While We Wait: Writer's Block & Other Lame Excuses

[Thlayli]

It's true. I have the same problem with CK2. I just can't wrap my head around any of it.

I mean the basic concept is 'maek land bigger' which is not much different from Civ or anything else, the means of doing it are just slightly different.

I personally prefer to screw over my own dynasty and join any war being fought against infidels anywhere and waste all my manpower saving Christendom, but to each their own.

 

[mrrandomplayer]

I am a diehard blue control player for life, so I will be completely unbiased when I lament about how unfavorable Standard is towards blue control.

However, there was a big meta shift this weekend at the World Championships and Player's Championship because everyone switched to UWR Control to beat Jund.

Esper Control doesn't get enough love...

 

[Tsoate]

Never, ever have played blue. Black and green are my usual go-too's. If i can run a rogue, mono-black deck i will! Had a great time during the mirrodin block with a deck built around Gravepact and Rotlung Reanimator. Really stopped some decks in their tracks.

 

[Angst]

I actually never knew Rotlung reanimator.

And mrrandomplayer, Esper control is almost always viable. People just sometimes stay out of black due to the means often being present in white to begin with...

Also didn't you mean you will be completely biased? Your sentence looks weird - I feel the same way about monoR aggro btw, my kind of tournament deck (yet to try Blitz) but I must say a big part of it is that WotC just prints so many obvious hosers of R...

 

[Tsoate]

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[Angst]

Kind of has issues against token decks tho (unless you were able to go infinite), but I don't think they were a thing back then.

 

[mrrandomplayer]

I was being sarcastic. Esper Control has an awful matchup vs. Jund, which has been bad in Standard at the moment.

 

[Tsoate]

Oh yes, it wasn't golden, but at the time, Broodstar was the King, and it ran very few creatures, so if you got a Gravepact on the deck, it was GG. I won a few FMN with it, but doubt it would have gone further.

A janky rogue deck who could actually do some damage.. just after the Skull Clamp ban era.

Edit, also, sideboard:

 

[Tycho]

Myself, I run a mixture of a heavy token spamming deck and a regular creature deck (typically with high defense), and I was wondering, what are the counters to the deck that I should watch out for, and what exactly does it counter itself?

 

[Angst]

Can you exemplify some of your card choices, what colors you're in, etc?

 

[Tsoate]

Perhaps there is a thread elsewhere on CFC for MtG discussion?

EDIT: Lets bump this one: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=4273

 

[qoou]

What's a cfc?

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Civilization Fanatics Center. The website that you are currently browsing.

 

[Symphony D.]

The EVE has reached his brain. He's dead already.

 

[Masada]

That which was already dead cannot die.

 

[Shadowbound]

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaft, can I play around with your Throne of Destiny ruleset to adapt it for a project of my own? Also with any thoughts you have regarding its implementation.

 

[Daftpanzer]

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaft, can I play around with your Throne of Destiny ruleset to adapt it for a project of my own? Also with any thoughts you have regarding its implementation.

Why of course you can! This would be the spending point shenanigans?

My reflections are that it is very difficult to get players to make difficult spending decisions. They will want to spend 0.5, 0.2, 0.1 of a point on various things at once. It is hard to convince players that they will not be screwed over for not investing in, or at least thinking about, various other concerns. So while it was intended to be an elegant system, it didn't really work out in that sense - players just love to have more control over whatever points-of-spending are in play.

As and when I relaunch that, I think it will be with a submission to the Eco Point convention of NESing, albeit with some kind of Epic Points available to give your nation a big boost in some very specific direction; but as an addition to, rather than a replacement of, the aforementioned Eco Point.

 

[Symphony D.]

Shock: people don't like coarse-grained systems!

If you wanted it to be used as an integer system regardless, why didn't you just not allow division of points?

 

[Daftpanzer]

Shock: people don't like coarse-grained systems!

If you wanted it to be used as an integer system regardless, why didn't you just not allow division of points?

We're going back quite a few years, I recall some people embraced it, but others kept sending orders that broke the system - me being me, I just took liberties with that and generally glossed over it.

Indeed, in hindsight I think coarse-grained systems are good for moderators and no-one else. Or maybe good for very fast paced board-style NESes, but not one where many hours are spent on each update regardless.

 

[Symphony D.]

Welp, I'm excited for 2015/2016.


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