Eredan's World

How exactly does preventing me from selling a common like [card]Avalonian Shield[/card] for days and days at anything under 20.000 prevent anything? Sounds more like a means -for- market manip. Keep trades happening at over 20K and the price is fixed. With the price getting kept at that high level where only the desperate being taken advantage of (and manipulators keeping it there) trade.

I get the top price thing, but how could it possibly hurt anyone if I want to give away what's mine for 15.000, 10.000 or 1000?

What bad thing could then occur if there was no forced minimum?

Thanks for all the great feedback! It's been quite useful! Updating and asking for advice again after a small round of investment.

Decklist now:

1X[card]Archmage Anryena[/card]
1X[card]Prophet [/card]
1X[card]Aerouant the Crystalomancer[/card]

1X[card]Lightning Bolts[/card] (AoE)
2X[card]Rain of death[/card]
3X[card]Burn in hell[/card]
2X[card]Armor Invocation[/card]
3X[card]Dragon Armor[/card]
1X[card]Draconian Scepter[/card]
2X[card]The Dragon's Breath[/card]
3X[card]Than the Sword[/card]
1X[card]Reborn[/card]
1X[card]Mentalism[/card]
1X[card]Astral Projection[/card]

"Sideboard" (sellable/main-deck-able):  1X[card]Crystal Storm[/card], 1X[card]breaker[/card], 1X[card]Mirage[/card], 2X[card]Mentalism[/card], 1X[card]Freeze![/card], 2X[card]Luminosity[/card], 2X[card]Illumination[/card]

70.000 to spend still.

What to put it in? Third breath? Fireball to eventually make third RoD?  The Crystal Storm + Illumination trick might be cute if I replace the than-the-swords. Other ideas?

The deck is doing admirably against all but legendary-studded toys I'm fine with losing to with one exception - Discard. Thinking of going to 2 or 3 mentalisms to win me that extra blasting round. Other solutions within my price-range?

Why Im hesitant about the ~86.000 investement into making the two fireballs into RoDs is that what you actually get on avarage is +1 damage.

3+X to 5+X = X+4
3+X to 7+X = X+5

A second Breath would sound great if they weren't hell'a expensive, but it sounds a likely route..

Other views?

Fact: the prices have gone to what they were for the most part now that the market has stabilised under the new system.

Fact: only visible difference for a casual player looking at the market (not hunting the big money rares): I now get 70% of value for my fees when I cash out cards instead of 90%.

Carry on.

Even assuming the new mechanics would balance the market (they won't, what they might do is choke it), the spike to 30% is inadmissible.

Whenever a card is transferred, it's 30% more expensive, functionally. Thus making all the fees we put into cards that we were given to understand are worth what they're worth + 10% per transfer be worth less. Money I already spent for a product of a given description and value is esencially stolen from me when for that same amount invested I will now get less.

And don't you dare compare it to the previous system and say "look, the value of your cards were dependant on the actions of others". It's one thing for the freedom of others to do whatever with their cards to make things expensive and A WHOLE other for the people whose CLIENT I am to make things STRICTLY more expensive for me, a user of good faith that doesn't screw around with multi-accounts or whatever.

Hell'a bad business decision, Eredan - hell'a bad.

3) and 7) occur for me as well.

I don't think it's time for anyone's deck to go down.

I think it's time for everyone to have a chance.

I think cards that rather auto-kill other major deck archetypes are bad cards.

Mages are just up now, but I think this should be avoided in general.

A few hundred cystals to join. Top tied rank split 70% of the pot.

Makes sense and encourages building a rounded deck.

It might be an idea to "buy back into" the Survival tournament by paying the entry fee again. so you dont have to wait 6 days for the next run.

Constructive feedback thread. Hulk like.

I agree with most of what has been said, the mentionable exceptions being the "free feez" and "do it yourself, community!" ideas.

The "free feez" idea and its type really defeat the purpose of profit-making, and without profit-making for the game's makers, all demands become moot, there remains nobody to ask for a good game from. I want smart folks to be making money off of this fun game and esepcially off of its improvement.

I also disagree with the "DIY" view, as I don't think it's a legit judgement to say "You could, jumping through hoops, invent fun stuff yourself, even though it would be 800% easier for the game's owners to implement the same thing without you - the guy paying - working to make it happen." I want a strong staff doing what they should.

Of course, better bug-checking, real new content, grouped expansions, etc. are all qute desirable. But what I love most when I get feedback is creative solutions offered for the identified issues. So here go a few ideas.

-Lore-writers: The Guem lore has immense potential, and so many players play the game for (or also for) the lore. I suggest 'employing' lore writers out of the community with crystals or feez. The recent mini-competiton a guild launched recently could be the type of thing to improve lore a lot if made regular by staff. Dimiz' founded something great, but it tends to take a team to build a credible Universe.

-Limited Play: The thing that I love in paper TCG, and recently in some other iTCGs that is also brilliant for sales and skill-based play is Limited Play. A format in which everyone playing had access to a small limited pool that is for only that format/competition. This adresses the isssues of cash-decks and expensive legendaries dominating, the issue of "not being able to reach critical mass of investement to making a good deck" and many others. Not least, it's likely the most skill-intensive play style, giving deck construction a much bigger challenge with every fresh pool, never the same.

-Cross-section decks: This may be minor, but: If I make two decks, I'm not going to be using both at the same time. Make all cards in Deck 1 available for future decks, so I don't have to delete the 80% of my deck that is the same when I flip from Noz mages to Pirate mages.

-Budget formats: No-rare rooms. No card more expensive than [given market price] rooms.

-Singleton formats: 'No more than one of each card' room. (Thus raising the value of otherwise unused cards). In a 3-of deck, you use some 7 cards. In a singleton one, you need 20.

-A development team update blog/thread/etc. Make people a part of the process, or at least viewers of the work.

-And, not least, expressed concrete reaction to feedback given. "We're doing this because we had feedback that...", "We can't do this despite getting feedback that ... because ..."

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Welcome y'all mad urbanz, nice to see clinty people 'round.

So you'll be picking out of six during the next round and that's it?