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

The End of the World:

The New World Has Dawned Upon Us!

12/21: To celebrate Madoka Online's WebMoney Rookie of the Year Award, there will be several bonuses:
- For each day you log in between 12/22-12/25, you'll get 2 QB weapon fodder cards
- If you log in at least once during that period, you'll get a white snake scarf and a New Year box accessory
- Seven new EX cards will be available from 12/26 until 1/8.
  - Get Mami from logging in, get QB from PVP chests, get Madoka and Homura from special quest rewards, and get team cards and Kyoko from story quest bosses.
12/21: Special Quests will be available after the 12/26 maintenance. 50 quests will appear, and the A-X levels will be redesigned.
- Quests will vary widely in difficulty, allowing newer players to participate and challenging the strongest girls.
- AP costs will vary between 1 and 50.
- There will be 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.
12/21: [Pay2Win] Enter a raffle by buying 1000 points.
12/18: From 12/18 to 12/26, new member signups get a S Santa Hat, 30 purple tickets and 50,000 coins..
12/17: Purchasing this Limited Set of nendroids featuring Walpurgisnacht and Anthony will get you a in-package serial code to redeem in-game accessories.
12/12: Post your meguca on Twitter from 12/14 to 12/25 for a chance at winning 3 platinum tickets.
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:
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For details go here: Madoka Magica Online Events

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.
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.
11/27: 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: 12/18

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Inventory full. Sell items until you have room in all 4 card categories.
The red 50/50 means the inventory is full. Categories: weapons(full), clothes, accessories, and skills.
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.
You can't have more than one of the same SS character. Tickets will be refunded.
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.