W.H.I.T.E.O.U.T

Trust me, it's easy to say that you're leaving but it's a hell of a lot harder to actually leave.
I've tried 3 different times and failed, so I guess that's saying something.

Trust me, it's easy to say that you're leaving but it's a hell of a lot harder to actually leave.
I've tried 3 different times and failed, so I guess that's saying something.

As far as I know, any mix box can drop legendaries.

ooh this is the first time i've seen this
 

Day 21 Premium Box that I was greeted by when I just logged into SuperMechs.

Day 21 Premium Box that I was greeted by when I just logged into SuperMechs.

Day 21 Premium Box that I was greeted by when I just logged into SuperMechs.

Day 21 Premium Box that I was greeted by when I just logged into SuperMechs.

Day 21 Premium Box that I was greeted by when I just logged into SuperMechs.

I like it.  It's creative.

It's time for some Gold Portal math!

What do you get if you add 40 tokens from Normal difficulty, 60 from Hard difficulty, and 55 tokens that were initially there from the beginning? Now, what happens if you use those tokens to buy 2 premium boxes on the day of the portal while having the thought that the outcome of both boxes were going to be epic?
In my case, I got these:

It's time for some Gold Portal math!

What do you get if you add 40 tokens from Normal difficulty, 60 from Hard difficulty, and 55 tokens that were initially there from the beginning? Now, what happens if you use those tokens to buy 2 premium boxes on the day of the portal while having the thought that the outcome of both boxes were going to be epic?
In my case, I got these:

Note #2: My bad for the text wall, I got too invested in the post as I typed it, so I ended up making it into this. Another TL;DR will be provided, don't worry.
Yeah, the box system was much more different back then, especially when "item boxes" (basically like the free mix boxes we have now but they were purchasable with gold if you didn't want to wait for free boxes) had a rare chance to drop a legendary item.
Though, legacy had a lot more items than what Reloaded currently has, especially when it came to how all items had  "transformed" variants that were treated as entirely separate entities from the base item, which forced you to throw away an item once you got a better version of it since you couldn't transform it to a better state like you can do now. That, and every better item in the game had some sort of drawback to ground its benefits like, for example:

The Galaxius Models - Had good stats, good HP, had 6 resistance for their respective element, and could be used on a lot of builds despite being legendary torsos but at the cost of being slightly above 400kg in weight, not having any resistances outside of their respective element, and were hard to get because of RNG and the simple fact that legacy had so many legendary items that even betting your life on a legendary drop being the item that you want was an unspeakably and extraordinarily bad idea 
Reloaded, on the other hand, has less items overall than legacy but we didn't have "transforming", "divining", and "premium" items back then, so reloaded legendary items can be held onto for longer and even kept for a seriously long time if it was mythable or a premium item. Due to that, it would make sense that it would be harder to get legendary items from legendary-capable sources in order to keep players from simply breezing through the game just by getting premium legendaries from mix boxes because they got lucky.
That, and we also have deals, arena boxes, and fortune boxes that add onto the legacy-like legendary drop sources that we already have, so, if there was a nerf in legendary drop rates at any point after legacy, it would've likely been done to counteract the increase of legendary item sources.
So, yeah.. Mix boxes being turned back into item boxes, when things are much more different from what they were like back in legacy, is a pretty bad idea, at least to me, that is.

TL;DR: Legacy and reloaded work differently, so mix boxes/silver boxes shouldn't be turned back into item boxes and silver boxes from legacy. The way things are working now wouldn't exactly benefit if those boxes were dropping legendaries, especially when new accounts have base integrated into them upon creation and when plenty of existing former silver box users (myself, included) have already begun to invest into base or have invested a lot of time and work into base to get it to a high level where it can start producing epic/legendary cards. Simply having basic boxes with legendary drop chances would undermine the idea of having/investing in base.
 
Welp, even the TL;DR is long.. So, to put it simply if you don't want to read the TL;DR either:

 Legendary from mix box and silver box bad = bad idea if no changes are made to compensate but they wouldn't be "basic boxes" if they were changed as compensation for the added legendary drop chance.
(This was a reply and yet it somehow managed to be just as long as my original post. I'm either too invested in explanations or I'm just too good at making text walls to the point that it might just be an unhealthy habit.) 

