The Boys - Round 5 - Main Phase 1 - 4/7

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#422

daeronwillow can do max 97

#423

I was thinking 55 damage towards you seemed fair, you could do max 56 damage to others with those numbers.

#424

also this info is wrong,
first activation costs 0.

#425

no?

#426

I just asked

#427

jesus christ

#428

i made the ability and i DEFINITELY did not intend for first swap to be 0 lol. I thought by language it was very clearly first activation cost 10

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#429

well, congrats on the win I suppose, I genuinely don’t think there’s a way for anybody to beat you in that scenario. I will instead be playing for second place, sorry squirrel.

#430

It isn’t obvious.
First sentence is in past tense, and it does not have the including this activation anywhere in the cost.

(i was thinking 10 on first activation too, but Willow said it’s zero, so I asked just in case.)

#431

i feel like its very clearly not 0. If you use that ability, Y starts at 1. You can’t use an ability and also have used it 0 times

#432

if it was “number of times you have used this ability before”, then it would be 0. but it doesn’t specify that.

#433

whatever, I actually cannot be bothered anymore because you are unbeatable. Feel free to nuke whoever you want atp, but if it is me I will just spite target you with all of my power even at detriment to my own self, forcing you to burn at least one use.

#434

im having a hard time deciding where the “used” is calculated

i tried to give more intelligent commentary but im 50/50 on it

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#435

Yeah, it’s ambigious. It can be interpretended both ways, without either extension. (like before/including this one.)

Hence why I asked.

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#436

the problem is is that there’s at least two definitions: used as in used previously, and used as in used to accomplish a goal (like if i shoot someone, im using a gun)

the creator and tutuu seem to have different opinions on the matter, which isn’t particularly good either

#437

i mean its out of my hands now, and frankly it would be unfair if tutuu reversed the decision now. I cannot have any more input, even if my original intention wasn’t followed, because I am inherently biased.

#438

you pay the cost before you use the ability. 0 on the first use

should have clarified that better yeah

#439

maybe i was biased to interpret it that way because this was my designed power from last game

and i assumed marissa is going for the same idea of starting at 0 and i didn’t ask to clarify, oops

#440

marshal

#441

game show driven’s ability is variable depending on the cost you pay

basic attack can have a variable effect depending on the cost you pay

i’d argue it goes like [Pay Cost] → [Pause (in order to calculate what we just did)] → [Resolve effect]

well it doesn’t have to be that way but i think that’d be a good way to program this if it was a video game. not that it’s necessary to program it that way too, ofc

sorry marissa :stuck_out_tongue: :heart: