Board 8 > Mercenaries Draft Peacetime, Week 1: 16 Red Balloons

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Mewtwo attacks Luis [Tier: Low]
God attacks Skyridge [Tier: Low]
DC attacks Eddv [Tier: Low]
Tirofog attacks Lopen [Tier: Mid]

Mewtwo - Ms. Ellie and the Boys (0-0, 14GP)
Low: Ryu (SF), Eleonora Yumizuru, Little Mac
Mid: Kefka, Zack Fair, Armstrong, Luca Blight
High: The Nephalem, Id, Grigori, Yuri Hyuga
Supports: Suika Ibuki (Link: Ellie)
Recharges:
Notes: Nephalem is a man

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God - Fuck With Us! (0-0, 10GP)
Low: Bowser
Mid: Albert Wesker, Psycho Mantis, M. Bison, Dr. Wily, Sigma, Nightmare
High: Sarah Kerrigan, Exdeath, Diablo, Dark Samus
Supports: GLaDOS (Link: Dr. Wily)
Recharges:
Notes:

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DeathChicken - General Bub's Spiritual Hit Squad (0-0, 15GP)
Low: Crono, Juliet Starling, Geese Howard
Mid: Alice Liddell, Sora, Dracula, Aigis
High: Dante, Arthas, Kuja, Kain
Supports: Ruby Heart (Link: Dante)
Recharges:
Notes:

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Tirofog - Ride The Lightning (0-0, 17GP)
Low: Claire Redfield, Booker DeWitt, Chrom, Yuffie Kisaragi, Ryu3, Nilin
Mid: Cloud Strife, Terra Branford
High: Archer, Lightning, Lilith
Supports: Professor Oak (Link: Nilin)
Recharges:
Notes: Cloud is Archer's master, Lilith is a Controller, Ryu3 has Pac-Man and Metal Man genes

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Luis - Hallelujah Essaim (0-0, 20GP)
Low: Sonic, Agnès Oblige
Mid: Haseo, Jaesa Willsaam, Neptune, Flynn, Selvaria Bles
High: Bayonetta, Vergil, Dizzy
Supports: Carmilla (Link: Haseo), Morrigan (Link: Selvaria)
Recharges:
Notes: Vergil is Selvaria's liege

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Skyridge - Maverick Hunters (0-0, 17GP)
Low: Tidus, Frog, Link, Tails, Kaos
Mid: Yuna, Thrall, Pit
High: Mega Man X, Zero, Sephiroth
Supports: Jeigan (Link: X)
Recharges:
Notes: X has copied Tidus' Hastega

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Eddv - Mobile Suit Knuckles (0-0, 20GP)
Low: Knuckles, Earthworm Jim
Mid: D.Va, Shanoa, Mega Man, Sorey, Zeratul
High: Raziel, Elma, Fox, The Wonderful 100
Supports: Dr. Light (Link: Jim)
Recharges:
Notes: Mega Man has Turok's Energy Totem ability, Sorey has his Four Seraphim

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Lopen - Machina Maw (0-0, 12GP)
Low: Rikku, Kirby, Kazuma Kiryu, Tira
Mid: Alucard, Yu Narukami, Doomguy, Liquid Snake, Bass.EXE
High: KOS-MOS, Samus Aran
Supports: CATS (Link: Rikku)
Recharges:
Notes:
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Boko attacks Rocket [Tier: High]
Gravy attacks Eaed [Tier: Low]
Corrik attacks Johnbobb [Tier: High]
Scare attacks Tom [Tier: Mid]

Boko - Boko Reunited (0-0, 20GP)
Low: Nilin, Tira, Morrigan, Kyo Kusanagi
Mid: Alucard, Ansem, Luca Blight
High: Lightning, Dark Samus, Grigori
Supports: Monokuma (Link: Lightning)
Recharges:
Notes: Lightning has saved Serra's soul

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Gravy - Bossman Coolguy's Kingpins (0-0, 20GP)
Low: Eleonora Yumizuru, Agnès Oblige, Y'shtola
Mid: Sorey, Terra Branford, Kefka, Flynn, Mewtwo
High: Shulk, Yuri Hyuga, Dante
Supports: Dr. Light (Link: Mewtwo)
Recharges:
Notes: Four Seraphim

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Johnbobb - Pink Floyd's "The Kirb" (0-0, 20GP)
Low: Kirby, Booker, Ganondorf, Sonic
Mid: Akuma, Sora, The Prince, Potemkin
High: Vergil, Kratos, Arthas
Supports: CATS (Link: Akuma)
Recharges:
Notes:

