MephistoRoss

Hello everyone.
I'll keep it short. Past few months, I've been working on our web API that is completely public and available for everyone to use. I've also created simple, functional (but stylistically not very pretty) user interfaces that visualize and consume the said API.
User interface applications are open-sourced on my GitHub. The repository also contains complete instructions on how to consume the API yourselves, if you were to decide to create your own frontend applications. But, you have to be somewhat profficient in web development to understand and begin doing stuff on your own. 
Issues tab is to be used freely for any and all suggestions and bug reports.
Pull Requests that improve and extend the existing UIs are more than welcome. After manual review, they might get merged into the master branch and appear as a part of the next website update. 
Links:
GitHub repository: https://github.com/fiki574/Skylords-Reborn-API-UI Statistics: https://stats.skylords.eu/ Auctions: https://auctions.skylords.eu/ Leaderboards: https://leaderboards.skylords.eu/ All applications are caching data periodically, so you're actually "querying" the in-memory data, and not the database directly, which does not have any kind of impact on the game servers and database itself. Have in mind these applications are also the first version, they will definetly get improved and extended, as well as the API.
For some of you, these applications and the API open up whole lot of possibilities.
For example, now you could create an application that tracks the average price of every card and makes a nice graph. You could even extend the search options with card orbs, expansion, rarity, etc. 
Or you could create an application that tracks all auctions for a specific card and sends you a mail or push notification when a card appears on the auction house, but is equal or below the specified price.
Average concurrent players/matches graph could be visualized by querying the Statistics API every 2/5/X minutes.
Those of you who understood everything said and know what you're doing, will use this to its maximum potential.
Have fun!

Hey guys,
Big thanks to all participants and congratulations to TopS3cret for winning the tournament after an incredible grand final.
 
1st place - TopS3cret 15€
2nd place - Icebarrier 10€
3rd place - Draken 5€
 
Special thanks goes out to RadicalX for the amazing cocasting and tactical insights!
 
Greetings,
DasToggy
 

You can find it here: https://skylords-reborn.fandom.com/wiki/Balancing

You can find it here: https://skylords-reborn.fandom.com/wiki/Balancing

What RuneSeeker said. Another option that we have is to make the random chosen map as equal as possible for all players for a a given quest, instead of choosing it random per player. So during a certain week, if someone gets the quest "Play map X on difficulty Y", we can make everyone have the same map for that quest (as much as possible, because not everyone has all the maps unlocked). This map would then change every week or few days.

That could be a modifier for random pve :p

There will not be a separate Mac version, but some people have been able to run the game on a Mac using wine: 
 

I think they are trying to soften that blow by making you pick 2 decks at a time for one week. So you don't have *everything* at once, always only one part.
I guess it depends on what you consider the bigger issue. PvP being virtually locked for you until you have upgraded cards and can even begin to compete on a raw power level? Or the economical impact of providing a set of cards for free and undermining of the collection aspect?
You also have to consider that originally all these things were baked into the monetization model. Want more charges? Pay up. That means that being more competitive in PvP was an incentive to spend money. That's not the case anymore, you can't just buy progress. So they have to somehow try to dissect these methods out of the game design.

We might be able to talk about this in a few years, but right now it would create more problems than solutions for balancing.
Only a few decks do have sufficient options, that really improve decks at higher slot numbers. If almost every deck has 35+ truly viable cards for PvP, an increase might be an option, but for now most decks would just overload their T3's or add oppressive conditional strategies rather than providing more interesting game dynamics.  
 
Stonekin is the only exception right now as it has many different unique and viable T2/3 cards, that are not used for slot reasons. Adding them would improve options in T2 and allow different game styles (Attacking f.e. can revolve around different core units, that work against specific factions: Burrower, Mountaineer, Stonetempest, Crystalfiend, Stormsinger, Razorshard) or stick with current options, but with an actual T3.
Standard meta deck Lost Souls has a very solid core deck structure, that wins scaling games consistently once you are ahead of the curve. This playstyle would be totally unaffected by increased slots, you just increase the options of getting that little lead throughout the game by adding counter cards like Lost Reaver, Lyrish Knight, Skyelf Templar and solidify the raw T3 power level by slot increase (6 slots are really powerful). 
Some decks Like pure Pure Fire could add something like Global Warming or Spitfire, but these cards don't really add anything and don't reduce any core issues. Relative to other decks pure Fire gains nothing new, while facing some more versitile decks with specific counter units (Twilight Brute, Skyelf Templar) and much more oppressive attack patterns (heavily supported L units, undead army etc.). 
 
