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• • Click to move

  • Mabinogi would not work properly with WASD movement.  It's because of the combat system.

    You can only move in one direction at once and you move to attack if you click on a mob.  If you're moving to attack, the mob will aggro you(prepare to attack) and if you could move with the keys, you might end up with lag to the server.  The movement could cause a lopp to happen between moving sideways and forwards and you would end up dead on the ground after seeing your character jump all over the screen.

    Yes, you could fix this with a lot of work, but you'd have to change the entire system including the combat system.  The combat system is one of the most attractive points of the game, so that's a no-go.

    Also, WASD is just inconvenient when you can just click once and you'll move, allowing time to que skills or check your character status sheet.  If you prefer to play FPS the go play FPS.  Mabi won't change because some people find it more convenient on other games.  It's what makes the game more challenging and you can get a lot more creative with your skills in-game because of the click to move method.

  • Posted: 6/03/08 6:06 PM
    Mabinogi
• • My Impression of the game, so far.

  • Originally posted by PeckyDOOM
    

    The age system goes like this, or at least to my understanding. Every Saturday(IRL) you will age 1 year and will receive bounuses like +(#) HP, AP, DEX, etc. And if you start at a younger age you will receive more AP which are key to learning skills and are need to invested wisely. A lil draw back though. Say you dont sign in for two weeks or two saturdays you will not age up 2 years. if you miss a week then you miss one. (fyi: you can sign in any time after that saturday and still age)

    quote = untrue

    If you log of and don't play for five weeks, when you log back on, you will age five years.  You will also get all the bonuses for aging the five years.

    When you age, your avatar gets bigger as does everything he/she is wearing.  Sheild and swords also get bigger, but don't do more damage.  You get more AP for aging at a young age than aging at an older age; when you age from 10 to 11 you get  AP but when you age from 21 to 22 you only get 1 AP.

    Also, older characters can train their weapons faster allowing them to get upgrades without repairing their weapons as much.  This cuts down on costs as well as improves stats since you have a lower chance of breaking your weapon.

  • Posted: 6/03/08 5:55 PM
    Mabinogi
• • First Impressions

  • There are several things I'd like to touch on here.

    First, the combat system.  A lot of mobs in mabi have interesting AI.  Although, if you practice long enough, it's easy to kill any mob (other than bosses) completely on your own.  You start of on foxes. 

    Foxes have a few features to note upon.  They won't attack unless you directly attack them first(Windmill doesn't count as a direct attack for more than one mob).  White spiders are the same, as are red foxes and grey foxes. 

    Next you have Wolves.  Wolves have an interesting AI because they move around a lot. They can use defence, counterattack and smash as skills.  They won't attack you unless A: you attack it  B:you stay in an aggressive stance within range or C:you kill a wolf within range of the next.  You can usually defeat these by using a {counterattack, defence, normal attack} loop, however you could also use a {counterattack, magic attack} loop.

    After that you have bears.  Bears Require that you have an amazing defence skill and/or a kite sheild, or counterattack and a magic attack.  Use the same loops as you used to defeat the wolves, bears just have more health and damage and a faster movespeed.

    The rest of the mobs have techniques you can use to defeat them, you just do a little research and you'll find out how.

    Now, as for the skills and using them to raise your stats...  this is not a bad thing :)

    You might dislike the idea of having to raise your combat mastery to get better at shooting a bow... and so you don't.  While some skills are needed to raise stats, you don't need to get them.  For example, a pure magician wants high intelligence.  A music skill called "musical knowledge" gives a lot of int at a low ability point cost.  Weaving gives a lot of dexterity, etc, etc.  Your stats wont suffer if you choose not to be a warrior.  You'll have less health, but that'll mean you have more AP to put into other skills which will raise your stats in whatever way you need. 

    Using skills to obtain stats just makes your stats relevant and offers you alternative way to make money.  For example, an archer needs dexterity for damage. Weaving will give you lots of extra dex and you can then turn around and sell those clothes for a profit.

    Mabinogi severly reduces the amount of "hack and slash" style grinding in-game because of the wide range of quests and jobs you can do.

    One thing I did notice about you post is that you didn't mention the titles.  Maybe you didn't know, but you can put titles beside your name to increase your stats. For example, "who killed a bear at age ten" gives +5 to all stats.  "who killed a bear with bare hands" gives +10 strength and other bonuses.  "who killed a bear in a single blow" gives +30 strength and other effects. 

     

    This game takes a while to learn.  I spent a month in-game before I could stand on my own, but now I can create a new character and 2 hours later be killing Black Grizzly Bears.  I like this game because You can't get a good look at it on first impressions.

  • Posted: 6/03/08 5:46 PM
    Mabinogi
• • About logging in

  • Nexon has imposed an IP ban for anyone outside North America.

    I beleive it's because there are already a few servers in Asia which are more updated and Nexon doesn't want the lag from players overseas connecting.  Also, it could be that the other server owners requested the ban as to keep their players on their servers instead of migrating to the new one.

    In return, the overseas servers have banned NA IP's from creating new accounts.  Nexon created a monopoly in NA for Mabinogi.  If you really want to get onto the game, there are some loopholes available using proxys.  I played for a few weeks with someone from Australia, so the ban has loopholes.

  • Posted: 6/03/08 5:17 PM
    Mabinogi