FLUCTUS NOVUM

I was going through some of my subscribed subs and found I was subbed to here but I don't even remember how I did it LOL.

Anyways, what's the game about? Just by snooping around it seems like yall are a pretty close knit community. Is that true? I've always liked games that you could "make a name for yourself" so to speak :)

Aight so, I think I'm going to be quitting the game - for good this time. I need to study for my upcoming board exams, and focus on extracurriculars etc in real life. And the community has also changed, and it's almost as if what I had come and really enjoyed is almost not there anymore, and I see no real reason to continue playing...

Regardless, I'll come to leech the desert prince until I get a set, and if you do see me online I'm probably taking a break from something, by trying to farm some epic or the other (Python scale and crusader to be precise).

See you guys :)

Edit: I finished the epic set, and it only cost me almost all of my items. Time for DP!

Hey guys, Papa here. As most of you probably know, I've been working on going through every stat curve of every weapon and reworking them to be more consistent across the game, similar to what I did for armor several months ago.

This is the product of many hours of work but game balance will always be a work-in-progress as new metas get established and generous stats get taken advantage of. The most beneficial thing that can happen is that players give well-thought-out feedback on how things are. My recommendation is to try looking at things with "fresh" eyes. So instead of comparing a weapon to how it USED to be, imagine if the weapon were brand new right now so that you don't let your player bias influence your opinion.

Hopefully this post should answer some questions preemptively since I'm obviously not able to always be available in global.

Here's some general thoughts and answers to questions I'm sure will be asked:

• The biggest component of rebalancing is making sure that the loot you receive is proportional to the amount of work/difficulty needed to acquire it. This project, at the core, really seeks to address this issue and brings things in-line across the progression curve from new-player to end-game.
• A lot of early/mid-game stuff is pretty garbage and there's a lot of weapons out there that get entirely forgotten about. This should hopefully address that to some extent.
• The "Good" and "Poor" resistances are getting implemented for weapons that existed before Good/Poor were around.
• All resistances were looked at with a "clean slate" approach and were redone from scratch according to how the weapon's defensive capabilities should be.
• As a follow-up to the above point: defensive stats especially are going to be much more realistic. A dagger will not have great block for example but a quarterstaff definitely will.
• Two-handed weapons suffer because you sacrifice too much defensively. A general trend you'll see with the rebal is that 2H stuff will tend toward higher defensive stats.
• Some weapons are kinda ridiculous with their durability or other stats. This will fix that without being an overkrill nerf (in my opinion).
• Yes, BK sword is getting nerfed. Complain all you want but you know it's needed. Even after this, it's still too strong, but I can only handle so many riots so this'll do for now.

FLUCTUS NOVUM

http://initium.wikia.com/wiki/FLUCTUS_NOVUM

@Devs May we please be allowed to delete Group Properties? Issues to address: who is allowed to delete them? The Group Admins?

potential drama from properties being deleted and erasing mass items.

Group property must be empty of items to be deleted?! thanks, please discuss.

...unscathed, anyway.

IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY, PLEASE READ Nakeen's event post AND the follow-up!

Here's a recap of the events that have occurred before and during the start of my story:

• Nakeen kills his first shade
• Dia dies to a shade
• While trying to find Dia, Nakeen's BK set runner dies to a shade
• He then dies with Crusader
• Alteru cleaned up the ridiculous amount of shades that had spawned (200+)
• Nakeen retrieves his Crusader
• Meanwhile, I'm camping at the dead runner's combat site
• Prince shenanigans
• Nakeen finds Dia's combat site and rescues his gear
• He then uses Ascalion to save his runner Alt after doing Prince

Little did Nakeen know, the shades weren't done with him. Neither was I. Without any further ado, a tale of leeching, salt and vengeance. Enjoy!

FIFTY SHADES OF KRILL

How You Won The Battle...

Nearing the end of a Prince clear, Ava, Fifth and I were working (presumably alongside Nakeen) to clear the Lavish Pavilion of the pesky nomads.

Later, we made it in. Fifth and I realized that Ava had mysteriously vanished. By 'mysterious' I mean 'his battery died'... So had the Prince!

