Out of all the farming stuff available, we're still missing Potatoes as a growable product. Considering the fact that potatoes can be grown naturally, it's a bit odd to have them be excluded from the farming activity. So this is more of a suggestion to add potato seeds as an item for the cooking craft menu for chopping since the only other method to obtain them is by opening up normal brown and grey chests.

In summary: Add potato seeds as a craft option for farming.

When hitting end turn, your entire Schwarz count goes back to 0, even though in the skills description it should not.

Edit: Only does it if you have auto-end turn off in preferences

I cannot hear any profile themes in game. Only the default music. When I open any profile, including my own, the default bgm will stop playing. I cleared my BYOND client's cache at BYOND has been updated to the latest version.

In preferences, Music is checked on and Profile Music is checked on. Even if I check on Custom Only, all profiles are muted.

since someone decided to lock a perfectly good thread migration, i'm gonna make this real quick.

so with the bug report about mob spawning in a cleared BDP was made, i assume they'll be fixing that beautiful little bastard of a bug pretty soon. now you may be wondering, what does this mean for me, chanceko? well, it's simple. y'all about to experience what it means to really, really be grinding out here like it's the free market. for some of you, this won't affect you at all. y'all got friends, no job, no day schedule, something in between, so you're all set.

somebody will clear a BDP with you, and you have the 1 - 3 hour timeframe to spare to get it done.

now, for someone like me, it ain't so easy. i have a pretty flip floppy schedule sometimes. i'm something of an insomniac, boo hoo, but i'm also pretty infrequently capable of just hopping in whenever. this means most of my friends can't or won't have the time to help me clear a black door when i need the fatty experience.

in other words, i have to slam the jammer cave any time i LE or any time i make a new character, and pray that i have enough time to get up to an applicable level before black beasts roll into town (rarely lines up with my schedule), or a low level dungeon spawns (rarely lines up with my schedule).

but that's just the outline of the problem for SOME folks. i'm sure experiences differ, and some people either have it even harder than me or may even find the leveling as it stands impossible without consistent outside influence and help. so instead, let's get to the meat:

how do we solve this problem once the bug is fixed? tower grinding is gone as we knew it, and black beasts + purple iahsus are both pretty damn inconsistently timed. well, some people in the last thread had some pretty good ideas! one idea was to introduce a new(old?) dungeon type that has a higher exp rate in exchange for even tougher mobs. now, this one doesn't solve the problem for people like me, but it's something.

the other idea, that i can maybe explain a bit better, involves incorporating the 'bug' into the game in some way. for an example, the one they gave, say a dungeon has been empty for 5-10 minutes, yeah? what if the bottom floor spawned a mob, then, when a player is idling in there to keep it open. bam, there's a full clear bonus for one of our boys and their juice crew, without even needing to break any sort of game convenience or ruining someone else's fcb (the rare time that happens).

i'm not saying these ideas are perfect, they're not, but that's why i made a thread. let's talk about it.

Beware - Essay Alert! (Disclaimer I have a great deal to cover here, so I will try to be brief and keep my main problems / resolutions bullet pointed. This suggestion is not for my own benefit, but for the server as a whole - although a number of people I know, have been hurt consistently by these factors which prompted me to hasten the development of this idea. Please bear with me as some of you may take this personally but the ultimate goal is to improve the way Players and GMs interact, for everybody.

I'm also fully aware that I stand a high chance of being lynched for this, but it really needs to be said. I honestly don't care - I can't be the only one who feels this way - If I am, that would be a real shame indeed for the gaming community.

• #1 - Preferential Sourcing / Bias: As it currently stands, a player with a better reputation or popularity index can inherently be considered as a more credible source of information regardless of the accuracy of that information, which in the absence of logs hinges only upon said player's aforementioned perceived credibility. Unless you want to promote an insular, divisive culture, hard evidence coupled with impartiality of judgement are tantamount; regardless of personal feelings on behalf of the Moderators. Without those things, you have the sort of situation that exists now - whereby interactions with better-known players are a worrying prospect due to the looming threat (imagined or otherwise, it makes no difference) of being branded for 'Harassment', purely because you happen to like the same playby or because you happen to play an ICly abrasive character.
  
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• #2 - [Lack of] Transparency: Complaints regarding players, presented by other players, are handled in a (perhaps unintentionally) 'secretive' manner with no indication of what evidence has actually been presented to lead to the final ruling, and why that information is relevant to the matter at hand. This is because most complaints are handled in private messages - a task made a great deal easier when one knows the GM in question rather well. By extension to this issue, the very act of handling complaints in this way is inefficient at best, where one has to personally message all parties involved - waiting for them to be online, or otherwise 'un-busy' enough to give you, the Moderator, the answers that you want.
  
