Round 44 Ramiel, screaming geometrically - Revision history

172.71.178.142 at 13:17, 23 May 2025

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	And that's all there is to it. Congratulations to Team Damdred and Wurstmeyer for winning the draft round. It was very boring but no one can deny Damdred drafted exceptionally well, and that the team performed like a (mostly) well-oiled machine with very few mistakes.		And that's all there is to it. Congratulations to Team Damdred and Wurstmeyer for winning the draft round. It was very boring but no one can deny Damdred drafted exceptionally well, and that the team performed like a (mostly) well-oiled machine with very few mistakes.

			I finished 28th on 6,432 land. Top fireballer, highest mastery.

	As for my draft team, it wasn't quite the blops chaos party we - or indeed other teams - had expected from us. I think we pulled our punches and made good decisions in the early game from a blops perspective, and then when it was clear nobody was taking #4 on, just did whatever we pleased for the end of the round. It was funny to see some people hinting that we were idiots for not targeting undefended attackers in our wars, not appreciating they were spared the rod on purpose - not that it made any difference, because they still couldn't catch Winton. Maybe next time we won't try to be so conscientious!		As for my draft team, it wasn't quite the blops chaos party we - or indeed other teams - had expected from us. I think we pulled our punches and made good decisions in the early game from a blops perspective, and then when it was clear nobody was taking #4 on, just did whatever we pleased for the end of the round. It was funny to see some people hinting that we were idiots for not targeting undefended attackers in our wars, not appreciating they were spared the rod on purpose - not that it made any difference, because they still couldn't catch Winton. Maybe next time we won't try to be so conscientious!
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	I'd like to be able to see my chaos level on the magic page, and for the benefit of everyone in the Chaos League, you should be able to see how much your realmies are adding to your chaos score too. This info is obfuscated at the moment. And for future development, perhaps consider ways to 'vent' your chaos so you don't absolutely have to eat a critical fail. The spy op "incite chaos" could be repurposed for this (it's not currently a useful or at all utilised op). And I would LOVE to see it affecting self spells, not just offensive spells. Imagine a high chaos blopper at war with another realm, and they transfer some of their chaos to the target attacker through the incite chaos spy op. They try to cast Harmony to mitigate Plague, and their chaos rating causes it to fail, and credits the blopper. Some attackers run tight mana budgets, this could add a new and interesting strategic spy option.		I'd like to be able to see my chaos level on the magic page, and for the benefit of everyone in the Chaos League, you should be able to see how much your realmies are adding to your chaos score too. This info is obfuscated at the moment. And for future development, perhaps consider ways to 'vent' your chaos so you don't absolutely have to eat a critical fail. The spy op "incite chaos" could be repurposed for this (it's not currently a useful or at all utilised op). And I would LOVE to see it affecting self spells, not just offensive spells. Imagine a high chaos blopper at war with another realm, and they transfer some of their chaos to the target attacker through the incite chaos spy op. They try to cast Harmony to mitigate Plague, and their chaos rating causes it to fail, and credits the blopper. Some attackers run tight mana budgets, this could add a new and interesting strategic spy option.

	~~I finished 28th on 6,432 land. Top fireballer, highest mastery.~~

	Alright see ya.		Alright see ya.

