Hyattr's a race full of quirks, but at points they don't connect to each other well. There's a lot of 'old-stuff-that-is-overlayed-by-new-stuff' to the point the numbers and scalings are everywhere on the board. It's not very intuitive, and I feel like it could be made simpler, similar to Salamandra. Cutting off the whole 'Character LV' stuff is a good first step.

Besides. This skill has an -insane- FP cost for no reason. And the wind-up often takes a whole round by inhaling both Dragon Energy types. So...  9M total to fully use a Fire Breath. I'd rather the base skill be able to be used by itself without needing to wind it up.

Therefore, we'll go from:

Quote:Fire Breath
50 FP / 3M
Area: Line (5)

By utilizing massive amounts of focus, the Hyattr race is capable of launching a line of fire as if they were exhaling. Deals Fire magic damage to all enemies in a line equal to half your Character Level + Scaled SAN.

Its effects can change if you have Magic Energy or Destruction Energy stored. If you have Airborne status, you will also move the length of the line, but this requires the last square in the line to be unoccupied.

Quote:Fire Breath (Adjusted)
50 FP / 3M
Area: Line (5)

By utilizing massive amounts of focus, the Hyattr race is capable of launching a line of fire as if they were exhaling. Deals Fire magic damage to all enemies in a line equal to 100% SWA + 100(+1 per 2 Scaled SAN)% Fire ATK

Its effects can change if you have Magic Energy or Destruction Energy stored. If you have Airborne status, you will also move the length of the line, but this requires the last square in the line to be unoccupied.

Grinding for 10 stars in any dungeon that's lower than 60-80 is not a great experience.

There's only one type of monster that can drop their signature ten star.

On top of that you have to hope that the three or four LVL60 packs that spawn have that type of monster. (Or get lucky enough to have one spawn as a mini boss)

On top of that you have to contest the area with other players, and I've seen people begrudge other players who spend a long amount of time grinding for these items, because they will easily wipe the few mob packs that can drop it, and then spawn camp the areas where they spawn, an action that is absolutely reasonable due to the limitations of the drops. (I think this creates a particularly bad scenario however, due to having the ability to build bad blood in the community for something relatively innocuous)

On top of that, now if you're wanting to still grind these, you have to wait for server tics to respawn them.

I do not know what would be the best solution for this, but I think lowering the level needed for mobs to be able to drop their 10 stars would at least be a fix the community would appreciate.

Currently background images aren't loading when placed onto signs (that had worked prior).

Is this intentional?


UPDATE:

This isn't a bug on SL2's end so I'll just leave this as a PSA. Discord and Imgur don't seem to play nicely with image hosting for signs anymore, imgbox is what I've been recommended and currently use, so if you have any signs that you've used either site for and now have broken backgrounds, swap them over to https://imgbox.com/ or whatever other site works for you.

Currently, Macabre Culture is. Well.

Garbage.

It gives +Ele Attack if you wear gear made out of Remains material. Unfortunately. Gear that isn't your weapons or armor are usually given Resistance to a specific material of 5% per.

+Ele Attack is basically never worth it in comparison to covering up a weakness.

My suggestion here is to just simply buff the Remains Materials as a whole, giving them +Ele Resistance of 5% to the Macabre bonus it gives. Allowing Apertaurus and Reapers to get a very small buff, and also stop having gear that drops a useless material type for everyone else.

If you use a fruit of forgetfulness while you still have your spell thief cards equipped, it deletes the cards instead of unequipping them.

A simple suggestion as mentioned in the title that has spiraled as I've given way too much thought into it...
It might at least be a neat read for whoever cares enough so here it is!

The main idea is a subrace for Lupines that mirrors that of the Felidae in their own neat way!

The word "Lupine" having its roots in Latin, referring to wolves, so maybe this subrace could be called "Canis" or something similar, referring to dogs instead.

It would keeps roots to the Lupine's bias of having very high physical prowess but focus on the complete other side of physicality being SKI and CEL rather than STR and DEF.
Sacrificing their usual power and sturdiness for agility and accuracy, yet still keeping to the physical powerhouse motif.

They'd have a trait similar to Grimalkins called "Canis Instinct" which changes their instincts from the usual to something else.

