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New Season Notes (2021 S2 -> 2022 S1)

The following things have carried over from the previous Isekai season to the current Isekai season:

- Credit balance + value of item + equipment inventory, capped to 1 million

- Leftover trophy value for Snowflake's Shrine


The following things have been added to Persistent:

- Peerless equipment and all soulfused equipment

- Any unspent peerless vouchers

- Credit balance + value of item + equipment inventory exceeding 1 million

- Primary stat bonuses and a global damage bonus depending on the number of tower floors cleared

- A peerless voucher for everyone who reached Floor 100, or Top 20 Floor Clears:

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Floor 205: youshi1 (3146277)
Floor 205: Ming28561 (3775954)
Floor 205: Bolide (2309354)
Floor 204: Xeda (4388600)
Floor 201: sssss2 (1843795)
Floor 200: gehelife (1070629)
Floor 180: raraha (4071895)
Floor 177: Treesion (707354)
Floor 161: sabregimp (188779)
Floor 155: Nero-Arc (700155)
Floor 145: HT862 (1751283)
Floor 139: newzhenterzzf (5585303)
Floor 139: conatime (5595606)
Floor 130: BlackPantsu (586593)
Floor 130: accelkatana (4012458)
Floor 122: NeoAlden (5940217)
Floor 121: P-Killer (2968580)
Floor 120: Scarlet Tear (5159860)
Floor 120: ashlikt (2309737)
Floor 115: ace_amuro (896192)
Floor 112: unikwind (2480915)
Floor 108: eomivan (808303)
Floor 106: Altair.AC (3905888)
Floor 105: Chizuru Ichinose (638489)
Floor 104: Ass Spanker (1068757)
Floor 103: chanman2021 (5678409)
Floor 101: ex-homehome (1284678)
Floor 101: XMike (8053)

Isekai Changes

- Minor correction to the difficulty calculation for Tower difficulty. It should now actually reach PDUFOR at Floor 40 rather than a few floors earlier.

- The season rewards (Peerless Voucher) for The Tower now cap out at reaching (not necessarily clearing) Floor 100, or Top 20 if less than 20 people reach Floor 100. A toplist will still be posted at the end of each season, and you can still proceed past Floor 100, but it is only for bragging rights.

- You can now attempt/clear The Tower 5 times per day until you reach Floor 20.

- The stat bonus thresholds are now for reaching the floor rather than clearing it, since the readout makes it a bit confusing.


Riddlemaster

The pony riddles are now multiple-choice and can have several correct answers. The generated image will always show three ponies; these can all be the same pony, or be two or three different ponies. To solve the riddle, check all the ponies you see in the image and hit Submit Answer within the time limit.

The riddlemaster no longer tells you if the answer is correct or not. It will always give the buff if you answer within the time limit, as well as the heal if the answer is given within the bonus time limit, both of which were adjusted. A spirit heal was also added.

Instead of valuating answers as binary "right" or "wrong" it will internally calculate an accuracy score based on how many unique ponies were displayed and how many right and wrong answers you made. Instead of docking stamina directly, the recent average of these accuracy scores is used interally to adjust the per-battle stamina cost. If your accuracy is low enough to sustain a stamina penalty, the "Stamina" readout at the top of the screen will show in red.

If you fail to answer within the time limit, you will be docked 10 stamina directly regardless of your riddle history. (It will not affect the per-round stamina cost.)

If you do not submit the answers to the riddle within the time limit, it will automatically submit it and use the checked answers unless the answer is more than a couple seconds overdue; if it is, it will be considered a blank answer for accuracy purposes. You do not get the buff in the latter case.

The obfuscation factors (blobbiness and graininess) are now dynamic and adjusted interally based on various factors, primarily your level and how much you played lately. Most other aspects of the generation have also been reworked.

Because the images are all randomly generated, you may occasionally (rarely?) encounter jumbled riddles that are difficult or near-impossible to fully discern. Due to this, you will still keep the normal stamina consumption up to some margin of error.

In other words, while it is more difficult to answer perfectly, it is also more forgiving of occasional mistakes.

Detailed internal numbers (accuracy calculations/requirements, stamina cost factors, obfuscation factor thresholds etc) are not disclosed and no readout will be provided for them.

Note that soliciting people to submit riddle images with answers as well as providing such are now bannable offenses - riddle images can be traced to the account they were generated for. (This doesn't disallow "look at this stupidly impossible riddle lol" kind of posts at a small scale.)


