Official Fairy Tail RP Patches

After yesterdays successful implementation of our new LacBook, we are releasing an official patch for those who aren't aware of it.

Members can enjoy the IN CHARACTER interactions on Lacbook here:

LacBook Server Feed

For those who wish to join the server please contact either myself or @Sivvy , you will need to provide an email address to send the invitation to. For multiple character accounts, multiple emails will be required.

Please note this is a site-based server and therefore still abides to the rules of the Code of Conduct.  

Heya guys, this patch is a little more gloomy, but we feel like it is something that should be addressed nonetheless.

We have been receiving numerous complaints about a circumstance connected to Guild discord servers, and after looking into the issues, have determined that there is a problem with them connected to the nature of guild chats, guests, inactive members, and how all of these circumstances tie into one another. Due to this, we have come up with a small list of rulings that we expect guild chats to follow from now on to help enforce some of our other rules and rulings, particularly policies about activity and usergroup status designed to limit or encourage members based on their path on the forum. These rules include:

• "Guests" in official FTRP guild chats. If a character is not an official member of a guild, their player should not have access to a given guild chat, as official FTRP Discord guild chats are meant to be exactly that, chats for the guild and its members. All "Guests" and similar roles or members of the same effective standing are to be removed from official guild chats immediately, even if players in question express intent to join a guild in the future or have joined the guild at some time in the past.
  
  
• Members who have failed a check and members who have been archived. Guild members who have failed a guild activity check (following the parameters as outlined by the individual guild activity checks) are not only to be automatically removed from a guild's discord, they are also to be removed from a guild usergroup in general, and should thus no longer have access to any perk or feature pertaining to the guild in question. The same rule applies to characters who have been archived, as those are similarly classed as inactive, and should thus follow the same basic principle. Members who this rule applies to are to be removed from official FTRP guild chats immediately.
  
  
• Members who are classed as inactive following the activity rules as outlined in the CoC and members who have been on hiatus for more than 3 months. Inactive members, as outlined in the CoC, lose all benefits associated with being in a guild, as they are effectively no longer classed as members of the forum, and are to be removed from official FTRP guild chats immediately. The same applies to members who have been on hiatus for more than 3 months.
  
  
• Additionally, members who are removed due to any of the previous two points should not regain access to the perk of being in a guild chat unless they regain activity following their removal. This can be done at any point after they have been removed from an official guild chat, but activity should be consistent and visible for at least a couple of weeks before they may rejoin an official guild discord chat. This rule is meant to ensure that people don't simply rejoin a usergroup and continue to lurk in given guild chats without being active members of said guild.
  
  
• Any guild, or if determined to be applicable, any single given member ignoring or defying these rulings will prompt staff action, as they would find themselves in breach of CoC #7, and will be handled as such.
  

The rulings and circumstances as outlined above will also be integrated as part of the official CoC. We sincerely apologize for any inconveniences caused by these rulings, but we hope for them to address underlying structural issues and problems that some members of our community have brought up and that we believe to be the best solution for these given issues. Thank you for your understanding.

Seijin has made us an updated Map of Fiore! The link to the Map of Fiore is now gone from the Announcements board. Now you can click the Official Maps widget on the site's sidebar to access the new map.

It looks like this:


Thanks, Seijin! <3

After positive feedback from our members, we have finally introduced Plot Companies & Business Licences to the forum.

You can now register an in character company affiliated with your character and even run an IC business through it!

See this thread here to see how to create your Plot Company.

Small patch. The limits for how many normal spells one can allocate to certain ranks within magic have been raised in light of recent changes to spell slots and their interaction with magic. See this section of the magic rules for the change in question, specifically under "Normal Spell Rank Limits".

Couple of small updates:

• The templates for all shops have been updated to include "Current Jewels" in their templates in order to ensure users indicate how many jewels they have at the time of any given purchase. This is a change implemented in order to make it easier for Staff to keep track of jewel numbers before and after purchases, as well as purchase histories in general.
  
  
• The Character Template and the Equipment Template have been updated in order to clarify them a little more and make it easier for users to fill them out.
  
  
• Weak Armors and Weak Weapons have been buffed slightly. Instead of receiving no abilities, these grades of equipment now receive a single D Rank ability. The changes can be found in the Equipment Rules
  

As it has now reached it's max capacity of 25 members, Rune Knights is closed to new members until further notice.

