digimon/digivolution info

In the earliest creation of the digital world it was little more than a barren desert, just a wasteland that held next to nothing as the programmers had to work with limited technology. As technology changed and became more advanced the digital world evolved and changed in dynamic ways as it was reincarnated over and over again. Data was wiped and rewritten and the digital world changed drastically over the years with each released game. The digital world ages much faster than our own so what took millions of years to reshape our world could be done in just a few decades in the digital world.

The digital world contains many different self-contained environments specially suited to the digimon that live in the area. Although the digital world has both night and day, there is no transitional period between the two - with darkness instantly sweeping across the world like a sheet. Visible in the sky is a pulsing globe of code and light, which represents the the barrier between the digital world and the human world. This layer is directly controlled by CrossWire since they can tap into the bridge between the two worlds. Floating between the layer of the real world and the surface of the digital world there is the floating city made by CrossWire to house the tamers and most functions of the game. Vast columns of energy reach down into the Digital World when tamers are teleported down from the sky layer and to the ground layer which contains all of the different environments in the digital world.

The amount of Digi-Areas are said to be infinite as the digital world expands in all directions. It is not round like the Earth and in fact if one were to travel to the very outskirts of the world they would meet a wall of vast and empty white space - like the end of a program or the end of a video game structure. However to reach the end of the World would take many years on walking through the harsh deserts in the digital world. Luckily the portals set up all around the digital world and in the various Digi-Areas make it easier on tamers so they don't have to walk for miles to get to a certain environment. The only downside is that the portals are stationary, thus one does have to walk back to the location of a portal gate in order to travel back to the tamer city above after transporting down to the digital world.

When it comes to wild digimon a member can either request staff to have one appear or those involve in the thread can have a wild digimon appear if they wish for whatever purpose. It could be just a friendly encounter or a not so friendly one. Wild digimon will not be role played directly by staff, they will be treated strictly as NPC and how a role player interacts with them is up to them.

There are some rules when it comes to having a wild digimon appear, especially one that is meant to oppose conflict. The rule is: "No more than one level higher than your lowest level digimon." This means that if you have all champions then you can have an ultimate level digimon appear in the wild to interact with. If you have two champions and one rookie, then you can only have up to the champion level appear in the wild still due to rookie being your lowest level digimon. This is to avoid someone trying to make their digimon seem more "powerful" by saying that their three rookies could handle an ultimate or something to that effect. Also if you do have a wild digimon appear then be somewhat logical as to the type of area you are in. Bottom line is don't be ridiculous, nothing should be game changing or plot changing unless the staff is involved.

In some creations of the digital world any digimon that died was dead indefinitely as a way to help save some server space and delete old, obsolete data. On CrossWire, the death of a digimon results in an infinite cycle of rebirth. Digimon in this digital world are turned into data upon their "death". In most cases this data is absorbed by other digimon in order to obtain power and/or to digivolve. However it is only the data of the current level and power, with all of their powers drained the digimon will revert back into an egg and will wait for the day that it can hatch again and start to rebuild its data for the sake of tasting digivolution once again. Luckily, it's much easier for a digimon (with a tamer) to reach higher levels if they had already tasted it before.

After one of your digimon reverts back to an egg you can "reclaim" their digivolutions at a fraction of the cost - you must also reclaim rookie level. This is the only time you have to exchange Credits to obtain rookie, and it's relatively cheap too. When a digimon's data is destroyed it is sent back to the tamer's home server and that is where it compiles back into an egg. This will happen even if a digimon is destroyed in the real world, their data will simply go back to the digital world and recompile at the tamer's home server once again.

When destroying a wild digimon your digimon absorbs all of the power of their previous form as they revert back to an egg. They don't revert back to an egg right in front of your eyes though, but even wild digimon go through the endless cycle. So to put it simply there is no absolute "murder" or deletion amongst data in the environment established by the CrossWire Server.

While in the digital world, a tamer cannot actually "die". When transported to the digital world they are "digitized" and their bodies are scanned and turned into packets of data. Now when their body is destroyed, just like a digimon, they enter an infinite cycle of rebirth. CrossWire has created a device known as the Digital-U Station. This device has two functions. One, of the functions is creating a copy of the tamer's data and reconstructing it when they are destroyed. In a way, it was a respawn for "death". Every tamer has a personal Digital-U Station in their Home Server, so upon "death" they will find themselves waking up in their home server. The same cannot be said for a Tamer that dies in the real world of course because well...that's a real death.

A tamer does have life points, which is just a number of lives they have which will get deducted every time they "die". Life points are recorded on everyone's mini-profile and appear with the post count and credits. Every tamer starts out with three life points. You can purchase more with credits or even earn them through events and milestones. When a Tamer "dies" there is no penalty other than having one life [oint deducted. However, when a tamer dies without any Life Points left then they have consequences. Any credits they have saved up are set back to zero and all digimon are reverted back to egg form if they had not been already.

