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get rid of the dts system and roll back the monster evp buffs. move event drops to regular table , start removing some junk items in turn. why the fuck is pgf a once a year drop? Im trying to think of another game that pulls some shit like this but Im pulling blanks. time gated hunts are cancerous and only encourages players to play on a cycle. add a item that functions as dts currently do. im sure the only thing people do with dts is add% so that should not be too hard to facilitate. sure this might be a old game but that is no excuse to let it run so poorly. psobb servers are flavors. ephinea's vanilla might be the purest and best tasting but I can't help but want chocolate sometimes why is real life money the premier currency in a game as old as this one? shit EA could brand this server and I wouldnt know the difference. shit aint hard ya'll just dancing around the most obvious flaws. as always though with these "addressing the state of the game" posts , these always get buried and forgotten about.

From a balance standpoint, it doesn't make sense. We have difficult rates on a few good items, absurd rates on novelties, and amazing items practically locked behind near impossible rates that happen to be softcore buffed when they're included in popular event hunts. We deal with having them, and they become a "Happy Hour is up, let's go for it!" target in between events, with very rarely successful results but never so rare to deter efforts. We're talking about a drop that would come from a boss; the trickle into the economy would be very slow. From a business standpoint, it doesn't make sense. More PGF means more Dark Weapons, means more incentive for people to purchase DTs for the hallowed +hit. I can see no alternative on the list of purchasable items that compares to a DW. More event drops to max out (even if only one or two a month) still means more money flow. Not even just for PGF and Dark Weapons, either. Dozens of 'em get maxed out and could apply to this logic. It's not like the whole server would stop hunting and quit just from getting their first of a weapon.

Hi Everyone; I saw that there was a Fan Art Thread, so -- you know, when in Rome... I scribbled my robot ranger girl below. I'm sorry ahead of time.

This post may be seen as an attempt for drama, but I honestly need to get my thoughts out in the open. I have Ultima's best intentions in mind and honestly it's heartbreaking to see Ultima in the state that it is. I enjoy most of the people here and have fun playing here. This isn't to stir up drama, I only just hope this serves as a wake up call to Larva. Ultima's lead admin, Larva, is effectively killing his own server. Countless suggestions have been ignored/shot down even though 90% of the server base has backed them. I realize it's his server and he can do whatever he want, but whatever he's doing now is obvious not working. Ultima barely peaks over 50-60 during the week, and that's even with Happy Hour. I've seen others servers, as of lately, peak at almost 150 people, probably more. Things I see that contribute to its decline: Lead admin is hardly around, except during events. Events are often started late/ended late because of this. EVP buff is a blatant cash-grab for donations looking into from the outside. It may have no been the intentions of the server, but it drives away people from playing because it just looks like you almost have to donate just to hit anything when starting out. Repeat abusers of the forums go unpunished/unbanned. There are users with several warnings who go unbanned or unpunished, therefore leaving them to continue trolling. Perhaps a 3-strike rules within a certain time-frame could be something that could be implemented in the future to prevent frequent abusers. End-game gear is event only. PGF is only available during Christmas, a time where many people are busy visiting family over the holidays. Even if you have more time, the rate is usually obscene to where you're lucky if you get one. If you don't have time or aren't lucky enough, you're either forced to trade for one, or just try again next year. It has been suggested countless times to add this to the drop-tables year round, even at a difficult rate, but it's been ignored countless times. This is especially inexcusable when Olga Flow drops nothing 3/4 of the year except when they add event drops to his drop table. Lead admin is very impatient. Lately, valid criticisms have been seen as $/%tposting or attempts to cause drama in his eyes. Honest criticism and suggestions have been responded with malice and labeled as $/%tposting even though the original poster had no intentions as such. In conclusion. It's been exhausting as well as almost heart-breaking to see Ultima's status as of the last few months. There has been an increased amount of drama(that I realize I'm guilty of contributing to it), events have been starting/ending late. 5x exp has lasted months at a time. It's all just declining. When I started back in 2015, we had active GMs(Soly, Cyane, and kind of Kajex and Mio), events started on time. Drama was a bit more rare, although it still was pretty prevalent. But now we only really have Mio and R-78(I appreciate them both for putting in the hard work that they do), and drama is almost every other day. I would LOVE to see this server be the best that it could be, but honestly I'm not sure if it'll even get there at this rate. I reiterate that this isn't a drama post or an attempt to stir up something, it's an honestly post listing grave concerns of a server I've come to know and care about over the almost 4 years I've been here. I don't doubt this'll be deleted/locked soon after posting, but I please encourage Larva to read this with an open heart.

