Although I'd personally like to wait and see how things turn out over multiple competitions before anything changes, we maybe could have done a better job at getting people to go and vote in the finals, even those that don't take part in the competitions themselves.
Anything that can improve the voting experience is A+.
As far as increasing outreach, the fan portal page is great, but I'd put card voting directly on that page, perhaps a sidebar widget of some sort. If someone makes it to that page, they'd immediately be enticed to vote on the card. You could put such a widget on the front page, or the hearthstone portal front page, but I understand if space on those pages is better dedicated to other content (decks, articles, other card games etc).
Interesting to see how this turned out. All 8 finalists were very close in their final score. Only 0.3 separate 1st from 8th place! This does kinda make me wonder if this is the right scoring system to be using? I wasn't sure how scoring was being done, I voted for my own card and didn't vote for the other finalists in the final round. I guess it incentivizes me to give them all 1 star? That feels lame and I didn't want to do that. Might be a good call to not let finalists vote in the final round?
It is nice that later entries (like mine) were still able to compete and still received a good number of views and votes, which was a problem back on hearthpwn.
I don't know if any changes need to be made just yet. But I will say that I already like this better than the old system on Hearthpwn.
Mummy Momma - 3 stars - The art is pretty nice! The effect is balanced. But... when you use the Classic watermark on a card that has not 1, but 2 keywords not available in Classic, it's off-putting (to me at least, I know some people don't care about this as much). In addition to Reborn being mainly an Uldum mechanic, the art screams Uldum to me. Also, the name could be better but that's not as bad as the other criticism.
Thanks for the review! I actually feel pretty differently about this. I use the default classic watermark for most cards. Using the Uldum watermark doesn't make sense to me, since this is a custom card and will never be a part of that set. Still, I see your point. Maybe I'll start going with no watermarks.
New voting system is interesting... I'm not used to the 5 star rating system. I'm glad I could go back and change ratings. I handed out some 1 and 2s that in retrospect, were decent compared to some really bad or non-sensical entries.
I kinda prefer being able to see all cards at once. It's hard to judge cards in a vacuum, easier to compare good and bad cards. Not sure the 5 stars are needed either. I'd go for a 3 rating system, bad, middle of the road, great.
cool to see these are back! The custom card scene really crashed a year ago after the all the drama at the old site. Glad to see we've got a dedicated system for this. I'll give it a shot and see what I think about the interface.
Thanks for the detailed feedback. I actually doubt you'd want to run more than 1 pack creation card in a deck. Even highlander decks don't need that much value, and might opt for Archivist Elysiana instead. Ava is obviously the best, but I think it'd be a nice way to force the current expansion into the spotlight, especially for underused cards in that set. Still, I might increase her mana.
Sarge: I was thinking that 'weird card draw' is a hunter identity. Rogues get good card draw, hunters get card draw with weird strings attached, like waiting a turn. But I did specifically model this card off Shaku.
Alonsus, I might increase the cost, but It needs to be competitive with something like Greater Healing Potion, 4 mana heal 12.
Russel- Hall of Fame cards are actually quite bad on average when randomly generated. Genn Greymane, Baku, all the even/odd cards, Conceal, Ice Lance, Molten Giant, Captains Parrot. I count 24 hall of fame cards with only 7 good ones: Naturalize, Iceblock, Divine Favor, Mindblast, Vannish, Sylvanas and Ragnaros. Even if some good cards like Leeroy are added, there's still a lot of mediocre or situational stuff.
Malto, not great I realize. I might go back to the drawing board entirely on this effect. It's an overly complicated Evolved Kobold.
Pack Slammin Urk- I actually think this might be OP. 8 Mana and you're probably going to deal 20+ damage to the board and Urk survives. I was considering a higher cost.
Elise: also might revist this concept and try somethign entirely new. Too similar to Velaris. As for stats, it's the stats on the original elise. So I think she should be 3/5 or 5/5 like the later two elise cards.
Hey, working on this mini set of legendaries based on characters from the animated shorts. It's a set about Hearthstone itself, about cards and packs and card sets. I'm trying to use art that includes hearthstone cards in the image. I imagine this as some kind of promo-set, maybe for an event or giveaway. Check it out!
