tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8593314732200645332024-03-05T10:49:57.119-05:00Line Rangers & FriendsPanicbuttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05243653559925634634noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859331473220064533.post-20999185524993140532015-02-10T11:05:00.000-05:002015-02-10T11:20:25.962-05:00The Beginning and the EndHi everyone! Sorry I haven't been around to post much, but I've been busy with real life stuff. Season 2 released while I was out of the country and since coming home, it's been a whirlwind of stuff. I haven't played a lot of Line Rangers Season 2, but I did save Sally. I can't believe how much the game has changed. In some ways, it's given the game a new life, but in some ways it's become super complicated and the climb feels more steep. They did a good job of addressing certain player gripes, but in the process, at least in my opinion, they've created some new issues. Well, love it or hate it, I'm just glad we got to rescue our Sally finally. <i>Spoiler alert:</i> Turns out Mephisto is a total lamer and his boss is the one to beat. Hah!<br />
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Where do you go for your Line Rangers English discussions now? I am an avid reader of Reddit and I enjoy the discussion format of Reddit so I encourage you to go to the Line Rangers subreddit to post your questions, comments and discussions on the game: <b><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LineRangers/">https://www.reddit.com/r/LineRangers/</a> </span></b><br />
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<u>Huge shout-out to</u>:<br />
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<li>My friend <b>Stru </b>who first turned me on to Line Rangers. Thanks for making me lose many hours of my life and so, so many dollars, Stru. </li>
<li><b>Rangers Elite Club</b>: my Line Rangers friends who started many thoughtful discussions -- you guys know who you are, you are awesome. </li>
<li><b>Elite Rangers Masters</b> group: the international teams represented in this Masters group have been a total eye-opener to just how big this game is and how far players are willing to go to be the best of the best. I learned a lot from these kind, friendly people. Keep on rocking! </li>
<li>Last but definitely not least - Taiwanese Line Rangers group <b>銀河特攻隊 & Wei S</b>: Incredibly, incredibly smart. I am always in awe of the data that comes out of this group. Their published articles are <a href="http://tw.playappgame.co/apps/show/10" target="_blank">here</a> in Chinese. Wei S has published so many videos that have helped players. View Wei's ever-growing collection of videos <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/snumer1/videos" target="_blank">here</a>. </li>
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Thank you all so very much for making this experience awesome! And as always, good luck and have fun!Panicbuttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05243653559925634634noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859331473220064533.post-7568814982354635652015-02-10T10:28:00.002-05:002015-02-10T11:05:16.250-05:00LINE Rangers Friend ID REMOVAL Post<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig-ohKwcD-R8w3NtpJDmRQooDzwNELFonf3dfLgnq_kPjOyiztznIvTfsHTiY59at2MrM_c0-sGs7h42_8_vapNO3UqGUNTWEkVjFMmsihIv3TmZvkkCCYDjU-hrxCgYaD4JNaWBw9VV4k/s1600/brown_sticker.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig-ohKwcD-R8w3NtpJDmRQooDzwNELFonf3dfLgnq_kPjOyiztznIvTfsHTiY59at2MrM_c0-sGs7h42_8_vapNO3UqGUNTWEkVjFMmsihIv3TmZvkkCCYDjU-hrxCgYaD4JNaWBw9VV4k/s1600/brown_sticker.png" height="173" width="200" /></a>Hello! If you reached this page, you either want to post a LINE ID or you want your LINE ID removed from <a href="http://linerangers.blogspot.com/2014/04/line-rangers-friend-id-list.html" target="_blank">this page</a>. Sorry, but I am no longer allowing posts of new LINE IDs for sharing. This post is for the sole purpose of those who have already posted their ID on the Friend ID page and wish to REMOVE it.<br />
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Please leave me a comment below with your LINE ID that you wish to have removed. It will not be posted for the public to see, but I will receive a message of your request. Thank you for your cooperation!Panicbuttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05243653559925634634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859331473220064533.post-82263014020944876652015-01-19T21:48:00.000-05:002015-02-10T10:19:48.572-05:00Pre-register for Season 2 of Line Rangers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Season 2 is coming and a lot of information came in earlier today about what's expected! Make sure you go and pre-register your line id (not your profile display name, but the actual Line ID) where you can click "Go" to take you to a website to input that information. Doing so will qualify you for a Line Rangers toy drawing as well as the first "6-star" ranger we've seen: Assassin Brown! 100 rubies will also be given away. This is only valid if you enter between now and January 27, 2015 23:59 JST so make sure you do this if you want your prizes!</div>
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The updates look quite nice. The game is going to get some big updates to the game play and ranger selection. It's been over 6 months since we got new battle types so it would be nice to see some new flavor added to the game.<br />
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The biggest news is of course the introduction of 6 to 8 star rangers! We're breaking past the 5-star mold finally but I'm not sure how they're handling this game play. On the one hand, this for sure means that the new rangers will be beefier. Ont he other, it means that we probably need to spend a bunch of rubies to get the latest and greatest again -- of course we're used to this formula, but it doesn't mean we have to like it. I wonder how the "evolution" system will work. Will it finally make long-forgotten old rangers relevant and useful again? Is it possible to progressively combine and evolve our old rangers to keep making them competitive? I'd like to think so, but I have no idea how it will be!<br />
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And last but certainly not least, we'll finally see the last stage of Season 1, where we will rescue Sally at long last. After almost a year in captivity, we'll be reunited with our friendly fowl once again.<br />
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Season 2 has been on the horizon for a good long while, seeing as how the current chapter has been going on for 11 months. The hope is that we do eventually get to the "end" and rescue Sally from Dr. Mephisto, and that season 2 will be a related but separate story line. Thankfully, since it is a "season" addition, I would assume this means that we keep our rangers, team level, etc. when going on the next mission.<br />
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Additionally, I just wanted to post this (super late) master level Fisher Brownie in case anyone was looking for it. She (Brownie is a girl; she is the cousin of Brown) is still available from certain boss levels and legend has it she actually is in the Friendship Gacha despite never having shown up for me after hundreds and hundreds of spins.<br />
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Good luck, everyone!Panicbuttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05243653559925634634noreply@blogger.com60tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859331473220064533.post-85156626498283800542014-12-31T20:23:00.000-05:002015-01-19T21:49:01.077-05:00Happy 2015! New Rangers! Happy new year, everyone! I wish everyone a very beautiful 2015 and may the fortune of Gacha be with you.<br />
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I'm sorry I can't properly post up pics and such, because I'm not on my computer. But I wanted to start a new post so that players can feel free to post their comments about the new set of Rangers here.<br />
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It's pretty cool that Fisher Brownie is available "for free" as an event ranger. But the drop rate, as expected, is very low. Hope you guys get it! It's about time Brown's little cousin Brownie got some attention again!Panicbuttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05243653559925634634noreply@blogger.com123tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859331473220064533.post-52533269705531355562014-12-17T23:53:00.002-05:002015-01-19T21:49:09.197-05:00Red Sand Hill + Limited Ranger Adjustments<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Right out of the gate, many players have already completed all the new stages of Red Sand Hill! Hard to believe, but it's true! Almost exclusively up-to-date premium players, but still, it's quite fast to already have dominated the new map. </div>
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One of the exciting things I found quite fascinating is the new adjustments (read: buffs) of the older limited rangers, as briefed in the notice we received prior to the new area release.</div>
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This may not mean much to some, but I am very happy about this because it brings older veteran players like me, who have for a while dropped out of the race and stopped paying for rangers, a reason to come back into the fold. My dear old faithful, Ola Brown got a huge bump in stats, as did Susu and others that followed him. Whether or not it makes them "useful" again is up for debate, but, what it represents is the idea from LINE that they recognize old rangers need to be brought "up" to make them more competitive. They've done it before for older generation rangers... and then quickly scaled up the power of the newer rangers again. So we know this "new buff" is only temporarily relevant, as with all things in Line Rangers.<br />
