Harion

[quote name='dst' post='29811' date='May 1 2009, 01:18 PM']you just go with the flow and also get your revenge for what I told you in another topic . That's all right: I am trying to understand your frustration )[/quote] revenge? actually, i just want to needle you and see how you respond [quote name='dst']Third: I don't look for excuses cause I don't need them.[/quote] if you don't need them, then why provide one in the 1st place? and you so did [quote name='dst']...you are too young to this game to know lots of things...[/quote] don't i know it miss know-it-all *runs* nyaanyaaanyaaah

[quote name='dst' post='29762' date='Apr 30 2009, 09:26 PM']Hey! It was some sort of exploit and I used it just for the fun of it not to harm DA or for other reasons.[/quote] o rly? 0.o seems to me as just an afterthought excuse right after you were caught be a man and admit you did it for selfish reasons instead of rationalizing it was for a "noble" cause [quote name='dst']As for me I am still not ashamed if this is what the whole issue is.[/quote] well that takes the cake

[quote name='dst' post='29326' date='Apr 24 2009, 04:54 PM']Harion, what the guys didn't tell you is that the dojo will not have a "code" support. It's a social movement started long time ago by Calyx and we have to deal with it as it is (without poping up messages or things like that).[/quote] i realize that already before. that the dojo functions more on a social agreement made by the players. but how do you think laws evolved in the 1st place? social agreements are bound into writing and enforcement is bound along with it [quote name='dst']And as Burns said: if there will ever be a tag like bounty-hunted I want one too [/quote] yeah, i want one as well only a tag that says: most wanted man that has never been caught imagine the legends that can grow out of it!

[quote name='King Manu' post='29049' date='Apr 18 2009, 08:00 AM']In so many years of programming i fear my mind got used to logical things and that something can or can't work, but not in between. 1 is 1 and 0 is 0, in a logical sense, but this thing not logic. i fear this goes more into psychology research than a fancy MD feature, but, would't be the first one [/quote] if i have understood correctly everything that you have written in this thread, and guessed correctly what you are aiming to do, then i'll tell you: you are right - a pure programmer alone cannot do what you aim to do social systems cannot be based solely/entirely on logic humans are psychological beings - we are part rational and part irrational (as an aside, this is why most prevailing models of economy failed - they were based on assumptions that man as a consumer is logical and can therefore be quantified with a formula forgetting that humans in general, even those with PhDs, are evolved from primal animal, and are wired and born with irrationalities that cannot simply be erased by years of study and conditioning otherwise we wouldn't be humans but robots -- hence the result, we are in our present quandary which is an economic collapse which better minds might've prevented if those who were on control before just didn't think they were gods and believed so much in the supremacy of numbers and math) so how do you program a self-learning algorithm to be born from the minds of many when you can't control how any of those "parents" think? do you just screen for "proper parents" and exclude those that have psychoses whose "neural networks" might just corrupt the system when it breaks down on itself? i am not a programmer (in the true sense) and don't have the learning to fully understand present programming but i have the mind of one, and when i was still in school, was very strong in logic and aced all the basic programming language subjects that was taught in school what i am trying to say is, because of this, my mind isn't molded into a prejudice and because i have the the fortune to study a lil bit of psychology and have read mounds on subjects that deal with social experiments i know exactly how you feel (well, if ever i am right in what i think, lol) tell you though, you are right in one aspect: you need a vacation - a time away from all of this a time to sit back and view all of the things you have done and think not in terms of being the "creator" of anything but the "facilitator" of some thing then you need to ask yourself are you still the master or are you the slave?

[quote name='Burns' post='29322' date='Apr 24 2009, 03:39 PM']that would definitely stop players from offending multiple times because because they'd quit -.-[/quote] again, i don't think they'd quit. anyone foolish enough to persist when he knows punishment is severe is clearly ready to suffer any punishment that may be meted out. and there could be safeguards so that players can get off the list via a public apology and a promise never to do the offense again. of course if the promise is broken, then there you go, we can be evil and give them xp for them to cap out [quote name='Burns']oh, and another idea: even though i respect the dojo and like Calyx, i'd definitely start offending the dojo if that got implemented, i want to be bounty-hunted^^[/quote] well, there you go.

