We've launched the announced Talent and Lore Update! All characters are granted one free RP talent and race change. Update Log.
Updates to Talents and Monsters: Read the specifics in the Update Log
08/01/'21
Gaia Reborn
Gaia Reborn, the hottest MMORPG of the last decade, has seen millions of players experience its unique world - a combination of fantasy and reality. When Gaia Reborn was a game, one goal was to make the game world a one-half scale model of the real world. This pursuit was known as the Half-Gaia Project, and it is one of the aspects which led to Gaia Reborn becoming such a popular virtual world. With regional servers having unique areas, quests, cities, and monsters, it wasn't uncommon for people to create alternate characters on other servers to experience what felt like an entirely new game.
Ten years after the game's launch, millions of players have joined and created countless characters across the many servers. Now, with the release of the latest expansion, Pioneers of Arcadia, many are getting ready to begin new adventures in the new Italian server, exploring the new region corresponding to Italy, known in Gaia as Italia. Characters would have to start from fresh in this new world, but Italy would finally get its own piece of this world.
Countless players created their characters, logged in with excitement fueling their hands as the cursor swept across the screen, and then... darkness... Everything was black, and as their eyes opened, the players found themselves in the streets of an unfamiliar city. Looking around to survey their surroundings, many players realized this city was not so new after all. While desolate and ruined, the architecture conquered by vines and greenery, this city was unmistakably Rome, but at the same time, it was not. Finding themselves in the bodies of their characters, trapped in the world of Gaia Reborn, players are left to adapt to their new reality in this fantasy world.
SidO, still a bit sad, looked at Steel and listened to his condolences. "Yea. Its fine. Thanks man. I'm good.."
He turned up to look at the sky. .. Wait. Why am I staring like this? Ah damn. Not that feeling of failure again. Shit this sucks. It reminds of those times in high school and college.. Well. I mean well I don't have much practice or experience so its not too bad like Steel says. But uh.. Huh I.. Damn..
He sighed and turned to Steel, and spoke in a serious tone. "Yo Steel. Can you please punch me?" Snap me out of it man. Come on. Do it like one of those animes.
Sido seemed really down about being rejected by a stranger all the while looking up at the sky. He hoped he'd get over it soon and that further attempts wouldn't throw the man further into depression. But then Sido asked Steel to punch him all of a sudden. Steel didn't know why but it seemed important so he didn't hesitate.
"Okay" Was all the warning Sido was given before Steel performed one of the most powerful punches for right handed people in professional matches. Not a forward facing jab but the left hook. His shoulder, chest, and bicep muscles were all used to swing the hook across Sido’s jaw. He didn't hold back but he hoped that his Vanguard strength wasn't too much for an Enchanter. "That work for you?"
SidO gritted his teeth as Steel's punch headed towards him. Alright. Here it co-
He was pushed back, falling, in a flash as the punch made impact. Fuck.. That was hard..
He landed on the ground a few meters away, left cheek somewhat bruised. He got up and rubbed his cheek. Ah man. He hit me a bit hard damn. But I don't feel as bad anymore. Gotta ask Steel to punch my depression away next time as well.
He got up and walked towards Steel, with a smile. "Yea. That was good. I feel better now. Thanks. You wanna go do something-"
Suddenly, SidO could feel a presence appearing behind him. He turned around in surprise and was alarmed when he saw a Royal Guard. AH SHIT. He started running and went past Steel, briefly glancing at him to speak as he ran. "We'll talk later. Let's run for now yo!"
"Ah right, I forgot about those things. These were in the game too." Steel more said to himself as the royal guard NPCs teleported to their location. "You'd think the devs would have made a more efficient system that just prevented people from using skills in designated areas like a town or a force field that prevented damage. Nope they chose to have suits of armor attack players."
Steel was taking this much more lightly than Sido was as it was only one punch. Nonetheless, he followed after the running Enchanter. "If we don't escalate the fight any further, it'll disappear soon." Not long after he said this, the suit of armor teleported away. "See? That wasn't too bad. Better than getting rejected at least."
