ErrantDShepherd Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Any Merric supporters here? I need one on my friends list bad... and looks like somehow none of mine are. >.< Heroes ErrantShepherd FC “Errant”: 8613335438 Gonna just toss this out there... Cuz why not? Currently Zephiel as lead, but can Change that to Nino, Eirika, Ninian, Sharena, Kagero... whoever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcom Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 (edited) 19 minutes ago, athena_57 said: Woooh, Team Linde is now even with team Tharja, we might have a chance after all (: You say that but it really seems to be who manages to get the 3x multiplier last. Otherwise, it's a pattern. Tharja will pull ahead, Linde gets 3x multiplier, Tharja gets 3x multiplier, Linde gets 2 3x multipliers, both characters tie, repeat. Edited May 12, 2017 by Falcom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayyyaka Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 2 minutes ago, Hawk King said: The more popular characters are supposed to win. That's the whole point of this. Making a popularity contest nothing but a coin flip completely ruins everything It was already ruined. Ruining it some more can only fix it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawk King Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 1 minute ago, Sayyyaka said: It was already ruined. Ruining it some more can only fix it. No, just because Lucina and Camilla won does not mean it was ruined. It just means the most popular characters won. AKA - the whole reason the voting gauntlet exists in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayyyaka Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 1 minute ago, Hawk King said: No, just because Lucina and Camilla won does not mean it was ruined. It just means the most popular characters won. AKA - the whole reason the voting gauntlet exists in the first place. I wasn't being serious. And while you're right that them winning doesn't ruin it, them being pitted against much less popular characters does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anacybele Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 1 minute ago, Hawk King said: No, just because Lucina and Camilla won does not mean it was ruined. It just means the most popular characters won. AKA - the whole reason the voting gauntlet exists in the first place. They were also utterly predictable and boring winners. It made the gauntlet less exciting than it could've been. Far less exciting. The only awesome matchup we got was Ephraim vs Chrom. The x3 multiplier has made this more competitive and fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcanite Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Just now, Anacybele said: The x3 multiplier has made this more competitive and fun. It is kind of funny to see Henry be down by 40 MIL then back up 8 MIL every couple hours XD The final x3 Bonus is gonna be eventful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruruo Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Arguably the nest part of the VG is to fight for your favourite character. Before this update people would bandwagon with clear winners. I do like this caws it does give more reason to side with favourites, since the winners isn't as clear. I think the last few hours will be quite exciting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenzify Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 12 minutes ago, Sayyyaka said: It was already ruined. Ruining it some more can only fix it. I like this mentality. xD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawk King Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 1 minute ago, Sayyyaka said: I wasn't being serious. And while you're right that them winning doesn't ruin it, them being pitted against much less popular characters does. Well yeah, the match-ups were pretty dumb. 1 minute ago, Anacybele said: They were also utterly predictable and boring winners. It made the gauntlet less exciting than it could've been. Far less exciting. The only awesome matchup we got was Ephraim vs Chrom. The x3 multiplier has made this more competitive and fun. It's not designed to be exciting. I would have to say that this yo-yo gauntlet is much less exciting and fun. Now the Chrom v Ephraim match-up was legitimately exciting. And completely real. Something like that will never happen again if the 3x bonus stays. It will just be a matter of whoever gets the bonus last. I'm hoping that the 9th gauntlet will feature the 8 previous winners. That way, every team should be fairly popular picks and there would be much closer votes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anacybele Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 2 minutes ago, Hawk King said: It's not designed to be exciting. ...What? Seriously, what? This makes zero sense. Why would something like this purposely not be designed to be exciting and fun? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcanite Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Hawk King said: It's not designed to be exciting. I would have to say that this yo-yo gauntlet is much less exciting and fun. Now the Chrom v Ephraim match-up was legitimately exciting. So you're saying, because they now have the x3 bonus they are forcing artificial Chrom vs. Ephraim match-ups which makes them less fun by comparison? I can understand that. 11 minutes ago, komasa said: Arguably the nest part of the VG is to fight for your favourite character. Before this update people would bandwagon with clear winners. I do like this caws it does give more reason to side with favourites, since the winners isn't as clear. I think the last few hours will be quite exciting. I don't even have a favorite character.... I did it just caws Edited May 12, 2017 by ArCAWnite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenzify Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 17 minutes ago, ArCAWnite said: Why didn't you crow to team robin then? It's amazing how puns can make me want Henry to go through, just so Tharja can annihilate him to the point he won't find anything funny again. Anyway, she may be the popular choice, but she's still my favourite character in the gauntlet, and I always go with my favourites... except that one time I went with Lucina... But it was the first gauntlet! No one knew just how much of a bloodbath it was going to be... I didn't know! D: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice Dragon Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 15 minutes ago, Hawk King said: This 3x comeback shit is soooooo stupid. I joined Sanaki 2 hours ago because she was losing. 1st battle was considered same even though she was down by like 30 million. 