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Okay guys. After a bit of thinking. I am going to try and open my Final Fantasy site! However, I do need some staff. It is a daunting project to work on alone. And I want to see this thrive, and I feel if I do this all alone I will get overwhelmed. So if you're interested, please shoot me a PM or message me on Discord (nightbloom#8636)!



Esuna is an original fantasy roleplaying adventure with heavy inspiration from Final Fantasy: XIV, Final Fantasy: Explorers, Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles and Final Fantasy: Tactics. And probably more. Anything Final Fantasy to be honest. It has been a WIP for about six years now, and it hasn't opened because I was in college dealing with heavy coursework, but then after I graduated, I got focused on my career. However, with the quarantine and stay-at-home in place, I find myself struggling for things to do sometimes. Now's a good a time as ever to try and see this thing through!

Premise
A long, long time ago, four dieties created the world of Terra. One diety in particular was jealous of their sibling's popularity and used her powers to stir the pot. She cast a terrible myst called Miasma into the world and laughed as its inhabitants fought to find ways to survive. The other three dieties banded together to try and come up with a solution to protect their precious creatures; and so, Grand Crystals were formed which created strong barriers that blocked the Miasma from spreading. Great empires were built surrounding the three Grand Crystals that were created. Life was good, and empires flourished. There was never a need to explore any more, and the fear of miasma kept them inside. However, the militant empire Gartia began to use their crystal's power to experiment with different magiteks... They realized that, slowly, their crystal's power was beginning to wane. They were the first to venture outside their safe haven. Not wanting to be left behind, the benevolent empire of Lillium also gathered groups to head out. A sort of truce was made when the first Grand Crystal was found. The adventurers who left were now part of an Adventurer's Guild, one dedicated to expanding the new world in peace. But peace does not last forever...

In the newly discovered land of Amostra, what will your role be? An adventurer seeking fame? A gatherer wanting to find the newest flora and fauna? Anything can happen.

Some Tidbits
  • Activity will be pretty lax, save for official boss battles. I don't want them to take months and I don't want them to grow stale so those will have requirements but other than that, very lax!
  • FC's will be of anime/manga nature. Though if you have a XIV character, feel free to use them! Gpose and mods can produce lovely images so feel free to use them. That being said, there are no official races on the site... However, that may change?? I am not sure if leaving it so open will be a good idea, but I'd love for any sort of race to be made though I know finding certain FC's for some races will be hard. The only issue is with the graphics that are required in the mini-profile and apps and stuff, but I guess if the placeholders are of good quality images, it'd be admissable. IDK! Anyone have any suggestions?
  • While combat will be a focus of the site (and I have an entire system made for that, too), there are opportunities to make a more relaxed character. Much like in FFXIV, there are Disciples of War/Magic who do the dirty work of killing monsters, but then there are also Disciples of Hand/Land who craft and gather and can help build up the town and give goodies to their fellow comrades.

    However, the system for the DoH/L are kind of clunky and I was thinking about reworking them. The way it is now, those members can go on "quests" to gather and craft. A gatherer can gather items once per day in a personal thread, and then however many times they want to in a normal quest thread. Crafters can obtain items by trading with others or even gathering themselves (since I am allowing dual-classing). Then its up to the user's imagination to craft. Got a bunch of sticks and twine? Make a fishing pole. Once the recipe is successful, they don't need to make a whole separate thread to gather those materials again. It can make the "grind" of getting materials a whole lot smoother since technically, they'd only need to do it once. Though maybe with special items, they'd need to gather those each time for recipes... Hm. Like I said, I could make a lot of changes to this.
  • The world is very malleable. I even am allowing an item in the shop that once purchased, a member can submit their own "area" to add to the site's lore! Amostra is wholly undiscovered save for some grassy plains surrounding its small main city. There could be so much more to discover and I'd love to have members be involved in that too.
  • To explain the combat system a bit, I am using ranks. So rank D is the weakest and it goes to S. To rank up, one must purchase a "voucher" from the store using Gil as the site's currency. One must have the appropriate voucher in order to upgrade their weapons/armor. So for instance, to even have access to Rank C weapons/armor, you must first purchase a Rank C voucher. There are certain "actions" you can do in posts, and things such as status effects will be determined by dice rolls. Easy peasy, even means success, odd means no. Or whatever the DM wants.
  • There will be many boss battles, and even some against beloved Final Fantasy bosses! Some of the cities might get raided, but there will also be some relaxed events to participate in as well!
  • Right now, it is hosted on Proboards however! I have been given permission from Leap to transfer the skin she made me over to jcink. So if anyone wants to help me do that, then I'll totally host on jcink!


