The Energon Pub

[Psychout]

As most of you know, I've been spending time looking into getting more games and tourneys going here.

We've got some great ideas cooked up and almost ready to go, as has Sustain and a few others, but what we really want to know is what would YOU like to see?

Themed battles?
More/less hunting games (like scavenger/alt/bounty hunts etc.)
Do you want us to try and develop more of a 'capture the flag' format?
Is there another format that you think might work?

All ideas are welcome, especially from those who would normally prefer to stay quiet as everyone is invited to join, but most will involve some forum participation and despite some altmodes appearances we don't bite

[steve2275]

capture (the decepticon) flag?

[Naval Strike]

Themed battles is something i like to see

already got a great idea for one Reactivation of Neo Kaon

[Psychout]

capture (the decepticon) flag?

I have a few ideas of how to do that, nothing concrete yet but if it's what people want to see then we'll certainly try.

[Bun-Bun]

I'm down for anything.
Board contests ARE the real game.
(In my oh-so-humble and not-at-all pretentious opinion)

[Dragonslayer]

Hunting games are always fun for developing cross-faction relationships/rivalries (see the Wingz/Bun-Bun competition), so I'm all for those. Surely there is at least one Con who's tired of this always happening!

I'm with Bun-Bun, let's try anything and everything.

[Psychout]

I miss being outnumbered so much!!

I'm with Bun-Bun, let's try anything and everything.

That's what I was hoping to hear, but I'm still open to new ideas, suggestions and hearing if people have preferences.


We've got one last thing to try and organise and then we can dive on in...

[Bun-Bun]

Surely there is at least one Con who's tired of this always happening!

I'd venture to say most.
Personally, as long as I have time to wait (which admittedly isn't often lately), I avoid missions where we already outnumber the bots badly.

[Jack Hallows]

I personally never remember a time when bots outnumbered cons. Possibly pre-great reset, but anytime 2010 and beyond, it’s been con city up in this brick. This guy knows what I’m talkin about. It could also be the play times around the world that see more activity from either side.

But, to the actual point:

Monthly “Line In The Sand” tourney for noobs. Not sure what it’s called on the con side, but this mission here. We track the LitS wins per faction for a set amount of time and tally a winner. I’ve always found those missions to be the ones both sides of the ground war fight in the most.

Hell Week: Track Hell matches for a week and crown a King of Hell maybe.

Personal Bounties: Players can set bounties on one another or an entire team. Gotta 0 out a mech in a mission to claim it, or if it’s an 8 or more level difference, stasis lock them in a match. Or stasis lock an entire team of a single commander to claim the bounty. If certain members of that team are out of level range (for instance only lvl 0) then you must 0 out another member of the team to claim the member who is out of reach.

Rivalries: [in-event mini game] During any event, you choose an opposing commander and call them out. If they accept, the rivalry is on. When you stasis lock a rival, you gain 1 point toward your side regardless of which side wins the match. If you lock a rival in a match where your side wins, your side gains double the points awarded for the win. (the last part may need retweaking.)

Sharkticon Invasion Event: Like Jurassic Park but with Sharkticons or shark based alts. Buncha cons get sharkticon/shark-themed alts and Bots have to see who gets more kills, the sharks and friends or the bots.

“Battle of the Tactics” Transformation Event: Contest to see which commanders get the most transforms over a set amount of time.

Last Mech Standing: Participants sign up and are assigned brackets based on level. Or maybe it could be just free for all like a real war. They join missions and post the results. Any mech stasis locked in fair combat is eliminated till there’s only one mech and commander left.

Maybe a ranking system for the Last Mech Standing events, and an archive for their matches.

Tag Team mission event: Nuff said.

Also, it’d be cool to see an archive of any past events that can still be found on the boards, just so people can see all the fun stuff we’ve done over the years and get a sense for why some of us care about being here.

[Wingz]

I'm with Bun-Bun, let's try anything and everything.

I'm on board with this, also! The hunting game was fun, but there are so many possibilities for events! We won't know what brings people out or what is enjoyable unless the ideas are tried.

Also Altius is a beeeeeeeeeeast! I'm surprised you didn't get your own rival after that competition you cleaned house pretty wonderfully thoroughly!