Ava creates a pack from the latest standard expansion set (currently Descent of Dragons). Whizbang creates a pack from a random set in Wild (currently any set from Goblins vs Gnomes through Kobolds and Catacombs).
The stuff about the flavor of the keyword is interesting. The Freeze keyword is fairly uncommon, as far as keywords go, but you can imagine if it was called 'Stun' and had the same effect, we'd be way more likely to see it in classes like Warrior and Rogue and less common in Mage and Shaman.
Yeah, I'm leaning towards keeping the warrior spell and redoing the druid one. Druid needs some token synergy stuff if the rest of the set is so treant focussed. I'll give it some thought when I return to this next week. I'm sure a number of cards will stick out as 'bad' once I get some distance.
Call of the Satyr and also the Warrior spell Blood Pact are both spells I'm considering cutting. Might just cut 1 of them. Both are fairly weak, but it feels a bit weird to have both, since they're so similar.
Hey, going to bump the thread again. The set is nearly complete! I have a bunch of neutral cards left, mostly commons, 1 epic, a couple rares. The classes have each undergone multiple revisions to hone their identity and themes.
It's my intention to let this sit for a week or so, before returning to it and doing a final pass and making some nifty promo graphics.
I appreciate any feedback you have! If you see typos, mechanical problems or balance problems let me know. I'll follow up on those and edit them.
I was unable to edit a thread title, got a internal error 500 and then the thread got marked as spam.
Your spam filter needs serious work, you need some method of determining trusted users who aren't likely to engage in spam. Surely editing a thread shouldn't trip the spam filter.
And after two edits, its been marked as spam again.... seriously this spam filter is terrible. I tried to edit the thread title, got a server 500 internal error or something and the post dissappeared.
Yeah, same problem. Everytime I edit that post, it gets marked as spam and disappears. I realize bots are a problem, but the solution has become a bigger problem.
So the post disappeared again. Must have been flagged again. Can a mod undo it? Is there anything that can be done to just permanently flag that post as 'okay'.
Hey, I accidentally deleted the first post on my thread of my custom set. Is it possible for me or a mod to restore the post? I can't find any interface for it. Also, i don't really think it prompted me if deletion was okay? I was trying to hit the edit button.
If it's not possible, just let me know and I'll start a new thread. I've still got all my files.
As far as increasing outreach, the fan portal page is great, but I'd put card voting directly on that page, perhaps a sidebar widget of some sort. If someone makes it to that page, they'd immediately be enticed to vote on the card. You could put such a widget on the front page, or the hearthstone portal front page, but I understand if space on those pages is better dedicated to other content (decks, articles, other card games etc).
Congrats to the Shivershine for winning!
Interesting to see how this turned out. All 8 finalists were very close in their final score. Only 0.3 separate 1st from 8th place! This does kinda make me wonder if this is the right scoring system to be using? I wasn't sure how scoring was being done, I voted for my own card and didn't vote for the other finalists in the final round. I guess it incentivizes me to give them all 1 star? That feels lame and I didn't want to do that. Might be a good call to not let finalists vote in the final round?
It is nice that later entries (like mine) were still able to compete and still received a good number of views and votes, which was a problem back on hearthpwn.
I don't know if any changes need to be made just yet. But I will say that I already like this better than the old system on Hearthpwn.
Thanks for the review! I actually feel pretty differently about this. I use the default classic watermark for most cards. Using the Uldum watermark doesn't make sense to me, since this is a custom card and will never be a part of that set. Still, I see your point. Maybe I'll start going with no watermarks.
New voting system is interesting... I'm not used to the 5 star rating system. I'm glad I could go back and change ratings. I handed out some 1 and 2s that in retrospect, were decent compared to some really bad or non-sensical entries.
I kinda prefer being able to see all cards at once. It's hard to judge cards in a vacuum, easier to compare good and bad cards. Not sure the 5 stars are needed either. I'd go for a 3 rating system, bad, middle of the road, great.
cool to see these are back! The custom card scene really crashed a year ago after the all the drama at the old site. Glad to see we've got a dedicated system for this. I'll give it a shot and see what I think about the interface.
Hey updated the cards. Reworked some, replaced some characters. Let me know what you think. Anyone have good fanart of whizbang? couldn't find any.
Hey Dragonbane, the hunter legendary, is also an inspire effect without the keyword.
