could we per chance have a different color for looc so it stands out from regular ooc

I'm voting for cyan since it would stand out from GM yellow and ooc red.

First you look at your own description but don't edit anything.
http://puu.sh/pyulw/0a41f87b21.jpg

Then without closing the description you look at someone else's via double click
http://puu.sh/pyurr/37c105b8c0.jpg

Then you go to edit their description as apparently the game thinks it's yours now.
http://puu.sh/pyuuu/bcc8a41a86.jpg
http://puu.sh/pyuxM/11fc1486bf.jpg

Once you save the description it changes your old one as seen below
http://puu.sh/pyuB5/af57886ad7.jpg

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It's been a little while since live has seen an update but as you all know, we've been beta testing the Great Reckoning for the past 2 weeks and it's finally ready to hit live. This is Part 1; there are some more reworks for systems to come, although the next update will be something other than that. That said, this update is certainly a Great Reckoning and brings a large overhaul to a number of areas of the game, and was certainly a lot of work for me to put together. That said, the other aspects of the Great Reckoning should not be as time consuming; this one required a lot of attention on many aspects, including monsters and youkai, while everything that comes after this will probably only affect players and require less raw effort. Without further ado...

1.58
Great Reckoning - Stat System - The growth stat system has been abolished in favor of a point distribution system. If you want to read about why, please view this topic.
Note: Your existing characters will be fine, but will be required to distribute stat points in the character panel. So please don't worry about that.

• Characters receive 3.5 stat points per level, a total of 210 at level 60. These points can be freely distributed into any of the 12 statistical points you please.
  
• A stat increased beyond racial base + 40 begins suffering from diminished returns, making them less effective. This becomes more dramatic the higher the stat gets.
  (The actual formula for this is a little complex, but I will explain it here. All stats at and below the soft cap are 100% effective; this means your racial base + 40. Points beyond that are affected in this way; base modifier for points becomes 90%. So 3 points become worth 2.7 for in-game formulas. Every 3 points, the modifier lowers by 8%, to a minimum of 10%. So 2.7, then 82% of 3 would be 2.46, and then 74% of 3 would be 2.22. If my base is 5, that means my softcap is 45. If I have 54 in this stat, that means it's really worth; 45+2.7+2.46+2.22 = 51.95.) You won't have to worry about doing complex math because the game will do it for you in the character screen.
• Most stats are now tied to a type of Element, listed on the character panel. Some (but not all) spells and other skills that had per-rank bonus damage changed to interact with this elemental ATK instead.
  
• Traits which gave growth bonuses have been changed to give flat statistical bonuses instead.
  
• Talents which gave statistical growths have had that description removed.
  
• Lady Luck and Style Blending have been removed from the game.

• Increases FIRE ATK by 1 per 1 point.
  
• Increases maximum Battle Weight by 1 per 1 point.
  
• Increases maximum Encumbrance by 1 per 1 point.

• Increases maximum FP by 5 per 1 point.
  
• Increases Skill Pool size by 1 per 10 points.
  
• Mental Stamina is equal to 50 + 1*WIL.

• Increases ICE ATK by 1 per 1 point.
  
• Increases Hit by 2 per 1 point.
  
• Increases Critical by 1 per 1 point.
  
• Increases Skill Pool size by 1 per 5 points.
  
• Increases Status Infliction by 2% per 1 point.

• Increases WIND ATK by 1 per 1 point.
  
• Increases Evade by 2 per 1 point.
  
• Determines turn order.

• Increases EARTH ATK by 1 per 1 point.
  
• Reduces physical damage taken by 1% per 1 point.

• Increases DARK ATK by 1 per 1 point.
  
• Reduces magical damage taken by 1% per 1 point.

• Increases WATER ATK by 1 per 1 point.
  
• Increases maximum HP by 10 per 1 point.
  
• Increases maximum Encumbrance by 1 per 1 point.
  
• Physical Stamina is equal to 50 + 1*VIT.

• Increases LIGHT ATK by 1 per 1 point.
  
