Tournament Chat

[gilded spindle]

@trim anchor

cmere

[trim anchor]

yeah im coming

[short tartan]

@desert sky your up

[trim anchor]

well the good news is that ill get 1 win 5 losses

as opposed to 6 losses

[oblique apex]

I will proceed to remake my ships now

and I'm not getting out until i make something good

[lavish compass]

adds unicorn but does not add radiators

how are you gonna be 20% cooler

[trim anchor]

I FOUND THE PROBLEM

removing this makes my game start

because this account doesn't have administrator

[lavish compass]

oh i see

true

[trim anchor]

but the thing is, how come it only stopped working now

tf

[desert sky]

gg @young jacinth

[young jacinth]

you also played well

[desert sky]

Peoples make too much of a big deal PIP bug. Especially on ship old as 6 months

[desert sky]

I should've avoided your emps ship didn't I?

[young jacinth]

It genuenly impacted the game though

[young jacinth]

with the flak wall?

I think i just counter

[desert sky]

My lack of experience with these matchup lead me to do poor decisions

[young jacinth]

Shev lost that matchup

every time

[desert sky]

Oh wow very not encouraging here Plaus "you litterally couldn't do anything about it"

I'm crying

[lavish compass]

slowking missing damm

[desert sky]

it litterally did not

[lavish compass]

plaus BULLIES xsnow LIVE ON CAMERA

[young jacinth]

Stun locks are not supposed to be fun

[desert sky]

I am unaffected by it at such a level. I don't even know what the bug do i just know how it happen and that it's annoying

[young jacinth]

Idk what to do

[desert sky]

I'm honestly gonna cry if i end second right behind you

You learn stuff too fast, too much hard meta

[young jacinth]

Well I mean the game not the result

[desert sky]

Ah yes, our game, not cosmoteer as a whole

[lavish compass]

very curious archetypes here

[young jacinth]

I just spend a lot of time trying everything. Makes it a lot easier to counter pick and avoid getting counterpicked.

[desert sky]

I got counterpicked first round, i was so close much of the time

I couldn't predict it, it's my first time seeing this. I picked the orbiterwall because of your swarm, but i did not knew you baked a fresh hard counter for me

[young jacinth]

Yes it was very close

[hard rover]

lmao

[short tartan]

@desert sky your up

[trim anchor]

OMW

caps

:p

[desert sky]

@trim anchor @oblique apex You two are the last rampart to Plaus taking victory!!!

[trim anchor]

we are cooked

:p

[desert sky]

Stand your ground, this is how we'll be defined

[lavish compass]

quick!!! someone EMP Plaus's router

[oblique apex]

am i up?

[trim anchor]

no

[oblique apex]

ok

[oblique apex]

I'm not

I'll lose

[lavish compass]

together you are strong

[oblique apex]

no

[trim anchor]

im going to kill myself

[oblique apex]

no

[trim anchor]

i mean i know plaus is more experienced

[oblique apex]

never

[trim anchor]

but wtf was i doing

[short tartan]

@oblique apex your up

[oblique apex]

never say that

never say that

[trim anchor]

how did he beat my missile orbiter tho

[oblique apex]

never say that

[lavish compass]

[trim anchor]

that 8tb should not have been this strong

bruh i feel like im probably never going to win a tournament round

against a decent player

[oblique apex]

i never have

[trim anchor]

it just wont happen

its written in the cosmos

[trim anchor]

but you are newer

ive ben playing elim

since 2022

p regularly too

[lavish compass]

plaus is just cracked

[trim anchor]

i mean ig

that is pretty true

but im not sad that i lost

im sad about how badly i played

[lavish compass]

triple time champion at minimun

plaus for paragon when

[trim anchor]

he has already tried

[lavish compass]

so true

[trim anchor]

apparently he is still not good enough 💀

the other paragons instantly cooked him

despite most of them having not played the game in > 1 year

[lavish compass]

yeah sure sure just do a best of 9 duel with each

watch plaus be cracked

[trim anchor]

but im more disappointed in myself

[gilded spindle]

It's not only that makes somebody a paragon

[trim anchor]

i lost more by more than 2k

[fast oracle]

are you winning son

who's winning

[trim anchor]

im getting creamed

[trim anchor]

plaus so far i think

[gilded spindle]

Sure he's a great pilot, but plaus' builds are not up to the paragon standard of no mistakes visible

[lavish compass]

yeah

[fast oracle]

ah of course

[lavish compass]

[trim anchor]

https://tenor.com/view/skeleton-spinning-fan-gif-21550083

im never placing any higher in any tournament

im pretty sure

because i mean i guess im getting better

but everyone else is getting better at a higher rate

in addition to the fact that im newer

[lavish compass]

don't doom yourself like this

[trim anchor]

i mean is it really me digging my grave

its basically written in the cosmos at this point lmao

[fast oracle]

plaus is the best player competitively for his huge variety and knowledge of meta.

Huge variety comes at a cost of a bit less optimization on each one of the ships.

[lavish compass]

yeah enjoy the game and experiences but if you "dedicate your entire existance" you'll find more hardships

[desert sky]

I have a guess to why too

According to what Quiximo said in a voicechat

[trim anchor]

rly?

what did he say

[gilded spindle]

It's irrelevent

[trim anchor]

i am curious tho

[fast oracle]

plaus is somehow not very popular amongst the older players

xd

[lavish compass]

i love how no paragon has the paragon role color its just visionary and looks like a brighter expert

[young jacinth]

me too

[trim anchor]

i remember someone brought up a point that paragon should be based on the best players currently as opposed to the best of all time

[fast oracle]

vilda i think

[trim anchor]

i agree with that one

[trim anchor]

wait vilda doesn't have artisan?

how

[lavish compass]

slowking leaving tournament observer alone and doing something else (i assume searching exclesior)

[trim anchor]

thats crazy

here am i applying for artisian with my plain ahhh cabal

then vilda just doesn't even go for it

[lavish compass]

vilda has artisan

not visionary

[trim anchor]

wait oh

[young jacinth]

@gilded spindle muted again?

oh just not talking lol

[trim anchor]

yeah

how is coquito winning

holy shit

[lavish compass]

[oblique apex]

i have been playing sicne 2020...

