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Define nPC, do you mean not controlled by the standard faction team players? Yes then.

All monsters from the first game, and, as I reverse extrapolate the data, monsters from other games as well will all appear in this game.

Now honestly, you don't think I would use my own title deliberately like that? Of course I'll be in the game. I won't be taking an aggressive stance however, I don't want to kill everyone.

Yes, quite frequently as you move away from the capitols in fact.

No, none of the standard cast, I'm trying to avoid using Canon characters, and am planning on giving warnings to anyone EXPLICITLY playing as Laharl, Etna, or any other such Canon character. Using a modified personality and background is fine, but if it's blatantly obvious, I'm not going to enjoy it.


LOC will make a showing, Item World is still being set up, I'm not going to release it at the start due to FAR too many variations being needed. I might just make a random index of 20 or so maps, and combine it with a random index of monsters and geo effects.

This is an odd one, I don't want to use Canon characters, but Pleinair is an odd case. I might end up using her, but I probably won't.


I've already gotten ready on getting a variety of unique weapons ready, you've likely noticed the ridiculously overpriced, and underpowered weapons available in stores for the obsessive, as a quick note, nothing in this game is completely worthless, just be aware that some of them have... odd ways of coming in handy. That said, things like the Nemesis and Yoshi will be making their appearances, but be aware that although I'm willing to give out uniques, they won't be guaranteed to be yours forever.


Dark world will make a very BIG showing, read further down for a little sneak peek.


The Dark court... will make an appearance, felonies will not show up. The dark court's purpose will be to allow checks and balances to the standard players. For instance, if wanted, a player can spend a little mana to indict another player of that faction. All players of the faction will then proceed to cast votes regarding whether the player is guilty, to be punished, and what the punishment is.

Yes, there will be both cross-over alt maps with related dark assembly proposals, and various other little treats.

Players will be able to transmigrate for skills, Overlords are only allowed to transmigrate into their own class, but receive a couple unique benefits. Later I will announce a system of Pupils for players who want to get Extra Gain, but be aware that said system will cost money, among other things, and will be hard to work out in game. Until I have free time to work out the kinks that are present due to forum modification, please wait.




The ranks within any faction are decided by the Overlord, this means that you can call anyone in your faction whatever you want, be it Demon Lord, Vassal, or Freak, the title given doesn't mean they have a different stat growth chart, but it can be used to denote chain of command.





Each faction is able to build up their weapon rank on three weapons at a time, it's possible to switch weapon choices at any time, and that's simple enough early on if you want to simply get a broad base of low level weapons, but as you get to high rank weapons, the Mana cost, and the time cost will become prohibitive to build up more than the three chosen weapons. All subjects are allowed to buy any of the rank 0 weapons, but beyond that it's required for the Overlord to spend mana to pass proposals to the Dark Congress to raise the faction's rank in weapons. Until the first rank bill is passed, they technically don't have any chosen weapons.

Let's say that the main Overlord uses Swords, it's likely he'll be passing the "Stronger Swords" Proposal for himself, and so his faction will have swords as one of their three weapons.

Next, Player B uses Staves, and needs to start using stronger Staves, so the Overlord passes the "Stronger Staves" Proposal, and Player B buys his desired Stave.

Now Player C is a Monster, and needs Monster weapons, so the Overlord passes the "Stronger Monster Weapons" Proposal, and player C gets his equipment.

Now Player D comes along, and uses Swords, and decides to buy the upgraded sword available (The "Stronger Swords" proposal is still in effect as they haven't reached more than three weapons yet)

Finally Player E comes along, and he wants a spear, now the Overlord has a choice:

He can ignore Player E, and this is entirely understandable if he's spent ALOT of mana on improving all three weapon growths.

Alternatively he could choose to reduce his Stave Rank to 0, and pass the "Stronger Spears" proposal, this would mean that Player B wouldn't be able to buy improved Staves anymore, but Player E would be able to buy improved spears now.

The same applies to each of the weapons, although there's logic to not dropping the sword rank at the moment: There's already two different players using swords, and only one on Staves or Monster Weapons.




