Menhir

A chart is nothing which is stable and could change weekly or anytime. The question is: Is there a need for something like I mentioned? As it looks I was terrible wrong with what I thought is the actual exchange rate so other s might be in the same situation when the start trading with mixtures of GC and credits ect. But we are moving offtopic! Menhir

[quote name='Udgard' timestamp='1349006289' post='122606'] Current rate is about 5credits for 1 gold. Gold's value is not equal to the amount of credits spent to get it because on the way to get that gold you get other stuff worth your credit. Gold is more like a bonus for finishing an item category. [/quote] Wow fantastic I will go for GC too in this case. Btw is it somewhere written in the forum or do we have a MD currency chart? Menhir

5 Credits 1 GC? How do you do this? Try to get a GC in the shop by spending 5 credits and if one succeeds please let me know how - thank you. I remember a rate which was 15 credits for 1 GC. Menhir

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I would like to buy or trade a shade swordsmen. (of course is payment in credits possible) Please PM me ingame or Forum. Thank you Menhir

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[quote name='dst' timestamp='1347304481' post='121583'] That's the point: it is not "impossible". It is achievable (and you can't deny that) BUT not by your everyday noob. Or at least not THAT easy as some want. [/quote] Wow ... now I know even better what´s going on here ... thank you dst and I thought after 2 years being here I learned at least something but have to realise I need a couple of more 12h MD days to understand even the basics (and I have no doubt that I need a couple of more RL years to aquire the needed age and experience to be acceptable) *menhir bows in total respect* [quote name='dst' timestamp='1347304481' post='121583'] Actually this is still true. Every rit has a counter. The problem here are the personal stats. Mur never ever thought that someone could reach 1M attack so I am pretty sure he never took into account that factor. But if you remove the stats, you can beat ANY ritual using another one. [/quote] hmm ... so everything is still possible if something is changed somehow ... interresting idea which is, as it was my aim with starting this post, excactly what I tried to say but somehow failed as it seams because after a short conversation we are again deep in the same pattern like always - the big and only EGO Goodnight Menhir

[quote name='Grido' timestamp='1347268125' post='121563'] Why? MP6 is (intentionally) not designed for everyone to be able to get there. [/quote] Well I guess It´s time to change my view of the "game" then ... My point of view didn´t change because if something is not designed for everyone to be able to get, why should everyone even try to reach the impossible aim? Like in the hints it says eyeryone can win against every ritual - as I know even this is no longer true. So why even train creatures, VE or skills? Why do anything at all? -> because you never know maybe you cannot reach what you aim for ... I´m absolutely not with you in this Grido but I know ... Menhir

No need ideas? Surprising ... Manda was not able to reach MP6 even with my action to step back. If we depend on others to reach MP6 and we cannot reach MP6 with the help of others, my feeling is there is something wrong with this system. No thoughts I know ... Menhir

Hello, I just realised this morning that with the system we have at the moment to reach MP6 and with the limited amount of playing people its nearly impossible to have 2 active protectors 2 people trying to upgrade their crits and 1 trying to reach protector status again. So I step back from my aim to reach MP6 as long as Manda or anyone new is trying it at the same time too. I don´t want that the protectors are losing their protectorship because this is much more improtant then upgrading my crits. Anyone who help me until here is asked now to change to Manda so that he can finish his task as soon as possible. Once he updated the adepts can change one more time to myself if they wish and I will upgrade too. After taht we should be able to help sunfire to be the 3rd protector of the realm again. I would like to ask anyone to start thinking of new ideas for the "upgrading process". I just realised it´s causing alot damaging atmosphere and for some unwanted trouble. I thank all who supported me until now and ask you again to help finishing this as fast as possible. Menhir

@Eon could you tell us the hight of the herbalism stat when it started to double please? Kind regards Menhir

Well my mistake. I checked several times and now I did it again and he`s there. I don`t know why I missed him. Please close this topic adn sorry for my mistake. Menhir

Yesterday I found out that I had am extra creature slot free, so I checked and found out that my Santa isn`t there any longer. My question now: Has anyone the "problem"? Is it a bug? I need help in with this issue please. Thank you Menhir