All tamers receive a D-Arc digivice ( as seen in Digimon Tamers) when registering on CrossWire Server. While the color scheme of the digivice can be customized to the tamer's liking it's features and functionality must be the same. The D-Arc does have a card scanner on its right side which will allow a tamer to swipe digi-modify cards in order to support their digimon in a battle. All digi-modify cards must be purchased from the CrossWire Digi-Mart for the cards sold there are specifically made with a magnetized strip that will be read when a card is slid. Any cards that the tamer may have had before hand, such as for the card game or trading cards, will not work since they are just pieces of cardboard.

The digivice also has a built in Digi-Analyzer which will read a digimon's species name (e.g Agumon), their attribute (e.g Vaccine), and their level (e.g Rookie). Of course, the digivice is also a device that allows the tamer to help their digimon digivolve. Another features it carries is the ability to pull up a screen that will allow you to see through the eyes of one of your digimon. This can help a tamer keep track of a fight or scout even at a distance. The digivice can also create a beam of light which can connect a tamer to their digimon. This beam works as a sort of leash, allowing a tamer to constrict and strain an unruly partner digimon.

The digivice shares a natural connection between the Tamer and their digimon, which also unlocks one more built in feature - a digital shield or Digi-Shield for short. It's powered specifically by the tamer's digimon and protects the tamer from any attack or harm is targeted by a hostile digimon. This of course will drain their digimon's stamina, but naturally a digimon would want to go out of their way to protect their tamer anyhow. The shield disperses once all digimon have been effectively defeated and drained of energy. In this method it makes it rather impossible to actually attack the tamer head on until the digimon are dealt with.

Beyond those built-in features, the digivice also acts as a key. It unlocks and activates the stationary portals placed in various areas across the digital world. The portals allow tamers and their digimon to teleport freely from the floating cities established by CrossWire and to the digital world below. The digivice is also the key to a tamer's home server and it keeps track of the number of life points a tamer has left.

The digital world runs on a cycle that is 60 times faster than the human world. When a minute passes in the real world an hour passes in the digital world. When an hour passes in the real world two and a half days pass in the digital world, and so on and so forth Because of this, a tamer in the digital world only has to eat about once a week. This is because the digital world does not put much of a physical strain on the human body, it's more of a mental strain. Due to the mental strain a tamer may still have to rest/sleep once a day in order to recover from the mental exhaustion despite only having to eat about once a week in the digital world. A digimon's body runs on a totally different cycle and thus they must eat and sleep every day in the digital world in order to keep their energy up. By this logic, a digimon in the human world may require more food to sustain their energy and stamina while still only needing to sleep once a day.

First of all, you cannot stack similar stat modifying digi-modify cards on top of stat modifying techniques. You can only use one or the other at a single time. Second of all, all stat changing techniques will be roughly around 2 to 3 times the digimon's current capabilities, much like that of the digi-modify cards. This is to avoid having one person stating their stat boosting technique is "off the charts" or whatever. To put it quite simply, all stat boosting techs and digi-modify cards are pretty much on the same level when it comes to the stat multiplier. So if your digimon uses a speed boost, then of course it would be hard for a digimon to keep up with just their regular speed. However, if the opposing digimon uses a speed boosting technique of their own or a speed boosting digi-modify card is applied, then it evens out the field of that particular stat boost.

Naturally there are some digimon in which you would expect to have a bit more speed over another - such as Renamon being faster than Armadillomon. This applies to all stats, speed was just used as an example. Stats also vary greatly from level to level, at a base though a champion would typically have higher stats than a rookie in almost every field unless the rookie specialized in a certain stat where the champion is lacking. So overall we ask you just to try to be logical while taking such things into consideration. Don't be ridiculous or difficult.

No one can have straight up healing techniques, as in they cannot just snap their fingers and heal without any kind of cost. In order to restore data, data must be acquired from elsewhere such as chipped off from an opponent or one's own self (though that would only be good for healing others). Healing techniques will mostly only be allowed through sacrifice and absorption, and by absorption we mean through a technique that damages the opponent and siphons off some of their data for the attacker to use to heal. We want to avoid digimon that just stand around and heal either themselves or others with little to no cost so the data for healing must come from somewhere. Digimon that siphon the data off themselves and apply it to others can create more effective healing moves since it's at a cost to their own health and energy. Damaging and absorbing health through attacks will only be able to heal a percentage and overall won't be as effective as techniques used to heal others.

Creating a shield or defensive techniques is fine, but we want to prevent them from being too over powered by making a digimon pretty much 'untouchable'. Therefore it should be noted that a defensive move or shield can only effectively block or counter techniques it was created to handle. So the stronger or the larger quantity of techniques the shield blocks, the more energy a digimon must pour into it in order to keep it up and stable. This makes it fair and equal as the amount of energy spent on the attacks is the same spent on blocking/countering them. At the same time a shield or defensive move can be completely overwhelmed by an attack that has a much higher energy output, such as by that of a digimon at a higher level in evolution. So basically shields can be used to counter and block out attacks in a time of need, but at an equal cost. That way it's just as draining to use a technique to defend/counter damage as it is to go on the offensive. This way no one digimon can just sit safely behind a shield and wait for an opponent to drain themselves without being drained of energy themselves.