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Answer: It is 100% free along with many future updates. But I do accept donations thru means of support,advertising, etc.
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Answer: Part one is already finished and released. Part 2 closed BETA is released. However, the official release for part 2 will be moved to 2014 summer due to expected unexpect reasons. I will work/push the game harder when MLP cartoon is in the season.
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Answer: Yep. Soon. This year or next year before 2013 summer or never.
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Answer: YES! One of the facts you will have to understand is that I got no time for any customized graphics for character, animation, monsters. I just use whatever there is on the internet if it fits. I will have a list of things i need from you guys such as character, music, etc on forum on this section: forum.
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Answer: Current game will feature about 20 hours + of gameplay at least considering if you rush, with good armor, on normal difficulty and ignores many other functions…. If you are going for hardcore, trying out for achievements, find all Easter eggs, build your house, do all mini games, etc…. then you are looking at 100 hours +. After the implantation of part 2…. The game will feature about 60 hours+ on normal, 300 hours + on hardcore. Actually, the game features infinite amount of gameplay as you can do... IDK.... Mining for few years, grinding monsters every day for 10 years repeat until all of your characters are level 250. Then try to go for 10 billion bits, whatnot.
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Answer: This game was created with 80% of its purpose as educational experience while the other 20% is because the game would be easier to make with all of the art/music database from MLP fan community.
I designed the game doesn’t mean I love MLP the most. Matter of fact: I love other anime much more than MLP, if ever compared. MLP however happens to have loads of resource database for a game like this, and it happens when I was watched it during summer, so I had some free time to design a game for it. Away from doing philosophy research everyday… Talking magic ponies helped me to take a break from all those research topics lol… Even though it other way around takes away my break/free time. -
Answer: The problems start off in Equestria (dragon's disappearance). However Twilight will later found out Earth is related to what happened in Equestria. After further investigation everything will then trace back to Equestria which will reveal the bigger picture.
Another fact I have been considering is earth maps are easier to make while Equestria maps will require more texture packs and map editing. -
Answer: Probably because it isn't game breaking or the cause of the problem haven't been discovered yet. Keep reminding me of the glitches by reporting tickets and give useful information that can be used to debug the problem. And yea... Sometimes it is hard to patch certain bugs but most of it are patched. Example of glitch that isn't easy to patch is that animation flowing issue... It have been around for awhile but no cause have been found so far.
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Answer: Complete plot summary of MLP RPG section one of the gameplay: Twilight Sparkle and her friends went on a quest trying to discover why the dragons disappeared from Equestria. After days of searching they were able to find a hidden ancient dragon altar, Twilight accidentally activated the altar without knowing it is actually a dimension teleportation device so she was teleported to Earth along. Spending days in the islands, she was able to find a crew ship who would take her to forest town where her friends are at (told by the crew ship obviously). Arriving at forest town discovering there is something odd going on in the deep forest (from NPC), but it doesn’t really matter until princess Luna give a mission to Twilight and her friends; which is to discover what is really happening in deep forest. Teaming up with her friends (now you have total of four ponies with you), going up the river with a sail boat you discovered that you are lost in the forest. Finally made your way out of the forest you are looking at yourself trapped in a maze. Defeat the maze then the boss in the maze (no spoiler here), you will activate an unknown effigy with energy crystal which teleport you to another unknown dimension. Xxx happens then you are back to Earth again. Going on another adventure you will find yourself at mountain village. In mountain village it is obviously now that something is going on, you just don’t know what it is. Taking a ship to the battlefield you discover villages are being destroyed, people are dying. The dead rise from their grave to attack the livings, but the cause is still unknown. Making your way thru the dead, you end up at Nomad camp where the resistance force is deployed and fighting back at the dead.
You later found Princess Celestia and the resistance force in mining city fighting off the enemies (yes, they are surrounded by the enemy). Talking to Celestia, she will tell you why dragons disappeared and the release of the “Destroyers”. She gives you a new mission; which is to get back to Eqestria using dimension gateway (obviously is controlled by the enemies).