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• #3 - Deliberation: Sometimes, issues will end up stewing over for several days with staff all 'agreeing' that something should definitely be done, but nobody actually mobilizing to resolve it (I know this from past conversations with Moderators regarding unsolved matters) - whether this is due to being busy or otherwise, it's not really a good thing for anybody? Or perhaps this is due to difficulty tracking the workload of each GM, or because a collective decision is required? Even so - being that all Moderators are held to the same standard, does a decision really need to be unanimous for the majority of cases?
  
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• #4 - Outright Dismissal: Occasionally, whether the accused (or indeed, the accuser) will be heard or not can purely be down to a roll of the dice - a roll influenced in part - but not entirely by the specific person contacting the GM. From first hand experience I know that the GMs do discuss matters with the person in question and allow them to defend themselves and present their side of the story, but I have evidence to suggest that there are some players this does not apply to at all. Moderators do state that they will seek to remain unbiased to the best of their ability - and I'm sure this is largely the case. However, if that is true, you still need to appreciate the fact that being ignored frequently or not consulted on issues that pertain to yourself, comes across very badly, regardless of the truth. Seeming is being, which lends itself to my point regarding transparency.
  

• #1 - Player Complaints Sub-Forum: In order to promote a healthy, transparent environment where all players of the server can clearly see recorded incidents (barring those of a more 'personal' nature), readily access the cases to present relevant evidence of their own. A GM can select the case, post that they are handling it - all the evidence is already provided for them, anything else that they deem necessary is at their discretion. The accused can either respond to that thread or be interviewed privately. Idyllically a Moderator need only take action based on what lies before them (unless it's not enough). I suggest a sub-forum like this one, which should speak for itself. Let there never be any confusion as to why a person is being punished. 'You know what you did', while there is a chance that you may be correct, is not a satisfactory answer particularly when a person, and those close to the case in question, remain puzzled with the outcome.
  
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• #2 - (Habeus Corpus!) Accusation > Evidence > Witnesses > Action: Equally, I understand that all cases cannot necessarily be dealt with publicly - either due to a personal, embarrassing interaction or because an issue in progress requires a more immediate resolution. For this, we still have Discord and GM Help, as ever. With that said... It should be standard policy in such a situation for evidence to still be presented, including logs, statements of any witnesses, and a statement from the accused player giving them a chance to present THEIR own logs. If this is already standard policy, it is NOT being enforced - or if it is, then it is done so selectively and dismissed when convenient. It is also never enough to provide a one-word explanation as to why a person is being punished, unless of course you are exceptionally lazy and are treating that person dismissively - in which case you absolutely should not be a member of a team that (supposedly) enforces server rules FAIRLY and WITHOUT BIAS.
  
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• #3 - Rehabilitation vs Punishment: Why do people become Moderators? There are many theories behind this, but only one correct answer (for those that deserve to hold the title) - because they want to promote a healthy environment where all players can enjoy the game without interference, or negative behaviors of others. Healthy is the operative segment here, and when players do step over the line, the intention should be to correct their behavior, advise them on how they can change, administer a fitting punishment and hope for the best. This means believing in the capability of other players, to change. This means dealing with every situation on an individual, objective basis, where previous transgressions cannot be used against the accused. By all means, a person's punishment can, and SHOULD increase with severity if it is a repeat offence, but treating a person like a criminal, because of their past mistakes, is a self-contained spiral from which a player with a sordid history cannot escape REGARDLESS of whether they are trying to change or not, BECAUSE the accusations and rulings of others acting on bias alone CONSISTENTLY label them as the villain, ADDING to the list of transgressions that may or may not even be true to begin with.
  
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• #4 - By default, administrators are under no obligation to explain anything to you: This is wrong. On every conceivable level. This needs to be removed - the GM team absolutely must be able to provide clear evidence that the decisions they have come to are fair and just, because an unwillingness to explain a situation that is neither embarrassing nor a great deal of effort to do, could very well be considered an admittance of guilt in and of itself. I'm not talking about providing a reply the size of this deplorable post of mine, I'm talking about literally telling a person what they have done wrong, and how you know they've done that.
  

