Good stuff, thanks for the updates with the new cards! Sundial is definitely worthy of inclusion in here. Incendiary Command is interesting, I think I would have a hard time figuring out what to cut for it. If only there was a mono-Red dragon with an Avalanche Rider ability...
Sad to see that hate bears isnt doing the job, I've been doing great in the tourny testing room with my monowhite but haven't qued a real event yet since Kataki has gotten expensive for modern, oh well, as only a sb card you would hope it would drop back down soon.
I understand the fb trial, but highly hope that a mixed solution could be found (FB+another way to sign up/comment), only FB doesnt sound really good to me. That said, I know how difficult to administrate a forum could be, and fairly thank puremtgo for the work done anyway.
Almost all "hacks" are due to poor passwords that are easily guessed. Just saying. Besides, Facebook has a verification procedure if you log in to account from a computer other than your main.
I am not on Facebook, and will never be due to their lack of security of private information. (one of my niece's had her account hacked twice, once causing identity theft problems....'nuff said)
+10000000
Just discovered the new commenting system. I removed my facebook account so I can't comment anymore. I am against facebook's ideology that the internet should be transparent in regards to real-life identity, so I refuse to take part.
People who design this site, please look into expanding the ways people can log in to comment. The Disqus scheme used on gatheringmagic works quite well because you can register with facebook, twitter, yahoo, gmail, or openID. Flexibility is key when you don't want to leave people out of the discussion.
I noticed that SCG uses the Facebook comment plugin with additional options to sign in (yahoo,AOL,hotmail). I don't know how the plugin exactly works but maybe that could be the easiest way not to bind the comments to just one "identity provider".
i have no idea what those other things are. I just went with facebook because of the success that starcity and tcgplayer have had in detrolling their articles.
The new Facebook-only commenting system kinda breaks my heart. I sincerely hope the old comments will stay along the "like" button since I'm not sure I want to register on Big F just to post a comment on Pure. :-/
Ok I think I am getting this. Now I'm worried I have been breaking coc accidentially. So a card like (Mana Barbs) that cannot be autowielded could be used to do this easily. In fact I have done this by accident. I had mana barbs in play and tapped my 11 lands which put 11 triggers on the stack. For some reason even when you autoyeild it you still have to hit ok. So after I tapped my lands I realized I made a mistake and untapped them, then retapped them in the correct manner I wanted leaving 22 triggers on the stack. The only way out is to f6. I could see that sphinx that looks at the top of your deck producing the same kind of trouble.
As said earlier, you can't F6 w/ mana in your pool - so say a Pauper storm deck with short time can be spammed out fairly readily by any zero-cost trigger (as soon as opponent has priority, he can Alt-click through, and even macro it if so desired).
Even F2'ing the triggers can suck - I'm sure everyone's experienced the wonderful "Click OK ... wait ... no server response ... WTF is my ping anyway? OK now we're back" of the UI.
I haven't tested whether auto-yields work w/ mana in pool - if so, obviously that is something you can do to cover yourself, but not every person knows to right-click, and it's still abusive behavior (and cheating under the COC).
As far as I know, though, there is no way to 'directly' remove time from the clock - only indirect methods, although they can still be effective. I believe a pro (maybe Turtenwald?) posted a screen shot of an opponent stacking something like 100 triggers against him to try to time him out ... each of the responses requires a click then server communication. It adds up.
I too am having a hard time believing this stalling to force your opponent's time to run out. So you do something and it causes your opponent to lag? I get the get spam requests for trade. I have had someone do that. They have a friend spam you so that they don't get caught. Same with having a friend send you constant chat messages. I just don't understand how there could be something they are doing (that isn't one I said) that could cause your timer to drop. Can someone team up with a friend in the casual room and reproduce this on video for us? I have lost events to time out more than once. I look at the screen and their timer is running so I just sit there. Next thing I know I am getting dropped from the event for time out. Or I log out/in only to find my clock down nine minutes not theirs. I've always chalked that up to lag at my end. I would hate to think that was something someone did to me.
Lours as people have been saying there are little tricks to cheat with on mtgo.
I'm a little surprised aluren has feet to stand on with so many great control decks out there
Good to see real comments and not FB back on pureMTGO
Thanks guys again for another good podcast
Luv MTG h8 FB
Good stuff, thanks for the updates with the new cards! Sundial is definitely worthy of inclusion in here. Incendiary Command is interesting, I think I would have a hard time figuring out what to cut for it. If only there was a mono-Red dragon with an Avalanche Rider ability...
