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RPGDL Discussion / Re: Season 61 Nom pools

« on: July 23, 2010, 02:18:13 AM »

Motion Denied.  Proper Repair Applied.

Gee the one time I don't use the Nomchecker I run afoul of my back-and-forth clicking.

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RPGDL Discussion / Re: Season 61 Nom pools

« on: July 22, 2010, 12:33:30 AM »

You can tell I've never played FF9 

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RPGDL Discussion / Re: Bonus matches.

« on: July 21, 2010, 02:14:08 AM »

I guess I should've looked over the response lists for these matches.  Which likely meant that I would've had to create one myself.  Meh...

Programming Note:  I refer to the combined scores per contestant in determining who advances.

So Browbeat's writeup... can be treated as more like an Advert.

Week 5 Winners
Yumei: 22 (8+14)
Connie:  10 (4+6)

Alanis: 12 (8+4)
Lucia: 20 (14+6)

So here we come to the finals.

On one side, a Gypsy of Florence, who came in all the way from the Play-Ins.

On the other side, a mermaid of Midgar, who was one of the standard seeds.

The one uses a fan with scents and a Rage spell.

The other purifies Weird Souls.

And this time, I'll have to make sure the ending works.  Maybe Ultros can help me.  After all, an Octopus did call the World Cup this year.

The Puny Cup.  One match changes... Nothing!

And the reason why we don't have a 3rd Place Match is that the single drop list would be too confusing.


Yumei vs Lucia

Voting ends Thursday Night!  (Sorry.  Carry-over from Forum Tournies.)

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RPGDL Discussion / Re: Season 61 Nom pools

« on: July 21, 2010, 02:04:48 AM »

Godlike:  Magus, Necrosaro, Emelious, T260G, Ellen (Pers), Johnny Garland
Heavy:  Culgan, Zeon, Sgt. Joe, Adel, Mesdoram (FFT), Zalbard
Middle:  Janice (CC), Humphrey Mintz, Shiego, Shin (S2), Artur (FE8), Grey (VP1)
Light:  Bazba, Sylvina, Yumei (VP1), Gares, Pikachu, Radius (CC)

Godlike:
1:  No wins since Season 14!  (Chaz & Diekbeck are too fresh)
2-6:  Longest Out

Heavy:
1:  Longest Out
2:  2nd longest out plus no matches after demotion
3:  WIN or DIE!
4:  Also Due
5:  Also Also Due
6:  Also Win or DIE!

Middle:
1:  D!
2:  U!
3:  E!
4:  Due as well
5:  Hasn't fought since promotion!
6:  Half of column A, Half of Column B.

Light:
1 & 2:  Longest Out.
3:  Puny Cup Finalist! (The other was in this Season.)
4:  Member of the Double Downgrade Club
5:  Because I'm running out of ideas...
EDIT:  6:  Longest out that's NOT a SuikoScrub... It's a CrossScrub.

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General Chat / Re: MLB 2010: The Phillies are no longer off suicide watch.

« on: July 14, 2010, 03:23:13 PM »

Isn't it interesting that the very day that Steinbrenner died was the day that the NL got its groove back.

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RPGDL Discussion / Re: Bonus matches.

« on: July 14, 2010, 01:47:15 AM »

Puny Cup:  The Off Week

So the Songstress soared and the hamster got hammered.

What does that mean for us?

Well, the directors got the idea that a stage show is good... and setting the guy who apparently cannot fight against the guy with 1 Hit Point would be hilarious!

So it's curtain call for the Jesters of the Puny Cup!  And Shiho and Cinna get to perform for us again as well.

Shiho vs Cinna
Augst vs Jogurt

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RPGDL Discussion / Re: Bonus matches.

« on: July 08, 2010, 03:11:22 AM »

Puny Cup:  The Semis

And now we come into the semifinals of the Puny Cup.  The truely weak have been culled, leaving us with... the somewhat weak.

On the bright side, it's an all girls semi.


Semifinal 1
In our first match, Connie the wonder dog goes up against a freezing tuna.

Apparently, the writing staff (of one) can't decide on whether Yumei is a mermaid or a chicken.  So they settled on calling her a "Chicken of the Sea".

I had better move on before my Soul is purified.  Yes, it is weird.

Semifinal 2
And in the other match, A young wielder of a Fire Rune comes up against a Gypsy that also uses scented attacks.  Too bad they scents the latter emits are not the type that fire is usually useful against.

