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Thank you for responding to my comment on Monster Battles. I suppose the only bit more info I CAN give is: At random moments when something is loading, lets just say if I was making a deck, I’d look at a card for info on it. Then the game would freeze, making me have to reload the page or join another game. This gets very annoying, Seeing as I just realised it can happen during battles too! So please, fix the glitch, it is really gamebreaking. Thank you for reading, bye! :)

ALL of the current top comments on star-quest-tcg are making the same criticism. The current #1 comment is about your difficulty understanding what the issue is. I didn’t have to open the game at all to understand what they were saying. For what it’s worth, I’ll see if I can better explain what they’re trying to say.

Imagine all sound files are replaced with silence. Then imagine all graphics are replaced with blank gray. Then image every piece of text is replaced with just the letter X. All of that stuff is just “skin” on the game. Now assume that players still somehow know where to click… assume that somehow players can still play with no difficulties. Ignore all of the skin, and just examine the gameplay.

The question is this: Are players getting a different EXPERIENCE playing the new version? Is there any significant novelty in the combat system? Are there functionally different resources and interactions? Is there anything functionally different about the cards and card-system? Are there significantly novel strategies or tactics to explore?

And here’s the biggest clue: Did you have to put significant effort into designing and balancing the card collection?

If the answer to the above questions is generally “no” or “not much” then the game is a worthless reskin. If someone has played the previous version it’s a waste of time to play the SAME GAME again with a new skin. If you don’t have to put much effort into exploring and testing and balancing the new system to know exactly how it will work, then players also gain nothing by re-exploring the same system.

It’s fine to reuse a game engine if that game engine is flexible enough to support novel gameplay and you actually provide novel gameplay. Come up with a functionally different combat system, functionally different resources and interactions, functionally different mechanics. Come up with something where there’s new strategy and tactics to explore.

The Problem is, if you have 1 energy and play Diplomat, you end up with 0 energy. When you now try to use an equip that shows that it costs 0 energy and try to apply it to a unit, it says you don’t have the energy and the cost goes back to it’s initial value. (I think i tried using it on photon staff)

Ah my bad, I meant to type take into account card availability. Well that is likely harder to implement, it could be done by levels completed or some other metric. I enjoy the game so will likely still play it some, but i will use my experience as an example. In PvP I matched up with a deck that was filled with heals, units/spells that would remove my minions damage, and flying units. It left me with 4 0/1 units while he had flying units out. While there is ways around it for people who have played the game or have more concise ways to win, for relatively new people (played less than a week) its rather difficult. But the bigger issue comes when after losing, I was immediately matched against the same player again the next match.