Old but timeless.
So why not start a second chain reaction of random words for old time's sake?

Shower because it
Necropost, necropost, necropost.
 

So.. Uhm.. Hello, everypilot. Whiteout here for another topic. But it isn't.. Uhmmm.. A normal topic that I would usually make. 
You see, I recently hit 1k reputation on these forums just yesterday, which is a pretty big thing for me since I haven't hit a milestone of this caliber on any sort of forum that I've been to before, even when I was in the old forum, I still didn't have this kind of "reputation". So, pardon me for the awkwardness of this topic because I don't know how to do these sorts of topics, first time doing this and all.
As for what this topic is, it's meant to commemorate the fact that I've managed to get 1,000 reputation, like a "pat on the back" or something. However, I didn't really know how to make a special topic to commemorate the moment.. So I went with something that I've seen done by more popular and notorious members of this community -- A Q&A.
I originally thought of doing a Q&A on several occasions before now but I haven't done it since I believed that doing one would make me look like someone who noticed a trend and wanted to "copy" those who already started doing Q&As of their own. Though, I decided to do it now since it's to celebrate an achievement and I figured some people would like to know more about me (I'm mostly quiet in terms of things about me, anyway), so this topic would be doing two things at once.
This Q&A isn't special in comparison to how others have done them; Feel free to ask anything as long as it's nothing too personal or too "uncomfortable" to answer. Also, I bet you were expecting me to tell some sort of story about my SM experiences or something.. Yeah, I won't do something like that just because I hit 1k but I might do it if I hit 1.5k or 2k, who knows?
 
Anyway, with that now out of the way, let the questions and answering begin!
 
 

You thought that OKI DOKI was going to reply to your post with a nice but it was me, Whiteout!
 
 
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It took me around 25-40 minutes.
Thanks
Probably the stereotypical "cocky and cool anime guy with a raspy voice" type of thing

Warning: If you have any allergies to the likes of long topics, this is a good point for you to cease progression and escape while you still haven't read this topic. Why? It's a long topic and you might get an allergic reaction from reading it. What's the symptoms? They're quite simply headache, eye soreness, boredom, sporadic spaceouts, 3D word-pop hallucinations, firm belief in worshiping Greedy, and the feeling that you're looking at a long topic.
If you do have such an allergy and do not wish to experience the listed symptoms, turn back now.
If you don't have an allergy of that kind or have that kind of allergy but you're a masochist that loves a challenge and wants to read this anyway, feel free to go on ahead.
 
But don't say I didn't warn you..
 
The Introduction
Hello, everypilot, Whiteout here with another topic but with a topic that is much different than the one I created a short while before this one.
For those who already know what this topic is about from reading my Torso Dialogue (Idea) - The Return topic that I made before my silence period, I have actually decided to start the idea and with Zarkares as the first torso to get a dialogue set (at least, a dialogue set that I think would fit Zarkares). Shoutout to @Spam for suggesting Zarkares for the first torso and @Tirreggregars for suggesting Zarkares's personality.
For those who have no idea what I'm talking about, here's a link to the original topic that pretty much explains the key points of what this whole thing is about.
And now.. It's time for the first ever dialogue set idea topic to be posted on these forums (if it's not, consider this claim to be a hype strategy).
 
The Dialogue
Hangar
(Receive) "Who are you supposed to be? My pilot..? I'm afraid you've got the wrong mech. ..Hmm? Wait- What do you mean I don't have a choice?! Urgh.. Fine! I guess I'm stuck with you for the time being.. But you better not be worse with your piloting skills than you do with your looks."
(Viewing) "What're you looking at? Oh? Came to check up on me? Heh.. I knew you couldn't resist my charm. Unlike those toys that you humans call mechs, I'm the real deal. I've got a heart of fire and a hull of solid platinum steel, so your pathetic self can rely on me to get any job done."
(Idle) "Pilot.. Just what in the hell are you waiting for? It's surely worth the wait if you're keeping me from slaughtering weaklings on the battlefield! If it's not worth the wait, get off your sorry behind and let's get going already!"
(Task Received) "What.. Is this supposed to be? A list of errands? Pfft.. I'm not some caretaking drone. Let those lazy rats get their stuff done on their own. Why? Because I've got better things to do, obviously! Like.. Imagining myself tearing a bunch of lowlifes apart in the midst of a battle to the death.. Yeah, that's definitely more important!"
(Task Complete) "Huh.. Is this what we really get for all our efforts..? Lame! I've seen better heaps of scrap from the dryla- Wait- Is that a scrap of titanium?! Give it to me! I crave the shiny artifact of reflections!"
 
