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Some ideas for Mogesh as I’m getting tired of all the chat about him being overpowered.
1st idea: Have him sacrifice lambs last with his ability so they don’t cause the initial steamroll (but still let other sacrifice cards target them first)
2nd idea: increase cost of sacrificial lambs to 2/3/4
3rd idea: instead of mogesh’s ability being feed magic based make it a special resource like bloodlust points (or something) that you get as you play cards (or take damage or sacrifice cards or something like that) To limit how early/often he can use it.
4th idea: make his ability a chance to trigger when fed magic instead of 100% (maybe 70%?)

(1st and 3rd idea will probably go against your desire for short descriptions and simple mechanics, the 2nd idea will nerf lambs for the other daramek heroes where it’s not needed, and the 4th idea will make the game even more RNG based—so none of them seem ideal but hopefully it’ll help you guys brainstorm)

Hey catluck, not sure if you read/answer to these, but I thought I’ll give it a try.

We just talked about UI stuff, and then shortly afterwards I had an AI match in which I had a whole bunch of allies / defenses and some attacks landed, so I wanted to check over which ones I need to heal, but those little hearts are really hard to see sometimes. So I zoom in with C+scroll, but it turns out I have so many cards in play that they don’t all fit into view when zoomed in.

So I try fullscreen mode to allocate more screen real estate to the problem, but boy, what a disaster! Apparently the keyboard commands (sometimes? always?) don’t work in fullscreen, so I can neither zoom back out, nor use shift-click to launch all my magic at once. So I hit escape to exit fullscreen and it promptly concedes the game I was just about to win. Lovely.

Can we have some kind of quick-view mode? You hold some letter key or other, and it gets rid of the delay that occurs before it starts zooming in on a card on mouseover. If I want to inspect all my cards in a row, I should really be able do that without a ~0.7 second delay for each card, and this way would provide a handy solution that I’m sure more players than me might find useful.

I’ve looked at how the deck editor handles the zoom; that would be a very good starting point for this mode, except the zoom should be even speedier. What do you think?

(I’m using firefox btw; I figure that might be relevant in case you want to investigate those issues with fullscreen or something. There always seem to be issues with switching focus between within the flash player and the kong interface around it, especially chat; that might have something to do with it, too.)

Hi Catluck! Great work, as always. Not sure when I’d bump into you on chat so I figured I’d put this here.
I was talking to some of the guys in chat, and we were thinking that Goat Poultice could restock a Herd of Goats even if you don’t have it in your deck – similar to how Rat Ointment can generate a War Rats even if you don’t have one. This would add even more herd flexibility, is consistent with the rest of the red mechanics, and (for me, most importantly), makes the card better when in the possession of other factions. Cards that restock from your deck are fine, but if they restock a specific thing, that should always be able to function.

As always, keep up the amazing work.