What I Am Looking For
  • A Co-Admin to help keep things running smooth if ever I need a break or cannot get to the computer for whatever reason. They'll also have control over most if not everything that I can do. Make events, accept bios, lead quests, make interesting items/accessories for prizes, advertise, help keep things moving along, be active and nice in the Discord. Y'know, basically a co-captain. Should be pretty self-explanatory.
  • Dungeon Masters will solely be in charge of making quests, creating items (with my approval) for the prizes and whatnot.
  • Event Planners will help think of fun events and plot changes to help move the site along.
  • Advertising Mod will be in charge of sorting ads and also posting our ad on sites. This can be a paid position since I know advertising can be tedious. IC currency of course! Though that being said, Advertising is a way for anyone to earn Gil, but it is not required all of the time like an Advertising Mod might.


I ah... I can't really think of anything else I'd like to add. If you have any questions, just ask them here or feel free to shoot me a PM or Discord message (again, Discord user is nightbloom#8636)!

PS: The image does lead to the site. Feel free to poke around and read everything if you want to get a better feel for it all. It is NOT OPEN though, so if you join and post an app, nothing will be done yet lol!
last edit on May 4, 2020 2:21:59 GMT by NIGHTBLOOM

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So I'm mostly just popping in to offer an idea for the face claim situation! You could always have it so that races/characters that are harder to find face claims for can use aesthetic images and a written description instead? I've seen that method employed super effectively before for people who either can't find a proper face claim or don't feel comfortable using one, it's a nice way to open up to the amount of races you want available without being jarring or sticking to the default images! Just a bit of food for thought!
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honestly i would be down to convert a skin to jcink if it meant i could exist on this on jcink. i just. know i would not want to be staff because i'm just constantly hecking exhausted by the very thought of staff work these days tbeh.

but also it might not be a bad idea to just. "you can make any character race that appears in literally any final fantasy game" (so like miqo'tes and sylphs and such from xiv would be fine as would any viera or aegyl from xii and just..... yeah). or to just drop the crafting + gathering mechanics just to keep things from being too tedious (since imo most people aren't gonna specialize in those classes) or do something simple like that adventuring will drop really basic "raw material grade x" that can be used by crafting specialists to make unique weapons / armor. just. idk i remember my own deer in headlights moment when i was working on aetherflow for this exact problem and it was such a nightmare tbeh so. yeah.
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just wanted to pop in and say that i love doh/dol things and will make about 1+ characters of it when the site opens probably u//w//u clunky gathering/crafting mechanics are my jam. that's why i mine in ffxiv. that's why i chop trees. it's the only thing that gives me life, gathering 1 oak log every 4 minutes for the chance of earning millions. i'll set alarms on my phone to gather things on forums. it is unimaginable fun for me, and i would be very sad for it to be cancelled altogether.

i have not read super far into your pages, so it might be that it's done already, but i would like it very much if there's collaboration between war and disciple classes... like, fighters can bring home mats and then with those mats crafters can make cool weapons/etc for them that maybe gives a boon (+1/2/3 to dice rolls, one rechargable chance to take two actions in a turn, extended limit break, temporary HP) for a fight or two before breaking/losing its potency/etc?   in addition to like, regular potions and things

just some thoughts! 
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That's exactly what I was thinking for the FC situation! I'd allow any race but their images could just be placeholders. That is completely fine with me. I might even make some that people can use if they use certain races, just in case they can't find any.

