Post by Nachi on Jul 21, 2009 12:22:47 GMT -5
How To Work Out Your Power Level
Your power level is how many posts you have, simple as that.
The effect this has is explained in the T1 thread.
Everyone starts with 2000 posts to make sure that new members aren't going to be crushed by the stronger members too easily.
Unlocking Abilities
For the first 500 posts you make, your character will unlock new abilities every 100 posts. To start with, all characters can only do basic melee attacks (one physical attack per post) and simple ki/energy blasts. As they progress, fighting abilities will grow and develop, representing progression from Dragon Ball to Dragon Ball Z style abilities.
Following are the abilities you can unlock with your Power Level...
Advanced: Transformations
More advanced fighters can use transformations to boost their Power Levels.
Any unmastered transformation will require a post of focusing on and raising your ki/energy. After this, your transformation will be activated in the next post.
Note that you can only go up one step when you transform. So if you have a further transformation, you'll need to spend another post bringing it out.
Note that this is perhaps the only disadvantage to learning an intermediate transformation, since you will need to go through your intermediate to get to your major. The exception is if your intermediate is defective (eg: Buff/Oozaru/Ultra Changeling Form types), where then you can skip past it.
Usually, you consider your character as being at what's called 'Base x1', meaning your Post Count x1 = Your Power Level.
Eventually, you might unlock a x1.2 transformation, which makes your Power Level become your Post Count x1.2 (just grab a calculator or use the calculator program on your computer).
A x1.3 transformation multiplies your Post Count by 1.3, etcetera.
Power Up +0.1
This will add +0.1 to all stats!
This requires 1400 posts for minions, and 2400 posts for main characters.
It's all part of the 'ki/energy control' package.
Unlike when transforming, during which you can do something else in the same post (except charge/focus ki/energy, because you're already doing that for the transformation), when you 'power up', you must spend your entire post doing so.
If you were attacked, you may react to the attacks accordingly and then move back to do your power up, but if you took your time to fight back then you won't be able to do your power up in time.
Once you've powered up, whatever transformation you're using gains +0.1 to its multiplier.
But remember, while powered up, unless you have mastery over the transformation you powered up from, then your ki is practically gushing from your body, so you will need to pace yourself to avoid tiring yourself out too fast.
If you have mastery over a powered up transformation, however, then powering up only drains as much as the transformation originally drained before it was mastered.
Power Up More
At 4000 posts, Power Up becomes +0.2.
At 6000 posts, Power Up becomes +0.3.
Etcetera; every 2000 posts, Power Up rises by 0.1.
Time Limits
Starting from 3000 posts, all transformations will have a 20 post time limit on them.
Note that this 20 post limit is only the maximum, for if you transformed straight out at the beginning of battle and you don't overexert yourself too much. Activating later on or doing anything that wears you out quickly may actually force a detransformation before the limit is up. When a time limit is up, you revert to your base form, or highest no-ki-drain form.
Notes: Each post that you spend doing absolutely nothing but resting in - no dodging, no charging, no focusing, no attacking, etcetera - will give you back 1 post toward your time limit.
Dead characters get their time doubled to 40 posts.
Mastering a Transformation
You can only master 'major' transformations, which are the ones gained every 1000 posts, including Base.
To master a transformation, you must collect 50 posts of actual battle in that transformation or in any higher form. These 50 posts must be with characters controlled by other people. Pitting your own characters against each other does not count.
Once a transformation is mastered, it and all weaker transformations can be sustained outside battle naturally, in the same way Goku and Gohan sustained Super Saiyan after they emerged from the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.
In addition, during battle, the 20 post time limit is removed due to reduced ki drain.
Remember, you will still experience ki drain from using a mastered transformation, it's just significantly less.
Another bonus to mastering a transformation is that whatever transformation was 1000 posts below it will have absolutely no ki drain at all, and therefore can replace your Base form.
That's not all, mastered transformations and all transformations below can be activated in an instant - just like flicking on a switch. Meanwhile, powering up while in a mastered form ends up being as easy as using a non-mastered transformation (i.e. you can attack and stuff during your 'power up' post).
However, if you do 'power up' during a mastered transformation, you will drain ki at enough of a rate to activate the '20 post timer'.
Mastering Base Form
The only effect is that you can 'power up' more easily, as described above. However, instead of Powering Up using no ki, like Base Form usually does, it will still use extra ki up each post, as if you had activated an intermediate transformation.
Your power level is how many posts you have, simple as that.
The effect this has is explained in the T1 thread.
Everyone starts with 2000 posts to make sure that new members aren't going to be crushed by the stronger members too easily.
Unlocking Abilities
For the first 500 posts you make, your character will unlock new abilities every 100 posts. To start with, all characters can only do basic melee attacks (one physical attack per post) and simple ki/energy blasts. As they progress, fighting abilities will grow and develop, representing progression from Dragon Ball to Dragon Ball Z style abilities.
Following are the abilities you can unlock with your Power Level...
- 2100 - Combos
You may type out multiple physical attacks in the same post. If any combo hit lands, the opponent is stunned for a moment to almost guarantee the next hit, which leads to another, and another, etcetera... but each hit must be typed out in full in your post. You may not just say 'goes for a 100 hit combo'. However, you may state using a 'flurry', which is a high-speed barrage of punches or kicks. They do less damage per hit but due to their speed are way harder to avoid or block. - 2200 - Powerful Ki/Energy Attacks
You were already able to use ki/energy, but now you can gather it together over numerous posts (known as 'charging') for devastating blasts and waves. - 2300 - After Image
At any time, such as when dodging an attack, you can leave a shimmering image of yourself behind, while you seem to vanish completely for a moment! You will re-appear a moment later to where you dashed.