^^ i wonder who's the fool the one berating a newb for voicing out something he doesn't know or the newb voicing out something he doesn't know... hmm... let me go and check my obvious meter

good to know you can state the obvious coz OBVIOUSLY if i HAD solved it and everyone who's solved it WOULD KNOW then i wouldn't be saying what i posted before, would i? or are you pointing out i was claiming i solved the puzzle? good to know you need your reading comprehension improved then coz i claimed nothing of the fact

i don't think you'd scare away a player that insists on flaunting the law even when warned what that would do though is DETER them not scare them away

well, there should at least be a note on that garden saying you should take a screenshot if you solve the puzzle (one showing your name i should add) as rewards aren't automatic and needs to be proven and also, most importantly, when to know you've solved it coz obviously, even if you turn it all black or all orange if nothing happens on the screen no glowing or nothing that says, congratulations you'll just keep clicking on waiting for something to happen i mean, 1st time i wandered there i knew it was a puzzle i thought a set pattern was needed so i just kept clicking hoping to activate something or open a gate, or cause an item to magically appear good lord, good thing i came here so i know next time what consists a solved puzzle otherwise i would've solved it and never knew and just kept stupidly waiting for a genie to magically appear at least the ball in berserker's way activates when you solve it

[quote name='Burns' post='29288' date='Apr 24 2009, 03:35 AM']You seem to have missed the threat dealing with all those issues... The codework would be horrible, and totally unneccesary, as you said, breaking laws can be a part of the game, too^^[/quote] well, i'm not a programmer, so i'll trust this issue with those who know and yeah, breaking laws can be part of the game [quote name='Burns']bounty hunting would mess the game for most players...[/quote] in what way? [quote name='Burns']there are a few people in here who love the kill, and if bashing mp3-4 got openly rewarded, those poor fellows disobeying the dojo wouldn't even get time to take a deep breath before they die again *hehe*[/quote] exactly. which would hopefully mean offenders would drastically decrease if not gone forever as they wouldn't last long in the game to even regen without sanctuaries and with everyone able to attack them plus handicapped

idk if this will be a spoiler so... [spoiler]yeah, everyone's said there's a way aside from brute force, but heck, a single crit rit surely didn't work for me. the guards aren't all multi-attackers. there's one that hits single crits. i've thought that maybe what the hint meant was using an unupgrade creature, or hell, even just the egg still unhatched. haven't tried that theory yet though. but what's clear to me is that to win, i need to at least do damage to the guards. that, or last a certain number of rounds.[/spoiler]

the sensible solution to someone doing havoc as part of the role play is a solution also based on role play just put repeat offenders on a bounty list anyone on the list will be open to attack from any mp level on any place in the realm even on sanctuaries and will be handicapped on all fights bounty hunters who succeeds in killing off a wanted player's ritual gets reward player gets off the list after a month of no offense relocating the dojo or making a separate dojo is just admitting defeat and capitulating to repeat offenders' desire to inflict chaos players who flaunt dojo rules have the desire to act out anti-social behavior which they are constrained to do in RL seeing as MD aims to be an immersive RPG, i'd hate to see lawbreakers being limited or even prevented from breaking laws after all, what if the role i want to play is as the most wanted man in MD? knowing there are laws and punishment for them makes deterrence possible but also gives thrills and a sense of purpose to those flaunting them stacking the deck against offenders makes it so that offenders do get punished if caught to prevent "ignorance of the law" excuses make it so that prompts appear when attacking in dojo informing attacker that attacking in dojo is prohibited unless consent is given also, i can't see why attacks without consent can't be prevented from the game script as it is now, players can't attack players who have no creatures or no creatures alive a similar code in dojo can be scripted so that players being attacked will be prompted and if they consent, script preventing attack will be turned off it can also be coded so that players who go idle will have the script preventing attack automatically turned off same with those carrying heads

well, a separate thread for each new user saying hello makes the new person feel welcome when others reply to the topic and would also make new people easier to find compared to one huge thread of hello where the post of the new player introducing him/herself may be buried underneath all the others welcoming them if it bothers your sense of forum tidiness or activates your obsessive compulsiveness your idea of sticking old hello threads into a dump thread is nice what would be nicer is if you could extend your compulsiveness to make a table of contents on the 1st page so each player's thread can be linked on the 1st page

