Due to the fortunate flux of newcomers to Ragol.co.uk's online community of late, I am proud to announce the official thread for all newcomers to Ragol.co.uk to introduce themselves. Tell us a little about yourself and how you came across the wonderful world of Phantasy Star, or just announce your newfound presence at our beloved site. Enjoy, and have fun!

P.S. All newcomers feel free to PM myself or Serpent7, specifically, among the other moderators, should you need any help. :happy:

Moderator/Admin NOTE: If any other intro threads are created by newcomers, please close them or merge them with this one.

EDIT- Serpent7: Don't merge, it does it in chronological order, screws everything up. Remove this note if you want DE.

Truly,
Double Edge

Hi, i've been looking around and thinking hard on this i might get a mod chip for my xbox.{mostly because my xbox broke and this is the cheapest ways to fix it} I have heard roumors about ps2 and gc mod chips. {since i dont have those systems any more i didnt look in to it} Well what im asking is does any one have a mod chip? If so is it good? From what I've heard its great but I havent even played on a "chiped" system, but from what I've been reading mod chips have some kick butt features! Like you can surf the web,have cool mods,and really just push the xbox{or other systems} to its true performance. I'm thinking about getting one on wensday, so what you type might change my decision. So type on young grasshopper.{dont worry im not going to play pso any more so im not going to be this big hacker} I just want ot really fix my xbox for like 60 bucks instead of haveing to buy a brand new one for 200+ i dont care about the other feats. but I think they are pretty cool though!

What is your least favorite quest? Mine is soul of steel.

Well well well...its nice to be back... ...anyways. <cough cough>

I've been gone for...oh...year? Maybe two? Probably not that long. I've been gone playing Maplestory, a fun totally free 2D MMORPG. Juuuuuuuuuuust wondering if anyone played...if you wanna start the site is:

http://www.maplestory.com

Lotsa good stuff on starting off, downloading...basic info. If you actually start to play though, I recomend: http://www.sleepywood.net

Yeeeeeaaaaaaaaah. :S

If you do play however...my sn is Athel.

Whenever i try to click the server 1 button that is on the bb server, it just times out and im getting upset!!

plz help a young ranger get to killing things online.plz?

Recently I've been doing runs of Seabed, and I'm wondering about Olga Flow's second stage:

I'm using Zelda, level 124, approximately 1250 HP when equipped with God/HP's. When I get to the second stage, Olga does that Divine Punishment thing. Sometimes it kills me (usually), sometimes I have about 450 HP, sometimes it's different. Is there any way to live through this attack easily? I usually have to use 2 or 3 scapedolls, and I'm running low on them. Does being farther away let you dodge it? I'm usually right by his feet using Rabarta, and I can never run away in time. Does ELT help? I tried a few Resist/Holies, but it didn't help.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

For any of you that have seen Paris Hilton's sizzling Carl's Jr. commerical, here's another one to get your juices going. Enjoy!

Paris Hilton Commerical Spoof

Truly,
Double Edge

I heard that you can get special weapons by giving the blacksmith the third mineral(in caves 3).I did and I got a frost sword.The hell is up with that?Please post your opinions and help.

Just bored and curious on how everyone decks out their rangers. Here is what my ranger uses at her current level.

Frozen Shooter
Luminous Field
Standstill Shied
Cure/Freeze
Cure/Paralyzes
Cure/Shock
Perfect/Resist
Nidra 5/125/70/0

On tonight's TTF runs with Pink and another guy who doesn't come here (AFAIK), I got lucky enough to see a red slime. I was using my HUcast at the time, and in the first room I was the only one there so I had to resort to the third-hit-split tactic. This worked, and one slime turned red. Sweet... Cure/Paralysis right (Pink was using a greenill character and leading)? So I killed it, eventually... it was against the wall at the time, and it dropped... nothing. Nothing at all... which is weird because all rare monsters have a 100% drop-something rate, right? A few seconds later, our other player DCd, and we started over. But there was no drop from that slime... it hadn't even dropped an item somewhere else in the room (as online slimes tend to do, I've noticed).

Coincidentally, on the next run we met a red slime in the 4-slime room that DID drop me a Cure/Paralysis. I was actually the last one to enter the room, and it was there when I entered I think... actually I can't remember if I entered the room before or after it appeared, but if it was after, someone else had split it at the exact moment I entered the room (Pink, was the red slime one of the originals or one of the split ones?). Doesn't matter I suppose, because I distinctly remember getting a Devil/Battle from a split red slime one time in a different run.

What I want to know is this: droids have a hard time splitting slimes for obvious reasons, and so I usually ask our FO friends to split for me when I'm using a droid (coincidentally, I was the only non-FO player in this game ). What aggravates me though, is that the slimes seem to have different behavior for every player. I see someone casting rabarta when the slime isn't even up on my screen... it suddenly goes into a pain animation and pops down again, but I see no second slime. Then people end up killing the slimes before I can see them all. This isn't even considering the possibility of a red slime... I split the slime that created the first red one, but did it not drop my item because... perhaps the game leader didn't see it? I wasn't sure which of the three FOs had split the second slime... would it have mattered?

Basically, how is slime splitting kept track of? What information is stored client-side and server-side? This confuses me, and IMO more of this should have been kept server-side (or at least, when a slime is split by one player, the new slime appears on all players' screens as). Eh... just wondering so maybe I could figure this out better next time I play... :ermm: