Elements 1.4

[Higurashi]

No, that's not at all what it says. It says mochi media is shutting down and the the site owner has to talk to the game developer about continued hosting of the game. The site owner is the same person as the game dev, so not much negotiating to do there. Mochi media is only the ad provider, so zanz will simply find another.

[maxy123]

Perfect, I got scared for a bit.

[vrt]

Unpopular opinion: If Zanz actually used Elements as a potential source of revenue, he might have a reason to do anything with it more than a couple times a year, and this game and community might not be in the pathetic lull it's in now.

The same goes for the artwork, for the record.

[ButtercupSaiyan]

I want to be like Dora Explorer and find the map update announcement waiting for me in the forums...

[Rastafla]

SEVERE BUG IN DEVELOPMENT version.
The games is in an infinite loop and keeps flashing this msg and the game is locked. It doesnt accept input from mouse or keyboard.





How it happened.
I started out as darkness and proceeded to do quests after quest. While I was going up to 500 score I happened to be clearing the chroma area, with 498 gold i entered the last elemental on screen and I killed it and arrived at this msg of "Elite elemental arrived" and no gold gain from last fight and instead got this infinite msg bug. It keeps flashing and fading out.

[dawn to dusk]

found a bug

for some reason, the life starting place was taken over and turned into nobody's land. i went to the next life area and back to where the life palace should have been but it was overrun by time elementals. seems to be a thing of chance though


may be an interesting way to gain reputation actually

[ishner]

SEVERE BUG IN DEVELOPMENT version.
The games is in an infinite loop and keeps flashing this msg and the game is locked. It doesnt accept input from mouse or keyboard.

i confirm this bug.
to replicate stay in the central hex (the one with the  palace) and repeatedly kill the enimeys there.
when they are all dead the game crashes.

[OdinVanguard]

well... good to know this is a known bug and it isn't just my own computer throwing a hissy fit. I've seen it too, although it seems to only happen after the game has been running for a long time.

[eaglgenes101]

Any more word from Zanz?
And another pie-in-space idea: what if we could see other real-life players on our map and possibly interact with them?

[hypnotank]

I made a deck called 'The coin toss' it basically shows the unfair ness of some cards, with 5 hp if you can put a creature out on turn 1 you win, else Silence will silence you for the rest of the game. With 900 hp it would be unbeatable, just putting it out there that Silence is really way to powerful, especially saying you can have it in like a 15 card deck.

[OdinVanguard]

I made a deck called 'The coin toss' it basically shows the unfair ness of some cards, with 5 hp if you can put a creature out on turn 1 you win, else Silence will silence you for the rest of the game. With 900 hp it would be unbeatable, just putting it out there that Silence is really way to powerful, especially saying you can have it in like a 15 card deck.

Players may only have 6 of a given card in a deck...
So, in regular PvP, silence is not imbalanced.

With 900 hp, there would be a lot of decks that would be virtually unbeatable. But, you shouldn't judge a card's balance based on the NPC challenge decks that can be created with it.

NPCs that are difficult or even nearly impossilbe to beat are not necessarily a bad thing. It gives players a way to create and submit challenge ideas for others to try and overcome. As long as decks like that are used in special situations (e.g. questlines, world events, easter eggs) they can be quite fun.

It all comes down to how all these submitted NPC ideas end up getting used and distributed once v1.4 is released.

Arena decks could be a problem, however, if they are allowed to ramp up to 3x draw and over 200 HPs. In that case, silence would be badly imbalanced and could disrupt the arena meta-game pretty badly. I think that line of discussion may be better suited to other areas of the forum (card balance or arena related boards).

[MasN]

AI is hard coded to not make long silence chains.