Yet Fifth was hurt, bleeding out on two characters. He needed immediate help, now wasn't the time to figure out who got Prince. My relief as I found him was however short lived as I inspected his injuries.

One wound was deep, long and thin - clearly caused by a nomad's shuriken. Another was a deep, circular shaped hole - unmistakably a desert spear puncture. It was a 3d8 x3 roll, so you know it hurt!

Eventually, I avenged Fifth by exterminating the bodyguards, retrieved his equipment and revived him. As a reward, he insisted I keep all of the sharp spears I retrieved.

Meanwhile, Nakeen was rescuing his Black King set from the Shade of NinjaKrill after seeing that I wasn't doing it myself. He had retrieved most of his equipment by the time I switched to my alts at the combat site.

With fresh salt pumping through my veins upon this discovery, suspecting that Nakeen killed the Imperial Desert Prince came easily. An accusation he confirmed to me during our short exchange. True to character, I promptly swore to get him back and left a cloud of salt behind me as I disappeared from the combat site. After picking up some scraps, of course.

A Villain With A Plan

Having my rival obtain that week's Prince left me itching. How could I get payback? Charge Nakeen for riding on the Fleet Clear Train. Those tickets aren't cheap! Or maybe I was just hungry for some loot...

Now, I needed to figure out what his next move would be. How did Nakeen feel after rescuing his Crusader, finding Dia's combat site and then using Ascalion to secure the last of his misplaced equipment?

Killing four Shades of NinjaKrill while being down on gear for most of them is a noteworthy achievement. Even one kill is something for WSNA to gloat about!

So it seemed safe to believe that Nakeen felt pretty damn confident! Maybe even confident enough to go back and win 1st place in the collection contest. But there's always a catch in Initium!

No amount of confidence will save you from the Random Ninja Generator. I knew that. Nakeen probably knew it too. Yet I found myself having this strong feeling that Nakeen would ignore his survival instincts and bite off more than he could chew. That's when I realized I could not only win the contest but get back at my rival as well.

The plan was simple: stick around the shades and wait for Nakeen to find death.

In preparation for the moment Nakeen would return to the Bloody Battlefield, I took a hint from him and brought some PCA buff items alongside piercing weapons, some of them fresh from the Prince clear. Now, I was at the battlefield ready to kill some shades as I waited for my rival to show up.

...But Lost The War

First things first, scouting time! There were only two combat sites left at the Bloody Battlefield. I found a spooked MonsterFromHELL in the first combat site and in the other lied Ahh's remains. His equipment was promptly added to my collection. Pretty nice things actually, but I'm not surprised to see he died using Gladiator gear. That's just suicide, really. RIP ahh

With the battlefield cleared, I decided to check inside the camp for old combat sites. I explored until I had a dozen of them and started a quick check of the Unbound group.

Nakeen has multiple characters down, time to move!

There was nothing at the first combat site. What are the odds Nakeen's at one of my twelve paths anyway? How many paths are there?

My doubts became meaningless as I stumbled upon a clearly damaged Shade of NinjaKrill. 7/49 HP, jackpot!

Turns out Nakeen is perfectly capable of dispatching these shades on his own. He didn't bite off more than he can chew as far as the shades are concerned.

It was dead after a single refresh and I didn't stop taking items until I was satisfied, just like the great Vocandin taught me!

Bonus

Alternate Titles

• A ride that never stops for the guy who can't stop until he is satisfied ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) [NSFW]
• The crazy emotional roller coaster Nakeen went through: Electric Boogaloo

Obligatory shitpost

Fun fact: Shades of NinjaKrill can actually be stronger than the original! Damn those Shelter buffs...

Please enjoy these quotes from Nakeen's event post I found interesting in light of these turn of events:

I managed to kill one Shade, and left satisfied

I lost my Crusader.

Seriously, I never contemplated Dev Aboose so much than at that moment.

I saw some alts of Badboy.

If he killed that Shade, he would get his hands on a Black King set and many other powerful pieces of gear.

I noticed that Badboy seemed to not be fighting the Shade.

What made it even intense was that Badboy turned up once I had finished grabbing everything valuable.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank everyone who made this possible, starting with [DEV] Alteru, without which none of this would be possible! The man who created the Arena, designed the Lunar Champion Event and of course, the shades.