But hey, at least smoke can mask pleasent smells too.  Too bad the gypsy has a fan.  (Only one?)


Elements or Flavors?  Who will win the day?

Yumei vs Connie
Alanis vs Lucia

The Puny Cup.  One match changes... not much really.

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RPGDL Discussion / Re: Puny Cup, Loser's Set

« on: July 01, 2010, 02:45:57 AM »

Puny Cup, Week 4

Losers' Match
And now, the two that lost in Week 1 meet.  One a tactical genius who can't fight, the other a songstress who got lucky against a tub of lard.

Interesting how opinions dip after a loss in the Puny Cup.

Yeah, I've got nothing else.  Let's move on.

The Match of the Decade! (minus two years)
For ages on end, the Duelling League has marveled at these two.

One, a nice comedic actor.

The other, a warrior with the perfect unity of stats.

Oh sure, Sephiroth, Fou-Lu, Magical Emperor Ghaleon, they all have their fans.  But when either of these two take the stage, everyone cheers!

And now, for the first, and likely only, time, they are here together, for your viewing pleasure.

The Fool and the Hamster.  Who will win this clash of the... er... amoebae?


Augst vs Shiho
Cinna vs Jogurt

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RPGDL Discussion / Re: Bonus matches.

« on: June 22, 2010, 03:00:04 PM »

Puny Cup Week 3:  The end of the Preliminaries

Match #5
After taming a tactical mastermind without fighting prowess, Connie faces... a tactical buffon with little fighting prowess.

On the other hand, Zahhak has no qualms burning down residences, warehouses, farmhouses, henhouses, outhouses... and doghouses if they get in his way.

This should be interesting.


Match #6
Two weeks ago, we learned that smell beat song, but barely.  Also, back in Season 43, we learned that Jokes trumped the harp, so it's a good thing that Shiho was edged out.  Can the Gypsy of Florence divine her way past the High Priest of the Church of Bad Jokes?


Twelve Punies!  One League Jeering!  The 2010 Puny Cup!

Connie vs Zahhak
Lucia vs Raja

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RPGDL Discussion / Puny Cup Week 2

« on: June 10, 2010, 11:45:03 AM »

This post is embargoed until Week 2.  This is merely a "just in case", as I'm going on a trip today.  I should be back in contact by Sunday, but just in case...

We actually have a Shaking Rematch slated!

Yumei and Peppor met back in Season 27.  And the mermaid shook her way to victory.  By six shaking votes out of eighty-six.

Have the seasons changed the seasonings?  Will Peppor get his shaking revenge?

By the way, I prefer Swiss Cake Rolls.


Here we have a tale of two carrers.

On the one side, you have Alanis.  Who was featured in only one season.  She lost to Chisato Madison... and won against Cinna.  Basically both sides of the Light scale... except that Chisato's now a Middle.  Talk about not getting a proper shot.

On the other, we have Kongol, who also had one win... back in the first week of the DL.  Out of his four losses, one has been against an eventual Middle... and two have been against the same eventual Heavy!  Again, talk about not getting a proper shot.

So now they both get to fight against someone their own size.  And that's what the Puny Cup is all about!


Twelve Punies!  One League Watching!  (And jeering.)

The 2010 Puny Cup.

Yumei vs Peppor
Alanis vs Kongol

The rest of the schedule:

Week 3:  First Round Part 2:
AvC Winner vs Zahhak
SvL Winner vs Raja

Week 4:  The match you've all been waiting for!
The match you've all been waiting for!  (Just guess who goes up against each other here...)
Losers Week 1

Week 5:  The Semis
Week 2 Top vs Week 3 Top
Week 2 Bottom vs Week 3 Bottom

Week 6:  Can _____ win against... another lamer?
Winner 4a vs Loser 4b

Week 7:  The Finals
Week 5 Winners

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General Chat / Re: MLB 2010: The Phillies are no longer off suicide watch.

« on: June 04, 2010, 07:52:06 PM »

I read that at the time, Joyce did not think that Galaragga (or whatever the kid's name is) had control of the ball.  And in the pros, ties to the batter-runner.

So let's just call that play an E-1 and give Gallaragga a No-Hitter.

Then again, I didn't think that Halladay's 1st Baseman had his foot on the bag for #27 when I saw that live on ESPN.

I just say, put the entire half of the 9th in question under Review when you have a potential Perfect Game or No Hitter.  History needs to be defended from Judicial Error!

