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Joined: Tue Apr 08, 2014 4:45 am
Posts: 523
Location: The Cactus Fortress
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Hi,
At the moment in SM there are weekly tournaments which are good, but this is a different kind of tournament. As the title suggests, it is done once a season (every 3 months). Here are the specific details:
1) Season Tournaments are held in the first month of the season (March, June, September and December) and last a week.
2) There are 3 different tournaments: Regular, Advanced and Champion.
3) The regular tournament is open to all mechs. Each mech is assigned a rival. All battles between a mech and the rival in the tournament count towards their final score. Regular tournament battles reward 1,500 credits for winning instead of the normal 1,000.
4) The advanced tournament is open to players who have won more than 75% of battles against their rival. They are assigned a harder rival, based on tournament battle wins and win-loss ratio. Players ranked 1-100 will automatically be placed in this tournament. Advanced tournament battles award 2,000 credits per win.
5) The champion tournament is open to players who have won more than 90% of battles against their rival, have battled their rival at least 50 times and are already in the 'advanced' tournament. They are also assigned a new rival. Champion tournament battles award 3,000 credits per win. If there are no players in the champion tournament by the 4th day, 2 players ranked 1-50 will be automatically placed there.
6) Prizes are awarded to the top 15 players in each tournament. The best prize is given to players 1-5, second best 6-10 etc. The top prize has a special effect based on the season it is awarded in, e.g the winter tournament awards an ice cannon which causes immobilization.
7) The prizes given are all 'Ultimate' items. These are not available any other way except the tournament prizes. The 'special effect' items all deal 15 damage to the other player and some have limited use. The effects are:
Immobilization (disables walking/jumping for 1 turn) - Winter
Damage Decrease - Spring
Heat Ray (Multiplies enemy heat by 1.5x) - Summer
Life Drain (Damage to enemy = HP for you) - Autumn/Fall
This system could work well with clans, because there could be clan v. clan in a tournament. I think this should at least be added to the steam version. 
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Veteran from 2014, when the game was better in my opinion.
I occasionally come back to see what's been going on.
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