Hearthstone
Custom Card Competitions?
Submitted 1 year, 4 months ago by
BasilAnguis
When do they come back? And any news of larger sized comps, like custom classes or expansions?
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When do they come back? And any news of larger sized comps, like custom classes or expansions?
I'll boop you
Competitions are still something we've talked about. We know that people have wanted to see changes to them for a really long time and we've ended up having to put them off for multiple seasons because of work around the site, and this time, we really want to actually change something before we start the next season up. We are still deliberating on getting new comps up as we speak.
Shadows has also been pretty busy with his personal life, which has limited his time on the site pretty significantly. This has affected the timing of the next season since he's pretty important to getting the ball rolling. Only he has the templates we use, unless we were to try to MacGyver our own. Speaking of which, updating the way competitions work is much more complicated than it sounds like it would be. There isn't always a good time to be able to actually talk about it, which is something that MotLK, holidays, Shadows not being here, and just general work on the site has affected.
As for huge comps. We know that people want them, but there's never been a very good time to talk about how we would actually go about doing this. We would need to build a whole new system for them, which takes a lot of time and testing (much, much more than we when we did this for the normal competitions). A lot of time-consuming technical work is needed when that work is instead used for something that's generally more important. We would love to do this eventually, but (and as disappointing as this will be) don't anticipate it happening any time soon.
What are these changes? Personally, I don't want any. I just want new competitions.
Thanks for the status update, I was wondering about the longer hiatus between seasons.
Most of it should be summed up here, if you're curious.
The break has personally been convenient. I've been preoccupied and wasn't sure whether I felt like participating fully (by which I'm referring to the feedback thread). I am still looking forward to more competitions (with or without changes), I'm just not sure to what extend it's possible to focus on implementing changes while a season is ongoing, so I advice the people working on it to take it one thing at a time.
Happy new year, everyone!
I'd love to have a new comp season, but of course the personal life of the organizers comes first.
Regarding the changes to the voting system, I think I'd prefer to wait only if the halt for this reason isn't too long. I'd also like to join Aero in their question about doing a season while the new system is being developed. I guess this should be possible as long as there are different people involved in both development and comp organizing, as it would probably take too much time otherwise (and as I said, personal time always comes first).
Finally, I don't care too much about big comps, but I'd probably participate if there's ever one.
Here we go!
"We're back online!" - Imprisoned Scrap Imp, presumably.
Shadows has unfortunately been (mostly) unavailable for a while with his new job taking up a lot of time, so it will fall on Demon and I to keep things running. There might be some hiccups as we get acclimated to doing more of the heavy lifting, so keep that in mind D:
I'm sorry we kind of left everyone in the dark for so long; a four-month hiatus was not planned at all.