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Well, I'm not accusing you of playing like a shitheel or anything. But I'm also not going to say that your opponents did either. It's often - just as in the real world - that sometimes both people are at fault. That's where communication comes in. I mean, sometimes you're gonna get people who just don't want to work s**t out and it's their way or the highway 100 percent.

I mean, did you ever send them a PM about one of their moves and go "You know, I'm not sure this works, my character is doing this and yours is doing this and it doesn't make sense, is there some way that you could do something different or we could see if there's an issue with how we're looking at things?"

A lot of times, just doing that from the get go - and maintaining that attitude - is enough. I generally let my opponents know that if there's an issue with any of my posts, to just tell me, and I'll work it out with them. I do the same for them, which is why I've had TWO judge calls in five years of tournament participation. I've also won pretty much all of my fights except.. four. Two no contests, one draw, one loss. Rest of them, over five years? Wins.

Although to be fair, yeah; I think if you sit down and design a character specifically to win a tournament, then you're probably being too competitive. For example.. I didn't do that. I listened to a speaker at a pow-wow discuss the Comanche creation myth, and I liked the idea and it gave me an inspiration for my character.

So I ran with it and made Deitric. I didn't make him to win any tournament; I didn't sit down and say "What concept can I do that will be successful?" I made the concept I WANTED to play. Let's face it, if I had built Deitric to win, I wouldn't have given him an electricity-based powerset, only to mostly limit him to fighting-game styled techniques revolving around fist fighting. He seriously never had a range attack for the first three or four years, and even then I've been iffy about giving him one.

But I made the concept that I wanted to play. Whether I won or not was immaterial, I wanted to play this character with this kind of powerset and I thought it would be interesting. Did I want to win? Sure. Was that the purpose of designing my character's kit? No. It was part of the character. I found it interesting, so I did it. Whether it was successful would really depend on me more than anything.

I view playing my character, or making a character, the same way I do with entering tournaments: I want to do something interesting. I want to do something I'll enjoy, that'll give me a challenge. If I win, great, that means I was doing something right and that I played my character well and used their poweset well. If I lost.. big whoop, it's roleplay.

Fair enough, I haven't read your fights enough to make much of a comment beyond the hypothetical.

I look forward to having Tres fight Dithikar.

Its gonna happen at the Wu-Dang Monastery.

Some Shaolin type s**t is gonna go down.

I should do the next story update tomorrow.

Well, don't have any flames but yes, I'm aware that a full hit is basically game over, which is why I try to corner the opponent into being struck by it.

I got hit with a lethal KO attack out of the blue in my first fight, and I ate it without much hesitation, because it legitimately blindsided both me and the character.

Well they will be pissed it it's something broken

but...

I have generally been successful using this strategy with Heita...

his like 5'9" 185lbs but fights like his 300lbs or so...been refining that aspect to get more of the desired effect too because his like Jin from MVC.

and so far everyone I have minus one has loved the character.

Where as Dramon who was like 400lbs or so in weight and fought like it and had naruto woo-woo powers with colossus durability was hated because one hit from him was fatal.

Heita I made to play with everyone else... his balanced to the game he is apart of.

Dramon was for commerce.

I give I tried getting back into the ooc after pizza, and have been pretty much ignored.