War #10 - Announcements

[mathman101]

War #10 - Announcements


Announcements will come as needed.

[mathman101]

This is a rough timeline of what we are aiming for with each of our deadlines and major portions of War.

Date	Event
July 24	War Applications Begin
~August 7	Application Time Closes / Blind Bidding Begins
~August 8	Open Bidding Begins
~August 11	Open Bidding Ends / Overtime Begins
~August 17	Overtime Ends / Vault Building Begins
~August 29/30	Vault Building Ends / Round 1 Begins
Rounds each 1 week long.......	(maybe the odd extension if needed due to holidays)
~November ??	War Ends

This timetable is based off everything going smoothly as planned (enough Apps at start of Auction time, and assuming 6 days for overtime). if these are not met, we may delay Round 1 start by up to 1 week, but no more than a week. We would like to start Deckbuilding Phases on a Monday or Tuesday, so that the majority of the Dueling Phase will be on the weekend.

[mathman101]

Blind Bidding has begun!



Generals please send your bids to Both Warmasters.

[mathman101]

Open Auction has begun!

Overtime has Begun!

[Physsion]

I've made a significant rule change regarding the deck/vault discards.

There was some concern regarding the large number of discards coming directly from the vault, combined with a handful of extremely cheap cards in the market. To prevent teams from exploiting this and buying very large numbers of 10-cost cards to completely mitigate their vault discard penalties, I've changed the deck/vault discard model, and raised the minimum price of cards in the market to 30 points.

The previous discard model for losses:

Round	From Deck	From Vault	Total Discards
1	0	5	5
2	4	6	10
3	8	7	15
4+	12	8	20

This has been changed to:

Round	From Deck	From Vault	Total Discards
1	5	0	5
2	8	2	10
3	11	4	15
4+	14	6	20

I'm sorry for posting this so close to the beginning of War, but I really feel like this would have had a negative impact on the event if left unchanged. This is something I should have noticed quite some time ago, but thankfully it was brought to my attention today.

Thanks for your patience, everyone. Good luck and have fun!

[mathman101]

Vault Building Begins!

You have All Vaults are Final, no more changes! to build your Vault.


Please be patient while we distribute the individual Vault tools to each team and grant access to all the team members.

[Physsion]

Vault building tools have now been posted in each team's secret section.

Please post any problems or concerns in this thread.

[Physsion]

Team points for vault building are as follows.

  - 29,490
  - 28,800
  - 28,630
  - 28,390
  - 28,321
  - 28,300
  - 28,140
  - 28,000
  - 27,920
  - 27,810
  - 27,765
  - 27,710

[Physsion]

Sadly, Avenger has had to withdraw from War.

As the event has not started yet, Team Earth will be refunded 90% of the points spent on him in the auction, and will be allowed to bid on one new player at minimum price as a replacement.

If anyone has any issues with this decision, please raise them in the feedback thread here: http://elementscommunity.org/forum/war/war-10-suggestions-and-feedback/

[Physsion]

Ryli has taken the place of Avenger on team Earth. Points have been refunded for team Earth's vaultbuilding.

[Physsion]

Round 1 begins!

Vault tools have been distributed to each team (found in secret sections.) Please report any problems to me immediately.

The Standings board is now live. You can see it here.

[Physsion]

Preparation tabs in each team's vault tool are not currently working properly - upgrades calculators aren't functioning as they should. I'll try to have this fixed within the next few hours so it doesn't get in the way of deckbuilding.