Psychout, I'm really excited to know what game you and Sustain are contemplating the most! Thank you both very much for putting in the effort!

[Dragonslayer]

Hell Week: Track Hell matches for a week and crown a King of Hell maybe.

I kinda like this idea. There is always a lot of competition there and it'll encourage others to get in on it for the possibility of huge XP gains.

[Psychout]

I personally never remember a time when bots outnumbered cons.

There used to be swarms of them at 0-2 back in the Glyph days. Like literal swarms, missions would fill with bots as soon as they were generated. Its was glorious.

Monthly “Line In The Sand” tourney for noobs.

Pick a specific mission type? Ok, noted.

Hell Week: Track Hell matches for a week and crown a King of Hell maybe.

sounds like a logistcal nightmare, but great fun. I'll look into it.

Personal Bounties: Players can set bounties on one another or an entire team. Gotta 0 out a mech in a mission to claim it

We had bounty hunting before, worked well, but once everyone has been hunted once the game became stale. Will look at it again though.

Rivalries: [in-event mini game] During any event, you choose an opposing commander and call them out. If they accept, the rivalry is on.

Probably best left for (friendly) forum banter, but if you want to put scores to them, be my guest

“Battle of the Tactics” Transformation Event

Has promise, but is a bit luck-based once above a certain level.

Last Mech Standing

That's an interesting idea. We'd have to match the levels of the combatants though, so may be a bit limiting.

Tag Team mission event: Nuff said.

I like this one, especially until we get more participation.

Also, it’d be cool to see an archive of any past events that can still be found on the boards, just so people can see all the fun stuff we’ve done over the years and get a sense for why some of us care about being here.

Ill have a dig around and see what we can find. There have been quite a few over the years, good suggestion!

Psychout, I'm really excited to know what game you and Sustain are contemplating the most! Thank you both very much for putting in the effort!

We both have very different ideas, which is why we both work so well together, means we rarely run the same game twice - she is also way better at full-on wars than I am.



Oh, one last thing...

Sharkticon Invasion Event

Funny you should say that.... watch this space

[Bun-Bun]

This guy knows what I’m talkin about.

What a weirdly random thread to pull out of nowhere. Hey look! I'm in there!
Didn't realize I was still around in '10. Thought I wised up long before then.

Sharkticon Invasion Event

Funny you should say that.... watch this space

Mine is an evil laugh

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I'm not gonna try to quote it all. I don't have the time at the moment. I will say this:

Ultra Magnus wrote:
I personally never remember a time when bots outnumbered cons.

There used to be swarms of them at 0-2 back in the Glyph days. Like literal swarms, missions would fill with bots as soon as they were generated. Its was glorious

This still can happen with everyone.... or well anyone who is willing to reset.

Smack Tallows wrote:
Hell Week: Track Hell matches for a week and crown a King of Hell maybe.

sounds like a logistcal nightmare, but great fun. I'll look into it.

This is easier than it sounds. Those involved must post links or the lose the potential points earned. The time stamp, and link much like a scavenger hunt to earn the points.

Bounties

can we enlist an artist? Custom sigs, or character pages? I have a template, and photoshop, it isn't out of the question.. but I can't draw from scratch.

Tack Ballows wrote:
Last Mech Standing

That's an interesting idea. We'd have to match the levels of the combatants though, so may be a bit limiting.

Add this to the Hell missions while it runs. It's a semi train wreak idea. Any mission posted that has 1 player left. Again, you must post your link to get your credit.

I've run out of ways to humourously misspell your name becuase I've quoted you so many times wrote:
Also, it’d be cool to see an archive of any past events that can still be found on the boards, just so people can see all the fun stuff we’ve done over the years and get a sense for why some of us care about being here.

Ill have a dig around and see what we can find. There have been quite a few over the years, good suggestion!

I have all the scrips that I've done. Though the forum doesn't go aback far enough, and a few were done on AWC/RDD areas only. Feel free to hit me up for a good read. Dependent on how Burn Feels about it I can post them here. I'm fairly sure though that it should be in the Transtopia area. However I'm not fond of it.




I've got one. Battle texts.

Yes, there are intros to what fight we're entering, and so and so hit's XX with XX, but I mean actually fleshing out the battle. Aspire some writers to get into really play them out. Even better if you can get a rivalry going and some depth from the rival about their team.