Do not include Tokens please. From my point of view it makes it more complicated then it is useful and Dark Raptor already mentioned it, the new player would have and advantage because we had no idea of the principle/token relationship. Please cut out the skills which are raised, it was already mentioned that you can get them much easier with fighting then by waiting and I was bored to wait and went into the same trap with the higher numbers by longer waiting (but it is a nice idea to tell the new player he needs patience) . I wanted to play but was not able to play because I thought I miss something. Players I introduced did the same and nearly all of them left the game in this waiting time. I would love to see a concept that gives a new player more than I had when I finished the tutorial. Maybe I was not able to understand but at this point I had NO IDEA what MD was and the only thing why I stayed was the beauty of the whole art in MD. Much later I learned to start "playing". I still wonder how MD survived in my pool of browser "games" at that time. Today it`s the only one left. So the concept could be a quest like in so many other MMORPG`s. Take the new played by the hand tell him a story and guide him through the basics in not more than 25 min. Basics are fighting, skills, chat, player constructed quests, changing game"play" through community communication. So give the new player the feeling that he would be instantly a part of this beauty (MD) by just being here and staying here. But on the other hand it should be clear that this is a "game" of patience and not a fast runner. The story as it is now is just ok not more, I´m not talking about the mystics and hidden background, this is just perfect, because I think MD need´s special people. But for the start the lenght it´s just too much and many people got confused and would love to skip it. It should be possible to read again all the steps you did in the story to understand. It should be clear that there are different ways to go through (and again maybe I was just ignorant but didn´t understand even at MP4). The last thing I would suggest and for me the most important of all and not mentioned yet, let every new Player choose an avatar from the pool of LV 1 Avatars. For me the most disturbing part was, that I had to move through this land without a picture which represents me in some way. And later I had to shuffle through the whole section of avatars to get one. So please change something here. Of course there should be nothing special in it but give the player a reward after he finishes the tutorial, something he is happy about. I think this could be an avatar. Everyone would still love to get a better one. Menhir

Congratulations Sasha!

A warm welcome [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Eara, we have already meet. If you have patience in MD you will have fun too .[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]All the best[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Menhir[/font][/color]

Leave? What´s the point? You should think in WIN/WIN situations not the opposite. Nothing more to say. Menhir

The Idea of changing parts of the shop is a good one. So many things changed in the last 2 years and I doubt that the shop has been altered in the same way. So the suggestion of modifing the structure and parts of content is something wich would, if handled carefully, help everyone. Take things out wich lost their usefulness and add things like real items. For example the whole idea of weapons and armor is something wich could be of real use. In every game I ever played (mostly RP`s) these kind of items have a significant role in gameplay and for most they are collectables and visuals too. In MD they are not more than a weak visual effect. They have no meaning nor do they have a real use. How about putting some parts of rare set´s into the shop and make them tradedable. In addition to this the rest of those set´s are only achivable through ongoing quests. And even this idea is expendable in the way of making those quest´s available for different MP levels. And of course reshaping the whole idea of armor and weapons as it is at the moment in the game is a must too. For weapons one could even smile about the idea that you have to collect parts of broken and lost weapons. Collecting those weapon parts through quests, WP shop and of course the credit shop itself would add another motivation to vote (for all nonepayers) or to even invest small amounts of money to support the server and game itself. The balance must be there but as far as I can say about myself as long as it looks achievable with "normal" time-investment noone should have problems with it. Take the voting part. Voting is 0,2 $ per day at the moment. 5 days 1 $ - 100 days 20$ - 1 year more than 60$ - so if something is buried 50$ deep in the shop everyone can achieve it in 1 year. This is not fast - not at all - but it´s possible with patience. If it is a gold coin wich you can get much easier by trade, it´s not worth to vote 1 year for it (some years ago it was I know), but if it is something you work the whole time for by solving quests and collecting all the other parts of an armor set or the piece of broken weapons, I´d say it´s worth it. We are all waiting 365 days to see the Lv of santa or to get WP´s for activity day´s, same principle there. The whole idea is much bigger in my head but I´m better waiting this time before letting it all out again (could be a waste of time). My 2 cent. Menhir

