Fyrd Argentus

I'd like equipment and spells that let you fly - e.g. go to map view and pick where you want to go.

I'd like to go into a GG lab and build a custom golem creature, making selections of stats that have trade-offs, attack vs defense, stronger young vs able to advance more, etc.

Yes, looks good.  Thanks!

Odd stacking behavior of the new coins.
I'll post a bug report.

Edited above slightly.  Image below.  Scrolling I counted 81 such stacks of 39.

I believe a compromise would be the best. Lower defense bonus and some attack bonus ( 200 def, 100 att ?). 
Honestly, I think that a combined bonus of 750 stats is wayyy too much. 
 
PS Ledah: back in your day, Pangea still existed

Lots of things are split into two groups with no middle.  Correlation analysis would be really interesting.  Is it just two groups with opposite interest, or are individuals acting independently?

So here, properly formatted, are possible enchantments for some of the unique items I have.  Do please confirm if any please you, Mur.
Item name: Bottle of Vinegar
Item ID:8157
Your ID:187066
Current functionality: none
Spell: givejoker
Number of casts: 24 - to be used to give MP3's a character strong enough to do some damage to each other and accumulate some heat scars.  Also, it's in character for me.
Casting words: Give your aramor a swig of this pickle juice

Item name: Mithril Autoharp
Item ID:224412
Your ID: 187066
Current functionality: none
Spell: givemask
Number of casts: 24 - say every month or two for a few years I can play the music that gives us a costume ball.  Fun!
Casting words: You are now all under the illusion of a musical spell!

Item name: Rubber Chicken
Item ID: 220454
Your ID:187066
Current functionality: none
Spell: Chaotic Boost
Number of casts: 24 - I'm not much of a fighter, but I'd like to occasionally pull a prank on a stronger player, just to keep them on their toes.
Casting words: You have been whacked by a rubber chicken
Item name: Bone Flute
Item ID:224414
Your ID:187066
Current functionality: none
Spell: teleport_papercabin
Number of casts: No limit - to be used to rescue newbies, people lost in the labyrinth, vets stuck on  GWI, etc.   Besides, it's not a big deal if used on regular players at GoE.
Casting words: Find your way home

bringin and chase spells, and other admin spells will not be added to items , except if you have an item that is incredibly well suited to such a spell, via its name or description.
As i promised long ago, and i keep to promises, items description equivalete reality, so whatever the item name or description said, if that functionality is available, it will do that.

Items like "big red button" could be used for "emergency meeting" but this is just a possible use, the button could very well do other things, it is not bound to such a function, and since such a function is admin stuff, it will not do that. I will keep an open mind to allow it one time use of a massive summon spell or something, ..i am not sure if a one time use will be a problem or not.
Other items like "secret ingredient" could have a better use as a wildcard item in cauldron mixers. 
Many items suggested here, like "super glue","Smoke grenade", etc , do not exist, so PLEASE only suggest items that do exist ONLY

Going through the replies so far, i could pick only these possible enhancements:
Blue Silk Boxer Shorts - boostbriskness
 

Invie has worked out the current formula for heat gain when moving in your homeland, at least currently in MDA:
erolin heat gain = (Briskness / 4) + viscosity.
Land mulitiplier is always zero in MDA - there is a term in the old formulas that might add more in other homelands.
Good job, Invie!

As you may know, I have been super busy the last year and its primarily because I have been arranging my wedding! Well this Saturday is the day  
I'm planning to make a guest book of MD'ers wishes so if you wanted to leave me a message send it on the google form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdZPPhiOkxAt19Nxbvgl-xmzj1WduUeSIfiKYSSuG868Ts0Bw/viewform?usp=sf_link
It was streamed and I can link you to it if you message me!
Anyway, hope you are all doing well!
Chew

I have a unique "Rubber Chicken" that I RP as my attack mode - could be Toadspeak.  Nice threat to an unruly audience at public events.

