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, and Co-op Play: Answers to common questions.
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.

News and Events

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Co-op Open:
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For details go here: Madoka Magica Online Events

10/18:Draw an original meguca for a chance for your drawn weapon, dress and accessory to be implemented in game. Go to events for details. link to the entry gallery
10/17: A U card with Kyoko and Homura has been added to the platinum box along with Halloween Kyoko, her costume, and more.
10/17: New special box cards have been added including bunny ears, dresses and stat cards.
10/17: A TV commercial for Madoka Online will air on Tokyo MX today narrated by Aoi Yuuki.
10/16: Co-op test run during the 2 hours after maintenance ended. Participation reward is 1 AP potion. [Dist. 10/19]
10/16: Plat box campaign.
- Co-op play implementation. Will open on the weekend only starting 10/19.
- Items stored in the gift tab with expiry date will be kept for 3 hours rather than 1.
- The total ATK of your whole party could be seen in your profile page.
- Fix of the bazooka homuhomu RR skill card not activating.
10/16: Change of plat and purple box content 10/17, removal of the cards below;
- Platinum box: Halloween madoka, hat and dress.
- Purple box: The annoying gym clothes series.
10/16: Free 3 platinum tickets for all! In celebration of the movie. [Distribution 10/17 maintenance]
10/15: Lawson convenience store campaign.
10/15: [Until 10/19]Clear A-X quests to receive rewards once a day for each quest. A1:30k coins,A2:40k coins + 20 purples, A3 50k coins, A4: 60k coins + 30 purples [Distribution 10/24]
10/12: A preview of co-op has been posted. (Announcement). See this post and the blog for previous information.
10/12: Legendary nail-bat event; keep the N nailbat, wooden sword and wooden stick until start of 10/17 maintenance to get a legendary S-class nailbat. Campaign site. [Distribution not set yet]
10/03: A bug is causing some Ben'nu spears to have too much attack, and they will be corrected in a future maintenance.
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: 10/17

Co-op has been implemented. A test took place in the first hours after maintenance, involving numerous disconnects. Co-op will open on 10/19 2100hrs until 10/21 2400hrs.
New special box cards have been added including bunny ears, dresses and stat cards.
Items stored in the gift tab with expiry date will be kept for 3 hours rather than 1.
The total ATK,HP and DEF of your whole party could be seen in your profile page.
Fix of the bazooka homuhomu RR skill card not activating.
Change of plat and purple box content 10/17, removal of the cards below;
- Platinum box: Halloween madoka, hat and dress.
- Purple box: The annoying gym clothes series.

Maintenance Changes: 10/10

Purple tickets will be changed to "special" tickets, other than the name change, the new tickets will not be sold at the cash shop.
Platinum ticket box content changes
New rarity class above SS ; rarity class U
PvP system renewal
- The pvp points and rank will be reset every 2 weeks
- Rewards according to the pvp points every 2 weeks
- Increase of the maximum pvp point limit
Increase of the maximum number of cards per category from 30 to 50
Status buff for clothes and accessories cards (yay!)
- They won't swap the ones we already have. You have to gamble for them, again.

Getting Started

How to register.
Choose a world/server.
Enter your character's name here.
How to change your party members and their gear.
How to use the friends screen.
Top: Retreat. Middle: Recenter camera. Bottom: Inventory picked up in the quest.
How to use the achievements screen.
How to collect presents.
Character profile and how to change appearance.
In-game help notes.
The co-op UI preview.

The Home/Lobby 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.

Cooperative Play

Players can form groups of up to four to take on powerful witches in co-op mode. Enter co-op by clicking the same multiplayer icon used for PvP (in the upper left of the lobby) or by accepting an invitation. A button will appear in the top right corner of your chat window (the pop-up tab at the bottom of the screen reading ON or OFF) if you have been invited to a group.

You will be faced with an array of doors, each leading to a co-op lobby. There are three pages: Easy, Medium, and Hard. Select a difficulty and then click on a door.

