003 • SYSTEM AESTHETIC

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When roleplaying, it's important to remember what your character can and cannot see with their user interface. 

Without using any skills or opening any menus, a player will always see their HP, or hit point, bar in the upper corner. This will also display your username, current and maximum hit points and level. If your character is in a party, it will also display the names and hit points of all other party members in smaller bars below it.

When looking at others, a color cursor can be seen hovering over the heads of both players and NPCs. The colors are as follow:

GREEN: Other players.
ORANGE: Players with criminal infractions.
YELLOW: NPCs
RED: Monsters will have varying shades of red cursors above them.

When engaging in combat with monsters or other players, a health bar can be seen around all fighting parties. This health bar will generally curve around the shoulders of players and display their username and guild tag as well as their HP. However, if a player or monster is 10 or more levels higher than your character, you will not be able to see their health. The health bar will turn purple and read 'unknown.

Now that we understand what your character can see, let's go into how they can interact with the world. Players can interact with their surroundings by physically touching objects. They can move small items around as if they were in real life. This will either cause the item to preform the default function or bring up a floating menu for options with the item.

Examples of this would be a jar opening and closing as you touch it, a door giving the options to open, close or lock, and a window opening and closing when you touch it.

Furthermore, a player can use the Touch Interface to replace and simplify actions. An example of this would be tapping on a jar of cream to “use” said cream and then tapping on bread to automatically spread the cream on the bread rather than manually doing so.

Finally, we get to the menu window. The menu window can be accessed by putting one's index finger and thumb together and pulling downwards. Immediately afterwards, a ringing sound is heard and the menu appears. Using the menu, players can access their equipment, inventory, friends, guild, communication options and their quests.

INVENTORY: In this menu tab, a player can find their equipment and inventory.
SOCIAL: In this tab, a player can find options for parties, friends and guilds. We'll go into further detail below.
COMMUNICATIONS: This tab allows for someone to send mail, befriend others, invite to a party, invite to a guild, request a trade or duel or even send a marriage request.
QUESTS: A player can find the quests they have completed or are currently on in this tab.
SETTINGS: This tab originally held the options of: Options, Help and Logout. Options and Logout have been faded out and disabled. Nobody answers any of the help requests sent to GMs.

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Next, we have the SOCIAL Tab. This will get it's own section due to the importance of this tab and how it relates to your roleplay experience.

SOCIAL tabs are used to track friends, parties and guilds. We'll go over what each of these mean.

FRIENDS: This allows for you to keep track of where your friend is. Once you approve someone's friend request, you can see their level, what floor they're on and whether they're online or not (The game will alert you when they log off). Of course, given the nature of the game, the log off alert indicates only one thing- death. Furthermore, players can only send mail or messages over long distances to people on their friend's lists.

PARTY: Partying up allows for people to keep track of each others HP in combat situations no matter the distance. Furthermore, parties are given boosts when completing dungeons, quests or events together. Party members are also able to easily communicate over long distances with each other. When a player holds their hand or fingers to either ear, as if using a bluetooth, anything they say will also be hear by players in their party no matter how far apart they are. Parties can be up to five players of any makeup of tanks, DPS or support specializations. Raids are required for bosses, but the amount of parties that can participate to the raid are dictated by the players. Raids are less 'raids' and more 'a group of parties working together'.

GUILD: Guilds are large groups of players that have banded together for a common goal. Guild members can use their communication tab to see what floor number other members are at and also to see if they are online or offline. Furthermore, guild members can send messages to each other without being on each others' friends list. They also have access to a group messaging system where all members can be messaged at once. Guilds offer the bonus of allowing groups to secure territory and always having others to back you up.

Guilds can be set up by following the template found in the Guild Forum.