Kapo

Happy new year, eagerly awaiting the patch 😃

🔔 The bells are ringing 🔔 Last day to get your entry in, less than 4 hours to go!

Maybe he tried to output a Worldbreaker Promo? :-]

looks like Grinder was skipping leg AND arm days 😄

Fellow Skylords, I have recieved a lot of entries! Here some important pointers: * If you posted your entry just here on the forum thread, this DOES NOT count as an submission - those are ment to be sent via a DM. It is enough to drop me a note "please take my entry from the forums", then I collect it from here. * Some of you forgot to use the template. I dopped you a note with a copy of it, to complete your submissions. * Only 3 days to go! 😃 Also, at this point I collected all valid submissions that I recieved until now. If everything worked out properly, you should have recieved a message that looks something like this: As soon as the number of submissions crosses a certain threshold, its easy to overlook an entry. If you didnt recieve such a message, your submission could have been lost in the Inter-Nether. Please contact me, so we get this done in time 😃

Translators dont fully join the team and are not a GM.

Wowsies 👀

Its still a bug as you mentioned, but on the user side its usually good to stay away from the cave as far as possible, it is kinda known that lingering units may cause this bug

As long as you dont squeeze two completly different cards into one card that way, affinities should be allright Edit: also, dont forget to use the template 😉

Yeah, you should, but I'm really hyped that people want to share what they come up with ... 😃

you can charge through the spellblock towers instead of the usual "I hit the spawner" the the horn

I just sent out all remaining prices. This concludes all business concerning the Crappy Community Contest #9.

that would be really grand! 🤩

We already had CCCs where one of the content creators made videos about the best entries, I'm still hoping that somebody analyzes the amazing RadicalX run. It's just not part of the format itself, and one of the benefits is that you guys get Rankings and Prizes super-snappy.

very split picture Oo

Welcome to the Official Anniversary Card Design Contest! THE CONTEST HAS ENDED. To see all winning entries, CLICK HERE Anniversaries are special opportunities – and we like to take this head-on and really show that Skylords Reborn is for the Community, by the Community! A contest like this has often been suggested, now is the time to ask you for your card development ideas. In this contest, you are called to submit your idea for a new card, which will be presented to high-ranking jurors for judgement. The jurors for this will be the designers @Hirooo, @RadicalX and @WindHunter – for those who don't know, these are the guys who are calling the shots in the SR Team about what makes the cut for new content. Important note: Of course, there is no obligation for the SR Team to make any entry into a real card. But, a good idea that really fits into the game has a lot of power, and your idea will be heard, seen and judged anonymously and without any barrier of entry. The contest starts with the reveal of this post and ends on the 1st of January 2023, 23:59 CET. Submit your entry through Discord (DM to Kapo#0116) or the Skylords Forum (DM to @Kapo). I will anonymize the entries, present them to the jury, and after a voting phase the winners will be revealed. Rules: Your idea must be a new card (NOT a rework of an already existing card or a Promo card) Units and buildings must be fitting for an already existing model (this is a technical limitation, but re-texturing can do wonders) Unfortunately, we also can't allow for Fire/Frost or Rainbow-cards (or any other outside the known factions, due to technical limitations) You are asked to create the fully upgraded version (see below: Things you don't need to add) By entering, you are giving away your card idea with permission to modify it – the final design may differ from your submission here You are limited to a maximum of TWO entries - if you win on both, you will recieve the higher price You are asked to use the following template: Things you don't need to add: Rarity Upgrade Levels (submit a fully upgraded design) Number of Charges Artwork for the card At the end of the contest, we may make a compilation of the entries – by participating, you automatically agree to be included in that. Suggestions: In preparation for this contest, we asked the jurors to drop some hints on what is needed for a good design. You might not want to create a new super-powerful card, but a card that's interesting. Maybe it fills a special niche case in a faction (like Burning Spears), or it is special, or meme-worthy (like Easter Egg). Balance is important! The best cards are useful, fill essential roles, and are not overpowered. If you design a T1 or T2 card, think about PvP implications. Fit the card to the faction: Think about the intentional strengths and weaknesses of each faction. Potentially, you see an extremely missing card in an arsenal, but that could be part of that faction's design. Also, breaking core rules of the game requires a very, very, very good reason. For both topics, see: Design Philosophy Document. You are allowed to submit a legendary (neutral) card, but please note those are much harder to design and balance properly. You may present some optical aid to the jurors: On https://smj.cards/creator you can easily create your own card-mockup: Voting and Prize Tiers: PLATINUM TIER Platinum tier are creations that REALLY could be considered to be added to the game. They must not be all-around perfect, since someone who is not on the SR team cannot know about every problem faced when implementing cards. Platinum entries are cool, captivating and would be a great addition to the game. Platinum tier winners will win a low-grade promo of choice (e.g., Fallen Skyelf, Lyrish Knight or Rogan Kayle) or Ultra-Rare of choice of similar value (Infect, Forest Elder etc.). Should your card some day make it into the game, you will get it for your own collection. GOLD TIER Gold tier suggestions are cool and interesting suggestions, but are lacking significantly in ONE (but only one!) way: Unbalanced design with no way to repair that Clearly impossible to implement Too niche to be worth the implementation Not fitting for any faction or into the game Not really a fitting, existing model in the game etc. Gold tier winners will win a Booster, accompanied by an (good) Rare or (medium) Ultra Rare card. SILVER TIER Silver Tier suggestions are solid suggestions, but are lacking in more than one way to make it into the game. For examples of what could cause issues, see the mentioned list above. Silver tier winners will win a Booster. We are looking forward to your designs! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. Best regards, Skylords Reborn Team

