Hi,

I'm launching an app I made called Oracle of Maiya. Basically, it's a program designed to help store your Personas in a database and help you (tremendously, I hope) with fusions, and it works with Persona 3, Persona 3 FES and Persona 4 (and the soon-to-be-released Persona 3 Portable and, if the fusion mechanics don't change much, for Persona 5, 6, 7 and maybe even the whole series from now on, even if it will need a little tweaking). For those that do (or want to do) a lot Persona fusion planning (instead of the usual random fusing) to obtain precisely what powerful Personas they want, I really hope this program will be a boon to them.

Please visit and bookmark the project's home page, and remember to visit regularly, as there will be lots of updates for the program in the days to come, and I hope there will also be lots of discussions there about the features you, the users, would desire. I'll be adding progress updates on a weekly (if not daily) basis there (or at least how often I can - I have a busy life from time to time). For now, stay tuned for the blog, forum and twitter-like micro-blogging features which will be added soon.

For those that can't find their way around the site:

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The site is the project's home page on SourceForge.net. It hosts both the source code (for the really curious) as well as the executable program and related files (see the big "Download Now") button.

Bellow the project's name (Oracle of Maiya) is a navigation tabs. Click on any tab to navigate on the page (note: clicking the "Develop" tab will bring up more hidden tabs where the source code and other more complicated stuff is. The "Forum" tab also appears after you click the Develop tab (don't ask me why), so you should explore that a bit, I guess. Soon, there will also be a "Blog" and a micro blogging tab, along with others (as soon as I finish spamming all Persona 3 boards on the internet with my thread ).

One last thing I forgot to mention:

I know I asked you all to participate in the discussions (and maybe even submitting bugs and commenting about them) on the project's page, but I forgot to mention that you need to register before you can do that. Sorry about that, I can't do anything about it, and I would really appreciate it if you'd take your time and go out of your way to contribute to this project. After all, it's all for you!

Now, this is version 1.0 of my program. I'm sorry I don't have anything better to present at the moment, but I really wanted to get a bare-bones version out as fast as possible. Currently, it can only do normal spread fusions, but it already works for P3, P3 FES and P4. The next version will have triangle spread fusions and will be able to store your (evolved) Personas in a database (which I will call a user profile from now on, to distinguish it from the database for base Personas, skills, elements, etc.). If you want to see an alpha version of what's to come (currently, I'm thinking of calling this v1.5 when its released), please check here.

I'm curious, what do you all think of this? What are your opinions in regards to the program? You can either sound off here or (preferably, since it ever won't be deleted) on the project's page (after I set up the forum).

Remember to bookmark the project's home page and visit regularly! Let's try and make this one hell of a fan program the gaming community has never seen!

Update: The forum (no registration required; Path from homepage: Develop -> HostedApps -> phpBB) and micro-blogging[/URL] (registration required; Path from homepage: Develop -> HostedApps -> Laconica) features are now online!

PS: Sorry for cross-posting this on the Persona 3 and Persona 4 boards as well, but it's relevant to both those games and I really want as much coverage as possible. If a mod still wishes to enforce the rules, then please leave the thread in the Persona 3 board open and close the rest, while editing my first post to redirect others to this thread (e.g.: "Thread closed (multiple threads). Please visit THIS THREAD to discuss from now on"). And please don't punish me!

I would also appreciate a sticky, but I'm not putting my hopes up.

PS2: There may be some erroneous results with some fusion combinations in P3 (not P3 FES) and P4. The program itself is fine, and if it happens it's because I've written the database files in hurry to get this out quickly (you try writing 200 KB text files in one day!). If you happen to find such a result, please report this to me and I'll post the updated package as well as the database files as separate downloads on the project's page.

Also, please note that the "Stats Sum" and "Total Skills" columns in the grids might display wrong info for P3 most of the time, and be totally inaccurate for P4. That's also because of the same reason mentioned above (basically, I just copied the P3 FES database for P3 and P4 and just edited the names of the Personas and their levels to insure that at least the fusion result is correct, though some inaccuracies in levels and Persona names, as well as Arcana fusion combination results, might have slipped).

PS3: Thank you for reading this long thread! And again, remember to bookmark the project's home page and visit often, please! It would be really disappointing to see that very few people care, if at all.

This message was edited by Cloud737 on Nov 08 2009.

This message was edited by Cloud737 on Nov 09 2009.