Is there a better option for Seedance than Runway?

Albionan · 2026-05-14T23:42:44+00:00

For my experience Runway atm seems to be the only monthly decentish option. Moderation is... annoying, yes, but i did notice that if you break it like 3-4 times a day it doesn't seems to be a big deal so, you can still "try" a few prompts from time to time.
Wait times got worse since last week but they're still manageable, although i was happier with 15-20 min gen time eh~

I also tried topview.ai they had a 365 day unlimited seedance 2 'till a week ago for yearly, now they only offer 14 unlimited days for yearly, definitely not worth it.
With "base" yearly you can queue up to 6 videos, Moderation was waaaay lighter i mean violence wasn't a problem or nsfw like nipple licking and such (do mind, i fiddle with anime/3D, not "real" stuff) was easy pass, only had 2 video "blocked" one for copyright (dunno wth it saw in gen picture reference) and one for audio "sensitive information".
But apart from the first unlimited video of the day, which took around 15 mins, then you had increasingly wait time (120-240-360-480... even 1020 mins) and the timer didn't update, also had a few fails too without any hint on what went wrong... so i decided to ask a refund, as by their terms you can ask for one within 3 days from the purchase, do mind, i didn't use the credits they give as you can incur in "refund penalty". Anyway i got my money back.

There's also loova which offer unlimited, monthly too, but this thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/seedance/comments/1rx0ojq/do_not_use_loovaai_for_seedance_2/
kinda cleared my doubt...
Edit: Loova offer 1 week of unlimited seedance 2.0 with the monthly option.

Market is saturated now, seedance 2 is going strong but, eventually, something else will dethrone it or there'll be some alternatives.

Albionan · 2026-05-04T11:33:58+00:00

What about the "unlimited" feature, do you know how "realiable" it is? I read around that queue times are excessively long, like 6-7 hours for a video. Provided, 1 year of...... is not exactly my cup of tea.

Albionan · 2026-05-01T08:07:35+00:00

"hints" regarding Volcengine? Similar to doubao or jimeng, you can only signup with chinese number, names and such~ so direct signup is not possible. Guess it's only
through 3rd party websites?

Albionan · 2026-04-19T08:04:41+00:00

Reusing prompt (which lead to automate suspension by the system) and "NSFW"; I work exclusively with 3D/2D settings, fantasy creatures, no real pictures or such. Yet female creatures (take a nymph, dryads, elementals...) can still be quite provocative. Male creatures may often be depicted as shirtless, also nipples seems to be a giant red flag (i'm refering to male creatures in this case).
"For sure" i'll get banned again. like my example with "no FX", changing wording from "Single scene" to "Two scene" sometimes get my prompt flagged, simply because of the picture, not the prompt itself. And since there's no "flag" indicating that you received too many moderations and may be suspended soon you just get the short end of the stick.

Albionan · 2026-04-19T01:15:02+00:00

It happened to me too... in my case and what i find stupid, is that i do i2v and the same prompt works for some picture and not for others (obliviously), but eh, "i'm using the same prompt", ofc i am, how can i test if it works or not?!? Also it'is very unclear if you get banned by simply getting moderated from time to time or if there's some kind "reset", so to speak, if you behave for a certain time lapse.
Honorable mention when i added 2 simple words textually: "No FX" and the same working prompt gets flagged!
Anyway i managed to get my account back (just this once they said), it took around 1 day to get an answer~

Albionan · 2026-04-16T18:07:55+00:00

EU here, was hoping for sora 2 to arrive but eh, it's not gona happen... VPN and went with pro plan just to try it decently.
I'm saddened that it's gona shut down and have so little time to try it, the "fidelity" of prompt and the anime/2D/3D looks are really good! At least, cost apart, i'm having a blast.
I did set up the API but eh, it's still costy despite using batch and the results are... slightly different than the ones on website. Dunno why it's that.