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Nevertheless, rejoice, friends! New area, new life to old friends, new <a href="http://linerangers.blogspot.com/2014/04/treasure-treasure-treasure.html" target="_blank">treasure</a>. Have fun!<br />
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It always amazes me how the game maker feels fine just throwing such disjointed enemies together into one area. The guy with the leopard print vest looks like some kind of a hippie mechanic. The cactus wielding pilot has nothing to do with the zombie kid, deformed baby, and the sports player. I mean... what is going on? Does Mephisto have schizophrenia? Multiple personality disorder? Background-wise, the area doesn't look very interesting. It looks kind of sad and desert-like... just desolate. </div>
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LINE's holiday present for all players is going on for most of the month! Those of us who have been playing a while know that 1 Gacha ticket lets you play the 10-ruby Premium Gacha, and 2 tickets lets you play the 20-ruby Premium Gacha. However, 10 Gacha tickets did not allow us to play the 5+1 Premium Gacha -- and this is still true. The special nature of these December tickets is that gathering 20 Gacha tickets this month will allow you to play the "<b>Christmas Special 10+3 Gacha</b>" one time. So, if you log in 20 days this month, you will have another chance to get the 4 December-only limited Christmas rangers. See the notice below for the precise language of the giveaway.</div>
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Remember,<span style="color: red;"> Santa Moon</span>, <span style="color: #783f04;">Rudolph Brown</span>, <span style="color: #38761d;">Carol Edward</span> and <span style="color: yellow;">Kevin </span>are all limited to December 2014 only. Once 2015 rings in, they will all be unavailable.<br />
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For the next week, it has been confirmed that we are no longer getting 5 rubies daily for daily attendance. I know it's a bummer because we've kind of gotten used to it. But the Gacha tickets are a similar thing. Those of you who have been vigilant should have mastered Mach Brown as well (I'm a baddie, I haven't).<br />
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Also, 4 more days to enter the <a href="http://linerangers.blogspot.com/2014/11/design-your-own-ranger.html" target="_blank">Character Design Contest</a>!Panicbuttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05243653559925634634noreply@blogger.com116tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859331473220064533.post-90155711764855344802014-11-30T10:01:00.001-05:002014-12-12T11:36:15.845-05:00Christmas Rangers Soon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Edit: New Rudolph Brown, Santa Moon, Carol Edward and... "Kevin" are here as the December rangers. The 3 LINE Friends are so cute in their holiday garb. Kevin has a silly Christmas tree t-shirt on which makes him borderline cute, I think. He's like a walrus without the tusks. Maybe he's a black bear? I'm not sure!<br />
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By the way here is how the Gacha panel picture looks for the next month, so it looks like Edward is once again the limited ranger. He's almost sure to be a splash type again. And he's still going to be screeching down the road on a vehicle since he lacks all appendages. Kevin might be a 3 star because he's off in the back of the picture. Poor odd kid left out. Brown looks reminiscent of Best Couple Brown so maybe he'll be a health ranger again. His punches shoot out Christmas trees, so I'd watch out for that attack!<br />
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Edit: they're all 5-star Rangers!<br />
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It remains to be seen if these rangers are worth getting, but I'd be interesting in having at least one of each since they're dressed for the season!<br />
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And don't forget, you have only <b>7 more days</b> to enter the <a href="http://linerangers.blogspot.com/2014/11/design-your-own-ranger.html" target="_blank">LINE Rangers Character design contest</a>!Panicbuttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05243653559925634634noreply@blogger.com120tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859331473220064533.post-13044970534216421992014-11-26T12:42:00.003-05:002014-12-05T23:42:27.850-05:00Design Your Own Ranger!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It is finally here! I have been waiting for a contest like this for such a long time. Truth be told, I have more than once tried to see if I could conduct my own design-a-ranger contest on my blog, but because of the international audience and various currencies/Google Play/App store country restrictions, I couldn't figure out the logistics of how to actually give out the prize, which I wanted to be rubies. :( But LINE is doing their own official contest so now here is everyone's chance to get their creative juices going. I'm really pleased that they opened this contest to all regions. We have a week and a half to enter!<br />
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I'll be the first to admit that I am horrible at drawing but I think I might try to think of a nice ranger to add to our collection. Everyone's always saying one thing or another about the new rangers that appear in the game. I think this is a really good chance for us, the players, to show them how it's done. What do WE want in a ranger? <strike>I'm not sure if we are allowed to use Brown, Cony, James, Jessica, Leonard, Boss and Moon but I assume that it is allowed. Did you want Salaryman Moon to be a ranger? Or Santa Claus Brown? Lumberjack Boss? Flight Attendant Jessica and Cony? Get to work! </strike>(<i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><u>Update</u></span></b></i>: I sent them a question asking if we are allowed to design a new LINE friend ranger. The answer pretty much said to create your OWN rangers, which I read to mean do not piggy-back off LINE Friends and make a new Moon or Brown, etc.)<br />
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I encourage everyone who's ever had beef with the game's palette of rangers to rise to this challenge! Show everyone what you come up with. I'm pretty sure a 4-year old child could come up with something better than the ranger known as "Summer" lol. I would love to hear and see it if you want to share your creations. If you guys come up with drawings, please post them on imgur.com and show us a link! The prize is not just glory, it's cold hard rubies and figurines! (See Notice for details)<br />
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I *hope* that the winning design of the competition will be available to ALL players via some event or as a permanent bonus roll in the stages (so it will be a "free" ranger).<b> </b>I don't want the winning ranger to be the new limited edition or new Premium Gacha addition to the roster. No, the winning ranger should be ours! I think it is only right because it is <b>a ranger inspired by the players, made for the players, voted by the players.</b><br />
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Finally, the somewhat disappointing thing about the contest is that it appears to be more of a "touch-and-feel" design contest rather than a mechanics contest. What I mean is, the contest is being judged based upon the appearance of the ranger and its story. We are not given the option to suggest what powers we want our creation to possess, i.e. type of ranger, attack speed, range, move speed. I don't know if they will take it into consideration if we do submit our designs with those characteristics included. But I think if we want a balanced ranger that is worth having, it should be well-made and not just the same old crazy overpowered trend that LINE gives us every month.<br />
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So anyway, get to work! :D <span style="color: red;">December 7</span> is the deadline!Panicbuttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05243653559925634634noreply@blogger.com42tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859331473220064533.post-68752847426005802592014-11-25T12:14:00.000-05:002014-11-30T10:03:40.573-05:00Race Through Treacherous Swamp<br />
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A new event came in today! If you finish Treacherous Swamp before December 15 18:00 GMT+9, you will receive 1 Muay Thai Brown in your mailbox on December 16 in the afternoon GMT+9. So if you haven't finished Swamp, it's time to put the pedal to the metal. If you have already cleared Swamp, <b>you must wait until<span style="color: red;"> December 16 afternoon GMT+9 to receive Brown</span></b>.<br />
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In addition, for<b> *brand new Line Rangers players only*</b> who registered on November 25 or later, if you clear stage 60, you will receive 100 rubies in your mailbox on <b><span style="color: red;">December 16</span></b>.<br />
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It's nice to know they are still rewarding new players who joined the game. Muay Thai Brown is a couple generations back now, but depending on who you have on your team, he could still be pretty useful... my issue is with the fact that you have to clear 168 to get him. Unless you are sittingon 4 MT Brown and are missing 1 to master level, I don't see how having a single MT Brown will make a difference to your world. Oh well.Panicbuttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05243653559925634634noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859331473220064533.post-84711007324307562192014-11-13T22:02:00.001-05:002014-11-25T12:19:15.239-05:00Treacherous Swamp and Second ChancesThe new area is out tonight! Some people have raced ahead and completed it already, while some of us are still taking the leisurely route. The double-chance Gacha event is up again with 30% extra rubies when you purchase any right now, so if you want another shot at limited edition ranger, Red, this is your best chance. I do think that for people saving up rubies that it's best to keep saving for the next set of new rangers who will surely be even more powerful in various ways.<br />
