Post by Retasu on Jul 28, 2018 10:54:18 GMT -5
Hello, all.
Firstly, I want to thank everyone wholeheartedly for all their contributions to ULTIMATE over the last few months. This has really been the community's greatest spike of activity, with lots of interesting and well played characters floating around. I especially want to bring attention to the Tenkaichi Budokai, as well. As our first "World Tournament" nears its end and the finals come to a close I want to once again thank everyone for their participation and making the tournament a success. Your participation, eagerness to compete, and willingness to make a simple martial arts tournament a fantastic story will not go unnoticed, I promise you. I cannot wait to be able to continue our site wide tradition for years to come and crown champion after champion.
With that, I want to go into a little bit of site business. I want everyone to congratulate our two newest mods, who will be helping us with the general day to day as well as contributing to the success of the community in the future. Firstly, Tundra who has come to us recently within the last few months. Tundra has many great ideas that will be helpful to all of us here, and also a great grasp of the mechanics and what we are trying to accomplish here. With a multitude of RP experience and writing under their belt, Tundra is a most welcome addition to the overall success of ULTIMATE to come. And last but certainly not least, Giya . Giya has been with us since our initial conception back in 2016. I cannot say enough good things about them, giving 100% and more to the site in order to keep it running and active, creating great characters and opening up to RPing with everyone, making all members feel included. Like Tundra, Giya has a fantastic concept of the way things flow around here with a plethora of ideas that can be beneficial to all.
From myself and Kiwano , I want to extend a warm welcome into our little squad of staff. I know you both will be great assets to us all here on ULTIMATE.
Now, onto the site updates.
Reduced Space Travel Time:
This is a small, quality of life change to the site. Instead of 24 hour travel from departure, the number is now 12 hours from departure. The key to this site is roleplaying, and I felt like the 24 hour limit was too restrictive. 12 hours is more balanced, in my opinion, giving everyone an opportunity to roleplay with each other.
Inventory / Item Plugin, Special Attacks & Minions:
We are now fully integrated with the item plugin that is installed into the site. We've changed some icons, added some new items, etc. All of this is moderated by the staff here, as far as giving items that were purchased and removing items that were used, nothing that the general member has to worry about.
However, we, as staff, will no longer be in charge of keeping track of Special Attacks. There is going to be a special section within your profile that you can edit in order to keep track of them once they are granted to you, as well as any Minions you acquire.
Head into "Edit Profile" when clicking on your own username. Once you do that, click on the "Personal" tab to be able to edit the aforementioned Special Attacks and Minions.
Scrolling all the way to the bottom you will see the two sections that are open up to you to edit. Once you are given a Special Attack, it is required to list it in the "Special Attacks" text box. All that is needed is the Attack Name and what kind of Special Attack it is. The same can be done for Minions, as far as the list that you have, what their dice and EXP are, and any special attacks you've purchased for them. This will take over having to create a "Profile" thread for your minions, if you don't want to. Both of these sections are a requirement now, so please make sure to fill them out if you have any of these two things. Again, staff will not be in charge of listing these items for you to alleviate a bit of things on our end.
Once you save, everything will be listed in your profile as follows. These will NOT show up in your mini profile, only your full one when clicking a username.
Changes in the Item Shop:
Some items are being included and removed in the Item Shop as of today.
GP Replenishment Items:
Level 1 will now give back 2 GP, and will cost 200 Zeni
Level 2 will now give back 4 GP, and will cost 400 Zeni
Level 3 will now give back 6 GP, and will cost 600 Zeni
We are adding an ULTIMATE Replenish which will replenish 6 GP AND heal 25% of a character's Max HP. It will cost 1,000 Zeni.
In the future, we may add more healing and GP replenish items to go with the flow of big level characters. At the moment, we are sticking to those that are above.
Ship Boosters and 1-Seater Storage:
There will now be only 1 Ship Booster upgrade for space ships. With the overall time of travel being cut down to 12 hours from departure, the booster will drop that down to 8 hours. There will be no other upgrades as of now.
Also, 1-Seater Storage upgrades are removed as well. Currently, 6-Seater Ships can stay in "docked" out in Open Space. Additionally, 6-Seater Ships can act as a planet in terms of any 1-Seater Ships a character on the ship owns can be launched to any planet, and can travel back TO the 6-Seater Ship in Open Space. 3-Seater Ships can stay docked in Open Space, but cannot act like a planet where 1-Seater Ships can launch from them.
TWO New Equipment Items:
For Offensive Equipment, % ATK Increase: 3,000 Zeni. 5% extra damage per round, caps at 25%. 3 round cool down once 25% is reached. Resets if a blocking and/or dodge attack is used.
For Defensive Equipment, % DEF Increase: 3,000 Zeni. 5% less damage per round, caps at 25%. 3 round cool down once 25% is reached. Resets if a blocking and/or dodge attack is used.
That's all for now (I know, it's a lot. Take your time to soak it in), with another update coming after the Tenkaichi Budokai is over. That update will center around the next site-wide plot that will be happening post-tournament. Hope you all enjoy.
Let's keep up the awesome work, and as always HAPPY ROLLING.