First of all I need to say that from my point of view there is always an unbalance in our world but only from our own point of view. Because we behave differently and this creates an “unbalance”. I will explain this as short as possible: If you are interested in training your body, think of any form - it´s a principle I´d like to show, you will invest different amounts of “energy” into the whole idea! As a martial artist I take my example. I trained a lot when I was young (16-20) and I was good - the best in my town but it came a time when I moved to Berlin the capital of Germany. Thousands of people were training there and some of them trained more intense, invested more money (private training) and had more competition with others than I had in my hometown all those years before, through which they were able to have more different experiences. So I started to feel uncomfortable. Why? Because my position in the world change, of course it was only from my point of view, but it had an effect. So what did I do? I jumped on the train and started training more, learned to train more effective, intense and invested a lot money for private lessons which were so intense and helpful that I was able to succeed others who trained even 10 years longer than myself in a short period of time. You may ask now what my short story has to do with this here? Simple as that - it’s the same principle working here. You desire something and if your desire is big enough you will invest much more than others to reach your aim and from various points of view it looks like unbalance. Others who have not this strong desire start feeling uncomfortable and they will search for a solution to solve their own uncomfortable problem their ego is producing. I say there is a solution to this, but not the way we are looking at it. I take the example of Lightsage now. If I´m wrong in what I think please excuse me. He himself just said he was able to raise his attack stats from 8500 to 1000000 (is it really 1 Million or 100000?). “I went from 8500 attack to 1000000 in no time at all.” No time at all? I don´t think so. As far as I know one thing you did to reach this, was to sacrifice creatures, fully tokened and with a huge amount of wins on them. Some people don´t even have those creatures because they are hidden in the shop and you need shop resets to get more than one of them. This means you need to play for a long time and invest alot money. From your own perspective it was in no time (the jump from 8,5 K to 100K) but if it is like I think then you put a lot of effort and planning and TIME into it to raise your attack power that much. So there is a balance even in this. If I have someone totally new coming to my training and he feels, after a couple of weeks, the big difference between “my fighting skills” and his newly started once, he will mostly be disappointed and many people start losing their interest and stop training. They have not the strong desire which was and still is in me. Same here in MD. Some people are in this “game” since 4-5 years, might have worked a lot on training their creatures, they might have invest a lot in the shop (resets) and the have thought about different tactics and other forms of playing over those years. Now after all those years others who are different are feeling something is not correct. Well its again simple, there is no balance here if you look from your own personal perspective. We cannot take away something from others who worked hard on it only because we want to feel better. Instead we should no think in terms of losing something, we should start thinking of gaining something. Life is always in balance but not as we wish! Our EGO tries to be on top all the time and if it´s not possible to reach it as the EGO wishes we call it unbalance, it a nice excuse. There is a solution to that but it lies inside all of us. After all this above I will give some thoughts and ideas which came into my mind while reading this whole post. It can “cure” some problems but the “unbalance” which so many feel at the moment, But as I said the source for this is from within the people not the surrounding. 1.Idea (negative abilities/stats) There is a balance in fighting and a very strict limit if you think of the whole win/lost/honor construction. But there is nothing in comparison when you look at the stats. In our RL we have that, why not here in MD too. We all have abilities which are growing our whole life and if you put them into words or onto paper you can call them stats. But we have negative abilities too and they grow too if we are not aware of them and try see their deeper meaning. I´d say leave the normal stats as they are and create “negative stats” as their opposition. At this point I have no idea how to call them and how they should work this should be the work of our community to form this. An example: If you have a very strong fighter who achieved many things in fighting and he is attacking a new MP5 with all his force, he should be reminded that he should be able to attack in a different way 0if he feels the desire to fight against the newly MP5. Reminded with the growth of a “opposition” stat which affects his fighting against a weak opponent next time, maybe temporary but permanently is better I think. Same like the honor idea is working. Don´t see it as punishment just as figuring out how to deal with different situation. With my skill achieved through training martial arts I can control an attacker in a total different way after 20 years of training than 20 years ago. I can use abilities which even look soft and friendly to win a fight. Look at it from this point of view. I could write much more about this idea but my post is already long. Let´s brainstorm about it . 2. Idea (championship) Create a championship like we have in all big sports in the world. Twice a year. This competition should be for those who like to invest a lot of time and fighting skills to pleasure their desire for fighting. Let it be something ongoing the whole year. I played another game which was (and still is) badly constructed but one thing worked good. This idea comes from there. There is a championship and you have to fight a lot against a group of other players. There is no need that both players are online to fight. You just set your defence and attack and then you could log off. Your opponent had some days time to do the same. Once both were set, the system created the fight like it did when both were online in a normal tournament. I have no idea if it´s possible to implement here in MD but the Idea is here to discuss. I even thought of opening the MP levels for this. Let´s say MP6 (losing it 30 adepts of course this could be MP7 then) is the level for the participants in the championship. They have some restriction when the fight against normal MP5 outside of the championship (how - needs to be discussed). And a normal MP5 can attack but he should be aware that he is facing a fighter who was able to qualify himself for the championship. A lot more can go in here. 3. Idea (creating things) Maybe this is a very strange one but it´s an idea. What about creating other sorts of expansions in MD in which people can invest a lot of time effort and energy to fill their desire to be someone in MD and show it in the world. Something more visual than politics. Let´s say housing. The resource system is already there (needs maybe fixing I don´t know I´m not into it). Create a housing area where people need to achieve access, once have access they can purchase (or through a long quest) a plot to build a house/home. From this point on you need drawing artists who are able and willing to create individual houses at different stages of building and once building is finished the whole interior. A LOT OF WORK! But if you think of it as a long term project, were people could do whatever they want, with of course huge investments (time and effort) it´s a nice idea to create something and enjoy afterwards. And I think life is about creating and joy. This Idea is very abstract and hard to implement and sounds to me very huge, but I like to let all the ideas and thoughts out, which I was able to catch when they were crossing my consciousness. Let´s be open and let´s try to brainstorm because a big “change” always needs time! Menhir

