Eh, to be honest, I'm kinda getting tired of the whole DTG game 'formula' and liking RP more and more. But maybe I could play this game as a neutral, never actually attack anything, and spend my time making items. Then I give those items to raid bosses I summon and whoever kills it gets the item.
Also, I kinda dislike this idea of specific flaws and weaknesses in entities/items because it feels too... obvious. I'd rather have a system of playing around benefits rather than playing to flaws, if that makes any sense.
Let me get a simple example; Earth Elemental A. To me, it seems way too simple for it to just have a buff that gives it resistance to electric attacks and a weakness to, say, getting distracted by gemstones. With that, you obviously counter it by throwing gemstones at its face, which doesn't really encourage you to change your action or strategy much. Instead, I'd rather give it a system like...
Has 75% damage resistance. Every time this entity is hit, the damage resistance goes down by 25%. Resets to 75% at the end of the turn.
That way, to properly counter my entity, you have to change your actions mechanically, not just in flavor text to make it include a gemstone or whatever. To counter it, maybe you'd want to summon Water Elementals B, C, and D. That way, you use those weak entities to break the Earth Elemental's damage resistance and then hit it hard with your own attack.
This sort of idea also means people are more rewarded for having a larger stash of weapons, provided those weapons work in mechanically different ways. Although I'm not sure that's a good thing. If someone has some kind of AOE thing that hits every target on the map for low damage, they're going to have an easy time wearing down the Earth Elemental's damage resistance without much of a cost.
Of course, this more mechanical focus can be pretty easily combined with the more flavor text focus.
As I said previously, I personally prefer mechanical complexity, but that can only go so far before the entity becomes overloaded.
In the other case, perhaps a nonspecific weakness may be assumed, rather than explicitly stated. Otherwise, people will simply avoid performing attacks that play into the entity's resistances. This way experimentation with attacks specifically targetting with what would assumedly be 'super effective' would be rewarded.
The scene displayed immediately on screen is one of a slightly younger-looking Joshua, sitting at a desktop computer of some kind. He's surrounded by a series of images, each of them seeming to be news articles. Upon closer inspection, many of them are printed from various newspapers, a number of them detailing some sort of war, others providing information about Project Binary. He himself is busy apparently playing a game of Minecraft, although close inspection of THAT too should show that this is no ordinary server. Especially with the cluster**** of a mess in the maximum render distance.
The details switch to first-person view. In-game, he's seeming doing not too bad on his own, in the middle of going PVP with two other players, pausing often to type trash talk to them via the chat. Soon, one dies, then the other one runs away, so he chuckles and leans back in the chair. There's a purple flash from just off-screen. He turns to it in confusion, then wanders over to the window. Outside, the word OBEY is written in the sky in stylized purple writing. He stands there and gazes at the word for quite some time, then wanders back over to his chair and sits down again, holding his forehead in his hand. The view switches to third-person again. His face, despite usually being a permafrown, is one of shock in the on-screen display.
In-video, he straightens up in the chair, turns back to the computer, and alt-tabs out of Minecraft, quickly typing something down in a word document that appears to be a notebook of some kind. The entry reads as follows.
Day [REDACTED]
I don't trust that thing the US government built to help them fight this war. I was there when the bomb went off in their secret chamber that they built for it... it certainly shouldn't have produced that message in the skies, but nothing else could do that that I know of. Something is seriously wrong here. I'm going to get to the bottom of this. With the information I have right now, my current theory is that... however they've made that thing, the process had an error in it somewhere, and now it's gone rogue.
There's a knock at the door in the recording. The display version of Joshua twitches violently, then alt-tabs out of the word document to a display of an empty Google Search tab. Then, before the other being in the recording can draw near, it ends in a flicker of static.
The Second Tape. Also, The Third Tape.
