Posted by Has the July event really gone to shit?
YuletideLynx (#398567)

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2023-02-13 09:54:12
(Trigger warning very brief mention of incest and rape. Before I start just remember, I stop playing on my old account during August and I made a new account during sometime in November of last year so I'm likely to forget and get some details wrong. And I'm not trying to disapprove or send hate on the original post, I'm just confused and need some clarification.)
This is the post i'm talking about https://www.lioden.com/topic.php?id=304429431743&page=1 and first of all I don't remember the battles being hard although that could because I had a high level lion and I love the space dragon and snake stuff but again subjective and I understand why people didn't like this. But secondly and the more important thing to address when the hell did they remove the old storyline and NPCs?? I clearly remember the old NPCs and the storyline, I don't remember them removing them, they just tack on the new space dragon stuff on top of the old stuff. And why did some posters act like the triggering stuff such as the incest and rape was new? Wasn't that always present in the storyline? Wasn't that always the storyline? I don't remember a older lighthearted storyline without all the triggering topics.
TDLR, I mean no hate, I'm just confused and don't remember the July event being that bad. And this forum is over two years old so maybe they fix some of the July's event issues.



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Rin Spiritwolf (#20915)

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2023-02-13 10:00:34
It has been a hot minute since I played the july storyline but I think they did end up scraping all the old characters as well as the storyline. They replaced it with space snakes.



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Mad Hyena (#29080)

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2023-02-13 10:12:14
They first removed the old storyline alltogether in 2021, and replaced it with badly-balanced space dragons, that's why people complained. The battles were really overwhelming at first, when each dragon had a boost and literally 99% of them started first and did a lot of damage due to bonuses.

So next year, in 2022 they returned the old storyline with some tweaks to address the issues - for example, Apedemak now states he wants to marry Menhit to a certain king of his choosing, aka arranged marriage, so incest was removed.
And they also tweaked the battles last year, so they werent AS bad as they were the previous year. Many dragons had their overpowering abilities removed, making it possible to defeat them.



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Edited on 13/02/23 @ 10:17:36 by Mad Hyena (#29080)

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2023-02-13 10:13:40
I don't play July event anymore. It's hard and more of a hassle than it's worth. I came back from hiatus last year so I never played the new event on launch but I did last year.
The battles are super tricky. You will get one shot by bosses if you don't attack them properly, and as someone who isn't big on battling it's a big turn off from the event.
The old storyline and NPCs were completely retired in 2021 when they put out the new event. The July event didn't always have the storyline that made the event "problematic" to people, it was introduced in 2017. (But to be completely honest I do not remember what the event was like before they implemented the storyline). But then reintroduced it with some tweaks. But yes the storyline was the same in 2017 as it was when it was retired. So it really only became a problem in recent years because as far as I can remember, no one really had a problem with it back in 2017-18



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Edited on 13/02/23 @ 10:14:57 by snowmew [G1 3xRos SSR 10BO] (#63212)

YuletideLynx (#398567)

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2023-02-13 10:19:18
Thanks for your respond Mad Hyena, I figured that's what likely happen. but stupid question while looking on the wiki for the July's storyline page I can't seem to find the new changes, it looks the same as 2017 July's storyline.



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Mad Hyena (#29080)

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2023-02-13 10:58:13
The storyline is indeed indentical to 2017, all art and etc. is the same - just some dialogue texts were altered.



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Before (#25066)

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2023-02-13 13:27:12
I see most of it’s been answered, but to answer about the storyline issues being “new”:

The storyline wasn’t always around - before that, Apedemak was just some kooky guy who had barely-substantiated claims of being a god and was the main event NPC. Apollyon and Menhit were also added before the storyline was introduced as Explore encounters, but even then, Apedemak was at worst an overprotective father as his daughter was dating a “bad boy” achetype.

It wasn’t until the storyline was introduced that Apedemak did anything evil. At worst, he showed you the Celestial Stone (now replaced by Celestial Portal) but his dialogue discouraged you from using it.



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