Board 8 > Mercenaries 5 Test Run, Part 2: This Time With Feeling!

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If you're familiar with the game already, you know what to expect. Signups are open, go sign up!!

For everyone else, welcome to Mercenaries, the weirdest, wackiest, and best forum game in the world. It's a mixture of 'who would win in a fight?' debates, politicking, backstabbing, grand strategy, economic planning and weaponized shonen anime plot twists via game mechanics as players seek to claim supremacy by assembling squadrons of videogame characters to fight for them! The new iteration is very close at hand, and to finish fine-tuning some of its details, we are planning to run a brief test run to test things out. If you've ever wondered if you might enjoy this but were scared about the time commitment, don't worry! The test run is a short affair, lasting only a few months. We will be running an accelerated schedule, powering up players significantly and increasing the rate at which teams grow in power to test some new mechanics.

Some of the things we are going to be testing are:

-New mechanics! Bounty hunters and desperate measures, bulwarks and simplified mercenaries, oh my!
-Upgrade costs! You'll get to try out the shiny new toys that usually take some effort to grab. Explore some fantastic and silly ability combos today!
-Starting team funds to build teams with. The first Test Run had everyone fairly resource starved. We are looking to let players off the leash this time, giving them a solid extra influx of cash to work with.

If you'd like to join us, all you have to do is post your interest! We will be picking out (likely) eight players to test teams, and then get started soon after. We also have a discord where we discuss the game, which you can find here if you want to join us: https://discord.gg/MXbzSYwn

Oh I am of course in

i volunteer as tribute

Here come the hotstepper (murderer)
He the lyrical gangsta (murderer)

In in

this is how I know I'm still in hell

FFDragon posted...

this is how I know I'm still in hell

you're not in hell until you've volunteered for the test run tbh

join us

I'm down and I have several dumb ideas for teams, although if the admins need to cut vets to make space for newbies I think I'd have a lot of fun as a spectator/voter as well.

FFDragon posted...

this is how I know I'm still in hell

If it helps any, I think that the response to the last test run was pretty positive overall. Mercs is never gonna be an undemanding game, but I think the general sentiment was that the game was the most fun it's ever been and the admin handling was acceptable (not trying to toot the team's own horn here, if anybody thinks we need to fix shit call us out pls). Most of all, I think we've made good on the idea that you can just, do what you want and things will work. Mercs is never gonna be a game that fails to get people mad, but our hope is that it's going to be the kind of mad that comes from playing a tight game of any kind and barely losing and that goes away after a bit of time, and not the sort that comes from a total misery pit that never stops getting worse. I would welcome no one's advice more than yours, as someone who is (justifiably) super snakebit about this whole thing. If there is anything we can do to make it better, we want to hear about it. We're committed to making sure M5 is a mercs people truly can look back onto and say 'I had a lot of fun, when's the next one?' for a change.

Registering intent to test the run

I'll sign up to bid max on donkey Kong then fire him

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Im interested

I do not have the mental fortitude to play Mercs, but I'm looking forward to arguing in the topics

JeffreyRaze posted...

I do not have the mental fortitude to play Mercs, but I'm looking forward to arguing in the topics

literally more important than players in some cases tbqh

bunp

come on all you night owls and/or early morning east coast people

up

I really wanna play but I really can't right now ;_;
will attempt to vote, but unless I sneak in as a late sub,this might be the first bololess mercs

up again

I'm absolutely not in a place to play but might try to occasionally vote and otherwise spectate.

On that note, even though I'm not new to quietly following along with Mercs, I still wonder - how much does it matter to have experience (whether by playing, watching, or both) with many games? Have frequently felt like my lacking breadth leaves me too uninformed to vote even after arguments or otherwise to understand characters' capabilities. Sorry if this is an unsuitable place to ask...