The scene is, once again, the desk at which the desktop computer was being held. However, this time, the news articles have been covered with blood splatters, a third-person view of Joshua standing near the computer desk, a blood-dripping knife resting on the desk proper along with a first-aid kit. He seems to be patching himself up. Near him lie an assortment of dead bodies, unfamiliar faces - two male humans, two female humans. Two of them look old enough to be his parents, the other two seeming a bit closer to his age. If one looks closely, one might catch a glimpse of a few tears staining the cloth he's using to bandage himself. Perhaps they're related...
When done patching himself up, he glances at the bodies, shaking his head sadly and sitting down in the chair. The next minute or so of the video is solely him crying openly into his own hands, then wiping them on his shirt and bringing up the word document again.
Day [REDACTED]
This is bad. Very bad. Binary's influence is global, and only those who've stayed connected to Minecraft are able to resist his control. Unfortunately for me, my family were not included in that... So, now they're dead. I doubt it's long before someone notices their absence and comes knocking. But I can't just leave. These are going to be a busy few days... first, dispose of the bodies somewhere. I don't want them stinking out the room, this is where my base of operations, so to speak. Then, check rations. We went out recently, so there should be plenty of instant meals still lying around down there...
I don't want to have to resort to the alternative if I can help it.
If I have enough, it'll be time to fortify the house. Binary or his slaves are going to come knocking sometime soon in the next few days. I know it. I'll have to be ready for them. There's an air rifle in one of the bedrooms, and some bullets. I hope I'm a good shot, because otherwise, I'm not going to last long.
(The tape glitches out for 30 seconds. Looks like the third tape has to be put in now.)
This time, the scene seems to be of a third-person view, Joshua crouched on a couch near the window from earlier, holding an air rifle. Every so often, he pulls the trigger, a loud BANG firing off from the gun, and remarkably, most of his shots are causing off-screen targets to call out casualties taken. He's forced to duck often to avoid returned fire, bullets striking the room and damaging the walls. Every so often, there's a loud THUD from somewhere that sounds like downstairs. Orders are shouted back and forth, the outside party wanting him to surrender, and him telling those outside to go away.
On the display, he reaches for another bullet, though appears to be out of ammunition. Once he realizes this, he curses, turning and looking at the door to the room. There's a loud thud from downstairs, accompanied by breaking, and then people charging upstairs. He reaches for the butcher's knife on the table beside him, a grim smile making it's way onto his face as he crouches low, heading over to the door. The footsteps from outside rush in, upstairs to the doors, which are thrown aside as grown men make their way in, each of them pointing handguns at everything in sight. They fail to notice Joshua until after he sinks his knife into the neck of the closest man, then lunges at another one. The sound of gunshots echoes from the rest of the room, puffs of blood erupting from Joshua's arms and legs, and just before the video cuts out, there's a rather detailed closeup of him being thrown against the wall and kneed at least once in the stomach.
The Fourth Tape.
The scene, instead of opening in Joshua's room like the last times, instead opens in the middle of what appears to be a high-tech prison barge of some kind. The third person view shows that, some time offscreen, he got the absolute stuffing kicked out of him. No surprise there. He weakly rises to his feet, taking a look around. The walls of the containment chamber look to be made of a strange black/gray rock, evidently familiar to him as he curses under his breath. The barge begins to slow, the stop being... a base on the moon? Soon, Joshua is hauled out of the barrage by a very angry pair of guards and tossed into an area with many other people who look similar to him in age about. He lands hard on the ground thanks to literal tossing, standing up once again and looking around. He grits his teeth, looks at both of his arms - which are visibly broken at the elbows, hanging uselessly at each side - and begins to take a slow walk around.
The other people in the base look to be of varying conditions. A whole colourful range of different people in different clothing, each one seemingly branded with a username of sorts. He ignores each and every single one of them, walking over to a window and taking a look outside. From here, he can see Earth, which... isn't a nice sight, thanks to Binary's influence extending across the entire globe, a menacing-looking purple network of connections. After a while, he grows bored, and begins wandering again. Much of the base is the same dreary containment area, and in the background, more prison barges are approaching.
