Madoka Magica Online

Puella Magi Madoka Magica Online is a multi-player browser-based freemium game based on Puella Magi Madoka Magica settings. It is open for play, with some regional access restrictions. The game is free to play but Platinum coupons for a slim chance to get premium items and Action Point immediate restoration items are purchasable from the cash shop.

• Introduction: Get an overview of the game.
• Getting Started, Troubleshooting: Answers to common questions.
• Co-op Play: Multiplayer guide.
• Story: In-game dialogue (still needs translation).
• Gameplay: Quests, PvP, stats, and mechanics.
• Items: Cute clothes and badass gear.
• Gallery: Screenshots, jokes and art.
• Updates and Events: Details of updates and past events.

Current Events 12/12: Post your meguca on Twitter from 12/14 to 12/25 for a chance at winning 3 platinum tickets. 12/12: From 12/14 to 12/17, get bonus weapons for opening qb boxes. Open the purple box 50 times for a Christmas tree spear, and 100 times for a level 20 version of it. Open platinum 5 times for 3 weapon fodders, 100,000 coins, and 10 purple tickets. 35 times for a Gold Flame SS spear, and 50 times for a level 10 version of that spear. 12/11: From 12/11 to 12/18, a training of magical girls event will increase experience from PVE to 1.5 times normal and increase drop rates of some clothes and accessories. The +DEF wings and winter uniforms from the A-X levels will drop five times more often than normal. A variety of clothes and accessories will now drop from the low level quests 1 and 2. 12/10: Co-op tests will take place starting on Wednesday. You won't have to spend any AP to play co-op during the test. Each test will last 2 hours. This event has ended. 12/7: Witch killing progress update. Current ranks: 1. Rose 2. Silver 3. Shadow 4. Dark 12/7: Bonuses for opening the platinum box 5 times per day from 12/7 until 12/10. 12/4: World total quest clear count event. Cooperate with your sisters to defeat the A-X special quest "Class representative" and "Artisan" witch, and if your world server's total quest clear count is over the mark, all of you will get accessories for Christmas! [Ends 12/11 maint.] You need to individually clear each quest at least once to be eligible to receive all the rewards, if your world server passes the mark. You will only get rewards for quests that you cleared yourself. There's also separate rewards for world total quest clear count ranking, so even if you are not strong enough to fight the hard witches, support your stronger sisters by defeating the weak witches yourself! They will announce the current ranking on 12/7. They also put QB skill fodder in the treasure chest so don't miss them. If the server reaches 8000 A-6 Hard kills, PvP points will be multiplied by 1.5 for the following week. At 10000 kills, points will be doubled. 12/4: Defeat various bosses to get accessories. 12/4: New players: Sign up to the site (or make an alt) from now to the 14th for free cat stuff (doesn't affect current users apparently). 12/4: Get a hoodie, an AP potion, and some plats for logging in if you haven't in a while (doesn't affect current users apparently?). 12/4: [pay2win] Prizes for buying gg points. 12/11: New PvP rewards. See update page for complete list. [Reset 12/26] 1 QB weapon fodder at 1000pts, S-Sayaka at 3000pts, 1 each of skill and weapon QB fodder at 5000pts, R-Sayaka (School Uniform edition) at 8000pts, 2 each of weapon and skill fodder card at 10000pts. [Distribution 12/28]

News and Announcements Weekly Maintenance: {DAY} days {HOUR} hours {MINUTE} minutes {SECOND} seconds For details go here: Madoka Magica Online Events 12/12: The next maintenance will remove Christmas Madoka and her associated cards from the platinum box, and the three current EX cards will be replaced by six new ones in the purple box. 12/10: Maintenance will change to Wednesday in 2 weeks (December 26 rather than 25) and the PVP reset will be delayed accordingly. This maintenance will introduce EX rarity for exclusive event, contest, and limited time items. See the box below for more changes. 12/7: The winners of the fanart contest have been announced. 12/3: 12/4 Maintenance changes. Refer to the maintenance changes below for details. 11/30: There is a gallery webpage that allows you to look at a bunch of really cute megucas (and a few who have no fashion sense at all). 11/28: A NicoNico Madoka will be given to accounts using the Nico app for logging in. (Non-Nico accounts can't use the Nico app) 11/27: Co-op play will not be available until mid-December because they are trying to make it less frustrating to play. 9/27 update: For buyfags who got their Charlotte mini-nendroid, please make sure you empty your accessories slot before entering your serial-number.