With the introduction of spell enablement through item possession as per announcement 5700, I thought it might be fun to talk about what sorts of items might be appropriate to add spells to.
https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5700
While the assumption is most items won't get spells on them, that doesn't mean we should limit our discussion accordingly. Rather, if an item seems appropriate then I think it fair to include it in the discussion, and considerations like how easy to obtain it is should be discussed after. Just because an item has a common version available right now doesn't mean a rarer version can't be introduced - after all, if a version of the item is already in the realm it's not much of a stretch to contemplate something more fitting down the line.
Here are some of my suggestions:
Locate
Maps
Binoculars/Opera Glasses
Give Vital
Healers kit
Bandages
Chaotic Boost
Potion bottles
Strange foods
Mirror Ritual
Mirrors
Pure Water
Move Lock
Manacles
Heavy Weights/Rocks
Army of the Dead
Bag of bones
Cursed objects

I have heard that Fang has stated that he "refuses to return to MD" so I will take over finishing off this quest.
Fang has not told me of anyone else who participated publicly on the day so I will assume Fyrd is the only entry. Many thanks Fyrd and I will give you 20 plushies for your work  

Recently I went through Gateway Island as an alt account just to test and get an idea of exactly what it was and what it involved. This topic is just to compile the feedback I had as a returning player who did their best to perceive it from a new players point of view. Firstly I have to say that the island itself is good, and that the tutorial is hitting along a lot of the right tracks in terms of teaching the player to play, about puzzles and facets of the game. Where it stumbled is in the smoothness of the experience and the potential buy in.
 
One of the main things that new players encounter is the tool mechanics, though the tools have a much reduced cooldown to ensure that newbies don't spend all day collecting the required resources, however this emphasises the fact that the inventory menu doesn't refresh itself. While a refresh button is presented in the window it blends in with the text around it and is very easy to miss, and this is especially true on mobile devices. The first solution a player may find is simply refreshing the whole webpage, and not a good experience. If it is possible to make the countdown of time at least happen in real time, and the refresh button was made a slightly brighter orange, this would be remedied. Or better if the panel simply refreshed itself when hitting 0 seconds left, though I assume there are technical limitations with that?

AP Cost is an odd one here and has me somewhat confused. It seems that moving in the main handful of areas can be done even when on 0 AP, not sure whether this is a bug or intended. The other half of the areas however do require AP expenditure as per normal, except as you might imagine with only getting so few newbies the viscosity is usually around 20. Even with the Land Affinity bonus the usual AP for movement around the areas that cost it is roughly 18. Given a starter player has a bank of 200 and regens roughly 16 every 10 minutes this can get to be an issue especially since most new players will backtrack a lot as they try and put things together. This means they might start to get really excited about figuring things out... Only to find themselves out of AP and having to wait twenty minutes to move a single scene. It might be worth giving newbies more affinity for GWI to start with, or at least cap viscosity to being at max triple of the AP the scene would ordinarily cost to move to. IE if an arrow costs 1 to move, the max viscosity cost it can have would be 3, making the total cost 4. That would be much more palatable for the GWI, but probably its own discussion.

Active Days to get off the island... I get why it's there, really. But the island doesn't necessarily take that long to solve, or to exhaust the possible actions on it (depending on the player, of course). MD is a community game and GWI more often than not at this point in time is cut off from the community. Someone there can't interact with the majority of players, and without that MD loses some of its appeal. I don't see all too many players wanting to stay on the island for that amount of time because it is limiting. Left there you can't explore or necessarily find more puzzles and this is before you are able to see the deeper lore of MD... Though, suppose there may be a way off the island with less active days, not certain but the majority I've seen require it.

Finally - The Buy in. Back when I started MD you were greeted by the Story Mode, and it honestly inspired me. The story was the interweaving of lore and gave some snippet of how to think about the realm, it gave flavour and some rather odd context, the kind of thing that was utterly unique. That was what made me, personally, want to investigate and explore, it gave the curiosity to press on into the realm. That and the fascinating creatures and fights were my 'buy in', the point that I was invested enough to push through adversity or any of the rough parts of MD.
This seems to be missing in GWI. There is the introduction with a fair few interesting mentions of what is possible, but it's not really inspiring, just informative. Then the first thing you are greeted with are the tools and collection mechanics which seems like an odd choice. Don't get me wrong the tutorial is good (though the wait for the map was a bit too long), but it's not something that is going to draw people in which is what you need to start with. I'd suggest start with a mystery, some hinting at the lore and have the mystery progress with each step to exiting the island. Meet the creatures and combat second, with a shade in each location to optionally fight. Then the tools.
This way players can at least do something while waiting for things to process or AP to generate, because when most people start looking for a new browser based game, they're bored. Greeting them with a mystery and something to puzzle over as they go is not only more interesting, but also more authentic to at least how I see MD.
 
