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i would have to agree bb

It will be up "soon" not exact date yet. But whenever is up we will post the details and yes it will be a optional thing the default will be the classic style. Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

As it has been discussed before. Here a summary: It actually is in place right now, however only available for GM accounts since it doesn't have any reduction yet (at least we know is functional, or it should be). The system will be opt-in, with a command like /dropstyle <n> where 0 = psobb, everything else = pso2. Typing the command without a parameter would print what style is selected. It will be printed upon joining a room too. I haven't coded for boxes but shouldn't be a big deal... I doubt we'll be getting high value rares in boxes anytime soon . Some background on what's going on currently. I was working in porting the patch server to C#, then back to C when I saw the restructure I did was pretty good. So I haven't spent time in the ship. And after we add this drop style stuff, mat resets and whatever I get before this change, I might not work in the ship until I rewrite it.

dw I already paid respect where it is due lolrip you will be remembered let me use a df

Hello mate ! You just came on this server, you barely know about PDS (http://www.phantasystaronline.net/forum/index.php/topic/341-photon-drops-info) and already, people are talking about DTS... So what is this strange beast, and how to get your way around that... WHAT IS IT ? In order to maintain the server alive (since well everything come with a price), you have the wonderful possibility to make a donation to the server. When you make a donation, you get what we call DTS or DT, standing for Donation TicketS. 1 DT = 1 $ DTS can then be used for at least two things : - Redeeming things in this list : https://www.phantasystaronline.net/forum/index.php?/announcement/13-item-list-donations/ - Trading with other players How to get it ? First, you need to visit this page : https://www.phantasystaronline.net/forum/index.php?/donate/make-donation/ When you've been through the procedure, you will then receive a automatic personal message (pm) from @Larva, with "New Donation" as the title. (Larva will most probably never read it, so don't lose your time trying to answer him ^^) Just to be sure, the message will be the following : What to do with it ? 1. To redeem for donation list item/service In that pm, you will see at the top something like (outside the Conversation box area) : Click on "add" and enter the name of one of the GM (@cyane and @Soly by example) Then, if you want to redeem for something in the donation list. Well, make a nice post in that pm asking for what you want. The GM will put the item on one of your character (first slot by default, but if you're online with your first character it will be on second slot, something like that). You can also ask a GM on the chat or in game. If they have enough time and you ask nicely enough =) they will ask you to "up the pm" which means you have to post in the pm where your DTs are so that they can see it. They can then join you in a room in game and redeem on the spot. 2. To trade with a player - Add the player to the pm (yes still the one with your DTS, that you get from that Larva) the same way you've added the GM before (even if you do not redeem, DO ADD A GM before adding someone else). That way, people knows that you have enough DTS to make the trade. - Post a message in this pm saying something like : "x DTS to thatguy" where 'x' is the number of DTS and 'thatguy' is the pseudo of the trader (the forum pseudo). You can also write a true sentence like "I give x DTS to thatguy for that item and also that" - The trader will give you what he/she promised you in exchange of the dts. It will happen in game, you need to make a party (with password or not, free to you) and the trader will join the room (if you told him the room's name and the password via pm before, of course) and give you what he/she owes you (according to the terms of your previous agreement). Simply put : Add the trader to the pm > post how much you give him > make a room and share the name/password with the trader > get your items A bit of informations about trading... People used to trade 15 DTS for 99 PDS, so like 1 DTS for 6.6 PDS That is not set in stone and will depend on the market/trader, obviously. Key points -DTS are stored as post on the forum in your PMs, therefore it's not an in game item. -You need to add people to the pm with your DTS in order to sell them. -You need to be added to the pm with other people's DTS in order to buy them. -If you have DTS in many different PMs, you need to ask a GM to move them all in one PM in order to be able to use them as a whole. (if you wanna buy something worth 10 DTS and you have 2 PMs with 5 DTS each, gather them first before the trade) -In order to move your DTS, the GM must first be added in both pm. -When you don't have any DTS left in a pm, you may leave this pm. Make really sure there is nothing left. -Obvious but : only GM can redeem things from the Donation List. You just don't need to meet them in game in order to get the items. Tips -Most of the time, it is CHEAPER to just get the item from the players than from the Donation List. So don't get in a hurry, take your time to ask people around. They will not eat you, eventually. -When 15 dts = 99 pds, it is cheaper to sphere your weapons with dts than with pds. 15 dts get you + 35 % where 99 pds get you + 30 % (don't even argue with yourself, YES, 5 % is a big difference ^^) -Do not trade all of your pds in dts. You need to keep some pds in your bank (like 50-99 would be a good thing ^^ optimally ofc) because some GM's event will ask you for pds every once in a while, and at that time the dts value is greatly decreased. -Considering the above point, try to think that way : only trade your pds for dts when you need it and no more than the amount you need. PDs will most likely always be a more reliable value than DTs. That's it for now. If I made some mistakes (I must have ! One cannot be just flawless...), please feel free to correct me and point out what's wrong. If it's incomplete, well post your two cents and I will add it (with credits !) to that post. If you have a question... do I need to hold your hand ?