SidO stopped running and looked at Steel. "Right."
He looked back to see that the Royal Guard from before was indeed gone and breathed a sigh of relif. Whew. I thought we were also going to get sliced in half today. He squirmed when he rememberd the stories about players being brutally decimated by Royal Guards. Yep. Really glad that didn't happen to us.
He turns back to Steel with a grin. "Well. Now that that's over. You wanna go something else? And also thanks for the help before." Yea. I might've failed. But this was alright. I atleast tried and Steel tagging along made this fun.
"Well, I'm sure that livened things up for a bit." Steel said as he took note of the small crowd that had formed from the sight though thankfully their focus was towards the sky where the Royal guard just was and not on them. He'd rather Sido didn't get the "Part of a Fight" stigma that would have lessened his chances to girls in the know.
Sido then asked if he wanted to do something else. Probably for the best considering how his first attempt played out. But perhaps.... Steel could still find ways to teach his charge for the day. And probably lower the difficulty bar a bit. Maybe the goal could be simply talking to a girl as asking them out straight away didn't seem to get any good results. "Sure thing, did you have anything in mind specifically?"
SidO sat down by a wall, looked down, and answered Steel. "Oh no. I don't. Man. I'm just feeling tired.. Yea I think I just wanna lie down."
He thought with a blank expression. Hmmm... Man I am just not feeling anything today.. Could me and Steel go kill monsters? Investigate the world more? Buy and sell wares? Yea probably. But. Augh. After that rejection I can't with anything. Even if that punch made me feel better. Yea this is good. I'll just stay here for a bit and head out. I wonder what Steel's gonna do though. Does he still wanna go try pickin chicks up? Hm.. Oh well.
"Tired already? Man you have low stamina. It hasn't even been an hour yet. Makes me wonder if real life athletic ability translates into the game." Steel said more as a tease as he was already aware this was more mental exhaustion than physical exhaustion. "At least don't lie down so close to the main road."
"Well, it's close to lunch time anyway. Maybe we can go to a restaurant or something. If you're low on fuel we need to fill it back up with some food and drink! Wait, maybe not drink... Don't wanna lower your chances even further." Steel suggested with a nervous chuckle. He didn't want a repeat of last night after all. "Or would you prefer Olivia's cooking?" He asked with a teasing smirk.
SidO got up while Steel regailed him with questions. He gave him a dry look. This guy.. Really won't give me a break. He doesn't let up with the teases. Christ. Steel. Damn. Can't let a guy wallow in peace can you?
"Yea I get it. Drinking screws me. As for Olivia? I dunno. Also back in real life all I did in my spare time was grind through games and anime like a degenerate. I wasn't running marathons getting gold medals. So that's fair. I was a lazy bum then and I'm a lazy bum now."
"Okay... I'll stop..." Steel said in response to the look that Sido gave him. It just screamed that he was just done with it all. He knew when to back off on the teasing.
"Hahaha, I was kind of a lazy bum myself irl." Steel replied with a hint of nostalgia in his voice. "I'd just lock myself in my room and play games and watch anime all day, homework being a secondary priority. When I got roped into idol work, I holed myself in my room when I could all the more."
"I hear there's this place with some really good pasta." Steel suggested. "I'm more of a rice guy myself but when in Italy, do as the Italians do I suppose."
"Godddd... fuuuuuuck..." Avelia silently muttered under her breath as she strolled around the town, passing by Steel and SidO, who were taking a big break from their attempts at picking up a girl! She was growing increasingly irritated by how hard these vendors were to find. Seriously, where the fuck was the fabrics around here? She'd been around here dozens of times before, surely the map had been changed somehow while she was out hunting in the forests! Totally not her absolutely incompetent navigational abilities to be blamed here, no-sir-ee! On the bright side, however, it was a lot less of a pain to navigate now that Avelia had a better control over her more floaty body. Wings could still use a little more work though. And it's still not a pleasure to be receiving weird looks from stranger who'd seen her walk by for the fiftieth time.
