Discussion thread for contest #2.

[menace64]

I don't mind hosting another contest, either after the conclusion of Lairs or beginning as early as this week. (If we decide to run 2 contests simultaneously, I'd like to stagger them, preferring to make Tuesday night the regular deadline for contest #2).

I think it'd be best to democratize the parameters of this successor contest. Do we want a bigger/smaller cardlist? Longer/shorter rounds? Tighter theme? No theme? Hawaiian theme?

What else comes to mind?

[Cw0rk]

I think that the length of rounds is fine.

I like when we have a theme. It forces me to think more before submitting something.

You could decide a minimum/maximum number of cards for each culture as some cultures were not represented in Lairs.

[menace64]

If I had to pick a direction to go in, I'd want the next contest to be called Lords.

[azogsbane]

Here's an idea: the first round could be a contest to come up with the best new loaded keyword. That would then also become a theme to draw from the cards that follow.

[menace64]

There's a higher variance of the contest becoming a house of cards if we vote on mechanics/keywords, since that's two layers of unplaytested ideamongering.

[Durin's Heir]

I'd rather have each round last 5 days only, for 2 reasons: 1) it gets frustrating to be forced to wait a whole week to create a new card, and 2) in week-long Rounds, a set of 25 (non-Misadventure deck) cards equals to almost half a year (go figure!). 5 days is enough to create something well thought, but 28.57% shorter. I just don't want my beard to go grey before the whole bunch of Sets gets finished (and if you believe 2020 is crazy... wait to see what Bill Gates, the Central Banks and the UN will bring us in 2021!). So let's have a better pace and keep our heads cool.

Another thing I'd like to change: the definition of each Round's card position. Keep it random of course, BUT if the dice would be thrown not just for the current Round's position, but also for the next 1 or 2 in advance, that would enable us to tinker ideas for the successive Rounds according to beliefs (or truth tables) of the current Round's possible outcome. And by being able to work cards in advance, any shortening of the Rounds' length will be less burdensome.


Simultaneous Sets... I like the idea as far as is not more than 2, or we'll be losing the focus and pace very soon.

If I had to pick a direction to go in, I'd want the next contest to be called Lords.

Lordy!

[Cw0rk]

If the number of cards to make comes close to the one of a real set, you may also want to consider setting a minimum number for cards of each type. Events tends to be less flamboyant than artifact thus may receive less votes.

[menace64]

How about we set a Maximum instead of a Minimum? If we frontload the contest winners with minions and artifacts, we'll exhaust our slots for those card types, necessitating "less flashy" cards in the later rounds?

We could devise a card type ratio in advance. In a 25 card set, we could say: 4 FP characters, 4 minions, 5 conditions, 4 events, 3 possessions, 2 sites, 2 artifacts, 1 wild card. Once the Max is hit, that card type is stricken from play (unless you qualify in your submission that you are using the set's wild card).

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I'd love to try a contest where we play 5-day rounds, but I'm less in favor of pre-announcing several cards at once. Speeding up is one thing, but I want us thinking about the same move at the same time.