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iOS Online Boardgaming Megathread (Carcassonne, Everything Playdek, & Many More)
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It's also fairly early into the release and that could be attributed to people just not having the legendaries to be played. I think once we have a few more tourneys and the results are shown to be consistent we can use this data point as an argument.
Legendaries are strong, no doubt, but they aren't must have cards in every deck. I posted earlier that I find some rare/heroic cards stronger than legendaries and I'm considering cutting them. I do wish we could purchase normal boosters with silver though as I find many of the heroic cards to be must-haves.
Don't worry my screen said CzarTim wins.
Bankruptcy still broken, and I bet you still can't tell what your opponents did on their turn when you log in. Fail. Maybe in another four months.
I got a legendary from the daily reward basic pack yesterday. Felt good. :lol so as the game progresses, people will definitely get some.
Most underrated card IMHO is Darkshaper Savant (i think that's the one? Play a lower level card and opponent creatures gets -x/x). It's only a rare, not even a heroic, and it kicks all sorts of ass.
Most underrated card IMHO is Darkshaper Savant (i think that's the one? Play a lower level card and opponent creatures gets -x/x). It's only a rare, not even a heroic, and it kicks all sorts of ass.
RaySpencer
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Yeah, none of my games work right now.
Pretty hilarious how they could fuck this up so bad.
edit: I really like how games vanish and then reappear later. I just went through and tested all my games (10ish) and as soon as I checked the last one, all but that last one vanished from my list, haha.
I pre-ordered SimCity. Enough said.
A lot of the Rares are I think some of the best cards to make up the meat of decks. Legendaries often combo off of non-Legendaries. Only Legendary I definitely wouldn't give up (and I have a ton of Robot ones) is Oracle, but even she's weak early on to Cull and other kill effects.
RaySpencer
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Ehhh, SimCity mostly worked though.... it was just tiny and shitty. haha.
Eh, it's a beta so I can live with it. Kind of rough if they are selling pricey packs and things aren't working, but realistically the damn game is like 20% out so if you're spending money just to play randos in a beta that's totally legit but that's on you. Looks like September is when we'll get a realer release. Still glad to have the chance to play the game for real and burn all my KS money building a nice deck to use against said randos (when the game works).
No, it didn't work. Servers were down for almost the entire launch week, and it was and still is buggy as hell.
Not to mention the missing features
There are 29 legendaries, so to get a full playset assuming you never get a duplicate would require buying 76 premium packs (at 1.15 legendaries per pack). That works out at 247000 gold, or $823 dollars. IF you get no duplicates of any legendary.
For equivalence sake, the last MTG expert set had 9 legendary cards in a playset of 166 cards, so 6% were ultra-rare rather than the 18% Solforge has. Additionally, a full playset including 4 of every card of that set would set you back $550 right now - and obviously you would be able to sell it on or trade it when you don't like it.
Don't get me wrong - I really like Solforge. I kickstarted from the start because Ascension is so good, and really enjoy playing it. But the pricing structure and the sheer number of ultra-rare cards is substantially out of line with other CCGs and will really hinder the game I think. It also feels quite greedy to be frank to have that many ultra-rare cards.
For equivalence sake, the last MTG expert set had 9 legendary cards in a playset of 166 cards, so 6% were ultra-rare rather than the 18% Solforge has. Additionally, a full playset including 4 of every card of that set would set you back $550 right now - and obviously you would be able to sell it on or trade it when you don't like it.
Don't get me wrong - I really like Solforge. I kickstarted from the start because Ascension is so good, and really enjoy playing it. But the pricing structure and the sheer number of ultra-rare cards is substantially out of line with other CCGs and will really hinder the game I think. It also feels quite greedy to be frank to have that many ultra-rare cards.
Another one is the Technosmith, which is only a common. But not playing it in an Alloyin deck would be weird. Levelling up your cards "for free" is an extremely powerful power, which you discover in the late game playing Titan 3s after Titan 3s.
In fact, I'm not sure I would always play an Oracle instead of a Technosmith in a turn. It's just that good.
RaySpencer
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On Steam its 'Early Access' but I cant seem to find anything on iOS claiming that its still a beta.
Sure, but SolForge has been 'out' for a lot longer than a week. Also, I think a few more people were trying to play SimCity than SolForge
Anyway, forget SimCity, SolForge should work by now, or they should at least have something on their front page saying 'Hey! Sorry shit is broken right now, we're working on it' you have to go into their forums to find that stuff.
I really think you're overestimating the quality of legendaries.
RaySpencer
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Technosmith is solid, but don't forget that Oracle is once-per-turn. So as long as you survive Turn 1 (which you will save a Kill effect, which forces an opponent to waste a card and possibly more) you get the Technosmith benefit while also having a better damage sponge and the chance to continue to cash in. I used to run both, but Oracle is enough for me. Especially since I have 1x of that guy that lets you play free Robots. You can get into situations where you are leveling with two Oracles, playing a free robot, and playing two regular cards i.e., dumping and leveling your entire hand in a turn. This is why Robots are so tough to beat lategame.
