I guess I should explain a bit more. I don't mean a group of any number, there is a limit. I don't think you understood my point(or maybe I was a "little" vague.) It's more for whatever the story calls for and how much you need. Btman's amount is a "little" over the top, but only until that story arc is done. When it is, then people will never be able to reserve that much...EVER! I recommend having a few members leave out of the HWN hunters because of all those robot masters, but it does make sense for Wily to employ every robot master he has. If anything, I think the any robot masters from lines 4th and 6th should leave because they're not Wily bots. Have them say "It was nice having you, but this isn't really my business and I just chipped in for a second." Yamato Man and Bright Man are the only people who need to say that, everyone else from those lines happened to be at the Robot Master Bar where the news was told and they happened to over-hear. Like Toad Man. Btman, if you could, mind giving me a list of robots you have that would play a little role in this?

I feel me and Spinstrike are fine, because the characters we reserved are important in the stories we're having, and it's only a little over. I'm not strict with this, having 6 or 7 is fine. Course, only if you really need them. Don't reserve a bot just cause.

Ring Man's getting a return! By the way, if you're using Cossack Citadel, there are a group of robots who are headed there right now~(*cough*Cut man, Ice Man, Bomb Man *hiccup*)

Meanwhile, back at the Killer's secret location....

Huh? What's going on? Where am I?
I remember the Killer's taking Dr. Light and me..Wait, where is Dr. Light? He's not here?
I can't worry about that now. I have to get back home.....
Not!
So!
Fast!
Enker has!
Specific orders!
To keep you under locks!
What makes you think I intend to stay?!
We may not be too strong!
But you have not noticed all your damages from battle!
Even if you manage to beat us, HWN is still here!

..I can't let them beat me, but what they're saying is true...At least I can stall them when the others arrive!

Back again, with a new mega-riffic quiz!

What is your least favorite Mega Man 2 theme?{suggested by TheDoc}

It seems 10 people thought Time Man and Oil Man were great additions.

However, it seemed one person thought the chibi-art style and these guys just weren't worth his time.

Well, here's the rules.
You can reserve 5 single characters at a time.
You can have a group of robots reserved,(The lines do not count as a group, groups like SOAKSTGR and Tophound do), just not too huge.(Spinstrike's Ok, and I'll make an exception for Btman until the HVN is captured.)
Reserving Mechas are fine, because having more than one really doesn't do anything either way.
When you reserve a character, it is allowed for other players to PM you for if they could "borrow" that character. It is your decision to allow it or not.
Characters like Mega Man, Proto Man(especially), Bass, and the Doctors cannot be reserved. Villains cannot be reserved either, but Ballade will be an exception.

I might change this time-to-time, just check the main post to see if anything new about these rules has come up.

Holy bajjabers, this reserve list is going WAY too high! Look, I know everyone has plans for these groups and all, but this is growing out of control. The only group available now is the first line now.....This is crazy. Can everyone just hold off the reserving for a bit? I didn't want everyone to reserve lines of robots, because new-comers now have VERY limited options.......


Take this! A little present for you!

I don't feel all right.....
You were supposed to wait for our final-teamwork attack, but good job. Share the attack next time though. Gravity Man, send him to Bonus Field.

Yeah, got it. Wait, who made you the leader? Wily appointed me the boss!
Wait, we were supposed to find HWN! Ah man, Wily's going to disable us!
No, another team has transmitted that they got it...HWN Killers or Hunters of something.
Enough of that! Doesn't anyone else feel that ungodly power coming towards us?!
All of you....Everyone else too. You twisted my brothers.....Don't you see I'm trying to save everyone?
Who is that?! Ssshow yourssself coward!
I'm not a complete bad guy.....Had we got Proto Man, we would've saved everyone...At least ourselves.
I'll make you all die a slow painful death, then I'll find Proto Man by myself!