Felidae vs. Grimalkin (for reference):

• Felidae Instincts - The Felidae are fast and when they feel like they're in danger, they get faster.
  In battle, while at 50% HP or less, they gain a bonus to SKI, CEL, LUC, and GUI equal to 1 + 10% of your Scaled SAN.
  At 25% HP or less, the bonus is doubled.
  
  
• Felidae - ...they gain a bonus to SKI, CEL, LUC, and GUI equal to 1 + 10% of your Scaled SAN.
  
  
• Grimalkin - ...they gain a bonus to SKI, CEL, WIL, and RES equal to 1 + 10% of your Scaled SAN.
  

•  Lupine Instincts - Lupines do not go down without a fight.
  In battle, while at 50% HP or less, they gain a bonus to STR, WIL, DEF, and RES equal to 1 + 10% of your Scaled SAN.
  At 25% HP or less, the bonus is doubled.
  
  
• Lupine - ...they gain a bonus to STR, WIL, DEF, and RES equal to 1 + 10% of your Scaled SAN.
  
  
• Canis - ...they gain a bonus to STR, WIL, SKI, and CEL equal to 1 + 10% of your Scaled SAN.
  

Applicable BYOND Key: Sp0909

Character Name: Lithos

Request Type: Height Request

Request Details:  I wish to make a character who is around 8'5"

Reason why you are making this request (if applicable): The Apertaurus I have created is intended to be a very large and bulky individual.

Roleplay & Lore supporting your request: Apertaurus may be considered to resemble their Minotaur brethren in size quite a bit, who also appear to be very large, I also just want to play a very large character for once. Lithos specifically is an Apertaurus aged around one hundred or so years old and was born big bodied to begin with, I want to represent the earth shattering power of his kicks through a very large body size.

Coming from an idea tossed around in Trexmaster's thread, I want to suggest a system to do trading.

How to be a merchant
Each major city and minor settlement (vale and fairview) now has a trading post. This is an NPC or interactable object. From here, you must form a caravan and get trade goods, before going to sell it elsewhere.
Form caravan - 25 murai
When selected, your character is now on a horse and pulling a carriage. Could be different tiers of caravans down the line.

You are limited to roads and certain passage areas when in caravan mode, for instance you can't enter buildings, dungeons, etc. We can use the byond area thing and just add the trade route area to the map.

Instead of a caravan which would be perhaps a technical challenge, I propose an alternative where you get a big backpack. You lose it if you enter a fight, and it slows you down a little, but you can go anywhere with it.

Probably more realistic to implement, especially for the first release.

Purchase Goods
You open up a menu similar to a shop and buy stuff. 

You can only have up to 5 trade goods in your caravan. These are like items, but you can only carry them in a caravan. You're basically buying crates of things to sell elsewhere.

Time to travel
When you have goods, you want to travel elsewhere to sell them. Each nation will buy stuff at different prices. Just interact with the trading post over there.

Once you sell the goods, you're gonna get money and xp. The experience is based on how much xp you would get from defeating mobs of your level, and multiplied by the trade price bonus.

Loot
When you sell at a profit, there's a chance to get a box of goods based on the total bonus value. You can open it and it'll give you items kind of like a dungeon chest. This is to make up for the fact traders wouldn't get any gear or items otherwise. No point in hitting level 60 with a whip

Price Bonus
So how do you get good prices? There's 3 factors:
1: Distance
Going from meiaquar to geladyne gives +100%, similar with all the other adjacent cities. Going to the city opposite to the current one, like Geladyne-Telegrad, gives you +200%. Fairview-Meiaquar would probably be something like +25%.
2: Demand
Each city has certain demand for different goods. This value is randomized every in-game day. It can be anywhere between -100% and 100%. Yes, sometimes you will not get much from selling something even if you go far away.
Demand isn't entirely random however. For each good in each town, there is a certain range. For instance, Geladyne will always pay a good price for vegetables, but will pay almost nothing for metal imports. Telegrad won't pay much for potatoes, but they have a high price for metal tools. Duyuei will buy fabrics and salt at a good price. Meiaquar will buy exotic goods and spices. Just as an example, you could say that the bonus for selling spices in Meiaquar can be anywhere between 50% and 80% depending on the day. Selling metal in geladyne is going to be between -20% and -40%.
3: Imports (market saturation)
Whenever you sell stuff to a trading post, the demand for that item decreases by 3% or something like that. Every hour, bonus reduction from imports is restored by 5%. Meaning if you keep doing the exact same route, it'll become less profitable. This is also true if multiple people do the same route. In the end, doing a route that is less popular is often a good idea. But you can return to your favourite route later. And of course, selling something really far away is always gonna be at least decently profitable if you're willing to make the trek. But shorter routes with high demand items can mean quick profits.

