Trickster
 

After the Japanese release, it's time for the English release! >:3 DIG DIG DIG.

http://www.tricksteronline.com/

Sweet. I played the jap version and had no idea what I was doing. Other than digging. For random crap.

yea. dig dig, ooh junk. yay money...crap my digger broke...buy new one!. yay exp for diging.

wow that was incoherent

Does this mean I can stop translating quests now.

Oh, an English version? Well that changes everything. I tried it back in the day when all of GFF was jumping on board, and just about died from all the kawaii. Then that quickly turned to "What do all these buttons do? How do I make this tent go away? What are all these rude Japanese people saying to me?"

If I can actually navigate and have some degree of confidence that I know what my controls actually do, I think I might be interested again. Is it my understanding that this game is "free"? Do they support themselves by selling in-game stuff or something?

Yea. kinda like maplestory without the minor annoyances.

Yeah in the Japanese version you could use real money to buy ingame stuffs (and get a significant advantage for it), I believe the items didn't expire like they do on Gunbound and MapleStory, but they also required high levels to wear.

Not really sure of how it will work on here though, we'll have to see.

Well, I personally am not concerned with whether the game will have cash users or not since I would bee too cheap to buy anything anyway. What I will be watching out for is the quality of the quests given and if the armor and items will be 'evenly' distributed in terms of power. I don't mind there being a really strong and rare weapon, but not to the extent where people will go crazy over it like the did in maple story over crap like panlids.

The digging got delayed, because their log-in function has problems. Whyyyyyyyy.

They obviously have not figured out how to work the big button that launches the game.

This will take a few weeks to master!

Yea, ActiveX. Serious business.

Can anyone else d/l this game or is it still not ready yet?

According to the game page the servers will go live the midnight of July 24th. I might give it a try then.

Anyone here that's actually played the game and can answer some simple questions?

I was trying to browse a few sites for resources, but unfortunately the majority of people who seem to post on English-language Trickster sites are massively incoherent or just... unhelpful.

So, I was taking a look at the Fox (Sense) class, and I was wondering about skill builds.

Power
* Attack: Determines the amount of damage done to enemies
* Hit Rate: Determines accuracy of attacks
* Delay: Time between attacks. This is the only skill that decreases in value
Magic
* Max MP: MP available for casting spells and using skills
* Magic Attack: Determines the damage done by spells
* Magic Defense: Increases resistance to enemy spells
Sense
* Capacity: How much weight your character can carry
* Perception: Digging accuracy, customization ability, and critical attack damage
* Luck: Affects spell, skill, and gun hit rate and critical attack rate
Charm
* MAX HP: The amount of HP available to your character for taking damage
* Defense: Your character's resistance to physical attacks
* Evasion: How swift your character is at dodging and blocking attacks

It says common builds for Foxes are 1144 or 1243, but I'm curious about hit rate, or accuracy. The sense stat adds accuracy for guns, but it says nothing about throwing objects (which I am told are a Fox's weapon of choice).

Do Foxes need Power, which adds hit rate for every other char? Or does Sense cover their hit rate as well? I would assume it does, but I dunno... maybe I just play too much RO.

badger trying to copy me and be a fox. ;_;

Maybe I'll really copy you and quit playing after like 2 weeks >=(

You can already download the game <3 - http://ntreev.nefficient.com/ntreev/...kTrickster.exe

Be sure to have 3.7 GB free on your drive before you install, though. The 399MB installation file is rather sneaky.

Also, patching is going to take AGES.

The installation size and how the install works is a fucking laugh. I'm not playing this shit.

edit: ok, installed anyway.

edit: now I can't log in. It bitches about 'SSO', but I can't find any option like that.

cuz usk ;____;

I've only ever spoken to one high leveled fox when I dabbled with jTrickster, and they were 1144. They seemed to do well enough on their own. The thing with Foxes is that they use their "zomg hueg weight" to their advantage by being able to hold a ton of items, rather than being some one hit wonder like a Bunny.

http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/3...2bd815bek1.png

I was talking to some friends of mine from MapleStory (yes a lot of MS players are going to be migrating here, beware) and they wanted to do some all female type party with the four of us each being a different class. This way we could take advantage of the ROYAL Party method (1 of each class and all the same gender) and get 1.5x more exp o=

But it looks like I'm stuck being the bunny .-.

I haaaaaaaaaaaaate 95.6734% of Maple Story players.

I may get back into Trickster, I was one of those that started when someone brought it up at GFF for the Jap person, and slowly filtered out as it became harder and harder to find Japanese people who could actually understand most of my conversation.

I just want to confirm...when it says midnight of 24th, does that mean Monday morning? Coz I'm really confused...sorry.

Whats to be confused about? It says;

Since we work on proper time and not any of this EST nonsense, we will be able to log in at 5am, Monday morning.

I will definitely be giving this game a try out, looks kinda fun.

I've been waiting for this, although I'm undecided on what class I want to play. I've narrowed it down to Lion and Dragon. If only there were coherent Skill Builds, since I have no clue as to what will work and what won't.