Accepting dt/pd offer ONLY pm Updated with prices of most Hylian 38dts ( or 30dt+3seals) Psycho raven blank=reserved Type sh/shot hell 40 hit 35dts Girasole 20/5/5/0 20dts Srank Fupa Gun blank 30pds Bringers 50 hit=reserved Frozen shooter 35 hit 5pds Virus shield vol opt 10pds Gizonde Merge 15pds H/Technique?? Arrest raygun 50 hit 15pds Red ring min 10dts/60pds Sues coat Kroes sweater 15pds=reserved Charge vulcs 50/0/50/0/80 hit 23dts Arrest needle 0/0/0/40/45 hit 35dts=reserved Excal 35 machine 25pds Wizard resist 30pds Glide divine 15pds C/arms=reserved Iron faust 25/0/0/40 55pds Hell laser 50 hit 10pds Pwand 30pds Adept 25pds noob hp 25pds V502/v101 5pds each Opa opa 185 mind mag 20pds 10/150/40/0 pink sato 15pds 5/120/47/0 white sato 12pds Master sword=reserved till 5 may Double canon 0/0/25/0/35 hit 25pds 99x power mats 20pds 99x pds for 20dts

Yeah with a DF 100% mech you can kill them in a combo so before they can fire missiles. You don't even need to use special, HHH works too (with DF increased range) That is how I do.

The most obvious answer is tons of damage, things like DF Wave or Vjaya can wreck them quickly enough. Rainbow Baton has confuse special, so that can be helpful for places like that. There is a spot where you can stand and use razonde on them with hylian as well (though idk if huney's 20 tech will reach far enough, 30 will). Another trick is to use piping to town and back to reset the baranz, so can like run and kill the dubswitch then pipe, then run for door when you come back.

@under9000 Yes, there is at least two strategy 1) enter the room -> shoot (lindcray, last swan) -> back up (wait for the missiles to explode) -> repeat There will be one baranz left. Typically you will have a hard time striking this one because he is in the corner. So what I do is : enter the room -> rabarta until freeze (do not exceed two/three rabarta or you will get hit), if not frozen back up wait and repeat. Once you froze it, act quick, face the baranz and kill it. That's what I do when am alone. You could also use gizonde to kill them all at the same time, but I bet with a gizonde lv 20 and practically no force stuff, it will take a hell of a time. 2) If you're really confortable with weapon switching or have a lindcray (trimates necessary too) : Enter the room and run, do not mind the baranz, go straight to the middle of the room, kill the dubchick, run, turn on your left a few degree and shoot (lindray still) the unit that maintain in life the dubchick, then run straight to the boss (in the meanwhile, you will need at least two trimates, do not use resta or you're dead ^^ it takes too long). This strategy is better with two peoples, one going for the dubchick and the other one straight to the unit. It is the faster but the most dangerous if you're alone. Or yeah if you have a DF you can just use the DF special xD

I'm just one person but I want it so I can farm with strangers and not have to worry about racing to red boxes or "calling" drops beforehand and dealing with people stealing them. Right now I basically only solo, which is kinda bleh

I would have but I use it too much to sell right now D: heartbroken chras I miss you :"L

I certainly hope that people enjoy it. (That if I didn't left any bug on it that I didn't notice )

That seems to be the case. Here are some screen shots to show this. As you can see the FOnewm used 19 HP mats and still gains the same amount of HP as the FOmar who didn't use HP mats (600). It lowered the fonewms hp to the point before he used hp mats (from 1264 to 1226) then increased it by 600, the fomars hp stayed where it was then increased.

Yes velociti as much as it hurts me to say this but mr hucast is kind of right. I'll give you the names of people who are staying actively trading so you know which ones are up to the current ridiculous pricing of this shit trade section. Anddddd yeah as sad as it sounds that's it dude. No one else's is trading and if you're taking advice (no offense) from people that are not actively trading as pleasing and reasonable as their prices sound they are misleading you. I wouldn't lie to you im not gaining anything from it. Just trying to save you from this trollfest of a topic. Nothing wrong with trying there's always bound to be a good soul out there, but get ready to turn your patience button ON because you might be waiting a while. Don't stop hunting it during HH for the time being. Sorry you had to get mislead with a price like "30dts" I know it sounds great and all and it should be the price for it but it doesn't mean you'll ever get it for that when people are paying 60-90+ for it.

