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 1/22: Yahoo! Japan service begins with the latest version of the game. Anyone with a Yahoo! Japan account can join on its single server Mermaid. Everyone can join the official community to obtain S cards. (p2w) You may purchase rookie box 100 which comes with 1 AP, 30 Special Tickets and 1 level 20 RR sword for just 100 points. Money box also available for 1000 points, 3000 points and 5000 points in which the box contains a special ticket called Treasure Ticket for you to stand a chance to obtain an U weapon. PVP rewards has changed. Try to get Madoka Uniform for 120 points (N rarity), 1000 points (R rarity), 4500 points (RR rarity) or 10000 points (S rarity) before 2/5 maintenance. Do note that you are entitled to obtain the highest possible rarity meguca based on your pvp points you achieved before maintenance, just like how you obtain your Kyouko Uniform meguca. Skill card fusion will grant 1.5x exp until next maintenance. 1/17: (NicoApp only) Starting from 1/17 to 1/29 maintenance, if you managed to invite any Nico friends to play the game, you'll get a lvl 10 RR sword with 50,000 Magica coins for each successful invited friends, and invited friends will get 5 APs. 1/15: Collect 6 EX cards before 1/29 maintenance and you will get a lvl 1 S Legendary Trumpet (Mid-tier) musket. 12/26: Buying an almond tofu Kyubey at the Madoka Cafe in Tokyo can get you an accessory translated by google as "Bunny ears white motherfucker."

News and Announcements Emergency Maintenance Start: {DAY} days {HOUR} hours {MINUTE} minutes {SECOND} seconds Emergency Maintenance End: {DAY} days {HOUR} hours {MINUTE} minutes {SECOND} seconds Next Weekly Maintenance: {DAY} days {HOUR} hours {MINUTE} minutes {SECOND} seconds For details go here: Madoka Magica Online Events 1/18: The A-level special quests will be updated on 1/22. Gertrud will enter rampage mode. If you want to complete the current quests, you must clear them before maintenance. 1/18: After the 1/22 maintenance, you get your Uniform Kyouko, and there is an event to level up your newly acquired Uniform Kyouko and get Special Tickets, Skill fodder, Weapon fodder and SS Bag of Apple with stat. The reward amount may differ depending on your Uniform Kyouko's rarity. The SS apples will be the same regardless of her rarity. 1/18: The upcoming maintenance will remove these cards: Pink Waitress dress from the platinum box, and the Purple Fairy dress and 3 EX cards from the special box. 1/16: You will get more friends as friend list capacity increased from 40 to 50 after 1/22 maintenance. 1/15: Walpurgis Night is coming soon! Statistics indicate that she will appear in the Spring. Could the target date be April 30th, the date of the real life Walpurgis Night? 1/11: You will be able to equip two skill/stat cards at once on each character after 1/22. You can't use two skill proc cards at once. Start preparing your 92 DEF RR cards. New story quests will be added. Co-op will return in February. 1/10: In the 1/15 maintenance, the following cards will be removed: Platinum: SS Single-target Kyoko skill (May be added to the special box) Special: SS Single-target Homu skill and the 3 MadoHomu hand-holding EX cards. 12/27: Weekly Maintenance on 01/01/2013 has been cancelled. The next maintenance will be on 01/08/2013 instead. 12/26: The A levels have been completely revamped. See the maintenance box below for details. 12/21: Madoka Online won the WebMoney Rookie of the Year 2012 Best Games Award. 12/20: Skill cards will gain 1.5x experience from fusing for a week after the next maintenance. 11/27: Co-op play will not be available until mid-December because they are trying to make it less frustrating to play.

Maintenance Changes: 1/22 QB Box changes: Special Box Removal: Bubbles Bride dress and EX New Type Cards Series 5. Platinum Box Removal: Red Waitress dress. PVP changes: PVP map will be changed. PVP points will be reset. System changes: New story quests (11-1 to 12-5) will be added. Special quests renewal for a limited time. Treasure quests will be added for a limited time. Friend list capacity increased to 50. Notice Board added. Skill Card fusion will grant 1.5x exp for a limited time. Limited Login Stamp ends, new Limited Login Stamp will begin from 1/22 maintenance until 1/29 maintenance. Level up Uniform Kyoko <Rarity> limited time achievements will be added. Closing content Beginner's Box sale ends. Platinum box's increased rate for the SS and U skill cards ends. Story quests 1-1 to 2-5 no longer grant 1.5x exp. The first 3 Platinum Tickets for 100 points per day promotion sale ends.