Hardcore mode ON. Now you will have to fight enemies without any aid from villages. You will have to plan out tactics in order to destroy every single monster out there. Gather 3 wing pieces (one from boss, other two will be in the castles) you will unlock the changeling castle. Even though changelings aren’t the true force behind all of this, but they surely have a clue about what is going on. Fighting your way thru changeling army you will end up fighting the changeling queen (two-stage boss fight). Defeating both fights you will find the changeling queen’s power is too strong for you, the dark force she gained from the destroyers were too powerful. Before she killed you, you teleported out of the kill-zone of her powerful spell.
Escaping to the top of changeling castle you found the dimension gateway. Making your way to the moon then time leaked which will take you back to Eqestria this time. You will see what will happen in section two of the MLP RPG. And MLP RPG section one and section two will be the same game so your saved file can cross-over. -
Answer: Section two will take a whole different approach from section one. Section one is battle based mostly. Section two will feature LOADS of puzzle that make your brain itch, much much more sub quests that you do for Eqestria ponies for great rewards that prepares you. In section two you will have access to over 50 more armor, 80 more weapons, few items and 20 more skills you don’t have a chance to use in section one. I am moving the wing-flying skill to section two because it can’t be done with so little support. Format for section two will be simple; puzzles- quests- subjects- achievements, do everything possible to get your stats up, there will not be much of monster fighting but there will be A LOT of difficult boss battles. Spoiler would be you will be fighting changeling queen again, defeating her then the king. Find discord, xxx, then insert more plot from MLP reason three, Reveal the location of the “Destoryers” and xxx happened = good or bad ending.
Section two can be done without a month from now if there is HUGE support for this, plus further more sections. Or else it will be done next year summer (if I don’t have summer school/ other plans lol. Who knows). In the end why not just support this? You are taking about a free game that you will probably have to pay at least 30 dollars for in GameStop, and that game probably is not going to be as good as mine in term of it is not going to be MLP related. -
Answer: No. This game started from nothing to now. And I did not copy ideas from any existing game other than the basic concept of RPG. Other way around, MLP RPG features some of aspects of RPG that is unique to any other RPG.
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Answer: I don’t care. Sadly, those who asked me this question usually have low intelligent levels as they pretend that I do not know there is other pony related RPG when I have been researching and making this game for months comparing to the person that is only here just now. Besides, more RPG is better isn’t it? More free games for you guys to enjoy. Sorry if I answered this question aggressively because on average in statistics, more trolls asks this question (troll science). Also feel free to compete with my MLP RPG.
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Answer: YES! I just changed this answer from no to yes because I found it possible now.... without using voice actor but using open source audio piece! Actually, there might now be voice actors working for the lines.
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Answer: Yes? MLP RPG isn’t the only project we are working on. There are other aspects such as programming, CGI, concept research that held higher priority comparing to MLP RPG. A piece of fact: I personally finished over 50% of MLP RPG section one during my 8 days’ vacation to Alaska; it was great, because there is no internet access therefore I wouldn’t see all of the negative comments trolls made (it was part of the reason I built so much earth maps in MLP RPG, due to lack of access to graphic library). Also, the game features 20 hours of gameplay..... at least it should. For part 1.
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Answer: No. Bro, if I want to spread virus I have millions of methods. I wouldn’t even use drop box as your computer would instantly infected just by accessing this website and even your beloved anti-virus couldn’t even pick up the virus. So does that answer your question?
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Answer: Maybe, if this game is popular and I have something else to do, then it will be open sourced so you guys can continue keeping MLP RPG alive. Or else probably no. The thing about open source MLP RPG is that…. All of the customized scripts that I made isn’t that “liquid” so that you can plug in and play; scripts were designed specifically for MLP RPG to achieve certain effects. Also my way of programming scripts for this game is super ultra-messy that I didn’t add any indent syntax or anything; because you know… I can always read my own code no matter how messy it is…. But it is just harder for others to read it and I wasn’t planned for others to read my code for their own project.
