A Note to the Devs RE: Issue 20 Sneak Peak

Dear Devs,

I would like to dearly thank you for creating content in Issue 20 that will not in any way force me to restart my tournament, thus deleting all my characters and starting over at first level. I greatly appreaciate this.

Yes, thank you for creating so much content for 50th level characters. I don't have a 50th level character yet, since I keep deleting them all and starting over at first level when you introduce new content and perks that disrupt my current tournament rules. However, when I finally DO have a 50th level character I look forward to playing this awesome new Incarnate content.

Of course, I know that after a short period of time one of you wonderful Dev will say "hey... we've paid so much attention to end-game content we've been neglecting those playing from 1st to 49th!" You will then create marvelous new things in the early game which I will adore and love with all my heart.

.... aaaand then I will realize that wonderful new early content has disrupted my tournament and... even though some of my characters have reached the high 40's in level... I will delete them all and start over.

So... Thank you Devs for adding in this end-game content I will never get a chance to play. Your unending efforts and outrageous successes in tormenting me have not gone unnoticed.

Sincerely,

Steelclaw

Congrats?

What's your record for Issues without a restart of the tournament, Steelclaw?

Also: what are your tournament rules?

In the past I've had an alt character (who became my villain main in my sig) that I tried 4-5 times to make a pure superspeed build using only power pool powers and nothing from my primary or secondary on a scrapper.

They never seemed to make it out of the Hollows, though.

What's this tournament stuff?

There are some things it's just better to not ask about

He uploaded his spreadsheets once. The things steelclaw enjoys many people would consider unbelievably boring.

Steelclaw is the KING, no, EMPEROR, no, GOD of taking what he's given and finding ways to have fun with them, by setting his own rules.

The Tournament really should go down in history.

I've posted my rules before but since it's been a while I'll give the general outline... in list form since that's my language of choice...

* Every character has its own spreadsheet... the tournament has a spreadsheet... the rules have a spreadsheet... my traderbots have a spreadsheet... currently I have exactly 53 spreadsheets all having to do with my CoH tournament.

* Each server is a team consisting of all heroes or all villains. Each server has a Super Group so those teams can share resources. My traderbots each donated 1 billion influence apiece to transfer to 2,000,000 prestige per server to get the bases up and running. All further improvements to the bases are up to the individual teams.

* Teams start with one captain each. New characters can not be added to the team until all existing members are at least 30th level.

* All team members are funded by my traderbots. I basically play the market with one TB until they have maxed out the 2 billion influence cap and then create another one. Currently my TBs have around 11 or so billion collectively.

* There are extensive rules regarding enhancements (IO's only 15th level and up), recipes (can not buy set enhancements can only use drops of 30th level or higher) and many other things.

* Each player goes one at a time with a guaranteed one hour play time which can be increased through a special "bonus spin" when their turn begins. I also have bonus spins for enhancement bonuses and other things you can buy via influence.

* All Events (winter, halloween, etc) have their own special rules and regulations.

* Slotting, missions run, defeats, level, badges and the like are all forced into a series of equations to come up with three measureables: Reputation, Power and Team Work. These are measured against one another on a separate spreadsheet to determine who is the "best" in each category.

I could actually keep going until I've more than doubled the number of bullet points I've listed above, but you get the general idea. I lose interest in simple systems rather quickly, so I have created a means by which I can over-complicate practically any game to an extreme and maintain the fun in playing it.

As far as an issues to restarts ratio... well... I started playing around Issue 10. So as of Issue 20 I will have restarted my tournament and all my characters around 4 times. So about every 2 and a half issues seems to be my average.

Yeah... I'm never getting a character to 50.

I normally lurk on the forums here, but I just had to say this--
Did Steelclaw just create the Calvinball of CoX?

Why do you restart the tournament?

I never thought I'd see anything that could rival the Iron Eagles' "Death=Delete" for a way, IMO, to make this game more stressful and less fun, but this blows that away.

More power to you, Steelclaw, if that's what you enjoy, but wow. To me this would be like forcing yourself to rewatch a whole TV series from the start every time a new character is introduced.

I don't understand your philosophy of deleting and restarting. That's something of an anathema to me, but I'm very glad you're still having fun

"You got to dig it to dig it, you dig?"
Thelonious Monk