I may hold off a couple of days playing it until the mass of people running through n00b areas settles down. Nothing more frustrating than trying to kill low level stuff when everyone else ingame is doing the same.

I was thinking of jumping on when it opened, but alas, WoW comes first.

Just as a general notice, a bunch of us in #rtfo will be playing.

There's a #trickster, but I have no clue who those people are. <_< GFFers welcome in #rtfo!

I will be playing as well.

EDIT: Wait, what? GFF Trickster players go to #rtfo?

You don't have to, I'm just saying there are a bunch of us in there already.

Trickster login will probably not work until 7 AM EST. They are taking down the SSO login from 11 PM to 7 AM EST to fix it up (Finally?), which means (probably) that you won't be able to login until that time.

Sucks, but hopefully this is the last delay. I just wish they had posted it on the main Trickster website...

This patcher is seriously frustrating. I've had it on for 5 hours and have 15 bars. Then, it just stops. It SAYS I'm going at 23kb/s, but it's not doing anything. It hasn't for the last 20 minutes.

I'm hesitating as to whether or not I should just exit the patcher and start it again ;_;

Apparently, this means midnight, Tuesday the 25th.

So much for WAITING THE ENTIRE NIGHT YESTERDAY

SSO better be MEGAS AMAZING

I'm scared of the huge 3.8 gb. installation size, mainly becuase I have like 3.3 gb. free.

The people in #trickster are rejects from #maplestory

anyway.

Dear All,
The test for SSO (Single sign on) will be postponed until this week.
We are so sorry to delay the test of SSO.
We are always try to do better service.
Thank you.


Seems like there's another delay.

From the official site:

Just a wordier way of saying: BLAME GAMENGAME! Also it's nice for them to tell us how to login when, you know, no one can do it. But that's that, I suppose.

This better be some killer system to have delayed the start of the beta by over two weeks.

I see what they did thar.

GG KOREA, GG.

a. Prepare sandwich
b. Burn the game onto a DVD
c. Place it inside the sandwich
d. Lunch

3 hours from now. Are we setting ourselves for another disappointment?

This really reminds me of when RO started it's beta phase here. I don't think it was as bumpy but it sure is similiar. Alot of things in this game have been giving me a RO feel since hearing about it actually. Maybe it's the korean thing.

I guess I'll know if it suddenly goes down for 5 months or its GM starts PMSing and kills everyone with a mass amount of monsters. D:

I'll bet 10 bucks it either doesn't make it or goes down the moment it comes up. They they'll say they need another week or month to fix it, heh.

Sure enough, it isn't working.

I can sympathize a bit with g&g, though. Just as the users are going nuts with the delays, g&g is probably kicking themselves in the head over their inability to get this thing working. The webmasters on the sites in particular are probably feeling overworked.

...

Sure. Log-in system. Serious business.

You gotta feel some pity for them. They've been working for weeks trying to get this SSO thing to work and it just won't. =/

Are any of you guys going to wait when it actually is up for the massive noob flood to die down a bit, or are you going to jump right in? I think I might just start just to get a head start. If I do find anything interesting or helpful, I 'll post it here for those waiting for the insanity to die down a little. I just hope we won't get too many bastards from MS coming over though.

Update
I found a slightly helpful pre-faq? on another forum from someone who has played the jap version of trickster.

I'm gonna TRY and play when it opens, but general opinion of the future Tricksters in #rtfo is "make characters to get names, and wait"

Actually, we're all pretty much just waiting for the damn thing to go up so we can play. It's just gotten to the point that if we have to wait until some ungodly hour, we might as well make sure we get the names first then play again later when we're not about to pass out.

If it actually goes up at its scheduled time (2 AM Friday, PST) I'll be playing for sure. Newbie rush be screwd (I'll be one of them :( )

I downloaded the game in hopes of playing it when it starts up also. Hopefully I could get a good name also...

Although, I highly doubt the name I want will be taken by the time this is all ready.

LOVE IS OVER

•12:38PM• <Lacerta> Some of you will never be our friends again.
•12:38PM• <Lacerta> Some of you will never be our friends again.
•12:38PM• <Lacerta> Some of you will never be our friends again.
•12:38PM• <Grawl> "Some of you will never be our friends again." <- lol

Trust some korean company to fuck up their own planning with uncomprehendable business partners.

I don't know what the rush is for names, the game is only slightly hyped for it's RO-esque look and MMORPG offerings. Apparently the max level is 999, and levelling slows down dramatically after 100, but that shouldn't be much of an issue because people won't be maxing out their characters any time soon.

An open beta is an open beta... there are hundreds of people clamoring to start playing. I must admit I'm not great at name originality, so the sooner I can get on the better.

Also, Trickster changed their apology. See if you can spot some differences!

ARE WE NOT FRIENDS ANYMORE

Hahaha, I bet G&G made them change it. This is so pathetic.

