Skill Online had online for 1 month and the result already out. The player and developer found the bug, mechanic in-game and others. I can said there too much shock especially for player. There emergency quest where we need to defend the city from getting destroyed. From that event there a few class, skill and race become a useless and called as “trash”. Why? The reason is the building destroyed will be unavailable so player so desperate even they got death penalty.
One of the trash class is archer or we can called as ranger, most of them have a problem not enough arrow. In other words there not enough event they bought from the shop. There al penalty for weapon too. For archer because there not enough dexterity to wear the bow. It end up they got damage for each shot and not have enough range to the target. There only few archer and crafter that really give contribution on emergency quest. They got recognize as top crafter and the archer player got nickname as Sniper Queen. Well,she is a female player and her range is quite long enough. It’s range about 50m she can shot to the target plus all of it critical or one shot hit.
Our team party also got a nickname too because of the most player contribution in the emergency quest. Mine got as Death Princess….well thanks to my “mistake” during character creation. Anyway, the name is because of my class and the weapon I use. Along the way most of the monster got beheaded by me. A lot of player saw my fighting between monster and their body have not head on it when they come to helped.Some of monster can make player vomited thanks to my gruesome killing the monster. Ruli got Sword Maiden, she got armor like sword maiden during our farming and her sword style like a dancing which captive player heart. From there she got a nickname as Sword Maiden. My cousin, in-game name is Yae Sakura. She use a lot of type of magic such as Fire, water, wind, earth, light and dark. Only few type of magic she cannot learn because of it’s too many so she just choose 4 element type magic , light and dark magic. With that she got as Magic Queen. Her look and fire the spell from far away too awesome for player. Her robe is like a queen who lead the army so many magician follow her lead during the emergency quest. The next day we knew our party called the The Knight. You can said me and Ruli as a guard for the Magic Queen. That party nickname unofficial called by most beta player at that time. Urgh, I hate when some player call me as “Meiz-chan, you so cute!”. You know when the man said you cute…totally make shiver to my spine.
Enough about that, the next is most player doesn’t know how the game mechanic work. I will tell the basic in RPG. Each mob or we can called it monster in Skill Online world had HP. This still apply on this world however there a different on it. Usually an old RPG had critical strike which give a lot of damage towards monster if we hit at the vital point of it. The VRMMORPG on other hand is you hit the vital point of monster, they dead despite they have a lot HP. You can see it’s already different on it. Also, player mind-set still not changed which they think this as a game. Well, they no problem because this is a game but we need to make it as real life. This will effect on our decision, play style and others when play this game. If player keep thinking and still in the way “this is just a game”, soon they will be hit at the wall.
Each of it apply like in real such as when we sleepy, then go to sleep. When we hungry then find a food to eat it. Body so smelly we need take a bath. Got slash or injure there a blood on it. Most of it so realistic that hard to avoid it all. There some group of player complaint about this luckily a player give some advice to it and make a class which teach how this game mechanic worked. Next is each monster has a weakness. Such as element weakness, undead weak on light element. Water > Fire > Wind > Earth > Water this is arrangements for each element weakness. While light and dark can counter each other. This concept still implemented in this game however if the player magic is strong than the opponent. The element weakness will not be counted. It’s seem confuse little bit here, I will give example, if player use water shield and their opponent using fireball to attack. We can see water shield will success defend the attack. So, if one of them magic skill is stronger the outcome will be different. The water shield will be break and hit the player. In this case also happen if the player is stronger than it’s opponent. What I mean there penanlty is each element that successfully break the law get reduce some of their damage. The question is what happen if the skill is way too strong? The penalty still in effect but it hard to see damage had reduce or not. Weird and crazy for me but it’s too useful for player to focus on the magic element they likes.
Next is….let’s see what we found during beta….hmmmmm..ah! Crafting skill! Yes, that’s one most popular topic among beta player. The crafting skill depend on crafter that’s what one of the crafter I chat. The item quality is depend on how ratio, ingredients, and skill to make it. We also found a basic heal potion that give high amount of health to the player than basic heal potion we but in the shop. It’s also apply to other potion for the mana and hp. On the other hand, for weapon is most surprise the player. The smithing skill player can create custom weapon where we can see it’s different design from other weapon we had. It’s quality is more good and had a high damage to the mob. They also can apply custom color to the weapon so player can choose their favourite color. Awesome, right? This also apply to other crafting type. The possibility to craft had been expanded since the top crafter found the way to craft. A lot beta player join in.
