Ungod

Nr 18 an 19, 10 sc each

I dont know how this could be worked as, but the closest thing that comes to mind are tags such as BoL. Ofc, such tags need to be obtained by a member and then the summoner moves everyone with the tag to his/her location... What if you create automatic groups (called alpha or beta or Quester Group or Shade Army etc etc) in which anyone who fightsfor_X gets into? You would need a couple of those, as there could be more than one groups at a time.

It is, it is. I personally found it funny and you dont have to speak poor English to make such mistakes - just write stuff in a hurry and a funny situation arises. I am sure people have lots of screenshots that can serve as examples. On another note, these days are (IN)tense... :)

I think teleporting the caster together with the group is an interesting idea. It is interesting even if you want to move a group of people w/o bad intentions :)

http://storenow.net/my/?f=4c22b1d2dffa63fedca7150425d84079 [spoiler] The land of Marind...a land you all cross, more or less, roaming around the Park, taking a break at the willow, perhaps...beautiful and dull at the same time. Yet it has mysteries of its own and even dark secrets. That, we know, but bones stay buried for a long time until dogs decide to hide another skeleton or dig for the remains... There comes a time when tidal waves grow larger and larger and flush the present, bringing the old bones from the depth of the earth to the surface. As I was going getting out of the Keep of Sages after a long meditation about the Sun, I felt an eerie presence at the Angiens Ferry. A sphere was hovering above the old wooden deck. It was an egg of dark vibrations, pulsating and emiting strange energy waves. The boat that used to be tied to the pole was not there anymore. The wind was cutting the reeds...or was it the other way around?..and more and more of those eggs of fear were spawning, from the ground, from the water, hovering into the air. Then, the inimaginable occured. Light blinded me for a split second, but what I saw next were tens of angiens cracking their shells with their aerial wings, emitting heat. The water was boiling, seeping light and dark vibrations. In front of my eyes, angiens and dark eggs were brewing, growing stronger and stronger - or so I felt. I didnt care for the rest. I ran as fast as I could, although I felt like time had stopped, shouting with a desperate voice: ”It has begun!” [/spoiler]

We have received a complaint from a player that their quest was recently disrupted

People have the right to use their spells the way they want period, but only if it doesnt go as far as harassment. (Werent there anns that said something like that?) So, determine whether its harassment or nor - if not, there is no further need to talk.

@DD and dst: I didnt say YOU were a whiner, DD, nor did I say YOU abused anything, dst. I pointed out those were YOUR accusations to eachother. Btw, DD, this is unclear: you are saying that the council put up the ann w/o you sending them an email or smtg? Because you also say It took much convincing to make the announcement, The Rich Merchant.

Oh, now I see your game. This is what I think happened: DD made a quest in an attempt to get closer to the citizenship he wants (nothing wrong with that). Seeing it was disrupted, he made minimum efforts to get it running, but then decided its way easier to report an ”abuse”. Evil DD (using us)? No, both protagonists won - they got to ”prove” the accusations they made all along: dst, that DD is a whiner who shouldnt get a role he will not sweat for, DD, that dst is evil and abuses her powers/role. Nice play, guys, but next time I will not be a spectator. Btw, the announcement made by the Council was pretty smart.

So how do you know he didnt want to run the quest in the first place?

How do you know? If what you say is true, then what you did is fall into the enemy s trap. Also, it means we (the participants) have been used by DD.

Just an opinion: you need more time to decorate all those scenes. I suggest extending the deadline.

Laze around.

yeah, I get this on the laptop and they vanish immediately. Thing is, I dont recall this happening before (a week before now :) ) and I only had one tab on.

I dont know what this is, but Im posting it anyway, since it didnt happen before (as far as I remember). When I scroll up my inventory page, I get blue stripes. The slower I scroll, the more stripes I get (and thicker ones, too). If its a Chrome issue, this is the last straw. http://storenow.net/my/?f=2b2f016eb59a6a8e011eaab574ee3922

After I come back from the East, I will test it. Could you rephrase that, please? (I was passing through LR for the first time that day)

Why do I have the feeling no one really reads my posts? Methinks I should write 2-3 lines because I confuse you all ... For the victim, my idea is in the rebirth topic. For the killer, I had some ideas that would enhance the role-play. I pretty much thought that without spelling those ideas, the topic would be misunderstood. Oh, well :rolleyes:

