Hozzászólások - Miklos

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You can buy ancient stones for Hungarian Forints as well, using the bank transfer option, 520 / 2080 / 5200 HuF as on the previous worlds. You can use the paypal option as well (you will pay in euro but the bank will charge you in your own currency). Mobile phone payment will be not available in the near future.

World 1 of Doomlord has launched today, on 23th of July. Have fun playing!

Some words about strategies, based on testing information. Spoiler alert! If you like experimenting stop reading now.

The ability focuser: The essence of this strategy is not to buy any items initially but to spend all the SE on increasing skills, as all items need to be replaced sooner or later. They only buy items if it means a huge advancement.
Disadvantage: you will actually save some SE but will lose more battles, since by buying items you can get higher ability scores using the same amount of SE and if you lose battles you will not get as many experience points.

The aggressive dueller (a.k.a. "spider"): Be as powerful compared to your level as possible. Less hunt, more duels: get as much SE from duels as possible via the skills creative affinity and execution. Increase abilities and pet level a lot before starting to level.
Disadvantage: the spider is usually out of the real competition, because falls back in level advancement, but at least will be able to beat the lower level players easily.

The builder: Joins a clan immediately and spends all SE on building so no one will be able to steal from him and he will also almost always lose. Of course this strategy also has its tricks. Building increases luck, which gives you more SE when hunting, because you will have a better chance of attacking a bigger monster. Additionally, he will have more treasure points in epic battles. Also he will not be attacked as often and will get a lot of benefits from buildings.
Disadvantage: Don’t forget that the clan gives only indirect support for your character and the strength of your clan relies on how much others invest in it. You can build as much as you want if the others don’t care about the clan.

The optimizer: they play in a most bizarre way, not like a real Doomlord would... Their only purpose is to maximise the use of SE and everything else is secondary. They deliberately get beaten, down to 1 HP, so that they can gather SE, increase their abilities so they will always have little SE and when hitting level 4, immediately focus on skills that increase the flow of soul energy, ignoring other skills abilities and equipment.
Disadvantage: The optimizer will bit the dust quite a lot initially and won’t be in the top ten for a while, but if he is capable, will dominate others eventually.

Of course most players use a mix of these strategies, but it is worth building up, defining and following a clear strategy.

Some information about skills:
You can learn skills when you reach level 4, not before.
If you have learned a skill, you cannot delete it (well, you can, but only at much higher level)
The basic skill is learning. If you increase it, you will be able to learn new and new skills.
Skills can be increased by spending soul energy, like abilities. The higher the skill, the more expensive it is to increase it. The sum of your skills points also determines the cost of increasing a skill.
Skills can be divided into different groups.
Space-time skills influence duels and hunting, the soul energy, experience points you get for them and other factors.
Obviously, if you duel a lot you should increase those skills that augment duelling.
Or at level 10 you can learn elementary fusion, which gives you additional action points.
The first skill about pets is trapping (at learning level 3) which enables you to trap pets when hunting. If you are able to catch one, a new menu option, animals, will be displayed on the left. Your pet needs to be trained first (training skill at learning level 4) and then will be able to lend you a hand/paw/claw in battle. You can also buy equipment for your pet at the soul-huckster.
There are also battle skills (which increase your chances of winning but require a high level of learning) and other skills (that cannot be put in the categories, such as trade, which makes it possible to buy items that are higher level than you)
At higher levels of learning not every level gives you a new skill.
And finally some bonus information:
At level 20 you can learn mind boost, which increases other skills (but only one at a time) provisionally for magic points.
Execution also increases the SE you gain from a winning duel.

Championships are organized once a month. To enter a championship, your level must be minimum 8.

1. You can enter the Championship in the left hand menu, under the Misc menu. Choose Championship and you will be transferred to the page where you can enter the championship or view previous results.

2. You can enter the championship until MIDNIGHT the day before it takes place AT THE LATEST. So if the next championship is on 4 November, Tuesday, then the deadline is 23:59 Monday.