Since when...did he know....Gemini.La....
*entire team faints


A few hours later
They've struck again....It must be Enker. I'm tired of this. If he wants me, he'll get me.
Yeah, but if he did this, that must mean we can raid their fortress without any problems to stop us!
You're right! We can save Mega Man and Dr. Light without any problems. Cut Man, Bomb Man, Ice Man, take these guys back to Dr. Cossack's.
I swear, Skull Man told me something about Mr. Cossack earlier....I'm sure it's nothing!
Go then. Me and Elec Man will head to their castle, and everyone else will help Btman with the Shadow-Core hunter.
Got it! Wait, isn't that happening now?
No, this is after. My internal memory must have screwed up though, cause I don't remember anything about that encounter.
Wait, where's Bass?
Knowing him, he'll show up when we need it the most....Either against us or with us.

Boys, it's time for our first appearance in public. The babes will flock to us.

No, they will not. I have things covered here, and you bunch just happened to ruin my cover. Please leave now.

Don't worry, my patented chaos follower will tell us where chaos is happening! We'll truly stop crime!

I thought we were supposed to be hidden, like Teenage Ninja Snakes or something.

Let's go!

*Warps

(L) TOPHOUND…destroy these interlopers! They must not interfere with the master’s plan!
You got it, boss!

Here?
No, we need to be the only named group there.
*warps

Here?
Nah, too sentimental. Our show is supposed to be aired to children and young babes, people! Get it together.
WHY DID YOU DO IT?! WHY?!
*warps again...



...Mission Aborted. New mission: destroy all in way of Shadow Core Robot! QUICK BOOMERANG!
.....Here? Looks pretty dangerous.
There's already robot masters here to stop it....We can't have attention averted! I don't want spin-offs!
Next time's the charm....
*warps again

Die!!
Bingo! SOAKSTGR, roll out!

He speaks Japanese, the canon language he speaks, because he doesn't like speaking English.

Ok, so the plan remains the same. Wait, where's Bass?

Rhythm
Metal Man
Bubble Man
Flash Man
Heat Man
Needle Man
Spark Man
Bright Man
Toad Man
Gyro Man
Charge Man
Blizzard Man
Flame Man
Knight Man
Wind Man
Yamato Man
Cement Man
Plug Man
Hornet Man

Actually, Retro Pikachu made the quotes, but the translations state

Start: "Watashi wa Nihon no namae de anata o taosu shinakereba naranai!"(I shall defeat you in the name of Japan!)
Taunt: "Watashi wa anata ni watashi no jūdō gijutsu o shiyō suru hitsuyō wa arimasen!"("I don't need to use my Judo techniques on you!")
Victory: "Nippon Banzai!" (Long Live Japan (MM&B CD Data))
Defeat: "Dan eigo o hanasu robotto wa, karera wa amarini mo tsuyoidesu!" (Darn English Speaking robots; they're too strong!)

Hey, everyone, I want to get one thing clear. The story is subject to change. Very easily subject to change. So, don't have plans for future events. The main thing about this thread is that the story is always changing and not in ways you'd expect. Yes, I know you wanted to do this and that, but the story is a blank slate for everyone and if things don't go the way you want it, whatever. Adapt to the changes. Not that I have seen any signs of distaste for this yet, but I rather say it now before any problems occur.



@BtMan : You can have your side-roleplay, but instead of creating a new plot(which would confuse everything), make a story out of robots not used yet as a little side-plot. Anyway.....

That little.....I should've crushed him like a tin-can. I need to take a break after barely surviving that explosion.....

Meanwhile.....
Turbo!
Stone! Haha!
Sssnake?
Hard....
Crash!!
Together we are, SOAKSTGR! Fighting in the name of Wily and charisma!

You guys are the coolest! Ah yeah, you'll win in no time!

We've spent 5 hours working on our poses, when do we fight crime?

And why do we have to wear these color-coded bandanas?

So the babes can identify us, boys! Nough talk, Sanjou! Turbo Tokusentai!

Uh, what does that mean exactly?

Take the Stage! Turbo Special Squad!

A few hours later....

Dude, this is the most boring job ever. What are we supposed to guard anyway?!

The Boss said we gotta do it, so we gotta do it. Shuddup and start doing your job now.

*from far away*Drop Kick....

Dude, what the hell is that sound?

What? You're just hearing things. Are you trying to get out of work early again?

*Closer this time*Drop Kick!

DROP KICK!!

Huh?!

No! Tackle, you were my best friend!

WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!

