Guest posts by FrozenFlame

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Paradox / New God: Paradox

« on: January 25, 2010, 01:23:43 am »

It uses Time mark and aether pillar, has deja vu, hourglass, and ray of light.
No idea on its strategy: it bugged to me right at the begin of game, he never used anything else

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General Discussion / Re: Elements Statistics

« on: January 25, 2010, 12:54:26 am »

Replaced Average Cards Won for Cards Won (Total) since it didn't seem to make much sense, we end up not knowing much knowing the "average" (0-3).

Added False God "Paradox"; let me know if more new False Gods are present, i missed that

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General Discussion / Re: Logon Screen Music - do you actually like it??

« on: January 24, 2010, 05:30:50 pm »

Zanz needs to buy right's for this song

+1

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Rainbow Decks / Re: PuppyChow's FG Rainbow

« on: January 24, 2010, 01:22:34 am »

ahah
Thanks for the referrence PuppyChow ;P

Here's mine (http://elementsstatistics.comxa.com/getstatistics.php?dv=2671534917).
Changes made to it, as i said earlier:

Take Pulveriser out => Insert Gravity Shield.
(Somehow it doesn't seem that usefull for me, Pulveriser).

That's all.

ps.: EM against Rainbow... LEGIT!
He decked out 3-4 turns after using Miracle.Proof .

edit:
By the way, the deck-out against Seism was because someone ate my quantum towers so i couldn't make much use of anything.. including eternity. lawl. I find Seism being the hardest FG after Rainbow, or even hardest, having 7 towers in deck. he can just afford to use one earthquake per tower so...

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Rainbow Decks / Re: ivalmian's Rainbow SpeedDeck (kills almost all FG with elem mastery)

« on: January 24, 2010, 01:14:38 am »

(no idea what I lost too, at 22 life at the beginning of his turn I was suddenly dead)

He used a fireball on you with lots of fire quantum. Happens to me ocasionally. Next time you'll know ;p

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General Discussion / Re: Elements Statistics

« on: January 23, 2010, 10:13:57 pm »

It looks great for both of us! URL not showing is not a problem at all.
Thank you  ;P

Deck Renaming functionalitty was added. Check 'Decks' menu

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Average Cards Left by the end statistics added.
Note that this data will not be required to insert: Leaving the field empty will assume you don't want to keep track on that and insert "0 Cards Left on deck".

If for some reason you want to set the average cards left on deck to a specific value that you roughly estimate, pm me with your nickname, name of deck, and nr of cards left on deck you wish.
Of course, this will not be precise since no data about that was collected until now.

On a side note, we're also changing game version to 1.18 soon (after adding yet another feature) in Elements Statistics, and as mentioned earlier, that will cause for statistics to be displayed separately, they won't get mixed, so if your table seems suddenly empty its just normal.
You will be able to check old statistics by selecting the version you wish to check at, right near where you choose which deck you want to check out.

Version changed to 1.18.
Number of cards won statistics added (optional, same rules apply here than for cards left on deck).

You should all be inserting battles on a new table already. As mentioned earlier, previous data was not deleted and still is accessible to check it out.

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General Discussion / Re: Elements Statistics

« on: January 23, 2010, 04:47:43 pm »

Deck renaming feature will probably be added later today.


Note: Statistics depend on deck and version. This is due to new versions bringing new levels of AI and/or cards, possibly even boosting or nerfing existing cards.
This means that when a new version comes out, (as it might when Nymphs are released), statistics start being saved from zero.

Old statistics will be kept and able to be checked, but it will not be possible to add any statistics to the old version*

When you check any deck's statistics (http://elementsstatistics.comxa.com/getstatistics.php?dv=2757956304) you will see the correspondent version on top of the statistics. That's what it is about.



*The alternate option to implement this would leave that for the players to handle :
"Oh a new version is out. Ok then even though this is the exact same deck i'm going to delete it and re-create it, or create a new one, so the statistics won't contain battles from the 2 different versions"


Please let us know your opinion about that, if you would like better the "automated" version or the alternative version, or yet another suggestion you might have 

Thank you in advance,
~FrozenFlame & Jonybat

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General Discussion / Re: Elements Statistics

« on: January 23, 2010, 01:35:51 am »

Glad you liked I also did. The author did a very nice job indeed.