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RPGDL Discussion / Re: Bonus matches.

« on: June 03, 2010, 03:51:10 AM »

EDIT:  Modified the completely irrelevant intro somewhat.

The Field Pool Polls in the Tournament Forum have been completed!

From these... I threw darts.  Then I shot pool.  Then I just chilled in front of the tube until I dozed off.

I'm still not sure what Flonne was trying to prove with Lucca's gate key, a grenade, and a roll of duct tape.  Or why Bowser was doing wearing a beret.

So somehow... out of all of that... I came up with my draws for The Puny Cup!

Plus some general gibberish that could, if you squint and hum real loudly, pass for writeups:

Anyway...

Intro
It's not about Kings, Queens, or Emperors, Dark Gods, or gil or mithril.

It's not about Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Dragons, Ogres, Imps, or Robots.

It's not about Swords, Shields, Staves, Spears, or Sidearms.

It's not about Earth, Fire, Ice, Wind, Water, Heart, Nature, Earthquakes, or Lightning.

It's not about Black Mage, White Mage, Red Mage, Blue Mage, One Mage, Two Mages, Sages, Rages, or Summoners.

It's not about Eidolons, ESPers, Psychic-Types, Dark-Types, Dark-Knights, Magic Knights, Starry Nights, or Knights of the Round.

It's not about Oriental or Occidental.  Medieval or Modern or Post-Modern.  War or Peace.  Love freaks or embodyments of hate.  Magic or Science or just plain Fisticuffs.

This is about the one season!  Where we All! Agree! On one Thing!

*record scratch* "Man these guys suck."

Preliminary Match #1
Under most circumstances, the sight of an extremely cute dog should move any person away from violence.

Of course, when we're talking about Augst, that's not saying much.

Still, things could be worse.  He could be facing a certain Hamster instead of a Suikodog.

Preliminary Match #2
One a Gypsy, the other a Songstress.  Otherwise quite similar:  supporters who don't seem to do anything.

But enough about Nara and Luna.  This is the Puny Cup!

Both Lucia and Shiho have been in 3 Seasons.  Yes, that Shiho.  The Shiho who turned a tub of lard... ok, so Palmer was a laughingstock already.  But she just made him even worse in that regard.

Lucia... well, we can say she smells good at least.

Writeup Close
Twelve Punies!  One League Watching!  (And jeering.)

Welcome!  To the 2010 Puny Cup!  

One match changes... not much.  But it makes the winners feel good.  And the losers, well... not.

WA4 Augst vs S3 Connie

SH2 Lucia vs VP1 Shiho

Yeah, I know, not the best.  But hopefully, adequate.  I've got Week 2 ready as well.  It'll be 7 weeks in total with 12 matches.  2 per week for Weeks 1-5.  So the above is best intended for Season 60 Week 1.

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RPGDL Discussion / Re: Season 60 nom pools

« on: May 29, 2010, 02:10:39 AM »

Godlike: Emelious(G3), Necrosaro(DW4), Magus(CT), Asgard(WA3), Raquel(WA4), T260G(Saga)
Heavy: Zeon(SF2), Ull(VP2), Lloyd(LoD), Sonya(S1), Sgt. Joe(S3), Marsilio(SO2)
Middle: Grey(VP1), Shigeo(SO2), Humphrey(Suikos), Janice(CC), Jin Shirato(Pers3), Flare(S4)
Light: Doc(CC), Bazba(S3), Sylvina(S1), Galleon(S5), Janus(VP1), Innes(FE8)

Godlike:
1-2:  Longest Layover
3-5:  WIN OR DIE! (Ok, so Asgard and Magus won... Years Ago!)
6:  Hasn't fought since just after her promotion.  (If she didn't champ, would also count for longest layover)

Heavy:
1-3:  I have a soft spots for those who haven't fought since downgrading...
4-5:  Or won since Upgrading...
6:  Also for those who haven't fought since Season 20 or earlier...

Middle:
1-4:  See Heavy #6.  Humphrey superseeds Shin.
5:  Ah, heck, let's finish that game.
6:  The least recent person who fits either H1-3 or H4-5 that isn't Grey.

Light:
1-3:  See Heavy #6
4:  Since I've proposed The Puny Cup, might as well nom some Anti-Punies.  (Also counts for the last 2)
5:  Have the ravages of time passed him by? (0-2 since Season 8)
6:  was here.  Ephraim is a loser.  (Seen on a sign outside of Border Mulan cirra 801.)


