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If you wish for your character to become stronger, there are
only two ways. First, you could fight in a battle against another
character, player or non-player. Second, you could train. There
are many ways to train, and you will find information on each of
those and their specifics below. Before beginning to play you
should at least read this at some degree once.
Regular Training
In regular training, you simply post what your character is
doing in order to train. It's grading will be subject to the formula
posted further in. All posts must be at least 4
lines long to be counted, but there is no upper limit. When
posting, remember that detail is rewarded. An example of regular
training is provided here for a character named Kukumbro:
Kukumbro arrives in a nearby forest and begins his
training by firing several kikou-ha blasts into the trees as fast
as he can. He attempts to train the speed of his blasts so that
he can act fast in battle. The trees become inflamed and a fire
begins raging throughout the forest. Kukumbro knows that this
could interupt his training so he teleports himself level to the
tops of the trees and sends out a kiaiho wave which frees the
trees from the fire. He then decides to get some target practice
by chasing birds around the forest and zapping them. He teleports
in front of a nearby bird he sees and fires a kikou-ha at him
frying him on the spot. He then teleports behind another and zaps
it as well. The next bird he encounters decides to be tricky and
dodges the first couple blasts that Kukumbro throws, so he is
forced to watch the birds movements and fire in front of it and
destroy it. Kukumbro continues this training for a half an hour.
Notice the detail and length that will go rewarded later. The
training may be whatever you want, provided that it doesn't use
any thing special, such as a gravity room, hyperbolic time
chamber, etc. You may even create a fight between yourself and
some character not in the RPG.
Sensei Training
Another option open to players is to train under
a sensei. A sensei may require you to do a task before they are
willing to train you, but they are able to teach you moves and give you
special training options, such as use of the hyperbolic time
chamber. You do the posts for special training just as you would
the regular training posts, but you may have requirements on when
you are able to do this training, or how it is to be done, or how
many lines are allowed or required for the post.
Spars
You could also spar another player in the RPG.
During spars, neither character may die; also, both players must
agree to the spar either through e-mail or other means of contact.
Simply you post what your character does in posts between 4 and
12 lines. After one person replies, the next must reply before
the first person may again. If a spar has more than 2 people, no
one person may post twice in a row, and you must wait at least 1
hour for someone else in the fight who hasn't posted in that time
to post before someone posts again.
Learning Moves
In order to learn a move, you must train
under either a sensei for 1 day per level of that move, giving at
least 5 posts of how you learn that move, or train under a
character who knows the move for 3 days per level of that move,
giving 5 posts of how you learn taht move and at least 2 posts of
that character telling you how to do that move. Any characters
training other characters must agree to train that character, and
must stay in that area while that person is being trained. After
the this time, you may use the moves at will. All posts that
involve learning moves help your PL as well.
Creating A Move
If you want to create a new move, either not on
the moves list or one that you simply make up, you must first
post on the Questions and General Notices board the details of
the move. You will be told what level that move would be, or
simply that you cannot have that move because it's too strong for
the RPG. It will take you 2 days per level of that move to train
it, and requires at least 5 posts in that time explaining how you
learn it. All posts that involve creating moves help your PL as
well.
The Formula
The fomula above is what dictates the power level
gained in training or in battles. It is simple algebra, so if you
don't know algebra yet, have someone who does help you out in
figuring the formula out. Other than knowing what will help you
gain the most power level, you don't need to know this equation,
we will do all the work involving this equation. There are
certain factors which may change this formula, which will be
mentioned in the appropriate spots. Special training may result
in increasing the values of certain variables. Also, certain
races may have similar effects in specific conditions mentioned
on the page for that race. All of your posts made in training
from midnight to midnight on a certain day, according to Eastern
Standard Time will be used in deciding the values of this formula,
except if there is special training done which effects this
formula, which will be done seperately. Spars or Battles will be
decided after they are over.
PL GAIN - The amount of Power
Level you will gain from the training
Current PL - Your current Power
Level before the training is graded.
Strength - (1-10) This is the
difficulty of the training you're doing, averaged together. It is
decided subjectively by how harsh the training is on your
character. For many things, stronger characters will get less of
this for doing the same thing, expecting them to push their
character to higher heights to attain the same level of
difficulty. If you recieve a difficulty of 0, then you get no new
powerlevel.
Creativity - (0-10) You will
also recieve a rating of creativity if you have an exceptionally
creative post. This allows for people to be rewarded for coming
up with interesting ways of training or good dialogue during the
training.
# lines - This is the number of
lines in your post, which must be at least 4, unless stated
otherwise. Partial lines will be added up and dialogue lines
count as 1/4 of a line.
Notice that this formula will allow for your
Power Level to grow at an exponential rate. You will gain more
Power Level for the same variables, the stronger you get. Also,
if there were no rounding, you would have EXACTLY the same power
level after x days of posts, no matter what order they are posted
in. Due to rounding, it may be off by a few power level points,
but not significantly. This makes it so that the growth in
strength is much like in series.
Money
Money is kept in Zenii, and can be spent on items
to help your character. Certain items will require you to write a
story on how you recieved the item, since in reality it couldn't
be bought. Money will be given out in increments of 300 zenii and
you will recieve it for posting acceptable training of a total of
at least 6 lines on any day. If you post often, you will be
rewarded by having more items in the end.
Training Rules
There are a few rules to training and they are
listed below:
You may not die during training
All training must be posted on the
Training message board
There is no limit on how much you can
train
You may only either be training or in
battle or in a spar at any one time. You cannot be in two
places at the same time
If you have any questions on the rules, ask on
the Questions and General Notices board.
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