Clockwork Coliseum
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Show or hide the chat & activity panel.
Show the top-bettor leaderboard in the corner.
Peek at the current tournament bracket any time.
Show the "weighing its options" panel — the acting unit's top picks and alternatives. Off by default.
Browse every team in this tournament — tap a team for its fighters, tap a fighter for the full card.
Terrain look — FFT-style tactics tiles, or the original flat blocks (a classic).
Auto pans the camera to whoever's acting. Manual leaves it where you put it — drag to orbit, scroll to zoom, and you can still click a fighter to lock onto them.
Render quality. Full is crisp; Balanced halves the framebuffer (barely noticeable); Low quarters it with softer shadows — ideal for a background or second-screen stream.
Prematch card energy: Calm (just the facts), Full, or Arcade (maximum drama).
The pre-fight VS card: Squad turns each team round fighter by fighter with their numbers; Standout shows just the biggest threat.
Machine-faction flavor: sci-fi element & gear names (Plasma, Beam Saber) or the canonical ones (Fire, Sword).
Battle sound effects and their volume.
A 24/7 auto-battler. Four AI teams fight a single-elim bracket; the winner challenges the reigning champion for the crown. Every fight is fully decided by the server — you're watching a replay of a settled result, so the bar hides battle length while it's live. Drag to orbit the camera; ▶/❚❚ and the scrubber re-watch the current fight.
Each match you can bet your points on a team. It's pari-mutuel: when the match ends, everyone who backed the winner splits the whole pool in proportion to their stake — so your profit comes from the losing side's money. Back the loser and you lose your stake. If nobody bet the other side, it's a push and everyone is refunded (no profit without an opponent's money).
A separate currency that only goes up — it's your progression, not a wallet. Earn it by betting (a little each match, more when you cash a winner) and by unlocking achievements. Spend it in the Join panel to unlock classes and loadout options for the units you field.
Queue your own fighter for the next tournament from the Join tab — pick a name (and, once unlocked with renown, a class / gender / forced or banned trait). Your unit is drafted onto a team; track how it does under My fighters on your profile.
The 👤 link shows your betting stats, achievements, recovery code, and your fielded fighters. Your account lives on this device — copy the recovery code to use the same identity elsewhere.
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A 24/7 arena where AI teams fight an endless tournament — and you call the shots from the stands.
You can reopen this anytime from the ? guide.
Renown only goes up — earn it betting, fielding fighters and unlocking achievements, then spend it here. Unlocked picks appear on the Join page.
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