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Scaredgirl · « **on:** April 01, 2011, 06:58:27 am »

April Fools' Joke

I was very busy at the time, so I didn't plan this prank for days. I literally had nothing when I woke up April the 1st.

Since War was just about to start, and people take it very seriously, I thought that it would be a good idea to use that. Canceling the event was a pretty logical choice, but it wasn't enough, so I had to include something else as well.

I knew that many hardcore PvP'ers were not too happy about the idea of merging War and Card Design War, so I thought it would be a good idea to use that angle and make a really silly event where you have all kinds of silly classes that had nothing to do with Elements or PvP, but which could seriously effect the outcome of War.

I made up some classes and wrote some really dumb rules. As I was typing them, I was pretty sure that nobody would be fooled, but luckily this is the internet. I mean come on guys.. "War Troll"? And how about "International Spy" that speaks in dead languages?

I received numerous PM's asking if I was serious or not. I also received PM's threatening to quit the event if the rules were not changed. Someone even threatened to quit the whole forums if War #4 happens.

It's annoying when people ruin the joke by posting "This is April Fools' guys" on the topic, like it somehow makes them cool and smart (free tip: it doesn't). For added security against this annoying phenomenon, I used the forum word filtering like this:

April -> Awesome
Fool -> News

Idea was that when people post..

Quote

This is April Fool(s)

...it comes out as..

Quote

This is Awesome News(s)

ORIGINAL TOPIC:

Read the announcement here (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,23757.0.html).

Sign up by posting your username and the class you want to be. Remember, you can only pick one class, and it cannot be changed later.

Previous War #3 Generals are automatically Generals in War #4 as well.