Hofrath

Hello Skylords, Skyladies and other Skybeings; and welcome to CCC #8 – the eighth Crappy Community Contest!
 
THE CONTEST HAS ENDED.
To see the winners, CLICK HERE. If you are just here to grab the booster code, there you go:  CCC8-NOWA-LLNE-EDED



What are “Crappy Community Contests”?
CCC's are meant to be small-scale contests with weird challenges, hopefully luring you away from well-trodden paths. They are small-scale on the organizers side too: there will be no stream, video or event announcing the winners. What's special about these contests is a participation price for the whole Skylords community.

This is the first CCC not only presented by me, but the Winner of CCC # 7 - the contest-idea-contest: Sucks! (@womiy org) We have worked together the last few weeks to present you this challenge, an extension to what he submitted:
 
What, when, where, how?
He makes it sound easy...

The city is the last hope for the people of Lyr,
but Rogan Kayle still wants you to prove your prowess.

This challenge is to win the 1-player-map “Defending Hope” on Expert
without walls and as many extra-challenges as you are able to manage.

Even when exploring the expert maps for the first time, Defending Hope is usually a map that is an easy win. So let's start making it as difficult as you can handle! For an eligible entry, you are not allowed to build any walls and both Soulstones have to stay intact. After that, you can earn points to rank up your entry by taking on extra challenges. The Skylord with the most points will win this challenge - in case of a tie, the faster Skylord will win. You can earn points by adding the following hardships to your run:
 
Mandatory: Use no walls Mandatory: Both Soulstones stay intact
  A: 1 Point: No Faction Cards (Bandit, Twilight, Stonekin, Lost Souls) Cards are played B: 1 Point: Using a Pure Color Deck C : 1 Point: Only Twilight Edition Cards are used
  D : 2 Points: Play no Buildings E: 2 Points: Play no Spells F: 3 Points: Play no Units G: 2 Points: Play only Buildings H: 1 Point: Play only Units
  I: 1 Point: Don't go T4  J: 2 Points: Don't go T3   K: 3 Points: Don't go T2  
  L: 1 Point: No wells inside the city get destroyed M: 1 Point: No orb gets destroyed N: 1 Point: Both Soulstone Guardians Survive
  O: 1 Point: Claim 4 (or more) wells outside the city P: 1 Point: Claim southern 2 wells Q: 1 Point: Claim no well inside the city R: 2 Points: Claim all wells outside the city and don't lose any well during whole game
  S: 1 Point: Collect no gold chest
  T: 1 Point: Destroy two Twilight Manifestations U: 1 Point: Destroy all Twilight Manifestations V: 2 Points: Kill no Twilight Dragon
  W: 1 Point: No Shrine of War / Memory / Martys / Greed or Furnace of Flesh is played X: 1 Point: No Unity / Frenetic Assault / Thunderstorm / Frost Shard is played Y: 1 Point: No Razorleaf / Necroblaster / Magma Hurler / Stronghold
(Edit: After it has been suggested, I added letters to make it easier to submit an entry.)

As you can see, the list is constructed in a way that we expect NOBODY to get all possible points. This challenge is to set an attainable goal with as many points as you are able to get without losing the map. To avoid misunderstandings: points on this list accumulate. So, if you kill all Twilight Manifestations, you get one point for the "kill two Manifastations" AND one point for "kill all Manifestations", yielding a total of two points. Also, if you don't go T2, you will get a total of six points for that, not just the three points mentioned in the list on that line.
Please add the following information to your entry:
IGN: <Your ingame name> Objectives Achieved: <Name them: A, B, C, ...> Points total: <Points> Your replay with the following file name: CCC8_<Points>_<Your IGN>.pmv
  Battleforge automatically saves a replay file of the last match you play, named autosave.pmv.  After playing the map, rename this file, so it doesn't get overwritten. You can find your replays here: Documents => Battleforge => replays.

The contest has started with the release of this post – submit your entry through Discord (DM to Kapo#0116) or the Skylords Forum (DM to @Kapo) until 11.09.2022 23:59 CET  (= 8 days time total). You can submit multiple times, but only the one with the most points will count. Please note that your any submitted replay may be posted here in the forums.