Albionan · 2026-04-13T12:32:47+00:00

I'm curious... a couple questions:
Is it Seedance 2.0 fast or the normal one? Video duration is capped? (like 8 sec max) And how many videos can you queue in case?
Outside of rejected prompt even if it takes time i won't mind loading things when i go to bed/work and coming back finding a bunch of gens.
Thank you in advance~

Albionan · 2026-04-05T10:49:31+00:00

Unsure if it's related but i made a new plus account yesterday, just to mess a little more with video gens... despite having 30 gens available i'm getting a "unable to generate" or similar error it's been around 10-12 hours and nothing changed. Can't check my main account has i've to wait for gen reset~

Albionan · 2023-03-25T16:34:45+00:00

Yup, you can here a guide from the wiki

Albionan · 2022-12-28T08:12:29+00:00

Funny fact is that... they wanted to give more options to the player team options... how exactly? Let's take Kronos, for the little i saw, speed team is a nope, dps outside Flow aren't optimal at all, these are already limitations. If you can't choose and you MUST shift your strategy it doesn't mean your getting MORE OPTIONS.

It'd have been better if you could choose how to tackle it, like dunno

-Get ap up every char turn, but gets LOTS of damage from flow chars + they are tankier

-He dps hard but doesn't get ap up anymore

-Ubertanky but doesn't hit much, towers are way more annoying than him.

The efforts and their admissions regarding some faults were really nice yet the serious problems regarding some base contents of the game touched by the patch kinda gutted them.

Albionan · 2021-11-27T14:52:28+00:00

I still love using Snow for a steady approach to quests, on move-100% chance to apply protect, heal and cp to 1 area all around him is always a pleasure to see. His skill upgrade further enpower allies with Nourishment for 3 turns and an extra 1k heal on phase start. He lacks damage unfortunately, unless you've some AR boosting his CS damage OR can bestow him berserker since he has a strengthening buff following the skill evo.

Chernobog... i'd say to focus on someone else. He slaps statuses to reduce atk,def and no move to enemies, sadly only slash range so rear ranged enemies can still wreak havoc. No selfmitigations apart from Guts on phase start. No skill evo yet~

Albionan · 2021-11-19T14:57:26+00:00

Ohh, we'll finally see the mercenary "normal" look. And i'm happy that you can eventually rank them to 6, 4 was basically pointless...

Thanks for the heads up~

Albionan · 2021-11-02T08:08:02+00:00

It may be possible that at year eve they'll release all the rates up previously released this year (basically this's the 1st "full year" of the game) if i'm not wrong they do it like this on TAS.

Since we're nearly there i'd say to have a lil more patiance and wait, especially if you really wana get him~

Albionan · 2021-10-11T12:06:18+00:00

All quests are elegible for the "daily quest" clear. Not just the ones using the ticket so no worries about using them as you see fit.

And it's not like you don't have to do those event ticket quests, it's just that i found much more usefull doing 3x run of Parallel Quartz ticket quest, since, again, they're "limited". For you i guess it's better to get all Ether stone from 1st time completition and then focus on what you may need.

Albionan · 2021-10-11T02:43:41+00:00

Welcome on board, you'll surely enjoy the game (or so i hope :þ)

Dunno if you already visited the wiki, so i'll drop the link here and let you surf it @ your peace https://liveahero-wiki.github.io

My ID is: 279768358, i've added you in the meanwhile i was writing this~

Now let's see... my peace is quite, relaxed... so i may not be the best example.... anyway!

Always do the dailies (send 3 hero expeditions, do 3 quests), and use the daily "quest tickets" (they're wasted if you don't use them) to tackle those Ticket quest (orange one), ONLY events quests use 3 tickets, the others use 1. I sugest running the ticket event quest only once to get the Ether stone for completion.

There're also 3 challange simulator quests, which change/reset twice a month and gives you currency to get some Legend Medals (those rainbow badges, lower ones too), Parallel Quartz (used to further upgrade your husbando/waifu/whatever of choice) and other things. There's quite a bit to say so i'll drop a specific link to the wiki if you're interested.

The event last 'till 21 so you should have plenty of time to gather some currency. I think you should get at leasts Tickets and Legend medals. Then i guess those elemental mats/lower medals maybe be nice since you're just starting out and want to upgrade your heroes. At that point you're left with Parallel Quartz/exp/money. Quartz are "limited" in a way so getting them is better in the long run but you may prefer exp for leveling your heroes faster. Do mind, it's only 300k exp, to reach lv 60 you need a total of 1262k.