Salvaging

When salvaging Legendary and Peerless equipment, you will now gain "Equipment Cores" - these will be used for a future mechanics where you can improve the base stats of legendary and peerless equipment. See "Future Changes to Equipment Mechanics" below.

There are six types of Equipment Cores; Legendary/Peerless, corresponding to the equipment quality, and Weapon/Staff/Armor, corresponding to the equipment type. Shields count as Armor for this mechanics.

"Rare" equipment types (Phase/Shade/Power Armor as well as Force Shields) give 5 cores, while other equipment types all give 1 core.

Equipment Cores obtained in Isekai will be transferred to Persistent at the end of each season.

Peerless Cores are not tradeable, primary due to the lottery, which when this update hits persistent will have an alternative 1st prize with cores based on the equipment 1st prize. Legendary Cores may however be traded freely.


Misc

- IW stamina cost now rounds to the nearest .1 decimal rather than rounding up to the closest whole digit.

- The base durations for most debuff spells was significantly increased.

- When shrining trophies for armor, you can now select the armor slot of the generated equipment. (The new UI also saves 1 whole click over the old way.)

- Catalysts are no longer tradeable. They will likely be retired in the future, with the forge charging credits directly instead.

- The limit for primary attribute reassignments was removed. You can now freely reassign EXP at any time.

- Replaced the old "system message" popup. You can now click anywhere to dismiss it, and it no longer lets you click through to the background outside the box.

- Various UI tweaks and improvements.


Future Changes to Equipment Mechanics

Future updates will rework the internals of how equipment is generated and stored to, among other things, allow base stats improvements. Base stat improvements will be limited to Legendary and Peerless equipment only; the ultimate goal being to increase the odds of being able to obtain the ultimate equipment set to a level slightly above "mathematically insignificant" while still preserving the value of existing equipment and not making any existing ways to obtain equipment pointless.

The long and short of it is that with a lot of credits (in the hundreds of millions range) and legendary cores, or a lot of peerless cores, you will be able to turn a Legendary equipment into a Peerless equipment. Peerless equipment will (probably) also be possible to upgrade further.

The "base stat improvement" and "upgrade" mechanics are separate, though there will be various changes to the "upgrade" mechanics as well; you will no longer be "upgrading" stats individually, and tweaks will be made so that "upgrading" below-Legenday equipment is still viable. Existing upgrades will be converted, but I'll get back to the details on that later.

All existing equipment will be converted to the new system, and there should not be any differences between old and new equipment. After the conversion to the new system, any future changes to equipment can also be made retroactively, meaning that the concept of "prepatch" and "postpatch" equipment will no longer be a thing. Various disabled equipment types will also be re-enabled as rare drops.

These changes will also involve replacing the existing "potency" mechanics with a different (less random) system. Existing unlocked potencies will not carry over in any way. The Item World will basically work like The Tower, and will be used to increase an equipment's upgrade cap.

Due to the scale of the changes, it is unlikely that it all makes it into one update. Until the changes have been fully implemented, the updates will be deployed to Isekai only. In other words, this won't be be relevant for Persistent for at least one year.

When the changes eventually reach Persistent, it will no longer be possible to get a refund on upgrades by salvaging, due to a combination of conversion complexity and the fact that equipment stats will be permanently altered. You will of course have the option to do until the updates make it to Persistent.

Further details will be made available as the updates are deployed to Isekai.

Yeah, if you can't decide between two ponies, checking both of them will at best be as good as picking nether. It doesn't encourage wild guessing.

I wonder if you also have statistics on which pony/ponies cause the most mistakes/misses? I guess Fluttershy is the most troublesome one. Funny that I'd had trouble recognizing Fluttershy since pony riddlemaster was first introduced almost 10 years ago (I believe it was fluttershy in the pic), but I got better after I became used to it. Now Fluttershy is causing bigger problems than before.

Can't agree more.

Example of a riddle I encountered recently:



Can somebody please tell me where is the third pony? I only see 2 Rarity here.

And another example came from ilegs, he shared it on Discord yesterday:



The last example is from ilegs, too. He shared this one on Discord with the comment: "Who is the pony in the middle? Pinkie Pie is laughing at me loudly"



(I'd say that is either Flutterjack or Appleshy in the middle)

That's to say, come on, it is just day 2, we already see SO MANY examples of look at this stupidly impossible riddle lol.

It is getting ridiculous. How many ponies do you see in this one? Where is the third pony?



And another example came from bensalenkkari, shared at Discord, too.



This post has been edited by OnceForAll: Dec 24 2021, 08:52

And another example came from bensalenkkari, shared at Discord, too.

