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[quote name='BFH' timestamp='1342446129' post='117622'] That shouldn't happen to heat vote then.. It's a voting method and I think it's stupid to lose somehow a vote casted? So there's no funtion to prevent the loss at all? However, I believe losing heat should happen to scripted items since somehow can be... abused, but that's not the case of heat for vote. [/quote] [quote][color="#CCCCCC"]Ann. 2206 - [2012-02-17 22:33:18 - Stage 11][/color] [b]Heat Voting (concept)[/b] ... The fact heat drops is also relevant when considering that a certain matter might be seen by someone that can do something about it at a later time. In other words it is a vote that slowly fades away if not sustained and has as only "enemy" the "forgetting" of that cause...and that is in a way very realistic.[/quote] If you really want to show the total amount of heat donated you can add up the amounts of heat donated by each player (after subtracting the heat from previous votes.) If I'm right that doesn't drop over time.

Welcome back to MD, have fun!

[b]Mine is: 1001011000000010111000101 - 0000101101[/b]

Happy Birthday Kyphis!

Happy Birthday, Grido!

Yesterday Bob has bloomed and resurrected Chewett and Spartiatis! Today I saw Spartiatis' footprints, while only briefly this does show he has not yet forgotten about us. Thank you Bob and all who, in one way or an other tried to help bring them back. It took a while but we did it.

Happy Birthday!

I think the final line in the second example should say: [CODE]echo 'In total ' . count(@vp['players']) . ' have stored heat in talisman';[/CODE]

For now one thing we can do is at least prevent the heat from the hidden orb to die out. Other than that I think it would be good to hold an in game meeting about this soon to decide what we think is the best solution. An other thing we might start thinking about is what we think of killers. Is it right that someone who took someone else's life away can just walk away freely without having to worry about anything?

I'm sorry Maebius, but I'm going to keep the orb open for a little longer and the heat has even started to slowly rise again. This is not the time to give up, no matter how we will do it I'm certain the heat will prove to be useful. All help to keep the heat growing will be greatly appreciated. It is long past time to bring Spartiatis back.

[quote name='Rhaegar Targaryen' timestamp='1340394642' post='115826'] Maybe because they were involved in every single previous resurrection and people have RL duties at the moment? (exams and all sorts of stuff) If anyone can be spared from lack of activity accusations, it would be the folk of Marind Bell as a group. (represented by, among others, bringers of light) [/quote] I really don't want to accuse anyone, we're all to blame nothing happened yet and Spartiatis was the first to die. Also if we all clasp our hands together I'm sure we'll be able to bring them back in no time.

I don't like the idea of an automatic revival or a resurrection without help of others. Why? Because people would find little reason to help someone who would get back after a month anyway. Many great initiatives came from dead, like Chewett's [url="http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/10210-ceremonial-heat-letting-for-our-dead/"]heat letting for the king[/url]; Maebius, Katt and Guillak's [url="http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/11666-seigheart/page__hl__heat"]heat gathering for Seigheart[/url] (and later on themselves) together with Passant's [url="http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/11715-we-want-them-back-declare-war-to-death/page__hl__dead"]War on Death[/url] and even Dst's [url="http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/11115-results-reporter-quest-who-killed-eon/page__hl__%2Breporter+%2Bquest"]ritual to make Bob bloom[/url] for Eon. Most of these efforts wouldn't be there if the dead would be resurrected after a month anyway. It seems like everyone agrees that paying 20 Gold to revive someone is outrageous, but why has no one tried to resurrect them using a different way? Why has there been no mas heat gathering? Why has no one tried to reconstruct the ritual Dst used to get Eon back? Have the Lorerootians forgotten their laws now they no longer have a king? "To aid fellow citizens" and "To defend other Lorerootians by word and deed." Why haven't the bringers of light brought their light to the GoE, brought the life bringing light? Especially now one of Marind Bell's own citizens has died as well. Same goes for the rest of MD our citizens are dying and we just sit by watching idelly, telling a few to fix what we don't feel worth the trouble to work for. Heat is the blood of all activity in MD, garthering enough heat therefore will bring back those that died, so why not stop wasting our time complaining about Grido and start bringing back the dead?

I would love to trade a movelock stone for the branches.

I'm sorry for suddenly being unable to make it. I put a (very) shot description of the grave in the arch for those who wish to pray for his soul. While technically he could still be resurrected it would IC be a bit strange now his body is gone. What I rather hope would happen is that, now he's buried, his soul gets freed from his body and he will be able to roam the lands freely again.

All right, we'll hold it at the GoE and bury the ashes in LR afterwards.

There are several more scenes like that: http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/10766-no-mans-land-vs-no-home-land-is-there-a-difference/

Sad times have come upon us. After over a month since his dead the time has come for Spartiatis' funeral. This Saturday at 18:00 ST his remains will be burned in a pyre at the GoE. All are welcome to pay respect to a fallen warrior. For those who wish to there will be time to speak a few words.

The alliance is far from dead, it's time it gets restored to it's former glory.