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The other very exciting thing about the new release is the "re-balancing" of rangers. I haven't personally taken a very close look at everything, but at a quick (very, very brief) glance, many of the free rangers as well as earlier generation of rangers have gotten a mighty boost in attack power, range, etc. This type of boost will help free players and veteran players get over many hurdles, and is probably a hint at the difficulty level of Treacherous Swamp. They want to make sure that free ranger players have a decent chance if they work hard enough to master the freely obtainable rangers and as always, try, try again.<br />
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I'm kind of put off, as many other people are, about the Ninja Warrior ranger who is new -- and reportedly -- only available to paying players who buy $49.99 USD worth of rubies now. Hmmm. It seems kind of dirty to me. I mean, he's good but... is he $49.99 x5 good? You be the judge...<br />
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<b><u><span style="color: orange;">Edit</span></u></b>: I thought about this again. And well, $250 isn't such a bad price for a master Warrior Ninja. The truth is, when you play the Gacha on average it will take you around $400 worth of rubies before you receive 5 of any new 5-star ranger. The $250 price tag may be a turn-off but if you think about it rationally, it IS more of a bargain and of some level of consolation that you will *definitely* get the new ranger rather than leaving it up to chance. Of course, the $400 is an average and some people can get the new ranger that they are hunting for much cheaper, perhaps even cheaper than $250. Good for them. But in my own experience, it's never been the case personally. In hindsight --<i> and I am being 100% serious and honest about this</i> -- I had so much trouble getting Sorcerer Cony and Ola Brown when they were flavor of the week that if LINE flat out said if you give us $250, we will give you SoCo/Ola... I would have taken them up on their offer. In reality, I spent much, much more trying to get them in the Gacha and it was excruciatingly painful on my wallet.<br />
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That said, is warrior ninja worth it? Well, he's basically a pseudo tank unit. He has more HP/mineral than our previous bargain tank unit, Muay Thai Brown. His attack is really quite good (especially when you compare it to the nonsense that is Somchai). So as far as being useful, he is definitely good. But whether or not you need to have it is up to you and your current team composition.<br />
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Side Note (credit to T'Golf): Warrior Ninja looks like Glenn in a ninja suit. Put on a ninja suit, get upgraded to 5 stars. Well played, Glenn. Well played.<br />
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<b>Also, the new treasure is</b>...(Look away now if you don't want to know!)....<br />
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Increase ranger's experience gained. Taking a wild guess here, but since almost every other treasure was a 45% increase, I'm going to guess that full treasure benefit will also be a 45% bump in ranger experience gained. (BTW, some players who are more diligent than me figured out that the Waste Land treasure for Player EXP gained was also +45%).<br />
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Good luck and have fun, everyone! I might go ahead and try to play some more Line Rangers seeing as how <i>World of Warcraft</i> has like a 6 hour queue to log in since the new expansion pack got released yesterday lol...<br />
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<br />Panicbuttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05243653559925634634noreply@blogger.com134tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859331473220064533.post-34060738312896624422014-11-12T18:37:00.000-05:002014-11-12T23:43:31.892-05:00Dirty Business and Tonberries<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hi everyone. I know I'm a bit late about it but I haven't been home all day to post though I woke up and saw the splash screen about this new "swamp" that's coming up soon. I refer you to my <a href="http://linerangers.blogspot.com/2014/10/entering-wasteland.html" target="_blank">old post about Waste Land</a> where I basically said that we seem to be getting more and more dirty and gross as we journey closer to Sally. LINE seems to be keeping with the theme of creating new areas with a gross factor. Why can't they have made Mephisto to be a really classy villain who enjoys fine wine and modern contemporary design? For a while, I thought with the Skyscraper that we'd get to see some cool, interesting evil lair but now I'm wondering how nasty Sally's dungeon must be. Poor ducky -- <i>she's duck, I don't care what anyone says!</i>-- must be suffering in a horrible cell if we have to slob through a swamp to get there.<br />
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So anyway, Treacherous Swamp is the new area that's coming and if we look historically for clues, then the zone will drop live probably tomorrow or so. It's kind of odd though: They usually say new enemies added and new treasure, but this time they only say new enemies. Does that mean we're not getting a new treasure? There are still plenty of ideas for treasures I think, so I'm not really sure why they wouldn't give us a new treasure, even a bogus little one that doesn't help much would be something, and something is better than nothing. </div>
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I read all the stuff the commenters wrote about Chuck and it's quite interesting how this 4 star birdy rocked the free player world a bit. Seems like he is good stuff. I haven't played much Line Rangers recently and I farmed him about 20 or 30 feathers and didn't get a single one and I was just like,<i> aw, forget it. </i>But then a couple days later Chuck became available on Friendship Gacha and I laughed because if there's anything I have a ton of, it's Friendship Points! Got 5 Chucks in a hurry and job's done. :) I guess we should have seen it coming because they did promise it in the original Angry Birds x LR notice but I wasn't expecting the Friendship Gacha bird to be the same bird as the Stage Clear bonus bird. Oh well. I felt mildly tricked by it, but it worked out in my favor. </div>
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Red is available until November 17, so we have a few more days before I'm sure a new set of rangers will come. I was on the fence about the Angry Birds as rangers but I think I've decided now that I would rather LINE stay on point about their characters. We've had quite a few deviations with crossover events (<a href="http://linerangers.blogspot.com/2014/06/shu-thou-art-cony.html" target="_blank">Pili themed rangers</a>, Toyota Yaris, Angry Birds) and yes, they were OP in their own way during their time but why can't we have more interesting LINE Town character rangers? Jessica and James have hardly been explored, in my opinion. I originally fell in love with Line Rangers because it had a story and it was a rescue mission. It tied in very closely with the lovey dovey feelings I get when I think about the LINE friends. I felt a <i>need </i>to save Sally and I wanted Brown and Cony to lead the charge. But now anyone can come along and <i>bam-pow</i> their way through the stages to save Sally... it's lost a certain charm by breaking into the LINE Town universe. I know everyone has their gripes with the current situation of the game, but my specific plea at the moment is for the game's upcoming rangers to relate back to Line Town. </div>
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Also, where are my<b> Final Fantasy </b>fans? Give me a shout if you get this. The enemy in the lower left corner of the splash screen: Tonberry? If his right hand is hiding a dagger, we are all screwed because Tonberry is a bad-ass. </div>
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Final note: I added a related links section and the LR database created by Jessica is quite nice and impressive. Check it out! Anyone have any other English resources out there?</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's end of October/Beginning of November so of course we can't be without more new rangers. </span><br />