EDIT (Topic Review):  Er, Djinn, the records have no record of Mia's downgrade.  (Otherwise, I would've put her in instead of VP Janus).  There is a Mia that downgraded, but that's from Heavy.  Another Mia used to be in Light but upgraded at the expense of her Season's Champ.  Neither of these 2 are the Mia you nommed.

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Tournaments / Puny Cup Qualifying Topic #4

« on: May 27, 2010, 01:53:10 AM »

We have run through 3/4ths of the qualifying class for the Puny Cup.  Twelve Punies, One Leauge Jeering

Now for Part 4.  And instead of 2 lists of 12 or a full list of 24... We have 4 lists of about 6.

For each of the 4 mini-groups, the questions are the same:

1-2.  Which Fighter would have the best chance to win a match and which is the most fail?  (You may answer this 2-parter in list format)

3.  Which fighter has the most interesting quirk? (And what is that quirk?)

4.  Which fighter would you like to fight other punies?

Group 1:  Rating of 1.50-1.69 (excluding Palmer who beat someone better)
FF9   Blank
Lunar2   Gwyn
FFT   Malak Galthana
S2   Mukumuku
WA4   Augst Henriksen
WA2   Liz

Group 2:  Rating of 1.40-1.49 plus Shiho who once beat Palmer
VP1   Shiho
S1   Krin
S3   Kenji
FE7   Renault
S5   Alenia
VP1   Badrach

Group 3:  Rating of 1.15-1.39 from Suikoden 3
Lulu
Rody
Kogoro
Koichi
Koroku
Connie

Group 4:  Rating of 1.15-1.39 from the other games (excluding Shiho above)
SH2   Lucia
Lunar1   Ramus Farmain
CC   Solt
XG   Big Joe
BoF1   Gobi
S5   Euram Barows

Remember to answer all questions for each group.

Topic closes Monday Midday.  I want to prep my draws while I still have a few hours to myself...  Summer Research is a bit more demanding than I thought...

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Tournaments / Puny Qualifying Topic #3

« on: May 23, 2010, 06:46:01 PM »

Well, we haven't been getting a lot of responses for the Chrono Cross topic.  I will say that the reason why I put them all together is that I only want 1 rep from that game.  (Unless Solt is 1 of the 4 Scruby-Punies.)

Well... Bring out the SuikoScrubs!  At least those with a score between 1.70 and 2.25.  Or those who have defeated the same.  Also, the doggies are in their own "Scrubby-Puny" category.

S1   Gremio
S1   Kuromimi
S1   Sylvina
S2   Freed Yamamoto
S2   Gabocha
S2   Nina
S2   Chaco
S2   Tsai
S2   Gengen
S2   Sid
S2   Simone Verdricci
S2   Millie
S3   Reed
S3   Piccolo
S3   Kosanji
S3   Nei
S3   Alanis
S5   Zweig
S5   Josephine
S5   Lelei
S5   Rahal
S5   Roog
S5   Zahhak

Again, the questions.  However, this time, I would like at least 2 but no more than 4 answers to each question.  Each person you cite in the same question must be from a separate game.

Which Suikoscrubs would have the best chance to win a match?

Which Suikoscrubs are the most fail?

Which Suikoscrubs have the most interesting quirk? (And what is that quirk?)

Which Suikoscrubs would you like to fight other punies?

Topic closes Midday this comming Saturday.

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Tournaments / Puny Cup Qualifying Topic #2b

« on: May 20, 2010, 11:11:42 PM »

Another list of Punies for you.

FF4   Milon
FF9   Marcus
FF7   Palmer
DW4   Brey
OB   Norn
SO2   Celine Jules
SO2   Leon Geeste
VP1   Yumei
VP1   Lorenta
VP1   Jelanda Artolia

Which Fighter would have the best chance to win a match and which is the most fail?  (You may answer this 2-parter in list format)

Which fighter has the most interesting quirk? (And what is that quirk?)

Which fighter would you like to fight other punies?

Topic closes Midday this comming Wednesday.

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Tournaments / Puny Cup Qualifying Topic #2a

« on: May 20, 2010, 11:04:50 PM »

Another slate of Punies for your humiliation:

This time:  Chrono Cross!

For those of you wondering what Solt isn't doing here, I've got him up against the guys in his rating group (1.15-1.39).