This is important thing we had found including other player. The developer implement some ruins in beta server. This give some “clue” and show there is more ruin on the Arufair world. Anyway what do you mean for “clue” that is what you want to ask me right? I will talk about it after I explain what is ruins for. The ruins are the remains of a building that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay. This ruins actually from the ancient empire that had been destroyed a long time ago. I don’t know how long it’s been. But there will history on it. The ruins player found for now is artifact weapon, magic item and some antic item also treasure for the player. Okay, the “clue” we found actually too much for us when we found it. We got the information about how the ancient empire destroyed. First, the name of ancient empire is Vupan Empire.
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The most biggest empire in the world on that time. There a map showing around 2/3 land they own in this Arufair world. Their technologies are more advance from this era. There a lot of different such as in magic, building, weapon and others. However, because of sudden invasion from unknown species as Throne the empire had a hard time to counter it back. Most of the people already called themselves as scientist where the popular among Vupan Empire is Professor Lina Babylon. Looks like the developer take some myth from our world. Anyway, this professor successfully build a weapon to fight against this Throne unfortunately they disappear all of sudden which end up the project had been abandon.
Ruli satisfied found this information and tell us “Hey, this is so awesome, we must share to everyone to search this relic!” I just replied “Don’t be idiot to share it to everyone.” She want to open her mouth but I cut her off “You think this will be benefit? Not all beta player will be like you. This thing let’s just keep secret of this thing. I had a big planned which that suitable for it.” Ruli just reluctuantly accept it. Luckily, Yae give some information to her why I do this. That’s what we found especially with professor name I can guess there will be floating island that had store any artifact and especially the weapon to fight against Throne.
That’s for the Ruin we found. The next day we heard a group of player go to Ruins where we go unfortunately they found nothing. Anyway,now we talking about the player. Why, player? Well, this just side topic however it’s important for us. We as player can do the adult thing. In other words “sex. There no need to explain about it. There a player we make research on that part and found a few main point about it. Even I already know this game need to make it like real. This thing is too surprise for me, player can get pregnant. Looks like the pregnancy system also got implement in this game. I meet this player and exchange some information with him. There a set of percentage for each player we can successfully pregnant the female player or npc.
Once it’s happen, the duration for pregnancy is 9 month same like for real. How they know? It’s seem the female player will get a new window showing status their pregnancy. The most unexpected for me is there a skill for sex activities. What the hell this developer game thinking!? *sigh* Looks like both of us smiled wryly for those who did and hear about this. There also a report some beta player rape the player. Some of them enjoy and not with the rape thing. So, the DREAM Team took an action call the player who related to this incident and got send to the doctor who specialize in mentality health. They also give a strict warning to the offenders. I just thinking there too much loop in this part. We can do anything so this thing will be happening.
The player just not thinking so much about this, so the developer decide to lock this system for a while in until official launch. They also abort the pregnancy on female player who had it. It’s seem the news in Skill Online website tell to all player either beta or new player that will play had been given a strict warning that anything will be happening in the game such as rape,killing and others for adult which for who is weak on it feel free to fall back. That’s what I got from Rose too. During our conversation she had many reaction on her face which make Ayase tease her. Oh yeah, she already knew I’m Guardian because her habit not knock the door before enter which get a hit on her head from me. Rose just accept it and make sure she promise to keep it as a secret. In the end Ayase become my assistant for guardian job which easily accepted by them.
Okay, this will be the last.The change in the Skill Online for the official launch. The developer decide to put a strict warning before player enter the character creation. It’s a same warning in the Skill Online website. Just for when the developer doesn’t want the same case happened that’s it all. It’s quite hectic until the case had been in television news. Some class need to unlock by do something that meet their need to make it. For beta player we got choose various choice for race but it’s seem the developer had cut some unpopular race. It will be available when the requirement had been fulfill. We also get more point than new player depend how much we farming our skill. The money we farm also remain in our inventory. Only the rare item such as weapon,armor and others will available other will be reset by developer. The new player still get some free point and money but we can said us as beta player is more special than them. This is most interesting for me. The player will start at small city depend on what race we choose except for beta player we can choose any small city we want.
We also got announcement from DREAMS Team that the game master will available in the game to oversee it. They also tell to all player there will be 7 Guardian as the pillar protect the world from broken. True, we can do anything in this world however they don’t like it if the game broke and will have a hard time to fix it. Even there will be a player mad on certain action that can destroy the world. Urgh, luckily they not told the identity of guardian. Anyway game master and guardian will be act if there anything can destroy the game. Tomorrow will be the day for my new experience!