Arena Character Builder

[Bob]

I'm making a thread to make Count's awesome Arena Character Builder Spreadsheet easily available. I've uploaded it, as has Count, so there are two possible links (they're the same thing, but just in case one doesn't work):

blitzball.goatpen.org/Mallboro%20Arena%20Character%20Builder%20(Template)%20UPDATED.xls

arena.goatpen.org/executables/ArenaCharacterBuilderTemplate.xls

This is an EXCELLENT character building spreadsheet. I use it, too, because it makes everything so much more functional. You just fill out the spreadsheet, and it gives your character output, so no more fumbling with character building (I feel like an infomercial)! If you have any questions about how to make your characters with this, just ask.

Notes:

Make sure the abilities you include over [ability1-6] appear EXACTLY as they do in the Abilities section of the website. If in doubt, copy/paste, but a rule of thumb is to capitalize the first letter of everything.

For passive skills, just put your percent as 0. Also, do NOT include a percent sign, it will break my program. Just use numbers in that column, so 0, 100, 66, whatever.

I recommend right-clicking or double-clicking the tabs at the bottom and putting each character's name on the tabs. I currently have my spreadsheet with Cecil / Yunalesca / Garland at the bottom and it's so much easier to manage now.

Whenever you get more EXP after a tournament, make sure you add the amount specified (often 100) to the cell to the right of "Additional EXP ->" and just keep designing as normal.

And finally, KEEP THIS DOCUMENT. This is going to help you SO MUCH for character design in Mallboro. I hope you all have a spreadsheet editor like Excel and can use this program because it's awesome. Once you've made your edits, you just copy that code at the bottom and send it to me! Easy easy! Count is amazing for making this so simple for us!

[wyvernxk7]

Excellent!

As a side-note, would it be possible to have access to the program itself just to familiarize myself with the way fights pan out with sample characters?

Or would you prefer to leave that as privileged for now?

[countlieberkuhn]

My love for the Arena knows no bounds! ...Yet I have never won XD Sad face.

[Bob]

It'll stay privileged for now, but it's basically the same as the old program, so you can look through some of the old fights here: arena.goatpen.org/backup/oldArena/tournaments/

The main changes made are stats and a better physical hit percentage, which should make normal hits happen more often and things like Deathblow more likely to miss. More...representative of the percents on the Ability list. The Abilities page has been updated to let people know more info, so you can check that out. Also, feel free to ask me about equations if needed. I don't mind sharing, especially since a lot of my equations are very simplistic now.