[The Halloween Of December :"L]

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[Official Max Stats Guide]

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[A prototype of PSO has been discovered!]

      

 

A prototype of PSO for Sega Dreamcast has been discovered, dated almost one month before the final release on Japan (November 21, 2000), and it seems to have a ton of differences compared to the final version. The date of the prototype is from November 1st. Might be worth checking out the wiki that has been just published!!

 

 

 

Personally I can't wait to watch the stream fully and document all of the differences before reading the wiki 🍿😁

 

Spoiler

At first glance, I saw differences in text localization, additional dialogues with Principal Tyrell, bosses are very different, mainly De Rol Le and Dark Falz from what I noticed (health points, different attack patterns and timing) and it seems like there were photon weapons with rainbow effects!

 

Source:
https://hiddenpalace.org/News/Phantasy_Star_Online_prototype

 

 

 

BTW the download of the image file is also available on the Wiki, if you want to try for yourself on an emulator or if you have a Dreamcast with GDEMU.

[(Sold - Closed)]

[Bye Pro people.]

29 minutes ago, Abercio checa said:

😅😅😅

 

Welcome back.

[Summer Event 2022]

On 6/26/2022 at 7:55 AM, R-78 said:

 

Serene Swan

 

 

Shoots 3x4 bullets per combo
Rifle range
Can be used by Hunters and Rangers

 

 

Kinda proud this still exists 😁 my last legacy.

[Cal's Clock Challenge (Results)]

It is indeed one of the best quests ever made for PSO (that and Realms of War, which I believe that served as an inspiration for Cal's Clock Challenge). I think it is a pity that ROW doesn't have a similar reward system implemented on it.

[13th Anniversary Ultima Event!]

On 11/24/2021 at 6:11 AM, Larva said:

Frozen Faust and Arrest Faust updates

 

Both weapons can now hit multiple targets (8 max) just like Iron Faust does.

In addition: the weapons are more effective at projectile impact point: they hit the main target twice,

which means more damage and more chances to Freeze or Paralyze your main target!

Finally!

 

 

[Closed shop]

[Is Ultima Perishing?]

I think boosted Experience, Rares, Happy Hours and the ability to exchange money for maxed gear made Ultima players too spoiled over years, including myself. That's why I don't play since a while, just visit forums to check what's going on.

Now there isn't much reason for veterans players to stick on after they made everything they wish in game. And reversing all of such boosts would make people complain even more, it is difficult to do anything at this point.

 

Countless suggestions from the playerbase, including me, has been already suggested to perhaps try to mitigate this issue. This thread has thousands of suggestions, good and bad ones, that are way too difficult to implement, or depends on major's staff decisions.

 

The truth is, you all just don't want to accept we already had enough of PSO:BB, even if it was another server, the core will be the same game. I don't think any other MMO has been supported by fans that many years. It is actually surprising people play Blue Burst in 2021, an update that is 17 years old from a game that is almost 21 years old. So idk, if any you are trying to find something brand-new, then in my opinion PSO:BB isn't for you. Play this game for nostalgia and accepting there won't be much else to do besides hunting the same items and gearing your character towards level 200.

 

18 hours ago, Lipelis said:

If only there were a Discord server... 

If only Lipelis was a GM, nothing of that would happen ... 

[Remove Saber+7 (Wilson)]

2 hours ago, Martikush said:

 

 

This is no true at all.

Ephinea is not vanilla at all, yes they dont have custom equips, but the server is heavily modifyed. It only have this "vanilla feel" but that's it.

 

Custom equips could be reworked a bit maybe, but that's not one of the main issue at all, look at Destiny, they have a lot of custom gear, some of them that I'd like to see here tbh, and day after day the server become more popular.

I'm talking only about the game and not about the dramas related to Destiny.

I know I know. But I took all of these quotes in a ironic way (please read the context), since I see a lot of people trying to justify the exodus from our playerbase with some of the reasons above. As you, I also don't believe only one person, a team or custom items would cause people leaving Ultima.