After writing http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/15773-rebirth/, I was told by a few that the idea was interesting. Now, what was found to be interesting was not the idea itself, as people do not conceive being demoted to mp3, but rather the implicit idea that death takes something away from you. The reasoning is that something so important as death cannot be treated lightly and in case of a murder, there should be consequences. Currently, the situation is like this http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/14852-killing-and-revival/?hl=killing Now, I read some ideas posted in this topic http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/14718-where-is-the-punishment-for-murder/?hl=killing and, from what I understand, killing and reviving is not supposed to be a critical matter, as it is in RL (so no need to put more ”reality” into it). The problem lies in that, even if its about a virtual death, we (human beings) see it as a very serious matter. This is only one side of the coin, though. While this might be the reason for some,for others, its the fact that death as we have it now is not fun. It is...simply boring and needs aditional layers (the whole thing about death, killing and revival). At this point, the question is ”Do we want the concept of death to have deeper implications than it currently has?” I think the balance bows to yes rather than no (at least, at the moment). And I think the topic created by Nimrodel, although it talks about ”punishment”, can be easily turned into - by someone who is not upset by the whole thing - ”consequences”. Now, I have some ideas as to what those concequences might be for the killer( for the victim, they are in the ”rebirth” topic), but I dont want to go ahead and tell them, because I might have got the whole thing wrong and people dont want killing in MD or they want it just as it is now. So, ”Do we want the concept of death to have deeper implications than it currently has in MD?”

Things Edit: phew, its gone now. aand..down again :mellow:

I didnt reply to you, No one, but to EE and Rophs - the people who talked about story mode being an issue.

I dont want to spoil your fun, but http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/15703-r-c-in-relation-to-removal-of-story/?hl=%2Bstory+%2Bmode Story mode is not the issue here.

Heh, I know its not easy. And I dont know if its worth it, but this is a subtle change from ”death and ressurection” to ”death and rebirth”. As for story mode, read my first post (what I put in brackets)

Hmm...I dont mean resetting everything, just the mind power and the personal heat. Creatures dont get reset. I thought that you wouldnt be able to use most of your crits, since the powerful ones, maxed, cant be used in rituals and you would have to go acquire new ones. Isnt this the case? As for alliances, this is a hard one. For one, death means the vessel is gone, but the spirit of it remains, somewhere in another plain. So, this would mean that staying in an alliance shoould be allowed. I repeat, I didnt propose resetting everything. The problem of this idea is another one:) (althought there are some other important ones) Edit: the situation wouldnt change much in some aspects. if you die, the present ”vessel” is gone, so your spirit would be incapacitated until it finds a new one (the new one has the same name, because it bears the same spirit - your spirit). the period of incapacitation is what right now is the period when you are a ”ghost” and the tool of revival would be a tool that directs the spirit into a new vessel

Reading Rhaegar s post, I remembered about a thought process that happened some months ago. You see, in the Christian religion we have this idea that somehow, someone - a holy being - died and was ressurected. This idea is very powerful. Now, game makers in the world adopted this idea without giving much thought. It helps serve a very important purpouse - that of saving a character progress, so that a player does not lose ”himself” when he/she dies. In this way, the idea of death can be implemented in a game and sucha n idea is inherently interesting - because it embodies our greatest fear. A game where you can die, but ressurect, appeals to us greatly - and it is a cultural thing, as well, as I will explain. We have death and ressurection (with a dark variant - necromancy). But if we look at the source of this idea, we will probably find the closest one in the phoenix bird - the creature that dies and from its ashes a new egg appears. A creature that ”revives”, but in cush a way that it can be called immortal. Lets go even further...how come the human being came up with this idea of something that re-creates itself? Any species, through mating, creates a ”copy” in each new living thing - a unique ”copy”. In this way, a species (humans, too) can be seen as immortal. We live through our children, the same way our parents live through us. This is, in my opinion, the way the idea of ressurection was born. Kingdoms are reborn, ideas are reborn - but only in spirit. The vessel is always different. So, why this long explanation? Because the idea of ressurection, used in all games, goes too far from its original source, which saw the spirit eternal, not the vessal. Rebirth is actually more befitting to a ”sane” thinking than ressurection and this should be implemented, just like a creature transferred to another player returns to its ”egg”. So, what i propose is that players killed have all their personal heat eliminated and they return to mp3. Once there, they will have to regain the heat to advance, but...they will be most likely unable to use most of their creatures. The idea of a rebirth, in which you start anew, in a way, speaks about death in a more...coherent way, although this is very distant to us, culturally speaking. I dont know if revival items could be used in such an occasion; maybe an other tool. (3 things to add: I used the terms ”rebirth”, ”ressurection” and ”revival” loosely, I shouldnt have, but I wrote this on the spot; this is a rather delicat subject in that I dont know if something essential changes in terms of game mechanics, its more of a philosophic thing; currently, there are bonuses in story mode, so the idea would only work if story mode is removed)

OK, maybe this would need a separate topic, but here might be good as well. I am now in LR and I checked to see if I gain volition after I go through each scene (viscosity is +40). Turns out that if I go through one scene, I gain no volition, then after going through the next one I get 0.08. Maybe this is because I go through the scenes too fast, but it seems you get volition from every two scenes, not from each. Can someone double check this? Or explain it to me if I understood this whole deal wrong. :D Edit: it looks like I get volition if I wait a bit in the scene. That having been said, if I move around fast, I dont get it, nor do I lower viscosity.