Vuron's Flamebate Posts

Your predictions for what Balancebot will find

I started 2 emos, 2 camwhores and troll at the same time and while the emos and camwhores finished in slightly fewer visits than the troll (right around 22-24 visits) they were roughly equivalent.

Trolls definitely have a bit of a speedbump when they are trying to get past dirtycop. If you know it’s coming up it’s not that hard to save for it but if you don’t it can definitely slow trolls down quite a bit.

Honestly trolls aren’t mbumively inferior to camwhores and emos except for 2 major areas: speed for speedrun (DML not included in this equation since I bumume all clbumes will get super-items in episode 2- besides the maintenance costs makes DML basically worthless longterm) and flezz creation. Even with a maxed out luck stat and tinted sunglbumes my troll simply can’t earn anywhere near the flezz that the camwhores can. Considering they have moderate upkeep costs this isn’t great.

Honestly I would be thrilled if the trolls got some sort of 2 turn cooldown attack roughly comparable with contact authorities and some half-way decent healing ability. I’d personally do something like Regeneration (Haha trolls regenerate get it Log in to see images!) which heals the troll a small amount each turn for 9 turns. That way they could maintain fap and regeneration and get stuck in for longer.

A decent luck booster would definitely be ace as well.

Faux News

I tried it at 10 threads with 350 smileprin on an emo. I got through 8 before running out of smileprin.

Between taking 5 minutes or so just to buy the smileprin and the ridiculous hit-percentage and damage the thread dishes out it’s really not worth the time, effort and frustration inherent.

Seriously a couple of challenge forums is okay but what is the point of creating a new one every other week?

Vanilla scoops: USE THIS THREAD ONLY!

It’s pretty obvious that the sheer mbum of klan vanilla overpowers any other elements of domination. It really doesn’t matter how fast your speedruns are, how creative your forumbuildr submissions are, how much gambling you can get done if you aren’t getting close to the same amount of klan vanilla that other peole in your bracket are getting you are outta luck.

I can understand rewarding cooperative play I just think it’s a bad design to make cooperative play scoops uncapped while most of the singular play scoops are capped. Yes chocolate is not currently capped but as far as I can tell few people are getting anywhere near 200 chocolate scoops in a given week. That is to say chocolate has never been perceived to be a problem with domination. Anti-freeze and vanilla have been consistently mentioned as significant problems and reasons why people quit playing.

Now if you want domination to be focused around rewarding established klans then keep the system as it is currently. However if you want a more inclusive rather than exclusive game then I definitely recommend limiting the power of vanilla.

klan egg incorrectly displayed on the leaderboard

Needless to say it wasn’t easy to stunt the cred peen with just alts yesterday Log in to see images! (view post)

klan egg incorrectly displayed on the leaderboard

Johnny Mac Posted:

Average cred is right, just calculated it, dunno about the other stuff

It only says the average is 282918

The total in the klan forum is correct the total that is computed via the leaderboard queries is in error

CLOSED: THE SECRET OF MYSPACE TOM REVEALED - A TSB RIDDLE. CURRENT PRIZE FUND – 25BP

No I honestly had largely forgotten about it.

Domination re-work idea: Excellent Strategical Change or ****tiest Suggestion Ever?

Except they spent 4 scoops in order to purchase that destroyer or shotgun card. So they are at parity with you in terms of scoop expenditure.

Currently 4 scoops spent on a shield will negate any attack thrown at you. Considering you only raise your shields in the last 30 minutes or so of domination it’s a very effective defense.

In contrast shotguns, destroyers and thief cards are the only effective method of fighting min scoopers. Each of them cost 4 scoops and provide limited impact. The shotgun is non-directed so you can’t just pound one scoop color relentlessly. Thief cards can be useful but they only subtract one scoop. Destroyers simply aren’t useful for anything other than trying to blow through shieldwalls.

Unless the scoop/card economy changes dramatically the hang at 0 scoops and a huge number of cards will be the most effective strategy for reliably getting medals.

Some people like that form of gameplay some people loathe it. I think it’s up to CZ to determine if the haters outnumber the lovers.

something fishy

I hate to say it but maybe you should prevent people from voting until the have met a minimum credit threshold. Unlike flamebate where you need newbies to have the ability to post questions I’m not sure it’s necessary for new players to immediately start voting in forumbuildr. By limiting forumbuildr voting to people that have say 5 levels you can discourage people from spamming illegal multis in order to wreck an endgame.

silent disapproval bot

Indeed an ellipsis can speak volumes

Domination re-work idea: Excellent Strategical Change or ****tiest Suggestion Ever?

spacekadt Posted:

And how many people don’t participate on flamebate? Where’s the plan to make that better? I know this is focused on domination, but if the goal is to increase endgame participation, you’re only effectively trading off.

I don’t (generally) enjoy flamebate. I don’t generally enjoy forumbuildr. Domination is the one piece of endgame that I do enjoy and you’re really all but taking that away from me. I enjoy the raiding, I enjoy the competition, I enjoy the cutthroat nature of it.

If you’re talking about drastically altering dom (changing where people are seeded based on scoop counts), what’s the possibility of people participating in raid vs. non-raid brackets? I guess it’d probably be two klans warring with each other, but there’s got to be some better solution than taking away the one piece of endgame that’s strategy based instead of roleplay or creativity based. (yes, if you cap my vanillas to the numbers I’ve seen thrown around and my raid abilities, you’ve taken away my fun)

I understand what you are saying, there is one aspect of the game that you still enjoy and you’d rather not see it screwed with. However if domination is going to be the flagship endgame it really needs to be fun for the maximum number of players not just a small number of dedicated players.

What MC and others are saying is that in order to grow forumwarz as a whole you need to find a balance between the experienced fanbase and the new fanbase. If new players cannot compete in domination they are unlikely to play it. If they quit playing domination what is around to keep them here until episode 2 and beyond? Incit? Forumbuildr? Flamebate? IDC? each of those have a very dedicated userbase but honestly there are relatively small groups. You need an endgame that keeps people coming back and spending their visits. Presumably domination is that game but currently I think it’s failing at that task.