Maintenance Finished + Apologizes + Updates

[Kingmana]

So well, after a good load of hours, we managed to get the site into working fully again. Sadly, we have come with a few problems in the way.

Mainly, we didn't know there was a queue to get updated to v5 and that it would take so long to get it done. We are currently number 68th in the queue of forums who want to get updated. The number hasn't moved during the entire day and it doesn't seem like it's going to move anytime soon. So we will have to delay the update to v5 till whenever we get the chance.

Problem is, though, that it looks like the forum will be updated to v5 during a certain day and time unknown to us. So we will have to put the maintenance mode again and get everything working properly as soon as we notice.

Sorry for the trouble caused and the one that is has yet to come. Updating the forum has been more problematic than we have thought.

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On the bright side, we have a few updates I am sure you will at least, enjoy (I hope, I hope, I hope).

First off, the Transfield has been closed and all the battles have been moved to the Unfinished Event Battles, there you can finish them and then you will be able to continue the ones you have from before the event. Once the second are done, you will then be able to do as you please with your new team.

Second, all the areas have kind of been smashed together. Nop, not a Transfield. We now have a World Map where you can access all of the former areas. From the creepy Shadow Abyss to the shiny Cloud Palace, you can still access them there, but now all eight areas are in a single board. All new battles and even event battles are to be placed here from now on.

I know it will be hard to get used to it, but it's for the best. I don't know you guys, but I am totally sick of thinking 'why wouldn't this X helper take my battle instead of this X helper', and I am sure some of guy pass through the same thing. Well, now all helpers must update everyone's battles to keep things moving as we do with the events. This will also help the helpers to a degree, since they won't have to click so many boards and such for finding their battles. This is just in beta zone, you know, we can always return to the old system if it proves to be worse than it was before. Share your thoughts, please.

Third, the Tour Guides have been totally rebuild. Now there is no cost in using it so you can hold up a battle against the strongest Digimon possible instead of fighting the weak ones that always appear or you can also go picking on weaker Digimon or catch them, whatever you want since it's free!

Also, there are now Sub-Areas for each stages. This is more to make things interesting that anything, since it's just a few names for each zone. You can be boring and say Shadow Abyss - Champion or say Shadow Abyss - Solidified Magma, whatever it works for you.

Oh and there are new some Special Zones appearing on each Area. Seems like they have some neat effects and prizes. They are colored with [Beige] in the Tour Guide Index. But hey, how sad, you don't seem to be able to access them so lightly.

Forth and almost reaching the end. We have two new Mission Sets! Mission Set 4th, which is the Set of the Digivices, once that we had been working for a while and never got the chance to start and Mission Set 5th, which is the Set of the Special Zones. By doing this quests, you will learn everything you need to know about those new Special Zones on each Area and possible getting some nice new items. A little teaser would be to say that we now have weapons as equipment, so eh.

So that's pretty much everything that needs to be covered. If you have been so kind to read through all of this, congrats! You have just earned yourself a prize. Send me a message with the code ''I want more gems''.

And uh, uh, we have another update! You can see my totally remasterized Signature. I hope you like it, because you will have to admire my oh so handsome dragons on every single thread you see in the forum (as I pretty much post everywhere so eh). So yeah, hope you do enjoy it XD >>>> Your so called admin being a clown here as always.

Good luck to everyones!

[MGarurumon]

I simply love the updates.

Firstly, awesome, awesome signature, King. How long did it take you to make that? And what did you use?

But erm, anyway, too bad about the long queue. But no biggie, I kind of still like Probards v4. I'm still not used to v5 even after so many forums have switched over. I just like v4's coding ways better. *shrug

Yayayay for the the new helper / battle system. It seems a lot more fair. The only thing I'm slightly concerned about is the roleplaying since if different helpers are coming up to update, it might get a little complicated? I'm just thinking aloud here; it's not really like we have that problem that much. (Also, maybe people could have a thread and roleplay an exploration mission? for fun, I mean, not necessarily getting any rewards. I'm not even sure I'm making sense here, but it'd be something like that DDC Roleplay area that I heard folks discuss about some time ago, but that was never actually created. It'd be separate from battles, but er, I don't think I'm making my thoughts coherent. Also, again, I'm just thinking aloud.)

Anyway, I also looked at some of the new missions (yay!), and there are some talking ones, so that should be interesting. I'm pretty excited about all that. Special zones and free tourguides? Way. Too. Cool. I look forward to seeing these updates in action. Thanks for everyone who pitched in's hard work.

[ShadowMrk]

I have to say, I like the improvements. The new freedoms granted to Helpers to work on battles seems beneficial. To be honest, one thing about that concerns me. Mainly just making sure that the accuracy of certain variables in battles is kept between Helpers. Maybe some sort of system of posting a battle's information somewhere accessible to Helpers and Admins somewhere would help that issue. I guess we should see before I start trying to fix problems before they are problems, though. XD I have that habit. Anyways, I looked through the missions, they seem really cool, especially the Special Zones! I like the idea of added rules for added challenge. It forces you to think differently from a regular battle. Good job King and all involved! I'm looking forward to where this system is headed.

[Kingmana]

MGarurumon: Heh, I am glad you liked it. It took me 6 or 7 hours, perhaps less, I really don't keep track of time when I am working on those. As for what I used, well, I first drew it by hand and digitalized it with a camera. Then I used GIMP for the lineart, colors, shadows and background. It's pretty much an awesome program with a bunch of neat functions and filters. Quite useful for animating small images as well.

*Sigh* Yeah, I am from the ones that wish we didn't have to change., but there are indeed some neat things with the v5, we just need to get used to it, that's all. And yays, we are 67 on the queue! Something is something I guess.