Armory
(Equip; Common Item) "Excuse me- What is this thing? It's pathetic. What do you mean "it's the best you got"? Surely you've got something more enticing than this."
(Equip; Rare Item) "Sigh.. I know that I'm a rare find and all.. But this is not the kind of rare that I was born for. Get the hint already."
(Equip; Epic Item) "Not bad for human engineering but that doesn't make this my most favorite gun. Just saying."
(Equip; Legendary Item) "This gun ain't so bad.. Hell, I might just take this thing for a night on the drylands."
(Equip; Mythical Item) "Woah- How's this thing considered legal around these parts?! Come on, we've gotta show this baby off immediately!"

(Equip; Divine Item) "Field Certified, you say? Heh heh.. May the Blessed Mechs from the Beyond have mercy on our enemies.. Because once I start shooting, they'll be begging for it."
(Equip; Premium Item) "So you've got a taste in tech after all, eh? Hah.. I can get used to this sort of life."
(Equip; Heat Item) "This thing really puts the fire in firepower. Let's give our enemies one hell of a bad time, shall we?"
(Equip; Physical Item) "Oh ho ho! Now this is what I call heavy artillery! .. What do you mean I can't do that? Stop being a drag and let me appreciate this moment."
(Equip; Energy Item) "I know you understand how excellent I am at everything but come on, this type of stuff is better at dropping flies than dropping actual targets!"
(Equip; Drone) "Why did you give me this.. Thing? I doubt it's useful. Eh? Do I know what it's for? Of course I do! It's.. Uh.. Eh.. A..? Sigh.. Ok, fine, I'll give.. Just this once because you asked nicely-"
(Equip; Charge) "I didn't expect to get this but I guess violent ramming is just as good as hot lead.. Now I just need a target to smash into a pulp. Pilot, want to volunteer? I won't hit you that hard, I promise. No? .. Talk about a buzzkill."
(Equip; Hook) "It may be fun to blow some poor scrap heaps up but I enjoy tearing their engines out just as much! Time to shoot something with this thing!"
 
Mission
(Viewing the Map) "What so interesting about a map? There's far more interesting things to do than to just look at that! .. Huh? It helps us find battles..? Well- Why didn't you say that before gawking at it?!"
(Idling) "What's taking you so long to choose? It can't be that hard to choose a good battle.. I mean, look! There's this weird looking thing that we could pummel into dus- And it mo- Ok, now it's gone.. That could've been something good, you know!"
(Viewing Mission Details) "Not impressed. I've faced far worse and even those things couldn't stop me! .. Alright, maybe I screwed up that one time in the past and almost got myself scrapped.. BUT it's not that big of a deal now that I'm still kicking and feeling alive!"
(Entering Mission; Normal) "Only one step in and this place is already depressing to look at! Where's the challenge?!"
(Entering Mission; Hard) "Not the best place I've been to but these scrap heaps look decent enough for a beating."
(Entering Mission; Insane) "Now this is unfair! How are these heaps allowed to mock my superiority?! Just wait 'till I shred them to pieces..!"
(Mission Victory) "They thought they got what it took to challenge me? Pfft! There's a reason why no one picks a fight with an apex steelborn death machine like me!"
(Mission Defeat) "Pilot.. I've seen a lot of terrible things.. But your skills are definitely one of the worst."
(Revive) "Like a phoenix coming back from the pits of Hell, I've got a second wind and a vendetta with everyone's name on it! So come on and let's get things rolling again!"
 