Here the third gathering: [i]I will start with one of the best Songs of all time for me. Its complete in all aspects and I devoted it to someone important in the “Musical Portrait”. Hope you enjoy it (if you can digest it):[/i] [color=#ff0000]As I Lay Dying - “Upside Down Kingdom”[/color] www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6uv_ZHHSgw [i]And I will just continue with the same genre, it just fit´s in here perfect.[/i] [i]Just enjoy this:[/i] [color=#ff0000]36 Crazyfists - “Waterhaul II”[/color] www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEcBvv6lDjc [i]And now a classic in new clothes, and it´s no longer new it´s again a classic nowadays:[/i] [color=#ff0000]Pantera – “Planet Caravan”[/color] www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yu50mYL5mo [i]And I would like to share this version of the same song with you. For me beautiful and deeply emotional in wholeness.[/i] [color=#ff0000]Emma Russack – “Planet Caravan”[/color] www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOB5CtbliaQ&feature=related [i]Now something totally different. I choose this song because it hopefully marks the turning point in Bollywood music because I can´t hear the 14657834[sup]th[/sup] version of the same song over and over again. So here it is:[/i] Taken from the original soundtrack [color=#ff0000]Rockstar – “Sadda Haq”[/color] www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9DQINKZxWE [i]And again you can call this old – I can´t believe it it´s 17 years old. The only “techno-song” ever wich was hitting me very deep. Until today it`s my all time favorite from this genre and I rarely listen to stuff like this – here it is:[/i] [color=#ff0000]The Montini Experience II – “Astrosyn(Your House Is Mine)”[/color] www.youtube.com/watch?v=fINLpfPZcGg [i]special song number II[/i][i]I[/i] [i](pure irish mood from one of the best DOOM Bands ever)[/i] [color=#008000][i]Mourning Beloveth – “Autumnal Fires”[/i][/color] [i]www.youtube.com/watch?v=K74NYHMURwM[/i] [i]I hope you (or some of you at least) could enjoy some of the above. I will continue posting here because the whole thing seems to be interesting enough.[/i] [i]All the best.[/i] [i]Menhir[/i]

[quote name='Maebius' timestamp='1327014156' post='101287'] [b] [size=4]Eivør - Undo Your Mind [/size][/b] [/quote] Absolut great. Thank you Maebius for posting this one. There will be soon a new list of songs I "discovered" some new some old. All the best to all of you, enjoy every second (if possible). Menhir

Hello confused Santa, I did not recieve a gift as many others. I was not able to come to MD because there was no internet connection for a couple of days were I work atm. So if there is a chance to get something there would be happy delayed smile on my face. I wish all of you a nice year 2012! Look out ... Thank you Menhir Menhir