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    posted a message on Is SN1P-SN4P too good?

    *shrugs* I can understand the TTK combo concerns, but when comparing the two Mechs one is a Common from the Classic set, and the other is a Legendary from a set that rotates out of Standard. I think it's "fair" for SN1P-SN4P to be a lot better than Harvest Golem.

    Posted in: Card Discussion
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    posted a message on Turns out Alexstrasza vs an 80 Health boss is pretty OP

    Alexstrasza was banned for certain old Adventure bosses, and she's the major reason why Heroic bosses since then have a mixture of Health and Armor. She has warped single-player content since the beginning heh

    Posted in: Adventures
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    posted a message on Weekly Card Design Competition 9.20 - Submission Topic


    This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here.


    Competition Theme: Herbicide

    This week's theme comes from CheeseEtc , whose "I'd Tap That" was the winner of our Anarchy competition!

    Competition-Specific Restrictions:


    General Competition Rules

    These are the rules that remain consistent from competition to competition.

    First, these are the rules about Posting:

    • You are allowed to submit only one entry . An entry normally consists of only one collectible card, plus any necessary additional material or commentary (explained below).
    • You are allowed to post in this Submission Topic only once , only to submit your one entry.
    • You may not delete ANY posts you make in this Submission Topic , not even accidental ones you may make over your one allowed, such as by double-posting or by accidentally posting something here that you meant for the Discussion Topic. If you do accidentally post more than once, inform any of the Fan Creation Forum moderators via PM, and we will handle it.
    • Speaking of the Discussion Topic, that is where any discussion of this competition should go. This thread is for submissions only . If you want to discuss your card or ask questions about the competition rules or process, you can find a link to the Discussion Topic at the top of this thread. Plenty of folks there will be happy to help you out.
    • Once you have submitted your one entry, you are allowed to make only minor changes to it. Minor changes are things like correcting typos or making balance changes that do not alter the spirit of your entry as determined by we the moderators. If you want to make any changes and have any doubts as to their legality, ask us first.

    These are the rules about your Submission:

    • Accompanying the image of your card, you may offer some minimal additional commentary to explain its design, balance, and/or other qualities. Flavor text is also welcome.
    • You may not submit any Gold cards or animated cards. (It's just a cheap attention grab tactic that makes it unnecessarily difficult to determine what class your card is for.)
    • Your entry must be a card of your own creation . We've been doing this for a while, so if you blatantly rip off somebody else's idea, we will know.
    • Remember that, although HearthCards is awesome, you MUST host your card somewhere other than Hearthcards. Save it and upload it to Imgur , Photobucket , or some other similar site. HearthCards has a limited server space and will purge cards after a few days, and nobody wants your card disappearing part-way through the finals. We understand that there are some HearthCards memberships that will allow you to save your card there for longer (and you should totally get one of those just for general fan creation purposes, by the way), but we don't know who has those memberships and we can't tell from the URLs.
    • When you post your Imgur link, make sure it's the actual image and not the hosting page! You need to right-click and open the image in a new window/tab first; the link should have an "i" in front of it, "i.imgur.XXXX". HearthPwn won't be able to direct-post your card, otherwise.
    • Fun and even humorous entries are perfectly allowed, but "troll" entries will be disqualified. If you're worried that your card may be misinterpreted as a troll card, contact a moderator before you submit. Emote-related cards will be considered a troll entry.
    • We reserve the right to classify cards as "troll" entries as we deem necessary, even if the reasoning is not explicitly stated in the rules.

    A Note on Group Submissions: if you team up with other people to submit an entry, you must enclose that information in your submission and none of you may upvote that entry. That would be considered an unfair advantage and we will treat it as vote-manipulation. You are technically voting for yourself, and that is not allowed. Failing to tell us you're in a group is also against the rules, as we'll have no choice but to assume that you withheld the information to ghost-vote your group's submission.

    TIP: Though not a rule exactly, we highly recommend that you insert your images using this icon on the bar above the post text editor: . Just click that button and put in the URL of your image. Cards that are uploaded and attached to your post are not disallowed, but in our experience they will not do nearly as well, so this is for your own benefit more than anything.

    Finally, know that manipulating votes in any way is strictly forbidden. Any violators will receive an official warning, and will be banned from this and all future HearthPwn Card Design Competitions.


    Competition Process

    Preview Phase (Starts Now! Ends 21:00 UTC 23/5/2019)
    During this Phase, the Discussion Topic is made available, previewing this week's competition theme.
    Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts 21:00 UTC 23/5/2019, Ends 21:00 UTC 27/5/2019)
    During this Phase, the Submission Topic is made available for your submissions. You may also, of course, feel free to give early up-votes to any submissions that you like!
    Voting Phase (Starts 21:00 UTC 27/5/2019, Ends 21:00 UTC 28/5/2019)
    During this Phase, the Submission Topic will be locked, so no more entries may be submitted. Instead, use this time to browse the submissions and up-vote your favorites!
    Final Phase (Starts 21:00 UTC 28/5/2019, Ends 21:00 UTC 29/5/2019)
    During this Phase, the Discussion Topic will also be locked, and a new Poll Topic will go up. Discussion will be allowed to continue in the Poll Topic, and it will also include all the qualifying finalists and poll to decide the winner of the competition!