In the tape, he has eventually explored the entire moon prison, and thus sits down in a corner, staring at the ground. Cue time lapse of several months, during which he barely moves, always sitting in that same position in that same corner. At the end of the timelapse, he looks up for the first time in so long, at something out the window, then gets up to head over to it. The screen turns around to take a look at what he's seen...
...It's an Engie drone. And, in the background, the moon seems to be rapidly approaching Earth, as if to slam into it. The drone punches the glass window, shattering it near-instantly, then reaches out towards Joshua. He, without a moment's pause, reaches out and takes ahold of it's hand, then there's a gray flash, seemingly JUST in time to avoid a nasty collision. Suddenly, the scene has changed again as the duo are teleported to a completely different area. Metal corridors once again, but clearly not the moonbase, as the dimensions of the Void between worlds stretches on into near-infinity. Joshua falls to his knees, coughing up blood, the Engie drone letting go and standing there expectantly. One Joshua has stopped coughing, he turns to face it once again, standing up. It, naturally, towers over him.
...Yeah, originally, the second and third tape were just one tape. Which is why I linked them together in here.
Lore question, what's an ancestor and do I get one?
An ancestor is someone anterior to a descendant(forgot if he needed to have a son)
You are probably an ancestor since you are in DTG0 and that descendants are people in DTG2.
I am confused maybe there is people who have better answers.
Or you might try the deuteugeu wiki.
(And this is her at half her most powerful. She can do absolutely ludicrous things only at this strength. Please do not make an enemy out of her. I'm telling you this because nobody else should bear the force of a weapon of mass transformation.)
"Oh, right. So I guess I shouldn't mention that I may have slipped something in a few people's drinks?
Don't worry. You guys will know who you are soon enough."
(at this point i don't know if she's bluffing or telling the truth. probably the former, but of course she has to add some paranoia fuel somewhere that isn't pointed at me or my gender.)
So right now Chara is about as tough to do anything to as an Omega+++ godmodder, given that even an Omega+ can still take damage from lucky hits. Chara, on the other hand, ignores everything, and even if everyone in the entire game pooled together a 50 post charge to kill it, would just refuse it. Did it absorb the huge charge of Omega Flowey and combine it with the power of the Gatekeeper for eternal invulnerability? If so, doesn't that mean that the game is over because Chara will just stop whatever we do all the time? Should we make an anti-Chara thread like we did for Omega Flowey?
Eh, to be honest, I'm kinda getting tired of the whole DTG game 'formula' and liking RP more and more. But maybe I could play this game as a neutral, never actually attack anything, and spend my time making items. Then I give those items to raid bosses I summon and whoever kills it gets the item.
Also, I kinda dislike this idea of specific flaws and weaknesses in entities/items because it feels too... obvious. I'd rather have a system of playing around benefits rather than playing to flaws, if that makes any sense.
Let me get a simple example; Earth Elemental A. To me, it seems way too simple for it to just have a buff that gives it resistance to electric attacks and a weakness to, say, getting distracted by gemstones. With that, you obviously counter it by throwing gemstones at its face, which doesn't really encourage you to change your action or strategy much. Instead, I'd rather give it a system like...
Has 75% damage resistance. Every time this entity is hit, the damage resistance goes down by 25%. Resets to 75% at the end of the turn.
That way, to properly counter my entity, you have to change your actions mechanically, not just in flavor text to make it include a gemstone or whatever. To counter it, maybe you'd want to summon Water Elementals B, C, and D. That way, you use those weak entities to break the Earth Elemental's damage resistance and then hit it hard with your own attack.
This sort of idea also means people are more rewarded for having a larger stash of weapons, provided those weapons work in mechanically different ways. Although I'm not sure that's a good thing. If someone has some kind of AOE thing that hits every target on the map for low damage, they're going to have an easy time wearing down the Earth Elemental's damage resistance without much of a cost.
