Narcosis

Clearing a new live for the first time gives players 25 FP; clearing a live on all difficulties gives us 500 FP. That's what I remember, at least. Perhaps there are other ways to obtain additional FP as a bonus, but none I am currently aware of.

Practically none of the stuff I read is affected. Thank gods. Actually, no - there are some. I'm annoyed now. It was ought to happen someday. I'm kinda sad for people who's favourite works and artist galleries got taken down; Fakku did a dick move, but you can't say what they did was wrong; it's called competition, and whenever commercial work gets involved, you can expect things like these to happen. The real problem is that e(x)-hentai is a non-profit group effort to catalogue and group up scanlations; they are in a lost position right from the start and all they can do is either take down all the stuff, or wait out this whole shitstorm and pray for no more troubles afterwards. There's a lot of other annoying things, that boogle me; one of them being artists with no real ownership rights of their own dojin works. The japanese publishing market is preety oppresive when it comes to that and publishers often demand full rights for the work upon publishing; in that way, they become the legal owners, while the only thing artists get are money (which aren't any big sums, either; it's quite laughable). In that way, they are devoid of any influence on their own work - whatever happens to it afterwards is not their business anymore.

Now imagine, if SS had well-written story and tasteful h-scenes...

Same here. ...and not this thing again.

MMO'S were never free in the past. If anything, they were B2P and you had to pay a monthly fee as well; F2P is a modern trend, coined in early 2000's. To be honest, LL:SIF is only fun because we're not able to play it all the time; if we'd be able to, we would throw our smartphones and tablets away into the corner after a week or two. That's how most mobile games work nowadays. Don't forget that LP's main purpose of existence is to actually provide an impassable wall, which requires p2w methods in order to be negated; Klab devs also have to make a living and pay licensing fees. Competition? Don't make me laugh, as there's no such thing in LL:SIF; it's just an online scoreboard, that doesn't say anything about the skills of players. Don't even make me start an offtopic about mmorpg's, otherwise I'll preety much bust any myth you'll throw at me. It's enough I've spent the last two years trying to tell people how horrible TERA's business model was. The rest is a matter of personal preferences. And I'd rather leave it at that. What matters is that LL:SIF is fun, nevertheless of P2W aspects.

It wouldn't make any sense; think of LP as girls' stamina. If people would be able to play 24/7, LL:SIF would require some heavy rebalancing and design changes. Without it, the most active players would quickly max out their teams and KLab wouldn't get any revenue, either. LP exist to balance the game and give it a meaning, since there's no fun finishing everything within a few days - most people would get bored after that and possibly even drop the game completely. Actually, I'm not going for the serious looks, nor entirely traditional settings. I want to follow current trends, therefore I'm not aiming for them to be, or look purely mythological. I know monstergirls is a rather broad term, but for me it's mostly about blending girls with various interesting creatures; some of them might be mythological, others not. Let's not forget about moe, either. Therefore, I'd say that catgirl Rin wouldn't be that much of a monstergirl, since it's too vague (unless you're talking about nekomata or something similiar), but making Kotori a sheepgirl (female satyr?) - along with fur, animal legs and horns - would be something I'm aiming for. To be honest, I nearly forgot about this and so far it seems like the best choice x3 It's one of potential ideas. I kind of like it the most, but jorōgumo Umi sounds quite appealing as well. I find birdlike creatures a bit too much, especially in case of minimal anthropomorphism - it would look funny to say the least, other than that it's rather hard to meaningfully combine birdlike features with humanoid bodies. I thought about mermaids already. It's one of the possibilities, tho I can't imagine Nozomi in that form. While half human - half fish concepts remain completely traditional, I was thinking more of amphibian creatures in general - very long tails, interdigital webbing, external gills etc. Not sure, if I could somehow bind it with one of the girls, but I haven't covered them all yet. I'm really hyped for this as well. Drayds are mythological creatures, which are often linked to various plantlike creatures in general; I think alraune would be more interesting, tho I'm not sure yet which girl besides Kotori could fit that idea. Perhaps Hanayo? The only problem is that she likes to eat a lot and has a preety voluptuous body; I wanted to make use of these traits. Nozomi's breast rubs are a classic

I was actually considering jorōgumo for Umi as well, since it could fit her traditional side. Kotori is a rather timid, gentle girl with a positive outlook on life; it reminds of flowers in general, although she has that sort of confidence and pride; timid beauty and lethal monstrosity are a great match. I'm not that sure of Eli yet; the choice was an impulse, though it seems to fit her personality. If anyone has better ideas, be sure to tell. I really can't imagine Nico as anything else than a lil' dragongirl. She has a fiery temper, remains passionate about nearly anything she does and her pride reaches majestic levels. Perfect fit. Now, if we could only find something good enough for Maki to ship them together... I'd make an additional art with both of them for the cover. I'd say you should take your time; there's no need to rush alongside other players for the event rewards, since it requires constant usage of love gems in order to remain competitive. I found out that simply playing regulary at least 2-3 times a day will easily give everyone the main reward.