Due to the high number of participants, I decided to wait a day to send out the prices to be sure there are no objections because I overlooked a updated entry or something. Random prizes and the Newcomer Card Pool will be sent out today. Update: Sent out as promised, except some Evil Eyes and some Skylords had their mailbox full. Update 2: Well of course I overlooked an entry, even one in the top20. 😞 Sorry @DemonRJ

Click Calender at the top 😄 https://forum.skylords.eu/index.php?/calendar/

Hello again Skylords, Skyladies and other Skybeings; it's time to announce the winners! First of all, I’d like to thank everyone for making the Crappy Community Contest #9 happen – no matter in what way: developing the idea, making and helping with the map, participation, sponsoring prizes, spreading the word or helping me to organize it. In total, we reached a total number of 103 participants – thanks to the Skylords Team for sponsoring the code: CCC9-BOWA-NDST-RING Here are the top ranked Skylords of the CCC #9 (all difficulty 4): 1st place 06:53 RadicalX 2nd place 08:02 Octochicken 3rd place 08:10 Dolewan 4rd place 08:13 Volin 5th place 08:26 ElementG 6th place 08:37 DemonRJ 7th place 08:39 Damo 8th place 08:48 Mrbelekas 9th place 08:52.0 Killbuster 10th place 08:52.6 Serar 11th to 15th place: Sirydawill91, Weirdone, Selbstjustiz, Anske, Subnnobs, 16th to 20th place: StrunPS, ShinjoNitsu, Matesu, Vucci, Draicor Important note: One top entries got overlooked, the rankings have been corrected. The last place goes out to the sole Skylord who chilled as slow as possible on rPvE 1. Congratulations to the winners! If you are interested, see below for the top replays. Winners of the Random Draws (Spoiler: Everyone) The dice gods have determined the fate of the following cards: Draws 1-5, one General Booster each: Vornskr, Caeser2000, cheffcantier, Kektras, Damo Draws 6-10, one Evil Eye each: Volin, Deus102, Spizzy, Subnnobs, Redmush Draws 11-30, 250 BFP each: Hauclir, erks, Jim_phoenix, Codlbodl, Zuratenos, Matesu, Ultralord, Vyndra, Ggoblin, Grak, itap, Killbuster, GreenRays, VampirePrince, Gedtke, arabika, Sh1ine, Shaman48, Aluqardo, RexZykl0n Other single-card random draws (very long list, so I added a spoiler tag): Of the 103 participants, 36 were of Silver or Bronze rank, and due to the generous donations for the pool they all received more than one card. If I have missed out on one of you, please drop me a note! I will send you all prizes as soon as possible through in-game mail. I'm also reserving the right to make corrections on rankings and prizes, since the huge number of names and cards makes it very likely that I made a mistake. Strategy of the Top 20 and Replays Here is a statistical overview of the best runs: Master Archers were the most prevalent choice of the top players – 13 times – followed by Windweavers (7). No Sunstriders or Forsaken were chosen for a top rank run. Of the Top 20 runs, all but one used Surge of Light on the T2 – only one Skylord used Motivate. 