@short tartan well played, i'm sorry i had to go, family is arriving at the party

[lavish compass]

how curious

[short tartan]

@desert sky ur up

[trim anchor]

slams desk

im actually kind of frustrated

i played badly vs his alpha rail

and i should have capitalized more off of his abandoned ships

i shouldn't have lsot

[short tartan]

you played really well

[trim anchor]

and yet i got last place in the tournament

behind coquito

those words feel more empty now than ever, sry rift

[gilded spindle]

You're equal to coquito in rankings

if I'm not mistaken

[short tartan]

yes

[trim anchor]

its still last place

[lavish compass]

congratulate

[gilded spindle]

@desert sky

[fast oracle]

snow doing well

[trim anchor]

although ig i did do better

[fast oracle]

and plaus winning as usual

[trim anchor]

my losses are more narrow

especially against rift and slowking

i should probably stop participating in tournaments bruh

[fast oracle]

why

[trim anchor]

they are super tilting

[fast oracle]

when you sign up to a tourney, the normal thing is losing

[trim anchor]

because the only wins ive ever gotten were against troll ships or players witha fifth of my skill

[fast oracle]

only 1 can win the tourney

[lavish compass]

arena pvp is gonna take 4 hours

[fast oracle]

I mean, same

[lavish compass]

this is literally 1984 can we just schedule up weekend elim matches at specific times of day

[short tartan]

@desert sky ?????

[trim anchor]

really?

i see you get wins p regularly

[fast oracle]

exactly

[trim anchor]

yeah

[fast oracle]

and i lose in the semifinals

when i fight people at my level

[trim anchor]

and i have yet to win a single winners-bracket round in any tournament

[trim anchor]

but you have made it to the semifinals

i simply put, have not won once

[fast oracle]

because i have a lot of experience

[lavish compass]

nebula update gonna drop and people might finally be able to be evil

[trim anchor]

ig, thats fair

[lavish compass]

or just enable fog in tournaments

what could go wrong

[trim anchor]

its just im tired of getting cooked every tournament

[short tartan]

same

thats why i try to get better every time

[trim anchor]

me too

the problem is that im not 💀

i mean its not like this is my first tournament

[lavish compass]

i'm sad that i decided to rematch instead of let sorail not
i wanted to get destroyed by plaus that would be more knowledge-giving i think

[oblique apex]

GG everyone!

[young jacinth]

jo @short tartan you are a machine to cast 2 tournaments in a row

[lavish compass]

now go to sleep rift

~~or if you wont go to sleep rn can you test my new nuke trajectory hack 2.0 and see if you like it ~~

[fast oracle]

wift :3

[short tartan]

ty! Im decently tired but I think I could still cast for an hour more 🧡

[short tartan]

wunaaaaa

[short tartan]

some of my friends tell me that I should be a streamer and I agree with them

[lavish compass]

i agree

[trim anchor]

plaus won?

[desert sky]

Hi

[short tartan]

yes

[desert sky]

Sorry my mom called me and it's been a while i haven't seen her
I assumed coq wouldn't beat Plaus and thought it wasn't that important playing that match anyways

[short tartan]

you missed your final match snow

[short tartan]

alr, all good its just a game

[desert sky]

Family > video games

[trim anchor]

true true

wp everyone

[desert sky]

I agree but i failed to do so tbh so welp

[trim anchor]

kk

[desert sky]

I did not even had the tournament planned in the first place so it's fine

@gilded spindle I will let you know: I fucking loved the tournament

[lavish compass]

✅ true

[desert sky]

Arena settings and especially round robin is amazing and it really showed everyone's skill with minimum hazards

[short tartan]

time to either have food, pass out or both

[desert sky]

I must confess the only flaw i saw was the tiny ship being far too cheap

100k is too little to gain back advantage when someone had a kill and start stalling to minimize risks

[short tartan]

it was 150k but agreed

once again, thanks to those who participated, we couldn't do this without you!

[lavish compass]

alright new tournament tomorrow?

[trim anchor]

the ai player was a cool addition

with the mini ship

[desert sky]

By itself it's a great idea, too cheap though

[hard rover]

already did

so far no hardships

except the ultraheavies

[lavish compass]

"tournament" idea: everyone fights plaus in a bo3 then finalists bo5 or bo7 and whoever wins becomes champion
do this once plaus is paragon

[sterile flame]

To make it slightly more fair it should be two people vs plaus

[cloud escarp]

no, it should be five people who can only use built-ins

[lavish compass]

go go gadget shestopyror

[surreal pecan]

No, just do it

Oh yeah and plaus doesn't get to fight in a Bo3, he has one chace to win and if he wins he has to win again.

He has to win 3 times in a row in semi-finals and 5 times in the finals.

If he wins he gets absolutely nothing and the loser of the finale gets awarded champion (If the other finalist wins... I don't know, they get double champ or something).

The only tournament with a fair chance for every player in MONTHS!

[surreal pecan]

Two people using 3mil ships!