Recap (TL;DR)
Buy good in trading post, go far away and sell it to a place that desires that item. Get xp and gold. You need to be in caravan mode to do that. You can get out of caravan mode at any time (but that drops any trade goods). Switch up your routes to keep the prices fresh. Take advantage of high prices.

Oh yeah and you can trade those trade goods with players as long as they have space in their caravan.

I was considering showing a spicy excel sheet with math to make like a realistic economy but I figured keeping it really simple and static is best. This should be possible to do using mostly mechanics that are already in the game, and the math is simple, yet also dynamic enough to stay interesting as long as it's well balanced.

Pros:
- Players can now gain xp and murai from a non-combat activity. Meaning not everyone in this world is obligated to be a monster hunter.
- People spend time in the world going in places with people instead of being secluded in dungeons.
- This type of activity is absolutely going to generate a ton of roleplay and new character concepts.
- Huge potential for future updates, interacting with new mechanics, adding new things like special trade goods, etc.
- Bring players all over the world, make travelling feel good.
- Trading events???
- Highway robbery is now cool. Just bring your empty backpack on the road and plunder people's caravans (with consent)
- Less people taking the mob spawns in dungeons
- Makes the world feel more real, makes the nations feel like they have a bit more identity. Improves immersion.

Boots of Initiative give Initiative Level 6, rather than Initiative level 3 (which is what the item states).

Byond Key: Zerili
Character Name: Wryny
Request Type: Character Ability

Request Details: I wish to expand upon my characters Hemomancy in a unique and interesting way, and I want it to be through an ancient book of wacky rituals for her to find!

The rituals in question would be very utility/ flavor focused, and something my character would learn over the span of what could be OOC months, the idea would be that the Tome is quite powerful, and attempting to read and learn from it is a difficult process, and one that if attempted to be rushed, would have consequences. My ideas for rituals so far are:


- Lineage - Discern the blood relatives of a person through the use of their blood. ( Requires a vial of one's blood) 
Full Ability: Only Discerns the Name and a vague idea of the appearance.

- Eyes of Violence - Sense if blood was recently spilled in an area, along with it's location. (No Component, though takes a minute or few to activate)
Disclaimer: (Area would be around 30ft)

- Snake Blood -  Turn one individual cold blooded for until the next dawn (mostly for uses of resisting heat) ( Requires a vial of blood from a cold blooded species)
Mostly Useful for traversing warm weather and would make one more resistant to flames (not enough to actually give a huge advantage) also makes one more vulnerable to the cold.

- Blood Encryption - Write an encrypted message upon parchment, only those who's blood spills upon the parchment during the ritual are able to see the message ( Components self explanatory)

- Blood Cleanse - A simple ten minute ritual that cleanses the blood of any poisons or venoms within. (Requires a vial of venom, mixed with the patients blood)
(The poison must be carefully created from snake venom for a weaker version of the ritual, or the poison/venom that is afflicting the patient for a more potent cleanse.)

- Blood Hunt - A ritual that gives the user the ability to track the person who's blood is used in the component of the ritual for four hours, sensing the trail through smell. (Requires a tiny tuft of fur from a wolf along with the blood of the person being tracked), tracking ends at the location of which the wound is magically mended (including potions), does not work underwater, generally anything that might impede one's sense of smell would impede it and stop the tracks in place.

All the rituals generally require a couple of minutes to perform, and cannot simply be done on the fly, with a snap of one's fingers.

I would want the Tome to contain more, but that would likely be an application way later down the line.