by Psychout » Tue Jun 30, 2015 5:05 am
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- Weapon: Black Magic
Strength, Speed, Firepower and Courage were the stats boosted, and there was another one specifically to combat the tournament-specific triplechanger clones as they were wiping the floor with the lower levels. The huge tournament based around them with the battles against the Traplechangers, Sharkticons, Quintessons and the L15 Fallen was amazing, you can still see the evidence of their abilities on the tactics page.
Botmodes though were actually quite good, their rollout is what let them down. They added up to 5 to a single stat, coupled with the +4 boost minicons gave, there was the potential to put a stat up to 19. Problem was, due to the removal of the stat level cap to allow the Fallen to have a rank of 15 (Force Field armour) it also allowed players to set their stats above 10, and it was proven by Tammuz using arithmanc that a stat of 20+ would crash the game, so they had to be pulled as well.
The energon bug making certain players trillioniares gave the game some real strategy back then too, even if it was player-driven. Ah, the memories of the evil schemes...
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impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities
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