Palatinus' OverPower Forum

Quote from: breadmaster on March 29, 2012, 02:06:32 PM
that can't be right

how can a card boosting bullseye's attack power be played defensively?  that makes less sense than a heal card being played defensively, and that's not allowed.

That was my thought once I actually looked at it.

Also odd is the fact that Bullseye has to discard an intellect power card usable by him for just +2 to attack, where bane gets +2 to attack and defense, simply by playing the card itself.  Bullseye's, being the later of the two to be printed, really should have a different code/rulings then Bane's DD.

Quote from: Demacus on March 29, 2012, 03:07:41 PM
Also odd is the fact that Bullseye has to discard an intellect power card usable by him for just +2 to attack, where bane gets +2 to attack and defense, simply by playing the card itself.  Bullseye's, being the later of the two to be printed, really should have a different code/rulings then Bane's DD.

Maybe Bullesyes' was a misprint 

I was only looking at Bane's.

http://overpower.ca/wiki/BZ
<Special Code>

Quote from: steve2275 on March 30, 2012, 02:59:03 AM
http://overpower.ca/wiki/BZ
<Special Code>

Fixed. Please feel free to edit something like that yourself, if you are comfortable. That's the whole advantage to the wiki. If not, that's cool; I appreciate proofreading. I'm copying and pasting a lot of stuff, and I'm sure there are a few mistakes.

On another theme, originally I expected it to take much longer to get these specials setup. I am in the J's now and think I can probably finish through ZZ by the end of the weekend, if not soon after. Thanks to Jack for putting a few things together that made it much faster to cut and paste.

Of course this is a wiki so it's an open book, but I'm already beginning to think about some other pages we should undertake. What suggestions are out there?

I think a page for each expansion set would be interesting from a historical perspective and just to catalog the Overpower series. A "Marvels" page would be a great resource and we could include some of the recent information that Jack turned up about the set that never came to fruition.

We've already created a few pages on the different types of cards and we will want to expand on that a little more.

There's already a page created for Beyonder, but I think some of the other "famous" cards should have pages, too. I'm thinking about the Promos and cards like Power Leech and Devourer of Worlds.

There is some text from the "Rules" section of this forum that could be added for clarification on how to play some of the cards.

What other ideas are there?

I'm going to bump this, the wiki needs content. You don't even have to edit the wiki to contribute, just suggest some ideas that you think will be useful to look up.

I originally messaged mattkoz this but I think this information is better off in this topic.

One goal I had for the site in general was to get rid of http://overpower.ca/archive. There's a lot of useful information that's hidden inside but it's not organized and it becomes a mess if you have to look something up.

Though, only about 50% of the information in the folder is useful, the other 50% is deck builds. Of that, only about 30% of the decks are even viable, the others are mostly joke decks or just cool theme ideas that would be fun to play but aren't very competitive. I want to include an article that has "sample competitive decks" drawn from ideas in the archive folder as well as some of the decks posted on the forums.

I also want to include tournament info there as well, similar to how BBH posts the summary at the end of our tournaments. We'll have the tournament standings, brackets, decks (characters + battlesite/mission info -- and possibly full builds of the 2 finalists if provided).

Rules is one section that I think needs to be put onto the wiki. Though, not in its current form because there's a lot of outdated information since it's the Monumental rulebook with some amendments for Aspect cards.

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There's also a lot of information to be poked out of the forums. There's a lot of posts that, I could only assume we're given permission to use, could go into the wiki after some editing. The history of OP from JohnL is one in particular.

Copy some stuff off Wikipedia. The OverPower article on wikipedia is licensed under almost the same Creative Commons license so it's "legal" to "borrow" information from it. The only difference is that we don't permit the commercialization of our data but that's a minor difference.

I wouldn't mind having the collectibles and promotional checklists on the wiki either. Those two checklists, plus pictures, would make a very good article for collectors (like myself).
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And please, do consider helping us out with the wiki. Just a simple registration is needed and you're allowed to edit the pages. If you need any help with how to actually edit, I'll gladly give you some pointers to get started (I also installed a toolbar so it would be like using a word processor).

Much of what's written about OP is written toward the reader "you/your/your opponent" which is different from the usual encyclopedic style "the player/his opponent or maybe PLAYER A and PLAYER B".

Jack, what do you think about this?  It's certainly easier to leave it in that voice, and it might actually be useful to explain scenarios even though it's kind of informal.

We should probably decide on a general style before populating too much content.

I would probably keep the "you/your" wording, most of the information would be applicable to the reader because they're OverPower players. In other words, we're not providing the 5000ft view of OverPower, we're doing the wiki because everyone that would visit it would have played the game in some aspect.

http://overpower.ca/wiki/JH

This Special bestows upon the playing Character the ability to use any level Teamwork of the type or types indicated. The "To Use" value no longer needs to be checked for this Character. While this card may only be played offensively, it may not be played in conjunction with a teamwork attack (see meta rule regarding playing Specials and Universe cards). When played, this Special should be placed next to the Character but not in the placed position so as to indicate that it is in effect.

i dont think that is right

Quote from: steve2275 on April 09, 2012, 08:52:24 AM
http://overpower.ca/wiki/JH

This Special bestows upon the playing Character the ability to use any level Teamwork of the type or types indicated. The "To Use" value no longer needs to be checked for this Character. While this card may only be played offensively, it may not be played in conjunction with a teamwork attack (see meta rule regarding playing Specials and Universe cards). When played, this Special should be placed next to the Character but not in the placed position so as to indicate that it is in effect.

i dont think that is right

Thanks, I had copied from the previous page (JG) and not replaced it with the right text.  Fixed now.

Slight change to the wiki, now you won't be automatically signed off after 30 days. I bumped it up to 180 days.

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One page to add: OverPower Online how-to.

http://overpower.ca/wiki/LW

http://overpower.ca/wiki/NR
http://overpower.ca/wiki/NZ

Quote from: steve2275 on April 26, 2012, 05:49:14 AM
http://overpower.ca/wiki/LW
http://overpower.ca/wiki/NR
http://overpower.ca/wiki/NZ

FIXED.  Sorry I got a little sloppy toward the end, I guess.

Quote from: mattkoz on April 26, 2012, 12:46:18 PM

Quote from: steve2275 on April 26, 2012, 05:49:14 AM
http://overpower.ca/wiki/NR

FIXED.  Sorry I got a little sloppy toward the end, I guess.

im confused on how that's actually played
its
discard usable card
show up to 5 from hand
discard the equal up to 5 and get up to the 5 new?