Turn Meter Overflow and Bonus Turns
I’m not sure the interaction in the link below is working properly. I just played a match with Vader under a zEP lead against a padme team. Vader was the fastest character in the match by far. Duri...
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"Kyno;c-2172178" wrote:"Waqui;c-2172037" wrote:"Scuttlebutt;c-2171976" wrote:"Kyno;c-2171971" wrote:"Waqui;c-2171970" wrote:
The TM overflow rules still apply when characters gain bonus turns. Vader ended up at 100% TM when he gained his bonus turn since he had just performed an action. JKA and Ahsoka most likely ended up with some overflow (unless they were at 0% initially in your scenario). Speed is only considered if they are tied on TM overflow.
This.
Vader gets his bonus turn and has 0 overflow.
The other 2 get a bonus turn and turn whatever TM they had into overflow.
So now a bonus turn grants +100% turn meter instead of bringing a unit’s turn meter to 100%? Is that written down anywhere?
According to Kyno (a couple of years ago) a turn was defined as 100% TM. Hence gaining a bonus turn would be gaining 100% bonus TM (which couldn't be prevented - but Kyno never confirmed that part AFAIK). The outcome was the same as bringing the TM to 100% (because of the cap) but it was really an addition of 100% TM. That's how I read Kyno's definition back then.
Since there was no system in place before the change to capture any overflow, that was "the way it worked."
Now we have a system to capture the overflow, so when it states a toon gets 100% TM they go to 100%. A bonus turn adds 100% TM (just like it did in the past, but either stopped at 100% or it just didnt matter that you were at any number higher than 100%), which now leaves you with 100% and TM overflow, of the TM you had when you gained the bonus turn.
How do you know it added 100% turn meter for a bonus turn vs bringing the toon to 100%? There was no way to prove either was happening in the old system, so the communication would have to come from the developers. All we knew before the new system was that after gaining a bonus turn, a toon was at 100% turn meter.
Believe me, I searched the forums before starting my match. All I could find was a response from Crumb to a thread about Malak and JKA. His response said that characters like Malak and JKA are allowed to gain a bonus turn during the massacre, but it didn’t say anything about turn meter overflow due to the bonus turn. Maybe I missed another post covering, but it would be really nice to know since it affects future interactions with Vader and toons like JKA. JKA will almost always have overflow in this situation.