[Remove Saber+7 (Wilson)]

1 hour ago, Grantz said:

Quote? I said I - me - myself don’t TA. Not ultima. This is why quotes are good as then you can’t change peoples words.  I said this:

Either way, you have put a lot of time in to TA as much as I’m not interested in it

(...)

 

I’ve said what I think so if you are going to reference what I say, please quote and don’t change my words. Thanks 

 

 

Ok, you asked me to quote you so "I can't change peoples words", here it is:

[Remove Saber+7 (Wilson)]

1 hour ago, Harvest said:

Didn't realise it was against server rules to "offend a staff member". Maybe people in a position of responsibility need thicker skins?

It might not be against rules, but it is kind of common sense that one of the parts should at least try to be respectful. Otherwise this topic will become just another drama novel going to limbo just as many other countless topics.

 

1 hour ago, Harvest said:

a) he denied the Holocaust, which is at least enough to get you arrested in Germany. Additionally, the internet is not a safe space to spew racist and sexist bile, and websites reserve the right to ban you if they find what you're saying to be against their values.

 

Except that you know he have some clear mental issues, high level of autism and uses heavy drugs; remember him saying that multiple times. So I don't agree that the words from someone with autism, Alzheimer or some other kind of mental issues have the same weight as words from someone 100% sane. Telling someone in such conditions to go commit a suicide is totally unnaceptable in my opinion.

 

1 hour ago, Harvest said:

I would love some citation for this, because I just don't believe it. At all.

 

Here, most of these quests specified in this topic (if not all) have been brought up to Ultima thanks to lots of conversations/negotiations with other content creators:

Me, him and R-78 have been extensively at that time testing such quests and reporting bugs to Soly. Only after countless hours of testing they finally left the Test Server. Many other quests, that were otherwise only available in Japanese language, is now live on Ultima because he did know who to talk to in order to get them available here.

Ultima Discord, as I said previously, was heavily revamped like two years ago and we pretty much used most of his Discord layout/organization as a base.

So yeah, because most of his contribution to the server is on backend of things, doesn't mean he didn't do anything in all these years as a staff member. Since I was at the backstage for quite some time, I'm sure I know more than you about the good stuff he did.

 

1 hour ago, Harvest said:

We have generally less players, no new items that he's had a hand in designing... what does he do?

 

1 hour ago, Sir Rendlan said:

I firmly believe there is a large amount of people who dont play here because of him, and I believe there is an amount of people who think its ok to be an asshole because he is getting away with it.

And such things as:

- Ultima have less players because of the unbalanced custom items
- People is leaving the server because of Triforce
- Ephinea is more crowded because they embraced the vanilla aspect of the game and their staff is more democratic

All of that I quoted above and much more are just logical fallacies, which doesn't always correspond to the truth; there's not a single study proving people like vanilla better, how impactful to the community is the stuff being said on shoutbox, and vice-versa. If this is just what you believe, that he is "harmful" to the community, it's okay. He probably thinks the opposite of your team.

(BTW I must reiterate I don't have anything personal against anyone from Triforce and I know lots of kind people from there that I used to play with a lot in the past.)
 

1 hour ago, Harvest said:

There's like four different public servers going for this game. It's not like this is the last bastion of PSO standing against the darkness.

And there's nothing stop you and others from moving on and playing on a "more democratic" server, with more active staff members, balanced items, etc. But unfortunately we are stubborn and still choose to talk/play here. Even though there are technically "better" places to play PSO right now, I like the fact we still have Ultima. That's it.

 

1 hour ago, Harvest said:

"Let's not discuss or suggest changes to improve it, just like it or lump it." 

Well, you once suggested a really interesting stuff about lead admins right, so other GMS would have more power to give final decisions regarding the Ultima right?
Larva totally ignored you, if I remember correct.
And of course, who wouldn't get mad on this situation?
I don't even rememebr how many times I suggested stuff (even directly at staff's channel) that were of crowd's interest and never got the proper attention.

What I'm trying to say is that this is all pointless. is it ALWAYS the same problem, staff members have great ideas, which doesn't get the approval of Larva. What is the point of complaining about the same thing for years? Hence I say if you don't like Ultima how it currently is, I wouldn't put hopes in it changing. I already learned that.

