The maintenance today

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No sarcasm for this one - I would like to thank the cyberstep team for fixing the game albeit costing me a tenshou run. Then again luck turned in my favour and decided to drop me a lunar spirit seal from the treasure nyankoropon. That's a nice surprise to compensate for my lost tenshou run but really I dont know what to do with my luck because to be honest I'm not playing the game seriously and don't really think I'd need a fused magatama to finish the game. I guess I'll just ask for carry to see the final part of the story.

So I'm trying to sell my lunar spirit seal for oc which I can later use to buy cloudcleaver tenryuu heaven recipes and materials or even better the entire sword itself. Initially I tried to sell for 500oc but then had to drop it to 300 oc. I dont really know the suitable price to be honest here so need some advice in that regard. All I really want though is a tenryuu cloudcleaver heaven. After that I'll be hunting houryuu weapons - staff, wand, spear, axe, sword, odachi and one datenryuu sword. All of them do not need to be plus 100 but they do need to be level 115.

I dont know to what extent my lunar seal sale can help me with this goal so Im asking around to see if anyone is interested in trading weapons for the seal.

As I stated before Im not playing to beat the game. Im only here for the graphics - character models and weapons since Im only interested in lifting the graphical designs onto Creo Parametric, AutoCad, Blender and possibly Maya. Ive done the same for Runescape which you can see for yourselves on DeviantArt and am currently thinking of copying models from cosmic break, cosmic league and world of warcraft to perfect my 3D modeling.

If you want to know more about my story read the next post.

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This all happened 2 years ago before I played this game - nothing to do with updates from any game I played or browsed through in search of eye catching items for me to draw. It was when I was assigned to a team of four during my third year in second semester of mechanical engineering in my design course (one of four I had to take that semester) that I experienced something that changed the way I viewed mechanical engineering and modeling in general. I felt the need to prove myself, my peers, even my teachers, yes especially you Martin McCarthy who almost failed me in Auckland Uni based on false testimonies one of my team made against me, that I can push past the boundaries of mechanical modeling restricted by dimension - and show them all that trampled all over my career that not only am I more apt than my team at mechanical 3D modeling but even modeling in the game graphics area where dimensions are of least concern. Yes - it is possible for an engineer to push past the limits of dimensions and even have artistic skills. You see, back in my team out of us four only two of us were really good at modeling -Sam and me. Unfortunately that meant competition.

So what happened? First, my rival proclaimed himself leader - okay you're white and we're in New Zealand, a white country, amongst two other white students. I was the only asian in that group. And I couldn't quib because the teacher assigned us into that team. To cut long story short, my relationship with leader deteriorated drastically due to him giving me bearing calculations to work on, then changing his mind about the bearings we need to use, then, changing it again when I was about to deliver the calculations. Then when it came to modeling our designs? He dared delete all my drawings of the railings, motor, pump and bearing part files and assembly files without notifying me. Only when we handed in our group report did he say on the final day 'Oh I made a better assembly and animation than you. You've done absolutely nothing and got no modeling skills.'

I had to slave all weekend on the project he deleted. He slaved all weekend to replace the project I did because he declared I AM AN INCOMPETENT MODELER. Yeah, I was sent to the dean's office (Martin McCarthy) and was basically roasted an hour then given a C- instead of the usual B+. I've never scored below average in any engineering course other than electrical and software (reason I don't take those disciplines).

Ever since that day I've been pushing my modeling limits even when I'm in the workforce back in Taiwan by practising game model designs in addition to the mechanical designs I had to do in office. I've shared my game drawings in Facebook, Deviant Art and even showed two video processes on Youtube. And when my friends grew concerned including those on Onigiri here who asked if I'm okay I had to tell them this story.

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Anyways, I feel a bit better explaining my situation. I've got a bit of support from friends and family, and even my dynamics lecturer of final year councilled me a bit after a student representative of the mechanical engineering facebook page notified him there's a war going on between me and my rival. We were forced to reconcile afterwards and people say time is the best medicine, but in all honesty it is inpossible to simply forgive and forget someone who nearly costs you your degree and future caree right?

This is the reason why on my main (Winter de Solis) I've been searching for weapons other than my primary weapon - swords because I admit I'm not good enough to conjure weapons without a template. I also admit that such vivid dreams to prove my peers I am capable in my modeling ability really prevents me from actually enjoying the game as intended.