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Oh god let this start soon, before I spend more time fiddling over my fighter's skills and gear. 
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SynthOrange posted:Oh god let this start soon, before I spend more time fiddling over my fighter's skills and gear. The longer your fiddle with skills and gear the more likely this will be the first line in your fight: "Your troll was hit in the head by kobold's oak arrow penetrating the adamantine helm crushing the skull and tearing the brain. Your troll has been struck down." 
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Jul 26, 2011 12:48
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Honestly, I'm not worried at all about how this tournament will go. I know I'm going to win the first round, somehow toughing it out despite going against someone superior, then die almost immediately the second round. It's how it always works with ANY tournament I enter.
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Jul 26, 2011 13:00
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I am going to die so fast. Seriously. I am not even going to bet on myself.
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Jul 26, 2011 13:27
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I'm still ummming and ahhing over whether to go nude.
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Jul 26, 2011 13:50
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GreenMarine posted:Robin Walker the Thrice Damned has entered the lists that he might find a glorious death among the champions of blood! This is where my money is going.
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Shorter Than Some posted:I'm still ummming and ahhing over whether to go nude. Pantslessness is traditional
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Jul 26, 2011 15:28
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Can we get the new raws? 
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Jul 26, 2011 15:31
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Hoping to get in on the Battle Royale, just need my registration e-mail and I can get started. Got my build figured out, I just hope my pro-decision to do no testing pays off.
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Jul 26, 2011 15:45
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RickVoid posted:Hoping to get in on the Battle Royale, just need my registration e-mail and I can get started. Those who test are cursed by Armok and the RNG.
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Jul 26, 2011 15:56
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Just an FYI incase you missed it, you've gotta email Vox for the battle royale:RickVoid posted:Hoping to get in on the Battle Royale, just need my registration e-mail and I can get started. Vox Nihili posted:To those who didn't make the first 127, you can still get in on the action! Design a fighter manually and email it to me at iamvoxnihili (at) gmail.com! Your champion will be entered in the always-exciting pre-tournament battle royale, and if you win the event you will be admitted in the 128th slot. You'll have to do some math yourself, but that's how we all did it back in the first couple tournaments. Please use the following format:
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Jul 26, 2011 15:59
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Dirty Frank posted:Just an FYI incase you missed it, you've gotta email Vox for the battle royale: Thank you my good man. Battle Royale entry sent, Gladiator Dies Horribly ready to... welp.
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Jul 26, 2011 16:05
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Looking forward to when gladiator Gladiator Dies Horribly dies horribly
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Jul 26, 2011 16:20
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Boing posted:Looking forward to when gladiator Gladiator Dies Horribly dies horribly He's actually just Dies Horribly, but I really should have made him be Gladiator Dies Horribly. Ah well.
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Jul 26, 2011 16:25
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Gremlin 1 bashes Dies Horribly in the head with his tin wiffle bat, smashing the skull and pushing the skull through the brain! Dies Horribly dies horribly.
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Jul 26, 2011 16:29
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Given the way DF phrases things, there really should be a gladiator named the motion or the bill.
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Jul 26, 2011 16:34
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Gildiss posted:Those who test are cursed by Armok and the RNG. That's why I haven't taken a look at my fighter since I bought equipment for her! I'm really hoping this strategy works out!
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Jul 26, 2011 17:20
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You know, I've never really considered the issue until now, but it's a good thing DF doesn't model ones junk, as in the great tradition of the arena, I have leather armor and boots. . .and that's it. I'm going to go wince in sympathy for a few hours. V - A loin cloth isn't going to do much against a battleaxe either way you. . .slice it. 
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Jul 26, 2011 17:52
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I prefer to think of it as they are wearing at least a loincloth underneath, and some kind of sports bra for the female gladiators. But then I consider actual Roman Gladiators...and I don't think they actually wore anything into battle most of the time, with the exception of armor if they were given armor.
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Orv posted:You know, I've never really considered the issue until now, but it's a good thing DF doesn't model ones junk, as in the great tradition of the arena, I have leather armor and boots. . .and that's it. That's for the best.
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Halloween Jack posted:That's for the best.  . . . I'd say forget I ever said anything, but it's already on the internet. Moving swiftly along!
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Wait, am I to late to apply to enter the tournament?
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Suran37 posted:Wait, am I to late to apply to enter the tournament? Email Vox Nihili with a build at iamvoxnihili (at) gmail.com You're in time for a battle royale, with several gladiators having a last-man-standing match for the last regular spot in the tournament. But if I were you, I wouldn't delay too much in getting the build in; Vox hasn't given a hard deadline, but it could be pretty much any time now.
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Suran37 posted:Wait, am I to late to apply to enter the tournament? How lucky are you feeling?
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For any other late-comers, when e-mailing a build for the Battle Royale to Vox Nihili, please send it to him in the following format: ----------- Name: Example Man User: Vox Nihili Race: Human Skills Sword Level 5 (450) Fighting Level 4 (150) 600 points spent on skills, 600 remaining Equipment Weapon(s): Steel Long Sword (550) Armor: Copper Helm (50) 0 points left
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I've got 5 or so entrants for the battle royale at this point. I hope to run it as soon as possible, but I do have some social obligations tonight and important errands to run tomorrow afternoon, so we're looking at tomorrow night (pacific time) for the battle royale event! Until then, any newcomers may still enter, and current entrants may modify their builds! I should have the new raws up in a couple hours, and I was definitely not wasting any free time earlier today playing starcraft. Keep finalizing your builds for the tournament proper on the arena website- we won't be able to start the main event until after we both complete the battle royale and get every single combatant built up. Vox Nihili fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Jul 26, 2011 |
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I'll assign points to Smatru once I can find a kobold build that can even scratch the most basic of human builds.