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They have continued the Halloween Gacha theme, but it's slightly changed. Instead of a hefty 200 rubies, you spend 150 and get a guaranteed chance to obtain either a 4-star or a 5-star ranger, effectively weeding out all 3-star rubbish ranger results. The yield is now "8+2" for a total of 10 rather than "10+3" for a total of 13. The price per spin is technically better this time (by a fraction, at 15 rubies per spin), but with the number of rangers consistently rising, the odds of you getting the couple of rangers you really need continue to diminish with time.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This month, the limited ranger is "Red" who is apparently an "</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_Birds" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Angry Bird</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">." Honest to goodness, I don't know what Angry Birds is about because I've never downloaded the game, but I've briefly seen other people play it. It's a totally different genre from Line Rangers, so this is a strange collaborative event between the two games. And being a Limited Ranger, Red is pretty powerful. He has a *TON* of HP but he's going to need it because he's ultra-close range to the enemy. He's on a very long cooldown as well. Check him out:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That's pretty powerful! Here's what I think is the thing: Brown, Cony, Moon, Jessica and James have all been going at this for months. The Angry Birds heard that some guy was messing around with their fellow bird and decided it's time to bring it. Come on, Line Town Friends. It's time to put your game face on. Don't let this crossover bird steal all the credit. [Update: Just read the game notice... This story is exactly why Angry Birds are involved in the Sally rescue!] </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">By the way, if you read the notice carefully, for the rest of November, there will be other Angry Birds events which will grant more of their characters to Line Rangers players. Pretty cute! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Kung Fu Brown is an agile close-range splash unit. His animation is really funny. It looks like he wants to shove his nunchuku up the enemies' face. BTW I'm not a kung fu expert or anything, but I'm pretty sure nunchaku are not... part of Chinese kung fu? At least not traditionally? I guess it's just a Bruce Lee theme. But back to business: 183k splash, very fast move speed... for 330 minerals. Wow, just wow. KFBrown is going to tear melee enemies a new one. </span><br />
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I was initially excited to see the splash screen include a new Jessica, but when I saw what she was I'm completely underwhelmed. I wanted her to be 5-star and very powerful. I think, as many of the readers have expressed, a powerful Jessica ranger is very much overdue. We've pretty much never had a super desirable Jessica. I know, back in the generation 1 days of LR, Charismatic Jessica was a dangerous kitty, and when Warrior Jessica was placed into the map as a free obtainable ranger, it was indeed a big deal and a huge help to the free ranger players. But it's been months since she was relevant in the least. Come on, we want OP Jessica! A 4-star premium health ranger with only 2.2M health with pretty much negligible attack in today's standards... is pretty useless. Driver Brown was <i>free </i>and he sports 2.4M health and costs less. I really don't see the point. Sorry, Jessica :( LINE made you just as a punching bag for Kung Fu Brown (see her description).</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thunder Brown's girlfriend Thunder Cony has finally decided to join the fight. I'm not sure if I like her yet. On the one hand, she's super fast and super cheap for fairly decent attack. If she's spammable, she could be pretty deadly in PVP. And the description... well, I hope they fix it. Cony's not going to be happy about being male.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Happy spinning, friends. I haven't got any rubies to spare this time around, but if you guys are getting the new rangers, share your opinions below! Let us know how they play into the Wasteland stages, etc.</span><br />
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If you're not getting the results you want, here are some hilarious pictures of people, presumably in Halloween costumes, to cheer you up. I don't know where these pics were originally from or who these people are, but they are so awesome. LOLOL<br />
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<br />Panicbuttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05243653559925634634noreply@blogger.com151tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859331473220064533.post-74678668786050085802014-10-15T23:16:00.000-04:002014-10-31T11:42:26.548-04:00Happy Pre-Halloween<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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First of all, yes, Waste Land is open now! The new treasure increases EXP received.<br />
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I was all tickled when I got my Mach Brown and Mach Moon today in the mailbox but then when I opened the game this evening, I saw:<br />
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Halloween Cony is so cute. I love her little wizard hat. She reminds me of my first Cony, Magician Cony. When I first started playing the game, I got Magician Cony and I could not be happier. Halloween Cony brought me back to that nostalgic feeling a bit. It's funny to even use the word "nostalgic" for a game that is less than a year old, but it's been a long journey. </div>
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Halloween Cony IS pretty OP. I like her a lot. I don't have her mastered, but even so, she's crazy powerful. Her cooldown is, as expected, a bit long, but it's not as long as some other "OP" splash rangers out there -- and this is based on no numbers whatsoever, by the way. It's based on me playing 2 of the new stages with her on my team and just kinda marveling at her. Her speed across the board is just fantastic. And the stats? Brace yourself.</div>
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Back to the gacha event that is going on right now until the end of Halloween -- when I first read the splash screen for the first event, I was all super confused. What on earth does this even mean? Well, this is how it breaks down:</div>
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<li>It's a whole other gacha panel that costs 200 rubies to play once. </li>
<li>The possible contents of your gacha result are 4 or 5 stars only, meaning there are NO 3 star rangers in the Halloween Gacha</li>
<li>Instead of 2 bonus free spins by paying 200 rubies, you get 3 bonus free spins (because if you do the math, 100 rubies buys you 5+1 = 6 spins, 200 rubies would normally buy you 12 spins. The Halloween Gacha buys you 13 spins instead). </li>
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I haven't spent any serious money on the game in a few months and I've passed over a few limited rangers as a result. But this Halloween Gacha event is <b>very compelling</b>. It's attractive because you're guaranteed to not get any rubbish 3 star crap that frankly, I don't even use for combining anymore (I just sell for coin). It's more worth it than any Premium gachas were previously because of the 3 spin bonus. Now, unfortunately, you are NOT exempt from receiving farmable free rangers nor the lesser exciting 4 and 5 star rangers from the earlier generations, but it's still mounds better than receiving Hero Jessica for the 500th time. </div>
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Halloween Cony x2</div>
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Luke x3</div>
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Hip Hop Brown X2</div>
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Maestro Boss x2</div>
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Cherina</div>
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Muay Thai Brown</div>
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Junior Cony x2</div>
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Legend Boss</div>
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Luis</div>
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Somchai</div>
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Honey</div>
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Bernard</div>
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Sorcerer Cony</div>
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Gentleman James</div>
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Summer Brown x3</div>
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Biker James x3</div>
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Frog Brown x3 (first time I've gotten him in Gacha, but he was reportedly in the mix intermittently)</div>
Sindy x2<br />
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Fighter Moon</div>
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Songster Cony</div>
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Macho Moon</div>
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Rapper Boss</div>
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Lightning Jessica</div>
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Abdula</div>
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General Brown</div>
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This Halloween Gacha event is going on for 2 weeks so if you wanna throw down some money, now's the time. It's what we've been clamoring about for months and this is LINE's response to our feedback. All in all, I'm pleased with this. This is the most satisfied I've felt with the Gacha in a very, very long time. Perhaps in all of my time playing this game. BTW, we are supposedly getting increased chances (whatever that means) to receive all October new rangers during the current Double Chance/Ruby Bonus period as well (until October 18). </div>
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So with all that excitement, I'm heading into Waste Land! The zone looks pretty hard and I'm kind of confused, because I think I saw the birds from Maze of Illusion in the first couple stages... running out of ideas for enemy design, maybe? Oh and... guess who? <b>THUNDER BROWN</b> is the new farmable 5 star ranger. I would be pretty pleased with this selection, but I admit that Thunder Brown's arrival is dampened a lot by the availability of Driver Brown. Still, for players who didn't have the feathers, time or opportunity to grind stages to get the limited edition Driver Brown, Thunder Brown will make a great addition to the tanking team.<br />
