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Sky Trotter


Bearded brony from the beginning that wears silly hats and write stories.

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Hmmm, sounds interesting. Will wait for more chapters before I read though.

These type of story's are what i love to read. Keep up the great writing.

Just finished this and I love it.

I find myself wanting more........ good job.

To be more accurate, he was a professional level grinder, item hunter, and Info Broker.

wwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttttttttt.............. JESUS-KUN WTH ARE YOU DOING IN THIS FIC!?

MMMMMOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEE!!! BEFORE I SICK CHARA ON YO ASS!!

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I AGREE WHOLE HEARTEDLY!!!!

Pls dear God more

If you not update this anymore, can I kick your ass? :flutterrage:

9619858
Keep calm my dude, I'm gonna work on it. Just had to work on an older project first. They have been waiting for a rather long time for an update. Life likes to shit on you sometimes.

9619869
Hahaha
Yeah life suck sometimes... at least I know you're still alive...
looking forward to the next chapter... :twilightsmile:

I can already tell this story is going to be fucking fantastic just from this first chapter

9632052
but chara can't stay dead .-.

MORE I NEED MORE!!

There’s a secret tenth hell where you are forced to play Fortnite BR 24/7 with a bunch of squeakers. We- I mean, they only reserve that for the especially bad ones like Hitler.

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for why? why would you wish something like that on me?

9708143
No, "you" as in like second person view

Also moar pls

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they go to the dungeon.

I am hooked and wish to see more. However, you don't need to rush. I can wait.

Celestia giggled lightly “Yes, she does. But she does produce some of the best deserts in Canterlot

Edit: desserts

Also been a while, can't wait for next update

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Thanks for the heads up, I missed that. lolz

Smirking, Makarov Announced, “Well then, as a wise man once said ‘Allons-y.’”

:rainbowlaugh::rainbowlaugh::rainbowlaugh:

Damn you cliffhangers!!!:flutterrage::flutterrage:

Never forget to prep. Those that do end up dying more often then those that do not. I eagerly await the next chapter.

Your earlier chapters were really well done they had good details nice story building nice world building some James things said about the future you know good foreshadowing And I’m assuming the later chapters your writing style has changed a bit it seems like you’re trying to push chapters are quicker or the stories being a bit more rushed but it’s still nice and a decent pace as well I’ll keep my eye out on the story

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Thank you for the input, I have been having issues with getting up the will to do any writing for a while now due to some life events that have really just killed my enthusiasm in general. I have been working through them and trying to improve it so that the same tone can be carried throughout. I'm not sure which James you are referencing, but I know that there is always room for improvement.

Smirking, Makarov Announced, “Well then, as a wise man once said ‘Allons-y.’”

YUS

Well, it were nice so far and I really like your world building. I hope you have a plan, though.

Celestia calmly walked up to stand next to him. The mane Six looked at each other before nodding and joining her. “Alright, here we go.” Taking his staff in hand, Makarova began to speak, “Because we are only doing PVE, we shouldn’t need to worry about things like false life info or teleportation delay or redirection. So I will just go with the basic boosts for now and see what comes up later.” Closing his eyes, he began to cast. {Lion’s heart}{Greater Magic Sheild}{Greater Ability Boost}{Luck Boost}{Greater Protection Negative Engery}{Greater Protection Evil}{Greater Agility Boost}{Greater Health Boost}. As each spell was announced, a different shade of light draped over the group. Whispers had started up once they came out of the guildhall, but they were once again silenced as he rambled off the various buff spells.

Why does this remind me of overlord?

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Because you got the reference. Lolz

What fun is there in making sense.

That sounds familiar, somehow...


But - why make the magic system that way indeed? Well, the only thing I don't agree with is level-locking access to this feature to max-level - everything else makes sense. Of course the arcane abilities would use their own language. Of course it would be a pain to wrap your head around how it works. It's called the goddamn arcane, isn't it? If you're going to be a master of it, of course it's going to take effort and years of time.


One thing I often - practically always - see in video games that feature magic of any sort, is that if you're underleveled for a particular spell or ability, you can't use it at all. That doesn't make sense, does it? A 10yo can't drive a minivan (can he both see the road and reach the pedals?), but it shouldn't stop him from trying to. The results would probably be either hilarious or tragic, but such is life, isn't it?

