Altai

I love the new installment of Moonlight Island, but boy do I have some major critiques about it.

Moonlight Island, (MI as I often call it) is basically a new version of homesteads but it allows you to terraform. You can decorate to your heart's content; you even have Islanders that can craft items for you. Though on the downside, the only way to level up your island is to have your Islanders craft stuff. It's definitely a grind for sure. But you can surely make some pretty islands!
Let's get onto how costly things can be though.. Say you want to expand your island? There will be required materials you need to expand it, yeah ok, cool, no big deal. That's until you realize that the materials you need can only be crafted by the islanders. Ok, yeah that's fine. Wait-Wha? Unlock the special recipe to make said items? Ok, yeah, I can do that. Oh.. It costs.. 5 Island points to unlock that recipe. How do I get 5 points..? Oh the points are from your island level. Fine, fine I'll do it but I'll have to save all my points for it.
Yay you reached level 5! Let's make that mat! Perfect done, what else do I need? Oh what's that... Oh it needs to be crafted by islanders too! Where is- Unlock secret recipe... Costs 5 points to unloc- So I need level 10 to make them.
^I think you get the picture.
Alright I understand why it's like this, that's alright. This obviously isn't something you are meant to rush through which is totally understandable. I'll take my time.

Let us talk now about Terraforming.
This is so exciting! We can create a beautiful landscape to our own design! It's an amazing thing! That's until you realize the cost.
1 landscape essence per one unit changed. So, you go ahead and craft a lot of them because this island is in fact, huge!
You get along your way, start building-OOPS! You made a mistake! Undo it! Wait... I can only undo it once. So, you take the gut punch and fix your mistake which absolutely will cost you more Landscape Essence than it did to even make this little ledge. Next you decide to place your decorative items on it-
"Landscape is uneven".. You check through it, it's all the same level and it fits the unit size. Boy that costed a lot of essence. But now you know it's even!
"Landscape is uneven..." Well ok, let's just undo the whole thing and make it all flat. Guess what? That's going to cost double the essence to get back to where you started.
There really needs to be a better system for if you make a mistake instead of just, "Undo Once". It's way too costly on essence and can really scare of anyone from terraforming. In my personal opinion, it really makes the addition of terraforming a headache instead of something fun and exciting to do.

Things I think need to be added to the Moonlight Island.

- Flatten Button where it sets the level of everything to 0 with little to no cost of essence.
- Undo button that undoes however many changes you just made.
How can you expect players to build if they can't make mistakes?
- Homestead items really need to have smaller unit sizes for bigger objects.
There are so many bigger items that have huge placement boxes. Newer trees like the Cotton Candy trees have 1x1 unit size which is AMAZING. But the old trees have 3x3 unit size. Doesn't really make sense does it..?
- Homestead items really need to be water-sand elevation friendly.
Has anyone else tried to place the Homestead Deck Cafe (A/B) on their beach? I know I have. I kept running into the whole "Landscape is uneven" despite me making sure that it's all one level. I even raised the water to the sand level and vice versa. How can you give me a boat and not let me put it in the water?!?!
- Change the terrain!
We know how the homesteads allowed you to have Connus and Vales locations. Basically, you could have a desert or snowy homestead. It would be really cool to see Moonlight Islands that have different weather/terrain. Especially since we have items like the Hot Spring Pavilion!
- Add more basic items to the Construction List.
I was happy to see a lot of the options added to the Construction List like the cherry blossom trees. But they don't even have single Maple trees.. There's one but it has a chair to it.. That's kinda.. yeah... We also just need better trees with better unit sizes and variety.
- Homestead Housing.
A lot of the homestead houses had a lot of cool skins (Construction Kits) that we could put in our homesteads. But now we can only have the buildable houses and some of the decorative houses. I think it'd be a good addition to have those as placeable skins in our MI's.