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Panicbuttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05243653559925634634noreply@blogger.com268tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859331473220064533.post-87028258108979201682014-10-14T12:49:00.001-04:002014-10-15T21:43:00.797-04:00Entering Wasteland<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yes, yes, yes a new area is finally upon us. It's been almost 2 months since Ravine of Death's release on August 19th. This area is way long overdue. We were all getting so restless. The game's lost a lot of veteran and original players, but it has also gained a lot of new players so by any measure the game is still hot. Die-hard fans are still competing in Team Battle. But let's get down to business -- the rescue business, of course.<br />
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The journey we have taken so far has been descending into darker and darker realms. We started in the cutesy and shiny Valley of Wind. We went through some carnival-like play land, museums, frozen temples, fiery pits, up to perilous high... but it seems like lately we're going down deeper and deeper depths. Ravines and wastelands... dirty and dingy places with rotting fruits. Wasteland is so nasty that Mephisto wouldn't even hang out there -- he's only left a hologram of his big derriere shaped head to taunt us. Surely Sally is not here, but it is good to see that we're still getting a bit closer and close enough to at least see his sinister face.<br />
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It won't be long now. We'll dawn on Wasteland soon. In the meantime, make sure you're grabbing your Railroad Browns and Noruruns. Event ends in a week. Driver Brown is no longer available!Panicbuttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05243653559925634634noreply@blogger.com41tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859331473220064533.post-40269441372286537082014-10-06T16:47:00.002-04:002014-10-15T21:43:16.830-04:00The Train is Coming...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="color: red;">Update:</span> </b>Newcomer Brown is a railroad theme ranger. He's only 3 star and he's a giveaway for all players who have reached player level 7. He's also available for bonus roll after specified boss stage clears. Norurun, a 4-star speed ranger, is available for bonus roll after specified boss stage clears, also for a limited time. I guess Norurun is not a water tank. He's supposed to be... a train car/carriage or a propane gas tank...or something...</div>
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I am very happy that Railroad Brown is available for everyone to get! He's a pretty decent Balance ranger for 3-stars, and excellent for new players just starting out in the very early stages, certainly. Both Railroad Brown and Norurun are available after clearing the end-stage boss stage of each area -- But only specific lower stages have the new Brown, so check the notice carefully to see which you need to grind.</div>
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<i>Original Post: </i>Could it be another new Brown is coming? This one looks like some kind of an officer who rides a whistle. He's really cute! Brown has the best outfits. He's probably being released together with the little guy below who looks like some kind of a water tank. The water tank's name is Norurun. There are only 2 in this set of new characters, so maybe it is some kind of promotional event. Or worse, maybe just some limited regional event :(</div>
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I hope it is a "free" event ranger giveaway. This Brown is pretty adorable. Based on looks alone, I kind of want to have him. Today, we also got some new stage production files so maybe new single player stages are coming as well. Time will tell.<br />
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P.S. Reader Dali is right from his previous comment. Stage 144 was significantly nerfed down today. Enemy attack damage and health points have been reduced. 144 is much easier to deal with, especially with event rangers Driver Brown and Songster Cony/Shu. Very, very doable now. If you've been stuck here, try it again today. You'll make it through just in time for the new area.Panicbuttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05243653559925634634noreply@blogger.com139tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859331473220064533.post-16803606382324039662014-09-30T15:50:00.000-04:002014-11-01T11:43:56.152-04:00New... Nevermind, Just More of the Same<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Welcome to October! It's the start of the month so it's time for more new rangers. But where are the new places to use our new rangers? I don't think there's much purpose in having new rangers if there is no new content, right? On top of that, apparently overlapping limited edition rangers is a thing now. *Shrug*...<br />
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Junior Cony is the first attack class ranger sporting the Cony face. And yeah, she's totally great. Think Dumpy-like, but way farther range. That giant stick of chalk is no joke! As a limited edition ranger, she's not bad at all. And that hair. LOL. </div>
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Maestro Boss (whose artwork I love, btw) is longer range than his predecessor, Dancer King Boss. He hits harder and he moves faster, too. If I'm not mistaken, he has longer range than Prince James. Both Maestro Boss and Junior Cony have pretty low HP but given that they stay so far back, it seems an ok amount of health.</div>
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The addition of Tiger as a 3 star ranger at this stage of the game seems kind of random, like they're just padding the Gacha roster a bit. But, well, for a 3 star speed ranger, Tiger really isn't bad. Tiger is closely related to Witch Cony in mineral, attack, health, speed and range. Is there a time to use Tiger if you already have most of the 5 star rangers? No, probably not. But if you don't have the entire roster available on your team to choose from, there may well be a chance that Tiger will be useful to you. Really, the most unfortunate thing about him is all the perfectly good ramen he is wasting on Dr. Mephisto's goons. </div>
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With 4 Gacha tickets, I got General Brown and Kinnara Cony this time. Not super and no "new" rangers, but I am happy to get one Kinnara. I'm sure some people got good Gacha results and some did not. It's ok, guys. Don't get too worked up about it! Good luck and happy gaming!Panicbuttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05243653559925634634noreply@blogger.com94tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859331473220064533.post-30050074239166585822014-09-27T23:23:00.000-04:002014-10-03T17:05:01.534-04:00Winning 1st Place in PvP - A Point of ViewEver wonder what is going on in Team Battle and what it takes to win the weekly competition? Well, I got in touch with last week's winner and asked her for an interview so we could get to know her more! Clara was the first place champion for week ending September 22, 2014. Clara is a kind, good friend and a long time supporter of mine, so I will be closely moderating replies to this post. Please be courteous!<br />
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<b>Panicbutton</b>:<b> </b><i>Hello Clara (Siam.CRTG) and thank you very much for agreeing to my interview questions. Congratulations on your recent First Place victory in the weekly Team Battle! "Line Rangers & Friends" is very lucky to get to know you and get a closer look at the top tier of Line Rangers Team Battle through your eyes. </i><br />
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<b>P</b>: <i>How long have you been playing Line Rangers? </i><br />
<b>Clara</b>: I've been playing since the game newly started end of March, when they launched the Line Rangers stickers and I downloaded the game to get the stickers, feel in love with the game since.<br />
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<b>P</b>: <i>Many long-time Line Rangers players have gotten tired of the game lately. Do you feel this way? Or do you think you will feel this way in the next few months?</i><br />
<b>C</b>: My heavy paying Line Rangers friends and I got so disappointed by the latest event of Limited Cony Yaris. We spent so much on it because of the first launch stat, but it's been adjusted to more than half less efficient within one night. So if Line Rangers keep doing this, a lot of players will quit soon and so will I.<br />
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<b>P</b>: <i>What other games do you like to play?</i><br />
<b>C</b>: Now I'm starting to play Line Stage, but not as addicted as Line Rangers.<br />
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<b>P</b>: <i>The game has a ranger who has the same name as you. Do you like the splash ranger, Clara? Who is your favorite Ranger?</i><br />
<b>C</b>: 555 That's funny, I wish Clara ranger would be one of those Limited ones. Of course I like splash rangers but it doesn't work much in pvp.<br />
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<b>P</b>: <i>Who is your favorite LINE character? Why?</i><br />
<b>C</b>: I can't really tell which one is my favorite LINE character. I love all of them, especially the funny ones. <br />
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<b>P</b>: <i>How did you first decide to try to win the weekly team battle competition? What was your inspiration?</i><br />
<b>C</b>: Frankly speaking, I only won the battle because of my Siam. team, mostly because Siam.aa (he is the Siam team Mentor), Siam.Ark( he is my line rangers mentor), Siam.อ้น, Siam.Therd and Siam.Chong. We play as a team and help each other.<br />
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<b>P</b>: <i>Did you need to do any preparation before the competition began?</i><br />
