Guest posts by Optimalist

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Forum Game Archive / Re: Elements RPG! Part 2

« on: April 19, 2010, 02:34:14 pm »

It felt too good to be true. In a way, it was.

Rid of his magical shackles, MaX randomly visited one elven village after another. He kept to himself as much as he could. When he needed some marks, he would transform into a mystical bard to entertain the villagers. Sometimes he would peddle herbs and small trinkets he'd make along the way from one town to the next. On rare occasions, during his dark moods, he would work quietly doing manual labor pretending to be mute. But, every time and always, he would be listening... looking for clues, small details to the location of his family and clan.

It was this very village where the last of his relatives have recently been saved by a band of heroes. It was too good.

Now, at the edge of the forest, he takes a deep breath... coughs and almost chokes as he is not really used to breathing air this fresh. In his past life, most of his time was spent in high-ceilinged windowless laboratories that had the sweet-salty stench of entropic magic. He became addicted to this smell. Just now, he mutated a small ant crawling up the bark of the tree he was leaning on just to get a waft of that magical scent. "My thoughts are drifting again," max thought.

Shaking his head and clearing his throat, he looked towards the Mountains of the Kingdom of Darkness. Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight.... a magical tune haunts him.

Clearing his head this time, I want to find this party of adventurers and join them. My gratitude is deep and my newly found freedom can't keep me idle in this small village. I'm happy that I've found my people, but this isn't my home. I'm not of them anymore. I need to find my own....

Pushing away from the big fruit tree, he blew on the rainbow-colored dragonfly that was flitting by. In a pink puff of smoke, it transformed back into an ant still in rainbow colors, never to be recognized again by it's own ant colony.

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Humor / Re: One of our members is a hacker!!!

« on: April 19, 2010, 11:32:49 am »

Oh my god.  I played [you] today, and he played this 4|1 cow thing, and when he clicked it my computer mooed.  The sound went off and I got yelled at.

Curse you [you]!!!!

hahahaha what cow thing?? oh the seacow with a shockwave! lucky you weren't frozen. 

This wouldn't have happened if [you] just made a decent farm. [you] was totally uncooperative and unfriendly. Don't vote for [you]. Ever.

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Forum Game Archive / Re: Elements RPG! Part 2

« on: April 19, 2010, 11:07:09 am »

Character: maX (muTant)

Element: Entropy

Description: maX looks like a robust woodsman from the small towns of Life's Forest. His daily wardrobe consists mostly of brown. He has an air of fierce cleanliness about him, you'd wonder if whatever he is wearing is brand new. Everything about him is drab and commonplace except for his eyes, which are deep dark fuchsia they're almost magenta.

Story: Everything about maX is not what it seems. Max is a first generation mutant, exposed heavily to entropian magic by his former druid master who stole him from his elven parents when he was a young boy who got lost playing too far into the woods. He is almost a century old now. In elf years, he should be reaching manhood by this summer. His master's... make that, ex-master's apathetic treatment of him became cold and cruel the past few months.

As chaos would have it, another of his ill-conceived experiments finally tore the druid apart. mAx chose to escape and find his roots. Apparently, the entropians have decided maX was the cause of the accident and have put a surprisingly huge bounty on both his pink eyes fully preserved inside his severed head.

Having been mutated this way and that, he developed a taste for several different species as long as they were of the same sex. He finds the natural reproductive ways of all life forms to be... disturbing.

Skills:
Chaos Power (aura 50m or line of sight) - His genial nature provides temporary and erratic support to his friends in health and power.

Lycanthropy - From a gentle burly elf (1|6), he can transform into a small demonic butterfly (6|1) that can cast the three other skill-spells.

Antimatter - The flutter of his wings can turn angry enemy creatures into happy and friendly helpful beings.

Paradox - His pink eyes detects OP creatures and turns them into dust with just one look.

