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Arachnophobia mode....or lack thereof.
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Mabinogi has an insane amount of spider types. How can a player with arachnophobia even collect transformations? Just the images in the window is too much for someone with arachnophobia and they should also be changed to match what the player would be hunting which will be the different scented bears. It makes no sense for a player to hunt scented bear spiders only to then unlock and see the icon on their screen of hunting spiders.
Only searching the word spider in the transformation dairy there are 13 different ones not including spiders that go under different names like the "T" word, multiple types of Laghodessa, and also Scorpions (which are also arachnids).
This image is safe because I made sure it was only snake/bat, but here is an example of how even BLOCKING the person who refuses to not do a solo freestyle jam right at the campfire spirit does not save you from the spawns...
My friend had to leave.... Even though I tried asking nicely and another user agreed they played like 6 more songs in freestyle jam mode without trying to hit the prompts with no one else joining. It gave me plenty of time to block and see if the spawns would still show on the next songs, and they all did... shame my friend had to miss out on feeding the fire because of this awful Moisturiser person.
https://i.imgur.com/SdV3QKX.png
This is still seriously a huge problem and players are just awful and nasty...they claim you should "just leave" but you can't know you are about to run into it when you just log in and are at the center of Dunbarton shops just trying to look at shops...
A simple solution for the freestyle jam would simply be to remove spiders from them completely so they don't appear during one. There is no real reason why they need to show up for a freestyle jam anyway so why not just cut that monster out of freestyle jams. It would work out better this way cause nobody would have to leave the area to feel comfortable. Bards like to freestyle jam in public areas with a large player population to entertain others and find random groups to play music with. At the same time though you are right, phobias are serious and nobody should be told they should leave because of it.
Just add more spider types to the Portable Diffuser, make all spider transformations appear as scented bears when the Portable Diffuser is active, and remove spiders from Freestyle Jams and this issue would be solved. It is sad to see some players being rude about it in chat though. The random Bard groups I joined never acted like this, luckily in my experience most Mabinogi players are not like this. 90% of all Mabinogi players I meet are usually friendly and helpful but unfortunately even this game has few bad groups.
Agreed! That would be a simple and quick solution that could help players with severe arachnophobia actually be able to enjoy the game and freestyle jams. It is crazy just how many dungeons in the Generation quests have Laghodessas. I have been playing with the diffuser just to test for my friend and it is so bad how much main game content would cause literal panic attacks for someone with the phobia just due to the Laghodessas alone. It also sucks to not even be able to look in the dungeon guide or transformation collection menus without seeing icons of them also not hidden. Not to mention of course the others like when a player transforms or has a pet of an arachnid. I really hope they are able to fix this soon in a way like you suggested. I hope these posts are actually looked at and considered.