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Post by Boony on Mar 20, 2007 14:34:59 GMT
So... I've taken that in and I think I know how I want to play this. Will there be a deadline? How do we enter? Do I have to make my initial skillset choice publicaly available, or should I PM you?
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Mar 20, 2007 15:10:19 GMT
I know. Still, if in doubt blame s1ugt, that's what I always say. It's a solid strategy. I'd stick with it.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Mar 20, 2007 15:13:56 GMT
So... I've taken that in and I think I know how I want to play this. Will there be a deadline? How do we enter? Do I have to make my initial skillset choice publicaly available, or should I PM you? I haven't finished the rooools yet, so you might want to change your mind later on. When it comes to it, I'll leave it up to you whether you want to announce your choices or not.
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Post by Moo on Mar 20, 2007 15:28:36 GMT
I'm in, I suppose. I figure my To Do list isn't long enough already.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Mar 20, 2007 16:21:43 GMT
More RuleZActionsEach game turn lasts a month, although there obviously won't be a month between each turn. If everyone's ready we'll move on to the next turn. In each month, you can train any two of your boxers (or one, if you only have one) or you can train yourself. If you have three or more boxers, you'll have to get creative. For training yourself, you can pick any of the Manager skills to improve, except luck. Luck can't be improved and if you don't pick it at the start, you won't ever be as lucky as the people that do pick it. Although you can buy four leaf clovers, rabbits feet and cocoa puffs that look like Our Mother Mary to help. Skills in your original selection train more quickly than others, but it will still take some time to improve a skill. Being able to train either yourself or your fighters makes scheduling fights important. Each fighter should be in "Pre-Fight Training" for a certain period of time before a fight to ensure that they're in peak condition when the bell goes. Too short and they may run out of energy before the bout ends, or their skills may not be sharpened to their best. Too long and their performance may drop the same way, through fatigue. A regular pre-fight training period would be two months. So a fighter scheduled to box in July would pick pre-fight training in May and June and then fight in July. The perfect period can vary, boxer by boxer though. A manager may not train himself while a boxer is in pre-fight training and may not manage two different boxes fighting in the same month, although they may fight in consecutive months, so Pre-Fight training overlaps. TrainingWhen your boxer is not preparing for a fight, you can train him in any of his skills, except for his ability to take a punch and his likelihood of sustaining a cut. You can't put granite in his chin or give him a leathery face. Skills not trained for long periods may regress, but will only slip below their natural levels if your boxer has not fought for a long time. In any month where a fighter is not in pre-fight training you can choose to put him through sparring sessions, where he will fight against other boxers in a less competitive match. This will generally improve all skills by a small level, making it useful to avoid any ability ratings dropping. Importantly, it will also give you a better idea of your boxer's abilities. When your boxer first walks through the door you will know little about him - working with him will allow you to see his strengths and weaknesses, but sparring will give you a more precise view. Boxers not selected for training are considered to be working on their own, maintaining a basic level of fitness. However, you can give any boxer an instruction to "Rest" even in months where you are improving your own skills. A resting boxer will stay home with his feet up for a month. This can be very useful if a boxer has been involved in a very damaging fight, or has two fights in a short period of time. FightsFights cards will be announced stretching into the future, starting with the top of the bill and then with an undercard filling out. You can apply to be on any card, by putting forward the boxer you want involved and either picking an opponent you'd like to face, or stating an "open" request, in which case an opponent will be selected for you. "Open" requests are easier to fulfill and so will more likely get you onto the card you want. However, you lose control of the opposing boxer and may end up facing someone you don't want to fight. Fights Cards will rarely want to show two of the same bouts, (two Regional : Lightweight, for instance), so the first manager to request a spot on a card will get preference. Unless the other manager gets lucky. ChampionsChampions are required to make a mandatory defence of their belts once a year, or lose the belt. They may relinquish the belt they hold at any time. This mandatory defence continues even if you move up a level in class. A National fighter who holds the Regional belt will still have to defend that belt. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I think that's about it, for now. I'm sure plenty of other stuff will come up, especially as we start playing, but I'll just make arbitrary and random decisions at that point depending on who's pissed me off most recently.
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Post by Boony on Mar 20, 2007 16:38:03 GMT
Sounds cool. What is this about luck, then? How would it affect the game, other than in the one example you've given (getting fighters onto cards)? Might you happen across a decent boxer who shouldn't come anywhere near a trainer of your reputation? Might you find a couple of judges sway decisions in your way? Might you get random jumps in your skills, or in your boxers skills, if you are "lucky"? Or is this currently undefined, and only lucky trainers will find out in due course?
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Mar 20, 2007 16:44:43 GMT
Luck, makes you (not your boxers) lucky. So who knows what'll happen.
