The Weakest Link '09: General Discussion

[Silfir]

That's what I'm fearing too... Maybe we can alleviate that in some way? An informal exhibition league in the Warm-up thread to pass the time? Roman Republic Character style - anyone can sign up anytime?

[F50]

A more-informal Roman-Republic warm up sounds great.

[vogonpoet]

I wonder how many Roguelike players it takes to change a lightbulb.

[gut]

Ten?

One to change the bulb, and nine to advise him
that the random lightbulb generator will later
kill him if it's too easy.

[Grey]

One, but he'll die ten thousand times over 8 years trying. Each death is blamed on bad luck or overconfidence.

[Epythic]

One, but he'll die ten thousand times over 8 years trying. Each death is blamed on bad luck or overconfidence.

So true...

[Silfir]

Let's revive the discussion of races and classes for a bit. I'm still in favor of the "every league gets a random character" concept, but some have expressed their interest in other choices.

Let's discuss this once more. I think random characters for every league are the most fun because they will give us the most variety and will be equally fair to all participators in the sense that no one will be guaranteed to get a character he likes or is even remotely proficient with. Sacrificing variety it might be a possibility to generate one random combo and assign that combination to all the other leagues (though they won't get the same character like last year). That way we can kind of compare the efforts of the differing leagues, but since the ID is highly random in itself that'd be a very big "kind of".

Deciding on a set race/class combo designed to be easy to survive with in the ID, such as an elementalist, is something I wouldn't want since people who prefer that combination will be advantaged by design instead of luck. Similarly the leagues shouldn't get to decide, because they'll choose an easy combination on their own I'm sure, and that would be boring and less challenging too. Also, how can it be a decent murderous arena if the gladiators get to decide that kind of stuff?

[gut]

If the leagues have different race/class combos, how
will we gloat?

"Our wizard is doing soooo much better than your thief!"

Maybe that's a good thing though : )

[Maul]

If the leagues have different race/class combos, how
will we gloat?

"Our wizard is doing soooo much better than your thief!"

Maybe that's a good thing though : )

Actually, it would be valid if we were like, "Our thief is doing soooo much better than your wizard!"

[meh]

One possibility is to have a set of races and classes for each league, with the actual combination picked randomly from among these. If players were allowed to select their league, then you could choose your general type of character, but would not be guaranteed to get the combination you want. The selection for each league could follow some theme. As an example, here's a division I made on the basis of the attributes associated with the four elements (if you can't tell, I was feeling a bit bored) :

FIRE:
Drakeling
High Elf
Human
Orc
Troll
-
Barbarian
Farmer
Fighter
Monk
Paladin


WATER:
Dark Elf
Drakeling
Dwarf
Gray Elf
Human
-
Merchant
Mindcrafter
Necromancer
Priest
Wizard


AIR:
Dark Elf
Gnome
Gray Elf
High Elf
Hurthling
-
Archer
Assassin
Bard
Elementalist
Thief


EARTH:
Dwarf
Gnome
Hurthling
Orc
Troll
-
Beastfighter
Druid
Healer
Ranger
Weaponsmith