i feel the task ahead is great and really very daunting i am tempted to take the short route and spoil everything for me i am afraid that once i commit to fully enter MD nothing will suffice except my full devotion but perhaps the greatest fear i hold is that everything that might be worth doing and worth role-playing have already been taken and done many times over by the veterans not literally, i know - what i meant was everything that i like or probably would have done if it hadn't been done before

not fair! i'm planning to say hello when i become legend

okay i will say this now without any prejudice i LOVED every poem on that thread and no offense to DST, though his were quite funny i think his poems wouldn't match too much with MD lore while all the others are perfectly excellent for MD my favorite poet though is phantom orchid with [url="http://magicduel.invisionzone.com//index.php?s=&showtopic=3802&view=findpost&p=29968"]A Pirate's Lament[/url] as the best (currently) IMO edit: oh btw, thanks Grido!

i did. twice. raven was helpful. i'm really not much into asking for help from LHOs but when i'm browsing the forums and a question strikes me i find i'd rather ask here than run back in-game, then look for LHOs also, i find it rather annoying that when newbies ask questions here in the forum they are given the taste of some variation of: ye who needs to ask need not know. all who are wise need no guides to show them the way. or answers like: here, press f1. if that didn't answer your questions, here is the link to the FAQ. if it isn't there, ask around in-game. at least now i'm the wiser for it. when in need of answers, ask not - and you shall not be given the run around.

disclaimer: i am not very good with words, so here. judge my work for what it's worth [b]Resting Place[/b] I have come to my resting place. Where the air is fresh and the wind is cool Where the rocks are white and the sands are fine Where the trees are dense and the land is lush and the heavens and stars refresh your soul at night. I will remove the ropes and untie the boat. I have come to my resting place. I have come to my resting place. Where the birds fly free and the fishes swim deep Where horses run wild and foxes go tame Where sheep cry silently and crickets do not hum and the water and the ocean gently lap at your feet while you sleep. I will gather the wool and whisper the prayer of the wild. I have come to my resting place. I have come to my resting place. I have spent my whole life searching for a place to die Where sunset shall give way to a beautiful morn and its brilliant streaks reflecting in the horizon I will go in the wind and set up the sail I will fly in the sky and soar with the birds I have come to my resting place. I shall not die in vain. I have come to my resting place. Where the wind is now picking up and the waves are starting to build Where the crickets are now humming and the sheep starting to weep I can hear the fox howl as the sail catches wind and my boat starts to move. There, these prayers of the wild will not be forgotten. I have come to my resting place. So now, I shall be on my way. --- brief explanation/description: dying isn't the end of the journey. it's the start of a new one. this poem evokes my desire to find a place where i can be contented to die - and then move on to another realm that only dying can conquer. i wrote this when i was 13. later in my life when i got married, i realized i wasn't looking for a literal place on earth - but a state of mind - of happiness. i was looking for somewhere where my heart can rest and stop wandering. and then i found it. suddenly, i'm not too interested in dying anymore. -- p.s i agree with treehill. non english poems should be allowed with english translations provided by the author. it would enrich MD culture further [color="purple"]EDIT: I had imposed no restriction before...but nonetheless i've edited this into the first post - Grido[/color] pps. also agree another separate thread is needed. both for allowing discussions to go on about the poems posted and also so we can put up a survey and vote for our favorite poems (or poets). authors cannot vote for their own poems obviously. much less vote for themselves. [color="purple"]EDIT: Thread made: [url="http://magicduel.invisionzone.com//index.php?showtopic=3851""]http://magicduel.invisionzone.com//index.p...opic=3851"[/url] - Grido[/color] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [color="purple"]Merged posts by same author[/color] Mabuhay Bawat Araw (Living Days) sa libingan ko’y ika’y napadaan (on my grave you passed by) nag-iwan ng bulaklak at namaalam (leaving flowers and saying goodbye) ngunit kanino ka ba namamaalam (but to whom are you really saying goodbye?) sa akin o sa sarili mong alaala? (to me or to your own memories?) tunay ngang ang mundo’y malawak (it is true, the world is big) pero sating pagkakaila (but in our denials) mas makitid pa ito sa eskinita (it became smaller than the thinnest roads) wala na akong pagsisisi (i have no more regrets) nilamon na ng panahon (each of them swallowed up by time) at ng pagmamahal (and by love) ganito kaiksi ang buhay (this is how short life is) ang walang hanggan pinutol ng isang kisapmata (forever, interrupted by a blink of an eye) at ang hinagpis, ng isang taos-pusong handog (and sorrow, by a very generous gift) sa likuran ng aking pandinig (at the back of my mind) patuloy kong naririnig (i keep on hearing) isang kaibigan at isang alaala (a friend and a memory) pero bakit ganito? (but what is this?) ako ang may hawak na bulaklak (i'm the one holding flowers) at ang puntod na ito’y sayo…. (and this grave is yours...) --- a poem to remember one of the greatest regrets of my life - losing my best friend but it's also meant to mark a point in my life where i have put the past behind me and have managed to bury her (my friend) and my regrets, in the past it's also meant to show how whereas losing her almost killed me with sorrow while barely inconveniencing her, discovering i no longer love her devastated her far more switching our roles - she now realizes she loves me, while i want nothing more to do with her writing this poem is kind of like singing Eamon's [spoiler]Fuck It [/spoiler](Don't want You Back) it's as formal as i could get to telling her - [spoiler]i'm not your bitch anymore, bitch[/spoiler]

thank you for your help you were extremely helpful i couldn't be any happier for the super help you gave it helped me a lot did i say how much it enlightened me? good job

i still don't get how this heads contest work do i just aim to accumulate as many heads as i can? i'm currently running around with 16 heads idk if that's good or what oh well..