| From: | Jonathan Edwards <jonathan.edwards@*****.COM> |
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| Subject: | Deck Comment Comment |
| Date: | Fri, 17 Jul 1998 11:21:06 +0100 |
>Several people were annoyed that nobody or too few people responded to
>their deck postings and card ideas.
>>From my experience I must say that it is very difficult to give an
>accurate criticism of a deck without having played it; few mistakes in a
>deck concept jump out at a mere reading. I try to play posted decks when
>the opportunity arises, and then I give my comment from actual game
>experience. This might take one or the other week.
>I´ve seen a lot of fictional card postings recently (duh!), which isn´t
>bad at all as such. I´m just getting weary trying to read, analyze, and
>criticise seemingly dozens of card ideas every evening. I´ve caught
>myself skipping card idea posts recently, but I can´t think of a better
>way to organize these messages. Perhaps someone can help me there. How
>do you other gals and guys manage to go through and comment so many
>cards that will probably never see a printing machine as such. Honestly
>said, it discourages me a little to think of so many good and/or
>creative ideas disappearing in some dark corner of a storage bank.
>On the other hand, brainstorming and discussion and vastly too many
>ideas are needed to make a good SRTCG expansion. I´m carrying the idea
>to compile a Germany or Europe expansion myself, and several friends
>have agreed to contribute to this, but I will wait until the Amerindian
>expansion goes into its final stages to start posting that one.
I guess when it comes to offering suggestions for a deck, I would take that
a bit further. I look at it this way. Sure, it would be nice to build a
deck for every one that I've seen posted, however, given a finite amount of
time on my schedule, that just isn't possible. So I make the stretch. I
imagine how I would play it, if it were my deck. What would I like to see
in it to strengthen it. I used to watch Mr. Rodgers alot as a kid, so sue
me :-) I think that's cool that Felix goes one step further than most of
us and actually plays the ones he can. God knows that's a great way to
test a deck in differnt environments. And that kind of advice leads to
some really killer decks.
There's by far enough creativity in peoples' minds to offer some
constructive suggestions. Case in point, look at all the creativity going
into the fictional cards. No way to tell how they'd play (I'm sure the
runners for Underworld started off as good ideas, before they....well, I'll
stay off that subject for now :-) Regardles, people are reaching out with
ideas, which is pretty cool.
Anyway, Felix, I've turned to subscribing via Digest mode from home, so
everything is organized by threads so I can sort at my leisure. It's a
pretty efficient way to make use of mail space and organization. I don't
know if that's what you use, but if not, I'd give it a shot.
Anyway, Good luck.
Cheers,
Jon
