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Been meaning to do this for a while! A topic to say thank you to somebody that helped you on hunts, or that did something nice for you in the game, I see so many acts of kindness every day on this game, it sort of inspires me! I'll start today to say my thank you's! I'm thankful for Soly's work on this server.

I'm thankful for Spot for taking me under her wing and giving me access to awesome gear; Saith for showing me the ins and outs of what it takes to succeed in PSO, and inspiring me to do the same; and Stork for being one of my first buddies and reminding me that, oh yeah, playing with others is actually fun.

Even before they leveled up and got their GM powers, Cyane and Soly have been looking out for me since day one. I gotta give a shoutout to Wayne as well, if it wasn't for his super cheap ass black market prices, I would've never been able to afford the weapons that carried me to where I am today. Cal and Aiden also raised me (almost literally) from day one and showed me the inner workings of the game, I can't imagine how much time they've saved me all together so-- Thank you guys!

It's a false positive be sure to download the updated version too http://www.phantasystaronline.net/download/UltimaPsOBB_3.3.exe Add the game to your antivirus and firewall exceptions, avg is usually extra picky with the game, same goes for other random antivirus out there.

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Thank your stark

Is normal,ata doesnt increase each time you lvl up, afaik.

Yes it's normal. You don't always gain +1 ata when you level up. Likely you'll get +1 ata within the next few times you level up.

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I thought I put the "F" in "F*** Off".

Ok.. solved then

Thanks Neon for helping me re-do my item transfer, if I had tried to do it on my own again after the second rollback there was a high chance that I could have lost my stuff from an overheated hardware shutdown.

Thank You Cyane! =3 You work very hard to keep everyone happy and you've personally helped me with many things on this server. P.S. Your voice is awesome.

If i make a list I'll never stop! Starting 5 at the time (i'll try some cronological order?) Massblade - he helped me a lot starting up, he got me geared to be a nice force, at the time as a fonewearl sort of raised me a bit there were too many raising me from the start (making me leave the solo playing aside) Maya - Started with me too, he would always help me hunt would always yell at me for making way too many characters and never focusing on one! Teached me some basics that i wasn't aware of on pso. Dante- One of my first team mates too! We sort of helped out each other since we seemed to be in the same level of struggle at the time. Would be fun to play together again Squish - when there was no one there would be squishy there to listen and help cy get some levels! Do hunts, do so many fun things and in the end give me a place to call home in the game ;3 Kajex - D; that was some odd creature on the lobby that would amuse me everytime he got in, he put the F in fun and prob the UN too. Wouldn't have stayed that long if it wasn't for him making random things happen and random events/random jokes etc. Still got scared of my room filled with eggs with no idea where they came from. I blame him every day for my love for fonewms and those big bums >;3 Nowadays still feels like stealing his dog.