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Iunnrais posted:I'll assign points to Smatru once I can find a kobold build that can even scratch the most basic of human builds. There's always the classic "bowbold" build if you want to just cop-out on it. 
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Vox Nihili posted:There's always the classic "bowbold" build if you want to just cop-out on it.  I killed dozens of bowbolds in my testing! I will prove it's not just a cop-out!
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 BATTLE ROYALE BETTING The good news: When Vox is ready to run the Battle Royale, we WILL allow betting on the Battle Royale match! The bad news: Although the website can be used for betting, I didn't have time to implement betting on Battle Royale type matches; I only implemented betting for one-on-one matches. This means that Battle Royale bets will have to be placed in this thread, and your funds on the site will be updated to reflect whether you win or lose. The news that could be interpreted as either good or bad, depending on your circumstances: As you know, a Battle Royale match has many fighters and only one winner. This means that the vast majority of bettors will lose their bets on the Battle Royale match. However, for those bettors who are able to pick the winner, they can almost certainly expect that the payout ratios will be much higher. A small bet could pay out 10 to 1, or more! Some other notes regarding betting:
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With that in mind, did you need me to run the betting for the battle royal round, like before?
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Bad Munki posted:With that in mind, did you need me to run the betting for the battle royal round, like before? It's not NEEDED, but if you're VOLUNTEERING... 
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Allow me to lead off the betting with 1000 DB on Dies Horribly, Battle Royale. Let me know if I need to fix the formatting for this bet. RickVoid fucked around with this message at 06:36 on Jul 27, 2011 |
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RickVoid posted:Allow me to lead off the betting with 1000 DB on Die's Horribly, Battle Royale. I'll make sure that Bad Munki receives your bet, as (I think?) he has magnanimously volunteered to track the betting for the Battle Royale round. Otherwise, I'll track the bets. And seeing as how the Battle Royale gladiators have not been announced yet, I'm guessing you've bet it all on yourself! This will pay off handsomely if you win, and it will certainly make for an interesting round of betting even if you don't, seeing as the pot has already been generously seeded!
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Battle Royale, Krysmphoenix, Whichever Gladiator is a Kobold, 200. If there are multiple Kobolds, split it evenly please. Go Team Kobold! RickVoid posted:Let me know if I need to fix the formatting for this bet. Match ID (Battle Royale for now I guess), your username, Gladiator your are betting on, bet amount. So your bet is Battle Royale, RickVoid, Die's Horribly, 1000. Krysmphoenix fucked around with this message at 06:45 on Jul 27, 2011 |
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Have you already built your fighter using the site? Then, if you want to test your build more efficiently, you may be wondering... How do fighter macros work? It's been said that testing your fighter's build is for chumps. If you agree with this, do not read this post any further. From either the Manage Fighter or View Fighter pages for a fighter that you own, there should be a link that says Download this fighter's macro. Note that you cannot download a macro for a fighter you do not own! You're welcome to try it, but it won't work. But anyway, click the "Download this fighter's macro" link. The .MAK file you download should be placed in your DwarfFortress/data/init/macros folder. In order to use the macros generated by the site, from the main screen after loading Dwarf Fortress, you must first select Object Testing Arena. In the arena, press k for the Look Around / Create menu. Once there, press c to create a creature. From there, you will have to select your fighter's race, gender, and team manually. SINCE THIS TOURNAMENT CONSISTS OF ONE-ON-ONE MATCHES AND NOT TEAM MATCHES, JUST LEAVE THE TEAM SETTING THE WAY IT IS ("INDEPENDENT"). The reason you must select your fighter's race and gender (and perhaps team, if we implement team matches in a future tournament) is that there is no way to "reset" the choice of race, gender, or team from this menu, and because of the way that DF macros work at the moment, a macro would already have to "know" where the cursor is in order in order to set those values reliably regardless of where the cursor already is. Since there is currently no way that the macro can know where the cursor is when you create a fighter, I've designed things such that macros will only create the skills and items for a created character, and they will only do this only from the Create a Creature screen. So anyway, after selecting your fighter's race, gender, and team, press Ctrl-L to load your macro, then Ctrl-P to run it. Sit back and watch as your fighter's skills and items are created. This might not save all that much time the first time you do it, but after running a half dozen or more fights, then you just might come to appreciate this feature. Jazzimus Prime fucked around with this message at 07:42 on Jul 27, 2011 |
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Putting all my money on myself was pretty risky, but I'm hoping my Gladiator can cause a few upsets.
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I've created #arenachallenge on irc.synirc.net. Come hang out, chat and try to decide whether or not you want to tell the competition about your cool build idea. e: Don't join and then leave if nobody's talking! It's a young channel. Jack the Lad fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Jul 27, 2011 |
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Any update on the new raws, Vox?
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Jack the Lad posted:e: Don't join and then leave if nobody's talking! It's a young channel. Well it doesn't seem all that impressive to say you 'created' a channel when it's not registered.
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