[Remove Saber+7 (Wilson)]

I guess I'll be the one with an unpopular opinion but at this point in time, I don't really care, I don't really like what the Ultima environment has become in the last year or so, and that makes me glad I quit being an active player for good. I know I'll be bashed by my thoughts but the recent posts, dramas and shit that happened on shoutbox stinks like some childish drama, and most of you should be ashamed for wasting so much time offending a staff member in shoutbox (regardless if he was being a nice person or not). That's not how people request things to change for better, at least not in real life....

Now the very author of this topic

 

11:59 PM:
"Ok guys let's talk to Larva about a serious problem we have on this server, we don't agree with Wilson's attitude because of this reason, and this another reason and finally this last reason.. I think we should improve on that, and that either and finally this."
00:00 AM at the very same topic:
"Hurr durr whales, memes, Wilson is a dick, asshole, Larva read this plox I beg you"

How do you expect this kind of topic will go anywhere, if you can't be serious and say stuff without offending someone? People need to be cohesive when trying to express themselves. It would be just easier if you guys just ignored Wilson, didn't give him attention on serious matters, because in the very end, it is all up to Larva to decide things.

If we go back to Emewn, for example, the offenses against him were really uncalled for and aggressive. Like I already saw someone from a very known team here saying he should commit suicid for the good of the community. Like WTF dudes??

His opinions (Emewn) might not have been according to "human rights" but still he didn't commit any crime and as far as I know he does have the right to voice his shitty opinions, you like it or not. Now he is permabanned (congrats, you all did it, now the server is glorius again right?) but I'm sure some of you did or said even worse stuff IRL than what Wilson/Emewn would say in his entire life. Now some people are trying to make the same thing to Wilson they once did to Emewn. Sick... 😑

As much as I don't agree with Wilson's behaviour, I really disliked his decision on Time Attack Event to not reward people who worked hard towards making his event a little more relevant, I honestly think leaving him as a staff member is better than not having anyone. He doesn't owe us anything or is even get paid, so I'm glad for every staff member who still spends some of their precious time to please such little playerbase.

And I heavily dislike with the statement from Grantz that "people don't care for TA on Ultima". I might not live the TA world like Wilson does but once in a while that kind of competition is awesome, and I'm sure some people here like challenges. Sadly this community never embraced this aspect of PSO, which you like it or not, is one of the reasons PSO still lives in 2021.

There was once a time where I was really working towards becoming a staff member alongside Wilson. Not sure if anyone remembers how messy looking for specific server information and how unpleasing the Ultima Discord was a few years ago, but we as a staff really worked together towards making the official community more bearable. And most of the great ideas came from Wilson, as he had a really well organized Discord server, which served as a model for our own.

Most new quests, optimizations and a few other game improvements people unfortunately don't care about, came to Ultima all thanks to him. Liking him or not, it was thanks to him that Ultima moved a little forward in the right direction in the past years.  Currently it might not be a very successfull server? Perhaps... Ephinea still have a greater playerbase than us? Of course...

But I believe we should all be glad that someone still cares to run a server of a such old game, and we have serious staff members that sacrifice their time to deal with all the shitstorm that happens once in a while on Ultima.

We liking Larva's decisions or not, people are able to play freely here because he still cares somehow to keep the server running.

TL;DR, this topic is pointless. We should like Ultima for what it is; I personally had to be part of the staff channel, live the struggle the staff members have to live and even get banned by Larva itself to understand the dynamics of Ultima. You believing it or not, what the server is currently now is the best it could be, given the conditions.

[Valentine's Event 2021]

5 hours ago, Larva said:

 

 Valentine's Event 20XX is now Active! 

 

I suggest you to rename 20XX to 2021, that way people won't be confused and realize this topic belongs to the current year.

[Valentine's Event 2021]

That event took so long to start that I was almost thinking an Ultima's Brazilian Carnival Event 2021 would be happening instead

[When will the Valentine's day event start?]

4 hours ago, click2winipod said:

 a reminder about a brutal scene in Hereditary. Thank you.

 

Hey, that was just a picture of mine using a Flame Garment armor

[When will the Valentine's day event start?]