[quote name='Grido' post='29277' date='Apr 24 2009, 01:02 AM']you will value rituals more in mp4 and certainly in mp5, as everyone has better stats than you, so you will lose really easily and quickly if you dont set up rituals to combat their attacks.[/quote] ok tnx. still it doesn't really answer my main question which is, do rituals get stronger as it gets more combos? [quote name='Grido']while possible, it's extremely hard to get into Lore at mp3, and getting into Golemus or Necro at mp3 is unlikely also, you will still be able to access these places at mp4 through the same methods you'd use to get into them at mp3.[/quote] yeah. i just started trying again to beat the lore root guards with the methods mentioned in one of the threads here. it isn't working. either only brute force works or the hint that simple things beats stronger creatures is just crap. i'll reserve judgment for later unitl i've tried out every variation of my theory. [quote name='Grido']start a role for yourself, make your papers at some point, people might start talking to you more if they are interested in your role, your role can be just about anything you can imagine, look around at what there already is, but try to create something new and different[/quote] where do i look around? and i don't understand what that means, make my papers. do you mean write something on my notebook or profile?

i set up rituals and when all creatures in that ritual die, it gets lost then i create another one, rinse and repeat it seems to me there's no point in creating rituals aside from healing and defensive rituals so when i got tired of creating and remaking my rituals whenever they are lost i just decided to keep using random ritual anyway, i win most of the time no matter which creature gets used only lose when the random ritual uses all weak creatures or those with low vitality but then i started reading here in the forums (didn't register before as i didn't want to be spoiled) only registered when i realized i was nearing breaking mp4 and thinking it might be wiser to find out if im making a mistake with what i'm doing which might be hard to reverse later on so, i read that rituals can acquire combos and max was 100 and i asked, so what? do unbroken combos make the ritual stronger? if so, then i'll start kicking myself now because i just lost a chance to get a ritual combo that could've reached 100 easily i reached 100 wins easy with my loss somewhere around 40 and the only reason i stayed at mp3 longer was needing more XP coz i stoppped acquiring xp when my win/loss ratio got so lopsided i could've kept winning but realized i needed to farm losses even though i notice i am still gaining XP even when it says 0% i just need to balance my profile so i could start gaining max XP when i resume story mode -- another thing is there seems to be no way to prevent my progressing to mp4 i still don't want to go to mp4 until i've had a few more things tested i was planning on levelling up all my creatures and sacrificing them all and getting new ones and repeating said cycle until i have enough vitality to buy that damn egg then i realize that if i step to mp4 with new creatures, i will get creamed with no way to recover thankfully, i've only sacrificed one max levelled creature which was aramor assassin also, i don't want to go to mp4 w/o getting inside loreroot, gg, and necrovion i've read that there are some areas i won't be able to access once i get to mp4 -- lastly, from my understanding, utilizing heat and storing it can only be done at mp4 at least that's what it says on the heat icon just want to know if this is correct -- pps. oh, and i forgot, can quests only be done by contacting RPCs in-game or can they be contacted here in forums as well? -- and how the hell do i start injecting/inserting myself in the MD world story? i've been pretty much anti-social in-game just going around and fighting i see everyone role-playing stuff in chat and i feel kinda stupid just butting in conversations where everyone talks in a roleplay manner with colored texts everywhere (and for the record, i only know how to talk in blue and gray) -- random thoughts: seeing as this game is still in alpha or beta i can only imagine what it'd be when or if it ever gets completed it would more than ROCK, i'd say this game is one step more closer to achieving what i truly want an RPG to be once an AI gets made that can construct story mode in such a way that an infinite number of possibilities and branches can be chosen with a story that isn't written by a human author but is created and collated simultaneously from the actions of all players in the game world