[icy oxide]

Time to make more competitive-like built-ins

[hard rover]

railfan railfan railfan railfan

[oblique apex]

Nuh uh

[cloud escarp]

the AI is horrible at driving railfans though

[white apex]

not that bad w/ some ships

[narrow tapir]

"No minimum cost" 💀💀💀

That's gonna be a swarming hell

[oblique apex]

Fr

[surreal pecan]

Just make a 1.5mil shrike like railfan 😏

[hard rover]

shrike exists, why not have more shrikes

[surreal pecan]

Remember the Ostritch Obliterator?
Get ready for the Shrike Sucker.

[hard rover]

shrike shredder

(ion rammer)

[surreal pecan]

Heck, anything that can go forward.

[snow seal]

@desert sky what is

[desert sky]

what is what?

The friendly reminder post? Check this out #events message

[snow seal]

oh ok ty

[short tartan]

#tournament-announcements message
@gilded spindle I personally would like the potential of double elimination or round robin for all tournaments depending on how many people sign up
I also want to co host

[snow seal]

what is preview?

[gilded spindle]

Nebulas

[snow seal]

oh

are there going to be weapon bans like one of the prev tourneys

[gilded spindle]

Round robin takes a tremendous amount of time past 6 participants, and double elim needs to be done over two days for my sanity

[gilded spindle]

For elimination yeah, for arena I'm debating it

[snow seal]

oh def not for arena

[gilded spindle]

It worked without last time so it makes sense

[hazy brook]

wait someone other than me voted for arena?????

[hard rover]

new tapeable alt account discovered

[young jacinth]

Redemption arc after missing the first tourney?

[desert sky]

I quite liked it like i said in the past.

It was very enjoyable, one of the best tournaments i took part in, even if i had to leave near the end and lost to Plaus.

[short tartan]

gotcha, ill take that as a yes to me cohosting again

[royal gust]

I agree with Snow I though the arena setup was pretty cool

Though Elim also has its virtues and I think some sort of alternating schedule could work

[short tartan]

agreed, really it depends on how many people show up tbh

[lavish compass]

i'm thinking of hosting a tournament one day on a sunday

one day

[hard rover]

one day on a sunday rhymes, hm

[lavish compass]

one day on a sunday
chugging crack on a tourney
just like that i'm ms lindsay
next thing yknow i'll be losin- ey

[inland lagoon]

@young jacinth im not participating i signed up for a chinese player called revelc ton a

fyi

[young jacinth]

I know Im pinging you in case you can contact them

[inland lagoon]

oh i noticed green shicken also did

alright

[vocal cloak]

There is a dom tourney?

Plaus announce it in #events next time

[unkempt gulch]

if this time Tournament winner can get champion...

[hazy brook]

i had no idea there was a tournament today

i would have signed up

[unkempt gulch]

plaus crushing noob

[young jacinth]

Yes I always host every 2 weeks and i dont see a point in posting in events when #tournament-announcements is specifically made for that purpose. I also dont wanna bother the mods every time

[raven fern]

There's something else we can do. Those interested in being pinged for tournament announcements can request the "tournament participant" role.

[young jacinth]

That would be epic actually

[young jacinth]

Would it be possible to move #tournament-announcements to INFO?

[inland lagoon]

or better idea, ping every domination player known to man when u announce it

[raven fern]

I don't think it would be suitable as we already have the events channel for that purpose. You can always try making a request in #discord-meta and see if one of the higher ups think differently

[raven fern]

Have them request the "tournament participant" role

[desert sky]

poke i want it

I thought that role was for on going tournaments though, and probably was in the past

[raven fern]

Probably, as it has never been used I'm repurposing it

[last cave]

lmao i never even realized there was atournament

tfw tourney is dead because nobody even know it was there

[last cave]

im pretty sure the only reason the dom tourney last month worked only because yugi and i pinged every dom player that exists

[hollow socket]

i know about every tournament, i choose to join or not

[snow seal]

HYPE

[oblique apex]

is this real?

🔥

that mod will go crazy in the tourney fr

[snow seal]

@young jacinth u should raise the minimum speed for mines to arm

[young jacinth]

always insta arm?

[snow seal]

yeah

u made all control rooms 10004..?

i thought they would be 10004, 25004, 50004

[young jacinth]

yes

was nuggs suggestion i think

[snow seal]

oh mkay

[young jacinth]

#1249815979253563423 message my tournaments arent official ones i I dont care about enforcing it

[hard rover]

time to go back to classic era railfans with perma boosters

[surreal pecan]

It was removed because it was obviously very overpowered, stronger and cheaper than huges with zero rampup time.

[snow seal]

cheaper is debatable

[young jacinth]

Seems like you are missing context

[snow seal]

monothrust wasn't as common back then

so u would have to spend however much this costs but twice because ppl tended to use it for avoiders

i thiink oem was the first to use it for an orbiter/rammer.. but not sure

this was also generally before ion prisms.. rails weren't that good.. missile ai kinda sucked

so idk how much u gain from ramming

[rain loom]

What is consideration for MRT to make it unbalanced?

[young jacinth]

All the changes are listed on the mod page. Mrt has no rampup

[cloud escarp]

what does "EMPs being hitscan" mean again?

[gilded spindle]

they have 0 travel time

so they will hit no matter what

[cloud escarp]

oh what, alright

[tacit nacelle]

man, I wish I could join but my timezone has decided that its 5am on a monday

[young jacinth]

Sorry I sadly cant move to another day

[tacit nacelle]

that's alright, I wouldn't ask you to change the date just so I could join

[young jacinth]

I dont think its unreasonable to ask with our community being so small

[cloud escarp]

ever considered a when2meet? maybe there can be a vague date, a signup period for a week or two, then signups close a week before it starts, everyone fills out a when2meet and the best time to host is determined.

when2meet requires no login nor cookies, and you can fill it out in like 30 seconds

[young jacinth]

Cool Ill probably use that for future events. I can only really offer 2 hours difference for this one so Ill skipp it for now.