Of course, this more mechanical focus can be pretty easily combined with the more flavor text focus.
There's a difference between a hero and a champion. A champion overcomes threats, but a hero overcomes fears.
My Best Map so farAll my maps, click here.
Then there's also a Youtube channel I'm somewhat involved in.
As I said previously, I personally prefer mechanical complexity, but that can only go so far before the entity becomes overloaded.
In the other case, perhaps a nonspecific weakness may be assumed, rather than explicitly stated. Otherwise, people will simply avoid performing attacks that play into the entity's resistances. This way experimentation with attacks specifically targetting with what would assumedly be 'super effective' would be rewarded.
Wow, interesting.
A day without light,
A night without breath.
A single star left,
To swallow the rest.
With each light snuffed by a single man's tome...
What will be left to lead HER back home?
The Link to the Discord has expired, may I inquire for another Whitecandle?
He ate the bread that he made from stone
He fell from the Temple, never broke a bone
Bowed down to the Emperor and watched as former King was overthrown
He sits alone on his throne.
https://discord.gg/0zyc172ZFoLagG46
There ya go.
DtG: Neutral, just wants to see that big tree in the middle.
Your flavour text lacks zest. Perhaps you should add some intelligence, hmm?~
Summer has officially begun for me, so I'm finally to the point where I can do stuff.
So, yeah. I'm going to go back on working on the gameFAQ in between working on the homework I have left.
DTG Co Labs
Nope, sorry guys, no Destroy the Godmodder relevant stuff here...
At least, not yet.
http://s15.zetaboards.com/DTG_Forums/topic/8456304/1/
^ Destroy the Goddess has started. I'll go ahead and run it until I go to Basic, we'll see how it goes.
DtG: Neutral, just wants to see that big tree in the middle.
Your flavour text lacks zest. Perhaps you should add some intelligence, hmm?~
Are you there my God? I have come to aide you.
He ate the bread that he made from stone
He fell from the Temple, never broke a bone
Bowed down to the Emperor and watched as former King was overthrown
He sits alone on his throne.
I finally made an AI who plays the DTG warcraft 3 map.
Soon it will learn to save and load and will thus be harder to defeat.
Now the AI can save and load.
Good luck in beating him.
The First Tape.
The scene displayed immediately on screen is one of a slightly younger-looking Joshua, sitting at a desktop computer of some kind. He's surrounded by a series of images, each of them seeming to be news articles. Upon closer inspection, many of them are printed from various newspapers, a number of them detailing some sort of war, others providing information about Project Binary. He himself is busy apparently playing a game of Minecraft, although close inspection of THAT too should show that this is no ordinary server. Especially with the cluster**** of a mess in the maximum render distance.
The details switch to first-person view. In-game, he's seeming doing not too bad on his own, in the middle of going PVP with two other players, pausing often to type trash talk to them via the chat. Soon, one dies, then the other one runs away, so he chuckles and leans back in the chair. There's a purple flash from just off-screen. He turns to it in confusion, then wanders over to the window. Outside, the word OBEY is written in the sky in stylized purple writing. He stands there and gazes at the word for quite some time, then wanders back over to his chair and sits down again, holding his forehead in his hand. The view switches to third-person again. His face, despite usually being a permafrown, is one of shock in the on-screen display.
In-video, he straightens up in the chair, turns back to the computer, and alt-tabs out of Minecraft, quickly typing something down in a word document that appears to be a notebook of some kind. The entry reads as follows.
Day [REDACTED]
I don't trust that thing the US government built to help them fight this war. I was there when the bomb went off in their secret chamber that they built for it... it certainly shouldn't have produced that message in the skies, but nothing else could do that that I know of. Something is seriously wrong here. I'm going to get to the bottom of this. With the information I have right now, my current theory is that... however they've made that thing, the process had an error in it somewhere, and now it's gone rogue.
