Frantic Fauna

figured it out ives!!! muhahahahhahaha! me and rolf and his bro just got it. ( i take credit for figuring it out) thx for the hintz

Congratulations!
> Nytesong

Was it worth it?

Aww... Easter's gonna run out of gas before I get a chance to try for this.. Gwarhhhhh.....

sure it was worth it dont wanna say too much and spoil it for everyone tho.

Went on a hunch and found out the secret playing solo...lets just say using a force with no srank weapons is a terrible, terrible idea to do when you find the secret.

I'm pretty sure I used rafoie more times in that one circumstance than I did in the entirety of my time of me playing my force on PSO...

I have to admit though, it was pretty hilarious, was like "nah there is no way" then "....oh fuck" xD

MuCast wrote:I have to admit though, it was pretty hilarious, was like "nah there is no way" then "....oh fuck" xD

Yes, you never thought it would happen. Wasn't that an awesome secret? Clearly it was worth all the trouble to find it.

lol colin wasnt it fun tho? i never coulda done it solo!!! only lvl 115...

I compare the experience to the first time I played PH on Steroid mode, really, really fun, but also incredibly scary xD

Can you help me, then? No way a 105 RAmar can do it...

Rolf took pity on Moop and showed him what to do. Has Usagi found the badge yet?

i would show usagi, but im trying to raise a mag on bb, and i don't know why i am because i'm pretty sure it's gonna turn into kabanda again like it did before when i logged of then back on.. heh so annoying...

Aleron Ives wrote:Rolf took pity on Moop and showed him what to do.

Yeah, I almost ended up making the quest an hour longer than it would have been.
Funny thing is, I'm pretty sure I tried the "secret" before, but I must've missed it by a fraction of an inch or something...

The result was insidious nonetheless.

lol moop, you know.. i think i did too.. so wierd.

Usagiiiii has found the badge. Found with Serena. Thanks, Ives for a brilliant quest. When is the next one? We anxiously await!

Thanks to everyone for making a successful event for our first Easter on Sylverant. Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end. Easter is now over.

Aleron Ives wrote:Thanks to everyone for making a successful event for our first Easter on Sylverant. Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end. Easter is now over.

So that means that i cant find the "badge" now?(However i have to make it)

My wife plays on Dreamcast. When she plays this quest solo, hidelts also appear in addition to hildetorrs. Whenever we play together, only hildetorrs appear. Are hildeblues supposed to appear too? Perhaps crossplatforming dc and pc causes the bug.

Next time Ives. I remember now. It has been too long.

mahkbooks wrote:My wife plays on Dreamcast. When she plays this quest solo, hidelts also appear in addition to hildetorrs. Whenever we play together, only hildetorrs appear. Are hildeblues supposed to appear too? Perhaps crossplatforming dc and pc causes the bug.

The bug could be blamed on a number of things, including cross-platform play, lag, or the server itself.

One problem is that PSO PC has no load screens, so when you start a quest, you instantly load into it. DC, on the other hand, has to endure 10 seconds of loading first. If PC still had load screens, the bug would not happen.

Another problem is that DC players tend to be laggier than PC players, so while a PC player may receive and initialize the quest instantly, a DC player may need a few more seconds to receive all the quest data and initialize the quest. The reverse could even be true if a PC player was using dial up, while a DC player was using broadband. If the laggy player wasn't so laggy, the bug would not happen.

Finally, the server doesn't do anything to address these discrepancies. Sega's Dreamcast server helped to ensure that everyone loaded quests simultaneously by throttling the sending of quests. Even if you used a BBA, quests were sent much slower than even dial-up speed -- about 1 KiB/sec. By forcing all quests to download very slowly, Sega ensured that even people with the worst of connections would not fall behind those with fast ones. SCHTServ doesn't send quests that slowly, but instead it has a quest delay that prevents the quest download from completing until all players are at the end of the download, so everyone finishes at the same time. If Sylverant mimicked one of these behaviours, the bug would not happen. (I've asked BlueCrab about it, but unfortunately the way the server is coded right now would make doing this very difficult. It would probably be easier to do on GC, because I believe Sega added a special function to GC for this very purpose. Since Ver.2 doesn't have that function, it requires more effort to get the same effect.)

In the end, I gave up trying to do quick work-arounds and made a more substantial change to the quest that should prevent the problem from happening again. If it anyone still sees it, I will not only be baffled, but I'll be rather upset, too.

mahbooks wrote:Next time Ives. I remember now. It has been too long.

Since I wrote the quest and know how everything works, I felt it would have been a little unfair if I had used that knowledge to remind you. Perhaps we can take another stab at it on Wednesday.

How about in an hour or so?

got disconnected by another prog. (using windowed mode on windows 7) No photon pts for me Thanks for everthing. Looks like the bugs are fixed on ff. Congrats

hey yall, hope yall get FF beat. i thought he was going to take the quest down.

I did, but it came back for the summer event. There's a little less than two weeks left...

Wecome back Nytesong. Where have you been?