New items

good luck, I am currently unsealing an SJS right now. mine is at 6k kills

Not sure if anyone has brought this idea up before. It'd be cool to give out prizes/rewards at the end of each event to show extra appreciation for those who participated (would also get more people to participate since they know they wouldn't leave the event empty handed). It would be kinda how SEGA did and still does events in PSO games. If you can track kills on certain mobs that drop the high rarity event items or track the total amount of high rarity event item drops themselves (banners), those could be used to gauge what prize milestones were reached for the end of the event to see how many rewards we get (everyone gets all of the rewards from the achieved milestones). This is just an example: first milestone is 3 photon spheres, 2nd is 2 weeks of 5x exp after event ends, 3rd is 2 weeks of green names after event ends, 4th one is choice of an event item of a certain tier, 5th one choice of a higher rarity event item (if it is a weapon it would have 50% in 2 stats of your choosing each), the last one is free 80 hit and special (if applicable) added to any weapon you have. Just an idea spice things up

My mind is blown

New drawing! Actually I've been drawing quite a lot but forgot to say stuff here- Hope you all like it! PSO fanart once I finish with all the request I have to do- https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2612928778727856&id=2578396952181039 (Facebook is not displaying but it's the same pleaselikeit)

...Did everyone forget about Baoh? 🤔🤔

@R-78Its not just the nerf that I quit over. I have played psobb on and off since 2005/6. Both me and Shoutgu were going to quit playing this game after going through and perfecting the ultima time attack records. However with quest developers changing the version of the quests after a it gets beaten too easily in their opinion by 1% of the player base (because not everyone is steamrolling these quests and you forget that), and adjusting stats for weapons its pointless in trying to time attack because you cannot have a consistent record due to there not being a level playing field or consistent environment. Therefore in order to level things out, our records get reset every time a weapon that was used during the record run gets nerfed or a quest gets adjusted. It just isn't practical and I am bored of playing the game in the casual way. Plus like I stated before the server admins rash decisions, going back on their word, lateness (which I can deal with but gets mentioned none the less) followed by lack of communication, do not sit well with me having played on Schtserv Prior to this, and seeing that decline due to similar issues. Larva in one topic said the weapon would be left alone. Immediately after that I traded my pgf away to @C01D1 for some items and dts, in order to to do two things: 1) Help them out after suffering for years of failed pgf hunts, (which me, starlord and wilson discussed possibly donating a pgf to said individual if this trend continued) again due to a cash grab situation which fair enough... you have a family to feed and everyone likes a little side hustle. 2) I then sold some of the said items that I didn't need for dts and upgraded my hard earned SS to 0/0/100/100/80. All of this was done on the basis that @Larva the server admin gave his word that he was not going to change the weapon. With this news we formed our TA team again and started beating records again only to have another topic created by @Lipelis, which started off all the bitching again and led to the Nerf. Now like I stated before, this is not something that is going to be reimbursed by you guys which I accept. I don't agree with the the way the situation was handled just like similar situations before but this time will be the last time for me. People who play this game outside of time attack reasons aren't really affected in the same way by these changes so I don't expect most people to see or agree with my methods of thinking. Now that you have been addressed @R-78 who really I expected better from, I will now move on to address some points. Most of the people here have become toxic. There is not 1 day that goes by where you don't see Emewn vs Triforce, Starlord vs Triforce etc etc and @mudkipzjm the team whore (because he is in every team) at the centre of it all but trying to play innocent. @Emewn I am not having a go at you so don't take this in the wrong way I am just pointing out what I see. Not all of the time are you in the wrong or deserve as much hate as you receive. (watch how many dislikes my post will get from Triforce because of this 1 comment just to prove my point ) but sometimes you make a very valid point but then somewhere in your post you say something really annoying. you may or may not know that you are doing this but I think this is what some people may dislike you for. That is how you are supposed to constructively criticise by the way folks. I'm no angel myself, but at least my BS rarely pops up. Maybe once every few months I have an outburst because I have a strong opinion about something legitimately and not trying to grief for shits and giggles. I get censored for saying stuff that in todays day and age is not considered politically correct (but in mine and many other mainstream beliefs it is correct but we must take the back seat), but like someone else had pointed out before, you have people talking about nasty shit like dads raping and molesting and all sorts of perverse shit that goes unpunished. Its backwards if you ask me. I previously played on Schtserv under a different name TMhav0k and was part of a very toxic environment there. I was invited here and used a different nickname and a different approach. This place is headed in the same direction as the place I left so... more reason to hang up this old cloak. I mean evidence of this is people arguing in my goodbye topic and not even saying bye and getting it locked before I got home from work and could reply to anyone who was there for legitimate reasons but whatever... what is done is done. I said my goodbyes to anyone I missed out on discord. @Triforce members, this is in no way a running you completely down post either, as I enjoyed my time fully that I spent with you. Especially all the technical discussions we had. Maybe my mentality is different as growing up in the hood, as men even when you argue or fight you supposed to shake hands at the end of the day and keep it moving rather than bitching daily. Yea I know you cant physically fight someone online and have one person lose and get their humbling but still. I can only use the examples I have been in and live by. @Soly Thanks for your work and effort and staying neutral during my time here. There is only 1 constructive thing I can say to you tbh. Don't hide behind the excuse of it cant be done if it can be done. You should actually tell people what the difficult obstacle is so that they can have their input and perhaps help you overcome the issue at hand. You would be surprised at how many geniuses there are lurking on these forums, that don't say much due to the drama.