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	I'd like to be able to see my chaos level on the magic page, and for the benefit of everyone in the Chaos League, you should be able to see how much your realmies are adding to your chaos score too. This info is obfuscated at the moment. And for future development, perhaps consider ways to 'vent' your chaos so you don't absolutely have to eat a critical fail. The spy op "incite chaos" could be repurposed for this (it's not currently a useful or at all utilised op). And I would LOVE to see it affecting self spells, not just offensive spells. Imagine a high chaos blopper at war with another realm, and they transfer some of their chaos to the target attacker through the incite chaos spy op. They try to cast Harmony to mitigate Plague, and their chaos rating causes it to fail, and credits the blopper. Some attackers run tight mana budgets, this could add a new and interesting strategic spy option.		I'd like to be able to see my chaos level on the magic page, and for the benefit of everyone in the Chaos League, you should be able to see how much your realmies are adding to your chaos score too. This info is obfuscated at the moment. And for future development, perhaps consider ways to 'vent' your chaos so you don't absolutely have to eat a critical fail. The spy op "incite chaos" could be repurposed for this (it's not currently a useful or at all utilised op). And I would LOVE to see it affecting self spells, not just offensive spells. Imagine a high chaos blopper at war with another realm, and they transfer some of their chaos to the target attacker through the incite chaos spy op. They try to cast Harmony to mitigate Plague, and their chaos rating causes it to fail, and credits the blopper. Some attackers run tight mana budgets, this could add a new and interesting strategic spy option.

			I finished 28th on 6,432 land. Top fireballer, highest mastery.

	Alright see ya.		Alright see ya.

172.68.229.133 at 13:11, 23 May 2025

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	Theme talk is always like this. Although admittedly usually with less random fett family trivia.		Theme talk is always like this. Although admittedly usually with less random fett family trivia.

			And so it was that I became Ramiel, screaming geometrically - a reference to Evangelion, one of three animes I have actually seen. It's pretty good. Watch it if you like mechs and a crushing sense of existential dread and depression.

	For a few days until the round started I occasionally gave Disco stick about his name - it made me laugh every time I saw it on the realm page. But he stuck with it, loyal to his captain. Eventually the round started, but the conversation continued when Jmerc posted an anime gif with the subtitles "Death comes for everyone".		For a few days until the round started I occasionally gave Disco stick about his name - it made me laugh every time I saw it on the realm page. But he stuck with it, loyal to his captain. Eventually the round started, but the conversation continued when Jmerc posted an anime gif with the subtitles "Death comes for everyone".

172.70.85.104 at 13:07, 23 May 2025

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	The draft itself went relatively smoothly and without drama, reportedly because DanTheMan wasn't a captain this round. I was naturally picked first, a combination of my raw charisma and history of ruining the safe spaces of maths nerds making up for my complete lack of talent and making me the obvious first selection (I'm not sure why it doesn't happen every draft round). AgFx and I were a package deal this round, so our draft captain Jmerc got the pickup of the century securing the two best bloppers this side of the Atlantic for his first and second picks. Jmerc had his own list of players he wanted to build as a party pack, but we had a few preferred picks in common, and so we were happy to nab Disco, Cronel, Matty, Shanulf, Empoy, bazzaroony and the steal of the round: the legend himself, zooj.		The draft itself went relatively smoothly and without drama, reportedly because DanTheMan wasn't a captain this round. I was naturally picked first, a combination of my raw charisma and history of ruining the safe spaces of maths nerds making up for my complete lack of talent and making me the obvious first selection (I'm not sure why it doesn't happen every draft round). AgFx and I were a package deal this round, so our draft captain Jmerc got the pickup of the century securing the two best bloppers this side of the Atlantic for his first and second picks. Jmerc had his own list of players he wanted to build as a party pack, but we had a few preferred picks in common, and so we were happy to nab Disco, Cronel, Matty, Shanulf, Empoy, bazzaroony and the steal of the round: the legend himself, zooj.