3. When entering the championship your character sheet (ability scores, equipment, level) is saved. However your HP and SP will be at their maximum, so you don’t have to worry about them. You will take part in the championship with these parameters, even if you improve them before the race. You can enter each championship only ONCE so take care to choose the proper time and don’t keep putting it off till the last minute because you might be late. Please double-check that your pet(s) is able to fight before entering. If you miss the championship, we can do nothing to help so please don’t ask us to.

4. According to the rules you can enter the championship when you hit level 10, but as we are being kind-hearted we let level 8 players join so more people can take part.

5. During the championship players are divided into categories. In the first championship every level will qualify as a category, except the top two levels, which belong to the top category.

6. It is a SINGLE ELIMINATION championship, which means that everyone is paired with an opponent and they play a simple duel. The loser is eliminated and the winner gets a new opponent. It is a simple system and makes it irrelevant who would have placed 2nd, 3rd. Only the first counts, who has been able to defeat everyone and he gets the medal (let it be a surprise for you what it is capable of).

7. You start every round at maximum HP and SP and can take your pet if it was fighting when you entered. Ramparts and Training grounds count for both players, as there is no attacker/defender here. Of course Luck also counts here like in a normal duel, the stronger have a better chance, but weaker characters may also be lucky, so it is worth entering for everyone.

8. After the championship has ended the results are displayed in the same place you entered and you can check the battles at the previous battles as well. No change from championship battles (Losing HP, SP, getting XP, pet gaining level) is transferred to your actual character. You can also see the winner of the tournament here. Every category has a winner. You can check the winners of other categories at the Event – World events menu point after the championship.

9. Categories
Level
8-11: every level has a different category.
12-19: Every 2 level has a category. So 12-13, 14-15, 16-17 and 18-19.
20-34: Every 3 level. 20-22, 23-25, 26-28, 29-31 and 32-34.
35-46: Every 4 level. 35-38, 39-42, 43-46.
47-61: Every 5 level. 47-51, 52-56, 57-61.
62-79: Every 6 level. 62-67, 68-73, 74-79.
etc.

**** Championship to the last blood ****
You can find the rules, and how the different types of medals work here:
http://forum.doomlord.net/index.php/topic,129.0

Sapphire clans looking for members, or sapphire players looking for a clan, post here!

Diamond clans looking for members, or diamond players looking for a clan, post here!

Ruby clans looking for members, or ruby players looking for a clan, post here!

Emerald clans looking for members, or emerald players looking for a clan, post here!

You can find a detailed description about clans in the game manual:
http://www.doomlord.net/index.php?m=jatekleiras&sub=szovetsegek
Please read it carefully before asking a question.

If someone wishes to form a new clan we have to approve of it first. Your clan might be rejected for one of these reasons:
- The uploaded picture is not displayed.
- The uploaded picture is not appropriate (anachronistic, against netiquette etc.).
- Incorrect clan name (spelling mistake, anachronistic, against netiquette etc.).
- Introduction text might be incorrect as well.

Only those players should form clans who feel capable of recruiting members because one-member clans will not endure for long. Clans can have 5 members at start, but raising the watchtower will expand this number quickly. It is hard to begin, since not many players prefer joining a clan which has only 1 member to joining one with 4.

If you are unable to recruit members to a newly formed clan, don’t worry. If you quit the clan you can always form a new one or join other clans who have been more successful at recruiting members.

Please use this topic to post grammatical and spelling errors found in the game. Please try to be brief and give all necessary information to find the error so we can correct it. Quiz problems (even spelling errors) should be addresses in the quiz topic, not here!

Please use this topic to list errors and bugs that you find in the game, let them be simple bugs or game mechanics problems / balance issues. Please try to be brief and give all necessary information to find the error so our programmers can trace and correct them. Quiz problems should be addresses in the quiz forum. Other spelling problems should be posted in the Spelling errors topic.
You can also write us directly the errors you found: bug{kukk}doomlord{ponty}net

If you think a player has violated the Terms of use, or otherwise abused your play, you should contact us in email, or post it here.

You can complain about having been banned in this topic, but make sure you stick to this topic only. We delete such posts from other topics.