There is a whole lot in your post i could talk about(especially about depth of strategy both in teams and solo), but i'll try to keep it to only to a few subjects. Ultimate mode has a much higher level range than lower difficulties. Where normal-vhard have about 20-30 character levels of progression in them, ultimate mode has to deal with players all the way from 90-200, including many long time veterans of the game which make up a substantial part of the primary playerbase because it is an extremely old game being run on private servers. The buffed monsters in ultimate are actually a huge draw for much of the playerbase that is bored of the vanilla game on other servers, because the enemies are otherwise so weak they get one shotted by level 200 characters with decent gear. The buffed monsters are at a middle ground to keep the game challenging enough to excite veteran players, while not being overwhelming for new players. The jump to ultimate is certainly more difficult for players entering ult than it was in vanilla, but it's by no means unmanageable. For example, it is possible to farm heavenly units, v101s, decent weapons like vivenne, etc, in ep 4 very hard, and it is also possible to get some useful gear from black paper deal quests to use such as red sword, black king bar, meteor cudgel, etc. They may not come with hit% from black paper, but hit is only really necessary if you want to use the special attack on the weapon; if just using hard attack a player entering ultimate should still be able to use them effectively to deal damage. Those are just examples and not the only ways to get gear, there's a lot of ways to get mid-tier to moderately high-tier gear that works well enough (often players seem to have a 'if it's not the best, it sucks mentality' when it comes to gear, when many pieces gear can do just fine, in fact some of the best gear can even come from the weapon shop). If a level 90-100 player has some mid tier weapons and puts on a pair of heavenly/arms at least and doesn't neglect their mag while leveling up (this is a big one, many people will powerlevel quickly but forget their mags and have severely underleveled mags which stunt their power and accuracy dramatically), then they can still do good damage to ultimate enemies. It won't be amazing damage like a maxed char would do, but they would certainly do enough damage to handle the early ultimate areas just fine. It's also easy to mistake the source of weakness and blame it on gear, when really the gear itself isn't the majority of your actual strength; it's certainly a part of it, but upgrading from a decent weapon to a great weapon won't do nearly as much for them as actually getting exp and leveling up, raising their mag, and getting materials will, which make up about 75%-80%+ of the actual atp you can stand to gain. A low level character with a low level mag and no materials will find it easy to complain about his actually decent mid-range gear without understanding the nature of his problem. Even though ultimate is daunting when one first enters it, powering up and getting geared with a variety of decent usable stuff is actually pretty fast on this server, even with rarely trading and mostly just playing for fun, it's surprising how much one can pick up in a couple weeks/months if they are willing to work at it. As for the major events which give limited time drops, those are another way to keep the game fresh and interesting for veterans. The new pieces of gear are in no way required to have or necessary for anyone to farm; they are not meant for or needed to deal with the buffed monsters. They are unique extras to provide new content and post-endgame experiences for veterans. Even then, claiming it is not somehow beyond your reach and unfarmable is stretching it at best. When i first joined the server, i was a complete noob. It was the end of summer event, though i did not know it at the time. I played my 2 characters and I worked my way though the game slowly to reexperience it, since it had been a game I never fully got into on the gamecube and hadn't played in a decade. Very soon the first ever Triforce event was announced. I didn't have great gear, nor did i have amazing levels (at the time i was using hunting dubchichs for 2 god/arms and hunting canane for a regen gear adv using my lower lvl racast, and using a level 100-110ish fonewearl to hunt holy ray from de rol le using a fire scepter: agni and a 3 seals, but I was noob and didn't know about black paper deal and such things). During that triforce event, I busted my ass pretty hard. I did a lot of runs in ep 4 with my foney. Eventually, I took my racast and put on a general armor, 4 resist/devils and a shield of delsaber for 100 edk, and i hunted a pwand using a 25 hit demon laser to kill mil lilys by making them suicide. I spent a few days at the start using no hit frozen shooter and 25 hit hell laser to farm up hylian shields (i got a bit lucky on that admittedly). I busted my ass day in and day out on my foney doing pod runs from when she was level 120+, barely being able to survive shambertin even using hp units. In the end persistence payed off and I got master sword that event(the first one i saw drop was grabbed by another person in room first), I got hylian shield, I was able to hunt a stealth sword and a few centurion/arms and a few centurion/powers, and even managed a wizard/resist from the hildetorrs. Only item i didn't get was the troll item cent/luck. This is all anecdotal, but the point is that even though the major event items are meant as extra challenges for those who have mastered the rest of the game, they are not out of reach for any player. It doesn't matter if you have all the gear/characters/levels or almost none of it, the way to get stuff in pso is the same for everyone, you earn it with your sweat, blood, and tears. I just wanted to talk about buffed monsters and major event items, why they exist, and why they may appear distressing but actually really aren't a bad thing overall, they really help improve the server and are one of the main draws for seasoned pso players to this server in particular. Apologies for being so longwinded, or if any parts came off sounding harsh instead of just critical. I hope that, despite your impressions of the servers' changes, you enjoy playing on ultima and have fun, and good luck with the cycle of switching out/powering up your gear and characters.