Staff Question Thread.

I’m so blind to not notice this thread earlier, lol.

Regarding alternate accounts, if I’ve already achieved the required ranks in the past, am I allowed to make characters on them whenever, or does my hiatus from the site require me to meet those reqs once again? I did achieve the ranks to have my first two alts well over a year ago now, but have since reset to just one character. Now, my one isn’t B rank, so would I still be able to have alternate characters?

Jay Silentmark wrote:I’m so blind to not notice this thread earlier, lol.

Regarding alternate accounts, if I’ve already achieved the required ranks in the past, am I allowed to make characters on them whenever, or does my hiatus from the site require me to meet those reqs once again? I did achieve the ranks to have my first two alts well over a year ago now, but have since reset to just one character. Now, my one isn’t B rank, so would I still be able to have alternate characters?

After discussing this, we've agreed that, upon reset to 0 EXP, you cannot continue using alternate accounts you are not qualified to use. In order to use any alternate accounts you've created, you would have to reach the required qualifications, i.e. the ranks in question that unlock alt accounts for you. I hope that answers your question~

I have a couple of questions regarding magic training threads. Are they strictly solo only or do they work in the same way as exams where other members can join but their WC doesn't count towards it? If the answer is the latter then can accompanying members use their WC's for freeforms as they can with exam threads?

Medeia wrote:I have a couple of questions regarding magic training threads. Are they strictly solo only or do they work in the same way as exams where other members can join but their WC doesn't count towards it? If the answer is the latter then can accompanying members use their WC's for freeforms as they can with exam threads?

It's the latter. Other players can join one's own training thread, though only your own word count will contribute to the 2,000-word goal. Further, other players can indeed use their own word count for their own purposes, i.e. handing it in as a free form, using it for their own magic training, and so on and so forth. Hope that clarifies it a bit.

It certainly does. Thanks Joh. :)

I'm planning on returning from my hiatus, (yay)

How do I go about having my character and my magic moved out of the archives?

Char

Magic

Now I have no desire to change my magic really and the only thing that needs to be changed on Sybil's profile/character sheet is that the guild she belonged to has disbanded. I don't need them re-approved do I?

Sybil wrote:I'm planning on returning from my hiatus, (yay)

How do I go about having my character and my magic moved out of the archives?

Char

Magic

Now I have no desire to change my magic really and the only thing that needs to be changed on Sybil's profile/character sheet is that the guild she belonged to has disbanded. I don't need them re-approved do I?

You would need to put your character app and magic app in the Thread Moving thread to request them put in WIP. To be able to at least RP with your character, you'll need your character reapproved though ^^ Magic isn't required to do jobs other than for PvP (excluding plot pvp).

Err, I feel like a dunce for having to ask this question but after updating my magic with the added spells my lineage gave me, it's too long to fit on one page. It's already been reviewed in the past, so I can't just move on to a second page. What should I do? XD

Jaesa Fenrir wrote:Err, I feel like a dunce for having to ask this question but after updating my magic with the added spells my lineage gave me, it's too long to fit on one page. It's already been reviewed in the past, so I can't just move on to a second page. What should I do? XD

@Jaesa Fenrir the best thing to do in this case is request to have the previous one archived and copy and paste the magic into a new thread that can be split across two posts. As long as it is the same theme and style of magic as the archived one this will not require a magic change.

I'll do just that then. Thanks Nessa. :)

Me again with another question. XD

So I've been planning for yet another character to write for when I unlock my next slot and the FC that I would like to use is currently taken. When I went to send a PM to the account holder in order to ask if I could share it, I noticed that not only have they not logged in since May but their character was archived due to inactivity at the end of June. Does that mean that the FC is now open again?

Medeia wrote:Me again with another question. XD

So I've been planning for yet another character to write for when I unlock my next slot and the FC that I would like to use is currently taken. When I went to send a PM to the account holder in order to ask if I could share it, I noticed that not only have they not logged in since May but their character was archived due to inactivity at the end of June. Does that mean that the FC is now open again?

If the character in question is archived, then the FC in question is automatically open. In this case, you are free to take it

Ah, fantastic. Thanks for clearing things up, Joh. :)

All right, I'm here to dust off this thread with a question that came to me while looking over the Fusion stuff to apply to my own magics.

So while looking at the Magic Rules for Fusion Spells there really isn't anything saying that two H+ spells cannot be combined to make a H++ spell. However, when looking at the rules for H++ spells it states that these spells can only be for Guild Spells or Z+ rank mages while also stating that a character can only ever have one H++ spell. Naturally, being able to fuse two H+ spells to make a H++ spell makes those statements not true and a bit unclear in how this actually works with those ranks. Unless I completely missed it I am not seeing anything that goes into this.

So is fusing two H+ spells to make a H++ spell a thing that's allowed, meaning that fusion rules pretty much overwrite what is said in the Guild Spell/H++ section? Or does this just stay as a normal H+ spell regardless of fusion spells being categorized as a rank above their creation spells?

Samira Nassar wrote:All right, I'm here to dust off this thread with a question that came to me while looking over the Fusion stuff to apply to my own magics.

