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Currently if you use Matador stance with Know No Pain you take MORE damage than if you don't have it up. In my opinion, old Matador stance didn't even need to be nerfed, but for it to actually make you take more damage with it active is ridiculous. If it can't be reverted, at the very least just remove the bit about it stripping your armor and replacing it with some weird pseudo-armor. Just have it give or take no armor at all. Still, I think the better course of action would be returning Matador to how it worked before the nerf, as it's meant to be a tanking stance. Cobra stance aids evasion builds with snake dancer, I see no reason why Matador stance shouldn't give tanks a small armor buff like it did before.

Applicable BYOND Key: Outer Science
 
Character Name: Hope
  
Request Type: Character Item Concept
 
Request Details: The Spirit Evoker would be (conceptually) a magical gun capable of 'storing' Youkai inside it. When the trigger is pulled, it would never fire an actual bullet, instead summoning a Youkai of the Summoner's choice towards that particular direction. The firearm would have a special property to it that makes Evoke Abilities (the Youkai attacks performed by the Summoner) be less taxing on the user's focus. On paper, this property is given to it by a Mana Crystal that helps supplement the focus needed to perform the skill.
 
The (summoning fluff) visual animation for summoning Youkai would be glass shards scattering upon pulling the trigger, accompanied by the noise of a mirror breaking before the Youkai manifests in the direction the Spirit Evoker had been aimed at. If it were necessary to summon Youkai in quick succession, the gun would be repeatedly "fired" accordingly.
 
Its name is inspired by two terms associated with the Grand Summoner promotion class (the Spirit Well and Evoke Master abilities, in particular.)
 
The gun would not be impossible to replicate, on paper. Anyone with the right understanding of magic and Youkai should be able to make something similar.
 
I'll be upfront and say this has inspiration from the Persona summoning method in Persona 3. Although, it's obviously not triggered by pointing the gun to your head and making the creature appear by giving yourself a near-death feeling. (See: https://youtu.be/eb6fW0Gx5WU)
 
Reason why you are making this request (if applicable): It's a cool idea (to me) that I feel I'd have fun roleplaying. About 3 OOC years ago, this character roleplayed summoning by firing blanks before the Youkai would come out, mostly for showing off rather than them actually coming out of a gun made for it. I feel that it would be more smooth if it wasn't all that fake, which is why I'm making this request/application.
 
Roleplay & Lore supporting your request: Hope is a Summoner who, as of this moment, has 24 Youkai contracts. She is adept when it comes to the Youkai arts and would eventually look into the idea of spicing up her evoking skills. I have been previously informed by two different GMs that it should be fine to store Youkai within magic cards and a golden box, the latter of which was approved with the context that it was an illusionist summoner, but the idea of a gun having them is relatively different compared to these which is a huge part of why I have written this. I can provide screenshots of my conversations with the aforementioned GMs if requested. Here are screenshots of Hope's companion menu in-game:
 

This might be me being stupid cause I haven't played this game in half a year buuuut.

Is there actually a use for the new threads/materials currently?


from what I gathered by testing around and reading is:
-Can't spawn on random items
-You can not make material kits out of them.
-You can use them in crafts for...Only 4 low levels items (Whynsfelt, Roughspun tunic, wisp cloak and armor of nails)
-all "Plus" items can't even select any material on them upon creation.


So, are they actually unusable outside of those 4 Chest items? There are probably some recipes I didn't find yet at least, right? Is Ninja armor among that?

Edit: Okay I found the Elemental Gis/shoes/adorements. But question still stands

Currently when you use an Anchor Edge that is regalia'd, if you attack it shows the default Anchor Edge sprite extending and recalling. Is there any way to change this to reflect the regalia's icon?

I keep it brief. I want cat statues to get some different functions that would make the use of them so much more appealing.

1. Custom Spawn point location configurable for each party/player slot
   
2. Have the range from which you can set the size of the cat statue go into negative as well
   
3. I would like it, if we could make bigger battle maps like in spacey dungeons, if you decorate them currently they can often feel small especially in 4 v 4s. (I often try to make things like a forest, or some areas with bridges with more narrow paths that would change your playstyle a bit, or simply "Two forts" with alternative objectives, but I certainly lack space for that.)
   
4. Would it be possible to open/close doors in battle, that aren't locked? preferably only when right next to it.
   
   

Applicable BYOND Key - DispensingFreedom.jpg

Character Name - Anko (Papilion)

Request Type - Uhh... Character ability?

Request Details -  The creation (preferred) or discovery (more expected) of a B class invocation illusion spell. The effects would be, unlike Aposemagika, focused in a smaller area, but for much more potent effect. To combat the usage of Earth magic to dispel an illusion, the invocation would be used on a person, object, location, etc to cloak them in an illusion so potent that only true effort would be able to dispel it, rather than a weak Earth spell or dispelling technique being able to do such. Roughly requiring D class Earth invocation magic at the time of casting, and possibly growing weaker over the span of one or two days to the point of only requiring magic on par with Magaisendo, at which point the spell would wear off on its own. One realistically wouldn't be able to pull this off in a real fight, and its effects wouldn't be suited for one anyway.

Rough estimate for the FP cost would be about 150, so... a little less than half of my character's basic reserves, though wouldn't require upkeep until it fades naturally and has to be recast.
The chants for this spell:

"Fleeting colors of the abyss..."

