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Updates: Final thoughts on weight. Going to align things more towards Cayden's mech and double the existing values of everything else. I wouldn't alter your perception of how your machine is supposed to operate.

I also want to get things started on Monday so if anyone is lurking around and wants to get in it would be nice if you did it before then.

The floating city that the tournament will be massive. A radius of 43km, so over 500 sqaure miles with stadiums within stadiums and plenty of room for corporations to set up shop in temporarily, a sort of grand expo for new tech to be showcased and whatever else seems relevant to have.

The tournament will start off with one or two 1v1 single elimination rounds to cull the heard. These rounds will all be in a relatively small arena with few, if any, terrain elements. After that it will move on to teams (Teams of 4?). Competitors will need to choose their own teammates from among each other and will then be subject to matches with random objectives, rules and numbers of pilots. When the teams have been reduced enough in number a final 1v1 elimination bracket will be formed this time using any stadium with random terrain.

Feel free to criticize the above as much as you like. It probably still needs some more thought.
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Ok, Ok, I'll do it... bah...

Oh and for ^: Only thing I see is that it will be rather exclusive when regarding the losers - while I personally don't care if I'm even the first one to lose, some would, given the elimination theory, be more willing to play with the borders of in-context realism and metagaming so they aren't eliminated.
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YAY! I hope to weave in things for those either out of the tourny or who just aren't in a match at the moment, but being eliminated shouldn't really happen till later for players unless decision making is that bad or they want to lose as most of the participants will be npc's. but yeah at the end when people are fighting each other we will need to be on the lookout for people trying to game the system.
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Let the era of conceptualization begin.
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Will there be an overarching plot to this like uh... sinister things happening in the background and we have to balance our competition with solving that?
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So does anyone have feelings one way or the other on having 1 or alternatively 2 or more rounds before teams? Maybe teams is a bad idea?
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Nothing really. Should be fine provided no one decides to be an ass and start powerplaying/godmodding/bunnying or whatever.
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Well you won't be fighting each other early on except by mutual request so hopefully godmoding won't be too much of an issue. But then I suppose you'll all be fighting npc's controlled by me so...
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Just made a mech design, but is basing it on an existing design okay? If not, I'll just take the basic concept into a different frame.
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Having it based on an existing mech is fine. Hell, mine is based on the Guren Mk.2 from Code Geass. That said I am unfamiliar enough with apparently a lot of mecha media so it is possible to slip past me some very exact things like the Kell Hounds mercenary group from battle tech. That happened. With that I hope you understand that I don't actually know what you are copying off hand. Probably Gundam unicorn, but i still find reasons to not watch that yet so I don't know like anything about it.

Anyway nitpicking time. The DNI system's drawback is weird. Not that it doesn't make sense or anything. I may come back to it with some suggested changes to reduce its seeming accessibility and ease of use or something though. As it is it'll be really easy for anyone to use when it hits the market and I'm not entirely sure I'm okay with that. I suppose similar arguments could be made against the system in the Luna Fighter, but I assure you I am now thinking about that too. Sorry GreenGoat if I make you change things this close to starting.

Do you intend for the assault rifle to be better than a theoretical standard and if so in what way? Is its armor supposed to be better than average and if so does it have a drawback for this?

Doesn't include a lap dance sword. Greengoat wanted another mech to have a sword fight with and another mech with perfect articulation is the perfect candidate to deliver on that fantasy. This is not a required change, but if you are willing, help a guy out.

As a side note I appreciate that you went through my example mechs and used all my terrible existing systems =P

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I'd like to focus on 1v1 at first, I fear team mode would just complicate things too much if vs other players. I've seen it before and I've yet to find an RP where it didn't go bad...
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Can you be more specific?
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Having it based on an existing mech is fine. Hell, mine is based on the Guren Mk.2 from Code Geass. That said I am unfamiliar enough with apparently a lot of mecha media so it is possible to slip past me some very exact things like the Kell Hounds mercenary group from battle tech. That happened. With that I hope you understand that I don't actually know what you are copying off hand. Probably Gundam unicorn, but i still find reasons to not watch that yet so I don't know like anything about it.

Anyway nitpicking time. The DNI system's drawback is weird. Not that it doesn't make sense or anything. I may come back to it with some suggested changes to reduce its seeming accessibility and ease of use or something though. As it is it'll be really easy for anyone to use when it hits the market and I'm not entirely sure I'm okay with that. I suppose similar arguments could be made against the system in the Luna Fighter, but I assure you I am now thinking about that too. Sorry GreenGoat if I make you change things this close to starting.

Do you intend for the assault rifle to be better than a theoretical standard and if so in what way? Is its armor supposed to be better than average and if so does it have a drawback for this?

Doesn't include a lap dance sword. Greengoat wanted another mech to have a sword fight with and another mech with perfect articulation is the perfect candidate to deliver on that fantasy. This is not a required change, but if you are willing, help a guy out.

As a side note I appreciate that you went through my example mechs and used all my terrible existing systems =P


I was actually talking about basing it on the mechs from the opening post, not from existing media. Still, it is somewhat based on the YF-21 from Macross Plus, but also incorporating some background stuff from the VF-171 of Macross Frontier. The horn is based on some of Macross' mechas having a horn which serves as an anti-air laser gun.

I'm adding a clause to the DNI system about requiring a PIN and an iris recognization to activate unless the pilot is trying to re-activate the system after he got booted out, and the cockpit hatch hasn't been opened after the system got disengaged.

The assault rifle, yes. It is lighter for quicker aiming, at the cost of being easier to destroy if anyone bothers to aim at/sabotage it. The armor should have no drawbacks, so it would be average or slightly better depending on your vision.

As for the sword, the pop-up blade is supposed to be the sword, but I can change it to a sword mounted at the back.
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Basing it on the stuff on the front is fine, hell using them flat out is fine.

The extra security things doesn't really address my concerns. The idea of the complaint is that there is nothing stopping literally anyone from using it and I'm not sure I want in the future for all mechs to be controlled this way from a flavor perspective. Again I'll need to get back to you on that, but for now its fine and won't affect whether or not its accepted.

The assault rifle is fine. I think the armor is going to have to be of just "average" quality since your mech has no drawbacks.

If the pop-up blade is a sword then I have no further requests in that regard. I just saw blade and assumed it was more of a knife.

Add a character to go with it and it should be fine to be accepted.
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Yes, I'm alive, just trying to sift through and shrink a massive blob of lore I slapped into a text document...
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sounds good
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Character part done and added some clause to clarify some stuff and changed "blade" to "sword".



Also, just to clarify, the assault rifle would not require care while handling, but would require care not to step on it or have a mech attack it, as some effective shots from an assault rifle can break it.
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You don't need to tell me where you got the picture. I can tell.

Is that to say that he was given infantry style training as part of his pilot training? If not there is no military really, just private security firms that act somewhere between cops and counter terrorists. This could really use some cleaning up.

Are their any common threads stringing the otherwise disparate parts of his personality together. As it is it just reads that he is quite different in three separate situations.

Is their anything to know about Brian other than his training with the suit?
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You don't need to tell me where you got the picture. I can tell.

Is that to say that he was given infantry style training as part of his pilot training? If not there is no military really, just private security firms that act somewhere between cops and counter terrorists. This could really use some cleaning up.

Are their any common threads stringing the otherwise disparate parts of his personality together. As it is it just reads that he is quite different in three separate situations.

Is their anything to know about Brian other than his training with the suit?


Alright, tried to fix/change things you listed, but kept the google thing for sake of clarification and nothing else.

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