Combat
(Entering Combat; Buggy) "Hah! Their first line of defense is this?! This is gonna be too easy!"
(Entering Combat; Tank) "So they're stepping up their game, huh? I was getting bored with those buggies, anyway."
(Entering Combat; Mech) "About time they showed up.. I was about to think that they fled like cowards. Now then, let's get this battle rolling!"
(Entering Combat; Mission Boss) "The head honcho's finally here.. Heh heh.. It's about time I've finally got a chance to show what I can really do! Bring it on!"
(Taking Damage; Minimal) "Hey-! Don't scratch my paint if you're just gonna be throwing petty jabs at me!"
(Taking Damage; Minor) "You call that a hit? I didn't even feel a thing!"
(Taking Damage; Major) "Hggn.. Come on, is that all you got?! I can take a heavier beating than that!"
(Taking Damage; Critical) "You think this hurts me..!? I'm an army of one and I'll keep slaughtering even if I'm outta ammo, so hit me with everything you've got!"
(Destruction) "No- No no no NO! I'm the ultimate tool of destruction-! How is this gonna be the way I fa-!?"
 
Extras
(Unique 1; Idle while Viewing then Interact with Anything) "Who's the best machine? I'M the best machine! Who's got the best looks? I got the best lo-! Huh-?! Pilot- How long were you standing there?! Forget about what you just say and you better not say a single word about it from now on, got it-?!"
(Unique 2; Hangar after Battle then Idle) "Hah! I still got it! Sure, I might be getting old but none of these toys is gonna top what I've got! Never!"
(Unique 3; Encounter with another Zarkares) "What in the mech-?! How do you look like me?! Why do you look like me?! How dare you copy ME!"
 
The Closing 
So, what do you guys think about the dialogue options? Good, bad, sounds too much like dialogue? Let me know down below because feedback is appreciated. It really is. Like really really. Yes, it really is. It's so really that I ended up saying really six times in this closing. It's crazy.
But yeah, that's what I've thought up for what I think Zarkares would be like if it had a personality and respective dialogue in-game. I know that there's a lot more possible dialogue options that I haven't done here and that I could've made more dialogue per dialogue option.. But I just wanted to take a simple yet detailed route as I made this list. This dialogue is also what I think, so you don't have to agree with it if you dislike it or simply hate it for the fact that it's a topic with words on it. You could also try and create your own list of dialogue if you feel like it and you don't want to read the dialogue lists that I create. It's all for the hell of it, after all.
With that out of the way, this is the end of the topic. Stay safe and stay frosty out there, pilots, because you might never know when a Greedy is lurking under your bed.. Until next time-
This is Whiteout the Word Creator, signing off.
P.S - Did I mention that this is what I think? Also, yes, it's a long topic. A long topic indeed.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 


 

1. Nearly 4 years (including breaks from the game); God Mode period of Legacy 
2. Imperial Japanese Navy (rank 15 clan owned by a close friend of mine; I was a part of it when I was still "Avenger")
3. {{W.H.I.T.E.O.U.T}} is actually one of the more recent names on a massive list of names. My very first mech name was A.T.O.M (inspiration from Real Steel, a rags-to-riches film about robot fighting).
4. I can't say that I have a favorite player in the game. Though, I'd say that my favorite players would be ZeRo, Shoultz262, epicspeedster, Chaotic Shadow, Simpleon, Manolis, Spam, and you, to name a few. As for why, y'all are my friends and have provided me with improvement advice, morale support, new ideas to try out, and an incentive to keep going when things've gotten rough.
5. The YouTubers that I like don't play SuperMechs but I'll name them anyway: 8-BitRyan, Max0r, Greystillplays, CaptainSauce, Emkay, EzPz, Aleirus (something like that, at least), StBlackSt, Eltororus, The Act Man, and the "Dope or Nope" crew.
6. Pennsylvania, United States, the large square state that's just as large as New York, the state it's sharing a border with.
7. I currently don't work but I'm slowly but surely preparing myself for college. 
8. Rusty Energy Armor / Fractured Heat Armor (and Hollow Spectral Armor since it's also a monke and it's my first monke, courtesy of Ramboy and his fortune boxes)
9. I'm sort of in the middle about it; I mainly play the game just to occupy free time/have something to invest my focus and energy into/to have some sort of fun but I feel like the game's gotten old because I've already seen the most this game has to offer since I'm level 214 (halfway to 215), hit rank 6 once + got rank 7 several of times, and I've grinded the hell out of OD-8 Insane and OD-6 Insane alike.
Besides, even if the game is repetitive, I still gotta play the game so I can have an excuse to meet more pilots in the SM community as well as hang out with current ones that I consider my friends and/or clanmates.
10. That's.. A pretty hard question for me to answer. I guess I could say that my favorite build is the ORB Jumper but I also like my custom energy-free physical tank design as well as my main physical and energy builds. They're not META but they're definitely fun to mess around with. Oh, and I forgot to mention my special dual Rocket Launcher build. That build is special. I won't exactly reveal why.. Yet.
 