Dissipate-Destroy-Anti-Rage - The demon inside him can choose to absorb enormous amounts of power and channel the entropic energies to disintegrate a single permanent magical structure. This weakens maX to transform back into his elven form, unconscious for 3 turns. (-5|+5)

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Forum Game Archive / Re: Elements RPG! Part 2

« on: April 19, 2010, 09:04:42 am »

The elements that are not yet taken are:
 

Updated Masters list:

  Heimdall (Ulitharid)
 
  Jonathan (Vampire/Demon)
  Faustus (Zombie)
  Dorfl (Golem)
 
 
  Mordekai (Graviton Fire Eater)
  Zanthos (Elf)
  Xanriel (Angel)
  Sekhor (Anubis)
  Sirenes (Half-Nymph)

I would like to formally apply to be the character. I'd like to make it a gay character as well if you would allow it. The 2 other applicants haven't posted any character yet, so I'm going to post one for the group's approval.

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Deck Help / Re: FG deck out deck

« on: April 19, 2010, 06:00:09 am »

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4vj 4vj 4vj 58v 592 592 594 594 594 594 594 594 5c3 5f6 5f6 5l9 5lg 5lg 5ro 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 5up 5up 61o 61t 621 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6rm 6rn 6rn 6rn 6rn 6u3 6u3 71b 74b 77d 7aj 7do 7do 7k2 7q5 7q5 7q9 80d 80d
I've been using a less upgraded deck to farm ai5 getting 1,200 coins average per 90 minutes not counting the cards I win. Then, unionruler convinced me it would be more lucrative to win fewer times with FGs including the upgraded cards. So, I started FG farming just today and winning mostly against Gemini, Ferox, Osiris with good spin rates, EMing them gets me around 280 coins but not all the time.

Will post stats when I get better at this.

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Card Ideas and Art / Re: Leech / Bloated Leech

« on: April 19, 2010, 03:46:35 am »

I like the idea. It needs a nasty photo.

We need more mark to mark interaction among the cards.

I also like that we're getting all sorts of worms. Like every mark has a dragon, every mark should have a worm of some sort. hahahaha.

Here's an image that might work:


(http://www.screenshotdumpster.com/view/m7Gbd59225/lamprey)

I resized it to 250 x 250 so you can use it in the browser-based card creator.

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Humor / Re: New Card Ideas!

« on: April 19, 2010, 02:45:21 am »

Fire Ninja 
2|2
Fire Ninja comes into play the turn before you play it, if you have the mana needed

Fire Sensei   
2|2
Fire Sensei comes into play the turn before you draw it, if you have the mana needed

hahahaha. funny stuff.

On this note, here's a spell card

Time Travel  10
It's now N turns ago and your opponent doesn't know it. N is your time quanta divided by 10.

Precision Time Travel 100
At the end of the game, the game starts again. Your opponent still doesn't know it.

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Humor / Re: You know You're Addicted to Elements When...

« on: April 19, 2010, 02:27:00 am »

... you need to find an Internet connection wherever you are in the world because it's a Sunday and you need to farm that new rare.

... you need to find an Internet connection wherever you are in the world because it's a Sunday and you need to submit your high score, and be a farm for that new rare.

... you build a farming deck that's also a farm because you only have 4 cards of the new rare and you hope to farm yourself.

... you have enough score to actually be a farm.

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Humor / Re: You know You're Addicted to Elements When...

« on: April 19, 2010, 02:19:32 am »

you start wearing a sundial around your neck for protection

in your will, you ask to be cremated for more quanta.

you start stealing stuff right in front of the owner.

you wait 20 seconds to respond to someone

you have nightmares about otyugh's getting nerfed

you play more elements than you sleep and walk combined

you crap your pants because you don't have a toilet card on the field

you pick up a penny and toss it to see who goes first

you carry around in public a life size replica of Arsenic and try to poison people.

you've memorized every card and their effects.

you have more than 3000 cards

when you get injured you try to hack back to 100 hp

you start a religion who's god's name is zanzarino.

