Clean Space

Brand new boards, how cool is that!

I plan on making use of these a lot more, so questions directed to the staff are more than welcome.

Ok, here's the big one.

I've been told how it happens numerous amounts of times, yet I still do not understand how to get into the ACC fold. (and yes I am subscribed)

So.. I go to a hall... and just.. request a challenge.. then somehow fight... and then die? Every single time?

How do the fights go? How are the posts judged? WHy the hell do I have to die every single time?

Basically, you challenge your opponent to a battle. The judge writes an introduction telling you where you're fighting and with what weapons. Then you write out what you would do if you were actually there, for example-

Jumping up, Manji unsheathed his katana and hacked viciously at a nearby apprentice, cutting the hapless Zabrak in two.

Only you write about you fighting your opponent as best as you can. When you post your opponent will carry on from where you finish so the fight continues.

Posts are judged on (if I remember correctly) quality, creativity, ingenuity and realism- for example, if you write a fluent post which has some really clever stuff in it and you don't make yourself too powerful or forget that you had your arm cut off in the previous post, then that's a good post. The deathpost is where each fighter writes a different post in which they kill either themselves or the opponent. An example of this- if you were fighting a DJM and you were just a DJK, you wouldn't be able to win without some serious help. So, it's more realistic to write that the DJM rips your head off and [Expletive Deleted]s down your neck several times that to write yourself defeating the DJM with ease.
As for dying, you have to be prepared for your character to be killed by the opponent- fictionally, everything in an ACC Battle occurs in an enclosed 'Morph Hall', so when the battle is finished the Hall is reset and everything goes back to how it was before the battle. So your character doesn't really die. And if you keep losing... try and put more effort into your writing, or start a training battle with a trainer so you can learn how to get better.

Hope that helps....

More specifically...

Challenging:

1) You log into the ACC
2) You use the "challenge" [not "challenges"] link in the left menu
3) Select an opponent from the scroll-down menu (if you are below the ACC rank of Seeker, you might only see the Operators as an option for opponents. That's because you have to qualify before you can fight the rest of the B-Hood. Training fights are also available in that case to get you practice before the Qualification)
4) Select a Hall (different Halls are used for different things, but the "Combat Centre" is the main, standard Hall)
5) List your weapons; it should go without saying that (unless fighting in the Jesters Keep), you should select the weapons you actually have skill in
6) Submit the challenge and wait for your opponent to accept

ACC Gaming:

These are stories about fighting. Much like a JK/JO/JA/XvT/XWA/SWBF battle, no, your character doesn't actually die... if that were the case, there's a few ACC-ers that might be on like their 17th character As Nekura said, the fiction behind the battles is the Morph Hall, a computer generated enviornment that simulates everything... including death of a combatant.

Unlike video games, these battles are written - but that is really where the differences end. Like video games, in the ACC you can only use what you have (notwithstanding things like sticks and rocks if you chose to fight in a forest, for example), you can only accomplish what your character is capable of doing at the time and you can't create things that weren't there when you started to try and gain an advantage.

Dying:

No. You don't always have to die. Yet, as Nekura mentioned, REALISM is a part of how the battles are rated (and that's realism as it applies to this fictional environment). So, you're a Hunter... if you were pit against a Pontifex/Overlord/Primarch there's little chance that you would survive in the 'realism' end of it.

HOWEVER...

.:THE TWO WINS OF AN ACC BATTLE:.

There are 2 different wins, or victory's, that are part of the ACC process... and only ONE of them matters. One victory is within the story, where you kill your opponent. The other is when the battle is rated and a winner is chosen. *Because you kill your opponent, within the body of the battle/story, DOES NOT mean you automatically win the fight. The Judge rates the battle based on the content and some criteria, or personal preference... from that, the combatant who stayed true to their character, wrote better and kept with the story's realism and continuity will be selected as the winner. IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE IF THEY DIED WITHIN THE BATTLE'S TEXT.

And that is the only victory that matters... your selection by a judge as the winner, NOT what is written in the battle.

Hope that cleared some stuff up for you.

Mucho Gracias