Character Manager is an anime character game, in which players buy characters into their team and develop their squad. The goal of the game is to manage your club to as rich as possible by buying and selling different players - in this case anime characters.
The cost of a player is determined by the number of people who have favourited this character. There is the >>Bank<< -thread below led by club officers, where you can post buying requests and sell off your old players. Of course, the bank sells the characters for a higher price, and buys them back for a lower price, as explained in the >>Bank<< -thread. The players level up, or their price rises, when more and more people add them to favourites. When they are removed from the favourites, their price drops accordingly.
Every player in the game is unique. It means that two clubs can't own the same character. The character transfers between different clubs can be arranged in the >>Transfers<< thread, where managers can trade one character for another. A good example of a good trade is a veteran, who is more favoured at the moment, traded for a rising star, who could get more points in the future.
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1. For starters
Start by thinking of a name for your team. After you've done that, register it in the >>Team Registration<< -thread. You'll get 1000 Desu Dollars for you team, after your team is approved.
With these 1000 Desu Dollars or DDs you can buy players into your team. There is a maximum of 6 characters pro team. The cost of a character is determined by the number of people have favourited this character. So if you have Yagami Light, Katsura Hinagiku, Alucard, Grell Sutcliff and Roy Mustang, the DDs for the club will be counted as follows (The numbers in the example are rounded, so they won't need to be replaced every day):
Yagami Light: worth of ca. 8000 DDs
Katsura Hinagiku: ca. worth of 1500 DDs
Alucard: worth of ca. 5000 DDs
Grell Sutcliff: worth of ca. 1000 DDs
Roy Mustang: worth of ca. 2500 DDs
Total Team worth: ca. 18000 DDs
Plus there will also be unused money, which you've earned, but haven't used for buying characters yet. The unused Desu Dollars won't be counted with the points of the characters that you own, and thus won't affect your team rating in future competitions.
Of course you shouldn't be able to purchase such high-ranked characters at once. Your starting budget is 1000 DDs. Therefore you have to pick less known characters at first. You can earn more DDs by:
a) Buying promising characters, these usually happen to be the characters you like. b) Waiting for them to get popular and selling them at the right time to buy even more promising characters, maybe already quite popular ones. c) You can try and ensure the growth of your character popularity by recommending the anime or manga with that character to other people. This way less known anime/manga series may get more fans (Butterfly effect). d) You can try and trade your character with someone else, hoping to gain profit.
2. The "Auctions"
As you already know, there is a >>Bank<< -section for buying new characters. But what if there is more then one person, who wants to buy the current character? The first to post wins?
The "Auctions" make it all a) easier, and b) more interesting. Once there are two or more people wanting the same character inside the same day, an "Auction" is made. The rules are simple - the one who's ready to pay the most gets the character.
This will work extremely well with the new characters. For example:
Ai Nanasaki. Member Favorites: 15. Bank price: 17 DDs (bank takes 10% rounded up, 15 x 10% = 1,5, rounded up 2).
User X: posts a message to the Bank saying he/she wants the character User Y: quotes user X, wants the character as well. Club officer: opens an Auction thread. "Auction: Ai Nanasaki, minimum bid raise: 2 DDs (10% rounded up)" User Y: bids 19 DDs User X: bids 21 DDs User Y: bids 23 DDs User Z: bids 50 DDs. 3 days go by with no more bids. Club officer: Auction closed. Ai Nanasaki sold to user Z for 50 DDs.
Before you enter the Auction, you also need to have a free place in your team. If your team is full, you can't take part in the Auction.
This is how it should go. The same goes for the Transfers.
3. Contests and Tournaments
Special thanks to:
Gpglssp : for taking over for me while I needed a break -- Gets a bonus of 250 DD's
Winners of 2011 (Danim did this once, but I don't know why he didn't do it last year) :
Overall Winner :
Magia Erebea (SME), led by manager Sekuiya -- With a grand total of 6621 DD's -- Wins 750 DD's !
Top three Character owners :
Magia Erebea (SME), led by manager Sekuiya -- With a total of 5414 DD's -- Wins 500 DD's !
Valiant Arcturus :) (ValArc), led by manager Durn -- With a total of 4452 DD's -- Wins 250 DD's !
Ryu no Tsuki (RnT), led by manager Chinkyu -- With a total of 4243 DD's -- Wins 125 DD's !
Top three Most Most Money on the Bank :
Land Mark (LaMa), led by manager Mamuru -- With a Financal Status of 1943 DD's -- Wins 200 DD's !
SilveRR StaRRs (SlvrStrs), led by manager SilveRR -- With a Financal Status of 1430 DD's -- Wins 100 DD's !
Team on Tilt (ToT), led by manager Rhastaroth -- With a Financal Status of 1245 DD's -- Wins 50 DD's !
If you have some questions on the rules, or if you'd like to recommend something, share your ideas, or if you want to be a club officer to help use the club, use the >>Help, Ideas & Recruitment<< -thread.
twas fun while it lasted, very great and original concept! you guys are awesome! hopefully someone else with more free time picks up on the idea and does justice to this ^^
I know, that's already been a month since the club officially shut down, but still, I feel the need the need to also thank everyone that was involved in this, especially the staff. During the high moments of this club it made search, scavenge and other weird things, to find the right character, search how they were doing in their source material, everything.
I still remember the first moments, how I stayed in the lower position for months, while the list was still showed in the main page, having just Steins;Gate. Don't know what made me bet on those characters, but one think I'm sure, it payed off.
It's a pity I never got to do one thing that I dreamed I one day would do, which would be to buy Edward Elric. So close, so close.
Anyway, thanks for the ride everyone and one legacy thanks to Danim3, the creator!
Yeah, I'm closing it down, just too much work to do since i got in college and not enough motivation anymore to make time for the club (no offence). But I really enjoyed my time here and I hope it goes the same for the rest of you. I really wished this club got bigger and more popular, but oh well, hopefully someone will take this concept and make something grand out of it. :)
Greetings to all Character Manager Members, it was a joy working for this club and I truly do not regret that I worked here!
So this club is officially not active anymore, it's just not possible in combination with school anymore, take care people and thanks for the support !
