To help us (or just me) determine what ways we like to design. In particular, do you design with function in mind first or second?
For this week, Decide what function you want your piece to accomplish and than find a piece or moment in Star Wars time that thematically fits that function and design it.

Other RULES:
Must be a force user.


An example might be: I desire better ranged defense in Separatists. (stated function you want).
then determining who could fit that idea and designing it. Maybe a piece with shien.. hmmm who has Shien? possibly Sora Bulq. well that is not really enough on its own, but what else can be added to it? Yaddle gives out Shien, but I don't want to copy... So maybe a piece that grants evade to unique force users (this also helps mobility because they can gain GMA)? what about the simple idea of A cheap Dooku with Lightsaber Trainer? or a way to make the BHC 100 point piece cost effective? but that Dooku has no ranged defense. Vader of Lothal is a fantastic ranged defense stand alone piece, can I do something like that in Separatist?

those are just some random thought progressions into how to find the function then the theme.

GRADING for this week
1. Did you state the function?
2. How well you accomplished that function
3. how thematic the piece is that you found that fits that function. (Feel free to explain yourself on why the function on the piece is thematic.)

For instance some pieces fit a needed and fun function but make no sense thematically.

Have fun and if any clarification is needed please ask.


1. You may update any existing versions you already have and/or create a new one. You may update/create several versions of the character but you must ultimately select 1 you wish to run with. (this must be done by the schedule below)

2. Place a hyperlink in this forum to make it easier to find your character. You can just post the stats or image here but if changes are needed it would be easier (and save space) if you just used a Hyperlink (If you don't know how to post Hyperlinks in a forum setting please ask and we will help you. It's not hard )

3. Voting works as follows, pick your three favorite customs based on accuracy to the character, design, balance or whatever you decide makes the best incarnation of the challenge character. First place receives 3 points, 2nd place receives 2 points, and 3rd place receives 1 point.

4. You do not have to enter the contest in order to vote. But unless you enter you must have at least 10 forum posts.

5. To make things fair you must vote in order to win the contest. Try to give feedback if possible to help designers out. You must choose three characters entered in the contest and you may not rate or vote for your own character.

6. The winner will be decided by how many points they receive. Ties will be broken by most 1st place votes, then if still tied, 2nd place votes and then 3rd place votes. If still tied, then the outcome is a tie.

7. You may not change or update the entered character AFTER the deadline.

You will have until Sat, March 3, 2018 @8pm EST to get your submissions in. Anything submitted after this point will not be included in the voting.


Voting will start at 8pm on Saturday evening and end at 11pm EST on Monday, March 5, 2018..
At the conclusion of the voting the scores will be tallied and the winner will start a new topic with their choice of theme.

Ok, I'm willing to be the guinea pig and toss something out to see if "we" got what you want.


Satele Shan, Master of the Order


I want a Satele that's in the middle of the war with the Sith and she's leading her fellow Jedi in the battle. I want her to be the tank that can take on Malgus, but I also want her to have a movement breaker since she's Master of the Order.

Now, I Didn't want to outright copy what Has been done by the V-Setters. Both their Satele's had several abilities/powers in common and I wanted to avoid that. My only "concern" with this character is that the CE has two parts, but I Don't mean the second part to be board-wide like the first part implies so that's open to change.

How is This in relation for what you want and if not quite, what needs tweaking?







Cheers,

surf

EDIT: Whoops forgot the Force user rule

I am so sorry i missed the vote guys laptop kinda fried on me :c but i should be good to go now haha

here is my entry Dark Lord Kas'im my function was to help out the lower point sith and make them more viable and i think i accomplished that with Kas'im.

http://www.bloomilk.com/Custom/15873/dark-lord-kasim

I don't design with function first.
I try to make the piece accurate to cannon/legend.
don't care how it works with the game.
just want a never before seen character, that's cool.
no matter how powerful my characters may seem, to some, at a certain cost they're fine.

ps, I was going to suggest an all Ssi-Ruuk Characters.
guess I'll do that this week

Interestingly enough I actually have an entirely different approach to what everybody else does; most of the time the picture I choose dictates what my character is. Who/what is it? Unique, non-unique? If unique, what does Wook say? Non-unique? What faction is/could he be, what doe she do (and here is where My function starts.)

I have a few hundred cards floating around. Whats capturing my fancy at That moment, that's the card I work on.

Guys, it seems to me that Eternal Empire was a big hit last week and some of you were really fascinated with the idea of a sub faction. So this week I will still go with Eternal Empire and since I made the soldier now I'll present you the commander!! Thexan is the leader of the war against Sith Empire and the Old Republic, too bad he died early and we didn't get to know him a lot. There you go..

http://www.bloomilk.com/Custom/30701/thexan

Actually, you're right in that she IS low; this was a test run pic before I costed her. Duhh! She should be about 64-66 (so actually 65 is about right.)

Ok, defender aside because every/anybody would benefit from them, where is she getting Mettle as a Commander?

Losing Soresu for Parry opens up melee issues and I don't have room to replace one ability on my card with two. She's Supposed to be a Tank, against ranged And melee .....

As an aside to the above because most will be inclined to read over it and not pay attention to "no room on the card," many would just say "Oh, no big deal, give her Parry and X to replace Soresu." I'm working with the limitation that I have to fit everything on a card ...

Function, Theme and Form were the parameters here ... as many have done, I'm just giving the CCC what it wants. It's a tank. I don't Do Unique's often at all and this is waaay out of my >25 costs I prefer ... you think This is Bad, you should see the 2-3 Epics I've made that are Really unkillable.

Given the parameters the easiest solution would be to up the cost considerably.