Guile being tied to crit damage is a mistake, a balancing nightmare, and a cancer to strength builds while simultaneously a boon to guile builds where they get both higher damage and  a roughly 40-60 stat point differential to invest in "survivability" stats.



Return Crit damage to a base % increase, only affected by non stat modifiers.

a safe choice would be 150% or 175%. (people seem to think 200% is too high, yet that's what it was pre gr)


In the vacancy of crit damage I suggest a new mechanic "lethality"

Lethality would give guile its niche as  a "weapon scaling stat" and differentiate itself from Willpower and Strength the other two weapon scaling stats.

Lethality is simple, it reduces the effectiveness of the defenses of the enemy you just hit by 0.5 per 1 lethality. Specifically this would apply to both phys and magic defense, giving mages a reason to consider guile and increase the viability of a future acid mage.

New gear could have lethality, there could be traits to get more lethality, class buffs with lethality!

My suggestion is a very simple one!

There should be some sort of skill that comes alongside most bosses that would display a health bar UI for them at the bottom of the battlefield. Optionally it could also obscure their health value. I think for bosses, having them stand out by giving them this could make things feel more interesting, even if it's purely cosmetic!

Now, why is this a skill and not just innately tied to bosses, in this suggestion? Simple, two reasons, and they're both eventmin related.

1 - Having it tied innately to a mob being a boss means that all eventmin mobs that are bosses to avoid instant kills, even if not an actual boss, would contribute to the health bar, and that's not good.

2 - Making it a functional skill allows an event player to take it for themselves and have their own boss health bar, rather than it being restricted only to PvE.

The boss health bar would define 100% health for it's purposes as the total combined health of all monsters with the skill on the field, rather than trying to add a new health bar for every single boss.

I think it'd be cool!

Applicable BYOND Key - ShadyPotionSeller

Character Name - Irwing

Request Type - Creation of a fluff rp potion

Request Details -  

The potion makes the user slowly grow taller in height in a few days. With the limit mentionned by the game rules. (They can't reach over 7 feet tall by consuming the potion.) 

This however comes with bad side effects. The body isn't normally able to grow this quickly, the user will be in pain for the duration of the potion's effect directly on his bones and flesh being stretched. 

The user will need, during the effect of the potion, to avoid physical efforts as much as possible. As their bones will be weakened during the process and breaking one limb will not stop the growing process, which may make unexpected deformations on the broken limb.

The spine growing with the rest. It is at risk to break as well, possibly making the user paralyzed or killed. 

If the user stays safe during the growing procedures and endure the pain until the end of the potion's effect, he will successfully be taller than their past self without problems.

Reason why you are making this request (if applicable) - 

Irwing is a potion maker. While he has potions present to the game already on his wares (Healing potions, enhancers, etc...)
He also has fluff potions he sells to his potion shop.
This ticket is made due to a client's request made to Irwing.

Roleplay & Lore supporting your request -

Potions can be a lot of things. It's basically magic contained on a bottle.
Irwing is an alchemist expert. He mastered the arts of potions and test each new mixtures on cobayes. Would it suceed or fails.

So this is a bit of a rant, bit of a discussion, bit of a desperate attempt to make sense out of things

My experience

I've been playing SL2 since SL1, on and off. Recently, I got really into it as I sort of started figuring out how to really get into roleplays with people more consistently and I've been playing a character I love. I feel myself staying here a while since I'm loving the game more than ever. But after like two months of my return, I'm feeling kind of empty.

What I'm doing

I've been roleplaying as much as I can: going in the bar, in public places and in people's camps, striking up conversations. I ask questions, put my character's personality forward, use any kind of hooks their profile has, talk about my own relation to them and my story. I flirt, I offer drinks, I ask for spars, I get into conversations, even play drinking games... And I get a lot of surface-level roleplays with random people. I constantly have mildly interesting conversations about each other, and get some meaningless talk most of the time that ends with... What?... Maybe that person will remember my name.

My issue

I want deeper roleplay. I want things to happen between characters. I want to get to know someone better, and talk about my character's deeper traits, his flaws and weaknesses, his fears, his hopes and dreams, and I wanna get to know theirs as well. I want things to happen, with drama, emotions, and interesting stories.

