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hmm... war era was cool, so was the sport...
hmmm....
I have a friend thats been in several sporty guilds, like IGPX, that never got off the ground because they were more of a sport than anything else, and the rules were infinitely complex because not only did you have combat, but you had to achieve the goal of winning the match. In this guild, it would be fighting either way, but I think the guild would be better if it was war era, plus it would be tons cooler rp-wise....

oh, can i reserve any prefered zoids cause Im gonna be helping?

Oh, but my dear Captain, Captain Koolaid, there most definitely was customization, just sort of behind the scenes, I say this because not every battle deserves the same weaponry, like lets say the enemy is using air zoids, mainly, in defence, you are going to use mainly anti-air or rockets, rather than say, artillery fire on the cannon tortoise. Also remember that evil kid who had the saber tooth thingy, his zoid was definitely modded, as it was nothing like that of any other sabertooth...

also, remember that rich guy who really like the female main character, the mechanical girl, whats her name..., but e had a whole storage of personally customized zoids, all outfitted with Ai and stuff. Even if there is a war enviroment, customization will always be part of the RP, although many zoids don't won't necessarily need it, like, the Geno-suarer, or the Blade Liger. One other example of extreme customizing was that cheetah thing. The entire zoid was one big mod, if you remember, they took the experience from the Shadow Fox and transferred it to that thingy.

no no no... The point of IGPX is the fighting, the race is the medium, allowing the fights to happen. If we were to have a war guild, the way I see it is that you would only be assigned parts for the beginning, after you ascend the ranks, you get the privilage of modding. OR, if ur a mercenary, you can always mod, but you need to make money ur own way, while you get paid frequently if youre in an army.

Not really... They got points depending if they won the race. Not how good they fought. If it was more about the fighting they wouldn't have added the little car mode.

So anyway it's two to one between war and sports, so it really depends on Zanba what we do. Either we get a tie, or we win.

Alright then, it's settled. We're doing the sports era. I think were going to do a battle system, but it's going to be hard to do. We need to think up what stats we need to use (Like NFS had Gen/Tai/Nin/Ckra/focus) And I have ranged weapons planned out, sort of but I'll add more when I got back.

i like that, just not the names, i was thinking more of:

Battery Cell (health)
Mechanical Strength (physical, normal ranged)
Mechanical Defence (armor and other stuff)
Special Strength (lasers, powered physical attacks, charged particle cannons, etc)
Special Defence (energy sheids i guess)
Speed (boosted by boosters and better engines)

Alright, you need to think this through though. These have to be able to be trained for. Speed, Special Strength, and allt hat stuff can't be trained for, they depends on the parts. So I say we add those, but there only affected by what equiptment you have on your zoid. Here's my suggestion for the stats:

Accuracy - For ranged users, people that snipe, use ranged weaponry, Etc.
Melee - People who like to use Melee attacks. This would go along with severing limbs, and damaging opponts with close range weaponry.
Explosion Skill - Bombs, explosions, and all that fun stuff.
Pilot's Skill How much skill the user has. This is pretty much just to adds to primary category.
Zoids Skill - Your Zoids will to fight more the less. This adds to your zoids health. Your main ammount of health. After this runs out, your Zoids system freezes.

Can't be trained for, only affected by items.

Core (Health. The better core, the more health.)
Armor (Can be heavy or light depending on the Zoid.)
Attack Power (Your attack power with all your weaponry with the type of weapon used.)
Speed (Instead of Blocking, they can simply dodge the attack. Mainly used for quicker Zoids that can't take many hits.)

I can explain in depth what each of these mean if anyone has any questions.