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neogenex Veteran MY Guild Sunday 19/04/2009, 04:54

Suggestion:

(3 types of bans)
staff ban
popularity ban
voted ban

(Staff Ban)
stay as it is

(Popularity Ban)
Most used card in 1400 above: Mandatory ban for 3 weeks.
2nd Most used card in 1400 above: Mandatory ban for 2 weeks.
3rd Most used card in 1400 above: Mandatory ban for 1 week.
A card that was on the Popularity Ban list in the previous week will not be listed in the ban voting poll during the current week.
The Popularity Ban list is shown at the voting page with message like "NAME is banned for the next 2 weeks/1 week" as a reminder so that players can vote strategically.

(Voted Ban)
Similar to the current voting system with some changes as follow...
Cards voted for ban and with more than 10% votes: Ban for 2 weeks.
Cards voted for ban and with 5%-10% votes: Ban for 1 week.
A card that was on the Voted Ban list in the previous week will not be listed in the ban voting poll during the current week. [Having a card voted ban week after week is stale and beats the reason not to permanently ban it in the first place.]

Imagine Zatman on 3 week ban, Dorian on 2 week ban. Dorian will be unbanned earlier with no Zatman to help. Uppers will not be dominant. Dorian could be rebanned when Zatman is back. And by the time maybe Hawk is no longer banned, thus Uppers do not dominate. Many interesting things could happen...

Criticise at will...

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gta0004 Veteran   Sunday 19/04/2009, 05:02

And Sakhrom are allowed to run everywhere. Great idea.

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Aasha Master White Lightning Guild Sunday 19/04/2009, 05:37

Eh. To be honest I still think each person should get one single vote and the voting status should be hidden. Though I'm kind of intrigued with the varying ban times.

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Bazse Veteran   Sunday 19/04/2009, 07:40

I think the voting system works fine, the main problem is the power of last minute voting. How about things stay about the same but people would receive their votes gradually (i mean someone who would get 7 votes a week would receive 1 every day). If you don't use it on that day, too bad, it's lost. Maybe we need to increase the number of votes everyone gets to a multiple of seven, but this would diminish the effectiveness of last minute voting. I am really happy about this system, but i am pissed too to see Zatman and Dorian in close to every deck over the 1300s.

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Aasha Master White Lightning Guild Sunday 19/04/2009, 11:06

X3 Well pretty much everyone is waving torches and pitchforks about Zatman not only surviving but Dorian coming into play as well this week.

Slight topic change though... is it just me or is the competition rougher on the weekends? I mean it makes sense...

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neogenex Veteran MY Guild Sunday 19/04/2009, 11:28

The suggestion of popularity ban has 2 purpose.

1)Putting varying ban times on the top 3 most popular cards will break the current dominant cards combination. Players have to try new combinations, thus avoid repetitive combinations week after week.

2)The most dominant clan at the current week will lose their card to mandatory ban. This is to shun last minute voting. The same card combination can only appear 3 weeks later and even that is not 100% sure because the Card A with 3 week ban got out, Card B with a 2 week ban may just be banned again. Maybe some will argue last minute voting will be used to safe Card B, but since the clan Card A and B belongs to are not dominant in the previous week, they do not have as many votes to manipulate the ban as they do now.

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Aasha Master White Lightning Guild Sunday 19/04/2009, 12:47

Sounds like that made sense but I'm sorta tired and couldn't follow it honestly.
But in my sleepy state that did sound like a doable plan.

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Kurchav Imperator   Sunday 19/04/2009, 21:05

A couple of things
Skills is important, not just luck, i won too many battles where for the 2 last rounds, if my opponent played perfectly he should win, but he make a mistake and for that reason i won the battle (that thing does not happen with ELO players over 1350)

I think the most played card should be banned and the most played card of the most played clan should be banned both for a week or something like that.

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gta0004 Veteran   Sunday 19/04/2009, 21:15

Its fine the way it is. TBH the popularity bans sounds stupid. Keep it as it is.

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gta0004 Veteran   Sunday 19/04/2009, 22:29

We wont be seeing Uppers for a while, all the good people are pissed off at uppers