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Re: Game Mechanics (i.e. The Expanded Rules) https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=11691.msg144346#msg144346
« Reply #12 on: August 22, 2010, 09:18:29 pm »
For the Poison/Purity counters, maybe you can put in Neurotoxin?
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Re: Game Mechanics (i.e. The Expanded Rules) https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=11691.msg144360#msg144360
« Reply #13 on: August 22, 2010, 09:29:46 pm »
Yea, a little late of a response but this is quite the interesting article.

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Re: Game Mechanics (i.e. The Expanded Rules) https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=11691.msg144405#msg144405
« Reply #14 on: August 22, 2010, 10:08:25 pm »
I think this should go on the wiki somewhere and be a featured article.

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Re: Game Mechanics (i.e. The Expanded Rules) https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=11691.msg144464#msg144464
« Reply #15 on: August 22, 2010, 11:15:07 pm »
very nice work, +karma smuglapse

this have to find the way into the wiki. or needs to be a closed! sticky.

hrhr, i imagine this
Game Mechanics (i.e. The Expanded Rules)
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Re: Game Mechanics (i.e. The Expanded Rules) https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=11691.msg144498#msg144498
« Reply #16 on: August 23, 2010, 12:37:11 am »
this is an awesome article.

do you mind posting this on the wiki, or giving permission to one of the wiki editors to do so?

EDIT : oh; miniwally already suggest it. but i think it deserves a status more than a featured article.
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Re: Game Mechanics (i.e. The Expanded Rules) https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=11691.msg144619#msg144619
« Reply #17 on: August 23, 2010, 04:14:13 am »
Very nicely done. I feel noobish for saying this, but I never realized the permanents had an order like creatures did. I knew the weapon was after SoGs, but I didnt realize its only after the first row of SoGs (I wondered what happened a few times where I thought i'd heal to full before weapon hit for EM but didnt). I also never knew the exact order of the creatures (I thought it had to do with when they were played rather than their positions) though I did know how to check their order manually :P. Very nice post with a lot of good information.

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Re: Game Mechanics (i.e. The Expanded Rules) https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=11691.msg144625#msg144625
« Reply #18 on: August 23, 2010, 04:34:37 am »
(*Wall of text crits Kuroaitou for 738921 damage. Kuroaitou dies*)

But no really, I read the entire article, and I'm just flabbergasted on how much effort you've put into this. :o Well done smuglapse! If this DOESN'T become a wiki-article for one reason or another, then I'm going to be even more shocked...

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Re: Game Mechanics (i.e. The Expanded Rules) https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=11691.msg144638#msg144638
« Reply #19 on: August 23, 2010, 05:05:37 am »
A slight wording suggestion: abilities are actually called skills, and there are two types: active and passive. Right now weapons only have one type of skill, active, and creatures have up to one active and two passive skills. Active is always the text under the icon, while passive is obviously the text under "passive skill". If you make the wording consistent under the Creatures & Permanents section like this, new players will have a firmer grasp of creature and permanent mechanics.

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Re: Game Mechanics (i.e. The Expanded Rules) https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=11691.msg144689#msg144689
« Reply #20 on: August 23, 2010, 07:45:36 am »
this is an awesome article.

do you mind posting this on the wiki, or giving permission to one of the wiki editors to do so?
Here's the problem we've been having quite some time now.

We have some identical information in both the forums and wiki. What makes it difficult is that every time we update something, we have to do that in two places, doubling the effort. Most of the time the data gets updated in one place, and not updated in the other which makes it even worse.

I think with every article/post we should either posted on wiki or posted here. Doesn't make much sense to put the same exact thing in both. A simple link would work better than typing everything twice.

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Re: Game Mechanics (i.e. The Expanded Rules) https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=11691.msg144840#msg144840
« Reply #21 on: August 23, 2010, 02:36:03 pm »
Wow... very nicely done...

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Re: Game Mechanics (i.e. The Expanded Rules) https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=11691.msg145005#msg145005
« Reply #22 on: August 23, 2010, 08:21:54 pm »
Updated the order of actions pic to include a reserved slots legend.

I think with every article/post we should either posted on wiki or posted here. Doesn't make much sense to put the same exact thing in both. A simple link would work better than typing everything twice.
For the list of abilities I included a link to the appropriate Wiki page.  No sense reinventing the wheel.  If the list of passive skills gets any bigger I may do the same for that.

A slight wording suggestion: abilities are actually called skills, and there are two types: active and passive. Right now weapons only have one type of skill, active, and creatures have up to one active and two passive skills. Active is always the text under the icon, while passive is obviously the text under "passive skill". If you make the wording consistent under the Creatures & Permanents section like this, new players will have a firmer grasp of creature and permanent mechanics.
The terms skill and ability are pretty much interchangeable so I'm cool with making those changes.
Here are the problems I have with active vs. passive:
  • Passive skills are clearly documented in game.  Is there an in-game source for the term "active skill"?  One can assume since they are opposites that that would be the proper term, but is it?
  • The term active is misleading.  I have divided the "active skills' into 'manually activated' and 'automatically triggered'.  Anyone taking the literal definition of passive would think that certain "active skills" are passive: air, light, fire, earth, scavenger, phoenix.  Just compare the devourer passive skill with a RoL's "active" skill.  Without knowledge of the info box, one could easily make the mistake that they are both passive.
I suggest that the term active be replaced with primary.  It doesn't have the same implication on mechanics that active does.  Primary skills can be further divided into activated (or manual) and automatic.  Those terms specifically avoid confusion with passive.

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Re: Game Mechanics (i.e. The Expanded Rules) https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=11691.msg145162#msg145162
« Reply #23 on: August 23, 2010, 11:36:17 pm »
Further detail: Mutants

Any targeted creature can be Mutated into -- a random Mutant.

Mutants (and Fate Eggs) can become any creature except  Chimera, Fate Egg, Devonian Dragon, Scarab, and Immortal.

Mutants get the benefit of a single Chaos Power in addition to their normal stats, and they gain a random skill (I don't have the list handy) with an activation cost (if relevant) of 1 or 2 quanta of the creature's element.

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