Melos
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League of Legends and ArenaScape!
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RuneScape and OGame so far today.
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I'll throw in some info here:
There have indeed been 'levelling tournaments', one had the KEX_ prefix for all participant names, and one had the KEG_prefix, and one had KOP_prefixes. One of those made it into a highscores category.
There have been attempts at building similar games, xn00bfreix ran a game called 'kickban.us' for a while. Turned out balancing was far from easy.
As for 'low magic' and 'low ranged':
If you have 'magic' below half your combat level, you gain an invisible strength rank.
If you have 'ranged' below half your combat level, you gain an invisible hitpoints rank.
If you have a HP rank of 4 or higher, you get a bonus strength rank of (HP rank-2).
Why is this relevant?
Let's apply it to a 6* hp (juggernaut) with low magic and low ranged.
If I recall correctly, the low ranged pushes it to a 7*hp, thus to a 5*str from that alone. The low magic then pushes it to 6* str.
Result: A shitload of HP (hard to kill), and when it hits you, it has a fairly high chance of landing a Crushing Blow (hitting you for 2x damage)
The low ranged option made many builds without a 2* HP more viable against the (at the time) highly overpowered 7* ranged snipers. Classic builds like a knight (2* att / def / str) or barbarians (att/str ranks) would always get instakilled by sharpshooters, often alot of levels lower. Given exp scales pretty much exponentially, this allowed sharpshooters to level up much quicker, throwing off the balance even more.
The very-well intended balancing act (my 2*att 4*hp giant utterly sucked), turned out to be a tad too efficient on the very high HP ranks, especially when combined with low magic and low ranged.
Fwiw:
I have access to my accounts (vmser, 6* ranged now, never finished its conversion to sharpshooter and sir_tertle, battlemage), as well as lord_waldorg (explorer account!) and hehasnoidea. Out of courtesy to hehas, I don't use those accounts though.
I used to have access to thehates accounts aswell (archern00b, thevilpriest) but forgot password for those
Thanks for the info! Glad to see you're still around :). Wish I could see more long-term AS players around on the boards here :(.
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Halo 5 and Halo Wars 2 today.
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RuneScape
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Halo Wars 2
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RuneScape
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Decided to login and say hello since it's been over a year! No idea why I went inactive on here, I enjoyed these boards quite a bit.
Welcome back.
Today I went to the eye doctor and picked up my new pair of glasses! I normally wear contacts out, but these glasses might be good when I'm sitting at home because they are supposedly have UV protection.
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Halo Wars 2 is pretty fun and strategic so far. It's a bit unbalanced though, but that's something I'm hoping that they will fix in the coming patches. As an old time Red Alert 3 player, I know that the C&C series is pretty unbalanced too so it may not bother you as much perhaps.
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Played some Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood multiplayer yesterday and got to Level 28. I am always amazed to find people still playing such an old game on the Xbox 360, and I hope that continues so I can unlock all the achievements for it lol.
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RuneScape
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Today I might try to complete the Back to the Freezer quest... but it's already 10pm here and I haven't even started it yet, so I'm having second thoughts... I prefer doing quests in one run rather than split it up over days, much like I prefer to watch a movie in one sitting...
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I only have 1x character Level 300, and you had 2x back in 2012 lol... Now I'm really curious on what levels are your characters at 5 years later? ;)
Today...
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Ouch :(.