*** edit 2020-05-08 ***
In other news, a ten-year-old actually stole his parents' minivan and went on a merry car chase (going as fast as 55mph/90kmph the wrong way) with the police. He took his 4yo sister along for the ride. Kinda proves my point, doesn't it?
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Attempting a spell you're wildly underleveled for should result in totally unpredictable effects - including MP exhaustion, HP damage, possibly even death. If you're just slightly off-par however, it should usually work, though at reduced effectiveness and increased MP cost.


The intent was that you had to craft the spell perfectly for it to work. If even a single character were out of place in your coding, the spell would fail, and you would lose the XP invested into its creation. There was no debugging program available to prevent this.

Now that is unreasonably severe. I mean, an XP cost that would be forfeit for not being able to pull off a critical coding success, on top of all of the hours spent on crafting it? Also, as a programmer myself, that's a handicap I'd consider "breaking" for the functionality, making the entire thing generally not worth going into at all, unless you could gain administrator-equivalent abilities through it!

Writing good code takes time, effort, and repetition - even if you are good enough to mostly get things right on the first try. Out of all the other coders I know, I know exactly none that would be able to pull this off without investing hundreds of levels into failed attempts, and exactly that number of them would be willing to give this a go more than once after learning of these penalties for failure. And some of these people I consider some of the best (though I'm aware that only really speaks to my ability, not theirs...), and in my mind - if there's anyone who'd have a good chance of succeeding in this endeavour, it'd be one of them.

I'm pretty sure all of them, despite some being avid MMO gamers, would consider this "not even barely worth the effort" - especially considering that the initial cost (which I assume would only increase for upgrades) is already literally the highest XP cost in the game.

I'm sorry, but this doesn't sit well with me at all. Such a feature would only be geared towards people who literally spend their entire lives in the game, and how many among them would be able to pull all of this off (including taking extra time to pre-spec their stat progress so that the character wouldn't be useless for this purpose)? It's like the devs don't want people to use it - by making it punishingly difficult bordering on impossible. In my opinion, there'd realistically be at most two gamers capable of using this to any effect, at any time.

Also, if this really works like a programming language, then the code to create a spell is probably incredibly complex in symbol meaning relationships. I mean, if you can't copy-and-paste stuff around, you either need to have a dictionary at hand, or the code needs to be compact. I can't imagine trying to code several dozen pages' worth of complexity, in a situation where I can't debug it w/o cost, can't export and copy-paste... this is ridiculous! I'm not sure the human brain is geared towards storing and processing that sort of complexity, no matter how good you are. It's just not in our nature, and I doubt 200 years are enough to influence this by a meaningful margin.


Though, in the end, I'm sure there'd be at least one forum where you'd hire people to run XP for you, and where you'd discuss this coding language, include stuff to copy down... and eventually some kind soul would just create an online generator. You can't put a "kill code" inside a language that would discern what it's being run on, unless it's incredibly interwoven w/ the game code itself! Any sufficiently advanced simulator should be able to replicate the virtual machine, and that'd signify the end of that particular race...

He had always had issues with saying things before thinking them through and because of this, he had made a genuine effort to only speak via text as to make sure that he could edit what he was saying.

That sounds familiar. Eerily familiar.

Allons-y

Oh look, another Doctor Who reference.

At least it's the Tenth one, thank the Nine... ;]


Please tell me you intend to produce more, Author. Things are starting to seem fun!

say,you gonna update any time soon :scootangel:

Sunny approves of OP wizards.:pinkiecrazy:

ENCORE!!!!! ENCORE!!!!!

*knock,knock,knock* hello, you gonna update soon :rainbowhuh:

MAKAROV LIVES!!!!!

IT LIVES🤣🤣🤣 and danmmm son the ending of the chapter was just too funny lol🤣🤣🤣💩 danm... hot mom look indeed, i hope you keep doing more soon and awsome work, im reading it again😅
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In a distant land Luna sneezed(might be a good extra)

Comment posted by Sky Trotter deleted Jan 21st, 2020
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