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About us
Greetings, traveler of the interwebs! You have found the humble home of the Official Elements Forums! What does that mean, you ask? It means you have found the home of the Elements Community! What else could it mean? Wait, you're asking what the Official Elements Forums is? Ah, well, okay. If you really need to ask, let's look at a couple of definitionsfrom Wiktionary.org!
Official: Approved by authority. In this case, the authority is Zanzarino!
Elements: Short for ElementsTheGame!
Forums(internet): An Internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion. Also what you are currently looking at!
Community(internet): A group of people interacting by electronic means for social, professional, educational or other purposes. This first bit is the most important part!
In other words, you have found the internet community that plays ElementsTheGame. We're all here because we enjoy playing the game, so much so that we have decided to *gasp* socialize over it! There is a lot of organization at work here, and it can be a lot to take in, but we'll help break it into bite-size pieces below.
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So you want to play elements...
How does one begin playing elements? Easy! Just go to www.elementsthegame.com or http://www.kongregate.com/games/zanzarino/elements. Once there, register an account, and jump in!
Getting Started
- The community has created many guides over the years, and it is recommended that you begin looking through tutorials after your first couple of games!
- Still need help with your deck? Check out the Deck help section!
- Many community members are also eager to help! Check out the Mentor System, or simply pop up in chat with questions!
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The Forums
By now you may be thinking, Alright, so that's a nifty game, and there's some good beginner's guides. Got anything else to do here? I'm not going to be a noob forever! I'm glad you asked! There are many, many different activities going on here!
Staff Positions and the Council
The Council is the group of players that help forum administrators manage the forums. They are voted upon by members of the community, and their terms as council members last for approximately half a year. The most common task that Council members undertake is the appointment of Staff Members. Staff members are community members who manage certain subsections of the forums. This usually means hosting various events and competitions for community; examples of Staff members are Card Curators for Card Ideas and Art and Tournament Organizers for PvP Tournaments. More on those will be found below. Staff members generally hold their positions until they decide to resign or go inactive; the most common way to gain a position is to apply for it when the Council announces an opening. A full list of current staff members can be found here.
Articles, Tutorials, Farming studies
Which deck is the best at killing False Gods or the Arena? What is the most efficient way to earn and spend  ? What is the best way to measure quantum balance in a deck? What's the fastest way to start from scratch and end up with a fully upped deck? Do any of those questions catch your interest? Then help us find the answers! Participate in a farming study and collect statistics about decks! Make a tutorial on how best to beat a certain part of the game! Write theories about your favorite in-game aspect, and spread your views in an article!
Card Ideas&Art
Got an idea for a card? Maybe you're a decent artist, and would like to make some card-art? Interested in the theory of balancing card ideas? Then the Central Intelligence Agency Card Ideas and Art section is for you!
The bulk of the CI&A is dedicated to card ideas. Ideas go through three major stages: the crucible, forge, and armory. To enter the crucible, a Card Curator makes sure a card idea's thread meets all the formatting and standardized requirements for entry. Afterwards, cards are voted upon in biweekly rounds, seeing which cards are the most innovative, balanced, and well-designed. The cards that are chosen move on to the forge, while those that do not receive enough votes go to the crucible archive. This process is repeated in the Forge, determining which cards go to the Armory. Cards that enter the game are moved from the Armory to a special section, the Reliquary. Only a few cards have ever made it into the game.
Card creators can also choose to manage their card ideas by stringing them together in a series or by creating a portfolio thread.
Finally, there exists a tool to test prospective card ideas! Cygnia is a project made by a group of community members and Card Curators to test potential cards in an actual-game environment. If you would like to be involved in programming Cygnia, or just want to check it out, go to the link!
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/cygnia/
Events and Competitions
In addition to studies about the game and designing cards, the community routinely hosts a wide variety of events! Competition Organizers host competitions frequently, and in addition, there a host of artistic and pvp events that cycle regularly throughout the year.
Pvp
Pvp is one of the largest sections of the forums! Below are the most popular/common pvp events. In addition, other pvp events may be held at any point in time.
Tourneys
PvP Tournaments are held weekly every Saturday, and hosted by Tournament Organizers! The timezones rotate so that players in each timezone have a relatively fair distribution of available tournaments. In addition, tournaments often have special rulesets that change or limit the metagame to make it more interesting. Most tournaments are unupgraded, so most players can join in! Upgraded tournaments happen once a month. Winners get special reward codes that can be used in game, as well as a special award icon! Tournaments have their own special chatroom.
Leagues
PvP Leagues are held in seasons and managed by League Organizers. Each season lasts 3 months, and there are usually three seasons running in a year. Leagues are divided into Battle League, which is unupped, and Champion's League, which has no such restriction. League matches can happen at any time, and are open to all participants, barring those who were not active in the last season of Leagues. The top 6 players in each league season also get reward codes that can be used in the game and special award icons.
Major Events
In addition to the above, the community has three major events!
War
War is a massive months-long pvp event based around the elements! Managed by the Warmasters, Each team is led by an elemental Master(See trials, below), or by a General appointed by said master. The rules have varied over the years, but War has consistently been about proving whose element is the best! The Winners of War get special reward icons and codes that can be used in game. In addition, the Forums become Reigned by the winning Team, until the end of the next War. Finally, the Master of the winning Team gains the ability to challenge the current reigning GrandMaster for the title.
Brawl
Brawl is a 6 week long event based around creativity! Hosted by the Brawlmasters, teams create art, music, and stories around various elements themes and the community! Brawl is a chance to relax from the constant pressures of PVP competitions and express creativity!
Trials
Trials are the event where the Master of each element is chosen. Hosted by the Trials Organizers, each element has its own separate Trials, where applicants provide their credentials for being Master. Then, they duke it out with the other contestants in a massive pvp battle royale! Afterwards, the community votes on who they think would make the best master in each element, and then the two most promising applicants face each other in a final match to determine the winner, with the more popular applicant having an advantage in deckbuilding.
Off Topic/Forum Games
Finally, we're all people with a host of interests outside of just elements! Whether it's Forum Games or Philosophy or Italian, you can bet on there being a subsection for it!
So, excited to participate yet? Go register a forums account and introduce yourself! And again, Welcome!
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