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Answer: That is true. I never played really played MLP RPG other than testing its functions. It is because I don’t really like RPG games; also I don’t have over 10 hours of free time sitting around to play games. But don’t get me wrong… developing this game is the same as playing the game. This is also part of the reason I released BETA version of this game for you guys to report the bugs. However, it turns out to be bad… When today 8-16-2012 I found there is a map glitch on map 28 out of total 82 maps on section one to be broken. Meaning you cannot get to map 29 + with this glitch. End up…. Near one month of BETA testing and full game since 7-22-2012 initial BETA release, over 1000 downloads no one played pass map 28 and this makes me fucking laugh. No joke, this game is totally a failure at the moment comparing to my darkky minecraft server over 70 players online occasionally, active players, over 10,000 players joined. If you are a game developer you will realize “WTF IS THIS SHIT?!”
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Answer: I never even played Final Fantasy game because I found it to be gay, so I have no idea how is MLP RPG similar to Final Fantasy. MLP RPG is not a mod of Final Fantasy whatsoever, I made the whole game with RPG Maker VX Ace from scratch. Some maps were taken from default game package because I found custom maps to be time consuming and I got none. Anyways, if my game is similar to Final Fantasy, why not enjoy it? It is free game and for Final Fantasy you will have to pay for it lol.
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Answer: I personally did love to make MLP RPG multiplayer. However, it isn’t support at all by RPG maker VX Ace, the game engine itself is very limited that multiplayer is just out of the question. For future reference: if multiplayer for classical RPG is ever possible. Achievement will be available online. Ranking based on money, level, monster killed can be added. Co-OP for classical RPG would still be out of question. Finally, it would be epic to link MLP RPG currency to my Minecraft server and this can be done if RPG maker allow remote MYSQL database connection or even web connection will do the job.
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Answer: No. I am only doing MLP RPG is because sometimes I am really fucking bored working on my philosophy since forever and school work everyday 24/7 for next four years. Also, some people should understand that I am not doing marketing here on my website, simply because the game is free and I am not getting any advertisement money. Other way around, I end up paying for my dropbox, hosting, and most important, my time.
So, please do not ask me for help or whatever. Answer is 100% a no if it isn’t MLP RPG related. -
Answer: Why not? Click Me
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Answer: Nope. LOL. I personally enjoy looking at all of the raging comments on 4chan trying to fight someone who defines such action and beyond. They just don’t seem to understand that I am immune to all human actions due to understanding. Anyways, I will still be around 4chan once in a while to see 4chan’s philosophy growth process :). Also, it is pointless to report me because I have over 10000 proxy along with top end VPN along with shit load of VPS if all of the above failed. Just face it; I am immune to human action in real life along with the power of being able to fuck around on the internet. Now show me what you got :D
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Answer: Duh? Of course I fucking know. Because you simply didn’t play the game. The game itself is classical RPG game except now with unique concept and ponies? If you think ponies are immature, and then you have problems because you are too stubborn in your philosophy that you declared such cartoon to be immature, you will realize that you are truly immature because you are weak in philosophy and people who knows about it can fuck around with your system. I am hereby not saying that the game is mature nor going to talk about philosophy in gaming section, I am doing this just because why not? Making a game related to MLP is much easier because of the entire fan database being provided to me.
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Answer: If you play Minecraft. Take a screen shoot of you beating the game on HARDCORE MODE, along with notepad with your Minecraft username. You will get a title in my Minecraft server says “MLP”. The title grants you the power same as donator ranked “1337” which is like 35 dollars for free. Remember: cheating, photoshopping or anything would disqualify you from the title; and I am really really good at that. Simply compress your picture into .zip file and upload it on www.darkkyshadow.com/cloud after you are done, you will receive your title within a week if it is legit.
