Recent content by Same-Move Sammy

Name: Same-Move Sammy County: Mercer City: Princeton, NJ Contact Info: AIM: joldaerath College: Princeton

Hahaha. 10char

Great idea.

Even without a league, it would be fun to come up with what we think is a balanced items/stages/rules set. Maybe we can call it "Standard Items."

Haha. So there is no way a barrel can drop on you if you only have the bat, for example, enabled? I kept hearing that containers could not be COMPLETELY controlled.

Just because you can't conceive that it can be done doesn't mean it can't be done. If Smash Bros. were a perfect information game (and with enough computing power), it would be possible to design an algorithm to determine the best strategy in any match. Smash Bros. is a finite game when time...

As stated before, any characters with moves with random effects completely undermines this. They receive random advantages. It's not about minimizing randomness if characters that can pull out random items (especially powerful items) are allowed in tournaments.

1) I agree, but I do not see this as a problem. 2)You answer this with 5. 3)Throwing items is part of playing with them. You can also catch items (I don't know if this is true in Brawl). You would not want to give away your item to somebody who is really good at catching. 4)I would...

You can apply mathematics however you want. Forcing the model to fit what people think the tier list should be like may be inevitable. However, if the same algorithm (with game-nonspecific parameters) is successful in other fighting games as well, it would be interesting.

The game would involve luck, but it would not be based on luck. I would expect players that do well without items to perform well with items. The selection of items, and their probability of appearing, is controlled. Again, look at draft tournaments. They are often held when a new...

Having items in tournaments is neither definitely ridiculous nor definitely wrong. Those are opinions. It is possible to have a tournament with items. The tournament will not blow up. People can still compete, and on a more unpredictable playing field. Draft tournaments testify to this.

I was talking about the randomness associated with creating your deck in the draft format. Players get to open packs of cards, pick a card that they want, and pass it to the left (or right). You don't control what cards are available in the pack of cards you open, but you pick the one you...

Randomness is not necessarily bad. In Magic, there are frequently draft tournaments. Opening up the game to more variables tests areas that more rigid rules allow. There does not have to be one tournament format.

I agree, but if... the methods were easily presentable, showing including all assumed weights the methods involved factors that gave higher priority to more recent data and more serious tournaments there could be confidence ratings (these would be useful on rarely-used characters) ...we might...

I agree. I would like to see how this compares to subjective tiers.