    How do we determine the qualifying finalists? First, we'll pull up-vote data from each submission using the formula detailed below:

    ( ab ) / ( c ) = x

    Where,
    a = The total number of submissions on the same page as the submission.
    b = The total number of up-votes that the submission received.
    c = The total number of up-votes on the same page as the submission.
    x = The submission's final score.



    The formula basically measures which cards stood out the most, with the necessary assumption that each page is about equal in overall submission quality. It will be the entries that receive the highest final scores that move on to the Final Phase.

    The bottom line is that, although entries on the earlier pages of the Submission Topic are much more visible and thus receive many more up-votes than entries on later pages, you don't actually have to rush to get your entry in as soon as possible because the up-votes end up being weighted by what page your entry ends up on in order to determine its final score.

    But wait, there's more! During each Weekly Card Design Competition, each Fan Creation Forum moderators will be given a Wild Card , which they can use to advance any one entry that they feel was initially overlooked or under-appreciated to the Final Phase, regardless of its final score. Wild Cards are our way of spicing things up a bit, but please don't ask to be given one or be upset if you aren't given one. These are just supposed to be fun.
    (Also, it should go without saying that, while we moderators are allowed to participate in the competitions, we are not allowed to benefit from Wild Cards.)


    Rewards

    Bragging rights are always awesome, but as usual, we do offer a couple of HearthPwn site rewards to competition winners:
    Their card forever immortalized in our Winners' Gallery !
    They will be allowed to select the next card design competition theme.
    And a unique Avatar Border & " Card Design Champion " Title, as depicted below!



    Looking for more information about the WCDC or Fan Creations in general? Why not check out this FAQ to see if your question is answered there? You can also PM one of us Fan Creation Mods!


    Good Luck!

    Posted in: Fan Creations
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    posted a message on Weekly Card Design Competition 9.20 - Discussion Topic


    This is the Discussion Topic. The Submission Topic is here.


    Competition Theme: Herbicide

    This week's theme comes from CheeseEtc, whose "I'd Tap That" was the winner of our Anarchy competition!

    Competition-Specific Restrictions:


     Competition Process

     Preview Phase (Starts Now! Ends 21:00 UTC 23/5/2019)
    During this Phase, the Discussion Topic is made available, previewing this week's competition theme.
     Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts 21:00 UTC 23/5/2019, Ends 21:00 UTC 27/5/2019)
    During this Phase, the Submission Topic is made available for your submissions. You may also, of course, feel free to give early up-votes to any submissions that you like!
     Voting Phase (Starts 21:00 UTC 27/5/2019, Ends 21:00 UTC 28/5/2019)
    During this Phase, the Submission Topic will be locked, so no more entries may be submitted. Instead, use this time to browse the submissions and up-vote your favorites!
     Final Phase (Starts 21:00 UTC 28/5/2019, Ends 21:00 UTC 29/5/2019)
    During this Phase, the Discussion Topic will also be locked, and a new Poll Topic will go up. Discussion will be allowed to continue in the Poll Topic, and it will also include all the qualifying finalists and poll to decide the winner of the competition! 


    Discussion Topic Rules

    To make sure that everything runs smoothly, we need to reserve the Submission Topic for submissions only. Everything else goes here. What is everything else, you might ask?

    • Rules or Process. Do you have a question about the competition's process? Do you need clarification about one of the entry requirements? Are you not sure whether your entry adhered to the rules? Ask here!
    • Feedback or Ideas. Do you have some ideas you'd like to run by others before settling on one? Do you need help balancing or wording your entry? Do you need help finding art that will fit your card? Or do you just want feedback from the community on your entry? You're in the right place! Remember, although you are allowed to make minor tweaks to your entry after you've submitted it, you're only allowed one submission per week, so make sure that you've settled on your card for sure beforehand.
    • Discussion! Do you have thoughts on other people's entries? Are there directions you don't like that you're seeing too many people take? Or directions you'd like to see more people take? Would you like to help others and contribute to a greater community understanding of Hearthstone card design and balance? This is where you want to be!

    All of that said, please refrain from the following:

    • Posting TONS of Ideas. Discussion topics become an absolute mess if everybody is posting a dozen different ideas. Please post not more than 3 distinct ideas at a time. Any more than that and we'll have to delete your post.
    • Advertising Your Entry. Please don't pop in here just to advertise your entry only to never be heard from again. This includes only asking short, generic, or insincere questions like "Thoughts?" or "Do you think this is interesting?". Yes, getting feedback on your entry is one of the purposes of this topic, but we're not just here for other people to help you. We're here for you all to help each other. 12 hours after this competition begins, there should be plenty of other posts here for you to give specific feedback or for you to comment on a trend. If you post your entry for feedback after this time and do not also offer some form of substantial commentary, critique, or praise of others' work, you may find your post deleted.
    • Plagiarism. Many people post their ideas here before finalizing them in the submission topic. Directly plagiarizing those ideas to post in the submission topic yourself is absolutely not acceptable.