 
Playing off meta decks is always possible, but people usually prefer to stick with the most powerful and most well rounded strategies. 25 slots won't change this. They won't randomly start playing things like Tower of Flames + Architechts call even at 40 slots, because these things are bad and not situational sleeper combos, that are restricted by slot investments. Stuff like Enlightment + Earthshaker might be more realistic, but that's just another toxic basenuke.
 
PvE implications are also huge on a sidenote, since it makes deck building much more efficient and alot of speedruns are affected by this too. Makes the game much easier in that department. 
 
Creating more strategic options through card balancing and removing opressive matchup imbalances should be current priority. If we ever reach that goal in a couple of years and get to a larger healthy card pool, slot increases might be reasonable as a result of this. 

Uploaded the maps here on the forum now so it will keep working  

If anyone wants to use old custom maps as inspiration for making a new one, I uploaded all custom maps I could find on my PC here.
If you have any custom maps that are missing, please also upload & post them here so we can play them all again.
If you find any map not working, please report.
PvP_maze_of_survivors.pak
PvP_Lajesh_1v1_Observer.pak
PvP_Haladur2n2.pak
PvP_Haladur_PvPvE.pak
PvP_fyre.pak
PvP_Haladur_1v1_Observer.pak
PvP_Flame_TD.pak
PvP_First_PvPE.pak
PvP_dyrum.pak
PvP_deathmatcharena.pak
PvP_Castle_Wars.pak
PvP_brebalthar.pak
PvP_deathmatch_3vs3.pak
PvP_12702_pvp_04p_zahadune.pak
PvP_battlearena.pak
PvP_12701_pvp_04p_koshan.pak
PvP_12601_pvp_02p_skjal2.pak
PvP_12601_pvp_02p_skjal.pak
PvP_11711_pvp_04p_nadai.pak
PvP_11711_pvp_04p_nadai_T4.pak
PvP_11710_pvp_04p_yshia.pak
PvP_11708_pvp_04p_gorgash.pak
PvP_11707_pvp_04p_danduil.pak
PvP_11706_pvp_06p_fyre.pak
PvP_11706_pvp_04p_fyre.pak
PvP_11705_pvp_04p_turan.pak
PvE_Connect4.pak
PvE_Conquest.pak
PvE_crazylabyrinth.pak
PvE_die_sterblichen.pak
PvE_Dragon_Hunt.pak
PvE_Eiswuste.pak
PvE_frozen_death.pak
PvE_Groundhog_Day.pak
PvE_ID_Tester.pak
PvE_infi_td.pak
PvE_Into_the_Jungle.pak
PvE_Legions.pak
PvE_Map_creation_Tutorial.pak
PvE_MasterLabyrinth2.pak
PvE_noob_arene.pak
PvE_Passage_to_Darkness.pak
PvE_Passage_to_Darkness_Mod.pak
PvE_Power_Test.pak
PvE_pve_3_4.pak
PvE_Rogans_Schatz.pak
PvE_Rogans_Revenge.pak
PvE_Simple_Land_1.pak
PvE_Simple_Land_2.pak
PvE_Simple_Land_3.pak
PvE_Simple_Land_4.pak
PvE_Simple_Land_5.pak
PvE_Simple_Land_6.pak
PvE_Simple_Land_7.pak
PvE_Simple_Land_8.pak
PvE_Simple_Land_LS_Invasion.pak
PvE_snake.pak
PvE_Survive.pak
PvE_the_last_stand.pak
PvE_The_Race.pak
PvE_The_Last_Soultree.pak
PvE_Thors_Arrival_Overpower.pak
PvE_TicTacToe.pak
PvE_Tower_Defence_2.pak
PvE_twilight_isle_beta2.pak
PvE_Umbabwe_TD_4P.pak
PvE_Umbabwe_TD.pak
PvE_urazch_and_infestor.pak
PvE_Wall_Defence.pak
PvP_1vs1_Deathmatch_v105.pak
PvP_2vs2ocean.pak
PvP_11603_pvp_02p_haladur.pak
PvP_11603_pvp_02p_haladur_llthyll_upload.pak
PvP_11605_pvp_02p_simai.pak
PvP_11607_pvp_02p_wazhai.pak
PvP_11608_pvp_02p_elyon.pak
PvP_11608_pvp_02p_elyon_llTHYll_upload.pak
PvP_11609_pvp_02p_lajesh.pak
PvP_11610_pvp_02p_uro.pak
PvP_11611_pvp_02p_yrmia.pak
PvE_bino_up_and_down_all_elementhe_143_map.bak.pak
PvE_Christmas_Defense.pak
PvE_CircleTD.pak
PvE_Community_Smithy.pak
PvE_Battle_for_Glory.pak
PvE_19000_sandbox01.pak
PvP_Murexa_Spectator.pak
PvP_Nadai_2v2_Observer.pak
PvP_Nyasad_Spectator.pak
PvP_random_unit_2.pak
PvP_River_Crossings.pak
PvP_Sandbox.pak
PvP_Simai_1v1_Observer.pak
PvP_Simai_2n2_Map.pak
PvP_spellfight3.pak
PvP_Survive_PvP.pak
PvP_T1_fight_Spectator.pak
PvP_the_island.pak
PvP_twilight_vs_bandits.pak
PvP_Uro_1v1_Observer.pak
PvP_Uro_2n2_Map.pak
PvP_Wazhai_1v1_Observer.pak
PvP_Yrmia_Winter_Edition.pak
PvP_Yshia_2v2_Observer.pak
PvP_Zahadune_2v2_Observer.pak
 

