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I honestly wish Axel and Bo were like, unwanted lackeys, used as backup once when Miz was desperate and now trying to help Miz and screwing things up while Miz just wants them to go away. Mizfits would fit that.

It'd have more future I feel than what they're doing here.
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Man that match is like, the poster child for how badly WWE Creative botches people nowadays.

Hardyz were one of the hottest acts in wrestling 5 months ago. Now they're just dudes.

Late last year Miz had great segments with Daniel Bryan and Dolph Ziggler and actually made the IC Title relevant again-- now that's just his catchphrase.

Jordan wasn't anything huge with American Alpha, but they were an enjoyable tag team that the fans liked-- now he gets "die Rocky die" heat.

I guess Axel and Bo are shockingly not worse off than they were a few months ago, at least, but I can at least say the Miztourage is a hideous name.
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Yeah I spent $40 too, just as a token of appreciation that happens to give me some orbs.

I kinda wish I hadn't as I got bored of the game soon after spending but maybe I'll get back into it. I'm still caring enough to do login bonuses which means the game isn't quite dead.
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Yeah I also got 4 Reds 1 Colorless on this new banner.

No blues just made me take a single red (Lon'qu) and run.
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Delivery has good aspects to it, but isn't what I'd call good. He yells, laughs, etc etc, at seemingly random times. Laughing especially is way overused.

It's kinda like crummy guys in old school TNA where they'd yell a lot. But then you'd sit back and say "well why did they yell there" and it wasn't clear-- but in the heat of the promo it made it sound exciting.
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His promos are probably the most overrated aspect imo
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The LoL Event was fun. Everyone just forgets that because Kha'zix.
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So like, where to go from here. Things like cleaning up wording, refining the system, etc etc, these are good, but would bring a very similar feel, so it basically boils down to one of two things are a must.

System overhaul
What does this mean? I don't know. Different victory conditions, different play interactions. You talked about like territories or something. Maybe flesh that out a bit.

Merc overhaul
This is the SSF2: Turbo approach. Certain ability types need to be heavily nerfed or removed from the game. Every overpowered or underpowered merc needs to be totally reworked. A ton of new mercs need to be added, without delving too far into the obscure end.

Either one makes the game potentially playable, but overall I think there are just too many fundamental issues with the game as it is, so trying to change the system would overall be better. Some people don't like to go to topic, and some do-- I feel like there should be a way to play the game in both ways. Sorta like in Civilization you can go military or you can sorta hole off and try to build a buncha museums and space ships and crap. I think there's potential for it in the system. Why can't we put votehax in the game but make obtaining them something more advanced than "buy a merc and use an ability." A way to battle without strict declaration systems would make fight topics more malleable. Have like 4v4 with varying amounts of forces sent by each player, or a 3 way.

I dunno. It's something to think about.
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KanzarisKelshen posted...

-What do you think about the draft system? Would you play another game of Draft Mercenaries? What would you adjust for balance, if anything?
-What do you think about the admin team who ran this game? What could they have done better? What did they do well?
-Were there any rule changes (RR tier bid system, predefined attacker/defender start points, match conventions, etc.) to your liking? If not, why?
-Is there anything you'd like to see done with Mercenaries going forward?

Draft system was okay I guess. I almost think just making a giant draft pool shared between the two pools would've be better-- would've saw a lot more team ideas and mercs in play. Redraft is garbage though. Building drafts over time, slowly building your team up, would probably fix it depending on the implementation.

You did... basically adequate. Kept things going, and on the whole rulings were fair. However there were just a bit too many blunder rulings-- I would argue perhaps even more than M4 had for its entire run. I feel like you desperately needed some sort of sanity filter before issuing rulings and while in theory one person should be enough for this-- I doubt trdl was actually giving all that much thought to rulings with how "engaged" he was. Also needed to be a bit more liberal with bans as a few foul mercs spoiled the broth, but whatever.

I like start points, though "attacker/defender" should be replaced with "merc's team." Match conventions are stupid-- if you need an external link, this isn't working. Just edit the opening post a bit to include the more important conventions, remove some of the less important guidelines. RR Tier bid system wasn't optimal either cause it made you not need as balanced a team as you should have I feel. Part of why Mercs 4 was cool was you always had to cycle through all 3 tiers. This one I basically fought on mid/low the whole game and all these cool high tier dudes other teams had didn't matter.

I don't think I'll play again without a pretty significant overhaul to the system or a huge amount of new mercs. Like I could probably make another gimmick team or two with these rules and this merc pool, but I'm not interested in facing people in a draft format again because I know most of them are probably going to be using the same kinda effective stuff. Standardizing wording, stuff like that, it's good to make the game more fluid going forward, but it needs to be done in addition to new content.

Gimme some movie mercs I wanna make my Bloodsport team of Frank Dux, Ray Jackson, and Chong Li.
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Well whatever. Beating up a dude who's just in the game to RNG a batch of mercs is no fun anyway

I claim victory over this battered husk called Mercenaries Draft Edition. Thank you and good night.
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Oh yeah I guess that's a way out of it. Denies the dumb Nilin combo but you know.
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:( I wanted the stupid fight topic.
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Yeah.
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Nilin: Wrex.
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Big Daddy V
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KOS-MOS CALCULATES the result of Great Ninja Yuffie (Lightning) if used in a hypothetical match between me and Tiro this week
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Wrex: Nilin

Wrex has a conversation with Nilin about how a Krogan never forgets.
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I think the best you can realistically hope for is Bigbig, Big Show, Show Big, Big Cass, or Cass Big

