Nice! I hadn't thought of this, but I like it!

I think the energy punch should be charged up and create an explosion when you punch the longer you charge the more damage it would do.

i was going to make a suggestion for this,i will make it a child then...

Nice. But it should be dealing more dmg and maybe a mini radius should be spread too. If mr4 has drained lands, it would maybe change back to normal punch till youre outta there.

Although I like the idea of charging it up, I think actually implementing that would be too complicated.

Maybe I'll be able to make it get more powerful as you level up or something.

Yea, like you get stronger with more kills. Or you could go for over complex, stray into the realms of never-gonna-happen, and say that whenever you use your fists enough your strength goes up, your sword enough your skill, and thus your damage, and your bow enough your arrow speed (self-explanitary) and your accuracy (greater accuracy=greater damage) increase. I would post that as a suggestion, but I know it hasn't a hope of getting in, so...

i like it

You're learning Darren!

*Sketch ignores Darren and continues to post his massive mathatically based suggestions*

I trust you mean learning when stuff is doomed. Nonetheless, it's a sweet (iff impossible) idea. If it were implementable, would you use it?

Possibly, but it's the sort of thing that should be a in a game from the beginning. (Mind you i could say the same about levelling up!)

Hehe. But do you mean learning as in when stuff is doomed?

You say implementing charging the punch up would be difficult, but couldn't you just do it as a spell that detonates where it is created or something?

If I was starting from scratch, then yes. The difficulty is in making it fit with the pre-existing system and AI etc.

This might sound dumb, but here it goes... As you level up/get potions your fist gets longer! Yay!..Ahem. you could punch people farther away, and I'd do more damage.

wow i didnt even think itd get past a 3.12 rating but thanks for the votes and mayby instead of making your fist "longer" there could be a yellow potion that increases strengh to deal more damage with the sword/fist/energy fist anyways i hope this one can make it to mr4/5 cuz itd be pretty sweet to whap a black orc and send it flying to the other side of the screen and hydras dont like me on mr2 :(

o o oh! i want to give an impossible idea too!!!!
if u kill ennemys it will drain their power so you get stronger

You do kinda get stronger:
***xp***

Hmm...perhaps when he charges up this punch, he quickly rolls his arm around...wait, that's hard to understand. Umm, OOH! If you have played Super Smash Brothers Melee, Donkey Kong does the same thing. (While you hold down "B") Anyway, after you're done charging, it shoots a big flaming fist at the pointer, which gets bigger the longer you charge. Also, you could make the fist come from outside the screen behind Merlin and just pass him as much as a normal punch would so it's like you're actually doing a physical attack. Of course, making it come from outside the screen is probably never gonna happen, so instead you could make it just sorta expand out of Merlin's fist. (If you know what I mean.)

Lol, that could be funny!

I think when he says rolls his fist he means a bit like he summons...or for another example, Rayman.

Gah! I don\'t know how to put this...

Does revolving his entire arm around in a full circle at fast speeds give you an illistration?

If anyone else played that game, mabye they could describe it better...

I don't think this should take up a spell slot. Maybe it replaces your regular punch?

it goes beside the normal punch

Okay, that works.

hello.

*ignores everyone and keep plotting world domination scheme*

punching people would be fun!

normal punching in MR is kinda boring. I like my long range attacks.

wow i should log on more often...

if it is put into one of the games can it have a really pale sky blue colour?

thanks for the ratings&comments guys.

This is how id do it:
When Merlin brings his hand back, he holds it there for a while, which would charge the blast(if u have to have the little ball thing, just have a star come from his hand), after that he goes thru the punch like normal, but a < shaped beam would come from his fist.

*done* ?

Quick question: do all suggestions become new again once they're used?

Erm. Not supposed to. I guess the date modified is being updated when I change the status (or anything else) on the suggestion so the site thinks it's new.

it should just be a little spark on the tip of merlins hand.

Ya because I heard that it is just a souped up punch so there is no special spark or anything.

I'm surprised this hasn't turned into a debate on whether it should an Energy Poke or not... I'm even more surprised I got so many positive(and occasionally spammish(I STILL LIKE SPAM!(both the food and the internet sense of the word.))) comments.

I would like you to notice this: 8 May 2010. That's the time of the last comment.

This is implemented, and also, the previous comment was made last year.

Atleast those two years between your two comments on the suggestion show a change in grammar. :P

To be fair, you should look at who's suggestion it is...

Oh, look at that.

Sorry for being unnecessarily trollish :S

Uh, anyway, yeah.

I'd like to hear more about the energy poke!

I remember the Energy Poke!

Wow, young me had a not completely terrible idea. The way I structured it makes me laugh though, guess grammar wasn't the top of my priority list when I was eagerly awaiting MR3.

Yeah, I can notice that happening in a lot of my old suggestions as well! :D

This actually made it all the way into MR Open if my memory serves correctly.

How are you? :)

I'm good Mega, were the forums taken down or something? I cant seem to find them on the site, I wonder how many of our old friends still ghost through the site from time to time.

Yeah, the forums haven't been around for years. If I remember correctly, they were managed by Lokey57, but when he ended up becoming inactive they wilted away as well. Eventually Steve removed the link to the forums and the suggestion database has been the hub for discussion ever since. It's not like this place wasn't used for discussion anyway. Especially the spam zone "suggestion" has quite a bit of chatter.

People come and go occasionally, it's not very common that people stay for longer periods though. However, it does happen and that's why checking around now and then is an awesome thing to do. I'm one of the very few active members left - I check in pretty much daily, but sometimes there might be zero activity for a week. It's not like posting monologue makes things better. However, sometimes interesting discussions get a spark as well, so suddenly there might be lots and lots of new comments at once.

I'd also guess that the site has gotten quite a few upgrades since your last visit - especially if it was more than a few years ago. More games and better functionality all around.

Well there are some new games and the layout is kinda different...
I also just noticed your comment on my grammar and lack of attention in that I missed the huge time gap between comments to which I think young me would responded "lel".

In all seriousness it's nice to know I'm not the only one who remembers this place and that it's not completely dead. I just wish I could help do something to bring in more traffic.

lel, i actully made a comment about dat

I may "ghost through the site" but i am still active i just dont have much to talk about anymore.

Yeah, I guess that might be the case for most until something happens?