[snow seal]

lmao i literally just used that site to organize smtg with my friends lmao

only 1 friend is interested.. the site is really nice tho :)

[young jacinth]

Yes the site is super clean and simple

[hazy brook]

#tournament-announcements message
@young jacinth is your tourney elim or dom
"Rules: Normal tournament rules with a 1.5 mil price limit." but it also says
"Settings: Same as here #tournament-announcements message"
(it is showing a domination ruleset as example)

[young jacinth]

its elim. thanks seems I linked the wrong one

[snow seal]

so is the tourney gonna be on nebula preview?

[young jacinth]

No vanilla

[snow seal]

i think ion damage fall off still exists

[young jacinth]

Interesting Ill investigate thanks

[surreal pecan]

Yay ion kite got some love back! :D

Once it was my favourite ship type, I have SO MANY

[desert sky]

This line make me wonder if that the unbalance mod or the balance mod

[cloud escarp]

chaotic good balance mod

[sharp bane]

small thruster ion kites.

mining lasers are no joke

but thinking that small cannons remain the clear winners

tho, a bit of a dice roll when it comes to an actual engagement

[hard rover]

uh oh i forgot about the tournament

[surreal pecan]

What is tournament? I forget

[sharp bane]

what is or when is??

what: unbalance mod tournament

time: 18:00 UTC

(check in starts in under 3 hours)

[hard rover]

yeah

i will bring a built in

because why not

it's unbalanced that built ins don't have a chance to compete with competitive ships so if plaus' mod is really balanced then they would

[upbeat ridge]

so that's why eno is playing cosmo

[short tartan]

im cohosting

[sharp bane]

guess what the difference between these two roles is

[young jacinth]

Fe assignments

[sharp bane]

indeed

0 FE priority babyyy

[young jacinth]

Lets go

Thats kinda smart considering the circumstances lol

[sharp bane]

half of the unbalance mod engagements I've tested end up with fires which cannot be put out within seconds of opening fire

so may as well focus all resources on thrust

also I think this will be the first tournament in a while where the dominant strategy does not use direct control

but let's see if i'm right about that

RTS <3
sorry for abandoning you for so long

[young jacinth]

So youre playing to win

Excited to see what you came up with

I still have to build my ships

And Im not home yet

[sharp bane]

average unbalance mod engagement:

[sharp bane]

Mhhh. Kinda. As much as I do usually, which is to say, putting 2-4 hours into testing ships before the tournament. Usually when people play to win they spend weeks testing and sparring x-x

[snow seal]

so

how many participants?

maybe round robin

[sharp bane]

like 5? lmao

I expected more

[snow seal]

modded

[sharp bane]

I thought the premise was fun enough that a bunch of people would come back to the game to try it (like me...)

[upbeat ridge]

W

[snow seal]

6ppl if plaus is playing

[sharp bane]

there is potentially an interesting matchup here

[short tartan]

tourney will take place on stable fyi

[sharp bane]

👍 would the mod even work on test?

using MRT feels so weird because like, usually we take optimised modules, but with MRT the optimised modules are so big that it feels like the whole ship is plagiarised

[short tartan]

unsure

[snow seal]

the entire tourney needs to have "we didn't start the fire" in the background

(don't actually)

[surreal pecan]

top cinco avoider

[surreal pecan]

Replying to this ^

[sharp bane]

ok, I think rails would stand a chance in low asteroid density, large ring of death

as it is I don't see them winning

[snow seal]

mass rails

[sharp bane]

they do have massive range

smaller rails would be good

I was thinking rail kite but that's not the strat here

[snow seal]

why pay 37.5% more for 20% more dps

when rails already shoot basically instantly

[young jacinth]

@hard rover

[short tartan]

tournament starting

[snow seal]

huh no luna?

[young jacinth]

no 😦

[short tartan]

no show

[snow seal]

hmm

bro we've been here for 6+ years??? @gilded spindle

faaac i'm old

[gilded spindle]

yeah

since 2018

[snow seal]

that was beautiful

[sharp bane]

we're ancient 😭

I'm here since march 2019 apparently

[snow seal]

this round is going great for plaus

[surreal pecan]

I already know it's gonna be Plaus winning his own tourney.

Always that.

[young jacinth]

@sharp bane

[sharp bane]

1 sec

[snow seal]

are matches supposed to be 20 mins

jesus the carnage that occured

[hard rover]

i wish i went with alpha missile spam ships now

[snow seal]

am i up

[sharp bane]

missile ships are surprisingly solid

they would have a chance against junk cannon ships if they can avoid dying for long enough

[short tartan]

@snow seal @sharp bane yall are up

[snow seal]

huh

oh

[short tartan]

@gilded spindle your up

[gilded spindle]

oh okay

[sharp bane]

this is why I should have made an EMP wall

[gilded spindle]

might need a moment

[sharp bane]

just one would probably wreak havoc on the swarm

[short tartan]

do you want us to run a match to give you time?

[gilded spindle]

sure

[snow seal]

likely the small shields would have tanked the emps

[short tartan]

@sharp bane @hard rover yall are up

[snow seal]

because 3 emps each

[sharp bane]

oh 3 in a row?