Clarifications
 

 
 
What's the price pool?
Since this is not just a Crappy Contest, but a Crappy Community Contest, you may help with your participation to earn a price for the whole Community. If we reach more than 20 participants (unique players, not entries), we will unlock a Mini-Booster code for the entire Skylords Community. If more than 35 participants enter, the code will be upgraded to a Booster instead of a Mini-Booster. So tell your fellow Skylords to try this challenge – it's an occasion to try something completely new, and it raises our chances to hand out a code for everybody. 
Of course, the Skylords with the most points will get prices too, sponsored by myself, the Community and the Skylords Reborn Team:
1st place               5 General Boosters + Promo Rogan Kayle + Easter Egg
2nd place              4 General Boosters + Promo Lyrish Knight + Easter Egg
3rd place              3 General Boosters + Promo Snapjaws + Easter Egg
4th place              2 General Boosters + Lord Cyrian + Easter Egg
5th place              1 General Booster +  Core Dredge (B) + Easter Egg
6th place              250 BFP + Promise of Life (B) + Bloodhorn (R) + Easter Egg
7th place              200 BFP + Banzai (P) + Banzai (G) + Easter Egg
8th place              175 BFP + Bloodhorn (R) + Mind Control + Easter Egg
9th place              150 BFP + Home Soil + Giant Slayer + Easter Egg
10th place            100 BFP + Sunderer + Easter Egg
11th-15th place    Santa Claus

Last place              Juice Tank (x8)
For participation, there is a random chance to win one of the following cards:
Random Draws          5x1 General Booster, Avatar of Frost, Spitfire, Church of Negation, Bandit Minefield, Fire Worm, Skyelf Templar, Banzai Lord (P) (x5)
This CCC also features again a Newcomer Card Pool. By participating, players of Bronze or Silver Rank will automatically receive an uncommon random card sponsored by @THE_BIG_WET. Of course, you may also win other random draws additionally if you are lucky. The Newbie Card Pool contains the following cards:
 
Should we get more entries than 20 Bronze/Silver, the pool will be expanded, so every newcomer will receive a card. Those expansion cards will be rare cards (instead of more uncommons), so tell your fellow beginner to participate!
 
Sponsors
If one or more mighty Skylord(s) decides to sponsor this event, please contact me. I would be more than happy to beef up or expand the prize pool beyond the 10th place, add additional random draws, special bounties or any other upgrades to the prize pool. 
The following prices have been sponsored so far:
Skylords Team          General Boosters (x20), Community Booster Code
@Kapo                Promo Rogan Kayle, Promo Lyrish Knight
@womiy org        Promo Snapjaws
@THE_BIG_WET     Newcomer Card Pool (see above)
@Donaar             Juice Tank (x8)
@T1421               Spitfire
@DeLirium          1400 BFP (which has been in part used to buy random draw cards)
@Sylar                Avatar of Frost, Church of Negation, Core Dredge (B), Promise of Life (B), Lord Cyrian, Bandit Minefield, Sunderer, Giant Slayer, Mind Control, Bloodhorn (R), Bloodhorn, (P), Banzai Lord (G), Banzai Lord, (P), Fire Worm, Home Soil, Skyelf Templar
@Bozzah             Easter Egg (x10), Banzai Lord (P) (x5), Santa Claus (x5)
 
 
Special thanks and Conclusion
My very special thanks (and congratulations on winning CCC#7!) goes out to Sucks, who came up with this idea and worked with me designing on this challenge.

One last disclaimer: Should there be a patch rolling into the contest, it may end early.
Good luck, I hope you will like this very modular challenge where you can set your own difficulty!
Kapo
     
Future Events - get involved!
If you are interested in helping with these (or better) kinds of events for the community, or want to host one yourself, don't be afraid and simply reach out! Contact our beloved Event Managers @Minashigo Hiko and/or @Metagross31 on the forums or discord. They are happy to assist you with upcoming events and with sponsoring your prize pool!
If you especially like this small-scale-format, and you have an idea for it, you may also contact me directly to discuss your idea and host your own Crappy Community Contest.

Shadow also has 3 promos:
Harvester, Fallen Skyelf, Snapjaws 🙂
 
Another interesting fact:
In the twilight edition, each faction had exactly one Ultrarare spell, one UR building and 3 UR units, with the Units being split as one on T2, 3 and 4 respectively. Out of those, only Mountaineer and Primeval Watcher were the only splashable, i.e. non pure, units. The buildings except Mindweaver were all T3 and required 2 faction orbs and 1 neutral orb, same for all spells except Backlash.

When was this not the case ? 😄

However you are a bit too harsh on it.
You are trying to define a "bad player" with someone who is "whining" over a card that is too hard to play against or with.
Overall "to balance" goes both ways. 
It is to please the player with 500+ hours in the game and the one who just started. Though this will never work, it is always the goal. 