Of course, when your luck fails, it does nothing at all.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Mar 20, 2007 22:18:40 GMT
March Year 1
Regional Bout - Heavyweight Royce van den Heuvel vs Artur Mejia (Four Rounds)
Finally time to unlumber the big Dutch fella and wheel him out in front of... Meej? Or, Mejia... that's ok then. Mejia is a dirty fighter, who throws more elbows than punches, so I'll have to watch out there.
Round 1 Referee Chris Wollesnen brings the fighters out to the first bell and we're off, over four rounds, or hopefully fewer, if vdH can land a big punch or two.
vdH throws some sloppy stuff to start and can't score, allowing Mejia to hit back with a hook and a solid jab, but the first round is low paced and runs out probably slightly in favour of Mejia.
Round 2 The action that was missing in round one shows up in round two, as vdH lands a straight right, but takes an immediate counter punch and is a bit wobbly. He grapples with Mejia and leans on him, to catch his breath, then steps back and lamps him with an uppercut and now Mejia's in trouble too.
It's bombs away from there, with a lot of missed punches and a clash of heads that both boxers survive, but also some crunching power shots going in. I think we just about won that one.
Round 3 My guy is starting fast in the third, pushing inside and landing a good combination, then a hook, before firing in a jab as he steps back. Mejia looks a bit shaken, but as in round two, the boxer in trouble finds something special and he doulbes up the hook, the second one catching vdH totally by surprise and boom... he's down.
The count reaches seven before the Dutchman clambers to his feet and the ref has a good look before allowing the fight to continue. Mejia isn't in a merciful mood though and he's in again, with a jab-cross combo and then a solid hook and the ref steps in, as vdH looks well and truly done.
Shit.
Winner : Artu Mejia - Ref stopped fight (boxer unable to defend himself) at 2:56 of round 3.
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Post by elth on Mar 21, 2007 1:25:23 GMT
How much time investment is running this gym going to take then?
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Post by Narcizo on Mar 21, 2007 6:06:13 GMT
Will chemical "pick-me-ups" be included in this?
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Mar 21, 2007 10:25:26 GMT
How much time investment is running this gym going to take then? Well, the idea is, not long. You'll have one action to pick, per "month" for either two boxers or for yourself. When you go into a fight, you'll have a few more options, but it'll generally be "Try to do this instead of that." Your early fights will be four rounds long, so that's three breaks. So you could give out some further instruction for those - whether you want to try to close the fight if you're in front with a round to go, or just stay out of the way and take a points win - that sort of thing.
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Post by Boony on Mar 21, 2007 15:10:56 GMT
I've already found premises for my gym. It's a small room on the first floor of a curry restaurant, found in one of the dark alleys on the outskirts of town. Next door is a dingy pub (with the over-ambitiously pretentious moniker "The Double Barrel"), to one side, and an adult shop on the other. Over the road, we see a nightclub with two surly bouncers standing outside. After polite conversation with them, they appear to be on a braincell-sharing scheme, capable of just three tasks. Grunting, staring, and kicking the pantfish out of those who deign to break the rules of the house.
Maybe I should recruit them to my gym? On second thoughts, I probably don't have that kind of reputation yet.
The owner and proprietor of the curry house, Mr Navjot Patel, is a kindly soul, and the terms of my tenancy include some slight maintenance (fixing a drip from the boiler upstairs, which is causing distress amongst the chefs as the constant drip-drip-drip noise disturbs their artistry in the kitchen. Or it's contaminating the chicken on the meat shelf, whichever is most likely to cause the recent bout of food-poisoning in the local area) and some protection from the local gang of thugs. What better than a boxing gym, he reasoned, to offer this kind of support.
Our rent is cheap, I get a discount downstairs (which I shan't be using until I can get this leak fixed), and the barmaid next door certainly looks promising after about 8 pints of local ale. A few licks of paint, and a couple of pieces of equipment, and some plumbing of the old boiler (no, not the barmaid next door) and I'll be ready to welcome my first boxers. My plans are to get this done in the next three months or so, when I shall be able to unveil The Gorillas' Boxing Club.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Mar 21, 2007 15:33:58 GMT
Is it Jacques du Boxen?
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Mar 21, 2007 16:30:45 GMT
April Year 1
April Year 1 is the month of champions, as the first PBC belt holders are decided at all three weights and all three levels across the course of the month.
The loser of the Championship bout will join the losers from the semi-finals in fighting three other boxes who have yet to pull on the gloves, to start forming a top ten. Those evens will take place through the rest of the year and will make up parts of the card on which the new gyms can find fights.
Bout 1. REGIONAL LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP (Six rounds) Michael Placencia -v- Earnest Hoke
For the first three rounds here it looks as if the fight could be over at any minute, as Placencia dominates, tagging Hoke with three great combinations that leave Hoke wobbly by the middle of each round.