[short tartan]

yup

to give slowk some time

[snow seal]

they have 60 capacity

and emps only take 18

[sharp bane]

yaaa I thought they'd be down instantly

forgot that it's based on total shield health tho

[snow seal]

the ship name was because i have multiple sizes of swarms

incase i wanted to put a diff type of ship

@short tartan

i have a smal brawl etc

[short tartan]

facinating

[sharp bane]

I guess smaller cannon ships might always win against slightly bigger ones

up toa certain point

[snow seal]

small cannon rounds are so small they pass through everything

[short tartan]

@gilded spindle your up

[sharp bane]

smaller than the atomic void

[gilded spindle]

on preview

[snow seal]

agony

if ur ship price is messed up that would be hilarious

[hard rover]

nah not really, it's in budget i think

i just didn't think about using it until i hit ready

which i think is worse

[snow seal]

no i meant slowk

because he was building in a different version

[hard rover]

that would be sooo funny

[gilded spindle]

loading still

[snow seal]

LMAO

[gilded spindle]

I gave up on my rebuild, so I'm running my stupid wall

[snow seal]

rebuild of what

[sharp bane]

@gilded spindle have you ever heard of diminishing returns x_x

beautiful

sorry for middle of game ping oops

[snow seal]

HOLY

THE SHIELDS ATE THE MINEFIELD

[gilded spindle]

nah

[short tartan]

@gilded spindle bo3

[sharp bane]

the unspoken rule of commentating, we don't mention ammo reserves hehe

or rather the sometimes spoken rule of commentating

[snow seal]

@gilded spindle push the rock into plaus

[gilded spindle]

heavy

[snow seal]

u have way more thrust than any other ship ever

[gilded spindle]

I would with the alpha ship

[snow seal]

am i up

awkward silence

oh my god live building

nice play

[sharp bane]

do we have the bracket publicly accessible?

oh found it

https://challonge.com/ev37v95a

[short tartan]

@sharp bane

your up

[snow seal]

huh

oh

i think eno doesn't have the damage

didnt weave prisms smh

we're gonna have to wait the full 20 minutes

qawawawawall

[sharp bane]

that was so fun

[short tartan]

@snow seal @gilded spindle

[sharp bane]

the first time WHATDOESITDOWHATDOESITDO was the best play

[snow seal]

NICE

oops caps

[sharp bane]

but yeah I thought I'd just win as soon as the prism armour was gone, but I guess not

really underestimated DC dakka

I didn't test enough, tested less deep prism armour and assumed small cannons will just penetrate any number of layers

"Walt why don't you implement [X cool idea]"
the frames if walt implemented [X cool idea] :

SK should sumo with this matchup

[snow seal]

he has no thrust sustain

dced

[gilded spindle]

huh

[sharp bane]

oof

we should rematch after the tourney, see how my clone swarm does vs yours

[snow seal]

random

[gilded spindle]

they look like little fighter jets

[sharp bane]

probably random ya

rng of small cannons too high compared to any small variations in design

OH I just noticed you also use prisms for separating swarms, same braincells

I guess if it's free may as well take it

[short tartan]

@gilded spindle your still up???

[gilded spindle]

huh

dont have stream, so I don't know

[short tartan]

sorry should have been more clear here

[snow seal]

💀

are plaus' cannons firing?

they weren't

lost last round due to cannons being set to hold fire :agony:

absolute hilarity

[short tartan]

@snow seal your finally up

welp thats not supposed to happen

[sharp bane]

I'm letting my friends know what's up

GG @snow seal

wp

[snow seal]

i can win the match i lost

[sharp bane]

here are my ships that didn't make it through testing

[snow seal]

should not have detonated the charges

my ships

[sharp bane]

yeee you got vise clamped by your own sides...

[fast oracle]

sowwy for not being there

[snow seal]

the swarm also has many sizes

[snow seal]

or i do detonate and just sit behind and slowly mine from behind

[short tartan]

its all good, according to blaze we are the same person anyways so you did sorta show up

[fast oracle]

lol

[upbeat ridge]

and this is is the last of enoshade we'll see in a month

[desert sky]

Till the next tournament

[raven fern]

Exactly

[upbeat ridge]

watching back the tourney small cannons moment

https://tenor.com/view/sickening-radiance-gif-18158294

[upbeat ridge]

gg @snow seal

[trim anchor]

@gilded spindle sooo what of the june pvp tournament?

[snow seal]

tyty

[surreal pecan]

#tournament-announcements message Hey what if the preview build officially releases before the tourney?

[gilded spindle]

Then we use stable

[snow seal]

whats the storm density?

u might need to update the game settings screenshot in ur tourney doc

are there weapon bans?

[gilded spindle]

I'll poll for weapon bans, and density is sparse with all nebulae

[snow seal]

huh these are arena rules still

[short tartan]

I'm excited for this tournament

[desert sky]

Who could have expected a 50/50 :agony:

[gilded spindle]

Can’t you just be decisive?

[short tartan]

flip a coin

or let the co-host pick (I promise I'm biased)

[upbeat ridge]

breh who trolled and picked no to even it out

[snow seal]

how many of the people who voted are actually playing in the tourney

maybe wait until tourney check in to perform the vote

[gilded spindle]

Then people won't sign up, as they will only play their preference e.g Teratron

[snow seal]

dam ppl rlly that sensitive

atleast if u are on the fence about joining bc of the rules say u are interested exclusively for x or y ruleset

as long as u tell slowk that u arent gonna participate before the tourney starts then there is literally no downside to signing up

[cloud escarp]

50/50 lol

[wispy hornet]

3AM 💀

[hollow socket]

hmmm

[hard rover]

balanced as all things should be

[short tartan]

because we did the last 3 elimination tournaments with weapon ban we will be doing this one without

[upbeat ridge]

yay

[hard rover]

nice i can use railfans without getting railbanned and having to use a tb nuker

[hollow socket]

i will also get to use a railfan, a once in a year opportunity

[hard rover]

maybe slowk will match us against eachother to see which side the universe favors

[snow seal]

should we ask walt to push the balance changes from the rc to the preview?

