[Duels] Main Topic/Index - READ THIS FIRST!

[EvaRia]

Welcome to Duels!

Duels is the center for all unofficial 1v1 PvP activity in Elements. The idea is simple: You either put up a profile and have people challenge you in your own thread, or you post in other people's profiles to challenge them. Anything goes. This is all about the casual side of Elements: the random fun you have on the side when not engaged in high level competition or simply want to have some fun.

1. Your Duel Profile

Your Duel Profile is a thread you keep in Off-Topic Discussions that you manage/maintain.
This is the place where you send out your challenges, and where other members challenge you.

Having a Profile allows ANY forum member to challenge you, or ANY forum member to receive your challenges, as well as being a good way to mark your history in Duels.
If you don't want to put up a profile though, you can simply accept/send challenges in existing profiles. This is merely a good way to be fully involved.


You may manage your profile however you want as long as you clearly mark it as YOUR Profile...

But here's how I recommend making it.

First is the header. This is what others will see even before they look at your thread. It's good to put some basic information here.

[Duel Profile] EvaRia (R) W-0 L-0 Streak-0

[Duel Profile] easily identifies this as a Duel Profile. Simple and easy.

Having my Forum Name here marks it as MY profile. You may also want to include your in game name if it's significantly different.

(R) stands for Receiving Challenges. This marks your status.

(R) if you are willing to play any kind of game with anybody.
(C) for Challenge Posted, means you have a challenge up and are waiting for someone to accept it.
(O) for Occupied means you are too busy to Duel right now.

Having your status posted means that other members know what kind of duel that you are looking for, and if you are too busy.


Finally, having your win/loss ratio and winstreak in your header lets other know how well you're doing.


Now for what goes into the profile itself.

The first thing is basic information.

Including things like your Forum Name/IGN, Time Zone, Score, Unupped/Upped preference, favourite Ruleset, Status, etc. that will make organizing a duel with you easier.

If you have a challenge up you will want to post all the rules to the challenge.


Some other things you may want to include are:

Match History

It's always cool to keep a record of past duels. You may also wish to include links to Results. Probably best kept in a spoiler.

Line-up.

If you have more than one challenge accepted, it may help to keep a lineup of outstanding Duels.

With that, your Duel Profile is ready!


MASTER LIST OF CURRENT PROFILES:

EvaRia (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,30147.0.html)
Rutarete (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,30151.0.html)

2. Challenges!

Challenging someone is very easy. If you have a profile, you post your Challenge in the OP and name your terms and conditions. Then, someone will come and accept it and you take it to PMs/Chat.

Alternately, you can find someone's profile who is currently receiving challenges and challenge them specifically. Then, in the same way, you will take it to PM/Chat and actually Duel!

3. Rulesets

Now, the beauty of Duels is that you can play ANY kind of match imaginable. Unlike PvP Events where you must follow certain rules and restrictions, here in Duels you make your own rules.

Here is the Standard Ruleset:

Best out X Matches
You may change your deck in between duels.
Deck restrictions may apply.


This is the standard way of dueling in Elements. But it's not the only way.

It's encouraged to get your creativity flowing and think up, and SHARE your own Special Rulesets.

A Special Ruleset qualifies as follows:

1) The win condition for a single duel is altered (Examples are Suicide, Deck-outs only, etc.)
2) The win condition for the Entire match is altered (Anything not best out of X).
3) There are factors that specifically restrict your NEXT deck. (General restrictions will affect all decks in the duel. If it only affects one deck or it changes, than it is a Special Ruleset).

If you have an idea for a Ruleset, post it HERE:

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,30145.0.html

4. Battle Results

While not necessary, if you had a particularly good duel and want to keep record with it, you may wish to record it for the sake of posterity.

If you wish to do so, post your decks and match summaries HERE:

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,30146.0.html

That's all there is to it, Have Fun!

[Scaredgirl]

Are you planning on merging those other topics here? Having only one topic is not optimal but it should work if organized correctly. Whatever happens, some kind of action is probably needed in order to test this thing out. Without any actual testing, it cannot really go anywhere.

The main issue is of course the fact that Off-Topic is not the best place for this but we don't really have a better alternative.

[EvaRia]

Well, the idea of having Duels in the first place was so that we would have a place to test everything ^^;.

Sorry for being a pain, but I really want to see if it would be able to work, and as long as it gets some support should be fine if we just move everything to...

Oh, you got rid of the empty section =X

Well, it's up to you ultimately how and if you want to give it a whirl, but I posted how I imagine it to work.

In my mind it just needs
1) a place (If you put up the Duels board again it should be fine) and
2) Support from members (There's no meaning if nobody wishes to participate).

I know you're generally against it, but since it's practically automated I don't see us losing anything in trying, and if people like it it really would be a nice alternative method of arranging 1v1.

But again, I can't do anything without some form of permission from you so you can do whatever.

I'll just say that if it comes to not having enough time, I'll be more than willing to do all the work myself.

[Scaredgirl]

Well, the idea of having Duels in the first place was so that we would have a place to test everything ^^;.

Sorry for being a pain, but I really want to see if it would be able to work, and as long as it gets some support should be fine if we just move everything to...

Oh, you got rid of the empty section =X

Well, it's up to you ultimately how and if you want to give it a whirl, but I posted how I imagine it to work.

In my mind it just needs
1) a place (If you put up the Duels board again it should be fine) and
2) Support from members (There's no meaning if nobody wishes to participate).

I know you're generally against it, but since it's practically automated I don't see us losing anything in trying, and if people like it it really would be a nice alternative method of arranging 1v1.

But again, I can't do anything without some form of permission from you so you can do whatever.

I'll just say that if it comes to not having enough time, I'll be more than willing to do all the work myself.

Time is not an issue. Like I said in that other topic, Events section is reserved for official events with clear rules, scoring, winners, rewards icons and codes, etc. This event does not go into that category because it's so casual it would basically be just a place people use to take notes.

But if something like that would turn out to be highly popular, then we might be able to find a place for it somewhere. However that doesn't seem to be the case, at least not in its current format. If the event (as only one topic) generates very little interest, I doubt having its own forum section would make a big difference because technically speaking, this thing could easily be done in one topic only.