okay, so with E3 winding down we can get back to this thing I hope. there's almost 20 characters and most of them look like they almost good to go.
the wiki:
http://mpfc.wikidot.com/
http://mpfc.wikidot.com/characters
the old topic:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/62910713
truthfully, if you check out the first couple posts + the wiki and you'll get the idea. but since when is that fun.
if you didn't see the last topic, welcome. if you thought it was a mess - it was - then you can check the wiki to catch up and see that even though this being a trainwreck waiting to happen is entirely possible it also has a lot of potential. it's been a couple weeks now, but fact is there's a decent amount of contestants and there's always room for more - in fact the more we get, the better the contest can be. the main idea for a competition is a tiered league system and that means more entries = more enjoyment.
to recap a bit: yes, this is taking the MPFC contests, also known as the contests where we pit Superman vs. Touhou characters, Flash beats everyone, and we argue over anime/manga/game Mewtwo. this contest ain't quite the same. all the entries are characters that you, B8, makes. there's a couple criteria for it - mainly that they should be original, can't be too perfect/flawless, and to avoid one trick ponies because either you're going against the way the contest is or you're making characters that will usually lead to dull matches. the goal of this contest is to have a bunch of interesting characters to lead to interesting matches; instead of the usual 'okay fodder round NEXT' that we all know at a glance, this is meant to be more interesting. yes, some will hard counter another. yes, you'll get some blowouts. seeing how this is entirely user made i can't even guarantee a general power level, hence, why using a league system makes sense and we've got 2 (technically 3) main levels right now. to one line the way this works: the characters determine the way the contest is made. the contest revolves around them, not the usual reverse.
a lot of the game ultimately comes down to interpretation. even though you make a character it'd be wrong if you could just word of god everything that went on. so for a general procedure of how things have mostly been:
- you make your character.
- ask around, see what can be done, get some input.
- bold in clear terms that you've completed it. once you've reached this step, you cannot edit your character further and the rest will be down to interp. you can obviously argue to say that you see something this way or that way, but nobody has to agree with you. once done it's basically a third party character and takes on a more spell-contest vibe of 'interp means a lot.'
so why the 2nd topic? well, i initially wasn't sure what to expect as MPFC in its normal form isn't really doing it anymore and an idea like this requires a lot of input from not just 1 or 2 people buy a good 10-20. multiple characters are allowed, but it's still gonna need a sizable amount of people to be optimal. at first i thought 'okay, if i can get 16 this may work.' and among those it became clear that gamefaqs wasn't gonna cut it, i needed a wiki to contain some people as otherwise i'm looking at 2-4 posts on a lot of guys. wiki keeps it clean, simple, and easy. the characters were also rather interesting and it felt like a shame. so it's not a "make a character once and we never see her again." she'll show up again to fight the others who put in some quality work.
it's lagged a bit right now but finals + graduations + E3 is pretty understandable. most of that's done though. so:
to those of you with girls needing to be worked on, CONTINUE. i've updated the wiki with your comments in the character page already.
to those who haven't made one yet, BEGIN.
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