[desert sky]

Most of them actually are!
The RC is just another branch that diverged from the preview to get into the main build

Unless you are speaking about the mining laser changes of the lastest patchnote of the RC

[snow seal]

none of rc2's changes are in the preview

[fast oracle]

why not play in rc

[snow seal]

no nebulas

[surreal pecan]

Nuki you should have made a diag missile barge to counter railbans. Just ban enemy missiles :>

[hard rover]

but missile barge is your thing

my thing is nuke orbiters(25%) and railfans(75%)

[oblique apex]

Railgun warfare will be epic 🔥

[oblique apex]

@gilded spindle i see in the document that the tournament will take place in the preview branch, but i don't see any settings for nebulas in the image inside of the document.

Will the nebulas be sparse or dense?

[gilded spindle]

^

I’ll update it when I’m home

[oblique apex]

Thank you, Slowking! 👍

[short tartan]

@gilded spindle the tournament doc has the settings for arena

[gilded spindle]

I'm aware

[snow seal]

slowk are u playing?

[gilded spindle]

Depending on player count

[upbeat ridge]

wait is there a tourney today

[sharp bane]

damn so soon after the unbalance tourney

I need to be moving flats this week so, I'm sitting this one out

[upbeat ridge]

rare eno not participating in tourney

[gilded spindle]

Plaus does tourneys at random intervals while mine are on the last Saturday of every month

[hard rover]

plaus does tournaments whenever they want to win

[young jacinth]

They are not random at all. They are every 2 weeks

[upbeat ridge]

man's like a w/l vampire

[granite river]

Plaus the AI returns

[oblique apex]

the tournament starts in 10 minutes, right?

[gilded spindle]

no?

[oblique apex]

guh?!

[gilded spindle]

look at the timestamp in tournament announcements

[oblique apex]

but 7pm IST is 8:30 am where i live

b r u h

[gilded spindle]

IST, irish summer time

not indian summer time

[oblique apex]

💀

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/884118829008052224.gif?size=48&quality=lossless

[gilded spindle]

next time I'll put brackets

[hard rover]

time's a wacky thing

[gilded spindle]

@hazy root Your timestamp is an hour early, was that intentional?

[hazy root]

@gilded spindle Oh no it wasn't but it's better for me so it's a good news. Updated my sign-up

[hollow socket]

Hmmm

[desert sky]

Yeah I actually appreciate that you put the tournament one hour later than previous ones

This was very hard to attend previously

[hard rover]

it's one hour later??

isn't it the same as previous ones

or not

[hazy root]

It sure depends of the timezone but like you it's better for me

[snow seal]

15 so far

[short tartan]

its 13/13

[snow seal]

huh

i was counting sign up messages

not check ins

[gilded spindle]

Thoughts on me playing?

[snow seal]

sure

[young jacinth]

youre the host

[snow seal]

if you win it's rigged

:))

[gilded spindle]

for sure

[snow seal]

i think u guys should ping the ppl who haven't checked in

[short tartan]

everyone checked in

[snow seal]

oh wh

[young jacinth]

impossible

[snow seal]

andrea?

oh nvm she said not joining

[short tartan]

dropped out

[snow seal]

ok

yeah double counted the message

[young jacinth]

that makes sense lol

[gilded spindle]

Here's the bracket for now, almost ready

[royal gust]

My area is supposed to have thunderstorms today if Mt power was to go out I'll let everyone know

[snow seal]

oh imm first?

would like more time please

[fast oracle]

fish and then butter/snow

cool

I'm not winning this one but it should be fun anyway

are we going to have multiple rounds per couple?

or best of 1

[royal gust]

I think it's bo1

[oblique apex]

i think i already lost

[short tartan]

dont sell yourself short

[young jacinth]

@gilded spindle did you pick the seeds?

[short tartan]

I helped

[snow seal]

it's not random

???

[short tartan]

its not

[snow seal]

i'm below average???

[oblique apex]

how

it has to be random

[young jacinth]

Slow is paragon but lower seed than me smh

[gilded spindle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP2mwg1fcRo

[oblique apex]

there's no way Fish can just be against Luna

[young jacinth]

You have not played for a long time tbh

[royal gust]

Aye let's go

[oblique apex]

or me against erin

[fast oracle]

why not

[oblique apex]

i understood wrong

my bad

[gilded spindle]

Erin vs Coquito

[oblique apex]

yo, the hosts aren't talking

[gilded spindle]

@forest cedar @oblique apex

[oblique apex]

what

already?

ok, omw, i have to open cosmoteer

[young jacinth]

does the stream have audio?

[oblique apex]

hi rift

[young jacinth]

oh lol it does

[gilded spindle]

@trim anchor #tournament-announcements message

[trim anchor]

oh...

there needs to be some kind of ping role bruh

[oblique apex]

true

[trim anchor]

and that was only a few days before

[oblique apex]

@gilded spindle @short tartan password?

[trim anchor]

they are usually posted like 2-3 weeks ahead

[snow seal]

should have posted in #events true

[trim anchor]

well the sign up just came 30 minutes ago at least

whatever

[oblique apex]

W H A T ' S T H E P A S S W O R D

[short tartan]

#tournament-announcements

[snow seal]

bro are u literate

[fast oracle]

Nebula

[snow seal]

damn theres a capital letter?

