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Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on March 16, 2013, 04:13:10 pm

((On the subject of landlines: Even if a cable did stretch from here to the Sword, it wouldn't allow for communication on any practical scale.))

((What if it was some kind of ultra-thin four-dimensionally straight tube (so as to ignore the effects of gravity) that took advantage of the casimir effect to allow FTL travel of signals? It would be highly unpractical and expensive (and unnecessary, since we have instant communication devices (that for some reason they haven't trusted us with)) but it would be doable. Theoretically. If the physics are right. I think.))

Most likely.

Also I have a plan everyone!
Lets go back into storage, store everything except our bloodclotter, the water potion, locking glass, and the spellbook of breezes. Then, we go into the greens (Via checkpoint!), collect that grass which has some sort of reagent properties, and then sell it to the crafts-stall owner for money!

"How droll. How many of...us are there now? Too many by my count. Our heart will be working overtime...Perhaps we should get some priests to cut it out? Give us two?"

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on March 16, 2013, 04:58:48 pm

1. What did you expect everyone else to do, ignore the threats attacking them in favor of a guy who would be harder to hit? It would be perfectly logical to save guys like that for the last to be attacked.

2. Why does getting points out a target on your back? (Oddly enough, the system I suggested would do so, but the current one does not.)

3. The "high HP" thing turns attackers AWAY. They prefer to attack those with lower health, who aren't taking actions to defend themselves extra.

4. Your boxing analogy is nice and all, but this doesn't have to be that way. Should a lucky turtler be able to ruin an otherwise awesome game by stepping in with near-full health to finish off the doubtlessly greatly injured would-be victor? If you think so, we obviously have different goals.

2. Well, because, if the round ends due to time, they have a higher chance of winning. If they die, then they no longer have a chance at all, making to odds better.

3. Not necessarily. I always go for the people with High HP, as they're likely one of the bigger threats. If people who have Low HP try to attack you, you have a better chance of killing them with a counter. If someone with High HP attacks you, you'll have a harder time killing them. I'm surprised neither of you clued in on how much of a target Ryan was setting himself up as. High HP, Defence bonuses, and a personality that made nobody care about him. In a good way. You two were so busy withe each other that you forgot how much of a threat he would be once one of you killed the other.

1. Once again, it goes back to 3. If you're playing, say, Left 4 Dead, and you're in a parking lot, and you have a spitter, 3 regular zombies, and a Tank, which would you focus fire on?

4. Well, most people's goals were to survive. Yours' must've been to get the most points. Otherwise you would've clued in, and suggested that you go kill the turtler, whereupon killing him, you would've stabbed the other in the back. It's a viable strategy, what Ryan did, but there's a way around it. You just decided not to take it.