[b]Research, connections and spell docs[/b] A while ago Mur started with the reintegration of spelldocs through clues, however as of today there still are no new clues, it's still impossible to unlock clues through research and there is no way to gain spell docs. I think it's also time these get some new attention.

[quote name='Fenrar' timestamp='1338908863' post='113467'] 3. No matter which stage we fight, we do it once. [/quote] So if you've done it on MP3 you can no longer do it at the other MPs. Many who win on MP3 don't even really know what they've gotten themselves into. (Yes I've seen MP3s getting asked if they want to win the contest by just staying at the GoE knowing little more than that they'll get a nice price.) [quote name='Fenrar' timestamp='1338908863' post='113467'] 4. The ones who _could_ compete were not interested at MP4 or MP5 either. Some people won by spending too much time in idle mode... and when logging in: wow! surprise... I won a trophy!. [/quote] People who would otherwise win on MP3 will now have to participate at MP4, so there will be more participants at MP4. [quote name='Fenrar' timestamp='1338908863' post='113467'] The game will not be better because of one more MP4. There is one less MP3 that way. And how could the newbies train and melt into the realm? There are times when MDP is empty, only the "bots" are there (thank you guys for this, it is nice to have them). [/quote] Those that knowingly participate in HC usually are those that would move up afterwards anyway, If only because they get capped during HC. So is it better to have a player killing off newbies for their heads or hiding in some remote area, and move up to MP4 afterwards than have them move up a week earlier? But the most important thing is that HC isn't a challenge any more because there are just to few participants to fit 12 spots.

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[quote name='Fenrar' timestamp='1338853259' post='113402'] No HC on MP3? All right, one less event for us... there is plenty we can do anyway. To be honest, I was working hard to lose those heads at the end, so I can maybe win the next contest... but well, this HC turned out to be not much of a contest. (Thank you Quizok for the long hunt in Phase 1, I enjoyed it very much:).) I am not sure forcing us to MP4 helps. Really. Personally, I am looking for fun. By the way, the other MP level contests were different, more active, better? I was checking the contest log all the time... I am not sure about the answer. Do not force us to move on to MP4. Please. Give us time and fun. [/quote] There are several reasons I think HC should be MP4+, the main one being that there just are to few participants to keep it interesting, if you win on MP3 you can't win again. When you don't allow MP3 to participate there will be 4 more possible participants for the next contest. Furthermore because of the MP requirements only a very select group of creatures is available to MP3. Most creature abilities only get available at MP4 or even 5. In my opinion MP3 fighting is to limited for HC. To finish this up MP3 is a stage to learn the basics. If you feel like you're ready for HC you're also ready for MP4 That's why I think HC shouldn't be available to MP3, but the main point was that HC needs to be worked on to make it more than just "the one who was unable to avoid the most score"

[b]Making Heads contest a contest[/b][b] again[/b] As most know for a while now HC hasn't been much of a contest other than for occasionally for first place, though that spot usually is taken from the start as well. Lately it has even become harder not to win if you haven't already than it has to win. Therefore I have a few suggestions as to how to make HC a little harder: -Make HC only available to MP4+, as MP3 can't really fight fully yet anyway, or perhaps make it MP5 only. -Reduce the amount of winners to 3 per category. -Reduce the amount of HCs to 4 per year, one every 3 months With this there should at least be some increase in competition in the long run as the amount of competitors gets more concentrated in one place. Edit: Thhe main point is work on HC to make it a contest again, not the way how this should be done.

People gave negative rep without comments, because in the announcement was asked to post only ideas in the topic. The reason for the negative rep itself is that you ask for things to be removed which you know nothing about. First the removing of Land loyalty requirements from items. What do you think would happen if everyone is able to get any gathering resource they want? Most of the resources would be depleted permanently. Just look at the herbs if you don't believe me, baskets are there for all to use, at least those able to get into Loreroot. (Which is possible even without defeating the guards, it's up to you to find out how) Also the high AP cost in the tribunal as well as viscosity have their reasons. Even veterans are at least slowed down considerably by the AP in the east. Why? Mostly because of similar reasons to why the land guards are there for Loreroot. I didn't neg rep you either, because suggestions of new players often are the most valuable and shouldn't be discouraged, but at the same time when suggesting something you know little about you shouldn't be surprised when people don't like it, that usually means you need to dive into it some deeper first.

[b]Dynamic land loyalty[/b] One of the things I would like to see changed is the way people gain land loyalty. Currently the way to gain it is be joining an alliance from a specific land and after that all you need to do is make sure you log in from time to time and it'll keep going up. While this is a nice start and does give some indication of a persons loyalty to a specific land it is very limited. For example someone who joins a land only to damage it or it's people still gains loyalty and will keep it for all eternity, while someone who does help to protect the land or in some other way helps the land, but is not (yet) a citizen of that land gets nothing. While this might not be the most important change and I'm not certain how it should be changed with the growing importance of land loyalty just time isn't enough.