I think for a GM to work or any type of admin would need to be someone neutral to the community. As you guys can tell soly is very neutral. He’s not buddy buddy with people. Which is a quality any GM or admin should have. Just my hunble LGBTQAP opinion.

Soly and all other staff, i know you dont get payd for what you all are doing, like most of all, keep server Alive, i say and repeat that all the work are priceless because of that, all i keept saying is that you need to cover yourselfs or dont expose to This kind of dramas since all work is nonpay, if somehow i think you all get payd from larva, well, all replys here can be deserved lol

I'll upload these as I finish them, I s'pose. :-) This isn't the commissioned version, just a personal one that I drew up to get a feel for how this character looks. These new pens are weird and bleed a lot-- so I'll keep searching until I find a reliable brand. Anyway, this character is named "Terror", and has a very cute design. -Pthalo

Hi Everybody! The telecom guys were fiddling with the tower outside all day, so I had to wait to post. Claire, as usual, is my first victim. The lines aren't crooked on the border, my hand was shaky during the photo. I inked this with some weird aquapens that bled through ALOT-- so this was a fun and exciting adventure. As far as progress-- maybe not 100% yet, but I feel like I'm getting there. ----- @McLaughlin86 Thank You! I really appreciate that; Hopefully I can get back in gear after all this time :). @R-78 Thanks! I'm glad to be back :-). @duja1001 Hi Duja! I guess I should add some Triforce stuff to the mix, too. I'll see what I can come up with! @Trigunman Thank You, Trigunman! That's something that I need to take to heart. Oh! And don't worry about the box-- I should have updated you-- I found an almost exact look-a-like at the electrical store while I was getting wire! But..now I have another question-- do you know of something that can cleanly cut a square in plastic?

Hey everybody! Hope all is well-- Today's update features the character 'Dawn', who belongs to Chris in game. I don't know what account they have on the forums, but maybe they'll find this anyway? Either way, I took a small liberty with Dawn's look; I don't enjoy conflict of any kind, but I do like Militaria in a stylistic sense. My favorite ensemble is olive drab fatigues with a colorful beret. I kind of envisioned Dawn this way, even though the game adds a futuristic twist to the usual design. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it! I had lots of fun drawing this one; I used my standard comic style this time.

Sorry for the brief absence, everybody! If I've approached you for a drawing in-game, I am indeed working on it! In a slightly off-topic note, I've found a job! Consequently, my art will take longer to finish, so I beg your patience with me! For today's update, I've inked McLaughlin86's ( I'm 79.4% sure this is their account ) character, whose name translates to "Goddess". I hope I did okay-- either way, I had fun!

'Nother update. This time it's of cloor's very red character 'Claire', whom I frequently run into when I'm being a pest to the Ship 1 Block 1 Ultima Lobbygoers. This was fun! Who will be my next victim?!

Update Time... This one's actually been entered in a thing. It's a portrait of Rally Vincent from the series Gunsmith Cats. I don't know what will become of it, but I liked drawing this at the end of the day. Did I mention that my drawings are fairly minimalist?

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