I voted for 7, not like it's going to help anymore.

If I found time to write it, others could definately find time to respond; it's fine though, I never really expected any sort of response, not to mention it's still an offtopic, even if somehow relevant. People often frown upon or ignore posts longer than few lines of text and rarely involve themselves with anything that requires at least a tiny bit of effort. That's definately a good idea. More over, it could fit Maki's personality really well and prove to be an excellent choice to ship her alongside Nico, since I decided to introduce her as a fiery dragongirl. There's only one issue - I don't feel like yuki onna is a decent enough candidate for a pure monstergirl; they are basically youkai, but don't prove to have enough traits that would make them stand out and interesting, from artistic perspective. Eitherway, it's a neat concept and I'll definately look into it. I'm up for different kinds of monsters and mythological creatures, from different cultures and parts of the world; I felt that sticking only to the general knowledge or japanese folklore would be a waste of potential. So far, I was thinking about a centaur for Umi, an alraune for Kotori, Sphynx for Nozomi and lamia/naga for Eli. Character pages from LL:SIF wiki might prove helpful, in case of characteristics. I'm still a long way to go from obtaining Honoka. Wish I had more LP; I kind of got back up in the general event ranking, tho I'm wasting play sessions since I've been having hard times to wake up earlier and can't drag myself out of bed on time, haha.

source: ゆらん@3日目西よ-45b Almost everything FC'ed. Wildstars left. Too bad no one's interested with my artbook thingy. It proves there's not much of a point to start any relevant discussions around these boards, at least not anymore.

Those arguments don't work within the "adult" world; in best case they'd say you're promoting child porn by publishing and discussing such works, in worst you'd be accused of being either a potential pedophile or having contacts with them. World isn't as bright as you paint it. I'm preety much happy, since this is some sort of an agreement between all the parties - in the end, the other side was present during the settlement as well - and after that they might actually f*ck off completely, at least for a longer while. It's been always like that and best if it will remain this way.

This is delusional.

Judging from the BS that often ends up on various major news publishing services, it must be really hard for people to distinguish between facts and myths, fiction and reality; the fact is that child porn features real kids, who are either forced to act or become the rape victims and it should be banned, while the "childlike" characters featured in the art aren't real at all. There's no correlation between the two, unless someone finds an amusing idea to draw fictional characters based on real people (in this case, kids); it often becomes an excellent excuse for various parties to force the general thought that if "manga and anime" allows such possibilities to happen, it means it supports that kind of option alltogether and therefore, should be banned or heavily restricted. It's not that simple as some of you may think. The only hope remains within mature and non-biased people with proper knowledge being a part of ruling parties and guess what - that's the same as hoping for this world to become a better place someday.

Another clear. Only two main songs left, one of them being Wild Stars. I guess my screen size is way to small to allow flawless performance. Speaking aside of that, I have some interesting news for you guys. I have to admit, I enjoyed LL a lot, which is a rarity in case of shows like these, since I typically call them average and often forget about after a while; in this case, there's something special in LL and I won't forget about it, at least not anytime soon; there's LL:SIF as well so I guess it will keep me occupied for a longer while in case of LL's franchise. Anyway, I've been slowly returning to art after years of absence and looking around for creative ways to both improve my rusty skills, occupy myself with meaningful work and something, that could potentially turn in a bit of profit in the near future. Since I liked LL and all the girls so much, I thought it would be really neat to create a Love Live artbook; but not just an average artbook. Since my tastes are quite unusual and refined, I decided to reimagine the cast of Love Life as monstergirls; The idea for Phantasmagories was born. Note, this is just an early concept for a long-term work. It might take me months to finish this and I won't begin before I regain my old proficiency with tablets. I guess that's around a year or more, unless other plans will come up or my life becomes preety busy. So far, from what I thought, Phantasmagories would be at least 16 pages, B5, soft cover, full color and would feature full-page artworks for each girl, few pages of additional doodles and an afterword by yours trully, as well as a glimpse on the processing work behind the art. There's also a possibility for guest artworks from few of my friends. If that would happen, there's a possibility the book would go up as far to 32 pages, or even more depending on the popularity. That's the physical version; a digital version would be also available. I already have some ideas regarding the characters and artworks I'd want to include in the artbook, but that's where the real fun comes! Since we're already talking about this, I'd love to hear your thoughts. Share your ideas, and I'll see whether they can happen. I'm mostly interested what are your own thoughts on types of the creatures each girl would fit best to impersonate. Think of it as some sort of a metaphor, matching their personalities and hobbies. I'm looking forward to hear your opinions regarding this; feel free to ask me about anything, as well.