[young jacinth]

we should make a bingo board

Id already have a space

[oblique apex]

ty

[royal gust]

So it's Erin and Coquito first?

[gilded spindle]

yea

[royal gust]

Cool cool thank you

[trim anchor]

i did not know that electron clouds strengthen energy weapons 💀

[supple vapor]

where is bracket

[trim anchor]

#tournament-announcements

scroll down

[short tartan]

@snow seal you ready?

[snow seal]

ya

i typed Nebula

[sterile flame]

Good luck everyone

[short tartan]

try again

[snow seal]

okay idk how i mistyped it 4 times

[short tartan]

@hard rover youre up

[snow seal]

but copypaste worked xd

[gilded spindle]

Slow yourself down

[snow seal]

huh

[forest cedar]

all lowercase

is there gonna be a losers bracket?

[gilded spindle]

nope

[forest cedar]

ok

so coq is just out then

[fast oracle]

oh no losers

[gilded spindle]

yeah, it's a fast bracket style

[fast oracle]

uh oh

[forest cedar]

alright

pressure is on

[trim anchor]

what is it with me getting paired with one person exactly twice in a row

ive been paired with gk twice before

then im getting paired with slowk twice in a row

[fast oracle]

oh gk is in

[trim anchor]

rng goes crazy

[fast oracle]

ah nvm

[oblique apex]

@short tartan is there losers bracket, there's no way i already lost because of an unfair matchup.

[short tartan]

nope

[fast oracle]

night mung

[short tartan]

@hazy root @tacit nacelle yall are up

[oblique apex]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/314115739160281088/1253057605216239718/587851764724924447.gif

back to my cave i go

[hard rover]

atleast i lost because lack of skill :clueless:

[fast oracle]

mung might win this

[granite river]

agreed slowk

electron cloud should yeet the shields

[fast oracle]

no

[granite river]

why not?

[fast oracle]

because it also affects ion rammers

idk i think the energy weapon buff is useless without shields

[snow seal]

storms are against mung

idk how well the chip damage is gona help rn

[fast oracle]

mung deserves the win sorry night hehe

[gilded spindle]

I feel shields existing in an energy storm is counterintuitive

[fast oracle]

cool missile orbiter

[fast oracle]

what about tb

[gilded spindle]

if they do exist, they should have excessive energy drain, e.g 1 battery a second drain

[fast oracle]

reactors are already nerfed a lot

[gilded spindle]

yeah, it punishes shields by making them costly

toggle your shields when in the storm, lets you keep them but adds micro and skill on top

[supple vapor]

i love the speed meta its more fun

i love gambling

[snow seal]

mung dont die to rod please

ok we safe

[fast oracle]

gg mung

wp

[trim anchor]

nice

[short tartan]

@trim anchor your up

[trim anchor]

gl

[fast oracle]

:3

:3333333333333

[young jacinth]

true

[hazy root]

And mung did

[fast oracle]

yep it was a very cool ul morbi design

should counter tb rail

[hazy root]

indeed ! And he flight it more than good

[forest cedar]

stream crashed?

[tacit nacelle]

I was so relieved you brought a tb rail and not some wacky ul tb contraption

[fast oracle]

not for me

[forest cedar]

oh

my connection just sucks then

on my phone, thats never happened before

[fast oracle]

f coco

[trim anchor]

bruh

[fast oracle]

goat

[trim anchor]

best tournament performance by me:

[hazy root]

Anyway I love your designs and your play style, gl 🙂

[trim anchor]

i hate myself

[short tartan]

@royal gust youre up

[trim anchor]

anyways

[fast oracle]

:)

[trim anchor]

i wasn't expecting much anyway

i hadn't played that ship in ages

[fast oracle]

at least it was a cool ship

[trim anchor]

i was expecting to do better than that tho

even mungbean lasted much longer vs nightlord

what even went wrong there?

[snow seal]

i want to see the caster v caster match

[supple vapor]

asumes goodie loses

[gilded spindle]

That's a little toxic in wording

[trim anchor]

myb, im pretty damn flustered

what im saying is that mungbean, who is much newer than i am

[supple vapor]

mung beans ship is good it just doesnt do well vs ul nukes

[trim anchor]

was able to do well against nightlord

i locked in for that tournament bruh 💀

[gilded spindle]

there's always next time

[trim anchor]

i guess

i mean im not mad that i lost, i never really stood a chance anyway

im mad that i did way worse in this one

than my previous ones

[hazy root]

Anybody has a chance to win.

[supple vapor]

you were on plauses side of bracket was over before it started

[trim anchor]

i wouldnt have had to deal with plaus until finals

look

[supple vapor]

ah mb

[trim anchor]

and yet ive never won a single round in non-losers bracket

lmao

bruh i dont know why i still participate in tournaments xd

they always make me frustrated and its not like i necessarily improve

[trim anchor]

no problem

[young jacinth]

There is a good chance I lose against salephz

no idea what they bring

[trim anchor]

but salephz is returning from a pretty long haitus

and besides you win most tournaments

nonetheless, it is a good idea to remain cautious for that reason

[royal gust]

There's no lovers bracket right?

[trim anchor]

no

okay ngl i think i should have warmed up

[royal gust]

Lmao autocorrect

[trim anchor]

and i dont think making major edits to my ship the second before my round was up was a smart idea

i only just remembered about the cost decrease for MRT

so i slapped on a few nukes last minute

i was also barely paying attention, for the first few minutes i was trying to rearrange my hotkeys 💀

[royal gust]

I was originally gonna bring my small cannon wall but though I'd be able to better pilot my ion crusier lol

Hey that was fun Rift a nice 1st tournament experience

[short tartan]

@desert sky @stone grove yall are up

[stone grove]

what is the password again?

