WHAT IF....

We don't talk about Qlis and Nekroz 'round these parts, boy. :|

MOST TCGs are resourced based. Magic pretty much set the bar there.

If not resourced based, then it's usually deck based a la the old DBZ, Battletech and, I think, UFS. (Haven't played it but want to.)

That's really the way I'd go with it, if it were me.

Yeah, I'd go with resource based. Resources like mana and energy adds a level of balance and cost that Yu-gioh never truly adopted. It was the unadulterated abuse of special summoning that ruined Yu-gi-oh for me and made it a convoluted mess of one turn kills and insurmountable swarming.

My first order of business to balance that game.....New rule #1 -Limiting Special Summons...maybe one per round.

When you get past the top-tier stuff that Konami is trying to make money off of, the game is usually pretty decently balanced. We had a pretty format going from leading up to the release of Duelist Advent.

All limiting Special Summons will do is wreck a lot of deck types and make them completely unplayable.

Oh I get it.

Alexandra wrote:When you get past the top-tier stuff that Konami is trying to make money off of, the game is usually pretty decently balanced. We had a pretty format going from leading up to the release of Duelist Advent.

All limiting Special Summons will do is wreck a lot of deck types and make them completely unplayable.

Step #2 - Introduce new cards that embrace the new formula to replace ruined decks. The next step involves making a new format that bans a lot of older sets but I would probably get fired from Konami before I get to that part.

Step #1

Consider power creep when alpha testing your shit. >FFFF

It's almost IMPOSSIBLE to avoid it completely. A little may even be ok.

Don't let it run rampant or you break the game.

If you break the game don't turn your game into a fucking ARMS RACE to try and fix it.

Now while this mostly applies to TCGs it DOES apply universally to games.

I'M LOOKING AT YOU, GW >______________->

Alexandra wrote:We don't talk about Qlis and Nekroz 'round these parts, boy.

Fiiiiiiiiine mom.

what is power creep? what is GW?

Power creep is when new things in a game get stronger and stronger, making the old stuff obsolete. It's usually done on purpose to make players have to buy the new stuff to keep up with other players.

GW is Games Workshop, a company with good games but terrible power creep practices.