So while looking at the Magic Rules for Fusion Spells there really isn't anything saying that two H+ spells cannot be combined to make a H++ spell. However, when looking at the rules for H++ spells it states that these spells can only be for Guild Spells or Z+ rank mages while also stating that a character can only ever have one H++ spell. Naturally, being able to fuse two H+ spells to make a H++ spell makes those statements not true and a bit unclear in how this actually works with those ranks. Unless I completely missed it I am not seeing anything that goes into this.

So is fusing two H+ spells to make a H++ spell a thing that's allowed, meaning that fusion rules pretty much overwrite what is said in the Guild Spell/H++ section? Or does this just stay as a normal H+ spell regardless of fusion spells being categorized as a rank above their creation spells?

Hiya Samira,
You are absolutely correct in your assumption that, theoretically, two H+ spells may be used in combination in Fusion Spells. The way I viewed this is that H++ spells are a special rank of spell outside of official classifications, while H+ rank spells are classed as X rank spells in terms of rank classification (as advanced spells are counted as a spell 1 rank above their own for others reading this). While no X rank spells officially exist, this would in theory make the Fusion Spell resulting from the combination of two H+ rank (X rank) spells 1 rank higher than X rank, which means the resulting Fusion Spell would be a Y rank spell. I understand your confusion around this topic since, as you have correctly stated, the rules did not cover this fact at all, which is a failing on my part. I will add a section in the Magic Rules regarding the use of H+ spells in Fusion Spells to the associated section shortly, along with a few other changes I have been compiling.

Other than that, I hope this clarifies matters a little bit~

- Joh

Yep, that clarifies that for me. Thank you very much for answering and explaining. ^^

I'm new to the site as of today but the more I look into the various rules and forums, the more I tend to notice that everything magic or skillwise seems to be based around the fact that it could possibly be used in a PVP situation. I'm going to go ahead and assume the vast majority of posts are in no way related to PVP or the like but it kinda seems a bit off kilter that everyone is being held to a standard that really only seems to apply to a few. Is there no way that magic templates and such could be set up to accommodate both separately? Perhaps an added section in spells or magic that tell a PVP only effect? Not trying to criticize or anything but that is my perspective.

Paused wrote:I'm new to the site as of today but the more I look into the various rules and forums, the more I tend to notice that everything magic or skillwise seems to be based around the fact that it could possibly be used in a PVP situation. I'm going to go ahead and assume the vast majority of posts are in no way related to PVP or the like but it kinda seems a bit off kilter that everyone is being held to a standard that really only seems to apply to a few. Is there no way that magic templates and such could be set up to accommodate both separately? Perhaps an added section in spells or magic that tell a PVP only effect? Not trying to criticize or anything but that is my perspective.

Since you're new to this forum, let's start with warm welcome to you. Hope you enjoy your time on FTRP!

To answer your question: All magic is generally adapted to the stat system only in cases where the user expects to or explicitly wishes to engage in PvP scenarios. For people who do not wish to engage in PvP, the site and its rules offer a much simplified version referred to as statless magic. Statless magic can generally not be used in PvP scenarios without mutual consent from all participating players and does not include mechanics necessary for PvP scenarios (such as damage numbers, buff values, etc.) but offers full freedom for plot-based abilities and magic, which is where the distinction between PvP and Non-PvP systems lies.

As for your attached suggestion, the option of creating statless magic luckily already presents the opportunity to simply ignore the mahority of conventional magic guidelines and rules in favor of a strictly plot-based approach, which of course also means that people who simply wish to engage in plot only are not held to the same standard as people who wish to prepare themselves for possible PvP scenarios.

If you wish to know more about statless magic and how it works, just look at the section in the magic rules titled "Statless Magic". If you need more information please also feel free to ask in this thread or make a suggestion in our Suggestions subforum. Hope that clears things up~

So what do I have to do in order to create my first character and join a guild

Tobi_Uzi wrote:So what do I have to do in order to create my first character and join a guild

Wecome to the site Tobi!

As per the New Users Guide all you need to do is go to WIP Characters, grab the template for a character sheet, and fill it out before you submit it to the Character Approval thread! ^^

Regarding the new patch making the rp portion of exams optional: will that apply to in-progress exams? Or only those that were posted after the patch?

Caelestis Icarus Zephyr wrote:Regarding the new patch making the rp portion of exams optional: will that apply to in-progress exams? Or only those that were posted after the patch?

Applies to all exams

So my character has quite a few buffs to spell damage between his magic and lineage. How exactly would they be calculated in battle? I know the 50% base from lineage comes first, and then the 50% passive slayer buff is applied to the buffed base damage, but would the user ranked passive from my UA (60%) be applied after the slayer buff is calculated or before? The numbers change quite significantly depending on the answer, though either way it’ll still be quite the buff. If the slayer buff and the Ua buff are calculated at the same time, it would just be a 110% increase to the buffed base damage. However, if one is calculated, applied, and then the next one is calculated and applied after that, the damage is wildly different. So which one would it be?

If the two passive buffs are applied together the damage total of a B+ rank spell would come to 378. If applied separately (slayer buff first) the damage is 432.

It would be 110% of the base buffed damage.