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Can I actually sticky things? I forget.
Dunno, I meant more just putting a link to it on the front page of the FAQ for casual onlookers. Like with Skallagrim's gun guide.
I call B.S.
Melon, you're always first to throw your opinion in on something. Lol
Yeah, but I never make any allusions otherwise to the fact that it's just my opinion, as flawed as any other. Though I was talking more about the fact that beyond some general tips and tricks (which I actually posted in the FAQ, Rilla was just too lazy to sticky it) my advice in regards to combat isn't necessarily going to be that useful. What works for me isn't necessarily going to work for other people. We all have unique styles.
I don't mind helping people out if they want advice, dunno how useful I'd be though.
Could put it in a general interest check
One question I've always had about the Arena is which battle system is used here. T1, T2, something else..?
T1, the other forms of combat are for IRC, we're in a play by post format. We tend to favour T1 Eden, but pretty much any T1 play is permissible if your opponent accepts it.
Oh yeah, for anyone wondering, T1 is basically paragraph combat where you take it in turns to post your moves, attacks, counters etc, all as 'attempts' on your opponent, without writing a connect. For example:
Hema steps forward on his right foot, turning anti-clockwise at the torso and driving his right hand, fingers first, towards his opponent's throat.
As opposed to
Hema steps forward and jabs Baldric in the throat with two fingers, crushing his windpipe.
The second one is an auto-connect, or auto-hit, we don't do that. ;(
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Just another outsider who is reading all of your comments towards our discussion thread and I just wanted to say that I think this would be a fantastic idea. I know quite a few people who would likely be interested in learning the Arena-based Roleplaying style and would probably benefit from having such an area to begin and receive feedback. It seems like an excellent way to welcome new users into the Arena subforum.
If you know a few people who want to try, maybe it's doable. We'd need to gather around eight people to make it worthwhile in a tournament format, people who are all interested in learning the style.
Honestly I am surprised you guys don't design tournaments this way in the first place.
We do, or at least, some of us do. Rilla's WoTW has numerous background machinations going on throughout the fights and the lobby interactions were very meaningful when I played. My character stopped a girl from hanging herself in the lobby in the first one I joined, there were poisonings and betrayals throughout. Skallagrim's Nexus of Worlds always had a strong story arc running through it as well, the last one was essentially a tournament as a cover for the possession of a key that basically decided if the Nexus (multiverse) crumbled or hung on in there. Luckily my character, who won, had a personal vendetta of sorts against the evil, and when he got the key he sealed him up tight.
I much prefer tournaments that really play up the 'lobby' angle at the very least, they give me something to work with, as my characters are rarely prize fighters it's hard to explain their presence in a tournament. In the two seasons of the GCL I participated in, my first character was coerced by people who kidnapped his sister, who he later rescued, and my second character was doing it to get close to another competitor away from his bodyguards, who he subsequently kidnapped.
Generally, the tournaments that don't push forward a story angle tend to be the forgettable ones, at least in my experience.
There have been talks of a noob tournament before, might not be a terrible idea.
not sure if trolling or melon is outlier
I'm an outlier in the sense that I'm generally more competitive than the majority of players, which is why I tend to beat them. Going easy on someone would feel like doing them an injustice, at least to me. However, my comments about the nature of competition are something I still stand by. You only have to look at boxing, and past the showboating, to see that there is a genuine level of antagonism between people beating each other up. The same mindset, I believe, can carry over into beating people up with words and debate. Not to say it always happens, but when two people of a similar competitive mindset clash, it is quite common.
The trick to enjoying the arena if you're not looking for that sort of high intensity debate and competition is to simply seek out like-minded individuals, and to avoid all forms of tournament.
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