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Arena, or how to introduce shards without an active playerbase

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serprex:
Currently one can only farm upped SoFos off FG. Otherwise shards are only accessible from Oracle, with a lower drop rate than nymphs

I was considering options between T50 or Arena or an AI1/AI4 that has shards

For an arena, I'd implement something like oetg's arena, but remove decay. So after awhile it'd be 20 of the classic monosofr or monoaether or monodark or dbh or stallbow

Turlututu suggested instead of implementing an arena, it could be something like a curated set of decks. ie like FG except the decks would be tuned like plat arena decks, & they'd have shards

Curious for people's take on this, & any suggested deck lists for classic plat decks welcome

Naii_the_Baf:
I like the idea of a curated set of decks. If we want to stay closer to the idea of arena we can pick a random card and build decks as if it was the oracle card for the arena deck. Plat decks in original were OP as it is, even with the bigger decks and sometimes jank.

The original forum has a section where players would post their decks: https://elementscommunity.org/forum/platinum-league-decks/

It could be an idea to grab some decks from there and build others with some of the cards that were introduced in oetg. Also gives a good base for what made for good and bad plat arena decks and decks can be tuned after that.

In particular, MrMuffin's thread has a lot of high-ranking decks.

serprex:

--- Quote from: Naii_the_Baf on July 22, 2023, 10:56:41 pm ---It could be an idea to grab some decks from there and build others with some of the cards that were introduced in oetg. Also gives a good base for what made for good and bad plat arena decks and decks can be tuned after that.

--- End quote ---
This is Legacy, there are no new cards

But funny that I was flipping through dragonsdemesne's & my own arena decks thread without thinking to use thembas a source of arena decks

Turlututu:
Reproducing the Arena exactly as it was does not seem doable since that would require players actively building new decks, and most of the legacy etg community has its attention rightfully turned to Sparklmonkey's project.

Instead, here's my proposal:
1) Have a "Top50" that's actually a collection of notable fully upped PVP decks. They'd have 100HP and no bonus, so they'd be like a much harder AI3.
— Ideally this would include OTKs and other complex combos, but I assume that would require giving the AI specific instructions for each of those decks. I don't know if this is doable.
— This category is centred on PVP nostalgia, so it doesn't have to be a good way to farm. In fact it could just as well cost 0 to play and give no prize.
(— Also, I want that in regular oetg too :-p)

2) Also have a separate option for farming rares, where every deck is centered around some rare cards (with a focus on shards). Decks would have varying HP and bonuses to make the most of their strategy, for example SoBr and SoFre decks would focus on draw and mark power to maximize speed while SoDiv and SoFo decks would focus on HP and deck size to maximize endurance.
— Bonus rare spin after every N wins in a row, let's say 3.

Manuel:
the arena was one of the funniest features in etg but is impossible to replicate

i don't remember the drops in old etg, i remember i farmed shards on 30+ accounts with no problems at all

i would make them drop from normal, elders and half gods, like every SINGLE spin should have a 5-10% chance to drop A SHARD

level 0 has no spin
level 1 & 2 have 1
level 3 have 2
level 4 have 3 spins + upped cards

color of the shard is based on the elements used by the deck, winning against a :entropy :death deck can give sosac or sose and so on

also i can't find any link to access vanilla/legacy or whatever is the name, is this? http://testetg.dek.im/

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