Funny Stuff! But I think the religion should have an "Ultimate Fake God" called zanzarino, and daily meditations with the Oracle. And, I think I prefer to carry around a Pulvy and a plush baby Oty stuffed toy.

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Forge Archive / Re: Flat Worm | Planaria

« on: April 17, 2010, 01:41:26 pm »

If you mutate this and kill it what will it be?
What i really wanted to ask is why the upgraded has an increased cost?
Make it 3 at most, It's not worth two extra  to poison oty or scarabs

The idea is interesting... so I would like to see it in the game

Well if you mutate it into something else, then it becomes that something else. If you mutate something else into a worm that has, say, heal with 1HP then it dies if you kill it. IF you mutate something else into a worm that has whatever power with >1HP then it breaks into 2 worms with half the original HP with other mutated powers. (It behaves just like mutated mummies, when you rewind it, it becomes a mutated pharoah.)

I'm not really sure about the cost and balance. In my mind, quinted eaters are pretty much indestructible vs. creatures and weapons. Only shields can touch them: fire shields cost 6 and thorn carapace cost 7 . Since the poison is specific only to otys and scarabs, I thought 4 is a decent cost especially if you break it up into 4 x 1hp worms with 1 damage each.

Come to think of it, each 1hp poisoned worm would cost 1 mark each. Not to mention it will take  4 + 2 + 2 = 8 damage points to break them into 4, taking a total of 12 damage to kill them off completely. Making me think that 2 is kinda cheap for the unupped card. But that's just me. I'll let you and the other players and the powers-that-be decide, if and when they decide to put these cuties into play. 

Thanks for the comment.   

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Half Bloods / Re: The AI5 Farming Challenge

« on: April 17, 2010, 07:06:35 am »

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4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 52n 58o 594 594 594 594 594 594 5c2 5f6 5f6 5f8 5f8 5oj 5ol 5rg 5ro 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 5up 5up 61t 61t 621 621 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6rm 6rn 6rn 6rn 6rn 6u3 6u3 6u6 71b 74b 74b 7aj 7am 7am 7k2 7q5 7q5
Darn. I had more losses this time, but it was more of bad draws losing in the first few rounds.

ROUND 1 (10 games)
1. 240 EM
2. 120
3. lost
4. 245 EM
5. 151
6. lost
7. 113 1 card
8. lost
9. 65 2 cards
10. 240 EM

Wins/EM   : 7/3
Losses     : 3
Coins won: 1174
Cards won: 3


ROUND 2 (7 games)
1. 159 EM no card
2. 248 EM 1 card
3. lost (not paying attention)
4. 234 EM 1 card
5. lost
6. 250 1 card
7. 245 EM no card

wins/EM: 5/5
losses : 2
coins  : 1136
cards  : 3

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Half Bloods / Re: The AI5 Farming Challenge

« on: April 17, 2010, 04:43:06 am »

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4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vo 52n 58o 594 594 594 594 594 594 5c2 5f8 5f8 5if 5oj 5ol 5rg 5ro 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 5up 5up 61t 61t 621 621 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6rm 6rn 6rn 6rn 6rn 6u3 6u3 6u6 71b 74b 74b 7aj 7am 7am 7k2 7q5 7q5
Wins/EM: 6/5
Losses : 1
Coins Won: 1189
Cards won: 7 including 1 rare & 1 elite card

1. chriel 140 EM no spin win decked out
2. aquaeric 238 EM no spin wins
3. vitsa 97 not 107 2 wins w/ titan
4. Chrsa lost after 3 mins.
5. Aquaiel 229 EM  1 win
6. vitrius 240 EM 0 win
7. Masonos 245 EM 1 elite graviton creature

This isn't my optimum deck as I was playing around with Butterfly Effect and the Mind Flayer. I think it will do better if you swapped 2 Deflagration cards. Maybe I'll try a completely un-upped deck later, using Empathy instead of the Shards.

I'd also like to see its performance if I use 20 Quantum Towers instead of 10 plus Novas.