abraker wrote:

here is a sample after a few minutes of brainstorming

Point Eater: For 3 posts you eat your victim's points every time you post. Your victim looses and you gain the number of points equal to the last number of points your victim gained



Point Explosion: Everybody gains points equivalent to the highest score gained in one post. Your point reward is doubled for the next 2 turns.



Point Slasher: Slash your victim. Your victim bleeds out 50 pts. Who will be the lucky player who finds these bled out 50 pts? Odds are 1/(num_of_players * 3)



Point Swap: Swap points with a player for the next 2 posts you or your victim makes



Blue Shell: Bring #1 player down to be #2



Point Growth: Get N times more points the lower ranked you are



Div by 0: Divide a player's points by 0. Your victim has an undefined amount of points and is unaffected by any point manipulations until you post again or the victim posts 3 times



Gamble: Double post for a 50:50 chance of getting 200 pts



Entangled: You get or loose as many points as your victim for the duration of the next three posts you or your victim makes

Westonini wrote:

20 minutes is good enough.

johnmedina999 wrote:

Point eater: It should be that the player before you loses like 1/2 of what your score would be if you don't use it. For example, if you get 60 points and you use the power up, you should get 90 points and the previous poster should lose 30. This way, the amount lost/gained is dynamic and recalculated every post, and the user can be more thoughtful about when he posts.

johnmedina999 wrote:

Point explosion: I see no point in ever using this. If everyone gets the same amount of points then it's like no one gets any net gain. The only thing I can see that's positive about this is the "Your point reward is doubled for the next 2 turns" part, but then, it can be a power up of its own.
And on that, I think 2x is very high and very OP. Either make it rare or lower the multiplier.

johnmedina999 wrote:

Point slasher: I think the bled-out points should be percentage-based, not static. This way, you can use it thoughtfully in order to get the maximum benefit. I don't see anything wrong with the chance of finding it.

johnmedina999 wrote:

Point swap: I don't really understand this one, can you please explain it a bit better?

johnmedina999 wrote:

Blue shell: Blue shells are cancer and they shouldn't be implemented in any game ever. People work hard to get to the top, it's not fair to be able to regicide the #1. The scoreboard resets every month anyway; there isn't a need to dethrone anyone.

johnmedina999 wrote:

Point growth: Again, I think this is very OP. It would be better if it's something like 0.75nx, where n is your position. For example, if you're in 3rd place, you should get 3*0.75x points or 2.25x points. Maybe even less.

johnmedina999 wrote:

Divide by zero: This can be abused by the victim. If I'm hit by DBZ, I can just triplepost and the DBZ is gone now; not very helpful.

johnmedina999 wrote:

Gamble: I think it would be more fun if you could gamble any amount of points as long as it's less than or equal to the amount of points you have. If you lose, you lose the points you gamble, and if you win, your points are doubled. For example, if I have 1500 points, I could do \gamble{750}; if I lose, my point total is 750, and if I win, my point total is 2250.

abraker wrote:

That can be another variation. The point of the mechanics for the one I came up with is to allow the victim the opportunity to minimize damage to self.

abraker wrote:

There are a couple power-ups I listed that would cause someone not to receive the same amount of points: Divide by zero and Entangled. Divide by zero would cause the victim not to gain those points. Entangled would cause the one who use it have double the points due to this effect.

abraker wrote:

Player A has 100 pts and Player B has 50 pts. After using the power-up, player A has 50 pts and player B has 100 pts. This remains for two turns, then the pts are swapped back.

abraker wrote:

This power-up list can drastically change, so I wouldn't put too much effort in arguing power-ups just yet.

abraker wrote:

Or use DBZ on yourself to avoid Point Eater.

abraker wrote:

much like the slots command in the OT discord.

Achromalia wrote:

westonini is oof

Westonini wrote:

Achromalia wrote:

westonini is oof

Westonini wrote:

I once drank a whole gallon of milk in a day and I could feel my bones expand. At first I thought I was just full from the milk, but my skin started to form stretch marks and I was visibly wider. I didn't know what was happening but I had an uncontrollable urge to drink more milk. I drove into the nearest gas station and literally ripped the door off the rifrigerated section containing the milk.

I started chugging gallon after gallon of milk standing right there in the store, my skin ripping at the seams. The cashier ran over to stop me but I swatted him aside and in one clean blow he landed across the room, shattering every bone in his pathetic meat suit. There was nothing left of him but a wet bloody puddle deprived of structure. I never thought I had it in me to kill but by now I had ascended beyond petty morality.

As I finished my eighth gallon it felt as though my stomach would rupture. My ribs broke out of my chest like a baby xxenomorph. My finger bones had grown through my hands a white nub could be seen protruding from my nose. My face was so stretched over my now massive skull I looked like Jenny McCarthy. My biceps and muscles were hard and calcified. My boner now had a bone.

I finished my twelfth gallon and began screaming and flexing, my skin tearing around my robust skeletal frame. With one final push I shed my meat chrysalis. I was free.

I didn't even use the door I simply walked out the wall of the gas station. Mortar and stone yielded to my mighty calcium. The cops were already there. In terror they began firing at me but even lead is no match for calcium. I walked straight toward one, reached down his throat and pulled his skeleton from his flesh sheath. With his bone I assembled a mighty claymore sword. With a single swing I cleaved the Earth in twain and descended into the inky black. Here I wait until the time I'm called into service for the great skellington war.

Aiseca wrote:

Fixing SB and stuff..