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Competition Entry - Reflection of the Sky

#shining nikki #dress up #sky lady #anyone else think stickers fucking suck now?#half the lightings make them look like garbled blurry ass #paper stop ruining your game challenge

Competition Entry - Hymn of Rays

Final Rank: Top 37%

#shining nikki #dress up #look I just wanted to use the pretty collab suit #I know it doesn't match the theme lol

Competition Entry - The Neon Night

Final Rank: Top 26%

#shining nikki #dress up #felt like going night club route #neon #rave #she's should be at the club

Competition Entry - Moon & Sun

Final Rank: 268

#shining nikki #dress up #y'all know I can't pass up a celestial theme #also I was getting Alphonse mucha vibes from the prompt so I went that route #probably won't read well to the random voter but I really like it :)

alenadragonne

Hey friends! I started playing this virtual pet site in October called Santae! You may have seen a blazed post or two about it. It's so stinking fun and pretty! It's in closed beta and they just opened up referals to allow more users to join. (There's also rewards for referring I won't lie to y'all.)

Here are just a few of the beautiful pets you can tame. (There are many many more).

It's a exteremely cute with a great dev team and it fixes a lot of issues that players like myself have with site such as neopets.

Anyways if you're interested in joining us over there you can use this link to create an account.

Let me know if you join I'll send you some starting gifts!!! <3

Santae

#sharing here in case any of my Nikki friends are interested :)#please read the tags on the original I'm so fr when I say I love the team behind this game #it's what helped me realize paper was just plain cruel sometimes #and how little they listen to their player base in comparison #this place #TOTAL opposite #love it #great game

dressupdragonne

I have a new devs theory. Everytime the game lags in loading, it shows the first image of when that type of event ran. Example is recharge. It'll show like the first recharge suit that ever ran (or sometimes the previous one) then it loads and shows the current. Another example, the game lagged loading the opening start up screen and showed the first one it changed to for our first hell. Then loaded real fast and showed the MR Vampire. Do they just... put a new one on top of the other? Like instead of replacing the image totally, is the image baked into the support of the coding of the event itself. So you can't remove it just have to add one on top?

Disclaimer: I'm not a programmer. I have no idea if that is normal in the biz or even a possible way of handling such a thing. Just having thoughts about the ducted tape together feeling this game has sometimes.

merlin-plays-ln

Oh yeah im pretty sure whats happening is the original event is baked as like, a template? I cant remember if this happened much pre the change to Unity for the engine, tho i think it did occasionally (unitys templates arent a unique thing, but templates in any engine arent going to work exactly the same as others). In unity templates can be saved of pretty much any element of a game, which also saves information like the images and such, and if youre a long time player then you might have the old images cached too, but im pretty sure this is more of them using a template and then reloading the image through some code on loading the ui tab to fill out the text and image elements with the new stuff. The text gets fixed immediately cause text is easy to load in, images are much heavier especially on devices like phones. The specific construct theyre using is called a prefab if you want to look up more

Its not quite layering two images on top of each other, just changing what image is being loaded in that specific element. The more typical thing to do in cases like this is to have a "loading image" default instead of defaulting to the first event ran with that template.

The only case where i think it is actually two images is the title screen tho - one being the default with nikki in the loen ballerina outfit and the other being used for event homescreens. I think its the case here since the loen outfit one is meant to come back between hell events as it did before, now we just have so much shit happening it doesnt return as often

merlin-plays-ln

ooo thats interesting! Previously the loading for ui and other non 3D things used to be faster for me personally, and now with events that reuse templates its slower!

and thank you for confirming i was Pretty Sure that this loading weirdness always happened but wasn't fully sure

dressupdragonne

It's been happening for me for basically years now.

The funny thing is, I get the Loen opening screen, the it jumps to like the angel/demon loading screen and snaps to the new one. Or any other number of random event screens. The recharge or stamina events are always the ones that do it the most though. I've seen countless past welfares and recharges instead of what we currently have.

The game is also insanely slow since engine update. Like I counted once and it took 8 full seconds for the auto dress to load. All resources downloaded even. Anything that has to access a reflection or the reflection portion of the ark is like waiting for paint to dry I swear. And it lags so I'll tap again to make sure I didn't miss the button or it just didn't input, and all of a sudden to I'm three menus deep somewhere else.

Which ya know, I have a 1TB nearly brand new phone so they can't tell me it's my device like they always claim it to be.

#shining nikki

I have a new devs theory. Everytime the game lags in loading, it shows the first image of when that type of event ran. Example is recharge. It'll show like the first recharge suit that ever ran (or sometimes the previous one) then it loads and shows the current. Another example, the game lagged loading the opening start up screen and showed the first one it changed to for our first hell. Then loaded real fast and showed the MR Vampire. Do they just... put a new one on top of the other? Like instead of replacing the image totally, is the image baked into the support of the coding of the event itself. So you can't remove it just have to add one on top?

Disclaimer: I'm not a programmer. I have no idea if that is normal in the biz or even a possible way of handling such a thing. Just having thoughts about the ducted tape together feeling this game has sometimes.

#shining nikki #dress up #look I have to yell into the void somewhere #no one I know irl plays this game and wouldn't understand the frustration of playing a game held together with sticks and chewing gum