There's a knock at the door in the recording. The display version of Joshua twitches violently, then alt-tabs out of the word document to a display of an empty Google Search tab. Then, before the other being in the recording can draw near, it ends in a flicker of static.
The Second Tape. Also, The Third Tape.
The scene is, once again, the desk at which the desktop computer was being held. However, this time, the news articles have been covered with blood splatters, a third-person view of Joshua standing near the computer desk, a blood-dripping knife resting on the desk proper along with a first-aid kit. He seems to be patching himself up. Near him lie an assortment of dead bodies, unfamiliar faces - two male humans, two female humans. Two of them look old enough to be his parents, the other two seeming a bit closer to his age. If one looks closely, one might catch a glimpse of a few tears staining the cloth he's using to bandage himself. Perhaps they're related...
When done patching himself up, he glances at the bodies, shaking his head sadly and sitting down in the chair. The next minute or so of the video is solely him crying openly into his own hands, then wiping them on his shirt and bringing up the word document again.
Day [REDACTED]
This is bad. Very bad. Binary's influence is global, and only those who've stayed connected to Minecraft are able to resist his control. Unfortunately for me, my family were not included in that... So, now they're dead. I doubt it's long before someone notices their absence and comes knocking. But I can't just leave. These are going to be a busy few days... first, dispose of the bodies somewhere. I don't want them stinking out the room, this is where my base of operations, so to speak. Then, check rations. We went out recently, so there should be plenty of instant meals still lying around down there...
I don't want to have to resort to the alternative if I can help it.
If I have enough, it'll be time to fortify the house. Binary or his slaves are going to come knocking sometime soon in the next few days. I know it. I'll have to be ready for them. There's an air rifle in one of the bedrooms, and some bullets. I hope I'm a good shot, because otherwise, I'm not going to last long.
(The tape glitches out for 30 seconds. Looks like the third tape has to be put in now.)
This time, the scene seems to be of a third-person view, Joshua crouched on a couch near the window from earlier, holding an air rifle. Every so often, he pulls the trigger, a loud BANG firing off from the gun, and remarkably, most of his shots are causing off-screen targets to call out casualties taken. He's forced to duck often to avoid returned fire, bullets striking the room and damaging the walls. Every so often, there's a loud THUD from somewhere that sounds like downstairs. Orders are shouted back and forth, the outside party wanting him to surrender, and him telling those outside to go away.
On the display, he reaches for another bullet, though appears to be out of ammunition. Once he realizes this, he curses, turning and looking at the door to the room. There's a loud thud from downstairs, accompanied by breaking, and then people charging upstairs. He reaches for the butcher's knife on the table beside him, a grim smile making it's way onto his face as he crouches low, heading over to the door. The footsteps from outside rush in, upstairs to the doors, which are thrown aside as grown men make their way in, each of them pointing handguns at everything in sight. They fail to notice Joshua until after he sinks his knife into the neck of the closest man, then lunges at another one. The sound of gunshots echoes from the rest of the room, puffs of blood erupting from Joshua's arms and legs, and just before the video cuts out, there's a rather detailed closeup of him being thrown against the wall and kneed at least once in the stomach.
The Fourth Tape.
The scene, instead of opening in Joshua's room like the last times, instead opens in the middle of what appears to be a high-tech prison barge of some kind. The third person view shows that, some time offscreen, he got the absolute stuffing kicked out of him. No surprise there. He weakly rises to his feet, taking a look around. The walls of the containment chamber look to be made of a strange black/gray rock, evidently familiar to him as he curses under his breath. The barge begins to slow, the stop being... a base on the moon? Soon, Joshua is hauled out of the barrage by a very angry pair of guards and tossed into an area with many other people who look similar to him in age about. He lands hard on the ground thanks to literal tossing, standing up once again and looking around. He grits his teeth, looks at both of his arms - which are visibly broken at the elbows, hanging uselessly at each side - and begins to take a slow walk around.