[gilded spindle]

I am four parallel universes ahead of you

[short tartan]

Nebula

[trim anchor]

so uh

[short tartan]

@desert sky ???

[trim anchor]

how could i have done better next time?

[snow seal]

womp womp

[gilded spindle]

dont feed me nukes point blank firstly

[trim anchor]

yeah that was a mistake

i meant to fire them earlier

[short tartan]

melee nukes dont work basically

[gilded spindle]

also, treat the squib like a very short fuse explosion

[short tartan]

you also just gave up

[trim anchor]

ive played enough games to be aware of this lmao

[trim anchor]

not intentionally at least

[short tartan]

which is a very poor descision

[trim anchor]

i did throw

but by mistake

[trim anchor]

wdym by this exactly?

[stone grove]

how long do we wait for snow?

[gilded spindle]

The spinner is the bomb, and the squib is a short fuse

if it reaches you it's basically over

[snow seal]

why not just keep xsnow in and proceed with other matches

[short tartan]

@young jacinth @snow seal yall are up

[short tartan]

thats what we are doing

[oblique apex]

bruh ,why does coconut have the lowest seed?

[snow seal]

joined last

[trim anchor]

@snow seal nicely played!!!

[oblique apex]

what does the seed mean?

[short tartan]

@forest cedar @tacit nacelle yall are up

[snow seal]

likeliness to win

in this case its very subjective

[hard rover]

salephz you're going to get that red role back

[snow seal]

but in most tournaments it's based on previous performances (data)

[fast oracle]

plaus was that a counter?

[forest cedar]

just a sec pls

[young jacinth]

yea but I have not practise playing swarm vs mines rip

[desert sky]

WHY I AM ON NOT DISTURB

[fast oracle]

rip

[fast oracle]

you still have a chance

dw

[short tartan]

youre up after this match

[oblique apex]

Xsnow and Butter

i wish both of you the best of luck the next match

[desert sky]

Ouf, almost thought I was disqualified here

[oblique apex]

naaah

[stone grove]

Oh hey u are here

[oblique apex]

you aren't disqualified

[snow seal]

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxuuEGIa1LOvK9ucPhcTXNejX6JTb0hGkA?feature=shared

[fast oracle]

you were a match away from being

[snow seal]

tb'd the lil ship into a set of mines LMAO

[stone grove]

Those were some nice mines

[oblique apex]

agh, i don't know if i'm mentally prepared for this

[snow seal]

oo thruster hit

[fast oracle]

wp erin

snow and butter

[short tartan]

@desert sky @stone grove yall are up

[forest cedar]

shoulda gone for the thruster sooner

[fast oracle]

yes

[forest cedar]

new ai prisms are actually useful

[fast oracle]

targeting center reactor is madness xd

[forest cedar]

lol

[fast oracle]

3 reactors of shields protecting it

[forest cedar]

yeah

[stone grove]

impressive u could make a ship that fast

[snow seal]

i think mung shouldn't have gotten into the EBs range

[fast oracle]

i mean it's not that hard to design another ion when you've made the same ship a hundred times

[forest cedar]

yeah lmao

i know exactly the crew required for every component of an ion

[tacit nacelle]

Erin what if I had brought a different ship?

[forest cedar]

i knew that you would bring missiles

[tacit nacelle]

how

[forest cedar]

you always do

and i have been acting scared of them in casual matches

so

naturally

[snow seal]

mung has that spamfan

[forest cedar]

you thought you could counter me

[gilded spindle]

Noted

[snow seal]

and flak tb thingy

[forest cedar]

?

[gilded spindle]

Don't trust you coming up to tournaments

you feign being scared of stuff

[forest cedar]

lmao

[snow seal]

butter not using his dcs bruh

why pay for it if u arent gonna use it

[supple vapor]

they look cool

[forest cedar]

i genuinely screamed loud as hell when i nearly got taken out by the mines

like

[supple vapor]

jumpscare

[forest cedar]

btw the reason i wasnt being aggressive was because of mines

@short tartan

i mean

aiming ions can orbit too

i intentionally orbited for most of that

[snow seal]

classic dc vs morb fight

[stone grove]

about what i expected

i thought snow was going to bring a full cycle variant

[trim anchor]

wait since when did shevchenko start being called "april"

[forest cedar]

a few days ago

[fast oracle]

aaah true

[trim anchor]

i swear im always the last one to be aware of everything 💀

[forest cedar]

@willow cargo (sorry for ping april)

see?

[trim anchor]

thats shevchenko?

i see

[forest cedar]

yes

[snow seal]

aww rift deafened

i really wanted to hear them talk to each other while playing

[forest cedar]

me tooo

[willow cargo]

a

[forest cedar]

sry

[willow cargo]

yes can confirm im formerly shevv

[fast oracle]

like a week

[willow cargo]

no worries :3

[fast oracle]

F slow

[short tartan]

@desert sky your up

[trim anchor]

rip

[forest cedar]

youreeorooreee****

@short tartan

[short tartan]

@desert sky snooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow

[forest cedar]

@desert sky

[desert sky]

Why did it happen so fast

[fast oracle]

sno :3

[forest cedar]

slowk threw

[snow seal]

bc u were late to ur prev match

[fast oracle]

because you werent around at the start

[desert sky]

Please make it quick I need to go to the bathroom

[fast oracle]

and ye slow threw

[forest cedar]

just tell slowk that 😭 he won't fuckin make you stay

@gilded spindle

[fast oracle]

you should probably go before xd

[desert sky]

You are right lmao