You move so fast during this that it's almost as if you teleported.
But really, you didn't teleport, it's just regular movement, but at high speeds.
Also, note that while you're using this ability, you consume a chunk of ki from such high speed movement. How much ki you consume is determined by how much faster you are than your opponent can track. So if you're naturally much faster than your opponent's senses, it will be easier to reach the necessary speed to outrun their ability to track you quickly enough. If you're slower than their senses, then it will drain ki rapidly for each after image you create.
By the way, you cannot simply just 'after image' out of the way of an attack that you otherwise wouldn't be able to avoid in the first place. Using after image just makes the dodge a bit fancier and allows you to make a speedy counter attack when you suddenly reappear. - 2400 - Ki/Energy Control
You are now able to control the paths of your single powerful ki/energy attacks for as long as you continue to fire them (waves) or maintain focus on them and nothing else (blasts).
You can now also fire energy blasts and waves that were once restricted to being fired from just your hands from your feet or mouth when necessary. However, any attack that is fired unnaturally like this becomes fairly weaker.
In addition to this, because of your new level of control over your ki, you can power up by adding an extra +0.1 on to any transformation multiplier, including Base x1. See below under Transformations for details.
Lastly, if you're able to raise your power, that means you can suppress it too, which is good for hiding. But you won't be able to do anything with ki at all (including flying, when you learn how to) while your ki is suppressed. - 2500 - Skydancing
You can use your ki/energy to fly around in the air!
Advanced: Transformations
More advanced fighters can use transformations to boost their Power Levels.
Any unmastered transformation will require a post of focusing on and raising your ki/energy. After this, your transformation will be activated in the next post.
Note that you can only go up one step when you transform. So if you have a further transformation, you'll need to spend another post bringing it out.
Note that this is perhaps the only disadvantage to learning an intermediate transformation, since you will need to go through your intermediate to get to your major. The exception is if your intermediate is defective (eg: Buff/Oozaru/Ultra Changeling Form types), where then you can skip past it.
Usually, you consider your character as being at what's called 'Base x1', meaning your Post Count x1 = Your Power Level.
Eventually, you might unlock a x1.2 transformation, which makes your Power Level become your Post Count x1.2 (just grab a calculator or use the calculator program on your computer).
A x1.3 transformation multiplies your Post Count by 1.3, etcetera.
Power Up +0.1
This will add +0.1 to all stats!
This requires 1400 posts for minions, and 2400 posts for main characters.
It's all part of the 'ki/energy control' package.
Unlike when transforming, during which you can do something else in the same post (except charge/focus ki/energy, because you're already doing that for the transformation), when you 'power up', you must spend your entire post doing so.
If you were attacked, you may react to the attacks accordingly and then move back to do your power up, but if you took your time to fight back then you won't be able to do your power up in time.
Once you've powered up, whatever transformation you're using gains +0.1 to its multiplier.
But remember, while powered up, unless you have mastery over the transformation you powered up from, then your ki is practically gushing from your body, so you will need to pace yourself to avoid tiring yourself out too fast.
If you have mastery over a powered up transformation, however, then powering up only drains as much as the transformation originally drained before it was mastered.
Power Up More
At 4000 posts, Power Up becomes +0.2.
At 6000 posts, Power Up becomes +0.3.
Etcetera; every 2000 posts, Power Up rises by 0.1.
Time Limits
Starting from 3000 posts, all transformations will have a 20 post time limit on them.
Note that this 20 post limit is only the maximum, for if you transformed straight out at the beginning of battle and you don't overexert yourself too much. Activating later on or doing anything that wears you out quickly may actually force a detransformation before the limit is up. When a time limit is up, you revert to your base form, or highest no-ki-drain form.
Notes: Each post that you spend doing absolutely nothing but resting in - no dodging, no charging, no focusing, no attacking, etcetera - will give you back 1 post toward your time limit.
Dead characters get their time doubled to 40 posts.
Mastering a Transformation
You can only master 'major' transformations, which are the ones gained every 1000 posts, including Base.
To master a transformation, you must collect 50 posts of actual battle in that transformation or in any higher form. These 50 posts must be with characters controlled by other people. Pitting your own characters against each other does not count.
Once a transformation is mastered, it and all weaker transformations can be sustained outside battle naturally, in the same way Goku and Gohan sustained Super Saiyan after they emerged from the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.
In addition, during battle, the 20 post time limit is removed due to reduced ki drain.
Remember, you will still experience ki drain from using a mastered transformation, it's just significantly less.
Another bonus to mastering a transformation is that whatever transformation was 1000 posts below it will have absolutely no ki drain at all, and therefore can replace your Base form.
That's not all, mastered transformations and all transformations below can be activated in an instant - just like flicking on a switch. Meanwhile, powering up while in a mastered form ends up being as easy as using a non-mastered transformation (i.e. you can attack and stuff during your 'power up' post).
However, if you do 'power up' during a mastered transformation, you will drain ki at enough of a rate to activate the '20 post timer'.
Mastering Base Form
The only effect is that you can 'power up' more easily, as described above. However, instead of Powering Up using no ki, like Base Form usually does, it will still use extra ki up each post, as if you had activated an intermediate transformation.