Game Fan League

[Ravsieg]

This is getting too complicated for me to follow. I'll play nonetheless.

 

[Atobe the king]

Awesome ideas sherlock...and i agree we should hold off until the next round..and that we should turn 1 ability when we hand in out line ups.

 

[KuwabaraTheMan]

I think there should be some abilities that happen automatically, though. That would allow characters to have drawbacks.

Maybe there could be attributes based on the characters play style or personality that happen automatically (ie good/bad at doubles, long stamina, insight or other things like that), and then abilities based on specific techniques or auras (you have to pick one at the start of the match).

To use Fayte's TCG analogy, it would be like how in Magic you have some abilities that happen automatically, and some abilities that have to be activated.

 

[Atobe the king]

Hmm....we just made this fucking complicated didn't we....

I'm all for it though...things should be interesting and matchups should become epic.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

You know what, how about instead of special abilities, we do something else to make this less complicated but just as epic?

A friend made a pot rpg based on the fan league idea, but he never bothered to launch it, lol.

http://z6.invisionfree.com/PrinceOfTennisRPG/index.php?showtopic=2

Check the system he was using to make the matches more complicated. If people could customize their teams like that, it could be interesting.

But again, I'm all for making things complicated so long as we can still follow them. It will be hell trying to balance everything out though.

I think that we can make the special abilities all make sense, so long as we write a small rulebook.

 

[Atobe the king]

I personally like what we had before (i mean before your post not before the idea of special abilities). I was joking about being more complicated..

It's all about studying, aunderstand your opponents (your immediate opponents) ability

Like me..Ryoga has the ability to automatically lose to Ryoma....so me having Ryoma if i play someone with Ryoga i have to be wary of their line up since i have on guaranteed win.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Yeah, but I think there are TOO MANY abilities that could be summarized as "opponent loses 2 points if he is not a lot stronger than this character"

We have to make them more unique.

 

[Kaoz]

Hello everyone, even though I just signed up here, I followed the Fan League since it was created. As such I wanted to ask wether I could participate in the next season.

 

[KuwabaraTheMan]

Here are some proposals I had for characters not currently included in the league.

Minami (8):
Doubles Genius: Minami's point total is doubled whenever he plays in doubles.

Higashitaka (4):
Doubles Expert: Higashitaka gains 3 points when playing in Doubles. If his partner is a Doubles Genius or Doubles Expert, the gain is doubled.

Kaneda (2):
Doubles Expert

Itsuki (3.5)
Sinker (Activated): Nullifies the opponents activated ability if it is a technique.
Charge Up (Activated): Itsuki wins if the opponent is within 1 point of his total.

And some proposals for characters already in the pool:
Kikumaru (12)
Doubles Expert
Running out of Breath: Kikumaru loses in a tie (singles or doubles)
Duplicate (Activated): Kikumaru gains 2 points (can only be used in Singles)

Inui (11.5)
Gathering Data (Activated): When playing in Doubles, Inui gains 2 points.
Seigaku's Data: Inui gains 4 points when playing against any Seigaku player
Waterfall Serve (Activated): The opponent's total drops by 1 point.

Kaidoh (16.5)
Stamina Freak: Kaidoh wins if he ties or if the opponent's total is within 1.5 points
Laser and Snake (Activated): Kaidoh gains 1.5 points per opponent.
Rivalry (Activated): Kaidoh may copy any one of Momoshiro's abilities for this match.

What do you think of those?

Hello everyone, even though I just signed up here, I followed the Fan League since it was created. As such I wanted to ask wether I could participate in the next season.

I'm not in charge, but I don't see why not. Having some fresh blood around would definitely be welcome.

 

[Atobe the king]

And there wouldn't be any byes right?

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Why not? Welcome!

Well, Javmingol also wanted to enter the league remember? So if he enters as well, we'll have 9 people. But hey, we can live with a few byes. Sure.

Our only problem would be that we need more characters for both chaosmaster1991 and Javmingol, but we can come up with some, right guys?

Just wait for us to finish the seventh round and then we'll give you and Javimingol a list of characters to pick.

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Also, I was thinking, to make things a little more complicated, we can make it so people can only activate 4 abilities per match.

That way not all 7 characters will have hax, and it will be more important to decide who you think can win without any powers, or who needs a little extra help.

 

[Atobe the king]

Im loving the limit idea as well.

 

[KuwabaraTheMan]

Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. It would increase the amount of strategy, and also keep anyone from just spamming hax abilities.

 

[Fayte]

How are we going to limit it though?

Btw Sherlock, take a look at my ability for Niou I thought of.

 

[Atobe the king]

That sounds a bit broken....he's a guaranteed tie.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

I like the idea, but it could be improved to make it less broken.

For example, this:
"In Doubles, Niou's points become equal to one of his opponents(the user must specify which opponent he wishes to copy. The one that comes first, or the second one.

E.g:

Niou(22)/Momo(16) vs Sanada(30)/Yukimura(35)

Niou activates Trickster on 1.
He transforms into Sanada.
If he activated Trickster on the second player to be listed, he would become Yukimura. Of course, this would be guesswork since the one using Niou wouldn't know who his opponent was putting on doubles.

And in Singles, it could be something like this:

"Ultimate Swindle(S.E)
Niou transforms into his opponent's strongest rival. For example, he faces Atobe, he becomes Tezuka. He faces Momo, he becomes Kaidoh. He faces Echizen, he becomes Ryoga. He faces Shiraishi, he becomes Fuji.

Strongest rival being considered of course, as the strongest character to canonically beat him. If there is no such character, then the ability backfires and Niou loses 10 points.


As for how to limit the abilities, it's simple. You have 7 characters. Some of them have more than one ability.

When you send your lineup, you can select up to 4 abilities to activate in total. You can make one character use all of his abilities, or activate one on each character, it depends on how you want to make your team play.

 

[Fayte]

That sounds a bit broken....he's a guaranteed tie.

No, not if he plays someone weaker than him.

Niou (22) vs Kadowaki (2)

Niou (2) vs Kadowaki (22)

Niou loses.

He is a double edged sword.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

No, not if he plays someone weaker than him.

Niou (22) vs Kadowaki (2)

Niou (2) vs Kadowaki (22)

Niou loses.

He is a double edged sword.

So activating it or not becomes the question eh? Interesting. I think that is not-so-broken.

 

[Kaoz]

Well, thanks for letting me in.

As for the Ability thing, what if the doubles master would double their partners points instead of their own?
As they themselves all have rather low points it might make more sense. Maybe it would be too broken when partnered with Ryoga etc. but you could make a limit to this abilitiees range like it can only be used on a character witthin 15 points or something.
Just my thoughts though.

 

[Bowser]

So basically ability thing starts in the next season? o_O