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Answer: Of course, all of the music file used in game is in the directory folder in MLP RPG/Audio/BGM. But it is recommended not to touch that folder because missing one file would cause game to crash due to "Missing file" error.
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Answer: The problem is caused by "Item enhancement" skill where it modifies existing database file to create unique new armor/weapon and item dismantle skill couldn't read the newly created database and yet couldn't figure what to do when it encounters new weapons/armors that was created by item enhancement. It looks and sounds easy but it isn't that easy to do in reality. The only games who cooperate such function into their game are massive scaled MMORPG games such as Diablo 3, who have hundreds of programmers and scripters working full time to maintain a bug-free gameplay and it is certainly a different story for MLP RPG. The main problem is that RPG Maker is extremely limited and it keeps on throwing errors that doesn’t make any sense. I was able to fix few functions such as “item crafting”, but the main problem is still unsolved. Think about the positive side that it only take you to bank your item, dismantle your stuff, then get your stuff back from bank.
V1.999 update on FAQ: it is now fixed... Added safe guard for it... so... yea. weee -
Answer: Yes! I am not going to release it now because there are still many bugs in game right now, and movie size is pretty big... I will surely add some movie cut scenes after all bugs in part 1 or section one is fixed. Simple calculation: 1 second of video = 1MB. A movie scene would mean at least 30 seconds which ultimately increase your download by 30MB. Unless you guys want low quality videos which would make the whole movie scene thing sounds stupid.
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Answer: Bis in Equestria are made out of gold? And people accept gold.....
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Answer: Give me an army of programmers, few ton of hotpockets, high performance computers. No. Making custom game engine is too time consuming and costly.
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Answer: It isn't possible right now because game engine limitation. Also, classical RPG on HD doesn't look as nice as you think..... Trust me. Enjoy 640 x 480, and it is already pretty high res for a classical RPG game.
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Answer: No. Also, I personally hate OC pony simply because the idea of itself is just stupid.
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Answer: I know. Right now I am working on gameplay rather than graphics. They will be improved overtime. Or give me fucking artists and I will finish it in like 1 hour.
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Answer: Not possible lol, it would be stupid for Hasbro to sue for a non-profit, educational project. If such shit happens. I will move MLP RPG project out of US on a anonymous server. And Hasbro and their legal team can go ahead and go to Russia talk crap about MLP RPG's legal issues. Either way, I am here to solve issues, don't worry about these craps. It is kind of sad how MLP online was raped; they should really learn more about law loopholes, how law gets executed, how most politicians doesn’t know much about the internet, how to jump between internet policy and get out of the situation. But oh well.
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Answer: Uhhh... My time overrules any cost for making this game. In theory with reasonable evidences and support: My time is priceless.
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Answer: The best answer is.... MLP RPG is a complicated game with over 100 scripts. Scripts are added and combined with many other scripts to get the function which I need in order to get the effect I want. Evertime I add a script, there could be potentially thousands of crashes comes with it... All I can do is to simulate which kind of possible crash it can happen and add safe guard to it. And of course, my simulation isn't perfect... sometimes crashes can be ignored end up causing crashes in client side. Since I can't allow crashes to stop progress of MLP RPG... it is up to players to find these bugs, report them as soon as possible. Also, I patch the game extremely fast; your bug report can be fixed within an hour and uploaded if it is an emergency game breaking bug.
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Answer: YES. That is because I am using default maps provided in RPG Maker! It takes FOREVER to design a map and I don't have that much time. Even if I do, mapping would bored the shit out of me. Matter of fact.. I am so lazy that I often times grab maps from other open source RPG games, make modification then apply it. Trust me. When you are making a massive RPG like this..... you got no time for mapping at all. Making events is alreadying boring, and mapping is worse. Bonus: if you like mapping, feel free to help me create maps lol. Price right now is hmm.... 20 maps I will give you a windows 7 legal activation key. 50 maps for windows 8 legal activation key; ask me for more detail of course.
