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Strangler Than Fiction ready to fight
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Oct 13, 2015 15:01
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Bad Munki posted:Look at this guy, trying to make sure he's the only one that gets blessed with my skillz. I'm using the same build I was last time I was on your team. Let's see how things play out when I'm unquestionably the worst fighter.
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Oct 14, 2015 18:42
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Iunnrais posted:May I suggest an unorthodox but entertaining method of picking teams this time around? Instead of random selection, hold a grand melee! Rank players by the order they go out in the melee, then, assign teams via whatever fair metric you see best! Maybe try to keep teams total ranking fairly close. It'd make for more exciting betting, I think. Sounds good to me!
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Oct 16, 2015 01:32
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Ramc posted:The issue there is that people might want to co-ordinate with their teammates on their starting builds to avoid 3 archers. Or 2 archers. Or really even 1 archer. After the battle royale you can tweak to your heart's content.
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Oct 16, 2015 02:08
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Bad Munki posted:This but arms instead of arrows. We'd need to define a variable to track how many arms a character had.
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Oct 16, 2015 02:12
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I'm in Worse Munki, with fallingdownjoe, Pittsburgh Lambic, and Segway Rave. Other dudes, feel free to talk strategy in PMs.
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Oct 17, 2015 00:28
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Is there a list of the changes made since the last tournament?
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Oct 17, 2015 17:57
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Once again, I am attired in the finest platinum chainmail. My victory is assured.
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Oct 18, 2015 07:03
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Oh yeah, are we still doing that thing where former champions get a pointless vanity item?
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Oct 19, 2015 01:50
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I think Bene Elim got gold boots and an adamantine shield (and the other early champions got a gold item of their choice up to the value of a gold shield), but how about just a gold crown for every champion? That makes it unique and cool, but not actually a big mechanical advantage. EDIT: Knowing dwarf fortress there's probably a % chance calculated of your crown blocking a headshot, but hey I don't mind getting a little advantage. Tunicate fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Oct 19, 2015 |
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Oct 19, 2015 03:59
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fallingdownjoe posted:If a gold crown is the one thing that saves that fighter, I think that's just fair. And hilarious. BUT if they win the tournament again the next crown has to stack on top of the first one until they get a teetering tower of crown. That's how things work in worldgen, too.
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Oct 19, 2015 17:35
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Bad Munki posted:Kobold, full platinum armor. It's a sure thing. Let me start taking notes. Let's see... no weapon... platinum armor... any other ideas?
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Oct 19, 2015 20:23
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Also picking the optimal armor and weapons doesn't really decide the battle, since I somehow won wearing platinum armor using only my teeth. Though I wouldn't be surprised if toady modeled armor density as a way to limit impact depth (as per Newton)
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Oct 21, 2015 22:53
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My platinum armor has betrayed me  
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Oct 23, 2015 18:39
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Sadly my ultimate build of 'all points in discipline' never got off the ground.
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Oct 23, 2015 21:53
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I could see the failure of my platinum armor as an indictment of my pursuit of style over substance, but I think I'll blame my teammates instead. Slackers.
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Oct 23, 2015 22:33
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Bad Munki was effective. Home team bonus confirmed as far too unbalanced.
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Oct 25, 2015 20:29
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Bad Munki posted:Hell yeah! 
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Oct 26, 2015 06:28
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my dad posted:First of all, it's not rigid at all, so it provides almost no protection against blunt weapons. Second, in the arena (unlike unmodded DF), it only works 80% of the time, thanks to purchasing it from the lowest bidder. 1 in 5 hits are going to go through it like it isn't there. However, it's the cheapest metal protection considering the surface it covers and still having fairly high reliability. I thought last time it was 75%. Is there a full changelog?
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Oct 26, 2015 20:48
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For some reason Strangler Than Fiction is only targeting the legs. ... this is Dwarf Fortress, I have to ask. Did Toady model how short combatants have limited reach?
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Oct 27, 2015 23:10
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Klokwurk posted:Awww. He was just so hungry for that candy corn.
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Oct 28, 2015 23:55
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Once again, the home team is victorious! I suppose it says something about how well-balanced the system is if we can detect a single skill rank on each competitor.