Little quick on the trigger there, Ace.

Sorry, lost my head there like a Wily puppet. How does Mega Man fall for that again?

Never mind that, boys. Seems we've reached the infamous "Continual Forest".

Is that really the name?

If it was, I'd be psychic. Who knows, maybe my thought of the name of this forest was a premonition?

It might be, if thisss was a foressst and not a waterfall....

@TheDoc : Oops, sorry! I was just trying to develop the story further, but I admit it was rather rude of me to just go on your story. Consider my post non-canon(I kinda want to see Quint be roomies with Dust Man once again in the future though....)Although, can we make a list of reserved characters? It's hard to tell which stories you can develop and which only certain people can use. I'd like to tell everyone you can't reserve characters like Mega Man and Dr. Light, because those characters are open for everyone. Anyway, in a desolated land.....

It's so hot here....Crash Man, where do we go now?

Shut up already! Every two seconds, you're asking me that exact same question, and I tell you the same answer!

Right, so you said Hard Man and Air Man were taking a vacation here?

*On a cliff above*

It'ssss not my fault Air Man left! If anything, all your rulessss ran him off!

The only reason you have a say in this is because Air Man was the one who invited you here. Honestly, I didn't want you to come!

The only reason you're here is because this is your place! Air Man doesn't even like you all that much!

Listen up, you two bums! We traveled for days to find you because Wily has a job for us! Either you come or you tell us where the others are!

Then there'ssss thisss buffoon to interrupt!

I'm glad they're here. I'm better off working with them than vacationing with YOU.

Nope, Snake Man's coming too. we need all the robots we can. Come on now.

Woah, baby! A job! Where do I come into play?

Turbo Man, feel free to come. Dr. Wily did say all Robot Masters.

Let's head off to adventure then! We'll go beat up Mega Man, then find the chicks and babes!

No, we're trying to rescue Mega Man this time. Bit of a change, but no different then saving Wily, right?

At least Mega Man would thank us....

Nough talk boys, it's time to find Rock! Roll out, Master-Bots!

Today is the birthdate of the Super-Omega-Alpha-Kamen-Sentai-Transforming-Ginyu-Rangers! SOAKSTGR for short, babes!
Wait, guys! I wanna join too!


And so, our unlikely "heroes" went off on their own quest to find this secret weapon and beat up save Mega Man. Go SOAKSTGR, preserve justice in the name of Wily! That's it, I can't get paid enough to narrate this. I'm out of here, send my paycheck in the morning!

Who is the easiest boss in Mega Man 2?{suggested by TheDoc}
The New Quiz is up!

And the results of the first quiz are here!
Elec Man shocked the crowd with the reveal of him being in first place with 6 votes!
However, unlike Elec Man, Bomb Man didn't go out with a bang, receiving no votes at all....

The Crash Bomb Wall Boss from Mega Man 2. Ew....

@Topmegaplaya : It isn't any of that, every comment is appreciated. However, the problem is no one has any ideas or they forgot about this thread. Anyone who posts in the Community is popular, and we all read the new posts! Thanks for posting and keeping the Community alive. Also, if you're going to post something right after another post you made, please just edit your comment please.

Starforce is really powerful. So, let me suggest something. Why not a mechanic that limits Starforce? Like, you can choose how much Starforce to bring to battle, but you get less battle points from it. Or maybe, bringing more limits the amount of robots you can bring into battle. So, if I brought 1000 starforce into battle, I could only use one robot. It could give some help to the Neutral and Copy-Cores to be honest.(Neutral Cores more, cause they don't even have any elemental moves...)

New quiz! Thanks to TheDoc for sending me this idea!

Is Quint really a Mega Man Killer?

Meanwhile, below the battleground taken hold by Punk and Skull Man...
INCOMING MESSAGE! MASTER WISHES TO SPEAK

The Master wants me?! Immediately put the transmitter on! If I happen to screw up....

Ah, Enker. Tell me, have you captured Proto Man yet?

Not yet, but all is according to plan. Dr. Light is slowly cracking, and if Proto Man has truly changed, he'll rescue the hostages.

That is the problem. Proto Man has something we want, but I can't put him under my control unless he's still holding an impure heart. Of course, we could always just force the squishy doctor to do it himself for me.

