Spoiler for Hidden:
Change 6:
Newbie PvP League & Newbie Weekly Tournament.
Newbie PvP League would be a league just for newbs. It is going to act like a normal PvP League, with the following differences:
* Only cards obtainable at the bazaar can be used. This means no upgraded, rare or ultra-rare cards.
* Score of 20,000 or LESS.
* Some cards may be banned in certain cases. If, for example, Ghostmare becomes overused, then GotP or Nightmare may be banned (just an extreme example).
Newbie Weekly Tournament will be like the normal Weekly Tournament, but with the following newbie-friendly differences:
* Only cards obtainable at the bazaar can be used. This means no upgraded, rare or ultra-rare cards.
* Score of 20,000 or LESS.
* An "upgraded" version of this tournament will occur after 5 weeks of normal unupgraded versions (like the normal Weekly Tournament). However, instead of allowing a full arsenal or upgrades, only up to 3 upgraded cards can be used at max and only a single rare/ultra-rare card (no matter if the rare/ultra-rare is upped or unupped).
The above are going to allow a newbie-friendly league and weekly tournament where only low-score, non-veteran players can participate, reducing experience and grinding to a minium.
Positives: More leagues & tournaments, more newbie friendly events.
Negatives: More work for League & Tournament organizers, it may be abused by people who are veterans but join the tournies/leagues as fake noobs and ruin the event.
We've seen many ideas lately for Newbie Tournaments. This one blew me away. +rep
And a big +rep to Pella, because it needs "big balls" to support an opponent at Brawl and to openly +rep him/her, because you slightly advertise him/her that way.
About my suggestion, I already know the
negative aspects of it and I've posted it along with the
positive ones. I don't claim there won't be any veteran players joining them through the back door but you can never neutralize every single exploit or any skill difference. There are noobs who play EtG for years, noobs who keep their scores low due to FG farming, fake noobs who purposely lose against AI1 to keep their level low, CCG experts who may play EtG for a few days but understand it very deeply as well as noobs who recently found the game and its forums but have never played a card game before and lack the slightest strategical thinking.
You can't prevent all those from joining a Newbie Tournament or League even if you limit score/posts by all means possible. However, you should take measures to prevent it as much as possible because of the following:
1)
Psychological reasons. There are people who have a shy personality despite their skill. A PvP event who includes "Newbie" in its name attracts these people and lets them 'break the ice' that seperates them from the rest of the community.
2)
Maximized secutiry. A security system is never perfect; does that means we have to completely discard any security systems we already have or could purchase? Sure, we may limit posts, score, activity etc. and still people to join with alternative accounts but would it be better if any veteran could join a Newbie-friendly event without restrictions? If yes, then we should discard any rules at any event, because 'any noob can spam 15 low-content post', 'any person who wants to cheat will cheat and never get caught anyway' and so 'why do we bother?'. I hope everyone here gets what I mean.
Disclaimer: The truth is I am not the first one who talked about neither Newbie Weekly Tournies or Newbie Leagues. I am quite sure this stuff has been suggested before. However, they lacked shape; those suggestions were vague and disorganised and, thanks to Forum Brawl, I was motivated to mix them up with my ideas and give them a proper format.
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