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Thanks @Majora for your explanation. I was also there when the servers were shut down, so I know the feeling, i think its also nice for the devs to look back and think about what you've achieved so far. The game is currently imo in the best state it has ever been in. Very inspiring what you guys are doing, looking forward to everything you have planned. 
Oh and of course, thanks for everything!

Can't talk for the whole team but:

Love for the game. Me and most of us were there when the original servers were down, and I was pretty devastated about it, having wonderful memories of playing it with my brother, ex girlfriend and friends. Its quite rare (especially for an online-only game) to be revived, so I personally count my blessing to be able to enjoy it once more. 

Potential. This game is super unique. I have not encountered anything like it. While it has some issues because of this (how on earth do you market this?) I still fully believe in what this game has to offer, and still hold on to hope that sometimes it will be discovered by the right group of people. 

New players. We still have an influx of new players coming in, either returning from the EA days, or finding the game as its own thing. This is not a case of a group of people slowly dwindling, there are people coming in and going out. 

Non-active players. While active players go up and down, there is still a large number of players with warm feelings towards Skylords Reborn, as we tend to see with, f.e. the Yearly Feedback Survey. As was mentioned in this topic already, we also see numbers go down a bit during summer time in general. I also don't expect people to continue playing daily for 2+ years straight. There is only so much content to experience and replay. But most of them keep a close eye on the project and return for big patches or other exciting changes. Leading to:

Upcoming new Campaign Maps. When I joined the team, one of my first pushes was for new cards to enter development. The team achieved bringing back BattleForge into a playable state, but if we wanted it to not face the same fate, we had to keep improving on it, and the easiest way to communicate new stuff is new cards. But new cards only do so much for time spend playing the game; we need people to actually have new content to play. Achievements, rPvE Nature and Fire and the upcoming 9.5 difficulty are good examples of this (and previously mentioned Map Modifiers will also do a ton for replayability) . But the biggest ask from the Community has been New Campaign Maps. We still have this up our sleeve, and I fully expect a lot of those non-active players will return to take a look once we start releasing them. Non-active players need a hook to come back, and I expect this will do the trick.

The Community. Skylords Reborn has an amazing community. Its a bit of a cliché for a Community Manager to say this is the best community to be in, but honestly, the absolute majority of our players are amazing! When things get rough, I sometimes take a look at the kind words our players mention in f.e. the Survey. At the end of the day, everyone is grateful for all the hours we pour into this, and its important to remember this.
Though I will admit, sometimes I wish some players remember a bit more that we do this in our free time as well 😅 There have been a couple of moments where some of our teammembers, myself included, got very demotivated by the way certain players expressed their disagreement. So to everyone reading, if I could ask for a single favor to keep the motivation up for both me and the team; please keep in mind we are all volunteers. We do not get paid, yet we show up day after day, working on the game while we have a lot of things to deal with, both in Skylords Reborn and outside of it. Most of us combine the hours we pour into this game with a job, study, kids, marriage, etc, to the point where we don't even have time to play the game we put so much hours in as much as we would like. We love the game, and want to see it succeed, and for that we absolutely want to hear your feedback, we create this game for our players after all. But be constructive, and be kind. It really goes a long way for our motivation and the health of the project. 
Thank you for being a part of this game. ❤️
 

Any Digital audio workstation (DAW) will do the job. Reaper and audacity are great free ones if you are on windows. Reaper is more flexible and has much more to offer compared to audacity. As for some recording tips - make sure you have a decent microphone, try to reduce room noise as much as possible (echo/reverbs), you can try to make a blanket fort around the mic that is like cheapest DIY option. Cheers and have fun recording! 😄

Depends a bit on the number of applications, but i expect to send out some trial scripts in a week or two, but keep the applications open till we settle on our actors. 
You dont need to have a super professional mic, but its important the audio is crisp enough for us to do any quality editing. Making sure there are no echos or background sounds (recording in a closet is actually quite common) also helps.

Well i cant help it, I had so much fun creating my card for that contest so here I am!
I present my card a T4 pure shadow spell
Armageddon!