<b>C</b>: I need to prepare at least 2000 rubies in advance. I can't waste time to recharge the rubies during the battle. And I need to have lots of rest before the battle week begins.<br />
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<b>P</b>: <i>Which rangers did you like to use on your team? Any special reasons why you chose those rangers?</i><br />
<b>C</b>: I use Erica, Cony Kinnara, Dumpy, Mully , Brown MuayThai. In pvp the attack rangers (Dumpy & Mully) are the most effective rangers. They help me finish the game fast. I also need a splasher to hit the tower so I choose Erica, a long-range splasher and Cony Kinnara melee splasher. Of all the rangers I think Brown MuayThai is one of the best ranger (for now) because of his fast cd, speed type, almost 4 million HP and good attack, too, for only 640 minerals.<br />
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<b>P</b>: <i>It seems like each week, the number of points required to get first place is gets higher and higher. How many points did you need to get to win first place last week?</i><br />
<b>C</b>: The number of points required to get first place is gets higher and higher think it's a nature of competition. My last week points for 1st rank was 31,939.<br />
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<b>P</b>: <i>How does it feel to win first place? Do you think you will try to win first place again? </i><br />
<b>C</b>: To win the first place takes a lot of time, energy, strategy, and rubies. I couldn't do it without my Siam friends. Last two weeks, I got 3rd place with my Siam friends' help, too. I'm not sure if I can have that much energy and time again.<br />
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<b>P</b>: <i>From the point of view of everyone else, it looks like as soon as the weekly points reset, the competition rockets away nonstop. Is is true that nonstop playing is required to win? How much did last week's competition impact your daily life? </i><br />
<b>C</b>: It's not really non-stop playing but you need to know when to play and how long you need to play at a time. It could be 18 hours straight or it could be only 1 hour at a time. It is up to many things like your rank, other's score, score gap, etc.<br />
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<b>P</b>: <i>Was it exciting and cutthroat for 7 days straight or did you feel like you have time to do some other things?</i><br />
<b>C</b>: Yes it was fun and exciting. If you are playing for top 5, time is the thing you need to sacrifice. Also the rubies.<br />
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<b>P</b>: <i>You did not get to the first place position at the beginning. Was this a strategy, to save some time and rubies in the first couple of days until the ranking settle down? </i><br />
<b>C</b>: I just didn't have time to play at the beginning of the week. But it's easier to get a lot of points from below.<br />
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<b>P</b>: <i>Can you reveal to us approximately how many rubies you needed to keep at the top of the game? </i><br />
<b>C</b>: Well! It's different on each week, depend on lots of things. If you over-prepare special feathers then you will spend a lot more rubies. Last week I spent around 2500 rubies.<br />
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<b>P</b>: <i>In the last several weeks, I have noticed that the Siam team and other Line Rangers teams have "stacked" the top ranks together. It created point gaps where the team players all have a much higher score than the next individual rank below them. This strategy is used to block others from gaining enough points to get to the top ranks, is this correct? Can you explain the point gap strategy, and how it began? </i><br />
<b>C</b>: We did not intended to block others from gaining the point (there's no such a thing as blocking others to gain enough points to get to the top rank, they can get to that amount of points in time), but to create a gap is just to give us some time to rest.<br />
But you can only make that gap when you get to top rank. But to get to top rank is the most important thing. It takes time energy and a lot of strategies.<br />
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<b>P</b>: <i>Is it harder to fight up to first place, or is it harder to remain in first place? How tough is the competition when you are at the top on the last day before reset?</i><br />
<b>C</b>: The last day wasn't so difficult, only monitoring needed, but the 6 days before that we hardly sleep and eat, we spent almost all of our time on pvp (4 days and 4 nights continuously if I'm not mistaken).<br />
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<b>P</b>: <i>Did you have much assistance and support from the Siam team during last week's competition? Can you describe what it is like to be on a Line Rangers team?</i><br />
<b>C</b>: As I've mentioned before, I will not be able to be 1st rank if I not in Siam team. We are always supporting each other. Siam.aa (our team mentor) always shares video clip of how to win the battle. Siam.อ้น Siam.Chong also share the video clips on Endless Mode, too.<br />
My line rangers mentor Siam.Ark always teaches me how to play and how to use all items. All of us 21 members in Siam team are so nice Siam.aa ,Siam.Ark Badshit ,Siam.#^.^#ครุคริ , Siam.Ball, Siam.THErd , Siam.Chong, Siam.palmyXFreak, Siam.Kurt of BKK, Siam.joEcnx, Siam.อ้น, we always support each other (even though some of us did not use "Siam" in front of their name but they are one of us like Cindy , Totoro ,Naratah , Wachara , Maggy , P'Nhong , DDดีดี , Oat and หมอชนบท ) .<br />
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<b>P</b>: <i>Do you have team strategies that you cannot reveal to the public? If yes, you can just say yes, you don't have to tell me what it is </i>:)<br />
<b>C</b>: Yes we have some strategy that we would like to keep it between us, and also some rules, too, like no cheats. I think every team has it.<br />
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<b>P</b>: <i>If you could have one new feature or change to the game, what would it be? </i><br />
<b>C</b>: If I could wish for the new feature, exchange rangers from one players to another may be, to reduce our expense in Gacha, don't you agree? Or maybe Line Rangers can make new extra power feature like Brown combo team or Cony combo team would put a lot more challenge in the game. <br />
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<b>P</b>: <i>Is there anything else you would like to share with the Line Rangers & Friends blog audience?</i><br />
<b>C</b>: Line Rangers is a great game, nice community though, but things are changing. Too many new rangers players had to spend more rubies to mastered new rangers. But things are getting better when the Erica's set comes, a lot easier to get new rangers mastered.<br />
The turning points would be Cony Yaris, it is limited line ranger should think it through before releasing it, not release it and then adjust it after one whole night ( just like you release a ranger that so much like a dragon but when you get hold of it , it's just a simple dog with a dragon skin). I felt like I've been cheated.<br />
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<b>C</b>: Thank you so much Panic, for this interview. It's an honor to be interview by the very famous blogger Panic. Thank you so much again for interviewing me. It's always been my dreams to be in one of your articles.<br />
<b>P</b>: <i>Thanks very much for doing the interview, Clara. I really appreciate that you took the time to share your experience with the Line Rangers community. </i><br />
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So there you have it! I got some insight on some things about the weekly competition and how intense it can get at various points in the week. In addition, it is quite obvious to those heading into battle with their eyes on the top prize that it is not "worth it" in rubies, because they know they will have to spend at least 2000 rubies on special feathers alone and they will only get a maximum of 1000 rubies as a prize. I get the feeling that the experience of the competitive arena of Team Battle is worth more than the reward. When was the last time you played a game and didn't eat or sleep for 4 days in the heat of it? :)</div>
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I am also reminded that even though this game hasn't turned into all we hoped it to be, it has brought a lot of people together in ways that no one ever imagined. The team/clan companionship that has developed is remarkable. Below is a roster list of 2 other famously popular teams in the Line Rangers community. No doubt you have seen some of these players' work on YouTube and elsewhere.</div>
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The feeling of gamer burnout is not just for semi-casual players who have grown disappointed at the game. It apparently goes all the way up to the hard core top tiers of competitors as well. Nevertheless, there are still fun aspects to the game -- if you are willing to overlook some of the more frustrating aspects in order to trudge on and save Sally. Many, many people still play Line Rangers with varying degrees of passion. I have stopped spending cash on the game, but I still pick it up and play every now and then. I still look forward to the challenge of new stages. In fact, I was just looking at the calendar... it has been over a month since the Ravine of Death was released. Granted, I've decided since its release to take the slow, casual route through it and I am still working on stage 144, but, I do wonder why it is taking so long to release new stages. Is LINE brewing up something else in the background or are they just taking their sweet time because of the number of new rangers they scheduled to release this month?</div>
