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I love the new features, and as much as it hurts, I think the Stat capping is for the best. However, I don't know if Zenny is the best option, seeing as I have a lot and if I even need I have lots of items. I would preffer either BP or the leftover points being passed over to any other robot. Still, I love the new alts and I love that now the game will be a lot more diverse.

I'm excited to say the least, and the stat-capping doesn't affect me. I mean, I'd feel the over-flow points(That overflow from energy)should still go to other robots. To be honest, I have too much BP and Zenny as it is. Besides that, it looks pretty good and I can't wait! Especially for the alt-costumes!

Thank you, everyone. Your understanding and kind words mean a lot. I'll definitely try not to burn myself out - I'm still not that good at pacing myself and taking appropriate breaks when I program, but I'm much better at it than I was in the beginning and am getting a little better every year. Luckily, I'm also getting a little bit more efficient in my programming each year so I think it evens out. :P

For the overflow conversion, I'm glad I asked - it looks like there are a lot of different opinions and ideas on this one but I want to make sure everyone walks away happy. There's another, unrelated idea I was throwing around last week, but now I'm thinking it might be the perfect solution to this problem. Let me explain...

Score Balls are an item that appeared in Mega Man 1 on the NES and were never heard from again. Only briefly re-appearing in Powered Up, the items have long since been forgotten and why wouldn't they be? Mega Man games haven't had points or scores for a long time now (sadly). You know what does have points? The MMRPG.

I want to add several varieties of Score Balls to the RPG, but I'm going to twist the purpose slightly into something much more appropriate for our game. Please understand, these are just ideas right now and might not make it into the final update, but I wanted to bounce the idea off you guys all the same.

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Red Score Ball 2000z
A small red sphere that glows with a mysterious power. Using this item in battle increases the point reward for the current mission by 500!

Blue Score Ball 2000z
A small blue sphere that glows with a mysterious power. Using this item in battle increases the point reward for the current mission by 5%!

Green Score Ball 4000z
A large green sphere that radiates with a mysterious power. Using this item in battle increases the point reward for the current mission by 1000 for each active robot master on your opponent's side of the field!

Purple Score Ball 4000z
A large purple sphere that radiates with a mysterious power. Using this item in battle increases the point reward for the current mission by 10% for each disabled robot master on your opponent's side of the field!

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I was originally going to have these items be dropped by robots/mechas and be much weaker, but there are already plenty of in-battle drops to collect and sell and high-level players need something more meaningful to spend their money on. As such, these items will be sold in Auto's Shop post-game as a fun way to play the system and boost your BP for non-player-battle missions. I think it will be fun, and using the right ball at the right time will add another layer to BP grinding that isn't so rinse-repeat.

How does this solve the stat conversion problem? Well, I'm thinking that if I convert everything to Zenny, you guys could either keep the zenny, or buy Score Balls from the shop and do your own conversion into battle points. It'll be up to each individual what they do with the reward that way, and could easily be chained for a whole buttload of BP.

Let me know what you guys think of this idea, and thank you again for all your support and ideas and everything else you great people do. :)

@Adrian Marceau : Wow, sounds pretty good! I'd definitely like to see this included!

I like the idea of turning them into Zenny to buy Point Balls more than turning them directly into BP, and I like the concept of the Point Balls, but I would still preffer the overflow to be spread across my other robots. Still, I'm fine either way, as long as it doesn't go to nothing.

What about ones for robots and disabled robots on your side?

@Adrian Marceau : Cool, seems like this would work for FDII and III.

I think the overflow should be reduced some, with Tails' maths. With the score balls, it'll make the gap between the top ranks and the lower ones even bigger. Without them, it's the worst kind of cash; meaningless cash.

On the other hand, ranking is just bragging rights anyways.

So, i am making a random estimate, but i am guessing around Dec. 23rd maybe? if not much bugs then maybe the 17th. i am making random estimates so... XD

Here's an idea not everyone will get: make a silver alt. costume for Clash Man! Ha!

Compared to the Purple and Green Score Balls, the Red and Blue balls seem UP to me. I mean, 500 is barely enough BP to even be considered, and even though 5% is better, it PALES in comparison to 10% increase PER ROBOT. I would say that Red and Blue make for good beginner items, but I don't think beginner are going to care a lick about points until they get much stronger robots. I think you should either buff the Red and Blue by giving them the "per robot" perk or lower the price.

Another thing; 1000 per robot and 10% per robot are VERY different. Imagine if the point reward for a certain battle was 1,000,000 BP. Using the Green ball with 8 robots would result in a reward of 1,008,000, but using the Purple would result in 1,800,000. Why would I ever use the Green?

In this regard, I suppose you could consider the Red and Green balls as "beginner" items (even though, as I said before, beginners may be less interested in points than veterans), in which case you could make the Red and Green substantially cheaper than the Blue and Purple (although I still think you should add the per robot for the Red and Blue). The final result is:
Red = 500z
Green = 1000z
Blue = 1,500-2,000z
Purple = 3,000-4,000z

What do you think?

EDIT: Actually....I'm stuck between whether Green is better than Blue or vice versa...

I don't understand the connection between whoever this Clash Man jerk is and the color silver. Does Clash Man have mind powers? Is that the connection?

Yea, percentage increases are always better at staying relevant. I think the static boosts need a bit more of a bonus to them.

Score Balls should ONLY EVER be dropped by Mechas, to prevent MAHOOSSIVE overscoring.

Over the multiple times I've played MM1 over the last 11 or so years, I've noticed that there are only red, blue, yellow and green score balls [I seem to encounter them in this order, seeing as I almost always go in serial number order].

Their BP values should be added onto the end-of-battle BP bonus if they are victorious. And ONLY static values:

Red = +1,000 BP Reward Bonus
Blue = +10,000 BP Reward Bonus
Yellow = +100,000 BP Reward Bonus
Green = +1,000,000 BP Reward Bonus

Reds should have a chance of being dropped by all Mechas with combined stats of 200 or lower.
Blues should have a chance of being dropped by all Mechas with combined stats of 201-300.
Yellows should have a chance of being dropped by all Mechas with combined stats of 301-499.
Greens should have a chance of being dropped by all Mechas with combined stats of 500 and higher.

After the end of battle BP bonus has been added [+####%], all dropped score balls should then be added to the final total.

Why static values? Because Final Destination III is high enough as it is. Over 28,000,000 BP is possible for OHKOing Cossack's version of it, and if you add 80% to that, it comes out to over 50,000,000. That's too much for simply fighting a group of Level 55's with no Star Force boosts.

So you can't buy them? B...but I have so much dang money...
I was hoping for some kind of item that anyone could buy and usefully use no matter how far along they are in the game/leaderboard, and the score ball is EXACTLY that. Saying that it can only be dropped in-battle would be a great idea imo if there wasn't a spending problem for people far along in the game (and by spending problem I mean that there isn't ENOUGH spending). Idk if you would want to do this for score balls in specific, but how about having some items that are store-exclusive? As it is, there's no point in buying anything except fields for veterans bcuz they get dropped like crazy in battles.

But yea, even though Mikey's idea for Score Balls is great and corresponds with how they were in the original game, my only qualm is that the problem with too much zenny still remains.