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February 2025's updates of custom mansions are:
- for MM1 Sky Boxes (version 1.3) by Semi-Native
January 2025's updates of custom mansions are:
- for MM1 The Bat House (version 1.1) by Chippy
- for MM2 Brave New World (version 1.1) by Freddy
- for MM1 Art minds mansion (version 1.1) by Veronika
December 2024's updates of custom mansions are:
- for MM2 Hanging Gardens of Babylon (version 4.1) by Freddy, SandyBean, Josephine and brell
- for MM1 Cheetah Castle Easy (version 1.2) and Cheetah Castle Normal (version 1.2) both by Catwoman.

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A brief history of the game
At first there was Midnight Mansion, now often called MM1. This game package was for Mac only and contained 8 mansions, each on easy, normal and hard level. Above that there was a builder included, so that customers could design mansions themselves.
Then there was Midnight Mansion HD, now abbreviated as MM1 HD for both Mac and Windows. It contained the 3x8 mansions from MM1 plus 3x a bonus mansion: Tomb of Princes. All in high definition!
Actionsoft's latest game, Midnight Mansion 2: The Haunted Hills, includes 28 mansions with a lot of new features. The 8 built-in mansions have 3 difficulties along with 4 extra custom mansions. Yes indeed, the MM2 package also has an included builder to create mansions!

Custom mansions

In the past decades several customers started experimenting with the builders. Creating rooms. Talking about it on the Midnight Mansion Forums. Sending their own designed mansions to other board members to test them. And finally sending them to the administrators of MMF.
Result? Nearly 200 extra mansions are downloadable from these boards and some of them have over 100 rooms.
If you like to download custom mansions, go to the General Custom Mansions Area (Mac and Windows) where you find the lists with all the download spots.

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... will change. It is clear that we have intruders. And we are going to do something about it. Promised!

It will take some time. But we will inform you about any changes.
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Reply #1 - 30.12.2006 at 23:51:58
 
After you ban the intruders, give them to Ted to finish them off! Grin
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Reply #2 - 30.12.2006 at 23:55:50
 
Dear Freddy,

I'm not so sure they are intruders....  I picked three names at random and googled them and they all are posters on other fansites (DROD and Ambrosia).  Maybe they are really all real people?  Has anyone been out there advertising this site?  I looked on the DROD site and didn't find any new posts related to Midnight Mansion.

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Reply #3 - 31.12.2006 at 00:06:55
 
Thx for your reply Cinder and to help thinking. I wish it was true. But as administrator I was able to see something (sorry:  Lips Sealed) that I really didn't like and that proved to me that something is seriously wrong.  Cry Cry Angry Angry

I hope I may tell some more in future about it.

And then I give them all to TED !
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Reply #4 - 31.12.2006 at 00:09:13
 
He's got a BIG dugeon on his little island, with a torture chamber! Grin
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Reply #5 - 31.12.2006 at 01:21:53
 
For our current serious and "other" members NOTHING CHANGES.

From the beginning of these boards, new members received a welcome-PM. That text changed. Here is what you get now, when you register:

We are very pleased that you made yourself a member of the Midnight Mansion Boards.

For security reasons we need to do an anti-spam and anti-robot double check. You are obliged to answer this personal message within 24 hours. Your answer needs to contain a message from at least 40 words. Or otherwise we are forced to remove you from the memberlist without any further warning.


It is not a matter of 39 or 41 words. Wink But I have the feeling that someone is busy with manual work. And I want to make him tired. Very, very tired.

EDIT: changed again on December the 30th, 2006, to its original !
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Reply #6 - 31.12.2006 at 03:46:58
 
I'm not sure that requiring new members to write messages with 40 words is the best approach... Can't we just have moderators delete accounts when they find trolls appear on the boards? Yes, it's more work for the moderators, but I'm not sure making it *harder* for real users to join is the best solution.
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Reply #7 - 31.12.2006 at 03:53:55
 
No problem, but when will I be sure that a member is a troll. From the long list I know for certain that there are at least 4 serious members among them: Scout, Fisch68, frost and aquaMat.

With pleasure I delete all the others ... Undecided Do you give me a go?
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Freddy wrote on 31.12.2006 at 03:53:55:
No problem, but when will I be sure that a member is a troll. From the long list I know for certain that there are at least 4 serious members among them: Scout, Fisch68, frost and aquaMat.

With pleasure I delete all the others ... Undecided Do you give me a go?


Not sure what to say. I think that the security measure of having to type in a security phrase from the picture when you create your account should eliminate robots from accessing the site, which leaves 3 other categories of people who join:

1) Members who will be active

2) Members who won't be active -- they just want to read posts and download mansions (although this is now also possible without an account)

3) People (real people) who are weird, and go through the joining process just to do strange stuff. Because they have too much time on their hands, and nothing better to do.

So #3 I figure you could delete their accounts, and their strange posts/threads, after you realize who they are. But if they keep re-joining, and it becomes a problem (and there's no way to blacklist their IP address or email so they can't join again), then perhaps you may need a different way of handling it. But otherwise that's the approach I'd take -- wait until someone makes it obvious they're a troll, and then delete them and their posts after they've made it obvious. That's why we have moderators, and we can bring more moderators on board if necessary.

Otherwise though, if you delete someone because, for instance, he doesn't respond to a private message you sent him, you may be deleting people from category #2 above -- people who created an account, but maybe log in only once every few weeks, and therefore they won't even see your private message until it's too late.

Just my opinion... do whatever you think is best though. Maybe discuss it with Brell off-line too.
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Reply #9 - 31.12.2006 at 05:02:45
 
You are right. As always. But ... please have a look at the copy of my email to Cinder. It possibly explains everything. And solves the whole problem.
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