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Anyway, I hope that you enjoyed reading the interview as much as I enjoyed doing it. Stay fresh, friends.</div>
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You know it's mid-month when the Double Gacha Chance Event is here. Love it or hate it, it's that time again. We have a mid-month release of Driver Cony. She is a ranged splash ranger, available until October 14 only. 2 limited time rangers up for grabs at the moment -- hope you've been saving your rubies!<br />
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I'm not really all that wowed by Driver Cony. She has a much shorter cooldown than Erica, granted, but for the cost, I think I wouldn't be all too worked up about it. She's better than KSM in attack, cost and move speed, so she's worth getting and somewhat "up with the times." She's good, but not outrageously overpowered.</div>
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<td class="xl66">630</td>
<td class="xl68"><b>212.8</b></td>
<td class="xl68">1339.8</td>
<td class="xl66">Very Slow</td>
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<td class="xl66">1320</td>
<td class="xl68">209.0</td>
<td class="xl68">1834.4</td>
<td class="xl71">Slow</td>
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<td class="xl70">182.2</td>
<td class="xl70">774.5</td>
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<td class="xl68">141.0</td>
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<td class="xl68">145.5</td>
<td class="xl68">706.4</td>
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Erm, what did I get? Well, with my measly number of earned rubies and Gacha tickets, I only got:</div>
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Pew, Hero Jessica, Hitman, Songster Cony, and General Brown. Soooo.... anyway, move along. Nothing to see here. </div>
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Panicbuttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05243653559925634634noreply@blogger.com138tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859331473220064533.post-78767565630889363692014-09-10T21:52:00.001-04:002014-09-17T12:19:52.033-04:00Yaris (Driver) Brown Now AvailableI haven't seen a splash notice or written notice even after reloading (odd but not entirely shocking) but, Driver Brown is appearing as an available ranger to obtain for <b>clearing <span style="color: red;">boss </span>stages</b>.<br />
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More details when we get them... Good luck, everyone! Wonder when we'll see Yaris Cony!?<br />
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<b>Update: </b>Until September 21, you have the chance to obtain Driver Brown (Health ranger) when you clear a boss stage. Driver Cony is a random friend who appears to help. Not yet obtainable it seems, wonder if she will ever become obtainable.<br />
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*LOL*... what is this? Apparently the only thing the Yaris is good for is wasting fuel (and looking cute?). Driver Brown is a pure meat tank, over 2 million hp at lv 70. And he just pulls up to the front line very quickly and idles while taking hits -- how environmentally unfriendly! No attack? Just health? Very "safe driving" indeed. </div>
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Side note: Beans is kind of hilarious. I like watching him move. Reminds me of the Slinky. If you are unfamiliar with a Slinky, check it out in YouTube. :) </div>
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It's been a little while and wow, what's happening? So many new things! Yes, while I was gone we got the very beautiful <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinnara" target="_blank">Kinnara</a> Cony</b>, super charming <b>Muay Thai Brown</b>, paradoxical nanny <b>Erica</b>, and just plain oddball <b>Summer</b>. I was thinking about whether to backtrack and I've mostly decided against going back and discussing a lot of the issues and difficulties with the <i>Ravine of Death </i>as well as delving into the details of the 4 new rangers of early September 2014. The reason largely being that reading old news is uninteresting and most people have probably already figured out what the rangers are about and the ups and downs about them.<br />
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On to the new stuff, which are Brown and Cony on Toyota Yaris, and this mysterious fellow named Beans. I just love Brown in his classy red hat. Frankly, all I'm seeing when I look at Beans is the really slow, annoying <a href="http://www.mariowiki.com/Pokey" target="_blank">Pokey</a> that somehow always got me in trouble in Super Mario Bros.<br />
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The event splash screen doesn't give much information so we are all left to wonder what it is about. We're all speculating whether Beans is a ranger or some kind of currency that will help us get a ranger of our choice to master level. I personally would have preferred it being the latter, but that would involve a level of change in ranger design that I don't think the game developer is willing to make, as well as a loss of income that they're not willing to forego. Indeed, if Beans was a new magical new way to give us freebie upgrades to our rangers, people could potentially use it as a free pass and upgrade the next latest and greatest ranger. And let us not forget that the average estimated cost of spinning Gacha until you get 5 limited rangers is in the hundreds of dollars (USD), or several thousand rubies. That's a really tough sell from the point of view of LINE, but would be a huge free pass for players. As much as I would like for this to be true, I doubt it.<br />
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Beans' model data is stored in the same way as our existing units, which is why some clever people online have been able to produce "drop test" videos with mock ups of the new units in action. Everything seems to suggest that Beans is nothing more than a new ranger that LINE Rangers plans to give away, provided that players log in each and every day for 4 weeks. In all likelihood, Beans will be available via Premium Gacha soon anyway.<br />
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Yaris Brown and Cony look really adorable. It seems that between Edward, Brown and Cony, Line Town's roads are starting to fill up with vehicles. Toyota must be doing some cross-promotional event with Line to put out Yaris rangers. It's another clever little ploy to get us to spend money for rubies to get them.<br />
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The Burnout</h2>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Zb-iObF-C29X3oY3JuP9C_Yo6W-Fmskwepa7LM5vvaSr7t3VgHHbR4TyB0HVOg77Ei3-ivZZs0dh8v9VnbmtmRSEcmvefXTjvYvRVueBjK8CQ1csho5R_YLSOSva2G_SKH4MMJV6qAij/s1600/brownplayinggame.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Zb-iObF-C29X3oY3JuP9C_Yo6W-Fmskwepa7LM5vvaSr7t3VgHHbR4TyB0HVOg77Ei3-ivZZs0dh8v9VnbmtmRSEcmvefXTjvYvRVueBjK8CQ1csho5R_YLSOSva2G_SKH4MMJV6qAij/s1600/brownplayinggame.png" height="200" width="183" /></a>I know tons of long-time players out there are feeling the burn recently - myself included - and are really starting to take pause whenever new rangers are released. Many points of view and feelings were expressed in the previous post's comments. If you look back on previous months' posts regarding newly released rangers, the story is the same and players have only gotten increasingly disgruntled with time. This is understandable. I think everyone falls somewhere in the spectrum of still enamored with the game and completely fed up with the game. Probably the longer you've been playing, the more tired you are feeling. I know I am. This is not 100% true for everyone, of course, but I think this is generally so. Newer players are coming in at a very exciting time as there is so much to do, so much content to enjoy, and the current end stages are quite<i> </i>challenging (largely depending on the ranger team you have in your possession). To see that new rangers are on the horizon merely days after the arrival of the 4 we just got is both exciting and frustrating. This trend will continue so long as the game remains profitable and the number of new players is greater than the attrition of veteran players.<br />
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I'm kind of at a crossroads myself. Having taken a significant break from blogging/racing to the cutting edge of the game, I'm beginning to see that there is no end to the cycle of content and it is getting really tough to keep up without either tons of money or tons of time (neither of which I can spare recently! lol). The last new master rangers I got were Luis and Cherina, and I mastered them weeks after they released, over the span of several double-chance gacha events. I didn't even get a Kinnara Cony this time (so sad, she's so pretty) and I found that it didn't bother me terribly. I know that shortly, some other Cony will come and make Kinnara Cony look just cute by comparison, just as Erica is now making KSM seem like kid stuff.<br />
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The very bad news is I'm still not done with Ravine of Death, having been very busy with other stuff lately, and therefore really feel like I have no business posting advice about it! Combined with the fact that I haven't put down much money on, nor gotten much luck from the Gacha spins in several months, my team is practically ancient (60 Muay Thai Brown, 80 KSM, 80 Ola Brown, 80 DKB, and 80 Dumpy is my current default PvP lineup). Not even having enough time to play, of course means I have not had time to explore some of the finer details of the game as I used to. I'll continue to keep an eye out for pertinent tips, research/info, and will still post anytime inspiration hits me, though! I'll also do my best to keep up with the times.<br />