In the fourth, with a comfy lead on the scorecards, Placencia decides to go head hunting and tries to finish Hoke off and the two bomb away at each other all through the fourth and fifth.
In the sixth, Placencia is three minutes away from an easy win, but it still isn't enough and he gets in a brawl with Hoke, both punchers hammering away and then... ooops... Placencia is stunned by a punch, tries to fight back and gets caught again and that's that. Good night!
Winner : Earnest Hoke - By Knockout at 2:05 of Round Six.
Bout 2. REGIONAL MIDDLEWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP (Six rounds) Rolando McKeever -v- James Eyler
Rolando McKeever seemed to be in cruise control in his semi-final as he won a comfortable points victory and he tries to do it again here, staying at range and pecking away through the first two rounds, before Eyler has had enough and turns up the heat in the third, landing a couple of big shots.
McKeever tries to stay outside through the fourth, but can't do it as Eyler just keeps on driving forward and toward the end of the round, McKeever is down, thanks to a booming right hand. McKeever about climbs to his feet with the count at 9 and immediately takes another pair of hooks to the side of the head, but then the bell goes and the fighters return to their corners.
McKeever is just a shell of himself for the next two rounds and Eyler shows rather more sense than Placencia did in the previous fight and enjoys picking on his wounded opponent for two rounds, sealing a unanimous victory.
Winner : James Eyler - Points
Bout 3. REGIONAL HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP (Six rounds) Steve LaFontaine -v- Felix Bojorquez
LaFontaine actually tied his qualifier, but won one more round than his opponent and was sent to the final on that basis.
If LaFontaine has any idea that his stealthy path into the final is going to be part of a Cinderella story, or, perhaps more appropriately, a Rocky story, then he's soon disabused of that, as Bojorquez dominates round one and then steps up the pace even further in round two and batters LaFontaine into submission before the halfway mark.
Winner : Felix Bojorquez - Knockout at 1:23 of round 2.
So there are our three Regional Champions.
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Post by Boony on Mar 21, 2007 21:51:55 GMT
Hoke pulled one out of the bag there, I reckon. Placencia is a bit of a dumb ass. As s1ut pointed out on the tagboard today, now I've named my gym the "Gorillas", I'm bound to get two scrawny lightweights turn up on the first day. Therefore Keith, my loyal assistant, is taking notes. Not that I'll be at the Regional level for long. I have good faith in the local food and beer to have positive effects on my boxers and their training regimes.
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Post by Sonic on Mar 22, 2007 0:49:53 GMT
Sounds goog Stu, but I'll not join in this one.
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Post by elth on Mar 22, 2007 3:05:21 GMT
How much time investment is running this gym going to take then? Well, the idea is, not long. You'll have one action to pick, per "month" for either two boxers or for yourself. When you go into a fight, you'll have a few more options, but it'll generally be "Try to do this instead of that." Your early fights will be four rounds long, so that's three breaks. So you could give out some further instruction for those - whether you want to try to close the fight if you're in front with a round to go, or just stay out of the way and take a points win - that sort of thing. So...how much time is this thing going to take then?
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Mar 22, 2007 7:42:00 GMT
Well, the idea is, not long.
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Post by Moo on Mar 22, 2007 8:42:08 GMT
Stuart Vague McCann with some insightful information there. KUTGW!
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Post by Narcizo on Mar 22, 2007 8:46:07 GMT
I would imagine that it will take as long as you want to spend agonising over the decisions. Anything from 2 minutes to an hour a week.
Not that I know anything. About anything.
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Post by Boony on Mar 22, 2007 8:57:10 GMT
It depends how much time you spend typing out atmosphere building posts about the state of your gym...
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Post by Narcizo on Mar 22, 2007 9:18:51 GMT
0.5 seconds in my case then.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Mar 22, 2007 9:59:04 GMT
I have no idea how long it'll take, but the idea is not long.
Did I mention that already?
It's clear that Boo is going to have a laugh with it, so it'll take him however long it takes to write his latest drunken curry house escapades. Although he could just film his actual life and post that.
For everyone else, it'll take about seven minutes and 24 seconds every third thursday in June.
Each "month" you'll have to at least pm me and say "Simon Spankington : Sparring. Jimmy Krankie : Power." Or some such and you'll need to try to get onto fight cards, so your boxers can do what they're been genetically designed to do.
Hopefully the turns won't take long, you'll see a reaction to your orders and it'll be a jape.
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Post by coffers on Mar 22, 2007 10:02:06 GMT
Ok, I'll try and join in, I take it all I have to do now is send you three stats that I want to start with?
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Post by Moo on Mar 22, 2007 10:04:34 GMT
Would joining up at the weekend be too late?
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