This far, the devs made an outstanding good job maintaining the game.
We will thrive more without comments like this when nothing happened 😉

Personally I would highly appreciate new ideas for balancing.
Just looking at the survey, where someone literally said (Question: What are some issues regarding 2vs2 balance (if you have them)?):
- "idk"
or
- "some fractions are stronger then others"

This is extremly unhelpful. 
Some fractions might be stronger then others, but just to a specific point!
Why not tell the exact problem and not leave the devs guessing.

A dev or the team in its entirety can not overwatch all the cards, all the playstiles and all the fractions.
Afterall, they are just 1% of the entire community. 


But whoever wrote that as an answer to the question "Do you have any suggestions on how to gather new staff members?":
"Gas light a rich kid into sponsoring you 5million dollars" is an absolute genius and made my day. 

Staying with the survey, it clearly shows, that almost the entire community is greatful for this games revive and its volunteers. 
So spread love and spend 5 million dollars ♥️ 🤣

When was this not the case ? 😄

However you are a bit too harsh on it.
You are trying to define a "bad player" with someone who is "whining" over a card that is too hard to play against or with.
Overall "to balance" goes both ways. 
It is to please the player with 500+ hours in the game and the one who just started. Though this will never work, it is always the goal. 

This far, the devs made an outstanding good job maintaining the game.
We will thrive more without comments like this when nothing happened 😉

Personally I would highly appreciate new ideas for balancing.
Just looking at the survey, where someone literally said (Question: What are some issues regarding 2vs2 balance (if you have them)?):
- "idk"
or
- "some fractions are stronger then others"

This is extremly unhelpful. 
Some fractions might be stronger then others, but just to a specific point!
Why not tell the exact problem and not leave the devs guessing.

A dev or the team in its entirety can not overwatch all the cards, all the playstiles and all the fractions.
Afterall, they are just 1% of the entire community. 


But whoever wrote that as an answer to the question "Do you have any suggestions on how to gather new staff members?":
"Gas light a rich kid into sponsoring you 5million dollars" is an absolute genius and made my day. 

Staying with the survey, it clearly shows, that almost the entire community is greatful for this games revive and its volunteers. 
So spread love and spend 5 million dollars ♥️ 🤣

When was this not the case ? 😄

However you are a bit too harsh on it.
You are trying to define a "bad player" with someone who is "whining" over a card that is too hard to play against or with.
Overall "to balance" goes both ways. 
It is to please the player with 500+ hours in the game and the one who just started. Though this will never work, it is always the goal. 

This far, the devs made an outstanding good job maintaining the game.
We will thrive more without comments like this when nothing happened 😉

Personally I would highly appreciate new ideas for balancing.
Just looking at the survey, where someone literally said (Question: What are some issues regarding 2vs2 balance (if you have them)?):
- "idk"
or
- "some fractions are stronger then others"

This is extremly unhelpful. 
Some fractions might be stronger then others, but just to a specific point!
Why not tell the exact problem and not leave the devs guessing.

A dev or the team in its entirety can not overwatch all the cards, all the playstiles and all the fractions.
Afterall, they are just 1% of the entire community. 


But whoever wrote that as an answer to the question "Do you have any suggestions on how to gather new staff members?":
"Gas light a rich kid into sponsoring you 5million dollars" is an absolute genius and made my day. 

Staying with the survey, it clearly shows, that almost the entire community is greatful for this games revive and its volunteers. 
So spread love and spend 5 million dollars ♥️ 🤣

Hey Purebeat,

welcome back.

Firstly, time is always a bit misjudged. Saying that you've played around a year ago, can also mean a year and a half, or maybe two? 
The game released 18-12-2020 and all accounts have been reset. 

However, based on the screenshot AlgoSteve kindly provied, you old account is still up there.

Lets go through it step by step, shall we:

1. Your Forums Account is 3 years old.
That by itself is not the problem, but MAYBE, when you first registered for the game you lost your password or made a new account for the game.
Is that by any chance the case?
Then the problem is easily solved: Try to find your second account and login. 

2. Whaf if....
you login and try to use your old nickname "Purebeat" in character creation - Is it saying that the nick is already taken?
Then Nr.1 would be most likely the case.

3. Ask GMs directly (click)
They can see what account / email is linked to your account.
If something does not add up, they'll tell you. 

This problem is not of technical nature.
There is not a file I can send you or a debug-script to solve it 😄

Hope you'll get your account back mate!
Though the past year was one of alot of changes. 
Starting now from scatch is easier then before. The archivements will help you get the most immportant cards really fast.
But just wait for this problem to be solved first. Multi-Accounting is prohibited.