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Oct 30, 2015 00:44
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jon joe posted:C) The four teams with the best K/D score, besides the four division champions. Team A might have more wins than Team B, but I think if Team B is consistently more lethal, they are a 'better' team in terms of consistency - victories less based on luck and more based on MURDER POWER. Plus, isn't it always good to encourage more carnage? Bonus: Because the losing team always gets 4 deaths and the winning team always gets 4 kills, the overall victors should still be privileged. D) Teams composed of the individual gladiators with the highest K/D ratios.
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Nov 1, 2015 20:13
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jon joe posted:Not sure if that's a serious suggestion or not - it sounds hilarious - the only reason I have a problem with it is because it warps builds to encourage individual murder ability at the cost of team composition. We'd end up with the #1 teams facing the all-stars of the rest of the gladiators. A true test of individualism vs communism.
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Nov 1, 2015 20:23
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That was a good fight. Actually, it might be neat to put the betting totals at the top of the match writeups, so we know who's favored in the bets.
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Nov 2, 2015 19:35
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Teamwork at its finest.
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Nov 5, 2015 18:29
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my dad posted:People tend to forget that copper is heavy enough to be good blunt weapon material, and bad enough at protecting you that it's only better than leather at blocking some sharp copper weapons. And it costs twice as much as leather. Pretty much the only copper armor I'd ever buy is a copper cap to give at least basic head protection, and maaaaaybe a copper mail shirt on a minotaur+ sized creature, but not really. If you buy full body copper armor, you'll need a lot of armor skill to make up for it, and at that point you might as well buy iron instead. Platinum armor or nothing 
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Nov 7, 2015 01:44
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Pharnakes posted:Do tigermen ever manage to be anything but punchingbags? I seem to remember them being pretty ineffectual in the last tournament, too. We need to mod them so the moment the battle starts they catch fire.
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Nov 8, 2015 23:06
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Bad Munki posted:I vote to run it one way, and then if my team loses, redo the match the other way, and if we still lose, continue changing it and redoing the match until my team wins, then keep that result One of the biggest unsolvable mysteries in computer science is the halting problem - there is no general method for determining whether an algorithm is terminating or non-terminating, and we have to constantly build new proofs for specific cases. Fortunately, we can build outwards from obvious results. Your algoritm, for instance, is non-terminating.
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Nov 15, 2015 18:46
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Nice to see archers actually shooting things without dying. Also, people should be betting against Worse Munki. The odds are currently 1:6 at 1201 : 5958 of bets.
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Nov 19, 2015 17:17
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quote:Chaz Steadyfist (Worse Munki) strikes at Grimmik (Lightly Whipped) but the shot is deftly parried by the iron whip! Died on line 9. Anyone else in the single digit club?
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Nov 24, 2015 02:04
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LorrdErnie posted:Thanks for that, wasn't expecting a Thanksgiving fight! Just so you know you underlined Laser Explosion a couple of times when you probably wanted to bold it and left something as "tiger one" at another point. Also an " Image0048(done)" Anyway, good fight, should have just let the magma go. I didn't bet on the Petting Zoo for some arbitrary situation to not kill the opposing team
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Nov 26, 2015 17:57
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A good poster posted:We didn't get a full round of update points, just a participation bonus for logging in to the site. Yeah, 50 points/ round or something. Finally got my leather armor 
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Nov 28, 2015 08:01
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Golden loincloth.
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Dec 6, 2015 08:35
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And if we can add skill ranks, give him some free permanent ranks in something suitably Like "Crutch-walker" or "Bone doctor". Naturally LorrdErnie should be a Professional Gem Cutter
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Dec 6, 2015 08:51
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I built Strangler Than Fiction to be the ultimate wingman - able to tie up opponents and keep them occupied long enough for the killing blow. And that's exactly why two of my teammates have 8 kills each, and I only have one. Totally a calculated move to help my bros out.
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Dec 10, 2015 09:54
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Dang. A real nailbiter.
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Dec 14, 2015 07:27
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Spermy Smurf posted:It's odd that the first line of the combat log is the trance happening. I wonder if it's a case where newly-spawned creature checks for enemies before it checks for allies?
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Dec 16, 2015 21:22
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Odds for the next match are currently 3,326.00 to 14,176.00 Come get some money at hilarious five-to-one odds.
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Dec 16, 2015 21:33
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jon joe posted:Do not fall this man's tricks, he is merely attempting to steal your money. Pretend go big and/or go home is lightly whipped, because as far as this match is concerned, whether they are or not doesn't make a difference. Look at you, advocating for a team that's worse than Bad Munki, which has two members with only one kill each across the entire tournament.
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Dec 16, 2015 23:03
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