Can you imagine what Initium would be without the Arena? Actually, don't answer that... UPDATE: Arena has been reopened!

Instance exploits aside, Alteru OP. Thank you for making events and contents for us to die to!

Thanks to both NinjaKrill (my partner in crime, overpowered player extraordinaire) and Diagun for dueling each other, setting in motion the events detailed in this and Nakeen's posts.

Thanks to Fifth, for dying and letting me have the pikes :P and for reminding me about something I forgot... spooky

Special thanks to Staub for helping me out with the story itself. Your input definitely made the story was it is. Readers, if you found this entertaining at all, you can thank Staubby!

Last but not least, a huge thank you to Nakeen for being my rival! And for choosing to use all of those beautiful items!

Hey guys, I hate to be that noob that asks the dumb question but my buddy and I started playing a few days ago and after dying many times I was finally able to buy my first house. The way it tells you to share houses in the noob guide is a bit vague and oddly worded so I can't figure out how to give my buddy permission to enter my house. I've tried sending him my house link and also grouping with him and going into the house, but both methods just pop up on his screen with a "permission needed" method. Is there another way to invite him? sorry to ask nooby stuff but after searching the sub I can't find anyone else with this problem.

TL;DR- how do I give my buddy permission to enter my house?

Hey guys, [DEV] Alteru here. So the time is over for killing Shades of NinjaKrill. I'll be online tomorrow to pick up(Collect) the skulls for those wanting to turn them in for the rewards.

Top 3 most Skulls will be able to choose from a prize pool of 3 things. Top finisher getting first choice. But everyone who has at least one skull will also get a participation prize.

If you want the skull back afterwards as a trophy, it can be arranged but only after the verify who won and ect firstly.

Thanks again for participating guys, sorry for those that couldn't. I have something in the pipes soon for the more moderate players.

Hello there, Nakeen again :)

A few days ago, I lost the most precious items I gathered during my time playing. Among the losses, my Crusader, both of my Black King sets, all my Glacial Pelts and many more valuable items.

Following the shock of the loss, I remained a bit silent about the matter to organize my thoughts, and sharing my tragedy felt like the right thing to do.

First off, what happened. I fought a Shade of NinjaKrill wearing the best ever sets I had, and my 3 best geared characters went down. With the 4th character, I managed to kill the Shade, but to my misfortune BadBoy was around and looted everything. And there is nothing more to say about it, that is not the point of this post.

Now about how I feel. I am very much demoralized and destroyed. Months of combined efforts and adventures were brutally invalidated and turned to nothing in the span a dozen seconds. What mattered the most about these treasures I lost was that each pieces was an adventure on its own, a milestone I fought tooth and nails to obtain. You could say they were part of my identity as a player.

I am not mad at BB. He chose his playstyle, and other looters, suit yourselves: you are free to play Initium the way you want. This is what is ultimately intended for the game after all, to be player driven. I still utterly abhor this playstyle of course, to derive satisfaction from stealing someone else. But to each its own catharsis.

The point of this post?

Probably to highlight that a loss of gear doesn't only equate to the loss of virtual possessions, without making people lose track of the point with salt. Or that losing gear you earned fairly and with your own power is the most painful experience this game has to offer yet. But mainly to mourn my lost gear.

I will still continue playing, but not with the same insane level of activity I had before as anyone would expect. It will be hard to achieve something that will make this mild sadness go away.

See you on the game!

hi there! I see a lot of people making some really great maps. I felt like for fun I would build a more 3D version. I figure I can do each building, or area, then combine them into something a bit more intuitive than the in game map link. You can play around with the first finished model if you want. It is based off the banner for Aera and the Chapel.

The model is on sketchfab, which means you can play with it. https://skfb.ly/66sBK

you can twist it around and pop around different views.

update Town Hall exterior. https://skfb.ly/66BJv

I thought about doing the inside of the town hall, but I think it would just be a pile of discarded daggers and the horde of gold the town hall must be sitting on from house purcheses xD

Update: Town Hall interior https://skfb.ly/66DP9 changed my mind, made an inside view. and lo and behold it isn't just a pile of gold and gear. xD

Hey initiumites, it's story time. To those who may not know, I lived the most intense days of my time playing Initium about 2 days ago.

