Character Battles, Introduction

CHARACTER BATTLES!

Yes, the Character Battle is back! After the loss of the other forum, I am starting the battles afresh.

An Introduction
and other information

What is a Character Battle?

The name says it all, actually: It is a battle between the characters of Oni.

We use the characters in the game and group them into categories based on their strengths and weaknesses, and they will compete with each other only within their categories. These categories and the characters belonging to them will be listed in this post once they are determined, so, check back here often.

Every week, two characters in a category will be selected and pitted against each other in a Character Battle. The winner of the battle is determined by you, the forum member, based on your analysis of their strengths and weaknesses.

When you have decided who you think should win, you should write a reason for your choice.

For the more enthusiastic, you might want to write a detailed analyses, or you might even want to write a possible battle scene between the characters. Use whichever means you want to support your choice, as long as your choice is supported.

Whichever way you write your reason(s), you select the character you think should be the winner by voting for the character in the poll, and after one week, the winner of the round will be declared.

The winner will be given points based on the percentage of the people who voted for him/her.

Here is an example: Let us say 10 people voted. 6 people voted for the winner, and hence, 4 people voted for the loser. The number of points the winner gets is 60 points, by using 6 / 10 x 100 (no. of people voted for winner / no. of people voted x 100).

However, just because a character has won does not mean he or she is given a chance to take part in Part II of the Character Battle. See below.

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What happens after every character in a category has fought?

After the characters have competed and the winners declared, only the winners with the top two highest points will be allowed to battle for the top two position. The winner(s) with the lowest points will be eliminated(*) and the other winners will fight amongst themselves.

If two winners have the same score, they will be paired automatically.(**)

For example:

A, B, C, D, E are the winners. A and C have the highest score, so they are paired.

So, it is A against C. The one with the highest points will get the top position, and the one with the lowest points will get the second position.

Now, B, D and E are to fight with each other; however, D has the lowest points, so, D is eliminated, leaving only B and E.

B and E will now fight to get the third position.

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Of course, the pairings in the above example seem ideal. In actual battles, there could be more or lesser characters.

Let's give an example of more characters:

A, B, C, D, E and F are the winners.

Like the above examples, A and C have the highest points and are paired.

Now, only B, D, E and F are paired. Let me rank them in order of their points (descending): B, E, F, D.

In such a case, the characters with the lowest two points will be eliminated.

In other words, only the top two of the second group are paired and the rest are eliminated.

If there are lesser characters, the pairing is done much easier. There can be cases of only one pair of characters. Such a scenario happens when there are only 2 or 3 characters.

For the former, the two are automatically paired and the top position declared in the usual manner, but the third position will be left empty. For the latter, the third position will be automatically given to the character with the lowest points.

In conclusion, there can only be a maximum of two pairs of characters fighting in Part II, and any characters not in the two pairs are eliminated.

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Footnotes

(*) - They are eliminated from Part II but they are still given a consolation prize or consolation prizes (if more than one are eliminated).

(**) - Unless, of course, both of them have the lowest points. In that case, they will both be given 'eliminated' and given the consolation prizes.

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Before the actual battle starts, I need to arrange the characters into categories. More importantly, I need everyone of you to review this system for me and see if anything can be improved.

WJTW

You could make a "round robin" competition first,

and then pair up for the "finals"

Or

You could make a huge free-for-all, then do 1-on-1's based on the f-f-a's results.

I could probably wirte a script to do the 1-on-1's, providing he characters care already in the same level.

A script for the battles will be nice, although the effect could be pretty random sometimes, especially with characters of the same health-levels. And sometimes, even characters with very different health levels could produce different results, with occasions when the high-health character loses to a medium-health character.

Actually, I was thinking of not even bothering about the system or any Round 1 or Round 2 issues since they are quite a bit to do and I doubt there are really so many characters in the game to go through every Round...

Just let them fight each other, for heaven's sake!

The characters are just selected and battle, and the winner is the winner of two characters, and that will be all, short and simple.

WJTW

Hmm... not much activity going on around here these days.

Perhaps someone should start a character battle first for a change. If you are intending to start your own Character Battle, have the subject title in the format of: "[NAME]'s Character Battle #[number]". The number should be your own character battle's number and independant of my or other people's character battles.

Also, in the event that two people happen to come up with the same combination for their Character Battles, the threads will be merged and the names removed will be dropped and considered a 'real' Character Battle since, well, the combination is demanded so I might as well consider it an 'official' battle.
Their names will be credited in the actual post, though.

Or if you prefer, I could put both your names together, alphabetically.

And of course, no one can stop you from choosing unusual combinations like pitting an extremely strong character with an extremely weak one. There could be a lack of excitement or a lack of participation, though.

WJTW

Great idea!

Thanks, Script 10000.

But where do you think are the others?
Even Fluffy and Oni did not 'acknowledge' this when they posted.

Virumor? Crasical? Your_Mom? artent? Where are you?!

Oh well... it might take some time.

WJTW

I Have Returned.

So...when will this start?

Thank you for returning!

About the Character Battles, I think someone should start it first this time. If anyone wish to start it, please read what I have typed four posts ago (excluding this post).

WJTW

First character battle : Drone vs Engineer (always start with the weakies!).

If i knew how to do it, i'd try it. Can anyone post a how-to or something?

You mean having it scripted? Hmm, I think that is possible since they are available in the same level (although they are actually, in-story, different places.).

I'll see if I can get it done. Otherwise, Script 10000 can help. Wouldn't you, Script 10000?

WJTW

I have my soda and popcorn, now when's the fighting going to start?

Yeay! Watching a droid vs an engineer... that'll be so very exciting.

So...when does this oficially start?

Y, I go try make this.

I tried find a level with a enginer and a droid but I still didn't discover one. But I had make a Script with one Droid fighting with a Scientist. I post it here. (LoL, Droid lose with scientist in my game, Why? They have more health..)
The help for install is in firsts lines of script, enjoy.

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