> > But come on. "People like these" are playing the game by the rules, and they're playing the best game possible, which is, after all, the point. If it's upsetting to lose to someone who outplayed you, there's an easy answer: Don't play.
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> I agree with you. I've cooled off a little since this morning (I wrote my admittedly hotheaded post right after I checked the results of last night's battle) and the thought "it's just a game" has been a wonderful salve to my bruised Monster Arena ego.
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> But I still think it sucks that, by the luck of the draw, strong teams who've been playing the game the way (I assume) you intended it to be played are being eliminated this early through the use of guile and trickery. Which is why I'm glad that the refinement process isn't over.
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> Anyway, I'm not ready to give up on the game yet. I'll be back again next month. Well, if I can be. I *am* going to be a little busy with life come June...
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> Gri"expectant father"shny

Hello Everyone: First let me say congrats to the Daddy to be. This is my first month playing Monster Arena. So far to me the game already seems complicated. I guess one of the reasons is that I'm not all that great with numbers. In at least one of my games I had two of my monsters change weapons because one of my monsters was up against someone with a death weapon. I was trying to make the match for that monster a little closer. The time that a match happens seems to concern me because of the time difference there may be for the two opponants. With the people on the East Coast going to bed at 10:00, or 11:00, or 12:00, or even 1:00 the rest have time to set their monsters to be better. If any of the people who were talkng about being knocked out were opponants of my monsters then I apologise but I am still trying to learn how to play this game. Have a nice day.