Anyway, thank you for reading my thoughts. GWI seems like a very good place to start, it just needs that buy in and polish. But the hard part is done, it's intuitive and easy to understand for those who do not leave early. At least by my own reckoning. Hopefully my perspective helps to some extent!

Congratulations to Elyssia for finishing the quest!  Wishpoint!

p.p.s. It has come to my attention there was some grousing about this award.  MaGoHi had an inspired genius of an idea, eventually met all the requirements of the challenge, got political support for his idea from other players, and provided some serious entertainment on an otherwise dead day in the realm.  If that's not worth a wishpoint, I don't know what is.  I could hardly deny him a wp since he met the rules - THAT would be favoritism.  If you don't like the attitude his RPing portrays that's between you and him.

p.p.s. It has come to my attention there was some grousing about this award.  MaGoHi had an inspired genius of an idea, eventually met all the requirements of the challenge, got political support for his idea from other players, and provided some serious entertainment on an otherwise dead day in the realm.  If that's not worth a wishpoint, I don't know what is.  I could hardly deny him a wp since he met the rules - THAT would be favoritism.  If you don't like the attitude his RPing portrays that's between you and him.

Say what?
In my interactions with Mur, two principles have been made clear.  There should be a range of wishpoints available from easy to insanely difficult.  And secondly, every offer must be open to everyone equally.
For me to deny MaGoHi a wp for finding a clever way to solve the challenge would violate the second principle.
Bear in mind, this challenge sat on the forum for over a year without anyone even trying it (to my knowledge).  Frankly, as a practitioner of origami, I saw it as a very simple challenge, designed to get people doing stuff with MD creatures and interacting with others -- in this MaGoHi succeeded.  All MaGoHi's shortcut did was substitute a creative insight for knowledge of traditional origami techniques.

My friend makes these little knit critters (more likely crochet).  Make one of an MD creature, of similar quality and style, and earn a wishpoint!  (No spherical creatures allowed, must have features).
NOTICE: If you make a drach, you can't win both this and the permaquest about making a drach with the same style thing.
(Let's show Seigheart how it's done!)

p.p.s. It has come to my attention there was some grousing about this award.  MaGoHi had an inspired genius of an idea, eventually met all the requirements of the challenge, got political support for his idea from other players, and provided some serious entertainment on an otherwise dead day in the realm.  If that's not worth a wishpoint, I don't know what is.  I could hardly deny him a wp since he met the rules - THAT would be favoritism.  If you don't like the attitude his RPing portrays that's between you and him.

p.p.s. It has come to my attention there was some grousing about this award.  MaGoHi had an inspired genius of an idea, eventually met all the requirements of the challenge, got political support for his idea from other players, and provided some serious entertainment on an otherwise dead day in the realm.  If that's not worth a wishpoint, I don't know what is.  I could hardly deny him a wp since he met the rules - THAT would be favoritism.  If you don't like the attitude his RPing portrays that's between you and him.

p.p.s. It has come to my attention there was some grousing about this award.  MaGoHi had an inspired genius of an idea, eventually met all the requirements of the challenge, got political support for his idea from other players, and provided some serious entertainment on an otherwise dead day in the realm.  If that's not worth a wishpoint, I don't know what is.  I could hardly deny him a wp since he met the rules - THAT would be favoritism.  If you don't like the attitude his RPing portrays that's between you and him.

p.p.s. It has come to my attention there was some grousing about this award.  MaGoHi had an inspired genius of an idea, eventually met all the requirements of the challenge, got political support for his idea from other players, and provided some serious entertainment on an otherwise dead day in the realm.  If that's not worth a wishpoint, I don't know what is.  I could hardly deny him a wp since he met the rules - THAT would be favoritism.  If you don't like the attitude his RPing portrays that's between you and him.

My friend makes these little knit critters (more likely crochet).  Make one of an MD creature, of similar quality and style, and earn a wishpoint!  (No spherical creatures allowed, must have features).
NOTICE: If you make a drach, you can't win both this and the permaquest about making a drach with the same style thing.
(Let's show Seigheart how it's done!)