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Answer: Everything is a remix isn't it? Making games is something I am just good at over the years other than philosophy. Any idea that jumps in my head, I can make reality in the game if it is possible.
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Answer: Thats 700MB of pinkie pie juice right there. Every drop is a taste of fun. Sorry, but to me... I can download the full game within 50 seconds.... High speed internet makes things easier. If you are using dial-up or DSL... then I am sorry.... because downloading MLP RPG and the updates is going to be a pain in the ass for you. For those with high speed internet like me, then you are good!
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Answer: I hate when people say: game crashed. Without giving me any information on the crash which ultimately.... I just ignore the message. It isn't hard to type error message or take a screenshoot of the crash message. Want to know a fact? I fix 99% of the crash within 3 minutes. You report that shit to me, i fix that shit, but give me enough detail. Also, MLP RPG isn't a simple game as it looks..... It is now over 110 scripts.... Each script you are looking at 1000 lines of code at least... Now do the calculation on how many lines of code all together and how many possible errors there can be, between scripts. And beyond that you are looking at 100 + common events, shit load of variable and switches that internal patterns can drive you crazy; it is hard to not to make a mistake.
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Answer: I added item Encyclopedia books in MLP RPG for players to unlock armor/weapon instead. Why? It is because item enhancement breaks ALL armor/weapon related scripts instantly. But again, it isn't possible to apply fix right now....
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Answer: Infinite. I am serious..... I can literally expand current MLP RPG 3 times bigger within a week; I have over 200 maps ready to implant, whole database of music, picture, resources. Right now I am just building gameplay system... once the system is complete and win my liking… I will start to dump resources into the game. Or I can just do something else.... Again, more support the better game gets. If no support, I wouldn't even hand out any update :)
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Answer: No. Most of the scripts are public, why don't you download and mod them yourself? But I will open source this game if I stops working on this game; which someone else can continue. Which is still undecided.
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Answer: Ok, I know..? I want to expand the database more than just grass/hay ponies eat.
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Answer: It is customized classical front view AT combat system RPG with free world exploring. I like to call it classical RPG because I like the word classical. You can call MLP RPG skyrim in RPG style if you want because all of the free world exploring and ultilities. To be honest, I never give a shit to what genre it is. As long as it fits my style, I am good with it. Maybe you should do it too; make things easier and less retarded with all of the stupid genre that you have to follow. Try it!
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Answer: Remember the fact I told you in the main page? That one ultimate flaw about RPG maker is its encryption method. It is extremely weak and people can steal content/ideas from your game in matter of clicks. There is only one alternative encryption method which is in Japanese... sadly, it doesn't work for MLP RPG. Nor there is more encryption methods out there in English. In conclusion, I had to make a encryption method myself.... CRPT version one (day one)was a script encrption method that make script unreadable by people/computer without certain file twisting pattern; it failed when RTP error came up on clients while working on my side. CRPT version two (day 2)... yes... Christmas gift for me....a customized method using dual-compression worked. At least 1/3 methods worked. Again, for other RPG developers, part 2's release will show you why exactly RPG Maker sucks; they should seriously stop fucking around with their lame encryption method that end up causing me to end up fixing crap for them.
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Answer: Why not? My philosophy gave me strength in action, creating exception is cake…. I guess this is the turn out for spending most of my time thinking about complex concepts. Also, I am one of those people who would finish tasks with extreme measures....Anyways, part 2 is going to open your eyes, I am going to drop bomb on this one. A hint: it will feature different genre of gameplay style indorsed from different type of RPG games but super enhanced with MLP RPG systemized functions. It proves a point that RPG Maker security sucks, also…. MLP RPG will be Probably the best classical RPG out there. Trust me, this is going to be beat commercial games in both length and also gameplay. A little spoiler for you? I added 100 maps + today, in one day. And today is 12-24-2012.