Anything else is just beyond WWE.
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Let's be honest "The Bigs" is way too creative for a WWE Team Name

They'd be called Showcass or Cassshow
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I'm pretty sure Zidane's steal chances are by far the lowest in the series, and he has the competition of Thief generics from FFT.
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If we nominate enough Black Waltzes I bet Vivi could get booted. Toss in Queen Brahne and Blank for good measure.
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Hilarious round for sure.
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10 EXP on Wrex's ability upgrade, completing it
10 EXP on S-Chain
3 Murder EXP on S-Chain, completing it
1 Murder EXP on The World
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Agnes Oblige
Setzer Gabbiani
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Oh no doubt. I'm just saying as far as the news goes assuming the premise "he needs emergency heart surgery" goes this is about as good as you're going to get, so in some ways it's good news.
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It could be worse. I was expecting worse from the original posts-- the TMZ article doesn't sound quite as bad. I mean yeah needing heart surgery is awful but at least he didn't arrive at the hospital dying or something, as he's been there since Saturday, and the coma is medically induced not him slipping into one because he's so screwed up.

Just gotta hope for the best in whatever surgery he needs going well I guess.
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Tana's got the cutest portrait in FE8 for sure.

That being said this set is kinda lame considering what FE8 could've given us. Like I kinda like everyone but Amelia but I really wante--

Xuxon posted...

Lute, L'Arachel, Joshua or Marisa.

Yeah. Those guys.
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He's faking it or doesn't know how to spell specific
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Tiro's long con of no bidding pays off.
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Minwu
Dr Mog
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Scatter frozen blades of air! Clops!
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My 10+1 got me garbage and a King which I'd wanted for TM reasons.
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RaidenZeroX posted...

The short version is by going dual element, you're cutting her imperil to 25% instead of 50%, unless you're debuffing water as well. That 25% is a pretty large difference.

Well that's why he was saying she's good with that equipment set with the guy with a Water/Ice/Earth Imperil
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I didn't really mean to say it as a first world problem as much as to encourage everyone who didn't get the units they wanted from this banner-- how much would you really prefer these Nier dudes over who you're currently using? That's the real question you need to ask yourself. If you like the units you currently have enough then it's not a huge deal to not get em.
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Using two Orlandeaus sounds dreadful. You should just use Randi and A2 imo.

Hell I'm still using X-Death in my party this Ashe seems like a great thing to have.
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Yes I would blame them.
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Honestly for me at least it's getting to the point where even if I want a 5* I don't care that much if I get it or not because it's either A. TM Fodder which is a luxury item to begin with or B. Going to further saturate my already crowded selection of characters I want to use.

Like I kinda want Cloud when he comes along but I mean, my team has 5 characters I like with or without him so *shrug
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I can't be bothered to hoard up Summon Tickets in this game until I get a bit more craft essences and Medea/Medusa copies, but I'll be drawing from the story banner over that (and the current banner, at that)
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The bloodthirsty KOS-MOS Jr can't be bothered to listen to Rikku about the terrain. She will seek out and destroy the enemy team immediately. Luckily it's a fairly open terrain so they're not exactly hard to find
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Got two bite sized KOS-MOSes, more than enough to kill anything that moves. KOS-MOS Jr has kirbylike durability, and sure she's got the spazzy ass mentality of a Kirby helper, but like any proper Kirby helper she's gonna be invincible for a while before kicking the bucket for real

Kirby on the other hand has even the durability of KOS-MOS to go along with his KOS-MOS moveset, so he's gonna be wreckin shop and impossible to kill, particularly with his full heal available on his Persona.

Also Rikku can buff and Yu can heal. If they needed to help.
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I thought it was a parody of Cidpics.
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I was also going to do a list at some point and like SD I was waiting out of respect, but I'd rather read SD's list than write my own so I'm happy to have an excuse not to post one yet.
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I didn't get that feeling with Breaking Bad. I watched it after it finished, and it always came off as basically just a normal show that got a following to me.

Lost though yeah, similar idea. Hell even similar reaction from me upon watching about half the first season. Neither show was bad, both watchable. It's slightly different in that with Game of Thrones it's "this is decent I kinda wanna get around to watching this at some point" and I never quite do, whereas with Lost it's more "this isn't really working for me and probably isn't worth it so I'm not going to bother." But they both kinda have that entry barrier thing going for em. But Breaking Bad I sorta just dove in there no problem once I got through the second episode.
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MZero11 posted...

Is that Ezreal from League of Legends? What's he doing in a Final Fantasy contest?

Fits in well with Vayne the Night Hunter
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I really should watch Game of Thrones. I watched the first half of the first season and it wasn't even bad, kinda good-- but it's just such a daunting thing to approach to get into that I've never bothered. Just a large entry barrier.

The fanbase talking about it probably hurts in this-- like I know people who watch it, and they're like talking to each other and then turn to me and are like "oh I'll shut up and I don't wanna spoil anything" and I'm like "I'm going to forget this tangled mess of character relationships between random names you're talking about way before I ever watch it so don't mind me"
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Also I have no idea who Layle even is
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I mean I like Bravely Default more than a lot of the games in the field.

But man I'm just not really feeling like saving any of them this year. I'll probably give Agnes a little support but like, in previous years I was one of the BD champions and now it's like "eh"
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Well I mean she's a better character

I guess on this board that is baffling though, given the track record
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The continuing exodus of Bravely Default characters isn't surprising it just doesn't really seem to have that timeless quality. I hardly even cared when Mephilia was tossed. Sometime between this contest and last for me at least the game fell out of relevance.
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Ooh same time post and it looks like I was accurate
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