	Some speculated that given we were by quite a large margin the worst-rated team in the draft going by the Rio Rank scorings - but only because that rankings system doesn't take into account panache in its player gradings - that jmerc had in fact been playing 5D chess in putting together an incredible support team in the hope that fett's matchmaker algorithm would look at us and think "holy fuck these guys are terrible, I'd better put Poige or some other solo roundwinner on their team" and thus automatically secure us the win, just like it did for B in the last draft round. But instead, fett's algorithm looked at us and said "I know what this team of mostly ops and blops support players needs: more ops support!" and gave us Oment. One of the best ops players in the game, sure, but not what our particular team composition was crying out for. Nonetheless, he'd be invaluable to Disco and Jmerc as our two risk-prone fast attackers sought to carve out an early dominance, since he - much like other Rio-pack regulars, notably except for BigBell - has that uncanny ability to look at a bunch of random tea leaves and predict the weather for the next seven weeks. We also picked up three randoms: Brandon183, who was totally inactive, and Erwin316 who was only very inactive but made himself all the more contemptible by feeding the competition immediately at OOP, and Smokey, who never made it out of protection and later got moved to the graveyard. You know you've got it bad when you find yourself jealously eyeing #7, who got Elf Woods. Later, we'd be joined by cadaver / Volond, a new player that did ask some questions, but didn't really seem to pick up the advice and then just stopped logging in.		Some speculated that given we were by quite a large margin the worst-rated team in the draft going by the Rio Rank scorings - but only because that rankings system doesn't take into account panache in its player gradings - that jmerc had in fact been playing 5D chess in putting together an incredible support team in the hope that fett's matchmaker algorithm would look at us and think "holy fuck these guys are terrible, I'd better put Poige or some other solo roundwinner on their team" and thus automatically secure us the win, just like it did for B in the last draft round. But instead, fett's algorithm looked at us and said "I know what this team of mostly ops and blops support players needs: more ops support!" and gave us Oment. One of the best ops players in the game, sure, but not what our particular team composition was crying out for. Nonetheless, he'd be invaluable to Disco and Jmerc as our two risk-prone fast attackers sought to carve out an early dominance, since he - much like other Rio-pack regulars, notably except for BigBell - has that uncanny ability to look at a bunch of random tea leaves and predict the weather for the next seven weeks. We also picked up three randoms: Brandon183, who was totally inactive, and Erwin316 who was only very inactive but made himself all the more contemptible by feeding the competition immediately at OOP, and Smokey, who never made it out of protection and later got moved to the graveyard. You know you've got it bad when you find yourself jealously eyeing #7, who got Elf Woods. Later, we'd be joined by cadaver / Volond, a new player that did ask some questions, but didn't really seem to pick up the advice, kept only getting parial ops and bouncing, and then just stopped logging in.

	We had lots of suggested options for themes, but jmerc decided he wanted to do a theme he's always wanted to do. You might think a theme someone has always wanted to do would be quite specific or elaborate, but instead we were delivered the vaguest possible theme directive: anime.		We had lots of suggested options for themes, but jmerc decided he wanted to do a theme he's always wanted to do. You might think a theme someone has always wanted to do would be quite specific or elaborate, but instead we were delivered the vaguest possible theme directive: anime.

141.101.98.187 at 13:04, 23 May 2025

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	'''WEEK 1 - THE WORST DRAFT PACK IN HISTORY'''		'''WEEK 1 - THE WORST DRAFT PACK IN HISTORY'''

	The captains this round were the most ragtag bunch we've seen yet; instead of being selected for their statistical performance or by popular-slash-most-handsome vote (like that one round I was captain), this motley crew simply raised their hands and were ushered into a command position, no questions asked. Draftmaster Erix and assistant-to-the-draftmaster Damdred, who organised the whole shebang, didn't even conduct a light background check to make sure the captains had even played OD before. Like who is this Scratch guy and why is he running a team? What even are his credentials? I bet it was nepotism. It'll turn out after all this he's Erix's brother or something. The draft has really gone downhill since former draftmaster freeze abandoned us to focus on his career or whatever polite excuse he came up with so he didn't have to deal with us lot, let me tell you.		The captains this round were the most ragtag bunch we've seen yet; instead of being selected for their statistical performance or by popular-slash-most-handsome vote (like that one round I was captain), this motley crew simply raised their hands and were ushered into a command position, no questions asked. Draftmaster Erix and assistant-to-the-draftmaster Damdred, who organised the whole shebang, didn't even conduct a light background check to make sure the captains had even played OD before. Like who is this Scratch guy and why is he running a team? What even are his credentials? I bet it was nepotism. It'll turn out after all this he's Erix's brother or something. The draft has really gone downhill since former draftmaster freeze abandoned us to focus on his career or whatever polite excuse he came up with so he didn't have to deal with us lot, let me tell you. (Just kidding, thanks for organising it guys!)