This is really dissapointing. Me and my friend were up at 1:30 in the morning waiting to go on and then this piece of crap shows up on the website. I feel betrayed and geeky.

WE ARE NO LONGER FRIENDS TRICKSTER. NO LONGER.

All because of a crappy log-in system? Sheesh...

Another find. Good, I guess, for deciding what build you want to do.

http://mytrickster.net/forum/trickster-online-guides/

Just in case anyone hadn't seen it yet. So what does this mean? Who knows! Testing will be done by those times, but it doesn't mean the server will be up, necessarily. We can only wait and see.

It's probably the time when they will finally see if SSO is worth using or not.

Although it seems all the other games were working just fine until Trickster came along.

looooooooooooooooooooool

Anyway, here's hoping it's out by the end of the week.

How nice.

We should start a betting pool on when it will open or something. Prize being bragging rights.

Seems like they are actually doing something.

http://gamengame.com/en/sso.gif

Ntreev, will we still be friends after this?

I look forward to being "friends" with you all in this game soon!

No one had time to post it.

It's up.

Sorry Nvtree, I'm no longer your friend!

Maybe it's because your elaborate login system is a complete pile of steaming crap!

Hopefully next time you'll hire programmers who are not highschool dropouts!

IN THE BEGINNING

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/4...hot0000tw6.jpg

My first experience on an official server of any kind. The amount of people is just... lag-inducing.

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/7...hot0001qn2.jpg

A group of us wailing on some unfortunate... white... blobby thing. Kari is standing around. We won!

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y95...enshot0003.jpg

We lost! Death by some boxing turtle thing.

The game is certainly much nicer when it's in a language you can actually understand. Login still sucks, though! Anything that MAKES you run IE in order to play it is kind of dodgy.

I was kind of pissed at the start since they didn't start EXACTLY at 2 AM PST. Figuring that they would delay again til some "even" time (like the half hour or something) I started watching something else... then at around 20 minutes in I checked and people were logging on. Crap! Logged in in a hurry and tried to get the names I wanted, but.... &*^*&#$^. Ah well.

Playing this game makes me feel like going outside and kicking pigeons. Let's start getting character names from people in here. My two so far are:

FrostyBuns (Bunny hunny!) and i'm gonna make another one later on called Megido. (still unsure about class though)

Hm... I tried to download this game. But way too long and too slow downloading it normally. Can I download it with download accerator to speed it up without messing up file?

Wah. cant even start the game. I press start game after the full screen window comes up and it freezes. Damn. I guess I'll wait a day or two...

Alright, I quit. I can't stand the login system. It refuses to work on my computer. Firefox can login fine to the SSO system, but it simply does not work with IE. I've flushed the cache, cleared cookies, disabled/enabled activeX add-ons, set/unset proxies, rebooted, and SSO still only manages to successfully log me in after literally a few dozen tries. Considering that you can only launch the game via the activeX control in IE, and the game is still a buggy piece of software which kicks me out for stuff like switching maps, I'm not going to bother anymore.

This is a shame because what I saw of Trickster was pretty intriguing, but if ntreev decides to make it a pain in the ass for players to access the game, they're just shooting themselves in the foot.

Do you people even read updated on the main site? I gues I might as well post it again



If you can't connect...8/4/2006 6:49 PM
Hello! This is GM Mobius.

If you are having a hard time connecting to the server, it is because there is 2,500 player limitation for Closed Beta service. Our server has been maxed out with players just few hours after the service started. But don't give up yet. If somebody logs-off out of that 2,500, you always have the chance to fill in the empty spot.

Hey, it's our favorite Korean MMO poster. How are those +11's coming along?

Server connection aside, there have been some cases of people having trouble logging into tricksteronline.com / gamengame.com, so it's not as if it's an isolated problem...

Chill, man. Connection issues of various sorts are not always related to server capacity.

Hahaha didn't risk making +11 out of my +11 Pole Axe since the last time I posted on Ragnarok section.

Anyways, I hope they would release the damned full version already. =O

The beta just opened ._.

I can't get past the character login screen. It disconnects me and sends me back to the Game Start screen.

FRUSTRATION

It's down now so they can add another channel.

You realize my problem has nothing to do with the player limitation, right?

Have you even PLAYED THE GAME?

Just try again on monday. BTy this is my first post off my psp with a leech connection off my neighbor. yey.

During Korean beta =O so that counts right? [which was way back in 2003 ] =O

Was it using Game & Game then? With that ActiveX login mechanism? I seriously doubt that, because they would have ironed out the bugs a long time ago if it were the case.

Nevertheless, I was being rather harsh on Ntreev; it isn't their fault that the login system wasn't working, rather it's gamengame that dropped the ball. Once they fixed it though, Ntreev's servers are actually quite stable for a beta.

I finally got to play (not even at my own house but my friend's) and the amount of lag was actually not too bad considering the fact that the second island was near full. I leveled up to about ten before the server disconnected me and would'nt let me log on again for no reason. You can add me (kawaiibox) if you want, otherwise I'll go looking for you guys myself.