Posted by Nat on December 15, 2008, 9:50 am
Message modified by board administrator January 21, 2009, 11:16 am

So, Nat is not perfect, and feels like she's been letting through some super abilities that are either instant KOs or could literally, kill your opponent if used. You girls don't really need abilities of this intensity - supers should enhance the battle experience, not to ensure your win - and remember that battles are judged by how real you make them, not damage dealt or received. I feel like some supers get used and the opponent is like, "ok, so I just died... and now what?" If you've been boiled to the eyeballs, struck by a train, ripped apart by rabid squirrels and set on fire, there's not much you can do to defend afterward. From this day forward, all Battle supers need to be re-approved for battle use. Email Nat to do so. Until your super appears in the Stats table at the Challenge board, it cannot be used in battle. We are not going to change the basis of any of the existing supers - you can still use them as you intend, plotted outside of the Krieg - but we *will* be limiting the damage they can do in battle, sometimes severely. The trend I see with increasingly powerful supers is that you do not fight better with them - you rely on their use to help you win, and ultimately, they hurt your score because they're just too over-the-top. I'm hoping this will also dumb down some of the judging drama, as supers open a whole new can of worms when it comes to trying to determine if the damage they deal is realistic enough or not. I know it's a small disappointment, but I think even if you get your super tamed down a bit, you'll still appreciate the results you can get in battle! <3!