The event will start when GM @Lipelis tells Larva to fire it up

 

[Official Max Stats Guide]

On 2/12/2021 at 9:46 PM, jdhenry124 said:

#1. RAmar - change 2 cent/ability "max everything" plan to adept + cent ability plan 

 

Very interesting. Your ADEPT+Cent/Ability plan gives about the same DFP (you gotta see this @ink)(154 away from max) compared to 2xCent/Ability plan (which is 147 from max), with the advantages of better resistances+reduced TP consumption.

I will replace it sooner or later, as soons as I have "free time" =P

 

Cent/Ability+ADEPT

Pros

- Resistance/All +6

- Slight TP reduction

Cons

- MST won't be maxed if using Merges (negligible as you mentioned, because custom shields already covers most of the important Tech-boosts)

- Needs a custom made mag (which isn't that bad considering you can currently rellocate mag status points using New Year Cards)

 

 

On 2/12/2021 at 9:46 PM, jdhenry124 said:

#2. Racaseal adept+cent/ability plan

 

That plan is also really cool. I'll add it ASAP either..

 

On 2/12/2021 at 9:46 PM, jdhenry124 said:

#3. FOnewm adepts plan

 

Being honest, I never really liked Newman plans, it is so frustrating not being able to max all of the important stats together, without a lot of sacrifices (on this case, sacrifices are important units that matter a lot for decent gameplay). Not to say switching mags/units together is totally a not "noob-friendly" thing to do. But that scenario unfortunately won't change unless Ultima decides to give Newmans at least more 100 extra material usage =P

 

Even though your plan is an intesting approach, IMO it isn't really an improvement compared to the current Cent/Mind plan. The pros I see here are being able to use a non customized mag, having better overall resistances, reduced TP comsumption and always having max ATA, but having to use 2 Adepts for melee purposes is a huge drawback to gameplay, because you would:
- Cast considerably slower techniques while meleeing (because you can't equip V801 with C/Battle and Smartlink Together) -> that would be the least harmful scenario;

- Do really slow melee attacks -> If not using C/Battle, then why bother... would be better to use a more melee-friendly class;

- Miss a considerable ammount of melee attacks -> If not using Smartlink but using C/Battle+V801/V502. But Forces are fragile like dandelions so they have to use ranged attacks mostly.

 

Also IMO it is a waste to spend material/points maxing ATP (and even worse, LCK) on newman forces because they will never be able to compete with Hunters/Rangers dps. Demon special usage only really depends on ATA, and a little bit of ATP helps finishing off.
Even though Adept is overall a better unit on almost every situation, because it gives lots of points to every stats, Centurion/Mind gives the freedom to allocate points only to the stats that really matters, while Adept doesn't.

 

Anyways I'll consider your plan as an alternative, but IMO I suggest you reworking a little bit the ATP/LCK and reallocate such points to MST; after all that's why you use a Force mostly, for magics right? Melee is mostly a support thing 

 

On 2/12/2021 at 11:19 PM, jdhenry124 said:

Edit: would also like to include this bit of information: the RAmar no units plan allows for using an adept as well as a mag that maxes either mind or mst depending on how mats are allocated. In my opinion there is no reason to use the adept plan as your default because when you use the no units plan, you can also change to the adept plan by switching mags. You cannot do this if you base your character on the adept plan.

Interesting. I never thought about this, will see if I can add this little bit of information. Anyways, it is good to remind players they have the freedom to tweak the plans as they want.

 

On 2/12/2021 at 11:19 PM, jdhenry124 said:

#4. FOnewm no units plan 

Now this plan, I really liked it, even though I still think C/Mind is superior overall, this plan shows its purpose clearly. Melee uses specific melee gear only, nuke uses specific nuke gear only.

 

I should remember to rework a few of the plans that considers extra MST for Merges now that you reminded me they are outclassed lol

 

On 2/13/2021 at 7:02 AM, ink said:

Nuking . FOnewm  first off you wouldnt use red ring , as Luck has no bearing to, or influence on, damage dealt with techniques. You would instead use merges

You can consider Hylian Shield instead. He only used Red Ring as a placeholder for MST. Considering extra MST for Merges is only important if the playe is going to use a lot of Gifoie.

