MelonHead

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It's always funny to think about how the smallest portion of my characters are Arena viable. Excluding the ascendant beings, non-powered characters, and one incredibly well made Iron Golem, only 50 or so of my characters are Arena compatable.

Example, 11 of my characters can't lift more than 20 lbs. Because they're mice and shit. They're an experimental group of characters for a story that's inspired by Redwall and early Disney flicks. "Under the Bush" is the title.

The big hero being a Deer Mouse who, near the end of his story, slays a viper and wears his head as a helmet. Using his fangs as swords.

Kinda feel bad that they can never be used in this kind of setting.

@LeeRoy

I'll be honest, I think that might be for the best.

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Well, Fury is with the Angar-Ryllans at the moment, who are an insane space empire, so going in that heavy probably wouldn't have gone down well.

Rilla, please make it so that Rilla is the leader of the Angar-Ryllans, it's so obvious they're just Angry Rillas.

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Bita's a better fighter than he is, he's not worried about her getting hurt. He's worried about her hurting others in her quest for retribution.

Kanitah's not trying to find Fury so he can get revenge, he's trying to find his daughter so that she doesnt.

@LeeRoy

Same end result though, if he just deals with Fury she has no reason to seek revenge, where-as finding his daughter isn't going to necessarily change anything.

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Plus, the method that he would have actually looked into for tracking down Fury would simply be to scan planets for all energy users and mark them off one by one. That's time consuming, exhausting, and still suicidal.

Bita, his daughter, is doing that. Except she's not just marking them off of her list of people, she's eliminating them one by one until she finds the right one.

@LeeRoy

Or you could have had Kanitah simply trying to find Fury before his daughter does and kill him, knowing Fury would tear her in half. Just a thought.

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It would have made a lot more sense for Kanitah to have been seeking Fury, considering Fury left their original fight without finishing it off. It doesn't make sense to have him pursuing Kanitah when he could have continued fighting him in the earlier battle.

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@MelonHead To be entirely fair, the initial meeting between Kanitah and Fury was entirely chance. I was putting Kanitah with Khold but then you and Khan showed up on the spider planet at the exact same time.

Which lead to Fury and Kanitah butting heads because of "Ideological Differences"

@LeeRoy

I was talking about our second round, the first round had a better motive, even if it was just an accident.

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Yeah, I do wish the Fury Vs Kanitah fight had a better motive than it does. I've been trying to stretch out the motivations as far as possible, because I don't like my characters to just be fighting for no reason unless they're true Chaotic Evil, but it wasn't happening. At least I always have the Evil Spirit card to fall back on.

I'm not really taking responsibility for that though, LeeRoy did give me literally nothing to work with other than forcing my character to be the bad guy who randomly wants to kill him, considering Kanitah's location, actions, etc.

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That is a crap analogy, and if I make a better pie, guess what people will buy a better product. It is the law of business.

@Skallagrim

Uh.. you just proved my analogy made some sense, to the 'buying customer' a weaker character that they have a better chance of defeating is the 'better product.'

At the moment all the people getting fights have more vulnerable characters, which in term makes them more appetizing to fight. Essentially you have to handicap yourself somewhat if you expect someone who knows they are lesser skilled than you to face you in competition, because you are essentially competing with a wide range of other potential people they could fight instead.

I mean, some people will take the challenge head on, but not many, it's why when you're learning something you don't tend to go fight the best person around, it might be an amazing learning experience, but it might also be horribly demoralizing.

The Mech that went to an Active Volcano (Ranked Battle)

Also, if you're wondering why the knife attack didn't really go anywhere, it's because the Mech's arm would have been in the way of the type of throw you chose to use.

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Why do I have to change? Why don't people get out of their comfort zones and develop their characters or their skills?

@Skallagrim

Well, that's like saying 'Aww man why isn't my melon-pie selling when all these other guys around me are selling apple-pie so easily, screw making apple-pie all you paying customers should just decide you like melon-pie.'

Alright, crap analogy, but regardless.

Sure, they could be reckless and eat the melon pie and maybe they'll like it, but I suspect most would prefer the apple pie, and the majority of people play it safe with their money and just buy the apple pie.

I'm not sure where I'm going with the pie analogies, I'm very ill at the moment.

Also, it's worth pointing out that despite how active the leader-boards look, most people don't actually have any fights going on. Inactivity is probably the biggest reason why some people don't have any fights to compete in.