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Besides real life, what else has been keeping me busy? Does anyone play <a href="http://us.battle.net/wow/en/" target="_blank">World of Warcraft</a>? I raided regularly on that MMORPG until late May of this year. The new expansion for WoW will be releasing soon (October pre-expac patch expectations, + release drop in November), and while I don't anticipate returning to hardcore raiding, it may still persuade me away from my beloved Line Rangers pretty significantly. But I won't give up on Sally. I feel as if I really can't/shouldn't! I have spent more money on Line Rangers in the past half year than I have spent on WoW in the past several <i>years</i>!<br />
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But look, Line Rangers game makers: I'd really love to save Sally sometime before Azeroth needs my help again. Can we get to Dr. Mephisto before Halloween? Kthx!Panicbuttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05243653559925634634noreply@blogger.com116tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859331473220064533.post-62658654756075173212014-08-19T22:56:00.002-04:002014-09-04T11:35:55.583-04:00New Area and New Game UpdatesThe Ravine of Death has been released. As usual, many players can't get into the game while some can, and it's causing a lot of anxiety. Some people are Android, some people are iOS users. It just seems to be some server capacity issue right now.<br />
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The new stages are pretty fun. I'd say the difficulty level is not quite as crazy as Maze of Illusion, but it's still pretty tough. I don't think the enemies are nearly as cool looking, though.<br />
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The new 4 star ranger is... Bob. And the new 5 star ranger is Lia. I'm really not that jazzed about them. Bob especially. I have never liked using him because of his move speed and considerable melee range. I guess we haven't had a new free health ranger in a while so they had to give us someone. Lia is an upgrade over Alice in every way as a 5 star ranger, so I think she will be a useful addition to the free ranger roster. But I was really hoping for someone more desirable, like Thunder Brown! But oh well, I can dream.<br />
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The treasure for the area<b> reduces ranger cooldown</b>. Some people may be overjoyed by this, some people may not be!<br />
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Another change that was made was regarding friend invitation gifts. Good news for those who have ached for KSM this whole time. You can get 1 KSM for issuing 100 invitations. Your invitation count has been reset to 0. We are getting more rubies for the x10 and x30, too. And I really like General Brown as the 4 star gift ranger. He has really well... balanced... utility for a ranger of his cost and quality. All in all, I like the new friend invitation rewards. If someone just starting the game cashed in on this reward program, they'll have no trouble for a good, long time in the early stages. But that's the trend the game has been seeing: overpowering the early areas to give you meaningful rangers for the very difficult later areas.<br />
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Towers and Missiles got new cosmetic updates to indicate how well upgraded they are. This will help a lot in PVP when you're trying to determine how you want to go about your enemy's tower. If it's a weenie tower, maybe you can just rush at it and knock it down. The missiles supposedly got a damage buff, but I'm not getting the feeling just from playing that it is very powerful. The new graphic is kind of cool, though. Bundles of missiles!<br />
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The changes in Team Battle ranking rewards that LINE tried to implement previously did not make it into this update. Strange, I thought they would :(<br />
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The straight wins counter in Team Battle now displays up beyond 99 wins in a row. :)<br />
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Hope everyone is enjoying the new area! I know, they're doing so much updating throughout and now 10 hrs after release the whole game is down for stability maintenance again. Hope they sort out the problems so everyone can continuing battling for Sally.Panicbuttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05243653559925634634noreply@blogger.com208tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859331473220064533.post-63315042829425789222014-08-18T21:27:00.001-04:002014-08-19T22:47:51.663-04:00New Area Coming Soon - Ravine of Death<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Looks like we are right on schedule <a href="http://linerangers.blogspot.com/2014/08/and-so-it-continues-new-stages-coming.html" target="_blank">previous indications</a> that new stages will be released on, or around, August 20. The new area's treasure looks like an in-line skate with wings. We've had skates and we have had footwear with wings before. Wonder what the new treasure will bring.<br />
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The big bad boss looks like LINE Town episode's "Zombie Cony" with a suspicious mask and a bowling pin. The enemies get weirder and weirder!<br />
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Will the Ravine of Death be the place where we finally have a <a href="http://linerangers.blogspot.com/2014/08/sally-were-almost-there.html" target="_blank">death match with Dr. Mephisto</a>? Will we save Sally? 2 more days and we will find out!<br />
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And Line has released a new video! This time, the smaller rangers get the spotlight. It's a funny vid! Click the link <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leJsvUcrtFA&list=UU_3cWMvKJdIqC5lxtAd3IQA" target="_blank">to view</a>.<br />
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leJsvUcrtFA&list=UU_3cWMvKJdIqC5lxtAd3IQAPanicbuttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05243653559925634634noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859331473220064533.post-21245096874878271532014-08-13T12:04:00.001-04:002014-08-19T20:19:55.879-04:00Sally, We're Almost There!We've been chasing after Sally's whereabouts for months and we may finally be seeing light at the end of the tunnel. That's right, we've received solid information that LINE Rangers may finally be coming to a close, and we might finally be able to rescue our dear <a href="http://linerangers.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-story-of-princess-sally.html" target="_blank">Princess <span style="color: #ffe599;">Sally</span></a>!<br />
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This was sent out on August 11 and I didn't realize it until last night that it was related to the Taiwan <a href="http://linerangers.blogspot.com/2014/08/and-so-it-continues-new-stages-coming.html" target="_blank">TV Celebration Event</a>. It came from an official LINE Rangers account for the Taiwan region so it is legitimate. The message not-so-subtly reveals that:<br />
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<li><b>We will soon be facing the final boss, <span style="color: red;">Mephisto</span></b>, so they have run this TV commercial event in order to attract more friends to rescue Sally.</li>
<li>To help newcomers fast-track to the final area, LINE will be giving away some gifts to new players (Aug 11 to Aug 20, new accounts that clear stage 70 will get 100 rubies and have a chance to win one of 5000 Rangers themed t-shirts. For Taiwan region players only. </li>
<li>Current players who clear stage 144 between August 20 and September 5 14:00 will be gifted 100 rubies and one of <u>either</u> KSM or Dumpy rangers. In addition, players who clear 144 in this time frame are also qualified to win one of 5000 Rangers themed t-shirts. For Taiwan region players only.</li>
<li>The notice also says, "<i>Sally is within our sights!</i>"</li>
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So this confirms without a doubt that the final area release is coming down the pipeline and our rescue mission is coming to a close soon. August 20 may be the last area, or areas, that we will get for the game. </div>
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This could be good news or bad news for players. We love this game and it's been such a fun ride. But it has not been without challenges. Something is nagging at me though. It was only 4 weeks ago that the development team sent out a player survey asking us what we like about the game and how they can improve the game. And now, about 5 weeks after that they're sending out the last area of the game? I think either: </div>
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<li>The notice is misleading -- causing hype for marketing the game and we are not actually at the end of the game, or...</li>
<li>The LINE Rangers developers are taking their money and running, in effect cutting their losses with the many issues that have arisen from the game (imbalance, cheating, etc.). They could use the feedback and knowledge they've learned from this game to create a new game that will be more foolproof. Maybe a <i>LINE Rangers 2</i> sequel is in the works. Maybe! It seems a perfect opportunity to scrap future labor hours on a good game that has reasonable replay value but irreparable flaws, and concentrate resources on an improved new game based on its predecessor's successes. </li>
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Another possibility is that 144 isn't the last stage, but just a setup for the last area. Because why would anyone who has cleared 144 need KSM or Dumpy if it is the "last stage"? In any case, it feels like we are closing in on the end very soon. Will we see Sally after besting Mephisto finally in Stage 144 or not? What do you think?</div>
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