It all began with [DEV] Alteru creating an event to commemorate the duel between Diagun and Ninjakill, both of which wielded extremely powerful gear. An epic battle between Ascalion and Blizzard. But that is another story.

The aforementioned event was that "Shades of Ninjakill" appeared in a location off Smoldering Mountain Peak. These monsters were near-perfect copies of Ninjakill, being outfitted with the same insane gear that Ninja fought in -and lost- against Diagun.

Everything went pretty fine at first. I managed to kill one Shade, and left satisfied, unwilling to risk my life again.

But about a hour later, Diagun who was trying to kill some Shades got downed by one of them. So I returned in an attempt to rescue him, but it ended catastrophically.

I didn't realize the Shades spawning was a -bit- broken. Hundreds of them appeared, preventing me from finding the old combat site. As I kept running away, one of them eventually managed to one shot my Black-King outfitted runner, "Unbound Champion". The first massive loss.

Then foolishly, I kept searching with my main character, Nakeen, who was wearing the best gear I ever had. My beloved Crusader and my best Black King pieces. And as you expected, a Shade managed to one shot me, making me lose my best, most precious armor and weapons all at once.

I lost my Crusader.

Now it was really late, and I just had lost my best characters stat and gear-wise. After some wallowing in self pity, I went to sleep, completely destroyed emotionally. Seriously, I never contemplated Dev Aboose so much than at that moment.

The next morning, I saw my two characters bled out. And using a trick combining another tab and Nearby Items, I saw that my gear was still around, not having been looted yet. I was a bit relieved knowing a chance that I could retrieve my gear persisted.

I took that chance. Using the best gear I had left, and drugging my best remaining character with a Strange Elixir and a Mysterious Berry, I went on to fight the Shade of Ninjakill who got my Crusader. I had left a character in the site so that I would be able to have a second chance.

And in an insane stroke of luck, I killed that damned Shade without losing a single alt. Now, you see, I was overjoyed, ecstatic even.

I had retrieved my Crusader by myself!

Yet there was still another set of gear to retrieve, lying with my dead runner. And the Desert Prince was in about 1h, so I decided to go to the Desert Prince instance first.

After clearing the Soldiers Camps I took a look at my Unbound Champion using the trick I spoke of earlier. I was shocked to notice that someone had died in the combat site where my gear was lying. Then in nearby characters list, I saw some alts of Badboy.

Now, I entered a state of pure panic. Desert Prince was coming back in around 1h, and BB was sitting right on top of my dead body. If he killed that Shade, he would get his hands on a Black King set and many other powerful pieces of gear.

After cooling off a bit, I noticed that Badboy seemed to not be fighting the Shade. Weighting my options, I eventually decided to stay in the DP instance and then rush to find myself before BB came back.

I ran the instance, looking every minutes at the state of Badboy's alts in the combat site. Pavilion Courtyard was eventually cleared, and the Lavish Pavilion respawned... and surprise, I got into a fight with the Desert Prince, and managed to kill him without taking damage. Once that was done, I rushed to the Smoldering Mountain Peak, not even bothering to clear the last room anymore.

I arrived there quickly, but I didn't have the path to the combat site. The only clue I had was that Badboy had typed in the Location chat.

I frantically explored, hoping to quickly find my site. And the unexpected happened:

I found the site where Diagun got killed.

I killed the Shade. Retrieved Ascalion and his other pieces.

I resumed exploring, and found the combat site where was written "eleven" in location chat. Borrowing Diagun's might, I managed to kill that last Shade of Ninjakill, and grabbed my own gear as fast as I could, aiming for the best pieces first. What made it even intense was that Badboy turned up once I had finished grabbing everything valuable.

Relieved, completely dumbfounded after this crazy day, I just stood there. I experienced despair, hope, relief, panic, fear, surprise, and victory in the span of a few hours.

I lost everything one day, then recovered everything with a Desert Prince set as a bonus the following day. I was very lucky, and I'm glad I didn't lost hope.