Mallos

I can echo that if you want to participate in future heads contests let that be known here. I do.

I am cancelling this tournament due to no participation/interest, however if you want to play the templates they are below. A short description for each round followed by positions to copy/paste and then the ruleset for the templates to be used are provided here in this spoiler tag:

https://magicduel.com/new_begining.php?refererID=228421#directlink Home page link when beginning a new character, as well as the referral link. "Beginning" and "referrer" are misspelled, I think this is quite harmful to the willingness of people to click these links when they look like poorly written phishing links.

I don't stay low honor on purpose but rather that I stay a target for other players and as such I am siphoned of my honor by these players. That is for the reason I want as many negative stats as possible, this also entails that I would stay in a negative balance. I like to see the result of my negative balance is that I am literally unable to gain losses, at which point other players may gain free wins (in a net sum=0 scenario) to remain balanced. I would also agree that the votes probably shouldn't be weighted. __ "How about the most extreme option, i do a score from all sorts of factors such as active days, consecutive, wishpoints, credits, medals, etc, and calculate a voting power based on that? Question is, should less evolved characters be able to count significantly in this popularity score? Or older players will always have the strongest vote?" __ Something seems wrong to me about the votes but it is probably the intended outcome, who you like. I don't think less evolved characters matter less in the vote.

I would be among the top for the consecutive days vote, yet one of the lowest scoring for honor power. Yet I could also be one of the highest scoring for honor power but personal choices make me the lowest. In my view if you made it that you needed both, that would be the most fair.

my votes if i remember correctly along with reasoning fyrd+ valoryn- Fyrd has been active and good with a25 lately, I had much like for his old clicky questline in the past. Valoryn inactive as can be chewett+ antyvas- Chewett has been doing good coding and other activity lately. Antyvas inactive if not for gathering, but I have never heard from this player personally, almost put nad here but I can't put nadrolski in a bad light even if hes the same as Antyvas lately aia+ chriselnenepr- Aia has been valuable to md in recent years even if less active currently. Chrisel manages to sneak his way into my alliance without talking to me first and seems to have an idea about the game that is outdated fang+ ledah- Fang is basically my best friend online and he has more care for things than people will realize. Ledah has been sullying the name of the caretakers with death instead of life

Yeah that is a good point and my thought is that if we choose someone we like/dislike it is too easy to have that be the pick from then on, without thinking if they still deserve those votes.

Might make sense that you can't vote the same person twice in a row, in order to give the list some variety or I foresee a lot of the same people being chosen each time.

On hidden scenes, they make it very easy to win if you have access and very few other people do. I think they should be closed for everyone, or that you can't gain points if you are inside these scenes.

Death Ray has 128 heads on MMDDYY:012922 HHMMSS:030531 Ledah has 62 heads on MMDDYY:012622 HHMMSS:080741 Patron Saint has 36 heads on MMDDYY:012922 HHMMSS:051236 I have elected to keep the score list hidden for now.

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So you get points separately for each land you are in? Or each lands citizens get rewards?

yes for about 7 days

Gather heads and log out is essentially the best strategy if you know you have the most/all of the heads in the realm. You can get heads from bounties which increases the volatility of this strategy but overall those amounts have been somewhat low, possibly in the hundreds per player throughout a year. Redeeming a group of bounties for heads can net you a large score quickly and help to counteract heads balls held by offline players depending on how many heads are active currently, resetting head amounts for each contest makes this strategy much more powerful but inconsistent. Overall I would suggest you need to stay online to gain points but this isn't exactly a solution. Some other metric like fighting would be ideal as a lot of the contest is about avoiding eachother after you have fought, and preferably finding easy targets to begin with. So things like "* Winning battles gives heads" or "If you log out you forfeit 1/3 heads plus you either don't gain score or you lose bit by bit in score" I can agree with.

Yes I have done it before as mp5, once I had a fair amount of points we could speed up the first round of the competition and give us both good chances to win.

New contest until February 1.

On chrome same errors, but not only that: you can only see the first page of the bestiary and not any further pages, if they exist. "Back to bestiary list" button takes you back to page 1 which is the one being displayed by default http://storenow.net/download/5ddc3ed46c41a392b0d5de8c327785fa/page1.png

Death Ray has 286 heads on MMDDYY:123121 HHMMSS:080422 chriselnenepr has 281 heads on MMDDYY:123021 HHMMSS:071000 Ledah has 146 heads on MMDDYY:123121 HHMMSS:115616 I will reward you three with your consolation prizes soon.

I will fix that for next time

yes and yes

Census Mallos Mallos has 0 heads on MMDDYY:122621 HHMMSS:045301 The record is: Mallos has 0 heads on MMDDYY:081321 HHMMSS:110703 Mallos has 0 heads on MMDDYY:081321 HHMMSS:110707 Mallos has 0 heads on MMDDYY:081321 HHMMSS:110717 Mallos has 0 heads on MMDDYY:081321 HHMMSS:110720 Mallos has 0 heads on MMDDYY:081321 HHMMSS:110759 Mallos has 0 heads on MMDDYY:081321 HHMMSS:110802 Mallos has 0 heads on MMDDYY:081321 HHMMSS:110825 Mallos has 0 heads on MMDDYY:081321 HHMMSS:110828 Mallos has 0 heads on MMDDYY:081321 HHMMSS:110846 Else has 8 heads on MMDDYY:082321 HHMMSS:100206 Else has 8 heads on MMDDYY:082321 HHMMSS:100218 Mallos has 790 heads on MMDDYY:122221 HHMMSS:070345 you dont need to beat my score

I am running a custom heads contest, there are three locations in the realm where you can find a clicky to log your current head count and all you have to do is click it. They are in MDA, Loreroot, and Golemus Golemicarum. I will reward the top 3 scores at the start of the next year, good luck.

If you talk about gaming meta comes up often, it is defined as: 2. A term used in mmo meaning the Most Effective Tactic Available. It's basically what works in a game regardless of what you wish would work. At least by urban dictionary. Taking that definition you can understand it as the way to play a game, all guides would stem into this type of playstyle. Why there is a limit to what a meta can be is because we are actively creating the meta, it is fully responsible for our actions in it but it would not exist without our actions. I put it nicely before in this line "When I learned a "meta" is basically popular playstyles that are powerful in comparison to other popular playstyles." You can see how it is supposed to be beyond or superior as a concept, the ideal notion of how to do something, but in reality nothing is so perfect.

Of all of the wiki articles I've read in my life this was the single most important and influential one, do read it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacognition What I can say of "Meta" is that meta is the point where you stop at good enough. It is never good enough though.

Last edit was Edited June 4, 2017 by Blackshade Rider As Blackshade hasn't been around much lately I will close this topic and he can ask me or a mod to reopen it.