2nd battle, she was down 60ish million so I got the 3x and spent some flags. Now after the 3rd battle Sanaki is winning by 140 million. The more popular characters are supposed to win. That's the whole point of this. Making a popularity contest nothing but a coin flip completely ruins everything. Regardless, people are only going to be using flags when their team is down, so every single match-up is going to see these yo-yo like flips constantly. The gap is just going to get larger and larger with each flip. As long as enough people on the more popular team saves enough flags for the right times they will still win. However is a losing team has the 3x bonus during the final 30 mins of a round and everyone waits for it and then uses 200 flags at the last minute, the less popular character can still win. I really hope they turn off the 3x bonus for the last few hours of every round. Assuming players for both teams only use flags when they have the 3× bonus, which is an entirely reasonable assumption, the team with more players is still going to win. Three times a bigger number is still bigger than three times a smaller number. Who has the bonus for the last hour of voting (the bonus lasts for exactly 1 hour at a time starting at the score update and ending or being refreshed at the next score update) only matters for close matches. If the match would have already been a blow-out, the favorite would only fail to win if too many of their supporters spent flags without the bonus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immatx Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Our goddess protected my Julia/Nino/Hector team and let them go deathless against a Karel/Ryoma/Lyn team. Praise be to Julia. 9 minutes ago, komasa said: Arguably the nest part of the VG is to fight for your favourite character. Before this update people would bandwagon with clear winners. I do like this caws it does give more reason to side with favourites, since the winners isn't as clear. I think the last few hours will be quite exciting. Yes it's so much fun this time! That could be because I care a lot more this time, but ever match is at least semi competitive for the first time which makes each battle matter more than it did before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r4v1sh Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Hawk King said: It's not designed to be exciting. I would have to say that this yo-yo gauntlet is much less exciting and fun. If it wasn't meant to be exciting we wouldn't have a gauntlet in the first place, but just some random choose your fave poll. And as much as this new system adds some big unpredictability, people are still playing. They can still fight for better results with careful use of flags, choose challenging characters as lead to make their opponents life tougher and their allies easier and all that, So yeah, IMO it's still pretty real. Only the rules have changed. Edited May 12, 2017 by r4v1sh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcanite Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Just now, Frenzify said: It's amazing how puns can make me want Henry to go through, just so Tharja can annihilate him to the point he won't find anything funny again. Don't come crowing to me when Tharja gets smacked up and out of exixtence 1 minute ago, immatx said: Our goddess protected my Julia/Nino/Hector team and let them go deathless against a Karel/Ryoma/Lyn team. Praise be to Julia. I'm doing the cheese strat and using a level 1 Henry to pair up with the OP OP people I keep getting XD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immatx Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 1 minute ago, ArCAWnite said: Don't come crowing to me when Tharja gets smacked up and out of exixtence I'm doing the cheese strat and using a level 1 Henry to pair up with the OP OP people I keep getting XD Wow. I'm over here trying my best with ridiculous max si units and ur doing that..... Oh well, it's worth it for the bonus unit points, otherwise I'd do the same thing :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaximillian Posted May 12, 2017 Author Share Posted May 12, 2017 Just now, immatx said: Oh well, it's worth it for the bonus unit points, otherwise I'd do the same thing :P I don't even have Julia (still)… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcanite Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Just now, immatx said: Wow. I'm over here trying my best with ridiculous max si units and ur doing that..... Oh well, it's worth it for the bonus unit points, otherwise I'd do the same thing :P I'd train up my henry if I wanted to, but after this he's gonna be fodder anyway so why bother? LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magical Glace Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 (edited) Henry vs Leo update: 575,716,425 Henry 513,977,819 Leo Edited May 12, 2017 by Glaceon Mage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphophoulous Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Long Live Queen Julia Sanaki is nothing without her Holy Guard. #Julia_never_got_lost_on_a_boat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orca Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 23 minutes ago, Anacybele said: They were also utterly predictable and boring winners. It made the gauntlet less exciting than it could've been. Far less exciting. The only awesome matchup we got was Ephraim vs Chrom. The x3 multiplier has made this more competitive and fun. How can you call it competitive when the only reason the loser is winning is because of some ridiculous crutch mechanic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenzify Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Tharja: 2,251,879,676 Linde: 2,175,045,600 I know people have said that the most popular will still win, but I still have the feeling this system will screw some matches over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solunar Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 11 minutes ago, Ice Dragon said: Assuming players for both teams only use flags when they have the 3× bonus, which is an entirely reasonable assumption, the team with more players is still going to win. Three times a bigger number is still bigger than three times a smaller number. Who has the bonus for the last hour of voting (the bonus lasts for exactly 1 hour at a time starting at the score update and ending or being refreshed at the next score update) only matters for close matches. If the match would have already been a blow-out, the favorite would only fail to win if too many of their supporters spent flags without the bonus. Exactly what I was thinking. It's still very much a popularity contest and less of a coin flip than it seems. Especially since there's a limited amount of flags, the team with more people will always have the advantage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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