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Mindy's "Mime" mechanics
781 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 27th 2017 at 10:53 AM Animenut "M3" for short. Mindy can only copy the formation abilities of two crusaders a at time, but not all formations have a space that leaves only two adjacent crusaders. Ideally, Mindy is placed next to only two crusaders so that she continually mimics those two and the abilities refresh themselves, but if there is a third adjacent crusader, it messes that up. So my question is whether or not Mindy will attempt to mimic a crusader with no formation abilities, like Gold Panda or Princess. If there are two crusaders with formation abilities and one with none next to her, will she try and fail to copy the third, messing up the self-refreshing system, or will she ignore the third and focus only on the two with formation abilities?
257 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 27th 2017 at 11:51 AM snow Mindy will try to mimic anyone, formation abilities or not. You could always leave a slot empty to control her targeting.
781 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 27th 2017 at 12:40 PM Animenut Gotcha. Kind of sucks, but eh, that's the whole point of the game - intelligent unit placement. Thanks.
46 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 27th 2017 at 7:29 PM Muljo Stpho Another thing to be aware of is Karen's "Center of the Universe" ability, if you've got her. Center of the Universe is great for Karen (she receives positional formation buffs from the wrong position) but it's bad for crusaders who would want to be careful about controlling the number of adjacent crusaders to maximize their own abilities. Karen will count as a possible target for Mindy no matter where in the formation they are, and as I recall this could then lead to Mindy being able to copy anyone in the entire formation while she's miming Center of the Universe.
781 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 27th 2017 at 11:19 PM Animenut That actually made me laugh out loud XD It is troublesome, but hilarious. The whole point of Karen's character is to emulate an arrogant, self-absorbed teen (usually with the stigma of being annoying), so her "arrogance" ability actually making things more difficult for an all-around-helpful crusader in such a huge way just fits way, WAY too well. I always did wonder that, how certain abilities would end up being oddly distributed with certain hypothetical formations. Like if you had a straight line of 3 slots, and from left to right was Karen, Mindy, and Robo-Turkey, that's a lot of mixing and matching and trading and stealing and calculating going on all at once.
171 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 28th 2017 at 3:06 AM KameRose Actually the devs 'fixed' Mindy/Karen interactions so she no longer steals one of the mimics from a non-adjacent formation slot. When I submitted a ticket over this issue I was told that she does not steal one of the mimics any more b/c Mindy's mimic is not considered a formation ability that affects Karen positively. Got a whole list of questions/complaints about Karen, but that's for another time.
130 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 29th 2017 at 7:05 AM Azamagon The fixing of Mindy/Karen interactions makes total sense to me. Whenever Karen "steals" some positive formation ability, she gets a buff on herself. The only one that didn't give any buff on Karen was Mindy's Mimic, because, well it actually didn't give anything onto KAREN directly. As for the 3-slot adjacency on Mindy, yes, it attempts to copy even from Crusaders without any formation abilities. Since my best current goldgivers are RoboSanta and Mister Monkey, along with Billy having the Act of Congress ability, I try to place her next to those 3 Crusaders in a formation where she at best can get a 3-slot adjacency.
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