PO Wars III - Musashi Bracket

[Ultrawolf]

[Sperrit]

Well... if we went with level tournies then no because all fights would be monitored and sanctioned. If we went with a free-for-all system we could place limits on how many fights you can participate in based on level. Or we could have a level cap. Really, I'm just trying to throw out some ideas. I think taking the time to figure out a solution is better than having a lot of people frustrated because they can't ever get on top of the lead fighters.

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[Ultrawolf]

[Sperrit]

Of course! I'm glad your brought up the point, it's a good one. However, it's hard to figure out just what exactly would constitue abuse. I mean, if there's a level one fighter that wants to get up to level and challenge the big boys I have no problem if they want to have a fight a day. However, if they keep on doing that past the levels that the highest fighters are on then I'm not sure if that's okay. On the other hand you have to figure that anyone who wants to fight would have to find someone willing to fight them. It wouldn't be fair to anyone if you could just pick a fight with someone when they didn't want to. There's also the consideration that the higher the level the more experience it takes to advance AND the fact that you're really not getting your money's worth by fighting lots of low-level fighters. It'd take forever to get to level four if you're a level three and all you're fighting is level ones. The level ones you fought, however, would advance to level two and provide a better challenge pretty quickly. The other consideration, I suppose, would be if two people decided to keep on fighting each other in order to boost their stats. In that case we could have some sort of limit on the number of times you can fight any one person. Plus there's the fact that once you initiate the fight it's totally out of your control. You can't throw a fight to give someone else the experience. All these things would make the system very hard to manipulate to a single person's advantage.

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[Ultrawolf]

[Minosheep]

Perhaps the conversation should go in the suggestion box.

Just a suggestion.

[Reverend]

Probably it should, but do you want to tell Sperrit otherwise? He should be able to do it

[Razer]

Razer is seen sitting in his Rabbit's Den tending to his wounds. His chest is heavily bandaged and his leg is sporting a blood stained wrap also. He's shining up his axe. Talking to no one in particular.

"Damn Diablo, you surely brung it to me. That was a good one. Now I go up against Sperrit. The forest hasn't ever seen a battle like it will this time."

He reaches under the table and pulls out a small, gold box. The inside is padded with crimson velvet. On the velvet sits a tiny crayon.

"Mawsh, just the sight of the thing gives me the willies! Grandpappy, ya was right when you said it takes things of evil to down things of evil...I hope to never have to see this thing again tho."

He closes the box and gingerly scoots it away with the blade of his dagger, his disdain for anything magic clearly showing. He goes back to shining his axe. He hefts it and pulls himself up using the axe now for support.

"Sperrit, no tricks here. This time it's pure Razer. This time it's for the forest."

He limps towards the doorway. Stopping right before the door he swings the axe up and straps it across his back in it's familiar place. The weight causes his legs to wobble a bit but he holds himself up. With fierce rabbit pride he opens the door and looks up at the morning sun.

"Time for some training...and some ale."


***stats updated***

[Shurikane]

I knew from the start that Battle System would have its flaws and stuff but orignally, I wasn't expecting it to become this big. My intention was to create a battle thread with no favoritism, where only the dice decided of the battle's fate and thus allowed for fair matches. However, after the first tournament came another. And another. And then I started one on PO. What was supposed to be a run-once time killer had become a website feature! And thus, experience points became more than just an attempte to make things feel more RPG-ish.

Ideally, Battle System would've fit best into a tactical RPG genre, where enemies match the player's level and where you couldn't get XP from losing since you'd be dead anyways.

Anyways, Shino and I had already planned on an XP system considering levels - it was only supposed to be some quick fix in a sense but we both had bigger fish to fry at the same time. Though the XP system is functional, it is of course not perfect. My personal plan is to do away with the tournament system and then once the RPG is fully automated, then members will be able to freely battle each other. With no win or loss count, there would be not much of an incentive to fight lower levels. But, there's also other possibilities that exist, one of them being a rule that would disallow fighting between members that are too far away in levels. Another alternative is to use that same rule, but slack it, making the fight between those two members an "off-season" fight that does not count towards anything. As well, members can decide to have off-season fights between each other for the purposes of testing techniques, or maybe fight a bot in order to check out what each skills do. Of course, bot fights would not give any reward whatsoever.

[Minosheep]

I'mma cry if I can't kill Shuri soon.