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Scare - Team America (0-0, 8GP)
Low: Chrom, Vivi, Vanille, Big the Cat
Mid: Senator Steven Armstrong, Dr. Wily, Ryu H, Bass.EXE, Raiden
High: Diablo, Raziel
Supports: Deathwing (Link: Armstrong)
Recharges:
Notes:

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Redrocket - Might Controls Everything (0-0, 20GP)
Low: Claire Redfield
Mid: Selvaria Bles, Dragonslayer Ornstein & Executioner Smough, Lu Bu, The Boss, Zeratul
High: Archer, The Nephalem, The Agents, Wrex, Ridley
Supports: Taiga & Ilya (Link: Claire)
Recharges:
Notes: O&S guard The Boss, Lu Bu is Selvaria's liege, Wrex is Archer's master, Neph is a girl

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Eaed - Suplex Through Time, Bitch (0-0, 16GP)
Low: Crono, Sabin, Beast Incarnate Brock Lesnar, Leon Kennedy
Mid: Cloud Strife, Big Boss, Aigis
High: KOS-MOS, Samus, Final Fantasy 4 Complete Collection, Master Chief
Supports: Rosalina (Link: Beast Incarnate Brock Lesnar)
Recharges:
Notes:

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Corrik - Corrik's Sardaukar (0-0, 19GP)
Low: Scorpion
Mid: Zack Fair, Lady, Albert Wesker, Yuna, Nova
High: Bayonetta, Id, Revan, Sephiroth, Kuja
Supports: Abathur (Link: Kuja)
Recharges:
Notes: Nova has Snipe, Revan is a Villainous Scoundrel/Sentinel

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Tom Bombadil - Get N or Get Out (0-0, 12GP)
Low: Tails, Celes Chere, Little Mac, Geese Howard
Mid: Mega Man, Neptune, Death, Pit
High: Fox McCloud, Zero, X-Death
Supports: Old Man (Link: Geese)
Recharges:
Notes: MM Has Sacrificial Pact
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btw Kanz

I like this short-term draft mercs setup a lot

and I'm not gonna lie; it's making me REALLY want to do a short-term tv/movie mercs afterwards. Have like 4 teams and play it out for a couple weeks, just for the hell of it
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Thank you kindly

Part of the motivation behind this draft setup was to encourage more mercs presence on the board (and also to get some newbies in). So hearing that makes my day. :)
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Like having it be short term like this is cool. I'm hoping this will discourage dumb things like forfeit deals and stuff; I really want to just play out all my matches since there are so few
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What are the deadlines for actions and stuff? 8:30 tomorrow?

KanzarisKelshen posted...

God - Fuck With Us! (0-0, 10GP)
Low: Bowser

nice
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Sorey purifies his good buddy DANTE
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Johnbobb posted...

btw Kanz

I like this short-term draft mercs setup a lot

and I'm not gonna lie; it's making me REALLY want to do a short-term tv/movie mercs afterwards. Have like 4 teams and play it out for a couple weeks, just for the hell of it

That's a great idea.
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Skyridge87 posted...

What are the deadlines for actions and stuff? 8:30 tomorrow?

That's for paydowns, but yes, that's the limit for paydowns. For peacetime abilities you have until 3 hours before Peace ends - so 6 PM EST.
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Sorey bonds with Zeratul
Mega Man to low
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Johnbobb posted...

Like having it be short term like this is cool. I'm hoping this will discourage dumb things like forfeit deals and stuff; I really want to just play out all my matches since there are so few

Except a forfeit could be a winning strategy in a short season where your cds could be 3/4th of the season! Tsk tsk.
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Revan to neutral
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tag

can we please get team pages on the mercs site
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ScareChan posted...

tag

can we please get team pages on the mercs site

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mNmaaTqE7rbcwQeiCYO9opjbohK2I_152dK5vOXkpe0/edit#

Fill yours in! I'll try and fill them all out by week's end if anybody lazes out, but player contribution is appreciated.
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http://mercs2015.pbworks.com/w/page/117865062/Draft%20Game%20Reference%20Page

Put this just so people have a slight reference for things like matchup orders and teams. I'm not going to format it any better but maybe I will later.
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KOS-MOS CALCULATES the results of CATS's In A.D. 2101 War Was Beginning if used vs Tiro's Team
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Lopen posted...

http://mercs2015.pbworks.com/w/page/117865062/Draft%20Game%20Reference%20Page

Put this just so people have a slight reference for things like matchup orders and teams. I'm not going to format it any better but maybe I will later.

