Progressing slowly but surely in Soul Calibur. I got Sophitia's joke weapon, and Necrid can use Soul Edge.

These joke weapons are interesting. Their attack is low and they make ridiculous sounds when used. However, some of them have strange sentimental value to the characters. I also heard a rumor that they lowered the CPU's skill level a notch, but it was a rumor (from a fairly unreliable source).

The Soul Edge weapons, while quite powerful, seem kinda pointless to me. In exchange for more power, they constantly drain your energy, which is not a fun thing to have happen while you're trying to save said energy from an attack.

As far as cutting the progress post off at 200, I think it stems from habit. EZBoard used to automatically lock all posts that exceeded 200 to help their bandwidth or something like that.