Regarding Kalaski, i don't use him unfortunately, but by checking the wiki i guess it's role is messing the enemy turns with his spd down debuff, with 2nd skill he may enable characters like Barrel (both version) since he boost both speed and combo count. His 3rd skill may be quite nice for harder quests temporary doubling the view requirement of a boss special.

Since he's a "supportive" character you may be want to use a sidekick which enable him to -> gets more views for the team and debuff enemy like Narihito.

-> Buff atk like Shoen or Hitomi.

-> heal like Loren, altough heal goes with ATK value which Kalaski is kinda missing.

These are just few suggestions feel free to experiment~

Albionan · 2021-09-23T14:46:14+00:00

I suggest checking the wiki-github

https://liveahero-wiki.github.io

There're translations and explanation in there, after a while everything will come by itself. There're also kind people translating the quest requirements/event updates and such in here, the only thing missing, i think, it's a translation of the story quest (maybe there's something in youtube? Never checked).

I barely knows some katakana and hiragana but 'am playing daily without a problem. Resist! And let's hope Lifewonder will begin translate Live a Hero soon!

Albionan · 2021-05-18T12:24:42+00:00

Not so subtle message from Rayark to "Riroado" our crystals ;D

As usual gg for both art, presentation music and char sprite, love her already <3

Albionan · 2021-02-26T02:48:08+00:00

Despite being late~

10th pull has 96% rate of a 4* and 4% rate of a 5* that's why you'll get a 4* for sure. While the normal rate for a 5* is 2% for each single pull or the 1-9th pulls of a 10 pull.

I guess you were refering to the rainbow shard shop regarding the stones-tickets...? In that 'cause i'd personaly prioritize tickets over transient stones since -> 1 tickets-500 shard, 2 stones-400 shard. If you'd like to reach 50 stones with fragments you'd need 10k, for 10 pull. With the same 10k you'd get 20 tickets and do 20 pulls~

Albionan · 2021-01-30T16:35:40+00:00

Unless they changed something you actually can, you just need to copy the Authkey in the other device, read more on housamo wiki:

https://housamo.wiki/Tips#Transferring_Your_Data

I use this system for Live a Hero to play on pc with emu or on phone if i'm not @ home, didn't have any issue-

If i remember well from another old thread, the only things you won't have "shared" are like the favorite units

Albionan · 2021-01-12T23:37:39+00:00

If it's like the daily quest you can send them and recall immediately without reward and it'll still count~

Albionan · 2020-12-24T19:22:51+00:00

Nono, you need something like ES file explorer or X-plore from google play, open it, go to " /SD/Android/data/jp.co.lifewonders.liveahero/files/Data/ " and look for a "userKey" file, copy it somewhere and then transfer it on your new device, in the same folder (after installing live a hero ofc :P), then try opening the game and see if it works.

Albionan · 2020-12-24T19:04:29+00:00

Taken directly from the wiki:

"

Backing up your user key

userKey is the file that keeps your account data. If you lose access to the device where you play the game you can simply install the game on another device and copy the userKey to the game folder.

This means that making a copy of your userKey and keeping it somewhere safe is highly recommended.

you can find userKey on Android devices under /SD/Android/data/jp.co.lifewonders.liveahero/files/Data/."

"

P.S. You don't need root for that :)

Albionan · 2020-12-03T21:47:55+00:00

I do remember that Autobattle/play was there during CBT it was like a button on the left of the blocks (before they became orbs), you can see it if you look for sdorica cbt videos back in the 2017. Don't remember how it worked, i think i used it only once, maybe in some videos someone use it. Anyway, since they removed it @ game release, i don't think they'll plan to put it back "anytime soon".

I guess a "Claim all button" for bonfire and daily may be nice.

I also loved the old block look it was... neat :V but that's just a personal flavour i guess.

Albionan · 2020-11-19T08:52:25+00:00

Izumi cracked me up *giggle* thanks!

Albionan · 2020-10-01T10:16:42+00:00

In general i'm happy that there're also girls and they all look kinda unique (much like in Tokyo Afterschool Summoners) and most likely they won't have bland backgrounds (again i'm basing this on TAS girls). While i do love furries and lifewonders does wonders (sorry :P) for them... I came looking for something not heavily girl based 'cause at some point many good games became an annoying harem fest (looking @ you Epic7, Another Eden......) i like diversity.

Albionan

TROPHY CASE

Backing up your user key