"Untainted by the soil's truth..."

"Replace reality with my will."

Reason why you are making this request (if applicable) - Illusion magic has a known weakness, and a Papilion that has been around for a very long time (one of the longest-running Papilion characters that I know of) would likely be looking into a way around this serious weakness if they were actually invested in their racial potential.

Roleplay & Lore supporting your request - Earth weakness exists, people use it a lot. Baikai exists, that'd probably be on the list of places Anko'd look into first. Aposemagika is proof of illusion invocations existing, and is inspiration for the first line of the actual chant. It wouldn't be a complete immunity to earth, of course, but require more effort than just tossing a rock. Past that, I don't really know what to put here.

Okay. This isn't gonna be a particularly serious thread because at the end of the day, this is a silly feature of the forums to begin with (which is kinda the problem I think.)

So forum reputation is just a number of how many people say "yay" vs how many say "nay"... Buuuut the problem is a lot of people are giving people +1s or -1s for reasons like "you're cute", "trying to balance out negative rep", "this is stupid" and most of all [no comment]

And then there's stuff like this where two people can list the exact same thing but it's in green or red:



Why do we even have this??? It feels so arbitrary and I frankly don't really wanna moderate on whether the internet points you gave/took away are valid, I'd rather there just not be points, especially when they don't determine whether the things someone says has merit or not. A person with -10 rep can make a good point while a person with +150 can say something profoundly stupid. At best, it may make people feel good about having good boy points and at worst it can be used to demerit someone you don't like and make them feel less special?

Thread rating (1-5 stars) is also doubly pointless I feel for similar reasons.


So I guess ultimately two things, we either take it more seriously and slap down some guidelines to this. Probably something along the lines of:

1) You must include a comment.
2) Do not give good or bad reputation simply because you like or dislike the person.
3) The comment you include should be about their post. (e.g. I think this person made some good points here. I think this argument is faulty.)
4) The comment you include should be explanatory. (Don't just include "wow what an idiot" or "is this guy serious? or "i like this", this isn't helpful.)

Or (preferably to me) Dev takes it out entirely, assuming that's possible.

I have a vampire thread up but I want to talk specifically about Lunar Lunatism because I think this potentially can tie the whole Vampire race together in a meaningful way. I mentioned before that the Vampire changes make the race more focused on basic attacking. By far, you receive most of the benefits (and negatives that come with those) if you're a proficient basic attacker. Life Drain is there for mages, however you have no way to build essence with it. Using Banquet is the only way to manage essence mid battle, and critting with it acts as a psuedo fleur.

I also mentioned previously that trying to build for basic attacking as well as taking SAN for the benefits of lunar lunatism is near impossible if you want your build to be proficient. However to stay in line with the way every other race works, I don't think making it scale off anything other than SAN is ideal. So it dawned on me that a compromise could work similar to how the Corbie racials work. Activating Lunar Lunatism can give you a buff to your hit and crit while it's active, that scales off of your SAN. This can compensate for some stats needed for basic attacking that might be sacrificed to stack SAN to make use of lunar lunatism to its fullest.

By limiting this buff to lunar lunatism it doesn't just make Vampire a free pass for extra basic attacking stats, but it also lets you take advantage of the LVs of the charm and hesitation it inflicts which would otherwise be very lackluster with low SAN. To make Mage classes less neglected by the Vampire rework, the crit buff would also be a buff to crit rate for lightning spells, and mages can always use a bit of extra hit for overcoming evasion procs. This would also further the state of lunar lunatism being described as the state of a vampire going 'all out' and make it a much more fearsome ability. However with the weaknesses that come with Crest being active I don't see it being overbearing, just worthy of the trade off.

I don't know if this would be possible, but would there be a way to tweak the way Gun type weapons interact with basic attack skills?

As an example I'll never hit higher than 1 using Capture, Pinball Strike, or Warp Strike. it hinders my build quite harshly by making a very powerful tool practically worthless.

My suggestion would be somehow making a separate blunt damage proc for guns when used for the case of Melee type skills (IE you use rubber bullets, or smash them with the base of your gun to knock them out)

Though I am absolutely worthless when it comes to coding so I don't know how easy nor how hard this would be to do.

EDIT: I have acutally just come up with a possible idea, you could add a Rubber Bullets trait that when toggled on will make gun weapons never kill, allowing us gunners to get a mob down to 1 HP and then move in for a capture, though that wouldn't fix the Warp Strike and Pinball Strike problems...

I shall open this by allowing you to cut straight to the meat of the issue, skipping past my foreword should you wish.
This public statement is going to be split into two distinct but deeply intertwined topics-

If you are concerned with the state of harassment and hostility in the community, and how we seek to address it moving forwards, skip to the next bolded line.
If you are concerned with hearing how the GM team operate, further potential changes, and some more personal thoughts on recent threads, those will be contained in the next post.
I'd ask that you don't skip the section on harassment, as it constitutes an adjustment on policy that affects nearly every last one of you.

At the time of posting, I intend to spend a few hours in the comments of this thread, responding to things as best I can. Please endeavour to keep your responses polite, respectful towards others, and concise. I shall do the same.

With that out of the way...