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Since both of your posts address the crafters/gatherers, I'll just tag you both at once. xD

I am allowing any race, yeah. That won't change now. However, I do allow DoW/M classes to have 1 DoH/L class (I believe?) or DoH/L can specialize in two. I don't think the system at the moment is too tedious? Battle classes will be the ones that will be able to get rare materials from monsters, seeing as gatherers/crafters aren't going to do battles (that way people can have a chill class/character if they really don't like combat on sites or something) but Battle classes can still be involved. And crafting isn't going to be staff-tedious, as stated in the thread, it is up to the player's imagination. My example was that they gathered some eggs, milk and wheat from a quest. What could you possibly make with that? Probably the basics of a cake, or bread, right? That's all there is to it. After a quick look-over from staff, we'll deem it ok, and they'll earn that "Recipe" and will no longer need to go on those tedious quests to get 99 more items. They'll just know how to make the cakes. Throw in a monster part from an enemy and it may even enhance it somehow. As Syhrinx suggested, some items could have cool effects on them and that is totally fine. However, staff will probably have to give these ones the ok, but regular recipes? Want to make a neat sword? Have some iron ore you don't know what to do with? Yeah, there ya go, make a sword and sell it ICly, which is something else I want to see happen. Sell recipes and crafted items and yeah!

However, the "cool effects" aren't going to be super complicated. As it is now, there's no HP/MP system and I don't plan on adding one. Cool effects could be like, extra damage or maybe it is emblazoned with fire. Stuff like that. c:

Hope this answers some questions and gets rid of some concerns?
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Omgosh yessss that would be super lovely.❤️

Also, I thought last night that maybe letting people make their own classes would be fun...? So there'd still be DoW/M categories to split people into, or maybe it could just be tanks, healers, DPS but then people can make their own classes and whatnot. And the magic that's available to purchase would be changed up a bit maybe.

Or should I just leave it as is? At the moment, I still need to implement a few more classes (like machinist, samurai, dancer, etc) but I feel if the new idea is favored, it could make my life easier? lol

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i mean i know i would love custom classes but i say that as someone who is just. making eyes at being able to combo classes across disciplines or add in brand new classes (like a ranger). (and maybe it'll be worth splitting it into like... tanks vs healers vs support/utility dps vs damage-heavy dps since imo dancer and bard play very differently from ninja or black mage.) which can give you easy colors to work with but on the flip side none of the individual custom sprites for the classes (since you'd need to make ones of a similar standard for new classes) so. there are. pros and cons.


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I am extremely interested since I am a fan of all things Final Fantasy. I would definitely join a jcink boards since proboards is not my preferred host. I'm curious since this is a looking to be a stats type boards with all types of races but no set races, does that mean stats will be based on group/fighting class rather than something like race. Or is everyone starting out equal?
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There aren't really stats, just ranks you progress through to power up your character. A problem I've seen with some sites in the past is that it sometimes doesn't make sense that an old, experienced fighter would start out at the lowest rank so I think to remedy that, I could make some canons have "perks" in that they'll start with some free rank ups or something... Maybe. I could also offer rank ups as prizes for contests that way not everyone starts out as a newbie.

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There aren't really stats, just ranks you progress through to power up your character. A problem I've seen with some sites in the past is that it sometimes doesn't make sense that an old, experienced fighter would start out at the lowest rank so I think to remedy that, I could make some canons have "perks" in that they'll start with some free rank ups or something... Maybe. I could also offer rank ups as prizes for contests that way not everyone starts out as a newbie.


Balance it by giving them bad luck at gathering mats/crafting.

Or maybe just give lower ranks a higher crafting skill to start with?
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There aren't really stats, just ranks you progress through to power up your character. A problem I've seen with some sites in the past is that it sometimes doesn't make sense that an old, experienced fighter would start out at the lowest rank so I think to remedy that, I could make some canons have "perks" in that they'll start with some free rank ups or something... Maybe. I could also offer rank ups as prizes for contests that way not everyone starts out as a newbie.
Balance it by giving them bad luck at gathering mats/crafting.

Or maybe just give lower ranks a higher crafting skill to start with?


Hm! Those are interesting ideas. I'll have to figure something out. I'm leaning more towards having lower ranks for other jobs, hmm...

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Just updating all who are interested in this project!

I only have lore left to implement onto the new site. Then I have to add the various threads like apps and claims, and also add items to the shop! The skin is also being recorded for jcink, and I'd love to thank for their help!

So while not quite done, I'm still chuggin' along and will hopefully open soon!

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Still needing some staff members, please! I've changed up quite a few of the systems. There will no longer be a super structured combat system with ranks and whatnot. No more crafting/gathering at the start unless I see a big interest in a system like that.

I am still setting up the lorebook and waiting for the skin, so sit tight! I want to open this very soon~ :3

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