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Sigh, pisses me off to lose in a tournament to someone that has 1/2 of my HP, 1/2 of my DMG and barely 30% stats. RNG Ftw.
You use it to wear out your opponent. When stamina is at 50% or less characters may fail to attack which gives you a large advantage. This is very effective in the early game when total stamina is low. Also, you can counter attack in defend mode (counter attacks need to be unlocked first.)
Sorry, I am not a very good artist or designer. I sort of gave up half-way through development and just started using the same basic colors over and over. (red, green, blue, yellow, etc...) It is one of the first things I plan to fix if the game does well.
It seems Flash drops the frame-rate if a game is not in full view on the screen (even scrolling down on the page can slow the game down.) Running the game in its own window seems to help.
This is related to the game slowing down if you switch to another tab. I am looking into a fix but early research does not look promising (looks like this may be a 'feature' of flash.)
Update: Fixed
In short: Double the Mastery Points to spend. (The second master slot starts vacant though so make sure you promote a disciple to the position first.) Having a second master also gives you the option to train a new set of fighting skills -- the Knowledge skill is automatic and it reduces the cost of Fighting Skills from 3 to 2.
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This is amazing. I love the animations and the gameplay. I believe that if you worked on this more it could soon be a hit !
I am glad you like it! I have 30 fighting skills and 30 rivals planned and a couple new features but it will take several months to add them all unless the game does really well. Haven't decided yet if that will be the end or if I will add an Ascension mechanic of some sort.
I noticed this when I released and am looking into a solution. A temporary fix is to play it in a separate window (at least this works for me on Firefox.)
Update: I have confirmed that the frame rate drops to 2fps when not in view. I can't change this but I should be able to get my game working correctly at this speed.
Update 2: Fixed!