I was thinking of a 1vs1 custom map in which player A plays normally while player B is not allowed to spawn units and buildings, but could only use spells. However player B is helped by PvE units that spawn from buildings in intervals and attack player A. The PvE enemy also has camps with defenses. Player A wins when all PvE camps are destroyed while player B wins when player A is killed or the time runs out.
So basically it is a PvE map for player A, but the PvE enemy is helped by a real player (maybe he should be able to micro the spawned units as well). 
Any map creator who wants to give a shot at this idea?
I think it should be possible to let player B not spawn any units or buildings by setting his starting monument + power wells (and extra monuments and wells to take) on an island with high mountains in between the rest of the map (so flying units cant fly over). The rest is basically a normal pve map, so maybe an existing PvE map could be used as a base to test if this idea is really as cool as it seems to me. If it turns out to be great it could also be done as a 2vs1 map (with better pve units) or as a 2vs2 map I guess.

Here are map editor tutorials that I found on the web:
Emmaerzeh:
Kaldrax:
BattleForge Map Creation 1: Heightmap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPdnZSvq6JQ
BattleForge Map Creation 2: Cliffs, Water & Textures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzo8m4CbNnM
BattleForge Map Creation 3: Orbs & Wells, Map Settings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T73FOPnJ_MA
BattleForge Map Creation 4: Decoration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBy7zmIV6f0
BattleForge Map Creation 5: Finalizing the Map: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BaKgHax2OA
BattleForge RandomMap Generator Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6dMmgOKqiU
Creating a BF PvE Map Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDfN9EVdgoA
Creating a BF PvE Map Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXIyOtM4rQs
Creating a BF PvE Map Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNqLVtzePGo
Tate Macmillan:
Omelie's Battleforge tutorials - 1 (How to make cliffs and How to make ramps): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3Nz5qkEtXs
2nd - Omelie's Battleforge tutorials (How to make water areas and How to texture water): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jVnPQVyQBk
3rd - Omelie's Battleforge tutorials (How to get texture sets, How to add textures to a map and Adding Textures under water layers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQnNQskdnGI
4th - Omelie's Battleforge tutorials (Placing objects/units/etc., Setting teams and players inside the editor, Starting points and Orbs/wells): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7kOJ-QK8Ms
5th - Omelie's Battleforge tutorials (Experimental minimap creator and File structure): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRzA5C4SD1c
6th - Omelie's Battleforge tutorials (Basic scripting structures, Basics on scripting syntax and Basic scripting examples): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnTu91Tfe9A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCwplAG_3sY
7th - Omelie's Battleforge tutorials (Basics of spawn script, Conditions, Actions and Examples in all structures (OnEvent, OnOneTimeEvent, OnIntervalEvent, OnToggleEvent)): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5E4Noc01dQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Fg4VlRXSU
kevero14: 
Battleforge map editing - Attach cliffs automatically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59Jqx7IaXYk
Battleforge map editing - Create cliffs manually: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wuor1POwkLI
Other useful files (uploaded by @Karl Lavafeld):
Import export in bf editor by kaldra.odt: https://forum.skylords.eu/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=7100 
fortgeschrittenes script tutorial by Ajihad007.odt: https://forum.skylords.eu/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=7101
BattleForge taglist6c6c.txt: https://forum.skylords.eu/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=7102
bf ids.odt: https://forum.skylords.eu/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=7103
Tutorial__How_to_use_the_Cutscene_Editor_-_BattleForge_Forum.pdf: https://forum.skylords.eu/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=7104
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Menchrese:
How to get the Map editor working: http://forum.bfreborn.com/index.php?/topic/1064-map-editor-activation-guide/ 