At least while she hiked around ceaselessly, there was a little entertainment around here to brighten the mood. Some idiot had accidentally tripped the town alarm by causing damage in the safe zones. Too bad she didn't arrive in time to be able to see what all the commotion was about before they all got presumably eviscerated.
Avelia stopped, tapping her foot and deciding to use her brain this time. "Hmmm. Well, asking around never hurt anybody." Aaron figured as he'd flashbacked to the kind-hearted hulking heroine who'd helped him out two years a week ago. "Ehhh." Avelia uttered in unease as she stared around, trying to find an opening into a conversation, but it seemed that everyone was too engrossed in talking about the recent 'assault' to notice her. And it wasn't exactly helped by her short stature, either.
SidO chuckled and smiled in reponse to Steel. Very amused from his brief step back. Awesome. I just stopped Steel. Like damn. I just stopped Steel's badgering. And damn. I thought idols were always overworked..
"Jeez. Its fine. I don't mind the jokes. And pasta sounds good. Also. I thought idols had it tough. But good to know you had some down time. The idol life sounds stressful."
He turned to search for some noise around them. Huh? Somebody else here? I could've sworn I heard something..
"Did you just hear someone else talking right now? I think I heard something."
"Oh make no mistake it was totally stressful. Having to juggle performances and practice with maintaining my high ranking veteran status on Gaia's Japan server on top of school and family life was in some ways hell on earth. I'm pretty sure I got off easy too since I hear it's even stricter on the girls." Though his face remained stoic, his eyes looked a bit dead for a few moments as he recalled how hard it was until he graduated high school. "But in other ways it was fulfilling and I'm glad I got that experience under my belt, about as much as my time in Gaia."
"Oh you didn't notice until now? Remember Lesson 2. Be aware of your surroundings." Steel then pointed towards what appeared to be a short girl looking around for help. She appeared lost. Steel made quick note of how she moved and then decided to shelve that information away to be used at a later time.
"Well, with that last girl you asked out, that was like you fighting a level 50 boss at level 1. Forget about the flirting thing for now. You need to practice socializing in general so go and ask that 'girl' over there if she needs help getting anywhere. From how she's moving, she seems more lost than anything so see if you can give her directions. This is your level 2 task. Got it?"
SidO listened intently to Steel. Yea that's quite the hectic work life. Its good that he had an escape.
He then looked in the direction Steel was pointing toward. He saw an Enoch girl while he was listening to Steel's guide. Right. All is fair in Love and War. Gotta know which level you're fighting apparently. He turned back to Steel. "Man. You're really describing this like its a game. Well it was at one point. But thanks. I get it."
He walked toward the Enoch, who's status he checked. Let's see. aVelia. Ranger. Idol. Tailor.. Wings.. Fair. He stopped a few meters away from her and spoke. "Hey. Are you looking for something?"
Olivia was Stumbling around town buying some ingredients for cookies and other wonderful treats she wanted to make.She then grabbed a Handfull of cookies out of a pouch she then devoured them within a few seconds ''Monch Monch Love some good cookiess on a nice day in town!'' She kept walking around town Thinking weather to make a new kind of cookie or Attempt to make muffins...She failed alot at trying to make them..'' Well Crap I ran out of cookies...HMPH!''.
Olivia then wondered if she would see her friends Soon she liked them alot and wanted to make them more food...she smiled to herself '' I will go buy some More Cookies to Monch on '' Olivia then walked over to a stall and purchased some more cookies to eat.
Olivia then walked past what seemed to be Steel in the Background Spectating Sid0 talking to a Girl,She stopped and Stared at Steel for a few seconds and then smiled at him and giving him Quick Wave .... Her face Lit up...She then started to approach Sid0 at a rapid speed...She Made sure to to Glomp him from the front this time.She did notice the girl he was talking to but It was already too late to Slow down..
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Welcome to the help dialog for the Custom Mini-Profile Creator plugin!