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Deck names can now be up to 30 characters, dots and hyphens are now accepted also. I realised how they could be short heh.
It's different when we make and when we use "Hum afterall 20 characters ain't that large..."
No other updates for now. We will soon add a "rename deck" option so don't throw your statistics down the water just to get a nicer name or so

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Rainbow Decks / Re: PuppyChow's FG Rainbow

« on: January 22, 2010, 09:52:03 pm »

After a quick jump to ivalman's versions and an attempt to make my own version, i came back to Puppy's version. Not saying this is better, i just never get statistics any close to other players, i guess i still need to learn, but i seem to go along with this one better:)

I removed the previous changes (feral bond (for EM) and time tower (to help preventing deck out)), thinking its more important to win than to EM; and the only change i have made to PuppyChow's version, i must say i am trully enjoying => Replacing pulveriser by a gravity shield. It costs only 3 quantum from otyugh, it blocks roughly everything that permafrost doesn't block (kinda); plus i don't believe pulveriser to be that usefull against FGs. Maybe ocasionally, like for instance, when FQ/Elidnis have up to 10 feral bonds in game, to make them recover slower .. and slower...
Other than that i hardly give it any use.

On the other hand, gravity shield can be usefull against some of the gods, elidnis (no permanent control!) with his forest things (+2/+2), with his dragons, won't bother much after having the shield. the only dangerous thing about Elidnis after having the shield on table is if he uses quintessence on one of those water creatures that poison us when hit (lol.. i'm sorry i don't know all cards names xD).
It seems to be, you know, "which god is this one? oh ok. Gravity/Permafrost shield is almost useless, lets draw cards till the other one"

So far having a win rate of 75% => 8 battles only though. Statistics (http://elementsstatistics.comxa.com/getstatistics.php?dv=2671534917) here. (I haven't been playing too much though, probably won't go to high numbers anytime soon)

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General Discussion / Re: Elements Statistics

« on: January 21, 2010, 11:54:56 pm »

Sorting statistics table feature added!

In statistics (the page where you can add battles at), if you load another deck's statistics, the newly loaded table will not be able to be sorted. This issue is (obviously) known, and we have already located the problem. However, by this time, we have no knowledge to fix it, as we are not too used to Object Oriented Programming*. We could use some javascript expert to help us out here if any is around
Anyway, as for now we plan to just keep improving the website and not bother about that bug too much, when the time comes we might study javascript to learn how to use it correctly to fix this bug. (*This is due to the fact we used an already made script to sort tables: Why reinvent the wheel? Credits not taken from true owner  )

If you want to see any deck's statistics sorted in any non-default order, you can always grab the direct url listed at that same page and use it, you will be able to sort the statistics as you wish there.

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General Discussion / Re: I need a coder who can tell me how I can get perfect non-screenshot card images

« on: January 21, 2010, 11:44:03 pm »

I'm no expert of any type and even less when it comes to flash applications, i'm quite sure though, that the .pngs, .jpgs, whatever be, already exist, and flash loads them.

Maybe decompiling a .swf allows to get some of the images but catching the .swf at any time probably gets the login part, not the animations you're actually seeing it when you save it in your computer, which brings us to the problem "images not loaded".

So i guess you would have to ask zanzarino to send you the image files.

Note: Again i could be wrong. Don't put your hands on fire for what i said ;x I "iz" a learner

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Rainbow Decks / Re: ivalmian's Rainbow SpeedDeck (kills almost all FG with elem mastery)

« on: January 21, 2010, 04:48:15 pm »

I'm currently testing last deck, the Jangoo's version (unupped eternities, other than that the very same deck), and i'm liking it. Not sure wether deck to use, the other version i was using (PuppyChow's) seemed safer to play for me, but this one has more variety. I'll keep testing it for a while