Kapo

Nobody denies that manipulations. And yes, basically all interesting cards show this pattern - either cards that get bought up by somebody, or supply runs out and the next Skylord who sees this puts the first new card rather high into the market and not low. While you seem to be outraged by this, I find this pretty normal in a free market dynamics. What I can tell you from my experience, almost all Skylords are pretty smart about their buying decisions, and not sheep that constantly fall into price traps like you are describing. Just pick any card and try to buy it up and set a new price yourself. You will be VERY surprised how resilient the market is to those manipulations. You will be sitting there with hundreds or thousands of your BFP sunk into a pile of cards that don't sell (at the price you imagined) and the market price returning to normal much faster than you'd expect. Also, while I agree we always see some immoral behavior, I can assure you that not just some select Skylords who try to make gains off the market. Almost everybody is trying to "buy low, sell high" - most likely including you. While we both agree, I see it the other way around. The team shouldn't do anything to interfere in this, and _fortunately_ people can do whatever they want. The amount of rules and regulations we would need to define and enforce "appropriate behavior on the market" would suck every bit of fun out of the market system. The SR team did the right thing, leave it alone and think about the bigger problems, which resulted in the introduction Reforge - something that changed the market enormously, in my view for the better.

But.... isn't exactly that graph you posted showing that even on such rare cards, the price always comes down again within a few days? Nobody is forcing anybody to buy anything that high - just wait 3-4 days and this "nuisance" goes away right by itself.

Yeah, Devastator and Rageflame getting a grace pass for _Nightguard_ to catch a T3-aquivalent unit. Where are the T4-aquivalent grace passes for Parasite Swarm then? I mean, if somebody goes pure Nature, you are getting Energy Parasite (useless), Parasite Swarm, Spikeroot and Deep One. Thats it - literally. Parasite Swarm is the Ultra Rare in that list, so it should be as shiny and cool as a Harvester or a Firedancer. Thats where I get my impression this discussion revolved primarly about Nightguard. And this is _ONE_ of the rare chances where we need not care about PvP Balance. Pretty Lackluster.

As most of you guys know, I write this mainly from a Nature Players perspective. Mind Control I'm kind of surprised of upgrading the Ravenships to T5, when playing Oceans it was a pretty cool feature that you could take them over instead of fighting them, bolstering your unit pool before moving to the final phase. (I was also hoping for some kind of "gimmick opportunity" for rPvE, like taking over a Bandit Lord or maybe an Archfiend - but I think considering this is asking for too much...) Parasite Swarm Taking units over with swarms is usually a slow strategy, even with Shrine of Memory recycling your void faster (which will be taken away, so it will be just slower in the future). All in all I hoped for the Swarm to be in a good place after that change, but it isn't at all - it is worse than before. There are units now out of range that I usually took over with the Swarm, including the Whisperers (e.g. on Encounters with Twilight) or Twilight Hags (taking over the Insane God T3 camp was one really cool Pure Nature move) - I'm quite surprised since none of them are overpowered in any way. Several other interesting options I would hoped for are disabled as well, even something simple as Stonekin Aggressors, or a Treefiend. My impression is , with all due respect, is that the range for Nightguard has been very well-defined, but the benefit of taking a Parasite Swarm on a map has been kind of neglected - the "window of opportunity" for it being a useful unit in cPvE has become slimmer then before.

Maybe if someone puts his hand on the map, it would be cool to fix a bug I discovered a week ago: You can access the orb and wells without the map-script noticing that you are already there. I think it's proximity to the Temple that triggers the script, but if you are sneaky enough in running toward the wellcluster you can access everything without the map noticing, delaying the appropriate spawns:

Noob Kapo is ready for 4a. I will squash you with my Juice Tanks, Mark of the Keeper and Howling Shrines!

Speaking of decks, what is really missing is some way to get decks in and out of the game. Usually, in other games, this is done by some "code" that is used to import/export a (deck) setup. Ideally, we could have a link that gives you the deck in a browser, like: skylords.eu/deck/ERT6343E654FG23SDFERZHSDFS45DG a button in the game, where you enter that code "ERT6343E654FG23SDFERZHSDFS45DG" and it creates this deck for you (a derivative of cloning a deck from someone else) forum integration, like if you have the code you can add <deck>ERT6343E654FG23SDFERZHSDFS45DG</deck>, and it gives you a picture of the deck, when you click on it, you auto-copy the code also a discord bot function, !deck ERT6343E654FG23SDFERZHSDFS45DG gives you the picture as well Right now we are stumbling around in this area, sharing decks with screenshots all the time, so it would be kinda cool to think about a long-term solution for deck sharing.

That one I uploaded (no gates solo) to your Forum Thread if I remember correct 😉 If you wanna make a video out of it, I gladly grant you permission 😄

Thats what happens when you sign a standard release form

I am baffled Oo

No. But I also can't remember other things, like... I heard there was a time when you wouldn't get an instant discarding comment from a SR Team member for every suggestion on the forum.

