War is coming..

[tyranim]

i am here and i see, tho, if you wish to make it an official change, pm Gl1tch or Scaredgirl, they are the ones keeping the official record as to what side everyone is on

[Narya]

I wish to join the Battalion of Earth!

[mafidufa]

I'm not sure how it got mixed up, but I'm in  , not 

[Essence]

Are you sure you don't want to join the Acolytes, mafidufa?  We are happy to have you.  Already, our war council room is being prepared, and tactics are being discussed. 


Also, as regards good/evil balance, rather than swamp Water and Fire (as Fire is clearly the domain of Hell), I propose swapping Gravity and Earth. 

Earth brings Pulverizer, which is itself vulnerable to the predations of Theft and Detonation, and are not Earth, Life, and Water all allies in the greening of all Creation?

[Delreich]

Do you really want evil to have both discord and black hole? And earth's opposed element is air, so that'd be the more likely swap.

[teatime]

it hasn't been decided yet.

But whatever the system will be it won't require all the 60 players to be at one place at a specific time.

Thank you.

I will wait until more people sign up and then pick whichever good element is short on people.

[Essence]

Delriech, thanks for the Earth/Air catch.  I have no idea what I was thinking when I suggested Gravity.

That said, I still think that switch Earth for Air is better for balance, even if it does mean losing Flying Weapon.

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And I would like to encourage ScaredGirl to actually sit down, think about, and address all of these objections rather than simply ignoring them and playing dictator. 

"What if you just have a deck that's pillars and damage spells so that their permanent control doesn't do any good?" doesn't do crap for us when the only damage spell we have is Ice Lance, and they have both Fire Lance and Syphon Life -- the faster Lance and the Lance that keeps you alive -- in addition to all of the permanent control.

And those of us who say "Good can heal!", keep in mind: they have just as much access to SoG as we do -- only we can't take it away from them once played.  There's not much by way of healing that can keep up with that option, and 5/6ths of us can't possibly pack enough Light quanta to make Miracle a passable option.


I'm not complaining -- I'm more than willing to participate with the rules as given -- but that doesn't mean that they don't deserve to be examined, especially when there's a general consensus that they're not balanced.


Remember how you want things to be fun?  Fun is NOT "let's play a game where one team has 80% of the advantages and the other team has to rely largely on luck and surprise to get by".


I don't even know that I'm right on this count.  I could be overlooking something significant.  But if I am, I encourage you to enlighten me rather than just telling the Good team to buck up and play along regardless of what seems like come critical flaws in the structure of the event.
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And casthegamer, you never picked an element.  I'd like you to join the Acolytes.  Our war room is finished, and soon the forces of Good will receive their invitations to our chamber in the Deep.  Will you be there?

[Spielkind]

i will join the good side... but not sure which element... time or gravity... gimme gravity, its only his master 

[Demagog]

Very well put Essence. I'd iterate more to help out, but I'm studying and don't want to sit down for 30 minutes to help out the cause right now.

Also, casthegamer chose air... go back a few pages to find his post.

Lastly, fire is actually good in my opinion. If it weren't for fire, we'd still be in the stone age, or worse, extinct. Besides, SG doesn't believe in hell :-p

Edit: One more lastly :-p If SG doesn't balance anything according to your suggestions, I propose another suggestion: have evil players notify us exactly what cards will be in their deck before a match and give us ample time to create a counter for them. Extreme? Yes. But it is my opinion (which is the only one that matters :-p ) that the advantage evil has is already extreme.

[CelestrialDreamer]

i would like to apply for the position of a member of darkness legion, if the master wish to take me =]

[Jumbalumba]

Spielkind is accepted into the Battalion of Gravity (it was arranged/discussed privately and not just taken from the above message).

[ginfred]

i would like to join the  force of GRAVITY!! woot