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Answer: WTF? No. I only spend 1-2 hour per day at max working on MLP RPG and it is winter break. During school year I probably put 30 minutes at most on it; exception sometimes happen. Such as CRPT took me two days, multiplayer ranking took me 3 hours. Other way around, you guys should look at fighting is magic. It has been 2 years…. no release, and the game is nowhere close to complete. According to my guess…. It will take them another 1-2 years just to do the multiplayer aspect of fighting is magic in that speed, given that their single player game is complete; servers, client internet connections, anti-cheat system. AI single player fighting mode will take about 1-6 months with their current speed. Or you can help MLP RPG out, where I can make one update in just one day in which this update will make so much changes that will bring the whole game out to the surface.
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Answer: It is 2D; saves me time by not messing with 3D pony models which I will have to design them myself, and that’s a “no go” for a fan, non-commercial project. 2D vector pictures are everywhere, they are open sourced and pony looks better in 2D quite frankly. Core of gaming design; classical RPG game is the best way to start to know about core gaming design systems, such as achievements, ranking, mini games ideas, mapping, etc. It is all in one of the basics in gaming design. Of course, RPG maker sucks in many other aspects; there is no perfect game engine I guess. Also, custom engine is a hell no simply because it is stupid to make you own engine when other commercial game engines will rape you with their powerful functionalities that there is no way you can ever achieve; but you can good luck and try with few million dollars laying around, dozens of top end programmers who are willing to eat hot pockets all day for the next few years.
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Answer: If you don’t know. It isn’t about the game, it is about the pageviews. An example: a game that a bitch made that only 20% people likes but comparing to a call of duty game that 80% of the people likes. Ok who will win? The game that a bitch made. Why? The game that bitch made had pageview of 100 million, in conclusion; they got 20 million fans. Call of duty game got pageview of 1 million… now in conclusion they now have 800k fans. So the bitch game wins and GG. I am hereby not saying gamers are retarded because it isn’t about the gamers. It is about the exposure. That’s why nowadays shit game can go on Television and get rocked hard amount of fans disregard the game suck shits. It is pretty stupid because gaming developments now days is getting raped by this exception ratio formula….. And it will stay this way forever… if you want to learn more about it, in like exact detail feel free to ask me in my educational section.
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If you don’t know. It was never about the pageviews. All it matters to the conclusion of MLP RPG will be up to me. As of I am the lead developer of MLP RPG. I can make the game better or worse. Pageview never mattered in that regard. I cared about and then I abandon about. Page view, money, fans, knowledge never got hold of me. So cut the philosophical talk and jump to one of the conclusion: MLP RPG got immunity, but its immunity can be cared about or abandoned upon. I don’t even know which path it will take because I rather let the paper boat float than to manually direct itself.
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Answer: No. Torrent doesn’t provide enough flexibility for MLP RPG simply because we update the game so much. Also, I don’t want to seed the game; it drag down my overall internet speed. Meanwhile, Google drive offers high speed file hosting for free…. Over 1TB/sec download speed maximum, unlimited bandwidth. It beats dropbox’s 2mb/sec download limit, 200GB per month or so bandwidth.
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There are many security flaws in it that allows people to gain more rewards by going around the system or hacking by using external tools outside of the gameplay itself. However, that is only because I am allowing it or it haven’t getting into my nerves for me to do anything about it yet. Every function is logged with precisional information for a counter-attack. Information that cannot be changed even if you change your IP or browser, or perhaps even if you change your computer. I can easily net up everyone who are involved with cheating and permanently remove them from playing the game. Which I may either do it now, or never. It is a risk of cheating isn’t it? Even that MLP RPG is more of a single player game. So please earn your success out of the game, it is all of the effort that makes the conclusion worth awhile.
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That is because I don't have time to pin point animation frames manually and there is no automated tool for me to do it automatically.
This game's animation engine uses collection of images to form animation... There is no .gif involved. Advantages or disadvantages, it is still better than other RPG games because we got quantity.
Also, doing so lacks educational value and it is boring as fork.
Part One & General Questions:
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