I wouldn't say using a kill card on an oracle is "wasting it" though. Worst case, it's a kill card that also damages other card(s) you've played as well as killing your oracle.
But it is situational. If I don't have any good upgradable cards drawn, then it's a pretty easy decision to play an oracle instead of a techosmith. But if I had a titan (or a chrogie in an alloyin/uterra deck), then I would play the technosmith in a heartbeat. This because there's a good chance you won't get one of those nice upgradable cards next turn, and there's also a good chance that your oracle won't survice to be used twice (at least against players who know how good the oracle is).
Edit: that got me thinking... your strategy is obviously better against bad players, while I've been playing the hard AI too much who always pull out a kill card when I play the oracle.
RaySpencer
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I got my log in reward. Cant get the other ones though.
RaySpencer
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Me too, I doubt I will ever put money into it, because thats a slippery slope for me and CCG/TCGs
FREE ALL THE WAY.
Wait, so instead of fixing any bugs, they added a new one? That's just... wow.
Our game is still going. In fact, it's your turn!
I can't believe the crash-upon-game-launch bug is still in.
You do realize the rewards renew 22h after getting them last, not at midnight, right?
RaySpencer
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RaySpencer
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Dont even say these things man!
Side question, is Hearthstone coming to iOS? I watched a video of that and it looks amazing.
It cant be another goko situation since we're all hoping solforge turns it around. I mean, we've talked kinda positively about this for the last 300 posts. All we did about goko was say bad things for about 150 posts
RaySpencer
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Im hoping Goko turns it around. Ive just played Dominion before, so its less exciting, haha.
So... uh... there's this:
Pretty good you think? Think again, there's also this:
No restriction to robots, not even creatures, AND he's stronger. And he's not even "level of card" restricted, like the Arcsquadron card is. wtf. talk about OP. The only drawback? At levels 1 and 2, your opponent gets the same benefit. So you might have to give him a handout twice. Or play it and kill it right off.
Pretty good you think? Think again, there's also this:
No restriction to robots, not even creatures, AND he's stronger. And he's not even "level of card" restricted, like the Arcsquadron card is. wtf. talk about OP. The only drawback? At levels 1 and 2, your opponent gets the same benefit. So you might have to give him a handout twice. Or play it and kill it right off.
I have zero games on my list right now.
There's several other overpowered level 3 cards as well (hello Chrogias), but what they have in common is that they're mostly pretty naff on level 1 and 2.
So if you play 3 of them on level 1 and 2, you're going to get punished severely on those levels. But if you make it to level 3 without too many bruises and get them drawn, then you're in a good spot. But that's a big if.
I think of them as high risk/reward cards. Nice to have a few of them in your deck, but not something to base your deck on.
When I posted yesterday, it had been more than 30 hours since I got my last rewards.
Maybe I've been lucky, but I'm losing more against the hard AI than against randoms online.
So if you play 3 of them on level 1 and 2, you're going to get punished severely on those levels. But if you make it to level 3 without too many bruises and get them drawn, then you're in a good spot. But that's a big if.
I think of them as high risk/reward cards. Nice to have a few of them in your deck, but not something to base your deck on.
When I posted yesterday, it had been more than 30 hours since I got my last rewards.
Maybe I've been lucky, but I'm losing more against the hard AI than against randoms online.
Yes it is comi to iOS. And yes it is fairly amazing. I am honestly surprised by how much I like it.
It's funny because about midway through I'm thinking I'm going to get trounced. Then I got all sniper happy and you couldn't do much about it...really set me up nicely!
GG, kind, sir.
AirBrian 14/20 (NY)
eznark 10/20 (Smart)
It's funny because about midway through I'm thinking I'm going to get trounced. Then I got all sniper happy and you couldn't do much about it...really set me up nicely!
GG, kind, sir.
AirBrian 14/20 (NY)
eznark 10/20 (Smart)
Yeah I got kind of boned mid draw you were able to position those snipers in such a way that I essentially couldn't do a thing about it. Those fucking regenerating snipers are the worst.
Yes that is my favorite card.
I've only been playing 3 days and I got a rage born hellion legendary which is pretty good.
Not even sure how I got the standard pack. Some reward for something.
Haha I got decimated there. I don't know what I was thinking when I exposed my summoner at the beginning, but yeah, GG!
Ahh I totally had you confused with Mercviper!
The daily reward is silver plus either a single card, basic pack, normal pack or even a premium pack if you get really lucky. I mostly get basic pack, then cards, then some normal packs too. Never gotten lucky enough for a premium, although those are understandably more rare to get.