As the title says, please let us rename our characters. Right now we can achieve this by asking a GM but I honestly can't see a reason as to why we can't just have this as a feature in game. This would save a lot of time from a GM perspective as they get pestered all the time by us for name changes and I can't really see what abuse can be done with name changes. Names are hidden most of the time by alias and if there was any kind of metagameness which I think would be a extremely rare thing if it happened at all, could be dealt with accordingly by GMs.

So what I propose as to how it would work ingame is simple. An NPC similar to the shady guy who changes alias. This one would have some IC fluff perhaps being a clerk for the empire or whatever, could even just let Air do this. There would be a charge of murai, I'm just gonna throw out 5000 murai as an example. Not too much, but enough so it won't get spammed. You pay the money, you whack and your new name and boom. You could even add this additional functionality to the passport asago item or create a new one for it too.

So I was going through a characters traits I was redoing, and upon taking Intoxicating Fangs and for some reason it shows in both Acquired and Locked for some reason.

Acquired:    

Locked:    

It doesn't seem to be just the vampire fang traits either, a simular thing happened on my Mechanation CABAL version. It's memory trait did a simular thing upon getting, showing both Locked and Acquired. These are only 4 of the traits I know do it and can't say for the rest of the traits at this point in time without spending hours just going throuogh each race with Racial traits to check if its the same.

When you are in a fight and someone requests to join, but they subsequently have a monster aggro onto them and engage them at the same time that you press Yes for them to join the fight, you will end your current encounter to join whatever new encounter they just got into, teleporting from the current battle map to the next, the fight goes as per normal but then this is where the issue starts.

The issue is that when this happens and you exit the new fight, you and your party will appear in the previous battle map, but you still control as if you were on the overworld with arrow key movement and stuff, the monsters in the battle stay completely still and are non-interactable, in essence you get stuck into the battle map with no escape whatsoever without GM assistance or waiting until reboot. (Which then you'll be kicked out into the tutorial)

To replicate in the way that we experienced this:

1) Have Person A be in a fight, solo or party.
2) Have Person B request to join the battle mid-fight.
3) Have Person A accept the invite around the same time that another monster engages Person B.
4) Proceed with the fight as normal.
5) Appear stuck in the old battle map you were using previous.

While fighting someone on a Ghost/Monk I noticed that my hit was 114% on them, so I went to smack them and while the initial hit went through, the Cobra user dodged my on hits with Snake Dancer, the only thing that irks me here is that my weapon's base accuracy is 87%, so technically for the purposes of evasion I should actually be gaining 3 hit, meaning that my on hits should NEVER be missing, no matter what.

Which is why I think Snake Dancer is bugged somehow to be not counting some form of hit OR it just always dodges on-hits with decent evade.

The only hit buffs I am sporting currently is the following:

-Golden Eyes with 50 SAN (+30 Hit)
-Trained fists from MA (+20 Hit)

So here's what I'm asking, what is the reason I missed my on hits very consistently here? Across 4 or 5 hits I didn't hit a single on hit, not even once, and it was clear they were dodged by the cobra user spazzing out and flipping around.

The Sayakensa is another item that was added a long time ago and has fallen to the way-side in terms of usefulness and has definitely seen little to absolutely no use in the years after it was added. I know many long time players have been straight-up confused as to what I was talking about when I mentioned the name, often confusing it for the Sayakana. It was never too great to begin with, but with so many better options or options that do similar things but better... I'm sure I'm not the only person that thinks it could do with an update.

As it stands now, 10%+ critical chance isn't bad at all, nor is the boost to kensei skills. But now that the Great Reckoning has happened and because of Sanctity, everyone has at least some resistance to Dark damage, and in fact, Dark resistance is far more commonly run into than Slash resistance. Going against anyone with any amount of points placed into Sanctity, you'll be going against several different resistances by default, but because of the Dark damage type, another one is stacked on. Personally, I think the Dark damage is fine, and works thematically for the item, but it would be interesting if it offered some kind of ability to ignore Dark resistance gained by points of Sanctity earned through Aptitude at least.

Other than that, the item also causes you to lose two Vitality. I only know of a few items that cause you to lose stats, and not without some pretty hefty gains in return. I genuinely don't think the Sayakensa as-is deserves the minus two Vitality tacked onto it when having the Dark damage modifier is already weakening your attacks.

My main ideas are either: A. Keep the minus two Vitality, but make it so there's some kind of Bypass for dark resistance; or B. Toss out the Vitality loss.

I'm sure there are more ways this item can and possibly should be buffed, given that it's a rare 9* item, and a hand-slot one, at that, but these are my ideas for now.