What this card does is pretty simple.
End of the world: 
Damages every single unit on the entire map including your own and allies. (not sure about numbers so I'm just throwing in 1500) every upgrade reduces the damage allied units take from it (U1-10%, U2-20%, U3-30%) Buildings are not effected. Cooldown 30seconds. 
Its not very complex and not very creative. I just played a lot of heroes of might and magic and i really loved to use armaggedon there.
 
Really like your idea of keeping this topic alive, maybe some more people will join us 🙂 

Time for another card, this time around its a twilight card.
The Thorn Empress

This units model should be based of the Overlord skin. I know it might look weird having a male model for a female creature but I'm also certain that a lot of things can be done with a model to make it look fitting. 
This unit comes with two abilities and yes,, it is missing the transformation ability but for a reason.
Recreation creates an aura surrounding the Thorn Empress that lowers the cost of Transforming Twilight Units. (5%, 10%, 15%, 20%) Should have the same range as breeding grounds.
Vile Blossom creates another aura where allied twilight creatures transfer some damage enemies do to them. However the damage your twilight units take is not reduced. (95%, 90%, 85%, 80%) This power should cost 50Power and lasts for 20seconds. 

Now that brings back memories! Armagedon + magic immunity was the stuff. 
Well, maybe it will be in the end only two of us, but I truly enjoy coming up with new cards, even if they will never see the light of day 😄
Also, I would maybe increase the damage reduction for allied units, so it cannot be used for griefing as much I guess. Fun idea otherwise!

Well i cant help it, I had so much fun creating my card for that contest so here I am!
I present my card a T4 pure shadow spell
Armageddon!

What this card does is pretty simple.
End of the world: 
Damages every single unit on the entire map including your own and allies. (not sure about numbers so I'm just throwing in 1500) every upgrade reduces the damage allied units take from it (U1-10%, U2-20%, U3-30%) Buildings are not effected. Cooldown 30seconds. 
Its not very complex and not very creative. I just played a lot of heroes of might and magic and i really loved to use armaggedon there.
 
Really like your idea of keeping this topic alive, maybe some more people will join us 🙂 

Might as well include the first idea I had, which is revisited Twilight T2 archer from my own submission into the contest. 
I just want to see more reskined Magma Hurler units 🤗
 
Cursewood
Uses Magma Hurler as a base.
Abilities:
Miasma Balls - Every 3 seconds, unit hurls a ball of infected miasma, dealing 210 damage to enemies in a 8m radius around its target, up to 330 in total. Enemies hit by the miasma are cursed: for the next 3 seconds, they will take extra 25% damage from entities infected by the Twilight curse. 
Transformation - The unit is infected with the Twilight Curse and can be transformed into any other Twilight creature. Activate to start the mutant process and choose a Twilight unit from the current deck to be transformed into. The current deck must contain at least one other Twilight unit whose orb requirements are met!
Impiety - When this unit is spawned through Transformation from other Twilight unit, its power cost is reduced by extra 15% on top of the usual reduction. When Cursewood is spawned in such a way, it will deal 50% less damage for 10 seconds. 

Recently, an awesome event took place with the Official Card Design Contest. As with any game and ever more so with card games, people simply do enjoy coming up with their own card ideas. No wonder, that this contest was super popular and arguably one of the most partaken in. Even the forum thread itself got over 100 replies, which is super nice (I myself am guilty of around 16 posts there *cough cough*).
Since it seems people still want to share their ideas, instead of making up new thread every time, I decided that it might be worth while to make a megathread, where new card suggestions can be posted. 
I would also like to point to this awesome site - https://smj.cards/creator , where you can create extremely good mock-ups of new SR cards. Go wild people! 
 

I'm not giving up! I will make this thread a thing damn it, or die trying! Oh well, at least I can went all my card ideas here :^)
Black Fog
T1 Shadow spell, that is not pure CC but fulfils a similiar role. Since Shadow mostly deals in indirect means, think this might fit the faction.
Infused Dense Cloud - Summons a dark thick fog at the target location with a diameter of 15 meters. As long as any unit is caught within the black clouds, it will have their vision reduced to the area of the fog (ie. can only see and attack entities within the 15 meter radius, can be attacked from outside). Leaving the fog area will restore sight. Lasts for 15 seconds.
Blessed Dense Cloud - Summons a dark thick fog at the target location with a diameter of 20 meters. As long as any building is located within the black clouds, it will have its vision reduced to the area of the fog (ie. can only see and attack enemies within the 20 meter radius, can be attacked from outside). Lasts for 15 seconds.