	Most players don't seem to want the responsibility of being a draft captain, but there's a secret I'll let the captains of the future in on so they don't have to worry so much: you can just delegate all of that to your co-captain, and then take all the glory for yourself if your team wins. Or blame them if you lose. That's what I do.		Most players don't seem to want the responsibility of being a draft captain, but there's a secret I'll let the captains of the future in on so they don't have to worry so much: you can just delegate all of that to your co-captain, and then take all the glory for yourself if your team wins. Or blame them if you lose. That's what I do.

172.71.241.117 at 13:03, 23 May 2025

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	It was like bringing an old army vet out of retirement. AgFx was - metaphorically you understand - sitting by the pier in the late Netherlandian afternoon, fishing line cast, beer in hand, serenely enjoying the peace and quiet when all of a sudden, I'm ploughing through on a jetski, flames painted on the side, making an offer he absolutely can refuse.		It was like bringing an old army vet out of retirement. AgFx was - metaphorically you understand - sitting by the pier in the late Netherlandian afternoon, fishing line cast, beer in hand, serenely enjoying the peace and quiet when all of a sudden, I'm ploughing through on a jetski, flames painted on the side, making an offer he absolutely can refuse.

	AgFx: I'm retired, Rush, I'm out of the game. I’m done. No more OD. No more blackops. I found peace.		'''AgFx:''' I'm retired, Rush, I'm out of the game. I’m done. No more OD. No more blackops. I found peace.

	Rush: I know man. I wouldn’t ask if it wasn’t important. But it's a draft round, and those nerds have been saying that without us bloppers to worry about, they've never had it so good. They aren't even building wizard guilds anymore!		'''Rush:''' I know man. I wouldn’t ask if it wasn’t important. But it's a draft round, and those nerds have been saying that without us bloppers to worry about, they've never had it so good. They aren't even building wizard guilds anymore!

	AgFx grimaced, pausing for a moment to look out at the sea before replying.		AgFx grimaced, pausing for a moment to look out at the sea before replying.

	AgFx: Let 'em coast. My days of playing bogeyman to keep those greedy attackers honest are over.		'''AgFx:''' Let 'em coast. My days of playing bogeyman to keep those greedy attackers honest are over.

	Rush: There's even talk of them removing fireball from the game. Entirely. Redundant, they're saying. Wurst's writing a 15-page thesis about a new spell that gently tickles peasants that he says will be even better than fireball, and that people will love it 15 times as much as they love new fireball.		'''Rush:''' There's even talk of them removing fireball from the game. Entirely. Redundant, they're saying. Wurst's writing a 15-page thesis about a new spell that gently tickles peasants that he says will be even better than fireball, and that people will love it 15 times as much as they love new fireball.

	That seemed to hit home. AgFx's steely expression wavered.		That seemed to hit home. AgFx's steely expression wavered.

	AgFx: No more fireball tennis?		'''AgFx:''' No more fireball tennis?

	Rush: No fireballs, no fireball tennis. Just a bunch of excel simulator mathletes comfortably simming for 50 days.		'''Rush:''' No fireballs, no fireball tennis. Just a bunch of excel simulator mathletes comfortably simming for 50 days.

	AgFx stood up, crushing his beer can slowly, the aluminium crackling in protest at his quiet rage.		AgFx stood up, crushing his beer can slowly, the aluminium crackling in protest at his quiet rage.

	AgFx: Dust off my wizard hat and fetch my tennis racket. If I'm going back in... I need to practice my serve.		'''AgFx:''' Dust off my wizard hat and fetch my tennis racket. If I'm going back in... I need to practice my serve.

