Menhir

All the best Shem with whatever takes your full attention at the moment ... keep the smile.

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2 more days ...

One of the few projects which stunned me instantly ... and after 8 minutes ... just see by yourself. Watch & enjoy ... and maybe ... who knows. http://www.upworthy.com/the-poster-is-mesmerizing-the-story-it-tells-is-electrifying-have-you-seen?c=ufb1 All the best

Hello all together, I will start working on the community garden project from now on and need you to get involved with "all" of your heart and full of passion for the whole project. From today on you will have 10 days time to think about how you could help and why you would like to be a part of it. I would like to hear from you why you should be one of the 3 I will choose. After I choose 3 of you as permanent "members" we will have a meeting with Chewett were we will talk about the whole project. You need to be: - creative - active - passionate about gardening/resources - honest & reliable It would be great if you could code or draw too. If none of those 3 can code or draw I will look for an artists and coder separate. Please contact me only by Forum PM. You have time to send me your "application" until day 342 year 8. All the best

The Idea of having the contest for a long period was or is that some might not be here for a month or two. But I see not much interest coming in on this anyways, so I doubt there will be a start.

Happy Birthday Neno - all the best.

I did not, but yes that is one of the things I considered coming in at first when I thought about other opinions ...

Hello all, at the start of 2013 I had an idea myself to get motivated for fighting. I know that many consider fighting broken and stats no longer important or out of control but anyway here was my idea. I made a screenshot from my stats at the first day of the year and from that day on I made one pic at the end of every day from my daily stats win. At the beginning and end of each month I would take another pic from my stats overall. Now the year is nearly over and I can see where I had the biggest growth or the best day of the year when it comes to gaining stats. I had day and weeks without any fighting at all but sometimes huge gains in the collecting stats section. I would like to make a contest out of it but don´t know how you think about this. So before even starting such contest, which would run over one whole year, I would like to ask about all of your opinions. After 2 weeks we can start a poll to see if it´s worth or not. Here are my thoughts on some "rules". 1. one screenshot at the end of every days stat gain, if you did not gain anything at all there is no pic needed. 2. one screenshot of the overall stats at the start and end of each month 3. saccing of creatures are not allowed and included - if you sacc crits in 2014 one needs to provide screenshots from the amount of stat you gained from it and it will be separated at the end 4. all stat gains will be included not only the "fighting" stats to judge a the end - considering that its much harder to gain the collecting stats to rise in comparision o the fighting stats it will be needed to have a calculation (in %) for getting fair results at the end 5. if you miss to make screenshots for some days - it´s not the biggest issue as long as you can provide the monthly stat gain and explain if ask how you got the stats 6. i could be interesting to have every 4 months a "checkup" on how many everyone who is competing gained in 4 months - additional motivation included Please think about it and post your constructive criticism in this post. 7. of course there should be many different categories and so many possibilities to win something - here are some ideas: - the biggest day, week & month stat gain or loss overall of the year - biggest stat gain or loss in each different stat - biggest stat gain or loss overall (all stats combined) All the best to all of you and have the best day of your life #1 I added the counter ti gaining stats to make it interesting for those who decided to go the other way

All the best for you & your family ... and I´m sure you will find something good in your new place.

My understanding of the whole principle idea in MD changed a lot in the years I´m here, so does my RL. It´s hard to say for me what is the "best" or "favorite" of mine because I consider myself a part in all of them differently at various times. If there would be a "principle of change" or one that fits closest to that I would choose it. But I cannot clearly see it, so I have to choose the one which fit best at the moment. Principle of Syntrophy Why? Mostly because it stands for this: "The Principle of Syntropy is the basis of clear-sightedness, prediction, intuition, healing, growth, some regeneration forms and some forms of annulment of destruction based on energy consumption." (taken from http://md-archives.com/articles/principle-of-syntropy.html)

A warm welcome to you and may the Magic flow into you ...

Nice thank you ...

Count me in.