Hilarious 😄

I just sent out the Gold Tier Prizes. Thanks again to all the sponsors: Dolewan, Simplifying, CrazyCockerell, Kemek1 and the Skylords Reborn Team. This concludes all business concerning the Crappy Community Contest #3.

Aaaaaaalll aboard the Hype train!

Random Draw and Silver Tier Prizes have been sent out; Gold Tier will take a bit. (in case one of the gold winners is wondering why others already received their cards) And a small Update: The Jury made a small error in the process, and we overlooked an entry that should have been awarded Gold Tier - so we upgraded that entry (but we didnt push someone else down to Silver). The Winners post has been updated accordingly.

Hello again Skylords, Skyladies and other Skybeings; The jury had its say, and it's time to announce the winners! But first, I’d like to thank everyone for making the Crappy Community Contest #3 happen – no matter in what way: participation, sponsoring prizes, spreading the word or helping me to organize it. Of course, a special thanks goes to the two Jurors who carried the burden of deciding with me: @CrazyCockerell (as representative of the Art Critique Team) and @Minashigo Hiko (as representative of the Skylords Team). Before revealing the winners, please remember that all art is subjective, so I want to present to you a gallery of all entries, so you can see all the entries for yourself: <CLICK HERE> I'll proudly present to you the Winner of CCC #3: Congratulations to Dutchy, winning a Juggernaut Promo, a Frost Booster, and a Rogan Kayle! The following Skylords made it into the Gold Tier: (sorted alphabetically) Dallarian Frost Booster, Battleship Evilkasi Nature Booster, Deepcoil Worm Fero_lol Nature Booster, Forest Elder (P) General_Thugdil Lost Booster, Winter Witch, Fallen Skyelf, Lost Vigil G Heretic Stonekin Booster, Mo Little_Ducky Frost Booster, Frost Mage (x2) SirDawill91 Frost Booster, Dreadnought THE_BIG_WET Nature Booster, Worldbreaker Gun Ultralord Frost Booster, Frost Shard Velanir Bandit Booster, Banzai Lord P The following Skylords made it into the Silver Tier: (sorted alphabetically) DarkDragon Overlord Lans Abomination P Midra Fire Worm Sylar Battleship Volin Corsair P As some winners may notice, prices received depend on the units depicted on the entry. Winners of the Random Draws: Draw 1 Omnilisk924 Infect Draw 2 DarkDragon Mountaineer Draw 3 Arenguros Disenchant (G) Draw 4 Shirokami Forest Elder (P) Draw 5 Dolewan Battleship Draw 6 Wanky Banzai Lord (P) Draw 7 PeterPanda Mine Draw 8 Kserske Deepcoil Worm Draw 9 Reverend830 Enlightenment I will send you the prizes as soon as possible through ingame mail. In conclusion Thanks again to all who helped to make this happen. I am still searching for new CCC ideas, so if you got any, please drop me a direct message here: @Kapo If you have a crappy idea for future CCC's you may share and discuss that with me, maybe 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 Managers, Hiko and/or Metagross. They are super supportive and will help you to organize your event! Hope you enjoyed the contest, I see you in the Forge! Kapo

One of the problems is that the consistency of the ascending order is broken by "The Boot"-Symbol, and you want to add.... another new symbol? 😞

I know this is an issue of no real importance, but it bothered me right from the start, and it keeps hurting my eyes. In my opinion, there are several reasons to change "The Boot": * The winged boot (πτηνοπέδῑλος) are the symbol of Hermes, the Greek Messenger God; and the appropriate use is to signify speed. Accumulating that much XP is a feat of tenacity, not of speed. * This symbol is squished into a way too small space, and not good-looking in that spot anyway. * There is a clear continuity in the PvE Ranks using crowns in ascending order, represented by colors. * The worst of all, "The Boot" switches BACK to gold (rare) color. So, even if you guys decide for legacy reasons to keep the boot, it's still a sin to keep it golden. My suggestion would be to just add a new Crown Color, maybe a royal red or an epic purple kind. If you want to make the last rank super-duper special with a different symbol, it would be still advisable to get rid of "The Boot" and replace it with something symboling tenacity or experience in general. To see with your own eyes that "The Boot" makes no sense at all, a screenshot from the Wiki:

Time's up! A total of 41 participants entered, so we earned a Mini-Booster-Code for the whole community: CCCP-RETT-YPIC-TURE In the next days, the jury will meet to decide upon the entries, so you guys will have to wait until I can open up the gallery of all entries.

Correct, in 2 hours its done 😃

Well I have my reasons not to join, but I contribute to the project in a way I am able to. Hopefully you guys find somebody motivated to do the deed.

A very convinient fallback position, if somebody has a worthwhile idea, isnt it? The way I see it, you are using the basic premise of the whole project against people who try to contribute.

Join TCG - The Cool Guild. If you want to see solutions, you have to have the mindset to come up with solutions. Not with the mindset to throw hurdles at people so nothing gets ever done and nothing will ever change.

Sorry, but I can totally relate that you dont want clutter in the chat. But if you say now you cant find a place for 3 letters on that banner, then I can make a mockup for you.

This banner. There is enough space on it for Guild-Information, either with a Symbol or a 3-Letter-Tag.