Click on any of the tabs above to go through the plugin configuration process!
You can access this menu at any time by clicking on the icon in the bottom right bar (may not be applicable if you're on Forums.net), or you can disable the welcome window and/or the icon by going to Plugins > Manage > Custom Mini-Profile Creator and changing the Show Help option.
This step is essential as it gives the plugin everything it needs on the page to get as much profile information as possible.
To make the profile variables work you'll need to add a new line to the very end of Themes > Layout Templates > Mini-Profile and paste the code below on it. The code should be placed completely outside of the mini-profile, so if you're using the default mini-profile template this will be after the very last closing </div> tag. This needs to be done on every theme you have the plugin enabled on as the template is theme-specific.
If your mini-profile template is already customized and you've hit the variable limit for your template you're free to remove any lines from the code below if they contain information that you don't plan on using. For example, if you have no plans to ever add a user's IP to their mini-profile for staff reference you can remove <div class="mp-info ip">$[user.ip]</div> from the code and everything else will still work just fine.
Once you've added the HTML from the Layout Templates tab you're ready to move on to building your mini-profiles. If you want to get going and try some out now or you're not very adept at HTML, CSS, or Javascript, worry not! This plugin includes some examples for you to try out. You're free to skip to the Custom Profile Fields tab and read over this tab later when you're ready to build your own.
Here's a quick rundown of each of the components in Plugins > Manage > Custom Mini-Profile Creator:
Name This is the name you'll be adding to your custom profile field dropdown once you've finished coding the mini-profile. Pretty self-explanatory. Make sure this name is unique from every other name you use for your mini-profiles or you'll end up overwriting the earlier ones in the list.
HTML This is the HTML that will go inside your mini-profile. You can use just about any HTML tag here so long as it's appropriate for where the mini-profile is showing on the page. Please refrain from using <style> or <script> tags here. You have the next two sections for that! Also, remember that mini-profiles can show multiple times on the same page, so you shouldn't add ID attributes to any of your elements here. Two elements on the same page cannot have the same ID per HTML standards.
CSS This is where you'll place what would normally go in your forum's style sheet or what would normally be between <style> tags. Try to code your mini-profile's HTML in a way that will allow you to target it specifically with your selectors. For example, you can surround all of the content in your HTML with a <div> element with a class and target that class and its child elements specifically with your CSS. That way you don't accidentally target every mini-profile on the page with CSS that was meant for the one you're building. One more thing: The forum theme's CSS still applies beforehand, so your mini-profile may look right in one theme but not in another. The best way to circumvent this is to define as many styles as you can to override the theme's CSS.
Javascript Anything that normally goes between <script> tags will go here. This one's a bit tricky since you'll obviously want to target the custom mini-profile specifically. Luckily there's an easy way to do that. In your statements you can use the $(this) variable to target the mini-profile if you're coding using jQuery. Otherwise, if you only plan on using standard Javascript you can target $(this)[0] instead.
Once you've finished building your mini-profiles it's finally time to add them to the Edit Profile page for use! To enable selection of custom mini-profiles you'll first need to add two specific custom profile fields in Members > Custom Profile Fields in your forum's admin area:
Mini-Profile Theme
Staff Mini-Profile Theme
Mini-Profile Theme is for mini-profiles that are designed for member use. You can set the Who Can Edit option for this field to Staff With Power if you only want staff to be able to choose mini-profiles for users. Otherwise, if you want members to freely be able to choose their own mini-profiles you can choose Members and Staff With Power.
Staff Mini-Profile Theme is for mini-profiles designed specifically for staff use. This field is completely optional.
Set the type for both of these fields as Drop Down Selection. Click on the (View/Edit) link to add mini-profile names to each of these fields.
If you've just installed this plugin you should have three different mini-profiles already installed by default: Example 1, Example 2, and Example 3. You can add these to your dropdowns to test them out and see the plugin in action.