[Psychout]

I have all the scrips that I've done. Though the forum doesn't go aback far enough, and a few were done on AWC/RDD areas only. Feel free to hit me up for a good read. Dependent on how Burn Feels about it I can post them here. I'm fairly sure though that it should be in the Transtopia area. However I'm not fond of it.

Burn doesn't have feelings, that would infer he was human in some way.

I've got one. Battle texts.

Yes, there are intros to what fight we're entering, and so and so hit's XX with XX, but I mean actually fleshing out the battle. Aspire some writers to get into really play them out. Even better if you can get a rivalry going and some depth from the rival about their team.

I might have a way to help people with that, something for some inspiration at least...

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I have all the scrips that I've done. Though the forum doesn't go aback far enough, and a few were done on AWC/RDD areas only. Feel free to hit me up for a good read. Dependent on how Burn Feels about it I can post them here. I'm fairly sure though that it should be in the Transtopia area. However I'm not fond of it.

Burn doesn't have feelings, that would infer he was human in some way.

He's made a few go there to post texts/fictions that I've seen here as of late. Which that is what it's for, though depending upon how linked it is to the game.

I've got one. Battle texts.

Yes, there are intros to what fight we're entering, and so and so hit's XX with XX, but I mean actually fleshing out the battle. Aspire some writers to get into really play them out. Even better if you can get a rivalry going and some depth from the rival about their team.

I might have a way to help people with that, something for some inspiration at least...

Shall I post an example?

[Burn]

Talking to Va'al about scripts. Will get back to you.
Should be okay to post here and he can link from there with his round-ups.
Worst case scenario, I can move the thread to the Transtopia forums and leave a shadow topic here.
We do want to build Transtopia up as well.

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Talking to Va'al about scripts. Will get back to you.
Should be okay to post here and he can link from there with his round-ups.
Worst case scenario, I can move the thread to the Transtopia forums and leave a shadow topic here.
We do want to build Transtopia up as well.

I'd appreciate if you did, so those that are not as familiar with Transtopia can be directed to the correct thread.

Thank you.

[Dragonslayer]

I've got one. Battle texts.

Yes, there are intros to what fight we're entering, and so and so hit's XX with XX, but I mean actually fleshing out the battle. Aspire some writers to get into really play them out. Even better if you can get a rivalry going and some depth from the rival about their team.

I might have a way to help people with that, something for some inspiration at least...

I remember reading one of those back when we had that pseudo-monthly newsletter and thought that was really cool. I was actually trying to think of a way we could tie those kinds of stories into a competition or tournament, kinda like a campaign. The story would unfold as the competition went on and the results would determine events in the story. Don’t know how one would incorporate it, and it may be a lot of work but it’s a thought.

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I've got one. Battle texts.

Yes, there are intros to what fight we're entering, and so and so hit's XX with XX, but I mean actually fleshing out the battle. Aspire some writers to get into really play them out. Even better if you can get a rivalry going and some depth from the rival about their team.

I might have a way to help people with that, something for some inspiration at least...

I remember reading one of those back when we had that pseudo-monthly newsletter and thought that was really cool. I was actually trying to think of a way we could tie those kinds of stories into a competition or tournament, kinda like a campaign. The story would unfold as the competition went on and the results would determine events in the story. Don’t know how one would incorporate it, and it may be a lot of work but it’s a thought.

Not as hard as it sounds. I did four of them. Just not the news letter part.

[Psychout]

Talking to Va'al about scripts.

Sweet. Va'al proof-read the comic reviews I did here when the IDW MTMTE and RID first released. I see his name around here a lot these days, nice to hear he's doing well still.

[Psychout]

kinda like a campaign.

enigmatic AF

[Wingz]

I was actually trying to think of a way we could tie those kinds of stories into a competition or tournament, kinda like a campaign. The story would unfold as the competition went on and the results would determine events in the story. Don’t know how one would incorporate it, and it may be a lot of work but it’s a thought.

This

[Burn]

**** I wish we could update those mission texts. *sigh*

[-Soundwave-]

**** I wish we could update those mission texts. *sigh*

Me too, I'd be all over that. A few people probably would.