That one is hilarious...
I thought something like that might happen when I met this one:

But at least her eyes were easy to recognize.
That one above is way worse.

That one is hilarious...
I thought something like that might happen when I met this one:

But at least her eyes were easy to recognize.
That one above is way worse.

At least from yours, I can see three pairs of eyes, indicating that there are three. From bensalenkkari's you can see two and a half pairs (5 eyes in total). And you would only see two pairs of eyes in mine.

Some updates to the riddles/stamina:

- If your riddle accuracy is low enough to sustain a stamina penalty, the "Stamina" readout at the top of the screen now shows in red.

- Added some text to the riddle screen to clarify that you have to select ALL ponies you see.

I also reset the calculations again to only consider riddles solved after right now (may take up to an hour to update), but this will probably be the last time this happens.

Today, when I look for which is the 3rd pony, the time limit is over, I only choose 2 pony but I have no time to click the button, does it mean I din't choose any pony, or I choose 2 pony.

I clean the ar from round 10 to round 75, and the 5 Floor tower,

but My Stamina from 55 to 22

does it mean I touch stamina penalty.

finaly, I wish the time limit in high level still 75sec

This post has been edited by cs987987: Dec 24 2021, 11:08

I finished the arena and realized I had lost 20 stamina, seemed to answer two questions incorrectly in a row, but I all received a bonus dmg in 20 turns, weird!

Today, when I look for which is the 3rd pony, the time limit is over, I only choose 2 pony but I have no time to click the button, does it mean I din't choose any pony, or I choose 2 pony.

If you run out of time it will count as not selecting any. (Otherwise people could just stall the timer on the client side and have all the time in the world.)

does it mean I touch stamina penalty.

It will now tell you. (See my previous post.)

finaly, I wish the time limit in high level still 75sec

It should scale from 90 seconds below level 5 to 30 seconds at level 300. (Bonus time is half that time.)

It should scale from 90 seconds below level 5 to 30 seconds at level 300. (Bonus time is half that time.)

My level is 219 now, so the seconds is 50,

But if only 30 seconds when the level is over 300, I think it is too short.

if the pony is Rainbow Dash or Apple Jack, it's easy to identify, other pony I almost spend over 30 seconds

Actually I made one more change:

- If the time runs out, it will now use your checked answers unless the riddle is more than a couple seconds overdue.

But if only 30 seconds when the level is over 300, I think it is too short.

Maybe. It's logging all of that stuff, so if there's a large dropoff in accuracy across the board at lower time limits even after people had some time to get used to them, I'll probably increase it a bit more.

my stamina was 12
i see 3 pinkie pie
my answer was pinkie pie
after it s 10 ???



This post has been edited by nek: Dec 24 2021, 13:47

Actually I made one more change:

- If the time runs out, it will now use your checked answers unless the riddle is more than a couple seconds overdue.
Maybe. It's logging all of that stuff, so if there's a large dropoff in accuracy across the board at lower time limits even after people had some time to get used to them, I'll probably increase it a bit more.

thx

I will try tomorrow

How many ponies do you see in this one? Where is the third pony?

It's in the middle, look for the closed-eye shape too.



This post has been edited by Necromusume: Dec 24 2021, 17:48

i see nothing ...

Maybe it's your monitor? I can see it.


"You Riddlemaster him?"
"Yeah! I thought maybe I was getting something...... Maybe it doesn't work on these ones Deck. It's all over, it's a wipe out, they're almost us, Deck, they're a disease, they're..."
"Take it easy, take it easy... Tyrell Corp's got one. I'm gonna Riddlemaster it tomorrow."

This post has been edited by Necromusume: Dec 24 2021, 20:11

A little bug:

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I don't know if is only visual but better fix it just in case.

This post has been edited by Maharid: Dec 24 2021, 21:54

where is the third pony?



This post has been edited by ace_amuro: Dec 25 2021, 04:30

where is the third pony?

I can see 3 twilight sparkle's tails, so they are all twilight sparkle (supposedly)

It ain't that bad, take a look at mine:


Look, it is Baldshy!

This post has been edited by OnceForAll: Dec 25 2021, 04:59

Assuming the pony appears three different horses, two of which are too hard to recognize, so I only choose one horse, do I lose stamina?

Assuming the pony appears three different horses, two of which are too hard to recognize, so I only choose one horse, do I lose stamina?

Short answer: eventually, yes.
Long answer: It depends on how many ponies you have chosen are correct, and how many of them are wrong, and how many you missed.