1) It is not your place to decide that a rule decided upon by the organizers is "unacceptable."
Why not? We're part of the community too. Doesn't our opinion matter?
Yes of course it matters! A lot actually because this is a fairly new game that's still undergoing major development!
But that doesn't mean that you have the right to ignore rules just because you don't like them. When you sign up to play a game, you sign up to follow the rules. There was never any guarantee that event cards would be perfectly balanced. If you feel like that card was so incredibly unbalanced that you don't want to play anymore, then that's your choice, but disrupting the game for everyone else is not a choice that you have and in doing so you are breaking the agreement you made to follow the rules of the game.
Nobody ever said they wouldn't play. We were just agreeing that we would ignore the unbalanced event cards.
2) You have no recourse that is "within the rules." What you incited was quite outside of the rules. In normal circumstances you would be banned from the event. Understandably so.
Deciding as a group to ignore the event cards is perfectly well within the rules. Show me where in the rules it says that it isn't.
There is no law in America that says I can't eat my neighbor's car. But if I did eat my neighbor's car I would be arrested.
Actually, that would be theft and there are laws against that.
Some rules are understood. There is no rule against you deciding not to take an advantage. If you wanted to build a deck with no upped cards, that's totally fine. However, when you start organizing a boycott that involves a single other player, or when you advertise that you are not going to use upped cards as an attempt to convince others to do so, you are breaking the rules. Specifically you are breaking the obvious (even if not written) rule that event cards are meant to have an effect on the game. Think about it this way: If you tried to convince every Elements player not to use Otyughs, you would be breaking the rules. Maybe it's a "rule of conduct" but it's a rule nonetheless, and it's a good enough reason to kick you out of the community in most cases.
I would not be breaking the rules if I told everyone not to use Otyughs if I thought they were unbalanced. It's just that everyone would laugh at me then ignore me.
Also, you aren't allowed to make up rules then say that people have to follow them. We didn't want the unbalanced event cards, so we were agreeing not to use them.
3) Your feeling that the event is somehow "unfair" is actually less important than continuing to act in an appropriate fashion. Stirring up "rebellion" of any kind is not the latter at all in any context.
Our decision to ignore the event cards is acceptable, so this point is irrelevant.
Again, you could ignore what you want, that is your decision. However, organizing a boycott is not acceptable at all. By definition! A boycott can only happen if it's illegal!
Xinef covered this one.
4) This has nothing to do with civil rights and there is no righteousness on your side. Only self-importance and disrespect for the organizers. You are not a member of an oppressed mass; you are a gamer who is given the privilege of many hours of someone else's time to be here in this event. Rather than oppressing you, the organizers here actively engage the community for its input -- not because they have to but because they want to give as much to the community as they can. You are not fighting for something "greater." You are not Gandhi, you are not Rosa Parks. You are a kid playing an internet game. And all you are doing is screwing up a community event.
The only difference is a vast one in scale. And if the community thinks that the event card screws up the community event, doesn't that matter?
Let me give you an example of a another event card that would be unfair if it were instituted and would receive an even bigger backlash.
Will of the Gods- This round the victor of all matches is determined by a coin flip.
There is a major difference that has nothing to do with scale. The concerns of the civil rights movement have to do with human rights, decency and fairness. The concerns of whether or not an event card is balanced in Elements War has nothing to do with human rights, decency or fairness. It is not "unfair" for a card to be unbalanced. It is within the rules of the game. Something "unfair" would be outside of the rules of the game, like that the winner of a battle has to pay SG $10 or something.
It is unfair for a card to be unbalanced, at least to this extent.
fair- free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice:
They seem pretty dang biased to me.