    Looking for more information about the WCDC or Fan Creations in general? Why not check out this FAQ to see if your question is answered there? You can also PM one of us Fan Creation Mods!

    Posted in: Fan Creations
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    posted a message on Weekly Card Design Competition 9.19 - Discussion Topic
    Quote from ZardozSpeaks2 >>

     A better link would have helped.

     Wowpedia had the best list I could find :/ It was too thorough, I guess, or the prompt needed to explain itself better.

    Posted in: Fan Creations
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    posted a message on Game of Thrones is disappointing

    It was certainly...a thing that happened. Not sure what to say about it, really. When the major moment happened, I turned to everyone else and was like "uhhh...we still have half the episode left." I was thinking things might become hectic, but then they didn't.

    And now I wait for His Dark Materials, a book series I've actually read. I can be one of those "but the books!" people for once lel

    Posted in: General Chat
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    posted a message on TRIALS AND ERRORS (Class Creation Competition #5) - GRAND FINALE [Discussion Topic]

    We've got a week left to go before this final Submission Phase is done. Win or lose, I'll be glad when this is all over so I can worrying about it so much: the long lulls between submitting and the final poll makes me anxious, and then the poll makes me more anxious lel

    Posted in: Fan Creations
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    posted a message on Comps ignoring taunt on invincible mukla is some lazy design

    It's part of Immunity: much like Stealth, you cannot have Immune and Taunt at the same time. Until the Immunity goes away, the Taunt is suppressed.

    Posted in: Adventures
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    posted a message on Weekly Card Design Competition 9.19 - Discussion Topic
    Quote from Cogito_Ergo_Sum >>

    Alright so. Are we allowed to create Legendary minions? I know we aren't allowed to use named heroes. But are we allowed to make a Legendary minion that is based on a basic unit? (e.g. Steve, the Laziest Peon)

     I personally believe Legendary minions are in violation of the theme's spirit, as you are taking what is otherwise an expendable RTS unit and making them a special named character.

    Quote from Wailor >>
    Quote from Cogito_Ergo_Sum >>

    Alright so. Are we allowed to create Legendary minions? I know we aren't allowed to use named heroes. But are we allowed to make a Legendary minion that is based on a basic unit? (e.g. Steve, the Laziest Peon)

     What's more... Not being able to use named heroes means we can use hero classes as a non-legendary minion? Like Pit Lord or Crypt Lord.

     We're looking for the expendable, replaceable, basic units from WC3. I think the underlying rule of thumb should be "if you could not build more of them in the RTS, you cannot make a card out of them." ...I'll have to write that in the prompt.

    Quote from Kovachut >>

    Am I allowed to use a name, that is already "taken" by another user. I have a different idea for Lazy Peon.

     I don't see why not, as long as you're not looking to steal their idea outright. Coincidental names have never been an issue before.

    Quote from CheeseEtc >>

    Fuck yeah! Nostalgia theme! Just a few questions:

     

     As I alluded to above, I believe, to remain true to kingdoemi's intention, that all of those are a No. We want the RTS units that you can build.

    Posted in: Fan Creations
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    posted a message on Game of Thrones is disappointing
    Quote from Everdawn >>

     

    2) Message turns out to be shit..Don't care if it is fantasy, action, thriller, german bdsm porn, a message must exist..Right now the only message this show sends is "you cannot escape your past" and thats a shitty message to send.. Seriously, her father was mad so she has to be mad, just lazy, lame and cliché..

     This is the part that personally bothers me the most: the nihilist message we're being given. Maybe people (like myself) shouldn't have expected a happy ending, and maybe this was GRRM's ultimate point all along, but I really did not need 8+ years of story to end with "nothing matters, you can't escape your past or overcome your deficiencies, everyone is fucked." Real life is cynical enough as it is.

    I'll paraphrase an article I read: "the showrunners said that this final season would be 'bittersweet', but they pushed too much 'bitter' and not enough 'sweet'."

    Posted in: General Chat
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    posted a message on Weekly Card Design Competition 9.19 - Discussion Topic
    Quote from Shatterstar1998 >>
    Quote from thepowrofcheese >>
     

     Yeah this one need a hit in stat point. Houndmaster Shaw is the only minion with 3/6 statline and an effect, and he's a class Legendary.

     Water Elemental. I agree with your overall point, but...yeah. Water Elemental is a 4/3/6 with an effect.

    Posted in: Fan Creations
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    posted a message on Weekly Card Design Competition 9.19 - Discussion Topic
    Quote from ZardozSpeaks2 >>

    Here's what I got, Lazy Peon is my favorite. Meat Wagon probably needs a different price or stats. 

     I like Lazy Peon as well. Meat Wagon already exists, so I'm not a fan of the Warrior card.

    Posted in: Fan Creations
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    posted a message on Weekly Card Design Competition 9.19 - Discussion Topic
    Quote from Raptor89 >>

    Are duplicate names acceptable?

     No? There can't be two different cards named the same thing.

    Posted in: Fan Creations
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