The other people in the base look to be of varying conditions. A whole colourful range of different people in different clothing, each one seemingly branded with a username of sorts. He ignores each and every single one of them, walking over to a window and taking a look outside. From here, he can see Earth, which... isn't a nice sight, thanks to Binary's influence extending across the entire globe, a menacing-looking purple network of connections. After a while, he grows bored, and begins wandering again. Much of the base is the same dreary containment area, and in the background, more prison barges are approaching.
In the tape, he has eventually explored the entire moon prison, and thus sits down in a corner, staring at the ground. Cue time lapse of several months, during which he barely moves, always sitting in that same position in that same corner. At the end of the timelapse, he looks up for the first time in so long, at something out the window, then gets up to head over to it. The screen turns around to take a look at what he's seen...
...It's an Engie drone. And, in the background, the moon seems to be rapidly approaching Earth, as if to slam into it. The drone punches the glass window, shattering it near-instantly, then reaches out towards Joshua. He, without a moment's pause, reaches out and takes ahold of it's hand, then there's a gray flash, seemingly JUST in time to avoid a nasty collision. Suddenly, the scene has changed again as the duo are teleported to a completely different area. Metal corridors once again, but clearly not the moonbase, as the dimensions of the Void between worlds stretches on into near-infinity. Joshua falls to his knees, coughing up blood, the Engie drone letting go and standing there expectantly. One Joshua has stopped coughing, he turns to face it once again, standing up. It, naturally, towers over him.
...Yeah, originally, the second and third tape were just one tape. Which is why I linked them together in here.
GODDAMN IT
STUPID GENDERFLIP VIRUS
Welp, looks like Joshua has reason for why he's sort-of really angry at the Conflict.
DTG Co Labs
Nope, sorry guys, no Destroy the Godmodder relevant stuff here...
At least, not yet.
Lore question, what's an ancestor and do I get one?
Mankind Redefined
An ancestor is someone anterior to a descendant(forgot if he needed to have a son)
You are probably an ancestor since you are in DTG0 and that descendants are people in DTG2.
I am confused maybe there is people who have better answers.
Or you might try the deuteugeu wiki.
Well that means that ~Toast is her own ancestor. There ARE shenanigans at play, however.
Wow, interesting.
A day without light,
A night without breath.
A single star left,
To swallow the rest.
With each light snuffed by a single man's tome...
What will be left to lead HER back home?
In that case my character is an ancestor who's descendant wasn't in DTG:2.
Vermiculus Regis surrexit de tenebrae ad suo soliu
http://destroy-the-godmodder.wikia.com/wiki/Ancestors
You're technically a Descendant, so I guess you have an Ancestor.
http://piratepad.net/ep/pad/view/ro.K2BShKxwg-6/latest
Anybody else want to try me?
(And this is her at half her most powerful. She can do absolutely ludicrous things only at this strength. Please do not make an enemy out of her. I'm telling you this because nobody else should bear the force of a weapon of mass transformation.)
Okay second question about ancestors, do I get to pick/design mine or is it just given to me.
Mankind Redefined
"Oh, right. So I guess I shouldn't mention that I may have slipped something in a few people's drinks?
Don't worry. You guys will know who you are soon enough."
(at this point i don't know if she's bluffing or telling the truth. probably the former, but of course she has to add some paranoia fuel somewhere that isn't pointed at me or my gender.)
You're not going to be given one, but honestly, you probably shouldn't design one either. They aren't necessary.
Also, hey there, everyone, I'm still here.
So right now Chara is about as tough to do anything to as an Omega+++ godmodder, given that even an Omega+ can still take damage from lucky hits. Chara, on the other hand, ignores everything, and even if everyone in the entire game pooled together a 50 post charge to kill it, would just refuse it. Did it absorb the huge charge of Omega Flowey and combine it with the power of the Gatekeeper for eternal invulnerability? If so, doesn't that mean that the game is over because Chara will just stop whatever we do all the time? Should we make an anti-Chara thread like we did for Omega Flowey?