Well, there is always the roleplay area for this and we could do some events and such. We need to find a neat way of roleplaying with your Digimons, though. Any ideas?

Heh, it's all the hard work of the admins of your so called forum. I have been brainstorming this for months and got the butt in the seat to get it done. Darkcat also helped me a bunch with the missions informations and such. It was a neat teamwork.

ShadowMrk: Eh, don't worry, we have that covered. We already work with major index for the events so it won't be hard to do the same with the new system. We could also add the Wild Digimon's information in the first thread of the battle, if it's easier. I will let our helpers decide that, really.

I am glad you like the missions! Nothing would make me more happy that people actually trying those out. It will be wonderful.

[Kingmana]

Oh guys, I totally forgot to mention this. Since we now have a bunch of missions on the forum, 43 in total, there are now prizes for completing a certain amount of quests. This prizes are quite nice and useful I tell you. I have a lot of items to give due to the new Quest Set and Equipment Items, so you should totally give it a try.

You will earn a new gift every 10 quests you fulfill. So you will get the first gift when you complete your 10th quest. Note that the prizes get better and better as you keep progressing with quests, so you should move on with this quests.

Hope this tempts you to try doing more quests. Also, if you meet the requirements for the gift and I haven't PM you yet, feel free to PM me instead. I will keep track of how many quests you fulfill, but I may slip sometime, so it's alright if you make me aware that I need to give you a gift.

King is out.

[MGarurumon]

Elaborating on the RP Idea:

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Well, I was thinking about something like, "Kingmana (Roleplay)" or "Kingmana (RP//DragonTamer)". Using your folks' names just as an example, but it'd might not have to be a single person or a staff member necessarily roleplaying with the person. Yet another example, "MGarurumon (RP//ShadowMrk)". It'd pretty much be like the common roleplay thread on a roleplay forum, without stats and the actual battling calculations. In the roleplay thread, people could do whatever and let their Digimon interact--or do something like the roleplay I had with Lunar before in which we went looking for Lunar's dad's brain (lol if you still remember it). It'd serve to allow folks to roleplay with their Digimon more often and give people more stuff to do since members could roleplay with members and not have to wait for staff. Also, if people didn't have anybody in mind, they could just put "MGarurumon (RP//Open)." That's the jist of how much I've brainstormed.

And cool quest motivational rewards! It kind of reminds me of Digimon World Dusk and how there was this guy who gave rewards after you reached Bronze, Silver, and Gold tamer.

[Kingmana]

Glad you liked the quest motivational rewards. And yep, I remember as well. I didn't do it because of that, though. There are a lot of games which give rewards after completing certain amount of quests so why not.

And yep, I do remember the epic quest for the brain. The idea of the roleplay sounds cool as well, but eh, you are totally free to start that kind of stuff, you really don't need any approval of our part, you can pretty much go ahead and try out the RP things freely. No rule in the matter, just have your fun.

[ShadowMrk]

I like MGarurumon's idea too. Would we need to include any sort of concise description of any pre-made ideas for an RP request in the title or rather in the first post? I've been itching to roleplay as Suioku since I first befriended him. Dx

[MGarurumon]

Well, if you wanted, I could roleplay with you. :3 If others see an example or something, maybe it would lead to more interest. In any case, if you'd like to roleplay or have something in mind, feel free to pm me!

[DarkCat]

Adding in my two cents to the RP idea. Because seriously, we need to start one! :3 Tenny very much wishes to freely wreak some of his havoc on the denizens of the DDC server.

I have been very interested in creating an RP, though after becoming busy with stuff, I couldn't seem to find the time to really ask if anyone else was interested too. Aside from that, I still would like to start an offical RP for DDC. A little more recently, I have been... Plotting the creation of said RP... Along with something else... >_>
/mysteriousness

For the idea I had to get the RP started up, how do you feel about a Guild being made for the DDC RP? That way these topics could have a more official place to go. If not that, then I'll just have to get a new board added in somewhere anyway. x3

[andrei]

I'm interested in every role play I can find

[IcestarRiver]

A guild sort of "Digital Destiny Clan" sounds very interesting. It would also make everything tie together, I suppose, with the quests and shops and training areas and all. There are many features here, but no real 'plot' behind them, from what I see.

[MGarurumon]

I also am for the idea of a DDC Roleplaying guild or something of the sort! Since BITs are needed for the creation, I'd like to split some of the cost from my own possession if wanted.

[ShadowMrk]

Oh sweet! Looks like this is all coming together. Mwahaha! Er.. ahem... Anyways, this makes me very excited. I'm gonna work on my character description. >:3

[DarkCat]

Hehe, glad to hear that there is plenty of interest. :3

And that would be awesome MG! I'd better start collecting more bits as soon as possible then. And make the guild's creation official!
Is there anything you guys would like to see in particular, once it's made? Off the top of my head, I'm thinking it might be important to create a thread(s) that serves as a sort of character directory, to organize things a bit, and so everyone can get into adding all sorts of details that they want. Like information on their Digimon, or themselves as Tamers, and whatever else you can think of. x3 (While yes, the Information Registry descriptions could nearly make the point of it moot for Digimon, I feel it would help keep their descriptions a little neater if there was another place to store any info that would otherwise seem a tad excessive.)
Plots are pretty important too, so it's possible that we might delve into that sort of thing.

After checking my current funds, I've reminded myself that I've been poor for a while now... ;o; While I could blame it on all that spending I did before, me being pokey with my battles hasn't really worked in my favor either... 'xD *coughplusmyyettobehatchedeggsweretotallyworthitcough*

[IcestarRiver]

Could I perhaps help with the funds a bit? Not to become a leader of any sort, just to help.

[surbet11]

I'll throw in all my Bits