The Energon Pub

Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:33 am

I've been keeping auto CR off. I'm piling up energon pretty good, so I'll likely leave it off for a good while to build it up.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:06 pm

I only made 4 guys so I wouldn't have to worry about running out of energon like I was starting to do before the reset. I made the mistake of making too many guys before and I felt like I suffered for it. Now I've only got the 4 and maybe a fifth and things seem to be going alright for me in missions. Sure the occasional 29 xp sucks but I'll hang in there until the end.

Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:27 pm

I reset a couple of mine back to lv 0 so I can save a little bit of energon and I'm slowly gaining back energon, which is a good thing.

Fri Oct 24, 2008 8:57 am

Cheetron wrote:I only made 4 guys so I wouldn't have to worry about running out of energon like I was starting to do before the reset. I made the mistake of making too many guys before and I felt like I suffered for it. Now I've only got the 4 and maybe a fifth and things seem to be going alright for me in missions. Sure the occasional 29 xp sucks but I'll hang in there until the end.

I sent you a little present. At level 0 a couple of more chars would more than make their money back with the free CR at lvl 0, so you'd see you energon gains go up a lot more. I'd suggest atleast making 2 more right now to make it 6.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Oct 24, 2008 9:10 am

Rolltide wrote:
Cheetron wrote:I only made 4 guys so I wouldn't have to worry about running out of energon like I was starting to do before the reset. I made the mistake of making too many guys before and I felt like I suffered for it. Now I've only got the 4 and maybe a fifth and things seem to be going alright for me in missions. Sure the occasional 29 xp sucks but I'll hang in there until the end.

I sent you a little present. At level 0 a couple of more chars would more than make their money back with the free CR at lvl 0, so you'd see you energon gains go up a lot more. I'd suggest atleast making 2 more right now to make it 6.

Thanks for that. As for making guys, I'm strange. I'll only do it if I can make them a "real" character, backstory, personality and the whole thing. Last time I made too many, I turned one into a traitor and the other into an agent of Unicron. I'm wary of making so many and not having the ability to delete not reset. I'll probably end up with 5 by the end of today.

Fri Oct 24, 2008 12:49 pm

Your character creation process way different from me. I just have to make as many characters that the game allows me to(yeah I supported the cap raise to 18 idea). Come up with bits of profiles, stat character data, etc for the bios in my head, but never actually get to typing them down until maybe a year later for one or two....maybe. :mrgreen:

Fri Oct 24, 2008 1:12 pm

Yep, I consider a name and an alt mode to generally be character enough at first. If the character crystallizes enough in my head, I eventually write a bio for him. If not, he eventually gets reset and renamed.

Before the reset, every single one of my bots had a different name at one point or another, except Velocity, Vector Maximus and Headlong. Those are the only three of my original bots left.

Fri Oct 24, 2008 1:51 pm

All of my characters on my team are actually my OC's that I wirte fanfics on DA. Before the reset, around 4 of them didnt exist - 3 I didnt even think up of yet and 1 I didnt even feel like creating. It takes me awhile to write out their bios, but I eventually get them done. XD

News Credits: 1 · Fri Oct 24, 2008 3:11 pm

Not to go into much more detail than I already have, but my process is complicated. Cheetron has been around since day one and the only thing that's changed is the length of his bio. I add stuff and only change things when absolutley neccesary. Same with Gadgett. Some guys have changed names, characters but when they feel right, they're locked in for good. I lost the my old name Back-up but I evolved his character before the reset and I guess a new name is kind of required.

I have notebooks full of different bios, both team and character. Old drafts, new revisions and current final. Only after I like it do I make the actual character.

Call me crazy. Everyone else has. lol

Fri Oct 24, 2008 3:33 pm

Cheetron wrote:Not to go into much more detail than I already have, but my process is complicated. Cheetron has been around since day one and the only thing that's changed is the length of his bio. I add stuff and only change things when absolutley neccesary. Same with Gadgett. Some guys have changed names, characters but when they feel right, they're locked in for good. I lost the my old name Back-up but I evolved his character before the reset and I guess a new name is kind of required.

I have notebooks full of different bios, both team and character. Old drafts, new revisions and current final. Only after I like it do I make the actual character.

Call me crazy. Everyone else has. lol

yer crazy

News Credits: 10 · Sun Oct 26, 2008 8:37 pm

The last thing I wanna do is bug the hard working people running this game, but perhaps we should consider being slightly more vocal about our problems and starting a similar discussion thread in the HMWGD? Perhaps we could rally more support there.

Sun Oct 26, 2008 10:27 pm

I"m handling as much as I can behind the scenes with Mkall. He did a few things a week and half ago or so but not sure how much has been implemented. I know he created a couple of different missions that were smaller and just for us Maximals vs preds at lower levels.

Mon Oct 27, 2008 12:31 pm

Were they level 0 only? Cause I haven't seen any new missions and that might explain why.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Oct 27, 2008 12:45 pm

I've yet to see any of these new missions, so I'm guessing not yet implemented.

Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:58 pm

The missions were 0 and 0-1 levels but when I chatted with Mkall last night, he hasn't talked to OS since he wrote up the missions. Only he knows if they were really added in. I doubt that it would be any issues of implementing them but maybe the mission generator could be having problems still. In all honesty, I don't know what is going on outside that OS is probably swamped again.

Tue Oct 28, 2008 4:23 pm

I had a rare result today, 3 missions against Decepticons with 5-6 Maximals and 0 Cons. Seems in numbers they are afraid of us lol. If i remember correctly in all of them i was the 4-5 to join with maybe 7 or so minutes left or more.

But i think were still getting pretty much owned with these missions.

News Credits: 1 · Tue Oct 28, 2008 4:58 pm

raphaelprime wrote:I had a rare result today, 3 missions against Decepticons with 5-6 Maximals and 0 Cons. Seems in numbers they are afraid of us lol. If i remember correctly in all of them i was the 4-5 to join with maybe 7 or so minutes left or more.

But i think were still getting pretty much owned with these missions.

I've seen 2 or 3 of them like that myself but it's always been at odd hours of the night. Maybe things are going in our favor. lol

Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:03 pm

Cheetron wrote:
I've seen 2 or 3 of them like that myself but it's always been at odd hours of the night. Maybe things are going in our favor. lol

I don't know. Could be. Most of the time often though, i still find me getting my shell kicked at odd hours of the night lol. But perhaps they could be slowly turning to our favor, as long as we stick together. They may have several level 2's now, but in numbers i feel us Maximals are the unstoppable ones.