Most people don’t care to read the terms of use, but I strongly suggest you do so if you have a minute to spare (http://www.doomlord.net/index.php?m=felhasznalasi_feltetelek). It is of utmost importance for us to keep the game clean and provide fair play for everyone. That’s why we are asking you to play with only ONE character. Another world(s) will be started in the future so that you will have the chance to start new characters.

Why cannot you have more than one character?
The reason is simple. Imagine that one starts two characters, the first only collects SE and the second “farms” the first one thus getting unfair advantage over the others. As it is basically a free game it costs nothing to start additional characters but this would spoil honest players’ game.

How do we decide if one has more characters?
Ever event in the game is recorded in the log files. These log files are analyzed by programs, which monitor a lot of factors, but most importantly character actions, habits and behaviour. It is a partly automatic system, using heuristic methods, so it cannot be perfect, so we always check suspicious cases manually before deciding about what action to take.

Consequences of having multiple characters
In these cases the first step is temporary suspension (usually 3 days), during which the player cannot log in and no AP is regenerated. In minor cases we just ask the player to delete the additional characters within 1 day. If the player continues to have multiple characters despite the suspension/warning, he might face permanent ban.

What if I feel I got an unfair punishment?
You can always send us an e-mail and ask for the reasons. Since we do not want to harass any players unnecessarily if you got the punishment there was a good reason. You can always use the Complaints topic – Unjust bans - to forward your view as well. Please don’t use other topic for this purpose because your messages will be deleted.

What if we play from the same computer?
Generally, we examine the conduct and relation between the characters but in suspicious cases we might check the data about the computers as well. If you play from the same computer, don’t attack each other, don’t always attack the same players and preferably join different clans. In this case there will be no problem.
Should any additional questions arise later on, I will list them here in the first post.

Please also see also the

Can I play with more than one character? section.

Quiz: the aspects of evaluation

To our greatest pleasure the quiz has grown into a game-in-a-game and has at least as many questions as the framework game. Here you can find information about how the questions are evaluated.

The primary goal of the quiz is to ask questions that can be answered by an educated, intelligent person. Almost everyone. You don’t need specialized knowledge. Of course, one can say you can google most answers in a minute but we don’t really want questions that can only be answered by using a search engine. Some of the questions should make you think, make you rule out answers you that you will have an idea which answer to choose.

The most “convenient” general knowledge topics:
- Elementary school general knowledge questions. It might sound silly, but everybody learned about these, so no one can say they are specialized
- General knowledge, outside school questions, such as, films, famous people, rock bands, buildings etc.
- Current issues. These are a bit more complicated as questions become out-of-date in a few years, but there are still a lot of current topics worth asking a question about.
- Mind twisters. Even though not general knowledge questions, these still qualify as they do not require knowledge but simple brainwork. Please don’t write questions that require a calculator or equations.
- Linguistic questions. Spelling.

Bad questions:

First of all, it is important to highlight that even though a question might be accepted by the players it can still be disqualified by the admins later. There may be several reasons for this:

- Questions with a lot of spelling mistakes are rejected at once. It is simply impossible to correct each and every answer and we cannot run a spellchecker on the server for the time being. If you are unsure, please use a word processor to check the spelling. And please use the question mark at the end of the question.
-Questions that require a very special expertise for which an average person cannot know the answer. Many make the mistake of asking such questions. Don’t ask questions about games, hobbies, comic books, professions that can be only answered by someone who has years of experience in them.
-Lexical knowledge. Some questions about dates are acceptable, but only those that belong to the first category. Everyone should know the dates of the World Wars but not when a celebrity bought her first bicycle. What’s more, if you ask for a date, it is much more civilized to leave a bigger gap between the dates, than having 1 day between the four dates. In my personal opinion, the most acceptable method is to list four events and ask which one happened first or last.
- Extremely difficult questions are not good either. If you ask a question for which an average person might know the answer and you give four almost identical choices he will most certainly choose the wrong one. Please note that if 75% or more of the answers are incorrect the system will automatically disqualify the question. The purpose of this method is also to filter the correct questions where four good alternatives are listed but the person who asked the question selected the incorrect answer. If you ask a question that is already in our database, the question will be evaluated as wrong, but you will have the option to replace it with another without any penalty. But anyway, try to avoid asking trivial questions, e.g. When did WWI start?