Honestly this is all I could really think of off the top of my head.
I've been tinkering with Moonlight Island since it came out and I love it, but boy does it need some work and to be more user friendly. I also understand with Mabinogi Eternity in the works, a lot of this stuff may be fixed or added to.
But what do you guys think? What changes would you like to see and what are some difficulties you've bumped into?
(Also sorry if my typing is sloppy, I'm very tired and wanted to get this up ASAP.)

- Ever think about how when another player stands 1cm in front of you and they go transparent?
But when you're in Revived Illusion, Phantasm or Crom somehow the walls will do anything they can to block your view...
I don't know about you guys, but personally it really affects my willingness to run these due to the walls blocking your view despite the fact you need to see the whole floor. Yes, you can do a top-down view, but you could only zoom so far.
While I love seeing the craftsmanship of Mabinogi as a whole, I also like being able to see what I'm doing while fighting and NOT have to fight the walls.

- Speaking of field of view and zooming. Have you guys ran puri and had the frustration of Archelon being so big that you couldn't see him use Water Recovery Skill, and then your party gets wiped? I know I have. While I do my best to zoom out as far as I possibly can (Yes, my field of view is maxed) I still struggle to see him. If the mobs/bosses are massive, the field of view needs to really be expanded so you can see properly.

- Everyone's dyed a piece of clothing before, right?
When you start dying, the screen pulls up this new view and if you look down, there's the black fade to the bottom of your screen. If you don't know what I mean, try and dye your shoes and zoom in as far as you can to see every detail.
Kinda difficult to see your shoes in order to dye them, right? I personally can't understand why we have to have this black fade going down the screen as it obscures a player's ability to dye everything and see every detail.
While dying, players should be able to see everything they wish to dye with ease. Zoom in needs to be closer/and or there needs to be the ability to move the camera around.

-Every try to take a screen shot and you just can't seem to get the camera angle right? It would be very nice if we had a free camera so we can take screen shots as we please.

- Have you ever gone onto the Auction House and seen a hair color, spirit transformation liqueur, chair or homestead Item and had no clue what they looked like because you can't preview? You then have to go ahead and try to figure out what box the item was released in and then hope there's a preview of it somewhere in the wiki. And if there is none, you're out of luck.
We should be able to preview these like how we do other items. (I'm aware some HS items are already preview-able but not all of them are.)
Let us preview hair color dyes, spirit transformation liqueurs, chair and homestead items! Anything that is purely visible should be preview-able if the item can go on AH.

-Lastly, I've been very happy with all the skin tones that have been released for our characters over the past years. But ever have the issue of matching a pair of gloves to your characters skin tone? Imagine NOT being the default pale color and then getting a pair of gloves that do not match your character at all. It's also incredibly difficult to match different skin tones, even with the use of direct dyes.
I purpose the idea of having a Skin Tone Mold, similar to Hair Dye Mold, where players can match their characters skin tone. It would need to be separated by the races and labeled correctly. Ex. I'm an elf and the skin tone I use is "Winter White". I then could buy a box, select the race I am and then go down the list and select the matching skin tone.
I think we can all agree this would be a great idea because so many outfits/shoes/gloves have a skin tone part and it's just beyond frustrating to color match clothes to your own character.

What do you guys think?
Please feel free to share this with friends, GM/CM etc. The more we bring these things up/talk about them, the more likely we can see changes we want and value.

I was just fighting a friend of mine when he just started to plead to end the fight and of course, I misunderstood what he meant and finished the battle, claiming the victory for myself.
He hasn't appeared on my friends list since then but I keep getting weird notes that read,
"All fun and games until someone gets hurt,
right...?"