Hey Everyone, Admins here again with a new patch. This time we have a brand-new system for you to look at, and enjoy!
Some of you may remember a certain suggestion which was made, and approved, a while ago which requested Rivals to be added to the site. Well, they are finally here! We are happy to announce the new Rival System and Rival Registration Topic.
Rivals are a new mechanic that act like teams and mentor/mentee, where two Rival characters can go on a job together, and gain special bonus.

• Please be sure to read all about the new system in the Character Rules.
  
• In addition to that, you can sign up to be Rivals in the new Registration Thread.
  

After a purge of inactive accounts, Rune Knights is once again open to new members!

Small patch. Homing effects have been added and clarified under the Magic Rules. See here under "Homing Effects" for the exact change.

As from this point onwards, Onyx Moon has officially been disbanded. Thus meaning there is now an available guild slot upon amongst Independent Guilds. Should members have ideas on how to fill said slot, please contact a member of the Admin team first before submitting a suggestion thread of the forum.

That being said, we want to make it explicitly clear that any form of drama that might result from this is similarly not tolerated, whether it might occur in DMs, PMs, any official guild chat or the main discord chat or the site as a whole. Behavior designed to start drama, result in drama, or incite behavior that, in any way, could be interpreted as a breach of our Code of Conduct can and will be punished. The site should not and will not tolerate toxicity from this point onward.

Small patch. In the past, we've noticed some things about guild creation, so we've made some changes. If guilds are too easy to make, they tend not to stick around, as seen by a more recent swift rise and fall of guilds. As a forum whose central theme is guilds, we need guilds that have the best chances of success. As such we have made the following changes to guild creation requirements:

• We're raising the rank of the potential Guild Master character to S rank. This way not only do we get more dedicated and reliable candidates who are invested in their characters and the guilds they make, but the guild master will actually be able to use the Guild Spells created for their guild, which is neat.
  
  
• The cost of making a guild has been raised to 10,000,000 jewel. Yes, this seems like a lot, but with consideration to the site economy, it isn't as unattainable as it seems. Additionally, no single person should be paying for a guild on their own. This change is to foster more cooperation between the potential guild master and their 4 pledged members needed for approval. If others have to donate to the cause, they are more likely to follow through, which in turn, gives the new guild the best chance to succeed with reliable members.
  
  
• The rank to inherit a guild has been raised from B rank to A rank, which is now stated within the Guild Masters category.
  

The Guild Creation requirements stated in the Guild and Faction Rules have been updated accordingly, which you should read for yourself despite my lovely summary. :D

We have a new guild! Meliora Vitae has officially been approved and is open for joining! Everyone welcome our newest Independent Guild!

Hello everybody, the Admin team here with another patch, this time concerning something that has undoubtedly garnered your attention in one form or another. After careful consideration, we have determined that so-called "Grind Threads" break the set balance of the site in major ways, not just concerning the Jewel economy of and overall availability of jewels on the site, but also the natural rank progression and the effort involved in that process. Ranking up has simply become too easy, and the process by which those rank-ups are achieved effectively game the system we have at current. As such, we felt compelled to introduce a change based on these specific instances of site job, meaning that from now on the maximum number of characters that can go on a single given job together is limited to 6 players at max. The exact change can be found in the Job Rules under Word Count. Please note 2 things:

• 1) We are aware that this limits larger social threads which are started with the intention to be used as large job threads or guild social events in a major way, and be aware that we are working on a system to address that particular issue. Rest assured that major social threads and guild socials can still be performed for the time being, though the new rule will have to be followed. Please also note that this does not apply to site events or guild scale threads.
  
• 2) Jobs with more than 6 participants that have been started before this rule change will be allowed to continue until their word count is met. The jobs in question will be allowed a job sign up and a job ending, though as soon as the jobs this applies to are handed in for approval, the rule as specified above will take effect on the threads in question, so please be aware of that.
  

Another small change I don't want to forget to mention is the fact that we archived the "Sacred Libary" subforum and added an "Archived Lineages" subforum since custom lineages have and have had their own section of the forum for a while now (not unlike magic apps, for example). This makes things a little more consistent.

That said, thank you all for your attention and time. If you have any questions about the patch, let a member of the Admin team know and we will gladly answer them.

