T64: friends are key (in Contests)

24 hours starting 12/9 at 9:00 EST/server 160 starting & max
100000% bonus
no decay
no dd
there will be no weapons

largest tat wins

prizes: 1.5m 1st / 750k 2nd / 500k 3rd

special prize: beat the person with the largest tat with your last fight and get 250k

participation: 50% of largest tat

shouldn't be long... NS will have to manually start this

Tried to get a hold of you in chat.. The tournament is listed as starting tomorrow in the database itself.

Tomorrow at 9 pm server time would be awesome. I then would be able to complete it all on Friday after my final exam :)

updated

You mean a straight 160 fights, or 160 initial and all the BA you can burn?

160 BA is your BA cap.

I am going to assume UC is not allowed.

UC will be allowed, but STR over 100 is not

Ohh, I see. Exciting ;)

4 hours to liftoff

are we supposed to lose our first several fights because we can't have a starting weapon or train a DD?

yes.... err No EDIT: added Cutlass... sorry about being thick, thought it would only take one loss

should add a rule that the cutlass needs to be ditched asap, it should only be used to get through the first 2 fights or so. Not that its worth keeping or upgrading the cutlass but still...

yay for using the ds browser to post this.

cutlass is fine... since I can't stop UC either... also helps for moving the familiar around

Magic Missile: 261,277 / 225,238

nuff said...

thats a couple of hours down the drain =\

Just some food for thought...

XP (per minion) 58768

Thats off of a 100% CB. The randomness in fight rewards combined with a limited amount of BA and super bonuses can really make or break characters. I have gotten 87k per minion off of a 56% bonus.

Not so sure what can even be done, but a string of good luck or bad luck can really alter the tournament standings significantly.

Sorry for the double

XP (per minion) 107616

With 87% bonus. 13% less bonus and almost double the rewards T_T

yeah I got a bunch of 60ks off of 100%s, its a little bit of luck for sure but its the same for everyone so its not like you are at a complete disadvantage because of it. =\ Does kinda suck still though

I'm just debating whether or not to hit Nat now for the bonus 250k, or to use my last hit to boost my tat just a tad bit more.

Btw Nov, does the special prize stack with 2nd/3rd or no? Because that will make my choice for me. heh

yes the special prized stacks

I keep hearing about how much damage the random factor could do to a persons results... maybe we need to test that out and see just how much difference it'd be in a reduced variable setup like two chars attacking the same massive high level char for the full 160 fights

Fight rewards are NOT random..

In other news I'll give this a try in a few hours :)

Bah I got a SM as my final hit.. that's gotta count for something right? Heh well at least I didn't die, though a draw would have been nice.

Good luck taking out Nat everyone :D

Yes they are...

Unless you're saying they're pseudo-random... which bah humbug.

Over enough data points they will even out, but in a tournament like this where it's impossible to fight all 160 fights at 100% bad luck could ruin your day (keeping in mind that 1 fight = 1000 fights).

What if you continually hit the lows at 100% and the highs at 50% bonus? Both will not equal out in the end.

However,

I still had a fun tourney regardless, and was merely posting that as something for people to think about when getting these huge bonuses :)

So nov, figure out how to tell the tat sizes yet? :P

negatory, likely going to have to have someone do some magic
prizes as soon as we know

NS is going to try and get realms added to the tat page

I think it might be good to do it with the most valuable items as well at the same time.

Ever figure out who won this lol?

still working on it, very very sorry

He's waiting on me. Sorry :(