Maintenance Changes: 12/11 New EX rarity! EX items will be EXclusive rewards from events, contests, and limited time releases. Some will be available in QB boxes (contradicting initial reports). From 12/11/2012 to 12/18/2012, 3 EX cards featuring images from last year's NewType Magazines can be obtained from Special(Purple) Kyubey Boxes at a rate of 0.2% chance. Link#1, Link#2 These cards start at 60HP/30DEF/30ATK and cap out at 120HP/60DEF/60ATK. [pay2win] New Christmas box: 500 points = 6 plats, 1 AP pot, 2 QB Weapon fooder, 30k coins 1000 points = 12 plats, 2 AP pots, 6 QB Weapon fooder, 90k coins 3000 points = 39 plats, 8 AP pots, 22 QB weapon fooder, 330k coins The home screen background will get a Christmas theme. PVP points will reset. Rewards for the new PVP period include an S Sayaka at 3000 points and an R school uniform Sayaka at 8000. Don't miss this chance! Isn't it everyone's fantasy to get two Sayakas at once? Healing after PVP has been extended to January 8. QB box changes: Platinum: Mami in Wonderland cards will be removed. Special: Mami battle-ready skills will be removed. Bug fixes to A-6 and a musket not triggering skills.

Maintenance Changes: 12/4 Weekly maintenance will be carried out on Tuesdays starting from this week. Characters can equip 3 accessories at once. The level cap will be increased to 80. Inventory capacity will increase by 5 card slots every 5 levels from level 50 on. At level 80, you will have 85 slots. Quests 9 and 10, featuring Gertrud and Charlotte in the next timeline. New A levels (sunset world) will feature Patricia and Izabel. Drops include +defense wing accessories. +15 defense wings were incorrectly given out as A-5 and A-6 rewards. The wings have been changed to +25 DEF, and players who got +15 ones will receive additional +25 wings as presents. Parties will continue to be healed in PVP for at least another week. QB box changes: Platinum: All Alice in Wonderland cards except Mami's will be removed. Special: Sayaka and Kyoko battle-ready skills will be removed.

Maintenance Changes: 11/28 Weekly maintenance will be carried out in Tuesdays starting from next week. QB box changes Changes for Platinum and Purple QB box contents. While rolling QB box, the number of cards (weapon/dress/acc/skill) will be displayed on the screen. You will no longer be able to click the "roll" button when you card slot is full. PvP play The health recovery after each battle system is extended until 12/4 maint. PvP point reset. Co-op play Co-op play will not be available until mid-December, because the devs are trying to fix the system. System changes The cards encyclopedia layout update. Madoka SS AoE attack will activate if equipped by the player's OC meguca. Time until the next AP point increase will be shown by default. AP pots storage limits increased to 499. Skipping of animation graphics will be possible: Quest clear result page Quest defeat result page Co-op boss clear result page Level-up animation Door animation before witch battle Quest changes Charlotte's difficulty will be increased for an event When card slot is full, there will be a notice to pick it up from the presents box(?) The witch battle in quests will now be continuous, as in during PvP battle.

Getting Started

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  How to register.

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  Choose a world/server.

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  Enter your character's name here.

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  How to change your party members and their gear.

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  How to use the friends screen.

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  Top: Retreat. Middle: Recenter camera. Bottom: Inventory picked up in the quest.

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  How to use the achievements screen.

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  How to collect presents.

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  Character profile and how to change appearance.

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  In-game help notes.

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  The co-op UI preview.

The Home/Lobby UI.

• A step by step guide on how to register
• Translations of the help screens, which explain the UI

There are four worlds (servers): ローズ (Rose), シルバー (Silver), ダーク (Dark), and シャドウ (Shadow). Once you choose one, your account will be locked in to it. For a list of players on each world, see the Meguca Online Spreadsheet, which also contains the Suffering Calculator and Weapon Damage Calculator.