If you're having trouble getting this plugin to work despite following the instructions in the previous tabs you may want to check that each of your themes meets the prerequisites below in Themes > Layout Templates > Mini-Profile.
First, ensure that opening tag of your mini-profile template includes the $[miniprofile_class] variable in its class. On the default ProBoards theme it should look something like this:
<div class="$[miniprofile_class]">
Next, make sure that the default {foreach} loop for custom fields is present inside your mini-profile. It doesn't need to be visible, so you're free to add it inside a hidden element if you don't plan on displaying it or if it would mess up the appearance of your own custom template.
Beyond that you can do whatever you like to the mini-profile template for the most part and it shouldn't negatively impact the plugin.
The following is a list of available variables for use in the HTML section of the mini-profile creator and their definitions. Adding any of these to a mini-profile will generate the content described in its definition in place of the variable so long as the information that variable outputs is visible to you.
To reference your forum's custom profile fields you can use $[user.customfieldname], substituting "customfieldname" with your custom field's name. You'll need to type the name in all lowercase with no spaces and only use characters A-Z and 0-9.
For example, Mini-Profile Theme becomes $[user.miniprofiletheme]. This will output the value of the custom field. In the case of this example, it'll be the name of the mini-profile theme you've chosen in your profile.
IMPORTANT NOTE: These will only work if you followed the steps in the Installation tab of this window on each of your themes. Any themes that do not include the template code specified there will not have these variables replaced in the mini-profile.
$[user]
User's display name link.
$[user.age]
User's age (if visible to you).
$[user.avatar]
User's current avatar.
$[user.badges]
User's list of badges.
$[user.birthday]
User's date of birth (if visible to you).
$[user.color]
Hex color of user's group. If user is not in a group this will return inherit.
$[user.custom_title]
User's custom title.
$[user.email]
User's email (if visible to you).
$[user.gender.image]
Image associated with the gender selected in the user's profile (if available).
$[user.gender.text]
Name of gender selected in the user's profile (if available).
$[user.group.name]
Name of user's current display group.
$[user.group.stars]
Star images associated with user's current display group.
$[user.id]
User's numerical ID.
$[user.instant_messenger]
User's list of instant messengers specified in their profile (if available).
$[user.invisible]
Returns 1 if a user is invisible. More useful for Javascript.
$[user.ip]
User's IP address (if visible to you).
$[user.is_online]
Returns Member is Online if user is currently online.
$[user.is_staff]
Returns 1 if a user is designated as staff. More useful for Javascript.
$[user.last_online]
Timestamp showing when user was last online.
$[user.likes]
Number of likes this user's posts have received.
$[user.location]
Location specified in user's profile.
$[user.name]
User's display name in plain text.
$[user.personal_text]
User's most recent status.
$[user.posts]
User's post count.
$[user.rank.name]
User's current posting rank.
$[user.rank.stars]
Star images associated with user's current posting rank.
$[user.registered_on]
Timestamp showing the date/time the user registered on the forum.
$[user.registered_on_short]
Condensed version of user's registration date.
$[user.social_network]
User's list of social networks specified in their profile (if available).
$[user.username]
Outputs the user's login username in plain text.
$[user.warning.bar]
User's warning bar (if it exists).
$[user.warning.level]
User's current warning level (if visible to you).
$[user.website]
Website specified in user's profile.
You can utilize the $(this) variable in the Javascript component to target the mini-profile <div> element. For example, if you wanted to add a class to the mini-profile you can use:
$(this).addClass('class-name-here');
Profile variables can also be used in the Javascript component in this plugin. In Javascript the value undefined is used to signify that a value doesn't exist for the variable you've specified. With this in mind you can use profile variables in Javascript conditional statements within the plugin similar to how they're used in the actual layout templates section of the admin area.
if(variable) will only run if the variable you specify has a value.
if(!variable) will only run if the variable you specify has no value.
Example 1 (variable has value):
if(user.group){
$(this).find('.group').show();
}
If the user has their group displayed in their profile the above Javascript would make the HTML below visible if you had it hidden with CSS.