I bought a TJS awhile back, maybe 6 weeks ago, (had decent stats) for 30DTs from Denis Roman. The economy isn't "bad" it just isn't condusive to people that aren't as well off financially here. The problem with the economy here is the people with the money keep the economy of the game in the toilet by price gouging to the point of stalemating the economy that's why you hardly ever see any big trades anymore unless you offer them literally hundreds of dollars worth of DTs. There's no incentive to stop it either. Why would the owner stop it? He's directly profitting from the players greed as well as his own. Whether you like it or not, it won't change until people stop buying DTs. Having an outside of game currency that uses real money to aquire is a recipe for this type of shit to happen.

Gracias Biza c; Sent from my time machine using Tapatalk

Im watching it too. I like it so far.

Another shit lord at level Shithundred

I don't feel like reading the posts but event-only drops that are considered endgame are a terrible idea in general. People shouldn't have to wait or shell out 924580248509824 DTs to be able to get an item, they should be able to constantly work towards goals at their own pace. Make things take a while, don't make them easy but only during a certain timescale. It doesn't matter if the event drop is easy, I don't want to wait 10 months to be able to actually farm something worthwhile. This is a huge issue because a lot of the normal items are unwanted due to how overpowered the Ultima items are, making it hard to trade unless you directly buy DTs.

You do understand basic supply and demand right, well obviously you do. You do understand the gaping issues you've pointed out that currently exist right? I'm just confused... we let people multi-client which lets them farm tons of items, then you want them to artificially keep the price high because we aren't attracting enough new players? Why don't we solve both problems, attract more players by making the server more appealing... and fix the multi client issue (limit it so they cannot abuse it) which will stabilize the economy... correct me where I don't understand this...

The reason you see "less" people logging on is the lack of an event or minievent, and we only just got rare monsters back on. Really, the numbers on right now are actually what the average has been for a long time. After other server died we got an influx of players, but many are people that play for a month and quit. As for the drop system, trying to change it is not necessarily going to end up well. Drops per player is a good system when a game is designed for it in the first place, but forcing it into a game which did not already have it is extremely tricky to do without mucking it up badly, it's no simple task; if it's poorly done, it actually makes the chances you'll get an item much harder, alongside many other problems that will crop up (with the ephinea method for example, they greatly alter the amount of regular non-rare drops you find, as well as highly favoring multiclienting to get multiple chances at the a rare; their system favors 'solo'ing with multiple accounts over actual multi). Some of the major event drop rates (and how short easter event was this year), is more of an issue imo. Most of the major event rates are fine (valentines was very, very generous rates still), but some of them are absurdly high, some of the items are terrible(cough sword of ultima cough stealth sword cough), and some events get repetitive since they don't have many hunt runs or are divided up poorly. As for the game trying to favor multi or solo, ideally it shouldn't favor either, but literally everything in the game's design screams that it already favors multiplayer over solo. Every week there is another player asking for tips on how they can solo x thing or y thing because it's way too hard for them; soloing things is inherently very difficult and less rewarding (all of the best hunting quests are multi quests that are nearly impossible solo). There is almost nothing more that could have been done to make it favor multi over solo more than it already does. Many people simply aren't willing to put forth anywhere near the amount of effort to do some real hunting. Most people give up on items less than halfway through and like to complain from their armchairs about it, so a lot of times complaints have to be taken with a generous dose of salt. Disabling multi-clienting is out of the question; it's also not a new feature, it's something that has always been around. No one is forcing you to play solo. If you actually believe the game favors solo over multi despite everything in the game design contradicting it, nothing will make you play with others, not even a different drop system. You could go play on ephinea right now with 4 accounts (can even put them all on the same email) and run around with all 4 of them hunting, reaping the rewards of 4x more rare drops and 2x more normal drops than you would get playing with other people multi. It's a little more work to run all characters into the next room, but the extra rewards for it are more than worth the hassle of having to be near the drop, if that's really all you care about.

i think next pool is to designate a new owner of ultima lol now for real, i dont care about new drop table model, since this is psobb and not pso2, but if the improvements/copy the others servers models will keep ultima stable, im fine with it, i can hunt in any drop model, but i think that what makes ultima diferent from others is getting lost, besides, if all pso serves gets equal in all things, why have a few of them? no choise to play in othes forms. dont get rage, its just my opinion, and i will respect the way ultima will take, since i will not play in other server anyway

Chris is pretty active x.x

i vote for this c:

The Fallen

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