Honestly the prizes are just the cherry on top for me. Being able to share ideas and concepts was already a lot of fun for me. I wouldnt mind if we could do this again somewhere in the future :)

Honestly the prizes are just the cherry on top for me. Being able to share ideas and concepts was already a lot of fun for me. I wouldnt mind if we could do this again somewhere in the future :)

Honestly the prizes are just the cherry on top for me. Being able to share ideas and concepts was already a lot of fun for me. I wouldnt mind if we could do this again somewhere in the future :)

Honestly the prizes are just the cherry on top for me. Being able to share ideas and concepts was already a lot of fun for me. I wouldnt mind if we could do this again somewhere in the future :)

All prices (but 4) have been sent out - thx to Metagross - the last four have been contacted, once their ingame names have been gathered they will recieve their prices as well.

I know this may sound weird, I'm looking forward to the new cards and cosmetics... but the balance changes excited me the most! Thank you devs I cant wait to bring destruction with my worm... shadow worm i mean

Oh there are also balance changes huh? Looking forward to that!
oh yeah and "choo choo"

Oh there are also balance changes huh? Looking forward to that!
oh yeah and "choo choo"

It's time to announce the winners!
First, a big thanks to all involved in the contest, from the participants to the jurors and all in-between - the energy that emerged from the contest was great! Here is a link to the reveal stream, if you don't want to read that much and just want to check the top entries out:
 
 
Here are the winners of the Card Idea Contest:
 
PLATINUM TIER
The following entries have achieved platinum tier:

by Metagross31
 

by Ult
 

by Maze
 

by Kapo
 
GOLD+ TIER
The jurors decided to highlight five entries that outperform Gold tier, yet do not make it completely into platinum:

by Laze
 

by Jolares
 

by Styxious
 

by Weak1ings
 

by ElementG
 
GOLD TIER
There were so many excellent entries, re-formatting for presentation in the forums would be days and says of work, severely delaying the winner's announcement. So please click here to view them in a google docs:

CLICK HERE FOR THE GOLD TIER WINNERS
If you just want to check out if your entry landed in this tier, here is a shortlist of the Gold Tier winners:
Reminder: Even if your name comes up twice, you will only receive the prize of the highest achieved tier.
 
SILVER TIER
The following entries have achieved silver tier:

CLICK HERE FOR THE SILVER TIER WINNERS
 If you just want to check out if you landed in this tier, here is a "shortlist" of the Silver Tier winners:
 
 MEME TIER
Some entries aimed (hopefully intentionally) at meme-worthy content, so the jurors decided to split them off and select the best two of them in a Meme Tier:

by Damo
 
by WaterMelonLord


          
The prizes will be sent out within the next days. We all hope that you, even if you did not land in one of the top tiers, enjoyed this contest. This new encyclopedia of creative sparks will assist in the future development of cards for sure!
Best regards,
Skylords Reborn Team

 
 
 
 
 

I want to thank the devs and organizers for this contest it was so cool to see these ideas. I would really like to know what was wrong with my card but of course you cant talk about every single one. I still got gold I'm really happy, I'm hyped for the upcoming patch and I am very interested to see what you have in store for us in the future. 
Keep up the great work! 
...and hot damn some of those entries were sick, I mean look at the collection wow!

I want to thank the devs and organizers for this contest it was so cool to see these ideas. I would really like to know what was wrong with my card but of course you cant talk about every single one. I still got gold I'm really happy, I'm hyped for the upcoming patch and I am very interested to see what you have in store for us in the future. 
Keep up the great work! 
...and hot damn some of those entries were sick, I mean look at the collection wow!

Less than two hours until the stream starts!

Wow already? You guys sure are fast, with that many entries i thought we would see the results at the end of the month or in february. 

Wow already? You guys sure are fast, with that many entries i thought we would see the results at the end of the month or in february.