Thanks for the detailed feedback. I actually doubt you'd want to run more than 1 pack creation card in a deck. Even highlander decks don't need that much value, and might opt for Archivist Elysiana instead. Ava is obviously the best, but I think it'd be a nice way to force the current expansion into the spotlight, especially for underused cards in that set. Still, I might increase her mana.
Sarge: I was thinking that 'weird card draw' is a hunter identity. Rogues get good card draw, hunters get card draw with weird strings attached, like waiting a turn. But I did specifically model this card off Shaku.
Alonsus, I might increase the cost, but It needs to be competitive with something like Greater Healing Potion, 4 mana heal 12.
Russel- Hall of Fame cards are actually quite bad on average when randomly generated. Genn Greymane, Baku, all the even/odd cards, Conceal, Ice Lance, Molten Giant, Captains Parrot. I count 24 hall of fame cards with only 7 good ones: Naturalize, Iceblock, Divine Favor, Mindblast, Vannish, Sylvanas and Ragnaros. Even if some good cards like Leeroy are added, there's still a lot of mediocre or situational stuff.
Malto, not great I realize. I might go back to the drawing board entirely on this effect. It's an overly complicated Evolved Kobold.
Pack Slammin Urk- I actually think this might be OP. 8 Mana and you're probably going to deal 20+ damage to the board and Urk survives. I was considering a higher cost.
Elise: also might revist this concept and try somethign entirely new. Too similar to Velaris. As for stats, it's the stats on the original elise. So I think she should be 3/5 or 5/5 like the later two elise cards.
Thanks! Glad you liked it.
Hey, working on this mini set of legendaries based on characters from the animated shorts. It's a set about Hearthstone itself, about cards and packs and card sets. I'm trying to use art that includes hearthstone cards in the image. I imagine this as some kind of promo-set, maybe for an event or giveaway. Check it out!
Ava creates a pack from the latest standard expansion set (currently Descent of Dragons). Whizbang creates a pack from a random set in Wild (currently any set from Goblins vs Gnomes through Kobolds and Catacombs).
The stuff about the flavor of the keyword is interesting. The Freeze keyword is fairly uncommon, as far as keywords go, but you can imagine if it was called 'Stun' and had the same effect, we'd be way more likely to see it in classes like Warrior and Rogue and less common in Mage and Shaman.
Yeah, I'm leaning towards keeping the warrior spell and redoing the druid one. Druid needs some token synergy stuff if the rest of the set is so treant focussed. I'll give it some thought when I return to this next week. I'm sure a number of cards will stick out as 'bad' once I get some distance.
Call of the Satyr and also the Warrior spell Blood Pact are both spells I'm considering cutting. Might just cut 1 of them. Both are fairly weak, but it feels a bit weird to have both, since they're so similar.
Hey, going to bump the thread again. The set is nearly complete! I have a bunch of neutral cards left, mostly commons, 1 epic, a couple rares. The classes have each undergone multiple revisions to hone their identity and themes.
It's my intention to let this sit for a week or so, before returning to it and doing a final pass and making some nifty promo graphics.
I appreciate any feedback you have! If you see typos, mechanical problems or balance problems let me know. I'll follow up on those and edit them.
I was unable to edit a thread title, got a internal error 500 and then the thread got marked as spam.
Your spam filter needs serious work, you need some method of determining trusted users who aren't likely to engage in spam. Surely editing a thread shouldn't trip the spam filter.
And after two edits, its been marked as spam again.... seriously this spam filter is terrible. I tried to edit the thread title, got a server 500 internal error or something and the post dissappeared.
Yeah, same problem. Everytime I edit that post, it gets marked as spam and disappears. I realize bots are a problem, but the solution has become a bigger problem.
Can someone mark my thread as not-spam again?
So the post disappeared again. Must have been flagged again. Can a mod undo it? Is there anything that can be done to just permanently flag that post as 'okay'.
Ah, yeah, I've been pushing edits pretty regularly, sometimes just a few minutes apart. Not surprised I got marked as spam.
Hey, I accidentally deleted the first post on my thread of my custom set. Is it possible for me or a mod to restore the post? I can't find any interface for it. Also, i don't really think it prompted me if deletion was okay? I was trying to hit the edit button.
If it's not possible, just let me know and I'll start a new thread. I've still got all my files.