 

On 2/12/2021 at 11:02 PM, ink said:

Topic is maxed stats is it not?

 

Topic is maxed stats, but using standards (as seen on first page before the plans itself), not just a "throw 3xCent/Ability+V101 and u be good bro". All of the plans posted have a lot of reasoning behind them, they are suited for specific uses, and so on.

 

On 2/13/2021 at 10:56 AM, ink said:

Not at all personal choice , now if weapons where combo locked then yea i would go cent/battle the appeal of pushing attacks that couple secs faster would benefit a locked combo , but for me it all dies in 3-6 hits any way apart from end boss's , V101 is plenty in speed for myself to stun lock and added stats well win win in my eyes . 

 

 

Centurion/Battle is considerably faster than V101. 110% Battle speed vs 45%. It's not about attacking a couple miliseconds faster, it's about being able to stunlock more enemies and doing a greater DPS (damage per second). which matters a lot in TA (killing spawns a couple miliseconds faster makes you the winnner) or complex quests like Tower of Dreams, for example.

 

Also, @ink, V101 is not considered a endgame unit here so I don't add V101 oriented plans because increased battle speed is undeniably way better than a little bit of extra stats. Everyone that plays here, sooner or later is going to get a C/battle and keep it as their main battle unit.

 

Also ewwww, katanas are so terrible, they are only useful for skipping Seabed floors.... lol

 

BTW I don't have an ETA to add such plans because I don't play this game anymore so this is just extra work/math for me, BUT they will be added definitely.

[85 Hit and why?]

I myself am planning to upgrade a Lollipop, from 0 to 85% Hit, since I can duplicate enough of NYCs for that purpose. Why, you ask? Because it will taste and smell better to monsters when I slap it in their faces.

 

Seriously tho, although I don't really play the game anymore, I still visit forums and I'm really impressed to see that 85% Hit is the new normal of endgame for players x)

[New Year Cards 2021]

4 hours ago, R-78 said:

FROM 80 TO 85 HIT*

 

5 hit = 99 NYC

 

[S>PGF>OFFERS]

16 hours ago, jdhenry124 said:

Are you the auction police?

 

And for the auctioner, I offer a burrito, which is worth 600 DTs on my country.

 

Sorry but well, I don't think anyone else can outbid this offer. PM me for the trade.

 

23 minutes ago, Abercio checa said:

Pay for it 500DTS you rich.

 

 

[S>PGF>OFFERS]

5 hours ago, Abercio checa said:

PGF is like 200 DTS now 370 DTS is too much for that bro

 

can offer yas9000 80 hit demon, yas9000 75 charge and type shot 80 hit demon---

I see we have a price police here. Here's your medal:

[S>PGF>OFFERS]

So this is clearly an auction without deadline? x)

 

23 hours ago, francisco charles charles said:

S>PGF>OFFERS

and you don't have any wants list = "I'm selling a STA for the highest bid... cough cough... offer"

Interesting, didn't know that was allowed

[PC SMB3 style Mario Builders]

Super Mario Bros 3 was my childhood game, I still remember and miss playing it with my father. It is my favorite game of all time by far.

But when I discovered SNES emulators and played Super Mario World for the first time, I got really interested in making my own levels and started researching until I discovered Lunar Magic, a program made by FuSoYa that edits SMW roms. A few years have passed until discovering SMWCentral, which is a community dedicated to host romhacks, patches, custom musics and graphics and many tools that complements the stuff Lunar Magic can't do alone. I think I was like 11 or 12 years old at that time.

 

Although I don't really mess with this stuff nowadays (now I'm 25 years old), I still really like to see what's being done on the scene (and I still hope for some of the unreleased romhacks I really like to be finished one day). Unfortunately I never finished any project but I contributed a lot to the community with a few patches/graphic packs and so on.

BTW, one of my main goals with SMW was to completely recreate the SMB3 engine and mechanics into the SMW. That was because the tools available for SMB3 romhacking was very limited and difficult to work with. The hacking community put all their effort into coding stuff for SMW, so it was kinda easier to go that route to recreate the experience of my favorite childhood game.