• Increases maximum FP by 3 per 1 point.
  
• Increases Status Resistance by 1% per 1 point.
  
• Increases Critical Evade by 1 per 1 point.
  
• Reduces amount of Murai and chance to drop items on defeat by 2% per 1 point.

• Increases LIGHTNING ATK by 1 per 1 point.
  
• Increases Evade by 1 per 1 point.
  
• Increases Hit by 1 per 1 point.
  
• Increases Critical by 1 per 1 point.
  
• Increases Critical Evade by 1 per 1 point.
  
• Increases item drop rate by 1% per 1 point.

• Increases ACID ATK by 1 per 1 point.
  
• Increases Flanking bonus by 1 per point.
  
• Increases Critical Damage by 1% per 1 point.
  
• Increases Skill Pool size by 1 per 5 points.
  
• Decreases Farshot Penalty by 1 per 5 points. (IE, at 40 Guile, the penalty is -2 Hit per tile instead of -10).

• Increases SOUND ATK by 1 per 1 point.
  
• Increases maximum HP and FP by 2 per 1 point.
  
• Increases Status Resistance by 2% per 1 point.
  
• Increases elemental resistance to Fire, Ice, Wind, Earth, Lightning, Light, and Dark by 1% per 4 points.

• Increases EXP and Crafting EXP by 1% per 1 point.
  
• Every 6 points in Aptitude increases every stat except but Aptitude by 1.

• A new character information panel, pictured above, has been added.
  
• Mouse-over various areas to show tooltips about what it does or signifies. (For example, mousing over a stat icon will show you what increasing that stat does.)
  
• Click the + or - buttons to distribute points. You can Shift + Click them to distribute multiple points at once. You will see what effect your new stat distribute will have on your character immediately.
  
• Click reset to reset your current distribution, or click Confirm to finalize it.
  
• The character portrait circle can be clicked to change your face icon as usual.
  
• The AKA button now serves as the alias swap button.
  
• Click the race or class buttons to change the XP bar and show the appropriate level.

• All weapons in the game now have unique statistical scaling that determines the damage they deal with skills and attacks. You can view these in an item description.
  
• Weapon scaling damage is now determined as such for non-spells and basic attacks: X% of the Scaled Stat(s; added together if multiple) times 1.5, plus Power + upgrades = Scaled Weapon ATK.
  
  For example, if I have 100% STR scaling on my 5 Power +5 Sword, and I have 5 racial base STR and 45 additional STR (50 total), my STR is actually: 45 + 2.7 + 1.64 = 49.34.
  
  49.34 * 1.5 = 74.01, rounded down to 74 + 10 (power and upgrades) = 84. This is my Scaled Weapon ATK, meaning I do this much damage on basic attacks. Skills may use a higher or lower percentage of this value. All of this will be displayed in the character info panel and you can see how additional stats will affect it there.
• Spells function similarly, but if the element of your Tome differs from the elemental ATK of your casted spell, the Power + Upgrades portion is halved in effectiveness.
  
• Critical damage for weapons has been changed; it now displays the modifier on the item description screen.
  
• Hands, Legs, and Accessories now contribute to your Battle Weight total. (Weight has been added to their item descriptions.)

• Added a new examine interface to the game for a variety of reasons. Primarily, due to the way it worked previously, it was possible to insert malicious javascript/etc into descriptions.
  
• You can customize your profile with up to 10 pages of your Appearance, 10 pages of Character History, and 10 pages of OOC Notes (for what might be public knowledge and isn't, what type of RP you like or don't like etc.).
  
• You can set a Youtube video to be the music played upon examining your profile, which will play nicely with the in-game music, turning it on and off when being played.
  
• A new preference to play or not play profile music automatically has been added.
  
• More customization options and interactions will be added in future updates.

• Converted all monsters and youkai and associates to use a stat build system.
  
