MelonHead

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Hello. For anyone perking an eyebrow, my old username was Wind.

Yes, I'm still a horrible human being. The assassins all failed.

I'll be joining the ranked list soon enough, hopefully. Yoshua and I have agreed to clash, for my first battle in this new season. Soooo - yeah. Yep. Mhm. I'm assuming the judge will be Innue, and the battleground will be beautiful. Good luck! Actually never mind.

@Dazsos

Hey I remember you Wind.

Funny you and Tasuke have returned at the same time, as you were considered the venerable elders when I was fighting and my last memory of you both was a shitflinging contest over a battle on a turtle island where you both proved that everyone bitches and argues in the end.

It was a good day for this argumentative Brit, I'll tell you that much.

Nexus of Worlds- Final Round

In two days you haven't even begun to try and come up with a solution to your own problem?

@LeeRoy

Not going to argue about it.

Arena Chat Thread

@melonheadI'd say that on the surface alone, it would be highly suspicious and a no-go in a ranked or tournament match. However, I do understand tasuke's issue. Intentionally hiding info isn't all that bad provided you give that info to someone relevant, like a judge. Which is something I myself have done before.

@Gun

In theory that works, in practice it would require the judge to follow the fight near constantly to pick up on any stretching or otherwise bs'ing of powers, as the competitor themselves has no idea what their opponent can and can't do they can't call the judge to look into unusual moves or situations where their opponent has literally just used a power to avoid being hit. Judges don't tend to be available non-stop to read every post and OK it before moving on.

I've fought maybe 50-100 times, and I've seen powers stretched a lot, sometimes unintentionally sometimes on purpose, but it definitely happens. It's always been particular common in tournaments, which was our version of ranked before the ranking system. I wouldn't be comfortable in a ranked match which is designed to be competitive having no agency over the fight because I have no idea what people should and shouldn't be able to do.

Arena Chat Thread

I'm familiar with BB. I have owned various forums, and I'm pretty decent with html. The cheat sheet seems to be more of a 'BBCode for dummies', no offense of course, but doesn't really give me the arena general format, but luckily I know what format you mean. So it seems the general status quo is to have a one-page sheet, where everything is neatly organized.

@Gun

My reply to you was to check out the arena ranking headquarters character area, where you can see the style we use for Arena characters, at least in regards to information pertaining ranked fights. It's kind of important to follow the established rules for ranked fighting or it causes all sorts of problems.

If you don't follow the ranked rules you can't fight ranked, essentially. Do whatever you want unranked though.

Arena Chat Thread

@Tasuke

It is fine if you don't trust anyone here enough, but without a proper description, it would be hard to find a proper match in power. Even more so since the abolition of the old tier system, in favor of a more player-regulated way of grading characters, where instead of using a scale from 1-10, you actually do look at your opponent's abilities to determine whether you have a character of similar power.

So yeah, i don't know what others have to say, but i personally would suggest finding some way to describe the exact level of power she possesses.

@Vordak

Yeah, hiding your powers isn't going to work 1 on 1 in ranked, it's fine in tournaments as the judges are responsible for balancing, but in player balancing obfuscating your abilities is pretty much not going to work. It's just wildly unsuitable for ranked play.

That being said, and this goes for you as well Gun, I'm happy for much looser rules and would probably fight any character in unranked. I'd just prefer a fair competition if you insist on fighting me in a ranked battle.

Also, there's an inherent irony in not trusting anyone else not to meta-game, there's a far greater argument for not trusting someone deliberately hiding all their powers and abilities.

Arena Chat Thread

There's a formatting cheatsheet at the bottom of the screen, should tell you everything you need to know.

Arena Chat Thread

@Melonheadwell last time I was here I was informed there was no real established meta for powers, nor was I under the impression that there was sort of globally accepted way sheets were structured or written here. Seemed pretty open to changes.

in any case I've still got other chars, some probably more 'traditional' that don't use extensive sites or anything, but it genuinely seems like were on opposing ends of a spectrum here, so I'll wait around until you're ready to go, or until perhaps someone else accommodates me.

@Gun

Not for unranked, but for ranked there are more specific guidelines for making it easier on judges, check out the Ranking HQ character sheet area for more information. You're right though, our characters are a bad match, if you happen to stray into the lower power levels where physical combat is more of the focus then we may be able to fight in future.

Arena Chat Thread

I'm not sure how to link to individual posts as opposed to threads on this new format... but the profile sheet is done when I know how to link the post and not the thread.

@Tasuke

Click the little symbol at the top right of a post.

Arena Chat Thread

@melonhead Of my own roster, the ones that are worth mentioning or still in use are:

Metatron: My take on the seraph, utilizing relevant lore and whatnot.

Lucifer: Like above, though my particular Lucy is one set thousands of years in the future. Theological-historical sci-fi I guess is what I'd call it?

Akira: Kinda complicated. Stripped of absolutely all fluff and lore, he is essentially a psionic being controlled by an alien life form taking the form of a giant stone a la Dead Space.

Gun: You already know this one.

Silver: A fancy robutt with cosmic powers.

Galvanand: A metal elemental, who uses electromagnetic influences. Pretty mild in raw power output.

Tsukasa: A shinigami( though not the bleach variety). Use of the Japanese ofuda, life energy, and can utilize the essence of various materials to create new effects, and curses. Probably the tamest of my recent characters.

@Gun

Well, I can't tell for sure because you don't use proper Arena style character sheets, but I'd guess most of those characters are a little higher tier than most of mine. Considering how they're either robots with super-powers or varying forms of divine creatures.

None of them really match up all that well with my themes either, as you've gone down the Divine, Psionic and otherwise Futuristic route which is sort of the antithesis of my preferred style at the moment. You might want to actually take a look at my character's raw power in my CS deposit so you have some idea what sort of power level my characters sit around.

Arena Chat Thread

Like I said, I have dozens. What is your particular 'theme'?

@Gun

I have a Clockwork Character who fits Steampunk and gritty historical fantasy themes, I have a Wraith who suits supernatural battles alongside a Vampire and a Ghoul. I have an energy manipulator, drainer, and all-round powerhouse for DBZ-esque combat, and I have two near-future military types for gunfights or mechanical fights.

On top of that I have a monster-slayer/ancient mythology style character I can finish at any point, a very low powered medieval fantasy character, and an un-powered Ancient Gladiator style character. Also, I have a character for what essentially amounts to sub-god level combat, just under combat between divinities, though I wouldn't use xir for Ranked Battle.

Also Judgement, but I can't be bothered to use him again and he's kind of already in use.

I suppose I also have an abundance of other types, but my current roster fill all the themes I have an interest in, particularly in fighting.