It shall all go out as planned. We are slowly reaching our goal, and Punk is handling an intruder.

Unless it's Proto Man, it's of no concern. What about Ballade and Quint? What are they doing?

They've been...kidnapped, so to speak. Our plan should...

Idiot! Ballade and Quint are important members of your team! I trusted you with them! Why did I upgrade them in the first place?!

But, I didn't mean to....

Enough excuses! You must pay!



AAAUHHHH!PLEASE, I'LL FIX IT, GIVE ME A CHANCE MASTER!

Have you learned yet? If not for my brainwashing, this plan would fail. I have created an army from scratch, and each of them have found success.

Although, without your guidance, failure would be had, right?

Look who's learning! Fix your mistakes, I expect the other members of your team to report by sundown.
You are the general of my vast army. Make sure my praise has fact to it! Ta-ta, I expect complete domination by the time I arrive!
*Transmission is finished and Enker mumbles...*
I can't believe that terrifying power...Even with our upgrades, I'm nothing to the Master's power....

I have nowhere else to put this, but here.

"Hey!

So.... A few things.

You may have noticed that I have been pretty much MIA on the community and game as a whole.

I don't want to worry you or anyone else, but the reason for this is simply because I haven't had the energy and I've decided to take a bit of a hiatus. I've been worked pretty hard lately and I don't have that "spark" for the game right now that I normally do. Typically I have 100s of ideas for new features and a plan for how to implement them, but every time I try to sit down and work on the game I draw blanks. I know what I WANT to do (sometimes) but just can't visualize HOW, and if I can then it just seems too big or daunting and I give up.

This doesn't mean that I'm never working on the game or taking it down (that would be insane), but it does mean my "break" will be a little longer than a few weeks. Maybe even a few months. The game will stay online indefinitely and now that there are moderators it should be easy to continent without me for a while. It's not the most fun thing to hear but I feel like if I don't take a proper break I'm going to really burn out and grow to hate the game - and that is NOT something I want to happen.

To be fair, we already have LOT of content in there and new users have tons of stuff to do as-is. It's just that you 1024/9999 people will have to wait a few months before any new content is added, leaving you with the community and that's about it. I'm sorry for this, and I know you guys really want the alternate costumes and T2 abilities and other robots, but it will have to wait. I really hope the community doesn't hate me - I just really need a long rest so I can actually PLAY other games and get ideas and actually be excited to work on the MMRPG when I'm done instead of feeling pressure to do it and dreading it.

I hope you understand and I hope everyone else does, but please know that I am NOT quitting or taking the game down at all. I just need a bit more time for myself. Not only to rest and try other games, but also to catch up on a bunch of adult responsibilities I've been putting off for years.

(For plan I have for another article on the TMMN, with even a possible interview-MBM)If they do accept, and I can't make it, I give you 100% permission to speak in my place. I think it's pretty cool - the timing on my end is just a problem - but honestly you know soooooo much about the game and it's development at this point that you could easily be a stand-in.

So yeah. Let me know your thoughts and if you're okay with my leave. You can still have your brainstorm sessions without me and I'll continue reading the logs, I just won't be involved for a little while.

I'm so sorry..."
-Adrian

So, the gist is that Adrian will be on a hiatus for a while, and we MIGHT have a Mega Man Network article with either me or Adrian being the person interviewed. Sorry for that guys, but we can agree that Adrian should focus on life problems first and development later. We're still getting though, and I'm pretty certain the Update will be huge!

I can't believe all this mess that's been happening. Forced to help heroes...Peh!

Dr. Wily! I'm back home!

Bah, whatever! You all left in my time of need! At least I have HWN....Wait. Computer, where is HWN?!

[HWN is currently not in the Castle.]{support}

Those Killers must have took him while I wasn't looking...Stone Man!

Yeah, boss?

Tell me, where are the other Robot Masters?!

I dunno, but Crash and Magnet Man told me they're going to Arcadia.

Get them right now! If HWN were to fall into the wrong hands....

I don't think your hands are exactly safe for a super weapon either.....

Did you find them yet?! Because if you didn't, you shouldn't be here!