The overlord receives four unique skills, one at level 5, one at level 20, one at level 50, and one at level 100. These skills will vary from Overlord to Overlord, however there are limits to what their effects are.


Yes.


Why yes! Here's an interesting one...

Bill- Dark Conversion
Mana Cost: 120*Hex distance from Capitol+500
Passing Difficulty: MAX
Effect: In a radius of 3 hexes, all hexes surrounding the targeted hex owned by this faction are converted to dark world hexes, these hexes use a new unique map made specifically for them until an faction succeeds in recapturing them, at which point they revert to the standard map.

There will be a variety of so to speak groups within the assembly, however, be aware that quite a few things would change to adapt it to forum use.

See the above answer, this one has a similiar answer. Things will be adapted, so keep that in mind.

You may invite as many people as you want to join your faction. Please remember to tell those who aren't yet in the guild itself to send a join request. I will make a warning however: I have no intention to allow one team to get excessive numbers compared to any other, and as such, will be moving players from one team to another when it seems absolutely needed to maintain balance.

Alright, quoting for ease of my mind.



The ranks within any faction are decided by the Overlord, this means that you can call anyone in your faction whatever you want, be it Demon Lord, Vassal, or Freak, the title given doesn't mean they have a different stat growth chart, but it can be used to denote chain of command.



Each faction is able to build up their weapon rank on three weapons at a time, it's possible to switch weapon choices at any time, and that's simple enough early on if you want to simply get a broad base of low level weapons, but as you get to high rank weapons, the Mana cost, and the time cost will become prohibitive to build up more than the three chosen weapons. All subjects are allowed to buy any of the rank 0 weapons, but beyond that it's required for the Overlord to spend mana to pass proposals to the Dark Congress to raise the faction's rank in weapons. Until the first rank bill is passed, they technically don't have any chosen weapons.

Let's say that the main Overlord uses Swords, it's likely he'll be passing the "Stronger Swords" Proposal for himself, and so his faction will have swords as one of their three weapons.

Next, Player B uses Staves, and needs to start using stronger Staves, so the Overlord passes the "Stronger Staves" Proposal, and Player B buys his desired Stave.

Now Player C is a Monster, and needs Monster weapons, so the Overlord passes the "Stronger Monster Weapons" Proposal, and player C gets his equipment.

Now Player D comes along, and uses Swords, and decides to buy the upgraded sword available (The "Stronger Swords" proposal is still in effect as they haven't reached more than three weapons yet)

Finally Player E comes along, and he wants a spear, now the Overlord has a choice:

He can ignore Player E, and this is entirely understandable if he's spent ALOT of mana on improving all three weapon growths.

Alternatively he could choose to reduce his Stave Rank to 0, and pass the "Stronger Spears" proposal, this would mean that Player B wouldn't be able to buy improved Staves anymore, but Player E would be able to buy improved spears now.

The same applies to each of the weapons, although there's logic to not dropping the sword rank at the moment: There's already two different players using swords, and only one on Staves or Monster Weapons.

I've already gotten ready on getting a variety of unique weapons ready, you've likely noticed the ridiculously overpriced, and underpowered weapons available in stores for the obsessive, as a quick note, nothing in this game is completely worthless, just be aware that some of them have... odd ways of coming in handy. That said, things like the Nemesis and Yoshi will be making their appearances, but be aware that although I'm willing to give out uniques, they won't be guaranteed to be yours forever.

Players will be able to transmigrate for skills, Overlords are only allowed to transmigrate into their own class, but receive a couple unique benefits. Later I will announce a system of Pupils for players who want to get Extra Gain, but be aware that said system will cost money, among other things, and will be hard to work out in game. Until I have free time to work out the kinks that are present due to forum modification, please wait.

LOC will make a showing, Item World is still being set up, I'm not going to release it at the start due to FAR too many variations being needed. I might just make a random index of 20 or so maps, and combine it with a random index of monsters and geo effects.


None, I realize it's cruel, but you do start with equipment, I might be willing to change that, but at the moment, starting with more than none might provoke the rushing strategy being MUCH stronger than all others.

twisted Yes.