• Converted relevant monster and youkai skills to use Elemental ATK and Scaled Weapon ATK where appropriate; removed some outdated text from various ones as well.
  For Evoke Skills, where appropriate; (FP scaling costs down, damage formula is now caster's 100% + (Youkai Level/25, *100)% Elemental ATK. At level 60 this is 340% of Elemental ATK.
• Growths removed from the Youkai affinity skills, as they no longer apply.

• Converted all races to the new system, with new bases.
  
• Racial skills have been updated/changed where appropriate, many gaining scaling effects based on your Sanctity.

The arena combatant used Ghostwind, a spell, on me while I was facing them, and I parried their attack via eviter!
I mean, you can leave it in the game if you want.. :?

It would seem that Magic Armor (the stat on Armor) is providing it's DEFENSE value to multi-hitting mage spells. Tested this with Underworld Flame and Wretched Oil.


DEBUG INFO

WITH ARMOR (12 MDEF)

Hexer spells don't seem to really care what your damage type on your tome (or spell edge) weapon is. I feel this is probably the same for some other spell casters, but here's the debug report for ya.

Can we get a neat little verb to test out bugs (and damage) against an enemy? Just have it be something like spawn 'prinny' or something and have it open a little window that allows us to customize his stats. Having this, I feel, would allow a lot of us to test out if damage and the like is working properly on certain enemies and the like without having the need to go

"HEY GM CAN YOU SIT AROUND WITH ME FOR AWHILE AND SPAWN SOME 0 DEF MOOKS? THANKS"

to test stuff out. I know I'm getting a little more than annoyed having to run around and figure out what the hell is going on with damage/skills against enemies that have any defense. (it's what also stops me from testing skills like Execute which have absurdly hard criteria to actually pull off against an enemy with 25 hp and 3 def)

Focused Beam from Lantern Bearer does not have an updated tooltip to show how it scales now with the new stat system. (It still lists it as WIL + Bonus based on rank.)

Fear effects count as such for anyone who has it afflicted upon them. I imagine this came out about the time a person could be 'feared' by more than one person, but here's the concept.


Person A fears Person C by whatever means.
Person B uses a skill that gets a 'benefit' from the target being afraid. (Deadly Scissors Zugzwang, etc)
Person B gets the added 'benefit' of the target being feared, even if not by them.

It happened recently whenever I smacked Perona and some guy crit me with a Deadly Scissor and gave me Knockdown so..

Bug?

With the addition and changes to some racial skills and the removal of growths, some races in the Beta have been left far behind the average. I will briefly outline the two I think are doing poorly, and potential ideas to buff them if I have any.

1. Humans

The additional +2 skill points and trait do very little in the greater scheme of things. Traits are not uncommon enough for one to be of value, since all of the mandatory ones can be taken without this racial. Getting +2 to every class is nifty, but once again is something that can be accomplished by simply taking a trait for it. (One can argue it's the same as taking every single class trait, which is 8 whole traits, but that would imply the character switches between every single class in the game. That is an unreasonable assumption to make.)

I have two vague ideas of what could be done to buff humans. The first, giving them an additional 10-20 skill points at level 60 to distribute, plays into their "easily adaptable, quick to learn" nature. The second idea is quite similar: give humans better scaling with Aptitude in the form of improved ratios or a later soft cap for that stat. Please note that these are two separate ideas, I am not suggesting both be implemented together.

2. Mechanations

Previously the powerhouse race, Mechs on Live give extremely solid growths, and provide two free resistances in exchange for a single weakness. They did not fair well on the port over to beta. With growths eliminated, their different models represent minute differences in base stats that translate into very little in the big picture. Their resistances were dulled while their weakness remained the same, and the only other skill they possess is being great pack mules.

I don't have a great change for Mechs off the top of my head, but it would be nice if they were given something that made each model feel different. It certainly feels like any class that has no benefits from Sanctity end up doing poorly as a race, with Corruption being the exception since they gain their benefits by simply NOT putting points into it.

I'm sure there are other races besides these two that deserve mention (probably Doriad, Hyattr, and possibly Papilion), but I don't have any experience playing those races and would be ill suited to try and comment on their relative strength.