So after some discussion at the magazine, going forward there will be some rule changes when it comes to featured mages vote. This does not affect the current vote, but will need to be taken into account for the next issue. As such we have put together a Feature Guide which includes all the information of feature nominations, trackers of previously featured characters, as well as other ways that you can get featured in the magazine.

https://www.fairytail-rp.com/t43015-sorcerer-magazine-feature-guide

Hello my dudes, it's time for another little patch. We've looked at Requips and Take-Overs recently, and decided to change the way passives for these two spells work, specifically in regards to MP cost. Where previously, passive abilities were free when used in Requips or Take-Overs, a small MP cost has been added for including passives in these spells now, specifically 50% of rank MP cost equivalent to the rank of the spell. This change does not apply to summons, as summon passives, since summons are separate entities from their summoner, may only apply to the summon itself and do not automatically translate over to their summoner, which has been explicitly clarified in the rules.

The changes to the rules can be found under Requip and Take Over. The Spell Templates have also been updated to include MP cost for Requips and Take-Overs using passive abilities.

Heya. Another patch for you all, this time addressing Summoning spells. In our effort to rebalance certain magic and spell types and how they compare to one another, we have decided to allow for summon spells to include pets as physical equipment in a manner similar to requip spells including weapons, armor, and items as part of their spells for additional bonuses. While this is potentially expensive, the benefit gained from this inclusion of equipment for Summons is, of course, not to be underestimated. The exact change can be found in This section of the Magic Rules as well as the Magic and Spell Templates. That's all for today~

It has long been teased, but we are finally done with the complete rework of our in-game world. The entire continent of Ishgar has been reworked and all of the nations have been rewritten. At the same time, a set date has been introduced to the in-game world as, from now on, time will progress in our in-universe setting. These are, of course, the first steps to a cohesive and official site lore, which will be fleshed out and implemented fully in the future of FTRP. That being said, as this is a big change to the world of FTRP, there are some rules that are outlined in the thread you will find below, which we expect our members to adhere to when utilizing the nations of Ishgar in plot. It is also important to note that, from this point onwards, no new nations may be added to the continent of Ishgar outside of official site events. All nations supposedly located in Ishgar and not found on the map are not part of our official site canon and thus do not exist in our in-game universe.

The updated nations and detailed descriptions for each and every one of them can be found here

We, the admin team, are pleased to announce the complete revamp of the site's dungeons!

With a new more functional system and set of rules in place, that will hopefully make participation in the dungeons a little more cohesive. In addition there is a renovated list of prompts and most excitingly, our very own Dungeon Shop! Stocked with all sorts of exciting things that you can spend your tokens on! You can see the list of new rules here.

Eyy first patch of the new year.

We made a small change to guild spells and H++ spells that include equipment.

The change itself is as follows:

Linked Equipment: For certain Guild Spells or H++ Spells equipment may be included in their creation, as per the magic rules for applicable types of spells. When Equipment is included in such spells, it must be of Artifact (+) Grade, and no other grade of equipment may be linked to a Guild Spell or H++ Spell in order to receive the bonus for linked equipment available to some types of spells.

All guild spells and H++ spells that are affected by this change need to upgrade to the appropriate grade of equipment, namely Artifact (+), in order to be allowed / used in their current form.

You can find this change here

Heya guys, coming to you with a new patch. This time we reworked the Magic Rules, specifically how they apply, slightly, which should have a big impact on PvP and combat using PvP systems.

• First of all, the problem we have been facing in regards to spell stacking (i.e. combining a multitude of spells or abilities to use them all at the same time or making and casting what essentially amounts to the same spell multiple times and attacking/defending/healing with all of them at the same time), or whatever else you might want to call it, has been addressed in this current patch. The change in regards to this can be found here under "Spell Stacking".
  
  
• Further, Multi Target spells have been reworked slightly, meaning that they are now limited in the number of projectiles one can create with them or the number of attacks one can make with them in a given post if based on an Offensive Category spell, where previously, this only applied to Defensive, Supportive, and Auxiliary Multi Target spells to prevent stacking on the same target. Multi Target possessing the potential to essentially do infinite damage does not fit with our rework magic system, and this change has been a long time coming. As usual, the rules for Multi Target spells can be found here.
  
  
• Lastly, we have implemented, or rather, for those who remember, brought back the ability for players to create and use Fusion Spells. As spells now can not be used to attack, defend, or heal simultaneously, Fusion Spells can be used as a creative means to retain some of the potential combination aspect that came with such mechanics. The rules on Fusion Spells can be found here. The Character Rules and Perks have also been updated accordingly.