- Odd-one-out questions and questions about capitals are filtered. We have enough questions about capitals, thank you very much. Odd-one-out questions are always ambiguous, because any of the answers can be accepted from a certain perspective. Getting back to filtering, if your question is rejected, please don’t submit it again using spelling mistakes, because it will be rejected as well. Please accept that the system will not accept it. And please also note that any questions containing vulgar/offensive words are also rejected.

- Maths. How much is (1+5)*3? Which is more, (4+3)*2 or (17/2-1)? Questions that require logic are OK, but trivial questions and equations that require a calculator are not.

- Foreign languages. You can ask what a certain famous thing was named after but you should not ask for plain translation of different words.

Questions to be deleted:
Simply put, when the player asks a question with the intention of submitting a correct one but he does not manage to, the question is evaluated as “wrong”. The “to be deleted” tag is given to those question which are incorrect on purpose. Examples are trivial questions, violating the netiquette or those that cannot be answered: What colour is the sky? Which Albanian folk band has not released an album? What colour was Amy Whitehouse’s hair in 2006? and so on.

Of course you can ask questions about Doomlord as well, but only ask questions that do not require the character to be high level and any player can answer, as a level 2 might also get the question: What skill does learning level 14 give? or What is the protection of the Nerubian robe? and won’t be able to answer.

Some examples for good and bad questions (please don’t submit them!)

‘How many members did the Beatles have?’
Although it is a bit trivial, still a good question, because everyone should know the band.

‘Which was the third album of the Australian Pigmies?
No one has ever heard of them, much less of their albums. Bad question.

Too special questions:
‘What is the width of the standard rails?‘
‘Who is the brother of the cartoon hero Glacius?’
‘What is the average wingspan of the Eastern mating mantis?’
‘Who was the coach of Manchester United in 2004?’

‘What is the name of the female protagonist in the Harry Potter books?’
Almost everyone knows the books, so you can ask such a question.

‘What is the title of the fourth book of the Harry Potter series?’
‘The goblet of fire, the qublet of fire, The calice of fire’
The difficulty is OK, but it is based on visual deception (q an g being similar) and contains a spelling mistake, calice instead of chalice. Bad question.

‘How old is the oldest woman on earth?’
There might be up-to-date information that becomes invalid in a month, should she die or become a year older. Try to avoid questions that might become out-of-date.


Of course we don’t expect anyone to submit correct questions all the time - I have also written questions that I would reject today. If 50% of your questions are rejected you get a warning and if this ration persists, you will lose the chance to ask questions. Also you can get the evaluation ‘to be deleted’ maximum three times. After the third occasion you will lose the opportunity to submit further questions permanently.

This is not a penalty, the SE reward is not significant. There are players who simply are unable to ask correct questions. That is all OK, they can still enjoy the other parts of the game.

Evaluators are also evaluated both automatically and manually. The aim is to let those players evaluate questions who give a realistic assessment. There is no penalty for “bad evaluation” you simply won’t be asked to evaluate further questions, however some system for a reward is on the planning table good assessors.

Note that now you have to option to choose the reason why the question was rejected. This way the player who asked the question will have some idea about what he had done wrong.

If your quiz question was rejected, and you don't understand why, you can post it here for discussion.

(Please note that our program has a built-in bad word filter. It is possible that you write a question, but the bad word filter doesn't allow it to be submitted. Find the omitted word, and replace it.)

Please note that in this forum there is a topic "Quiz: the aspects of evaluation". You are encouraged to read it before posting here, or BEFORE writing a quiz question.

If you find an error in a quiz question, please, post it here. If the quiz question you wrote was rejected, please post it in the "My quiz question was rejected" topic instead.

When posting here, always post the question EXACTLY as it was written, or we can't find it. If the error is in the answers, please post them too, and explain what was the problem (you can use underline or italic as well).

We will not reply in detail to each post here, but we are reading the forum and are doing corrections on a daily basis.

Thank you for your help!