Reasoning:
 Slowing down overall gold progression to open up possibility of introducing new ways to earn gold  Counter the map favouring influence of the currently thematically fitting upgrade distribution  Campaign is more close to rpve and PvP gold earnings Edit: regarding 1, indirect gold buffs coming in hot 

 

Greetings, Skylords, Skyladies and other Skyfolk!

We hope you're as excited about the upcoming release in Q4 2020 as we are!
In light of this, we recently had some discussions about our internal team structure and decided that there need to be changes.
As some of you might have noticed, in recent years our administrators InsaneHawk, MrXLink, Blank, and our Lead Developer fiki574, have taken more of a background role. They did a great job in the past and they will continue to help out the project and the team as before!

However, we decided that these roles should be fulfilled by the more active staff members, more specifically Ladadoos and Zyna, who will be taking over as Administrators and Lead Developers of the project. Blank and InsaneHawk will from now on be listed under the "Founder" role. They were the ones who started the project back in 2015, and without them all of us wouldn't be here today. They will continue to help out the project, but will take more of a background role from now on. MrXLink will continue his work as a Designer. Our former lead developer fiki574 will now be working as an all-round developer.

Our moderation team will also be undergoing some changes. We will be retiring Ragenarok from our moderation team, since he has become inactive. We are grateful for his past work and wish him the best in his future endeavours! Additionally, our moderators MephistoRoss and Dexirian have moved away from their moderator role in recent years. Dexirian has been fulfilling the role of a System Administrator, therefore he will now be listed among our Developers. MephistoRoss has been doing a lot of important work concerning progression, rewards, and other game features. Because of that, he will, in addition to his moderation role, from now on officially be one of our Designers. The new roles will look like this:
ADMINISTRATORS - The SR CEOs. They represent and lead the project.

Ladadoos
Zyna
FOUNDERS - The two founders of the project. They started it all and without them Skylords Reborn would not exist.
Blank
InsaneHawk
MODERATORS - Take care of the forums, discord & game, help to keep them clean and enforce these Rules. They can be contacted for forum or community-related issues. Some Moderators are Global, meaning they take care of all platforms, whereas some are assigned to a specific platform. If you have any issues with a moderator specifically, contact an admin. 

Kiwi MephistoRoss
Scourge (Forum only) Ultrakool   DISCORD MODERATORS - Similar to Global Moderators, they specifically make sure our Discord Server is a nice place for everyone to be and talk with others! It's a great responsibility since it's the most active community platform we handle. Can be contacted for any Discord related issues.
  Bucky sh0rt DESIGNER - Staff specifically hired to create new game designs, mechanics and systems. Think of balance, reward systems, new content, cards, and so on. While it should be noted that all staff members have input on design, designers were specifically taken into the team for this, and have a degree of expertise/experience. Can be contacted for design concerns, feedback and explanation.
 
MrXLink
MephistoRoss
2D ARTIST - Makes 2D art for Skylords Reborn. Currently makes the beautiful Patreon-exclusive monthly BF concept art, launcher art, and may add visual content to the project in the future.

NanoRhino
DEVELOPERS - Programmers responsible for back-end management and SR development, such as coding, creating a proper website for BattleForge account management (used for BFP, account data, and other profile tools), and other ways to accelerate and improve the project.

Ladadoos
Zyna

Aviat0r (All-Round Developer)
fiki574 (All-Round Developer)
freund17 (Web Developer)
Dexirian (System Administrator)

We will soon be looking for new volunteers to help out the project in other departments, so be on the lookout for any announcements in that regard. If you have any questions about this decision, feel free to contact us!
We thank everyone for their continued support, and hope that we can all see each other in the forge!

I think you made a mistake with your calculations. 
3 wells = 96 seconds (50/(0.35 * 3 / 2))
4 wells = 72 seconds (50/(0.35 * 4 / 2))
 
Additionally you get of course void power back from the resource booster once it gets destroyed, so with 2 wells it is even worth it if it stands over 14.3 seconds. 