So, anyway:

Mojo
Razzly
Luccia
Riddel Viper
Sneff
Turnip
Peppor
Neo-Fio
Mel
Van

Which Fighter would have the best chance to win a match and which is the most fail?  (You may answer this 2-parter in list format)

Which fighter has the most interesting quirk? (And what is that quirk?)

Which fighter would you like to fight other punies?

Topic closes Midday this comming Wednesday.

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Tournaments / Puny Cup Qualifying Topic #1b

« on: May 18, 2010, 04:24:51 AM »

Once again, not doing much, but still want to see this Puny Cup series play out.

Especially since I had a good advert campaign to parody.

Anyway, survey mode.  Group first then questions:

XG   Chu-Chu
XG   Kelvena
XG   Maria Balthasar
G1   Guido
LoD   Kongol
LoD   Zieg Feld
WA:ACF   Mariel
WA3   Alfred Schroedinger
WA3   Shady Thousand
XF   Tony

Which Fighter would have the best chance to win a match and which is the most fail?  (You may answer this 2-parter in list format)

Which fighter has the most interesting quirk? (And what is that quirk?)

Which fighter would you like to fight other punies?

Topic closes Midday this comming Monday.

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Tournaments / Puny Cup Qualifying Topic #1a

« on: May 18, 2010, 04:14:05 AM »

Ok, moments of truth.  I'm basically stuffed with research projects this Summer.  Hence, I won't be doing a FIT this summer.  I may consider a loose old & stale vs new & untested or something...

But I really want to see  this Puny Cup idea of mine go through.  Especially with the lack of Bonus Matches of late.  I'm going to prioritize the "Bottoms".  That means that Jogurt v Cinna is guaranteed if we go for this.

I know that I said that I would handle the qualifying by List Tourney.  And we can still do that.  But I'm thinking of doing it by Survey instead.  I ask your opinions on each group of 6-12 and from your answers pick the "lucky" punies for proposal.

So, first up, the group for the topic, then the questions:

BoF1   Karn
BoF1   Mogu
ToD   Chelsea Torn
TotA   Arietta
FE7   Serra
FE7   Marcus
FE7   Isadora
PS4   Raja
Disgaea   Flonne


Which Fighter would have the best chance to win a match and which is the most fail?  (You may answer this 2-parter in list format)

Which fighter has the most interesting quirk? (And what is that quirk?)

Which fighter would you like to fight other punies?

Topic closes Midday this comming Monday.

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RPGDL Discussion / Re: Bonus matches.

« on: May 11, 2010, 03:52:46 AM »

Back for a limited time (Summer).  Anyway, a Bonus Series idea:

The Puny Cup   A series of Bonus Duels with Forum Tourney backing:

The setup is from ESPN's World Cup adverts:

It's not about Kings, Queens, or Emperors, Dark Gods, or gil or mithril.

It's not about Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Dragons, Ogres, Imps, or Robots.

It's not about Swords, Shields, Staves, Spears, or Sidearms.

It's not about Earth, Fire, Ice, Wind, Water, Heart, Nature, Earthquakes, or Lightning.

It's not about Black Mage, White Mage, Red Mage, Blue Mage, One Mage, Two Mages, Sages, Rages, or Summoners.

It's not about Eidolons, ESPers, Psychic-Types, Dark-Types, Dark-Knights, Magic Knights, Starry Nights, or Knights of the Round.

It's not about Oriental or Occidental.  Medieval or Modern or Post-Modern.  War or Peace.  Love freaks or embodyments of hate.  Magic or Science or just plain Fisticuffs.

This is about the one season!  Where we All! Agree! On one Thing!

*record scratch* "Man these guys suck."

*music resumes* Twelve Punies!  One League Watching!  (And jeering.)

The 2010 Puny Cup. 

One match changes... not much.  But it makes the winners feel good.  And the losers, well... not.


Format:
Phase 1:  A List Tourney with 11 Groups.  Winners go to the Winner's Tourney, Losers go to the ... (except for the "Already Proven" which only advances the Winner's Tourney as the Final Challenge)

Phase 2
Winner's Tourney:  A single Elim structure (the two pairs of mini-pools get to face each other in play-in rounds before we start the tourney in earnest) with the winner facing the winner of the "Already Proven" pool.

Loser's Tourney:  As Winner's Tourney but the 1st Round Losers are sent to a "Bottom of the Barrel" "Consolation" round.  At the end of each of these, the "winner" gets to face off with either Jogurt or Cinna (BotB gets the loser of those 2...)

