Before the round started, I lowered the self training powerlevel gains to be half of their original numbers. I wanted to slow down powerlevel gain a bit and see how things progressed and balanced out.

Well, I made a mistake doing that, and didn’t realize it until today when I was talking to one of the players. By nerfing the self training number, but leaving namekian’s meditate alone, I effectively gave namekians a huge early game buff.

There isn’t anything I can do to [fairly] balance it back out, so all I’m going to do is revert the self training gains to what they were originally – that is double what they have been so far this round.

Here are the new/original numbers:

• 0-1,999 powerlevel = 20 powerlevel gain to base, loss to current
• 2,000-3,999 powerlevel = 30 powerlevel gain to base, loss to current
• 4,000-7,999 powerlevel = 40 powerlevel gain to base, loss to current
• 8,000-15,999 powerlevel = 80 powerlevel gain to base, loss to current
• 16,000-31,999 powerlevel = 120 powerlevel gain to base, loss to current
• 32,000-63,999 powerlevel = 200 powerlevel gain to base, loss to current
• 64,000-127,999 powerlevel = 450 powerlevel gain to base, loss to current
• 128,000-255,999 powerlevel = 750 powerlevel gain to base, loss to current
• 256,000-511,999 powerlevel = 1,200 powerlevel gain to base, loss to current
• 512,000-1,023,999 powerlevel = 2,000 powerlevel gain to base, loss to current
• 1,024,000-2,047,999 powerlevel = 3,500 powerlevel gain to base, loss to current
• 2,048,000-4,095,999 powerlevel = 6,000 powerlevel gain to base, loss to current
• 4,096,000-8,191,999 powerlevel = 8,000 powerlevel gain to base, loss to current
• 8,192,000+ powerlevel = 10,000 powerlevel gain to base, loss to current

I’m slowly rolling out the new map and chat feature. I’m talking with Dalun to start getting you all placed in the correct spots. Unless Dalun has added the other player to your ‘People You’ve Been To’ list, their name won’t be displayed, it will just say the race that they look like. Keep in mind that androids appear human.

In the screen shot, the outer tiles are ocean and an island. The inner tiles are other players that are at the same location.

Something else I’m going to work on soon is letting you all ‘inspect’ each other if you’re at the same place on the map. I at least want you to be able to read the descriptions you made for your characters, and I’m also thinking it would show the items you have equipped. Any thoughts/feedback on this stuff, fire away in Discord or the forum.

I’m finished with adding the auto-updating system back in. There may be bugs, so please let me know in Discord or the forum if you encounter any.

The login system for your characters has changed too. Instead of visiting the Members page, you now click on the “Login” link at the top of the site above the navigation menu (bottom of the website on mobile):

Enter your character’s name and the password you chose when joining to access your character’s stat page. You’ll now be able to self train (for all races except Absorb Androids) and meditate (for Namekians) by clicking the buttons on your stat page:

The timing is done a bit differently than in the past. Instead of having a six hour countdown timer from when you click Self Train, you can train once during four six hour windows throughout the day.

It’s based on server time, not your own local time, but the different time blocks are:
12:00am – 5:59am
6:00am – 11:59am
12:00pm – 5:59pm
6:00pm – 11:59pm

It works similarly for meditate, except its three eight hour windows:
12:00am – 7:59am
8:00am – 3:59pm
4:00pm – 11:59pm

Dalun will be sending out your starter emails tomorrow (January 5th 2025). If you need any adjustments to your character (switch race, description, name, etc.) let me know before then.

Good luck to all of the players and have fun!

It’s happening! Dalun wants to ref a round, so if you’re interested in playing please go to the Join the RPG page and send in a join form!

I finally got around to hooking up an old portable hard drive in hopes of finding code I wrote almost 7 years ago.

And guess what? It was there! I found all of the code I wrote to make Planet Mado a legitimate browser game. It wasn’t any thing fancy, and it only updated on browser page changes/refreshes, but it worked 🙂

Working on the website, trying to make it look and function better.

I’m pretty happy with how it looks and functions overall. I think most of what’s left is making sure all of the content formatting looks good.

Some images/graphics from the old Planet Mado sites. They were mostly used for affiliate links.

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