So what am I doing wrong?

My character is Karvan the Lupine Brute. I roleplay all the time, but it's always the same. Is my character not interesting? Are people not into the concept or is it just how I play him? Are people just in the same boat as me? But no, because I see people with deep connections all the time, it's always these little groups of friends who are totally closed to outsiders. I can barely feel like I matter even seeing them multiple times. I'm just a regular, or a guy they kinda know. Is my technique wrong? Are my expectations wrong? Am I just unlucky? Did I not spend enough time roleplaying?

What am I supposed to do to get deep, meaningful roleplay in this game I love?

I feel like I'm losing my mind logging on this game every day hoping for things to happen that never happen, subsisting off the fact that I purely enjoy playing the character and rping in SL2. Plz help

I was doing my profile, decided to check my character Infoand when I did this happens:

Happens everytime as well, all you do is:
1. Open your Profile.
2. Click Character info

Hear, hear, hear, hear!

Blood on the sand, and trickling down your faces-  The Arena's seen some real enthusiasm this past month!  Vincent Kalt took a convincing victory, crushing his opponents with not only the brute strength of his fists but the supreme skill and prowess that comes with his training.  It's hard to stay cool fighting such an ice guy!  Gahahaha!

But we hear you.  You want more; you're not satisfied with matches that go too fast, with brawls that are so controlled-  We hear you.  By Tarson's order, we'll be instating a DOUBLES bracket for this term of leaderboards!  If you can't find a friend, get ready to make one, and brawl, brawl, brawl!

There are some new changes!  We decided to up some of the stakes;  If you make some big scores, or place in the top rungs, you'll get a custom tune-up from our own smiths here at the Arena;  And the one placing in the top'll get their portrait put up on the wall of the arena.  Fight for that honor, and show us your guts!

• One PR-Hi or one PR-Regenerative per match per person. Stabilizers, Regeneratives, Hi-Potions, and PR-Stabilizers are banned. This includes potions granted by class features. Other item belt items are fair game(unless noted below.)
  

• All Mercana.  Namely:  Graft, Malmelo, Phoenix, Second Chance, Healing Discharge, Water Dragon (Used for healing), Refreshing flow, Mercalan Mists, Needle, AND the Mend/Miracle staves. Non-healing staves are allowed.
  

• Ki Healing (aid, meditation)
  

• Nature Healing (Gentle garden, cherry blossom)
  

• Void Healing of any kind.(Void Elixir)
  

It'd be nice if we could be allowed to build in houses that have people in them, as long as we were just on an extra level with noone on it. It'd make building in 'RP Hub' houses a lot easier without just locking the whole place up.

Byond key - Foxskxskxsk

Character name- NT (New Thought) 

Request type - Abnormal Mechination

Description:

NT is a humanoid mechination, with all the key defining features of a bipedal - Walks on two legs, has two arms, a torso, and a head. However, it is clear to see from a single glance that he is NOT a human.
While not retaining any animalistic features, he does not have to look any further than a mirror to  see he is not a human in the physical sense. However, this begs the question of what truly defines something as human. NT would live a life of soul-searching and truth-seeking, to see what truly defines something being "human" to live a life where he can be as such in every way but physical. The best way I can describe it is from some quotes from him.

"We see the nimble leprodaie, and the cunning kitsune as "human" despite clearing being of another species.. many see even the sentient dullahan as borderline human, despite clearing not looking as such. Surely, this means to be human is not something of a physical sense..But something of the heart, and the mind.

In this way, you can think of me like you in every way but physical." 

In his eyes, if this is not enough to live an indefinite lifespan, than it was never meant to be - for "If I must be physically human to live indefinitely, then I would be living a life of lies. Humans do not live forever. I would rather live a life short in the truth, than life eternally in shroud." 

Notes:
If some mild modifications have to be made to his appearance in order to fit the rules, such things can be done - But looking non-human is a major part of the character's story arc. I'm willing to discuss and alter if nessesary, and I do have a discord at Local birb#2354.

Pretty please could we be allowed to ignore this after level 45 like with everything else my fair man dev? Please?