15 of the top players didn't unlock the second spell. Those who did, used Lava Field (3 times), and one Coldsnap and Curse of Oink each. 9 of them even opened Gold Chests, two more tried really hard, but didn't succeed, because those pesky chests sometimes just don't open in time. Veterans better watch out – 8 of the top 20 are Silver Ranks! Here are the Replays of the best runs, plus the only run that used Motivate/Lava Field: 1st place: CCC9_4_06.53_2_RadicalX.pmv 2nd place: CCC9_4_08.02.5_Octochicken.pmv 3rd place: CCC9_4_08.10_6_Dolewan.pmv 8th place: CCC9_4_08.52_Killbuster.pmv Besides card choice, two factors were most important: How many wells to take (most players took too many), and how to micro the army to be fast and still survive. Since CCCs are often also of educational value, here are some of the employed micromanagement strategies to save time: Fighting only part of camps by pulling them back Spawn-trapping to ensure no new spawns (most often Shamans) Timed camp kills, to ensure no respawn / no new wave spawn (e.g. kill disco ball and rage squads, then kill the camp) Split camp kills (some units kill the camp, some keep fighting normally) Sending a scout to pull back while others still heal on a well Even sending multiple scouts to different positions at intervals Spawning dazed units mid-fight in positions where they don't get hurt (too much) Retreating with single units for some seconds, so they don't die/don't lose a squad member/to spread damage evenly In the spirit of education, I would also beggingly invite content creators to make a video about "Why is RadicalX so fast?". In ski sports, there are side-by-side (split screen or overlay) comparisons between drivers, maybe this would educate the community? The huge gap of more then a minute demands answers. 😃 Submitted Times To compare how you stacked up, here is a list of all submitted times: In conclusion First and foremost, I'd like to thank again all those who helped with this event, Of course, I'd like to thank the very generous sponsors for all the prizes they gave: @THE_BIG_WET, @MadDoggo, @arabikaa, @T1421, @Titan, @hauclir, @Dolewan, @Lans, @Grak, the anonymous donor and the Skylords Reborn Team. I hope you enjoyed another rPvE challenge at low level, focussing on micromanagement and simple choices. If you have a crappy idea for a future CCC you may share and discuss that with me, I can host your idea, or you can host your own Crappy Contest! Feel free to contact me anytime. If you want to discuss or host a non-crappy contest, contact our Event Manager @Metagross31. He is super supportive and will help you to organize your event!

True, today is the last day. About 6,5 hours left 😃 Edit: Time is up! I will check out the entries now. Thanks to so many who helped promote the event, I feel a booster code incoming 😉 Additionally, due to the mega-generous donations I was able to make sure literally everybody gets something in the random draws.

That is dope Oo

If you needed just one more reason to join the contest: After all the lamentations about the high Evil Eye prize, the SR team decided to sponsor 5 into the random and 2 for the newcomer card pool.

I think an PvP map with FoW would be a nice possibility for a community map, if the layout things about scouting/managing the changed circumstances right from the start

Hear, hear - good news everyone! @Lans dedicated loads of cards (see original post) to the Newcomer Card Pool, so depending on the number of participants it should be possible to hand out 2 or maybe even 3 cards per newbie. A big thanks from me and of course the Newcomers who will receive those cards!

Biased against Magma Hurler, Mauler and Juice Tanks. Worst CCC ever. Updated Clarifications: If you want to use the red Wintertide Affinity, you are allowed to do so. In this scenario with archers, it is just plain worse, so there is no reason to disallow it if one doesn't own and/or doesn't want to buy the blue one.