Hi all, I’ve got a couple of pretty big changes/additions to PM: Crafting and a new movement energy system.

Crafting

For now there are just a hand full of more basic recipes, but I plan to add to it over time. To access your crafting menu, click on your character’s avatar and look for the “Craft” button in the Actions section:

Clicking on the Craft button will open up the crafting modal with a list of recipes you’re able to craft. If you hover over or click the “i” icons it will give you info on the recipe:

To gather materials for crafting, on some map locations you’ll see an icon to the left of your character’s avatar. To harvest the item just click the icon. Resources are limited and re-spawn over time.

Movement Energy System

The system has changed quite a bit – now you get +2 movement energy per hour, with a cap of 16 energy. Those numbers will probably get adjusted over time as I watch how you all progress with that much more movement.

As usual please give me any feedback on these changes in discord and/or the forum.

A new area has been added to East City – the Arena! Anyone can fight in the arena and not worry about dying. Once the fight is over, fighters’ current powerlevel is reset back to what it was before the fight started. And similar to sparring, each participant gains 1% of their base powerlevel after the fight. Absorb androids don’t gain any powerlevel from fighting in the arena, but it’s still a good way to test your combat skills.

The arena is located at East City on the starting continent. To find East City, take the north road out of South City, then follow the road to the east.

Hey all, after getting some feedback I’m lowering the move learning lockout from 18 hours to 12 hours.

I’m also thinking of lowering the rest heal time. I got to thinking about how I’m porting the email version of the game to a browser version. With the six hour time blocks resetting movement, I felt like it made sense to lower the times for other things to match the movement reset better. What would you all think of lowering the rest heal to:

• Base (all races other than Saiyans, half Saiyans, and absorb androids): 24 hours
• Saiyans: 6 hours
• Half Saiyans: 12 hours

Progression for most races is a bit slower than I’d like, and again going back to the change for Oozaru, I feel like the time outs for everything needs to be shorter so you all feel more engaged with the game.

Let me know your thoughts 🙂

I’ve been keeping an eye on player to NPC conversation logs, and there seems to be a bit of confusion on how to get an NPC to offer quests and to turn in quests to NPCs. If you’re having issues with quests from NPCs, try a basic statement like:

• “Do you have any quests?”
• “Yes I’ll accept that quest.”

To turn in quests, try basic statements like:

• “I’m ready to turn in the quest.”
• “I have the items and I’m ready to turn in the quest.”

If you have any issues getting quests to work with NPCs, just hop in discord and ask for some help, or you can make a post on the forum.

Everyone’s characters have been created, and you should be able to log in using your character name and the password you filled in on your join form.

There will be bugs! This is the first round we’ve ever done that’s fully automated. If you encounter any bugs or unusual behavior, please post them in the Problems and Ideas channel on Discord or the Forum.

Quest markers: keep an eye out for NPC avatars with a green or yellow exclamation point icon:

Green means there is a quest available, yellow means a quest is ready to be turned in.

If you have any questions on how something works, feel free to ask in Discord or the Forum.

Good luck everyone, and I hope you have fun!

I just wanted to give an update to everyone waiting for the new round to start. I’m working on building out the quests, story lines, and NPC dialogue. It’s a lot of work getting it all set up (a lot of NPCs need to be added and filled out), I don’t have a good estimate on how long it will take me but it will be at least another week.

Goten had some issues come up and is no longer going to be able to ref next round – thanks for volunteering Goten! Hopefully he’ll be able to ref at some point in the future.

But for now, is anyone else interested in reffing a round? If you are, message me on discord and we can discuss details.

If I don’t get any volunteers in the next week or so, my plan will be to set up an automated round with no ref, it will be purely played through the browser. All of the systems are coded and in place, but it will still take me a bit to create the maps, NPCs, and quests needed before the round is able to begin.

The join page has been reopened in preparation for the next round! We don’t have a concrete date yet for when the new round will start, but we’re aiming for the end of May.

The round is officially ending! Thanks everyone for playing, and a huge thanks to Dalun and Kuba for reffing this round 🙂

Apologies for the sputtering out at the end, but Kuba and I have been getting progressively more busy with work and real life and just haven’t had the time for regular updates. And I was taking way too long to get fights finished.

I hope everyone had fun, I’m pretty sure this was the longest round ever for PM. I had a lot of fun reffing and coding the new browser game features.

I’m hoping to start another round in two or three months, so if you’re interested in reffing next round, let me know. We’ll need at least one person to be the main ref – reffing the starting planet and fights. But I’ll still be available to ref the Next Dimension and fights as well.

I wish I had the time to do some big end of round event like a tournament or something. If you all have any ideas I’m all ears. I’m not going to delete characters or anything until the next round, so feel free to keep playing around if you’d like. And if you want your character moved to Earth, the Moon, or Vegeta, let me know.

Thanks again everyone for participating, I had a blast!

Everyone please give a warm welcome to our newest ref…. Kuba!

Kuba is going to be reffing planet Vegeta this round. I’m excited to see what he has in store for you all and I’m extremely grateful to him for volunteering 🙂

Thanks Kuba, and good luck!