It's a habit that happens when I get too invested in a subject or topic. I can't help it.

Welp- Seems like the moment of 1,000 rep has arrived and now I have to make due on the 1,000 Rep Commemoration Q&A idea that I came up with.
.. But I'm not gonna try doing a Q&A at 1:45 in the morning, so that's gonna be delayed until Tomorrow so that I won't be delirious when I'm gonna be answering questions and stuff. (Delirium is not a good thing to be affected by when you're answering questions.. Believe me on that because you do not want to see the type of crazy things I tend to say when I'm affected by delirium. No, it's not the top weapon Ultrabright box-shaped.. Thing.)

So.. Uhm.. Hello, everypilot. Whiteout here for another topic. But it isn't.. Uhmmm.. A normal topic that I would usually make. 
You see, I recently hit 1k reputation on these forums just yesterday, which is a pretty big thing for me since I haven't hit a milestone of this caliber on any sort of forum that I've been to before, even when I was in the old forum, I still didn't have this kind of "reputation". So, pardon me for the awkwardness of this topic because I don't know how to do these sorts of topics, first time doing this and all.
As for what this topic is, it's meant to commemorate the fact that I've managed to get 1,000 reputation, like a "pat on the back" or something. However, I didn't really know how to make a special topic to commemorate the moment.. So I went with something that I've seen done by more popular and notorious members of this community -- A Q&A.
I originally thought of doing a Q&A on several occasions before now but I haven't done it since I believed that doing one would make me look like someone who noticed a trend and wanted to "copy" those who already started doing Q&As of their own. Though, I decided to do it now since it's to celebrate an achievement and I figured some people would like to know more about me (I'm mostly quiet in terms of things about me, anyway), so this topic would be doing two things at once.
This Q&A isn't special in comparison to how others have done them; Feel free to ask anything as long as it's nothing too personal or too "uncomfortable" to answer. Also, I bet you were expecting me to tell some sort of story about my SM experiences or something.. Yeah, I won't do something like that just because I hit 1k but I might do it if I hit 1.5k or 2k, who knows?
 
Anyway, with that now out of the way, let the questions and answering begin!
 
 

You thought that OKI DOKI was going to reply to your post with a nice but it was me, Whiteout!
 
 
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So.. Uhm.. Hello, everypilot. Whiteout here for another topic. But it isn't.. Uhmmm.. A normal topic that I would usually make. 
You see, I recently hit 1k reputation on these forums just yesterday, which is a pretty big thing for me since I haven't hit a milestone of this caliber on any sort of forum that I've been to before, even when I was in the old forum, I still didn't have this kind of "reputation". So, pardon me for the awkwardness of this topic because I don't know how to do these sorts of topics, first time doing this and all.
As for what this topic is, it's meant to commemorate the fact that I've managed to get 1,000 reputation, like a "pat on the back" or something. However, I didn't really know how to make a special topic to commemorate the moment.. So I went with something that I've seen done by more popular and notorious members of this community -- A Q&A.
I originally thought of doing a Q&A on several occasions before now but I haven't done it since I believed that doing one would make me look like someone who noticed a trend and wanted to "copy" those who already started doing Q&As of their own. Though, I decided to do it now since it's to celebrate an achievement and I figured some people would like to know more about me (I'm mostly quiet in terms of things about me, anyway), so this topic would be doing two things at once.
This Q&A isn't special in comparison to how others have done them; Feel free to ask anything as long as it's nothing too personal or too "uncomfortable" to answer. Also, I bet you were expecting me to tell some sort of story about my SM experiences or something.. Yeah, I won't do something like that just because I hit 1k but I might do it if I hit 1.5k or 2k, who knows?
 
Anyway, with that now out of the way, let the questions and answering begin!