If this had links to the characters on there this would be perfecttttt
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It's definitely possible to hyperlink the characters but it's a lot of effort-- may slowly work on it at dead times at work.
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Main reason I didn't use the wiki is that we can't touch the wiki pages - hence wanting to use the GDoc so people can edit in things like customizations gained for characters like Kirby/MM and such there
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Samus to Mid
Yu spends some time with Rikku
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Memory Remix on Lopen's team
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Bass refuses to work with Kazuma Kiryu today. Too much hustle for the independent NetNavi!
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Agnès is a Monk.
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Zero to Mid
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KanzarisKelshen posted...

Main reason I didn't use the wiki is that we can't touch the wiki pages - hence wanting to use the GDoc so people can edit in things like customizations gained for characters like Kirby/MM and such there

Why can't we touch the wiki pages? Can't this be changed?
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when does peacetime end?
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We can technically touch the wiki pages but I think the idea is we don't want to overwrite Mercs 4's stuff-- that being said if you were particularly ambitious you could easily make duplicate pages with Draft Versions but it's a lot of wiking
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I mean, it's a wiki. Nothing is truly "overwritten."
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I suppose so. We'd have to revert a lot of changes if we wanted it back to the old state but I guess it's doable.

In any case it's still a lot of changes I'm not entirely wanting to do right now but may get around to over time. Most people can get contributor access if they want it.
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I feel like the m4 pages should stay as-is because that's 'canon' and this is just a spinoff. obviously pages can be reverted but it's kind of annoying.
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Good job cleaning up that reference page I made btw Drakeryn
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yeah I am not in favor of messing with the original pages but it shouldn't be THAT hard to make, say "Draft Ver. Mega Man" kinda pages, right? But then there'd be a lot of them...
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i will cut the first person who tries to undo the OTP of Damus and Cloud
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Lilith to Mid
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OR! We could add footers (or headers) to the merc pages. Like for my MM:

Draft Group 1 changes:
-Has no upgrades and therefore has 1 abil slot and 2 custom slots.
-Has no copied abilities from the main page.
-Instead has Sacrificial Pact from Wander.

The annoying thing about side projects (kom cough) is that with some unlocked upgrades, it's directly stated what the base form was (like MM's base copying ability), but with some you have to go into the page history (like how many slots he gets).
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I have an idea that might be an okay compromise-- where's the ruling board though.
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NM found it. (Mercs SMS)
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So I made this for my team:

http://mercs2015.pbworks.com/w/page/117879924/All%20Mercs%20-%20Machina%20Maw%20%28Lopen%29

This has all the mercs in their currently upgraded state, as well as the changes to Liquid and Alucard, and the updated terrains.

Anyone who wants to do this for their teams by all means. I think it's useful despite being a LARGE page and the best way to handle this overall. I'll get around to doing this for all the teams with my free time but it took a non-trivial amount of time so anyone who can do their own would be appreciated.
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Oh and also I updated that reference page to have the pastebins to the terrain updates
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Did it for my own team. Can confirm it took a non-trivial amount of time.
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What takes so long about it? Isn't it mostly just copy/pasting and editing the abilities to be unupgraded, or am I missing something?
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Dr Wily creates Pharoman
Chrom pairs up with Armstrong- Dual Guard
Diablo to Mid

Daddy's home
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now imagining chrom trying to bodyblock hits for armstrong and armstrong's just like "..."
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ScareChan posted...

Dr Wily creates Pharoman

my man
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Gatarix posted...

now imagining chrom trying to bodyblock hits for armstrong and armstrong's just like "..."

I was doing an America theme anyways with my team but now I want to do a Scandal parody

Vanille is Olivia Pope and Chrom is that crazy henchman that she has
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Johnbobb posted...

What takes so long about it? Isn't it mostly just copy/pasting and editing the abilities to be unupgraded, or am I missing something?

Essentially, yeah. But you're doing it 12 times, editing in the updated terrain descriptions and doing all the links and stuff. Honestly half of the time I spent on it was making sure the formatting was uniform, but if you don't care about how it looks you can just c+p the correct builds and add in the terrain edits.
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I nominate the ""Yes Man"" himself to do this for my team.

Thx
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On that note, a link to the terrains paste has been placed in the rulings topic, so you can check what your edited terrainsa re like at any point there.
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It's not that long but yeah

Say each merc takes a minute and a half to copy the merc, make edits, format, and make terrain edits

1.5*11 = about 16 minutes per team

16 teams would take like 4 hours. Not something I wanna just do if the workload can be distributed a bit.
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