-Altai, Nao

Ok so we all know this game has so much potential to it and is very different from other games in a way that can't be replicated in other games. Yes there's of course a lot that this game needs to revamp and fix but lets just bounce off our dream ideas here. Why? Why not? I think we all have fun ideas we would like to see come to the game in the future, even if it's only a dream idea. I personally would love to see everyone else's dream ideas too. I'll start with a idea me and my friend bounced off each other.
- Many of us mid game-end gamers don't have much to do except grind out reforges/gear/weapons/erg and maps now are pretty easy mob wise if you're pretty maxed out. I know there's rumors of there being a new continent added but hear me out... What if they added a continent that is all underwater? Like you start off on a beach and just walk into the water and for the first time swimming is brought in? Controls are the same or like flying and you can swim into the deep waters into like a whole new world.
Or this unleashes and becomes available with a new gen and at the end of the gen you acquire, similar to a trans, like fins that activate in the water. And the fins can be customizable color, shape, whatever your heart could think of. Maybe the ability to become mermaids/merpeople? But like other trans forms/talent/techs you get new skills for fighting that you can use only in water.
As for the trans/tech/talent fins would be used in this new underwater continent where there's like, deep sea treasure hunting where you can possibly find Erg/New Weapon/Gear/Etc materials. Of course also include new mobs to fight, sea creatures of all sorts, sharks, fish, and even include new Field Bosses! (I'm sure nexon could come up with some crazy cool field bosses.)
The map itself would be similar to Iria or belvast where it is it's own continent, but can only be unlocked after completion of said generation(s) completion. This whole continent would also be pretty strong mob wise so it's not newbie friendly. (Would make CP-based skills and talents easier to train for mid-end gamers.) This would make players more motivated of course to complete the gen or whatever amount of gens are made to be required to unlock the continent. There would be underwater new NPCs/towns/villages/ all around that have shops that have old and new items for underwater life. Also with completion the gen for fins, the player can use them in other water areas on like Uladh/Iria/Belvast/the rest of Erinn. That alone can open up so many new possibilities for events and new content for players.
New events/pets too? Imagine being able to do like Seahorse racing? Maybe Sea turtle mounts? Underwater battles. Could add in new gear and weapons for underwater life!
And the whole fin trans/tech/talent would or could basically turn your avatar/character into a mermaid or grow flippers/gills/fins etc. You could still use whatever talents that are already in the game in fighting underwater but the fins/mermaid trans (whatever it would be considered) make movement faster, traveling faster and also unlocks a new form of fighting, like a whole new talent that you can mix with other existing talents/weaps etc. Could even eventually add armor for your new fins and that improve swimming/fighting.
There's honestly so much that could be added to this whole idea of course and I could probably go on about it until every detail was worked out honestly. I just always loved underwater maps in other games as well as swimming and think this would be such a cool thing for Mabinogi to have. Of course it's a dream so it would be extremely unlikely but... We can dream right? What are your dreams for Mabinogi that you've always wanted to see come to reality? VR? Complete map/mob revamps? Mabi 2.0? Game play change? New Talent? New Event? New Races? Marriage of Giants and Elves?
Let us know your dreams below, would love to read them! Feel free to share ANY ideas you have as I'd LOVE to see tons of different ideas and dreams you all might have!! All ideas are valid here!

I know we're all really happy about getting gloves that give us ACTUAL FINGERS, but while it's a blessing it's also a curse for those of us who aren't the the default skin tone that the gloves come out as. The beauty gacha already does hair dye amp box so I think they should really add a skin tone one since we know Nexon isn't very good at going backwards in terms of revamping already made items. I know we'd love for them to just make it so those gloves and shoes that have skin tone sections to just auto-match the holder but that's unlikely. There's now outfits and shoes that have skin tone sections that are dyable so they should really just consider making a Skin Tone amp box already. Would just be really smart and nice for people to be able to match their skin tone instead of waiting for dye amp events where you can just make your own amps. Just an idea! ^^
And if they ever did revamp those items they should also make a few gesture cards like SLURP loop like the recently released gestures that loop and fit so well for idles. Love the new ones but some old ones would be nice if they looped. <- this is just a side note tho I wanted to throw in.