No Jorana you are not too new and you´re opinion weights the same as those all others because you´re a human being with enough awareness to sense atmosphere and mood in here. One doesn´t need to be long in a room to feel what´s going on, same here. My question is - why did you expect that all those things you see in the outer world might be anywhere different? As long humans don´t change, or at least would love to change, nothing will change at all. I can say that from my own experience the number of people I meet who are bored of envy, distrust and hate is growing. We might see a change on a bigger scale but there is also the possibility that it needs another 500 years to change something significant in human behavior.

A hello from me too Jorana ... I wish you tons of experience within this realm and alot of patience too. If you need to talk in your mother language about stuff feel free to contact me. All the best

Username: Menhir ID: 202298 I suggest the following: REMEMBRANCE re·mem·brance [rɪˈmɛmbrəns] n. 1. a. The act or process of remembering. b. The state of being remembered: holds him in fond rememberance. 2. Something serving to celebrate or honor the memory of a person or event; a memorial. 3. The length of time over which one's memory extends. 4. Something remembered; a reminiscence. 5. A souvenir. 6. A greeting or token expressive of affection. [Middle English, from Old French, from remembrer, to remember; see remember.] The idea came into my mind and the dictionary translation is from here: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/remembrance. From my point of view it is fitting perfectly to the idea of overcoming the act of forgetting and loosing something and by remembering it (in our case a place/landscape) we "fight" against the loss of it.

Happy birthday and the best "tea" of your life ...

Happy birthday dst ...

Same here ...

You´re welcome ... and yes it is hard to digest but knowing that there are counters is the solid basis of the universal balance.

I did just realize that there is one player who cannot be killed by contract ... wonder if that was intended or not.

I think thats the biggest issue we have to face but who is willing to put him/her self naked on the table and being ask really personally what could he/she change for the good. As Nim mentioned here http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/14852-killing-and-revival/ there is unexplained unpleasant behavior in MD which leaves others in trouble - nothing new at all. But it looks like something is rising and some do see it with a worried feeling. For me it starts to get boring because I do see this behavior in RL very often and honestly why do I need it in my "free time" too if my aim is to enjoy those hours.

The idea of doing the "quest" a 2nd or 3rd time and getting harder by every try is, that it should not be the only solution to the death scenario. It should be "only" one way. If it would bet easier it would loose its purpose at all, that being dead is something which is not easy to overcome. So I do not like the whole killing feature as it is used now but if it stays and has some sort of meaning (which I still don´t understand maybe someone could help me out to understand what is "being killing" adding to MD) it should not be something which is taken too easy. My main problem with it is that people are leaving MD because the alternative to counter it or being revived is not fitting to all of us equally in the way how we deal with it. Some say its balanced other do not agree and others leave MD because they cannot stand it at all. As mentioned many times earlier we should not only try to avoid losing people through this, we should prevent it, otherwise we might have a bigger death which would be permanent for ALL of us. Exactly one of those examples I was referring too.

1 1/2 years back I had a Quest Idea which was dealing with the whole "being dead" scenario. Some months ago I was sharing it privately with someone and got discouraged. Now things are getting more complicated and the whole thing is getting more and more a bigger public "issue". I would like to share the idea as possibility for all of us to work on (if possible at all). Here is the short description: A dead player would have the choice to be "moved" to the other side of life, lets call it afterlife world, the quest would start in this case. In my idea its a blurred version of MD with different aspects of interacting ( I will explain this later more precise). So here in this mirror world he/she is not powerless at all but one thing is important - he/she cannot interact with the living people on the other side, this might be the main motivation to finish the "Quest" to leave the afterlife world. So here his/her creatures are acting differently, how needs to be discussed, many options are there in my mind. To leave this world he/she has to accomplish a series of task and my thought was a mixture of fighting (if the player has no creatures it´s not a problem this could be solved) puzzles, and story. The quest should be available to ALL MP stages and once finished leave a mark on the player which shows that he/she returned from the dead. If he/she dies a second time and choses to come back the quest should be different, maybe harder than the first time. I´d like to ask all who are interested to share their ideas or just like or dislike this post. I consider this idea no longer "my" idea and would like to see it implemented as community project IF it is possible and wanted at all.