Hello Skyladies and Skylords,
After the dust in the PvP arena settles there is still evil to slay: We must venture to the Nightmare Shard and take it at all cost! So after a lot of PvP tournaments I want to give some sugar to the PvE community aswell. This is a first attempt to give a little challenge on a map that probably nobody speedruns (and surely not on advanced), so everyone should be able to try some new strategys.
 
What?
Speedrun contest on Nightmare Shard. Send me your quickest replay to participate.
Find the replays under Documents=>battleforge=>replays
 
Infos!
map: Nightmare Shard
difficulty: advanced
players: solo
restricted cards: Enlightenment, Amii Monument
 
Until when?
Send me your replays via Discord until 25.10.20. I will sort them and cast the quickest run.
 
Prize pool!
1st place  - 3000 BFP + Construct Promo
2nd place - 2000 BFP + Enlightenment
3rd place - 1000 BFP + Amii Monument
4th-last - 300 BFP
most creative strategy (in the top10) - 750BFP
And every participant will get a Booster after the reset!
 
If you guys like it there will be more and more of these little challenges in the future, let me know what you think about it.
Looking forward to several cool replays!
 
Greetings,
DasToggy
 

Greetings fellow Skyfolk,
after reaching a point where it just wouldn't make sense to continue working on the now outdated version of the SMJ-Website, I decided to completely rebuild the website with different tools and development strategies.
The redesigned site is now at a stage of development where I think it is viable enough to replace the old version, which broke with the anniversary patch of 2021 anyway.
The new version can be found here:     https://smj.cards/
The old version is no longer available due to changes made by the hoster heroku that would require paying to host it, but it didn't receive any more updates anyway.
The old version was available here:     https://smj.herokuapp.com/
 
The new site provides a lot of the features the old one did and more.
There are a few exceptions though, which I haven't implemented yet due to time issues, as I wanted give you access to the new site since the old one doesn't work anymore, but I will reimplement them in a later version:
Deals page Filtering/Sorting the cards by powercost, damage, lifepoints, abilities Using URL parameters to set filters/sorters Aside from these, the new site has other things going for it, which are best experienced by playing around with the site, but just a few that may be of interest to you:
Bigger variety of filters (excluding the ones mentioned above) like:   Playable with certain orb setup   max charges, squad size, starter card, gender, etc.  More price details for each card:   1W/2W/3W/4W Median/Mean/Min/Max   7 Days Daily Meadian micro-chart in the main table view   Differences of current price to 1W median / yestedays daily median to the daily median of one week ago   Short Term chart that updates every 10 minutes but only shows 4 weeks worth of data (limited because of data size reasons)   Long Term OHLC-charts that update every day and give a better sense of price development over a longer period of time compared to a regular single point chart   Card Auction details of what auctions currently exist for each card, when the auctions were approximately started, when they will switch and when they will end (still a small bug in the calculation sometimes, but I will fix that independently of the site)   Average value of the reforged card, when destroying 4 of the same card  General card info:   Maps to get the upgrades from for each card   List of cards that share 5/4/3/2 similarities with the selected card for easier reforging decisions   Button to the wiki page for the card   Button to copy the shorthand card url for sharing  Some other info:    The main search field has a "fuzzy" functionality, try searching "LSS" and you will see what it means 😉    I created my own card IDs to not be as vulnerable to changes to official card IDs (Plague), Promo status (Lord Cyrian), affinity (Sandstorm R -> B), as well as potential name changes    In some cases SMJ IDs as well as official card IDs can be used for some things: The following links will all redirect to https://smj.cards/card/grinder-promo-p: https://smj.cards/7z https://smj.cards/[1607]    All card images are automatically generated from their static data through an api that you are able to use as well, but I will explain how to use it at a later date  
The site is still in development and some things might still be subject to change in the future, but I didn't want to make you wait any longer, seeing as the old site doesn't work anymore.
Also, just as an info, the features that the site currently provides represent about 50% of the features that I plan to add in the future. 😉
Just like the previous site, the new one will also only provide information about the prices, the cards were put in the marketplace for and not actual sell prices!
 
