Maebius

Yep, what they all said. :) Happy Happy Birthday!

Well, I have not played longer than 4-7 days of DF, and it was YEARS ago, but I'm quite willing to check it out again. I had fond memories of mostly hearing my friends who played describe their adventures vicariously. :) I just re-downloaded it to try it out "for reals" this time, after you all reminded me of it. (since I am not used to playing, I may simply request my name be there somewhere, and I'd like to read your reports. I dont' want to kill any dorfs with my ineptitude until I climb the learning curve a bit first. ) "Maebius the Beekeeper" (or cook) has a nice ring to it.

I miss WoW.... MD stole it away from me. (Seeing Dwarven Fortress made me smile. I haven't played that in years, but was so fun. The learning curve is insane on that.) I'd have to add Cantr II and FairyTale Online, but I recently stopped playing those also. Lack of time is seriously impacting the game addictions lately!

Yes, Happy Happies to you all!

What do I play regularly? Hmm, Minecraft, of course. (mostly with the kid on our teeny bukkit server) and the original Starcarft+ Brood War. (sadly, not the SC2 yet, need a better PC and $$) otherwise, random casual games on sites like Armor Games when I need a 20-minute distraction.

May your cup run full of Birthday wishes and warmth and Light. Happy Happy Birthday!

It's not ust you and pisspiss. :)

Happy Happy Birthday! :)

ohh, please keep it for a week at least, I was camping and would love to try and finish this up, if it's still up after Wednesday or so when Life settles down enough for solid MD time. Also, conga rats to the winners! :) [spoiler][/spoiler]

You put down some strong roots, sir. I wish you well in your adventures all over the 'Verse. and as sir nadrolski says, Should you need us.... [spoiler] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hjepidj3I8 [/spoiler]

Would you consider selling smaller batches? (I know they travel in packs when traded, but if I wanted one or two to enchant some time, and pass them back immediately afterwards, would you accept that method?)

You lose one VE per win, unless Heat is applied. in which case, Heat adds to the damage at a rate of 10 Heat = -1 VE. Hope you enjoy the game. I find it's clunky in clickie-form, but my son and I play it with index cards as a tabletop game, and it flows really well that way.

(this looks really awesome, but might need to upgrade my browser, since the links to switch faces are being wonky on my end. I see what it's trying to do though!)

(I knew that but couldn't stop the snark).... And thus, Stealing your thunder seemed apropos in this thread. :cool: - - - One thought that did come up, to steer back on-topic. With the availability of Ports and Jumps and Legislator Items and such... I'm not sure the "frenzy of activity" would even work very well. It only takes a moment for a player with a fast internet to "steal + Jump + Run" into some high viscosity or "locked" scene and the resource would be gone. Thus, in theory I like the idea of stealing and Retrieval/recovery. In practice, I think there are a LOT of loopholes to exploit, which I've seen already in-person while trying to grab the buckets in MDA. So, keep those in mind perhaps? (edit to add bolding and italics for emphasis)

There's always keys upon clicking (Story mode anyone?), or an array of names on the bush of "this week's Owners".... anywho.... :P I like the idea of stealing and recovering as an idea. The way I read it, the situation No One mentinoed would be avoided by the "ability Cooldown" similar to fighting, so that the "most activity" would read as: *Bush produces a Fruit* *Maebius Harvests a Fruit* *Somebody Steals the Fruit from Maebius* *nadrolski recovers the Fuit from Somebody* -fin- (Maebius ability to harvest is in cooldown, as is nadrolski and Somebody... so no more stealing is possible... unless a forth person runs over and tries to Steal from Nadrolski?) This would work very similarly to the Shared Tools, where a number of people gather at a specific time to try and snatch public tools. In the current case, its' the fastest collection-click that wins. With Mur's suggested idea, others would have a chance to grab something too. With teleports and Jump-to-Leaders, and our usual spells, this would make an interesting (if sometimes frustrating) frenzy of activity. I say, go for it.

Well, I admit I wasnt' aware of the full functionality of the Totemizing feature. I read it as a sort of mini Beastiary for yourself, with only one crit. Seeing it in action now I agree, it could be used as I was pondering, to potentially trade. We'll just have to see how that works out in the final finished form (specifically for Morphs).

(not sure why those images aren't displaying for you, Ackshan. Did you try to refresh the browser?) For those worried about horri-bad bugs, don't be. I played two full games and it picked the wrong card exactly once over 18 rounds. Still can't see the pattern on why/when it happened, though, so if you notice a particular bit of info I would love that. The bugs vex me, and I'm sorry they aren't squished yet. Otherwise, it's also a fun game to play tabletop with friends/kids. I'll mess around with the code a bit more if folks think BattleCards is a neat idea, while I ponder the return of the Mini Monthly Madnesses. :)

Yep, I love the idea. Call them "Howls" instead of PMs. Problems solved. But back to OP, searching by authors would be nice too, for those older messages that get lost in the shuffle.

tl;dr - look for "Battle Cards" at the upper left stone in GoE. I've been fiddling with a little game that works very nicely in Real Life, but has caused me a few headaches over the last month to debug fully, so. You get to help! At the Gazebo of Equalibrium, the rock in the upper left has some "Battle Cards" buried under it. They seem to work mostly correctly, and require you to play with a friend, coordinating yourselves a bit outside the rock itself, but every now and again, they get confused. Your challenge is two-fold. Play Battle Cards with your friends. Try to win at least 10 games over the next week or so. I'll pass out a Silver to anyone who manages to do so, and possibly other minor awards. If you manage to reliably re-create a bug, which helps me fix the darn thing, I have Jokers, and Imps, and Spellstones to toss your way, as well as my everlasting Thanks. ^_^ I was going to make this a Monthly Madness quest, but it's driven me mad with its own oddness. So, like Heads Contest, try for a high score, but remember it may be unfair (due to a bug). Enjoy! (crowdsourced debugging FTW!?) :ph34r:

Agreed, that since we don't all have access to Acoustic REmains and such, I have So. Many. Files. that are simple copy/paste documetns from the chatlogs, taken as we talked, so I wouldn't lose those awesome debates about esoteric topics. (that said, I do understand if it's meant for chat to be more transient like the concept of not PM-ing people unless you are "local" to them. Symbolically, it's a neat idea. jsut not as "convenient", so I would understand if it's kept un-copy-able for now)