Phase 1 will be on the forums in the form of List Tournies.  Phase 2 is intended for the site.  The 6 main pools and the "Already Proven" pool have 9-12 people each.  There are also 4 half-pools which have 6 each.  The ratings of the half pools range from 1.0 to 1.7.  The main pools are 1.70 to 2.25.  Jogurt and Cinna are their own special kind of Fail, so they get their own 2-person pool.  On the site.

Now, I acknowledge that we don't have much room (or patience).  So I'll be cool with having only one set of tournies on the site itself with the rest being on the boards.  Probably the Winner's side of the Loser's bracket.  Probably 2 matches a week:  Play-Ins, Side 1, Side 2, Special Kind of Fail, Semis, Finals, "Winner" vs. Fail "Winner"

As for writeups, probably just 1-2 lines per person.  I'll see if I can't draw from the record descripts on that.

If we can do this, then I'll want to start on the Lists around the Weekend.

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RPGDL Discussion / Re: Season 58, Week 7

« on: April 17, 2010, 09:15:19 PM »

No vote, but something I just thought of:

What if there's a tie in an individual match?

My vote in that scenario is:  Champs promote (their opponents demote), Runners-up stand pat (as do their opponents).

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RPGDL Discussion / Bug Report!

« on: April 04, 2010, 06:09:54 PM »

Check the Tourney Tree.  It has Duplicates of the Week 4 Matches listed in the Semis and the Winners of Week 3 as the Finals.  Methinks that this particular site function wasn't betaed for the new changes.

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RPGDL Policy Discussion / Re: Rerankings revisited!

« on: February 21, 2010, 03:35:11 AM »

To me, Going to 1-on-1 is changing 2 things.

Reducing the Round Robin reduces the number of contestants while maintaining the system, thereby allowing us to (semi-)scientifically gauge what the true negative factor in the old system was.

If this doesn't work after a half-year (28 weeks/4 Seasons), we can always go the rest of the way.

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RPGDL Discussion / Donald's Random thought 1046

« on: February 15, 2010, 03:11:00 PM »

Picture this:

An extremist is out to destroy humanity for standing in its way,

The most powerful nation of humanity is making technology out of magic and is names after a world in Norse mythology (+/- 1 letter),

A source of said magical power lies just outside of a town that is destroyed leaving only the hero and his best friend as survivors,

And Zoidberg there's an optional female ninja wandering about.

Now, did I just describe Final Fantasy 7 or Tales of Phantasia?

Just enough setting similarities without party character analogues (for the most part).  The problem is I don't quite know what to do with this.  A series of bonus matches?  (Or just 1 "alternate reality" BM on each side, like in the early seasons?) A strat league scenario?

I've had a pantload dropped on me in Grad School at the beginning of the month, but I thought I that I'd just throw this impression out there.

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RPGDL Discussion / Re: <Untitled IAQ Project>: Round 3: Wherein Attack=((((Y/Z)^M)*T)+R)/0...

« on: January 30, 2010, 02:04:10 AM »

Agree with having different Accuracy, Evade, and Crit rates for Magic vs Physical. 

The real place where Willpower takes effect is on Status Spells.  Higher Willpower = More Chances of landing the Status.  Up to you guys to see whether it's something to have.  We can always modify Offensive Spell power to compensate.

When we were deriving useful stats from a core base, I had a separate column for MP and non-Magic Ability points (call them PP for now).  I'm still in favor of such a split, especially if we have people who can use both magic and physical skills.  At the very least, it would allow for different recharge rates for the two types of attacks in the case of Resonance Magic and some physicals.

I'm not keen on Accuracy, Evasion, Critical, or their Magical Equivalents not being allowed to increase on Level up.  Increases in these rates throughout the game should reflect (to some degree) the growth of the character.  Now, how much should they grow?  Probably 1 point every 2-4 levels based on the person's "build".

Heck, I'm thinking that the Critical rates should be derived Stats based on Accuracy and both Dexterities, and possibly opponent's Evade (along with the Magical Equivalents)  The logic here is that Critical hits are depicted as hitting an enemy's weak spot.  Accuracy is tracking down the enemy, Dexterity is the swiftness of the strike.  To me it follows that a keen eye would spot a chink in armor and a swift hand would guide the blade towards it.  Opponent's Dexterity+Evade would represent getting out of the way; Dexterity is involved here because if the opponent has to take the hit, at least shield the weak spot.