Maintenance Changes: 1/15 QB Box changes: Special Box Remove: EX New Type Cards Series 4 and SS Truck Addition: EX New Type Cards Series 5 and SS Kyouko Single Target Skill Platinum Box Remove: New Year Madoka along with her outfit and stat card Addition: New Year Kyouko along with her outfit and stat card, and new U Bow Weapon and tri-stat skill card PVP buttons will have auto countdown and close feature just like co-op buttons. Coins will be renamed to Magica Coins

Maintenance Changes: 1/8 Story quests from 1-1 to 2-5 will give 1.5 times EXP PVP rewards include school uniform Kyokos, and enough of them for a Rosso Fantasma. S at 12,000, RR at 6,500, R at 2,000, and N at 120 PVP points. A new limited log in bonus will replace the New Year's one, and will last until 1/22. The first bonus is an S weapon. Every level up from 2 to 30 will have an achievement rewards. See the Events Page for details. Higher level characters only need to complete any quest (including PVP) to get the rewards. Total rewards for a level 29+ include 46k Coins, 90 Browns, 45 purples, 4 AP potions and 1 weapon & skill fodder. [pay2win] Beginner's Box for 100 yen will be added to the cash shop, containing 1 AP pot, 10 purple tickets, and one 20RR weapon. The New Year's "lucky bag" sale ends. 1.5x skill fusion EXP is ending. The treasure chests in PVP will be removed and replaced with 100 damage traps. 5 new series will be added to the picture book. QB Box removals: Platinum: Christmas Homura and Kyoko along with their outfits and stat cards Special: 7 EX cards, and the SS sword, bow, and lance. The EX card availability from special stages' achievement reward has been extended. QB Box additions: Platinum: New Year's Mami is here, with two stat cards, clothing, and an accessory. Since Mami doesn't have time for a boyfriend, the new U card features Madoka and Homura cuddling, with up to 490ATK at max level. Special: 3 new Hand-holding EX cards will be added. Collect all of them to get a lovely accessory and dress. The items may be the head protector and green outfit pictured at the bottom of this announcement. Variety: A squirrel tail and purple dress have been added. The chances to get U and SS cards from the platinum box have been changed to 1% and 15%, down from 1.5% and 18%, but the chance to get weapons has not decreased. The chances to get EX, S and RR from the purple box are 2.1%, 3.8%, and 33.1%, changed from 1.5%, 4%, and 32.7%. The +25 DEF black cat accessory from A-40 has been changed to +50. This applies retroactively to accessories you already have.

Maintenance Changes: 12/26 The A levels have been redesigned and Special Quests are available after the 12/26 maintenance. 50 quests have been added. Quests vary widely in difficulty, allowing newer players to participate and challenging the strongest girls. AP costs vary between 1 and 50. There are rewards for clearing each quest and low-probability drops for every 5th level. Rewards include EX cards, tickets, coins, fodder, +def outfits, and accessories. Accessories include U hats with +60-75 def, Black nekomimi ears+tail combo +50 def, witch's hat +50 def, black cowboy hat, white cat on head, white animal ears, orange glasses, and a white cat-eared pervert hat. The new levels must be unlocked in order. The first one costs 1 AP. They give 0 exp and 0 coins, but you can get QB fodder from the chest (drop rate unknown, most likely very low). Gertrud is only level 5 in the first stage, so even rookie magical girls can beat her. There are 5 levels per grief seed. The first grief seeds look the same, but are ordered from left to right, top to bottom, so you'll be able to judge difficulty by map position. Sunset level 2 Gertrud has an Anthony familiar. Gertrud gains 3 levels with each new stage, and she gains additional familiars including Adelberts and multiple Anthonies in higher levels. Updates to the Kyubey boxes: Special: The previously removed SS sword, lance, and bow are back. Several new EX cards have been added. The chance to get EX has increased to 1.5. Platinum: New Year's Madoka has been added with matching clothes and an accessory. A new U sword has been added with 7950 max atk (the original U sword had 7800). The chance to get U is up to 1.5% and SS is up to 18%. The Christmas lobby is over, and the lobby is normal again, even though it was still Christmas in California when this change was made. The 12/26 Maintenance removed the Mami and Sayaka Christmas cards as well as three of the EX cards. A bunch of new EX cards have been added.

Maintenance Changes: 12/18 All weapon fusions will provide 50% more EXP than usual for this week only. There will be chests in PVP that have a chance to give EX cards. They will only be present until 12/26 and will replace some traps. Since enough witches were killed in last week's event, rating points gained in PVP will be doubled this week. 1.5x EXP for all story quests will continue for another week. Elsa Maria has been fixed and will properly give 1.5x instead of 1.8x EXP. QB fodder cards will drop twice as often in A-X levels. Christmas boxes will remain on sale for another week. HP recovery after PVP is now permanent, to everyone's surprise. QB box changes: Platinum: Christmas Madoka cards removed. Special: The EX cards have been replaced with new ones.

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！）（「」┃○‐
• Mobile users may be able to play by using software such as Teamviewer to remotely run the game on a PC. The browser Puffin from iDevices has been reported to be able to play the full game, including battles that fail on most mobile devides, but you must mute the music before closing the game or else it will continue playing.

Miscellaneous

• For buyfags who got their Charlotte or Walpurgis mini-nendroid, please make sure you empty your accessories slot before entering your serial-number.
• 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 (Main portal) (may be region-restricted)
• NicoNico App Portal
• Yahoo! Japan Portal
• 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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