The Energon Pub

Wed Jul 28, 2010 9:16 pm

What do you do with the minicons slots?

News Credits: 226 · Wed Jul 28, 2010 10:01 pm

Nothing.

It's a dead feature that wasn't removed from the game properly.

*cue the discussion about how the 'Bots had no minicons left and how minicons in general broke the game*

News Credits: 8 · Wed Jul 28, 2010 10:31 pm

Burn wrote:Nothing.

It's a dead feature that wasn't removed from the game properly.

*cue the discussion about how the 'Bots had no minicons left and how minicons in general broke the game*

I've forgotten the technical stuff that all failed, but basically, minicon missions ended up being that you had 0-3, 4-7, and 7-11 brackets. You won, and your faction recieved so many mincicons.

Well, Minicons became as high a commodity as Null Rifles are to the low levels now. And were restocked as frequently. In order to win, you needed a lot of muscle. So the level threes and 2s decided that the zeros are worht nothing and should just go away. Logically, this is sound. However, considering for a moment this is an input>output web based GAME, this is a good way to start a flamewar. Or thirty. And as a result, more 0s got into the missions than should have to "prove theselves". And I suspect moreso on the Autobot side, but a little on both, things didn't go so hot in the old personel.

And of course, now you have minicon-empowered robots running around. In general, yes. The cons did better at winnign them. But battles were extremely lopsided with them in any direction. (Much like the battles in Armada SHOULD have been, if they shot more and talked less, and could avoid the plotholes...) One autobot could suddenly walk in and level three cons with the minicon, where before he shouldn't have had a living chance to WOUND one. And vice-versa.

So while regarded as a good idea, and an interesting little gimmick, we basically decided that in execution the "moron" who prgorammed that needed to be shot.

(That's sarcasm, along the same lines as "What Idiot dremt this up, oh me." excpet I wasn't the prgoramming and couldn't prgram myself out of a paperbag)

I get that about right?

Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:54 am

Flashwave, I like you. We should totally hang out. I'd buy the first round at the bar even.

News Credits: 8 · Thu Jul 29, 2010 3:24 pm

Loki God Of Mischief wrote:Flashwave, I like you. We should totally hang out. I'd buy the first round at the bar even.

I wouldn't, least for another three years. They have laws about minors and alcohol

. But I appreciate the compliment.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Jul 29, 2010 4:42 pm

See, where I come from, we're allowed to drink alcohol anywhere at 18 (and most people manage it before that anyway), and at home we're allowed to drink (when supervised by parents) as young as 3 years old!

Thu Jul 29, 2010 5:21 pm

Redimus GTS wrote:See, where I come from, we're allowed to drink alcohol anywhere at 18 (and most people manage it before that anyway), and at home we're allowed to drink (when supervised by parents) as young as 3 years old!

Same goes for Australia

News Credits: 9 · Thu Jul 29, 2010 5:25 pm

Neo Crusader wrote:
Redimus GTS wrote:See, where I come from, we're allowed to drink alcohol anywhere at 18 (and most people manage it before that anyway), and at home we're allowed to drink (when supervised by parents) as young as 3 years old!

Same goes for Australia

It doesn't in Canada, but when you have British Parents........ :-$

News Credits: 42 · Thu Jul 29, 2010 5:35 pm

And people wonder why Britian is a nation full of piss artists... :lol:

I guess its also pretty ironic that were talking about booze in a minicon thread, as the 'bots treated them like shandies at a kegger. After they were pulled from the game, they ran out of them a whole month before we did.

News Credits: 226 · Thu Jul 29, 2010 6:10 pm

Psychout wrote:I guess its also pretty ironic that were talking about booze in a minicon thread, as the 'bots treated them like shandies at a kegger. After they were pulled from the game, they ran out of them a whole month before we did.

Psychout & Burn wrote:We have energon, give us dead minicons and we will give you this energon

Murderplex wrote:NOM NOM NOM

I blame those guys. :WHISTLE:

News Credits: 42 · Thu Jul 29, 2010 6:20 pm

Ahhh, yes. Back when we were still allowed to organise the 'cons into the ultimate evil force of awesome.

Good times.
:twisted:

News Credits: 226 · Thu Jul 29, 2010 10:17 pm

Or the "politically correct" term, "The Pre-N_V Days".

News Credits: 3 · Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:11 pm

Burn wrote:Or the "politically correct" term, "The Pre-N_V Days".

lol

Mon Aug 02, 2010 6:49 pm

speaking of things that broke the game may I present one of those things to you: :KREMZEEK:

News Credits: 8 · Tue Aug 03, 2010 2:33 am

Tristar wrote:speaking of things that broke the game may I present one of those things to you:

But they make fun pets. And really, you change the color, you change their frequency. You can get some really mellow Zeeks out of a nice turquoise. But I would advise avoiding the reds and oranges. Tec Spec also mastered the creation of a multi-colored 'zeek, It was more spastic than dangerous and didn't last real long before he blended. I think he ended up a lovely pearl color...

I'm sorry, what wer ewe talking about here?

Tue Aug 03, 2010 6:12 pm

things that have broke the game I think. Oh here is is another one: The unknowns....who can know them? No one that's who!

News Credits: 8 · Wed Sep 01, 2010 12:49 pm

Tristar wrote:things that have broke the game I think. Oh here is is another one: The unknowns....who can know them? No one that's who!

Nah, the Unknowns are a species that lives beyond the HMW Dimension(s). When something fails in the game, a rift opens in the dimension, and they come racing in something like this:

http://www.lilformers.com/index.php/200 ... rmers-100/