Dark world will make a very BIG showing, but, that's for me to know for now.

Sure, but please ask others if they want you to draw their pic. If you draw a pic, please remember to include things such as weapons, I have a bitmap of all the weapons and all the sprites in the game if someone wants to edit that, but aside from that it's likely I'll just be using the standard colors.

Quite observant, for your info, even though I have 6 squares, there are only 3 bounty squares in that circle... wondering? Well, notice that there's three off-color squares? Those are the squares with bounties... It'll be a secret why until the game begins.



Again, Please ask as needed, I'm always open to questions.

Yes, quite frequently as you move away from the capitols in fact.

No, none of the standard cast, I'm trying to avoid using Canon characters, and am planning on giving warnings to anyone EXPLICITLY playing as Laharl, Etna, or any other such Canon character. Using a modified personality and background is fine, but if it's blatantly obvious, I'm not going to enjoy it.

Certain new abilities will be presented as I finish test balancing them. For your info, here's an interesting spell that the eventually to be released "Siege Mages" learn:

Phase In
Lv 50
SP Cost: 12
Mana Cost: Dependent (Character Level+1xintervening hexes)
Power: N/A
Effect: Allows the Siege Mage to move an allied faction member directly to the siege mage, regardless of intervening hexes and number of turns needed. Faction member may move immediately. Useful for moving players around the world for war fronts, it's mostly a support ability, as it can only be used outside of battle.

The overlord receives four unique skills, one at level 5, one at level 20, one at level 50, and one at level 100. These skills will vary from Overlord to Overlord, however there are limits to what their effects are.

Standard Players, unlike Overlords, are not allowed to receive unique skills. There are a number of classes available to them, and after each cycle, I will give all current players a chance to spend their mana to create a new unique class for themselves within certain limits, however in game, they will not learn unique skills.

Could you define this question a little more? I'm not sure what this means.

Why yes! Here's an interesting one...

Bill- Dark Conversion
Mana Cost: 120*Hex distance from Capitol+500
Passing Difficulty: MAX
Effect: In a radius of 3 hexes, all hexes surrounding the targeted hex owned by this faction are converted to dark world hexes, these hexes use a new unique map made specifically for them until an faction succeeds in recapturing them, at which point they revert to the standard map.

As of this moment, no. I have yet to find an efficient way to simulate this, and have essentially given up on trying at the moment.


This is an odd one, I don't want to use Canon characters, but Pleinair is an odd case. I might end up using her, but I probably won't.

Ah, those are visual effects, that's an entirely different point. There's no real reason for me to add them, but if you do your art with them I don't mind.

The Dark court... will make an appearance, felonies will not show up. The dark court's purpose will be to allow checks and balances to the standard players. For instance, if wanted, a player can spend a little mana to indict another player of that faction. All players of the faction will then proceed to cast votes regarding whether the player is guilty, to be punished, and what the punishment is.

You mean the lift towers? Yes, although be aware that people might not like being picked up against their will. I'd suggest getting the ok to make a human tower from everyone involved first.

There will be a variety of so to speak groups within the assembly, however, be aware that quite a few things would change to adapt it to forum use.

See the above answer, this one has a similiar answer. Things will be adapted, so keep that in mind.

Yes, attained through essentially the same method.

Store bought items won't have specialists in the beginning, however rewards for successful captures will.

Players are allowed to team up when going through their item worlds, and I hope teamwork will be important. Assuming that people don't team up, it'll be extremely hard compared to the original game.

People will naturally use the hospital to heal. I refuse to give out rewards, they would basically mean that people would be hoping to use the same abuse that occurred in disgaea 1.

Yes.

Yes, there will be both cross-over alt maps with related dark assembly proposals, and various other little treats.

There will be a total of four threads available to players for chatting ingame.

These threads are:

Team threads, only available to the respective teams.

General Thread, available to everyone

Market Thread, available to everyone, meant specifically meant for in game item trades.

Announce thread, available to everyone, generally only posted in by the crew and overlords, anyone can spend mana to make posts in it.