The list on the left shows players in the lobby. The sections on the right are rooms. Click through the pages to find a room and click the button to enter. If it's empty, you will become the leader of a new room. Rooms with lock icons have passwords.

What does the lightning bolt icon do?

Once inside a room, the leader can use the select quest button and invite friends button to locate a witch and gather magical girls.

If you're not the leader, wait for the leader to start a quest, and then click the multicolored game start button that will appear in the middle right. The red rectangular button shows you information about the quest. Players who have accepted the quest will be marked with "OK".

The leader will see a list of quests after clicking the select quest button. The barriers open at this time are Izabel's (2-1) and Charlotte's (2-2).

The invite players button will show you your friends list. Click on a friend and then click the button in the lower right corner to invite them. If your friend gets disconnected, which happened to many of them in this screenshot, her name will be grayed out and you must send another invitation when she logs back on.

If you want to play with someone who isn't on your friends list, tell them which door to enter to find your lobby, and which room number within that lobby. They'll be able to join directly. If you didn't set a password, random people you don't know are likely to enter your room. It's polite to explain the situation before kicking them out if you're waiting for your teammate, but you probably can't thanks to the language barrier, so the universe appreciates your contribution to counteracting entropy.

When the quest begins, you and your teammates will appear in the barrier. You must lower the doors that block your path by landing on the matching switches. The bar at the top of the screen shows the witch's health and plays an animation when your teammates are fighting the witch. The players can move independently, and bring their usual squads of characters with them. I seriously hope you didn't join co-op with your party disbanded. You must wait for other players to move before the next turn begins. Click the gong icon that replaces the dice when you are finished with your turn.

This magical girl successfully landed on a switch.
Now the doors are open, and you can face the witch. You're not afraid of anything anymore.
The red number at the top of the screen shows the damage a teammate did to the witch. The log shows other players' dice rolls and actions.
Did you think you were the only one bringing friends? The witch has familiars with her.

After defeating the witch, you and your teammates will get to roll for bonus items. Those brown things are not coffee beans, but rather Kamenoko Tawashi scrub brushes. Sometimes the sixth card will be a mystery card with question marks on it. Mystery cards can give you items available only in co-op.

After rolling, you'll see a ranking screen that scores players based on how much damage they did to the witch. Higher ranking players will get small amounts of bonus exp and coins. You get exp for playing with friends, and coins for playing with people who aren't in your friends list.

This screen shows the loot you rolled. Note that the disconnected player doesn't have any. If you get disconnected and miss the bonus rolling, you'll get screwed. Test to see whether people can reconnect during rolling and still get loot.
This team found a radioactive Kyubey.
Obviously, radioactive aliens should be worn as hats. This girl will probably get brain cancer, but it's OK, magical girls usually only live for a year or two anyway.
You can also get fine wine. Since you're under drinking age, use it to beat the crap out of people instead.

If you die, you won't be killed. You will simply respawn at the start point. You're racing against the turn limit and can graveyard rush the witch until you run out of turns.
Since you continue to fight even in death, consider equipping offensive gear such as skill cards instead of the heavy defense you'd use while soloing.
Co-op appears to use the PvP probabilities for skill card activation. Single target skill cards are highly effective against witches here.
Using the skip battle button can speed up the turns. However, if you're waiting for a disconnected player to reconnect, she can miss turns if they go by too quickly.

Common Problems

If the game stops, and nothing is happening for any players, try having everyone restart the game.

Troubleshooting

Unplayability

If you get an Apache 2/CentOS test page, 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 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.
- Allowed: ~`!@#&<>=
- Illegal: .$%^*()-,/':"?-- space
- Also allowed: ：。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.

Performance

Some users have found that the game runs better in Chrome than Firefox.
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, and then 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.

Inventory full. Sell items and clear history packages.
How to collect presents.
Server can't get status. Enable third-party cookies and restart the game.
Connection lost. Restart the game.
You were disconnected during a quest. Click the right button to resume where you left off.
This present must be retrieved before time runs out.