I'm currently ranked again around 3,5-4k, which is preety normal for busy events, and this one's as busy as Nico's event; either Honoka is preety popular on the west, or we're having a lot more new users participating. I haven't used a single gem yet, though. I'm not planning to, either. I will simply continue on playing regulary and get my single SR; that's enough for me. I really like those cards featuring all the girls in their nightwear.

This new legislation only bans real child pornography and to be honest, it was an issue within Japan for years; it has nothing to do with the anime and manga industry, featuring fictional characters. Although I have to admit, it might prove to become another excuse for the lobby to push on tightening laws concerning artistic works, since it's vague to tell what's the precise difference between real and fictional characters in terms of works featuring explicit sexual content; unless they will manage to draw a clear line, which is possible. I wouldn't worry that much about this particular issue right now, to be honest. Japanese M&A industry wouldn't give up their ground that easily, with market holding such huge shares in profit.

As if Samsung, or Apple were such great brands; they aren't better than any other brand, trust me. The only reason why Apple can give their owners such services and devices, is because they are overpaying them a ton of money, while their devices are built in chinese factories, like any other modern electronic hardware. Apple's stuff isn't US made, like they used to claim; that was one of the most impressive BS given out during 2012-2013 and americans believed them so hard. You should get the Moto G; Period, but I won't argue if your parents like to throw cash at something just because it's Samsung or Apple, haha. S4-S5 are all excellent devices, just a tad too overpriced. Same goes for Iphones. Okay, enough of this offtopic.

You can find a decent guide here. As for my recommendations, I'm not a huge fan of chinese developers, but Huaweii has been creating really decent devices as of late. They often fall into the mid-high end range with costs comparable to that of mid-low end phones; it's definately the best value for money you can get. Another huge shoutout should go to LG; not that far ago, LG wasn't even considered any sort of a competitor on the global smartphone market, but that changed preety fast. Their current phones are often both high quality and present great value for really cheap prices. They have one of the best mid-end phones currently available on the market, along with the one I currently own. I have to admit that the Motorola Moto G might be an incredibly interesting position and I myself wish this phone was available earlier around the place where I live.

Then you have no need for a high-end, expensive smartphone. Either get a functional midgrade phone with an IPS screen, or try one of the higher-end phones which sacrifice quality cover and materials for powerful hardware specs and get a phone case. There's a bunch of really nice phones already available and a few new models will be out later this year. I even posted about one of them earlier.

Is it justified to get an S4? If not, you could as well think of getting an LG L7 II, which I own. I personally don't see any reason to buy a top tier smartphone, unless you will really use it, or want to brag about. There's also a bunch of smartphones in between, with larger screens; the only major pro in case of Samsung S series is their performance/processing power and large HQ super amoled screens; nothing else besides that. Unfortunately, it's quite costly. HQ IPS screens are a great replacement for amoled.

That "sub-group" of yours is almost the whole entirety of the current japanese visual novel playerbase. Unfortunately, most of the works they read have no reedeming qualities, whatsoever.

Funnily, Winged Cloud is a rather fresh studio which so far released only two otome vn's, having third in the works. I'm not even sure how and when did they managed to find time to work on SS but it gave me this peculiar feeling, that SS could even have been outsourced by them and I wouldn't be surprised, if that's true.

I was planning to postpone till the very end, but alas! You've moved my heart! I will vote for the greater benefit of our faction. Boobs prevail! Actually, nevermind. You should understand why no. 3 looks ridiculously fabulous.

I also think that pears are better than peaches.

I think some people are getting the wrong impression, as usual. Kudos to SP for shamelessly RT'ing this.