If you find anything that is not working properly or is irritating, please let me know and I will look into it. Also, if you have any specific feature ideas that you think would be useful, don't hesitate in telling me about them and I'll see what I can do. Design/Layout suggestions are also appreciated, as I'm not a designer and just did what came to mind, especially the boosters and card details tables with their cells that display the prieces, which I am not entirely happy with yet.
I hope this little project of mine will be somewhat helpful to you all, as that was my foremost goal from the beginning. 🙂
Thanks and I hope to see you all in the Forge. 😉
 
PS:
I would also like to mention that I have a discord server dedicated to the whole SMJ project, where I post about the project more regularly than on the forum and where it's easier to get in touch with me regarding everything related to the SMJ.
You can join the discord server here:     https://discord.gg/m5Dm5fweSV
Over there you are are also able to interact with a discord bot that allows you to set price notifications for cards that you want to buy/sell and a few other usefull features.
Most of the features the bot provides are only listed by the bot itself, but you can read up a little bit of info about it in this forum thread: https://forum.skylords.eu/index.php?/topic/7300-smj-bot

Hello fellow Skylords and Skyladies,
Change is coming and before we move to the full release...Let us battle it out on the Testserver to try these changes!
To get to the testserver, get the data (~10mb) in the official Skylords Discord under channel "#dev-updates-test-server" in Technical and Test Section. Please confirm its working and build your decks before the tournament. Direct link to #dev-updates-test-server
Also here is a link to the balance changes already done: LINK
 
Format?
It will be a 1vs1 double elimination best of 3 tournament, the grand final will be best of 5 (one match, no reset). Winner and losers finals will be played on stream.
 
Prize Pool! (The more people participate, the bigger it will get, of course rewards are for the normal server)
1st place  - 5000 BFP
2nd place - 4000 BFP
3rd place - 3000 BFP
4th place - 2000 BFP
5th-last place - 300 BFP
+1 Booster for every participant (with games) after the reset!
 
 
 
When?
On 10.10.20  starting on 2pm CEST(Berlin time), the stream will start about 30 minutes in advance.
 
Organisation?
The tournament brackets will be on Challonge, so register and join the tournament there. Please use your in game account name to make communication and finding your enemy easier.
=>LINK TO CHALLONGE<=
The streaming channel that will be covering the tournament is DasToggy on twitch.tv .
In case of problems contact me or one of my mods via Discord, Battleforge or in the stream.
 
 
Rules!
-No bugabuse, cheating or insulting the other players. Penalties may vary from a warning to default loss.
-Disconnection during a game results in a default loss. If both sides agree it is possible to have a remake.
-Not showing up to your match with after 15 minutes results in a default loss. The plan is to play a round of matches every ~30 mins.
-After your match go to Challonge and insert the result. That is done by clicking on your match and selecting the winner/stats . The brackets will be updated automatically.
-The Map Pool is: Haladur, Simai, Wazhai, Elyon, Lajesh, Uro and Yrmia (same pool as in ranked duel). The first match of the round will be played on Haladur, then it is losers choice. Second round will start with Simai, third one... you get the drill.
-The brackets for the tournament will be shuffled before the tournament starts.
-Since we play on the TESTSERVER, no cards are banned.
 
 
Reply in this thread if you have questions, I will check it out later.
I would love to see this community grow again and the competitive scene develop aswell so before this game goes into the full release.... test those changes!
 
 
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DasToggy

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There's no stealing, it's a group effort to get the balancing right. A good idea should be popularized, in the end noone should care who came up with it originally. ^^
 

As an alternative to the worldmap, I personally would like one lobby overview list where you could see all open game lobbies at once (that also refreshes each x seconds). Preferably with filters for difficulty, amount of players and an option to exclude specific maps.
This would really help when you want to find an open lobby for any map on expert difficulty for example.

Thanks so much for putting the hard work of getting this game up and running again! It was always a lot of fun and I'm happy to see it's back available to the public.
My one comment/suggestion, would be to simplify the installation process for the less technically inclined. Like, package everything into one download file, make the download page not a screen of text, but just a download button, and maybe 3 simple instructions.
1. Unzip to Program Files
2. Run microsoft executable
3. Start game with Updater.exe
Also, maybe get the word out there that the game is back! (posting to other similar titles forums with download link) 
Cheers~!

Hey everyone,

I'm Zyna from Germany and I'm 22.
I started playing BattleForge in 2010 and mainly played PvP back then. I didn't really have a lot of cards, so I mostly stuck to playing pure Shadow. A year later I quit playing actively and switched to other games. I was quite sad to see that the game was shutting down in 2013. In 2015 I heard of Skylords Reborn and was quite excited to hear that there are some people bringing this game back! I started out as a beta bester in 2016 and later was granted the Skylord of Honour role in 2018. Later that year I also joined the team and became a client and tool developer. A few months ago I also started helping with the development of the server. I'm a computer science student so I see this project as a great opportunity to learn a lot of new things, but honestly I'm also very hyped to be able to help with bringing back this awesome game