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Well, you made it a whole week. I'm impressed!

I lost money on that one. Curse your insufficiently limited willpower, Neo. Curse it!

It might simplify a few things.

Also, what the blazes did you guys do after I left? See that the arm was cleared out, but then apparently y'all chuckles got chucklefucked _{Not that the outcome would have likely been different with me there, ha.}

And neo... champ is probably a pretty poor way to get used to the flow of a game, methinks. They're... kinda' weird. It's very different from the normal play, and much... slower. Sloggy. For a long while. And the nebula maps are honestly a pretty good testament to kinda' shitty design. Actually fairly well designed to do what they seem intended to do (tie up the champion for a while and slow them the fribbly down), but they're boring as hell to actually play through, and your entry fee involves becoming less sexy (and not in a sexy way). It doesn't help that the rewards of doing them given to the non-champ players are very... samey, which is really kind of a huge departure from general ship design in the game. And quite fundamentally, you're a single (albeit powerful) ship in a game of mass combat. It's almost a case of thematic mismatch, really.

Pretty good when used as an overpowered raid starship, though, in concert with normal players, and notably more fun to do when that's happening, but... those damn nebula maps Half the enemy HP (minus a little extra), double the number, and get rid of the freaking speed/range penalties (or at least the speed ones) and that'd probably go a long way towards making them more enjoyable. Then you'd just have to make the reward ships and the reward stations do something actually interesting and you'd be pretty golden.

Now, if you want to get used to the game without having to deal with actually making too major of an effort investment... maybe jump in on a multiplayer game as a helper. You could muck around, check stuff out, help manage some fights and some varying other construction... it's like playing the game, just somewhat less expansive. (Of course, the real answer is to just go balls out and fling yourself headfirst into the AI's frothing abyss. You learn quick!)

Could join! Might have to drop suddenly, though. Probably have company sometime this afternoon, I'm just not sure when. Or if, fully, but eh.

Yup. Been trying sporadically for the last couple minutes.

Would be fine with either, I think, with slight preference towards the non-champ leaning game. I kinda' like champions, but playing with them has been incredibly slow, so far, especially getting off the ground.

... though either would be good, so long as I didn't have to play a champion

It's no worse than most other fan-translations. Hell, I've seen worse official translations

*Surreptitiously glances toward Capcom, lapses into a coughing fit that sounds suspiciously like "Breath of Fire"*

Ah, sorry there gov', had somethin' caught in m'throat I did.

Folks can join mid game if it's not full, too. *eyebrow waggle*

Can drop out as well, I think. You might not need all the players to kick up an old map (though you might want them, just out of courtesy.), if that's what you're after.

I'm... kinda' half asleep and exhausted, but I could hop in from now 'till probably around 9 PM CST. It would help me actually stay awake that long, so that I don't the everything my sleep schedule. Just don't expect top-tier capability, heh. I mean, compared to what I normally manage, which isn't that to begin with.

E: Kicking open steam, so should be contactable via that if PMs thread update or somethin' fails.