Troubleshooting

Unplayability

• If you get an Apache 2/CentOS test page(previous) or a Forbidden 403 error(current), you may need to use a proxy to bypass IP blocks. Certain blocks only apply to the signup and login areas, so some users have been able to log in with proxies and switch to direct connections after world server selection screen.
  • Try using the Nico client to play the game if your IP is blocked: http://app.nicovideo.jp/app/ap110
• The game will load a large cinematic the first time you play. This can cause extended loading times in excess of 5 minutes, and you may need to relaunch the game if your connection to the server fails during loading, causing you to become stuck at the loading screen.
• If the game is freezing when you try to enter pvp or co-op, or when you try to access any feature changed in a recent maintenance, try clearing your browser's cache and restarting the game.
• If you frequently get the "server can't get status" error while using the QB Box or weapon synthesis, try using a different browser. There has been a case where the error persisted after handling the cache and cookies, but was fixed by switching from Chrome to Firefox. It is speculated that in such cases the error can prevent you from receiving some items, so don't ignore these errors.
• If the game will not load after re-logging in after your first time, it might be because of your character name. Try creating a new account with a character name using only 'normal' characters (A-Z, Hiragana, Kanji, Katakana with no spaces, underscores or other funny characters). Might be related to the following point.
• The chat and automessage systems don't allow some common characters such as spaces and periods. You'll get an error message if you try to use them. Some English swearing is also blocked. Note that the double width question mark works, but the normal one doesn't.
  • Allowed: ~`!@#&<>=？
  • Illegal: .$%^*()-,/':"?-- space
  • Also allowed: ´・ω・`：。β★◆●【】※・ー一！）（「」┃○‐

Miscellaneous

• In-game mail from other players will be automatically deleted after 10 days.
• Some presents, such as items found in quests while your inventory was full, will expire after a short time. Make sure to retrieve your presents quickly.
• Presents from special events are often sent some time after maintenance ends, not immediately after the servers come up. Presents can expire before the time listed in the presents window entry.
• The game constantly transfers data through 113.192.241.11/amf/gateway.php and any downloads or uploads to it that take too long will cause you to disconnect. The timeout has switched between 5 and 30 seconds, and is currently believed to be 30 seconds.
  • It was 5 seconds until the 11/21 maintenance, 30 until 11/28, 5 until 12/4, and 30 following the 12/4 maintenance. Changes in the limit have greatly affected the number of disconnections players experience.
  • When initially entering the game, you must transfer about 40KB within the time limit. Prior to 11/28, it was 167.17KB. The developers appear to have reduced the size of each transfer to prevent disconnections.
  • Cheat Engine can be used to reduce the game's speed, tricking it into giving players more time to transfer data, which reduces the number of disconnects. This can be particularly useful at the end of a PVP match, when disconnections and freezes are likely to happen.
  • If you are having trouble connecting, make sure that nothing is interfering with your access to the gateway IP.

Performance

• Some users have found that the game runs better in Chrome than Firefox.
  • However, other users have solved errors by using Firefox instead. Try a variety of browsers if you're having trouble playing. Reports indicate that the IE10 and Apple Flash engines may perform better than Firefox as well.
• Reducing the game's graphics quality can dramatically lower CPU load.
• If you're getting disconnected frequently, avoid using flash-based sites in other browser tabs or running P2P applications such as bittorrent in the background.
• High server load can cause issues such as being stuck at a loading screen or getting stuck with a grayed out screen while trying to load a menu.

Errors

• If you get the error pictured below while trying to open a Kyubey BOX, your inventory is full. You can have at most 50 of each type of card (weapons, clothes, accessories, skills). Sell some to make room. The numbers along the side of the Kyubey BOX screen tell you how much space you have left in each card category.
  • If you still can't open the box after making sure you have space in all 4 card categories, check your presents. Open the history screen from the lobby (icon: papers with quill pen). Go to the packages tab and collect the card that was withheld due to the inventory being full. After clearing your inventory and packages, Kyubey BOXes should work again.

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  Inventory full. Sell items until you have room in all 4 card categories.

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  The red 50/50 means the inventory is full. Categories: weapons(full), clothes, accessories, and skills.

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  Inventory full. Sell items and clear history packages.

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  How to collect presents.

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  Server can't get status. Enable third-party cookies and restart the game.

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  Connection lost. Restart the game.

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  You were disconnected during a quest. Click the right button to resume where you left off.

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  This present must be retrieved before time runs out.

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  You can't have more than one of the same SS character. Tickets will be refunded.

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  Your present could not be claimed. This may be caused by not having enough inventory space (there may be multiple items in one present, and you can only have 999 tickets) or the expiration of the present.

Teaser site

See also Madoka Secret Project

External links

• Official website (may be region-restricted)
• Nico Client
• Japanese wiki
• Help screen translations
• Madoka Online fan blog
• Meguca Online Spreadsheet

• Closed Beta site
• Strategy Partners official website (game developer's website)
• ANN announcement
• OnlineGamer write-up (Japanese)
• Interview with Producer Fujii, by 4Gamer (Japanese)
• Trailer
• The Victory theme music

• 4chan thread

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