Guest posts by Chromatophore

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Tournament Archive / Re: Eastern Tournament - July 9th - Great Balls of Lightning - Upgraded

« on: July 08, 2011, 02:17:05 am »

Edit: Aww never mind. On my timezone it's at 2am and I have to be up early on Saturday.

There is another tournament (same theme) 12 hours later.
Western Tournament (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,28354.0/topicseen.html)

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Game Suggestions and Feedback / Re: Upgrading Pillars

« on: July 07, 2011, 12:29:32 pm »

I'm not sure why pillar upgrades are considered less powerful than other upgrades.  Some cards are better to upgrade, but many have -1 cost which is the same as a pillar.  And since a pillar is more often going to be played first, a pillar upgrade is actually stronger.  You really don't need multiple upgrades for it to be effective.  You just need to draw the upgraded one (same chance as for any card you upgrade).

Plus pillars are extremely flexible.  Any pillar will get used in more decks than most other cards.

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Patch Notes and Development News / Re: Elements 1.28x

« on: July 07, 2011, 01:45:40 am »

What's the x stand for? (In the title of the thread)

the next digit, 1.281 1.282 and so on

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Humor / Re: Say This "x" Times Fast!

« on: July 06, 2011, 10:09:04 pm »

The sixth sheik's sixth quinted momentumed adrenalined flying staff's sick.

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General Discussion / Re: Ask a simple question, get a simple answer

« on: July 06, 2011, 07:44:46 pm »

Is there a real reason the above can't be mutant products?

Just guesses but maybe immortal and devonian dragon are "older than time itself" and so can't come about through random genetic resequencing.

Scarab i guess is manufactured?  (by pharaohs??... like i said only guesses  )

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Game Suggestions and Feedback / Re: Upgrading Pillars

« on: July 06, 2011, 03:46:47 pm »

I also have a REAL WORK and probably I am more busy than you during the day.
I am an Industrial Engineer and work 10h per day and also am engaged (which takes some time of the day also ).
What I want to say is that it's not only the time you spent but the way you spent your time.

Wow way to imply that your fiance/e is work.  You better hope s/he doesn't read this......

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Issue Archive / Re: Visual(?) bugs in the arena, many at once

« on: July 06, 2011, 01:47:53 pm »

For more information, see
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,28307.0/topicseen.html (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,28307.0/topicseen.html)

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Card Ideas and Art / Re: Druid's Pillar | Druid's Tower

« on: July 06, 2011, 01:04:10 pm »

I'm still working on this.  Right now the most attractive options for me are (i use 1 2 ... 9 A B C for the twelve elements):
Option 1: (this is what we have been looking at before)
1 2 3 4 5 6
4 5 6 7 8 9
7 8 9 A B C
A B C 1 2 3

Option 2: (same as option 1 but add two more pillars for extra versatility)
1 2 3 4 5 6
4 5 6 7 8 9
7 8 9 A B C
A B C 1 2 3
1 3 5 7 9 B
2 4 6 8 A C

Option 3: (similar to option 1's "cyclical overlap" style but with 6 pillars instead of 4)
1 2 3 4 5 6
3 4 5 6 7 8
5 6 7 8 9 A
7 8 9 A B C
9 A B C 1 2
B C 1 2 3 4

Option 4: (again cyclical overlap but with 12 pillars)
1 2 3 4 5 6
2 3 4 5 6 7
...
B C 1 2 3 4
C 1 2 3 4 5

 I'm still investigating other options but these are the front-runners for me right now.  I plan to do a more general analysis before i commit to any one recommendation, but this may take some time so i thought i'd just give a quick update.  All comments are invited (as always).

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Game Suggestions and Feedback / Re: Daily Quests

« on: July 06, 2011, 12:55:07 pm »

Get an elemental mastery against a player in PVP1.
Beat the CPU using no towers or pillars.

These can hardly be called quests.  Most vets (and probably most newbies also) could finish both of these faster than they could wash the dishes or take out the trash.

I can see how grinding half-bloods could be a bit boring, but i think the quest would be fun in that you would get to learn a bit more about halfbloods and what deck would work well to beat one with a given name.

Hopefully any daily quests will change from day to day, so we won't have the same one each day (my opinion maybe others would disagree).

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Patch Notes and Development News / Re: AI improvements

« on: July 06, 2011, 12:41:59 pm »

Maybe far far down the road (in hundreds of years even) we could look forward to an a.i. that keeps a database of commonly used player strategies and uses some sort of probablistic mechanism to adjust its play based on the cards it has seen.  (I.e. an a.i. that makes educated guesses about what the human's strategy is and reacts to it).

A practical (though still arduous) step towards this goal would be an a.i. that recognizes what cards are in its deck and plays accordingly, waiting for combinations and so on.  It would not be necessary (even if it would be nice) for the a.i. to actually analyze its deck.  Instead (at least at first), each deck could come with its own a.i. file that tells it how to play.  For example, a deck whose success is predicated on quinting its only creature could demand that the a.i. not play the creature without quintessence in hand and sufficient quanta.

Ambitious?  Certainly.  But i think we can set our sights on the horizon and aim high.

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General Discussion / Re: Ask a simple question, get a simple answer

« on: July 06, 2011, 07:58:32 am »

Just some of them, and I would never call it 'easy'. How many games would you need to get 12 of each rare avaliable on AI3? 20k games?

No idea but 1/1000000000000 chance seems a bit harsh.

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Forum Archive / Re: RARE CARD FARMS - updated daily by the community!

« on: July 06, 2011, 06:56:00 am »

With the new update, this topic(actually, this section, I guess) should be locked.

and archived?