	Cue heavy synth music. Lightning flashes in the distance. The blopper bois are back!		Cue heavy synth music. Lightning flashes in the distance. The blopper bois are back!
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	We had lots of suggested options for themes, but jmerc decided he wanted to do a theme he's always wanted to do. You might think a theme someone has always wanted to do would be quite specific or elaborate, but instead we were delivered the vaguest possible theme directive: anime.		We had lots of suggested options for themes, but jmerc decided he wanted to do a theme he's always wanted to do. You might think a theme someone has always wanted to do would be quite specific or elaborate, but instead we were delivered the vaguest possible theme directive: anime.

	Rush: This is one of the vaguest themes I've been part of. The other vaguest theme was "video games". And when I asked, "video games, or video game characters?", they said yes.		'''Rush:''' This is one of the vaguest themes I've been part of. The other vaguest theme was "video games". And when I asked, "video games, or video game characters?", they said yes.

	Jmerc: I like the vague theme leave me alone.		'''Jmerc:''' I like the vague theme leave me alone.

	Disco: I don't know anything about anime except that I hate it.		'''Disco:''' I don't know anything about anime except that I hate it.

	Rush: Then that should be your dom name - it's still anime themed.		'''Rush:''' Then that should be your dom name - it's still anime themed.

	Jmerc: Name yourself "The greatest joy of magic lies in searching for it", it's from an anime.		'''Jmerc:''' Name yourself "The greatest joy of magic lies in searching for it", it's from an anime.

	AgFx: That's nice and poetic.		'''AgFx:''' That's nice and poetic.

	Disco: That's the most anime quote I've ever heard.		'''Disco:''' That's the most anime quote I've ever heard.

	Rush: It makes you sound like a gay wizard.		'''Rush:''' It makes you sound like a gay wizard.

	Disco: Oh man. God why is all anime so gay.		'''Disco:''' Oh man. Oh God why is all anime so gay.

	Rush: I think that quote is like the anime equivalent of Live. Laugh. Love.		'''Rush:''' I think that quote is like the anime equivalent of Live. Laugh. Love.

	Matty: Wait, is my name OK?		'''Matty:''' Wait, is my name OK?

	Rush: Uhh, you should aim for something cooler. And related to vans.		'''Rush:''' Uhh, you should aim for something cooler. And related to vans.

	Matty: That would give away my position, as I live in a van.		'''Matty:''' That would give away my position, as I live in a van.

	Cronel: Fett's brother lives in a van too.		'''Cronel:''' Fett's brother lives in a van too.

	Theme talk is always like this. Although admittedly usually with less random fett family trivia.		Theme talk is always like this. Although admittedly usually with less random fett family trivia.
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	For a few days until the round started I occasionally gave Disco stick about his name - it made me laugh every time I saw it on the realm page. But he stuck with it, loyal to his captain. Eventually the round started, but the conversation continued when Jmerc posted an anime gif with the subtitles "Death comes for everyone".		For a few days until the round started I occasionally gave Disco stick about his name - it made me laugh every time I saw it on the realm page. But he stuck with it, loyal to his captain. Eventually the round started, but the conversation continued when Jmerc posted an anime gif with the subtitles "Death comes for everyone".

	Disco: Hey this is a much better anime quote than the gay one you gave me.		'''Disco:''' Hey this is a much better anime quote than the gay one you gave me.

	Jmerc: Y'all keep saying this. But this exists: https://imgur.com/a/0Gbj532		'''Jmerc:''' Y'all keep saying this. But this exists: https://imgur.com/a/0Gbj532

	I know, I know. You were expecting high-level and cerebral strategy discussion from our draft pack. I'm disappointed in us too.		I know, I know. You were expecting high-level and cerebral strategy discussion from our draft pack. I'm disappointed in us too.