Sad to see that hate bears isnt doing the job, I've been doing great in the tourny testing room with my monowhite but haven't qued a real event yet since Kataki has gotten expensive for modern, oh well, as only a sb card you would hope it would drop back down soon.
Got ANOTHER contest coming next week guys, courtesy of Cronin. Details can be found @ http://magic-eternal.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=377
We shall go over it on next week's cast - but since he has put it out there it is eligible to be won starting on his post date!
Best and thanks for listening,
Zach
I understand the fb trial, but highly hope that a mixed solution could be found (FB+another way to sign up/comment), only FB doesnt sound really good to me. That said, I know how difficult to administrate a forum could be, and fairly thank puremtgo for the work done anyway.
Almost all "hacks" are due to poor passwords that are easily guessed. Just saying. Besides, Facebook has a verification procedure if you log in to account from a computer other than your main.
I am not on Facebook, and will never be due to their lack of security of private information. (one of my niece's had her account hacked twice, once causing identity theft problems....'nuff said)
Thanks and if you hate these prices wait until you see the paper ones!
+10000000
Just discovered the new commenting system. I removed my facebook account so I can't comment anymore. I am against facebook's ideology that the internet should be transparent in regards to real-life identity, so I refuse to take part.
People who design this site, please look into expanding the ways people can log in to comment. The Disqus scheme used on gatheringmagic works quite well because you can register with facebook, twitter, yahoo, gmail, or openID. Flexibility is key when you don't want to leave people out of the discussion.
I noticed that SCG uses the Facebook comment plugin with additional options to sign in (yahoo,AOL,hotmail). I don't know how the plugin exactly works but maybe that could be the easiest way not to bind the comments to just one "identity provider".
Thanks for your hard work!!
I wanted to see what you said on Blippy's article but now I can't comment at all :/.
I am not labeled "troll" am I?
Open to other suggestions and will do my due diligence into seeing if they can be implemented into the site.
Looking forward to the sequel.
Nevermind, I guess I'll just have to take the plunge and register to FB.
i have no idea what those other things are. I just went with facebook because of the success that starcity and tcgplayer have had in detrolling their articles.
I see. Accountability is certainly good, but going mono-Facebook imho is a little bit too drastic :(
Have you tought about something a little more open? Something like Disqus or OpenID, I mean.
The new system is a trial run. I like it much more because it adds accountability to each comment.
Guys I'm lost a bit. Why can't we comment on articles? What happened? Can anyone enlighten me please?
Thanks!
LE
+1 this.
The new Facebook-only commenting system kinda breaks my heart. I sincerely hope the old comments will stay along the "like" button since I'm not sure I want to register on Big F just to post a comment on Pure. :-/
Think I'll give this archetype a spin soon.
I always enjoy your articles, insightful, well-written and pertinent. Keep up the good work!
Ok I think I am getting this. Now I'm worried I have been breaking coc accidentially. So a card like (Mana Barbs) that cannot be autowielded could be used to do this easily. In fact I have done this by accident. I had mana barbs in play and tapped my 11 lands which put 11 triggers on the stack. For some reason even when you autoyeild it you still have to hit ok. So after I tapped my lands I realized I made a mistake and untapped them, then retapped them in the correct manner I wanted leaving 22 triggers on the stack. The only way out is to f6. I could see that sphinx that looks at the top of your deck producing the same kind of trouble.
As said earlier, you can't F6 w/ mana in your pool - so say a Pauper storm deck with short time can be spammed out fairly readily by any zero-cost trigger (as soon as opponent has priority, he can Alt-click through, and even macro it if so desired).
Even F2'ing the triggers can suck - I'm sure everyone's experienced the wonderful "Click OK ... wait ... no server response ... WTF is my ping anyway? OK now we're back" of the UI.
I haven't tested whether auto-yields work w/ mana in pool - if so, obviously that is something you can do to cover yourself, but not every person knows to right-click, and it's still abusive behavior (and cheating under the COC).
As far as I know, though, there is no way to 'directly' remove time from the clock - only indirect methods, although they can still be effective. I believe a pro (maybe Turtenwald?) posted a screen shot of an opponent stacking something like 100 triggers against him to try to time him out ... each of the responses requires a click then server communication. It adds up.
I too am having a hard time believing this stalling to force your opponent's time to run out. So you do something and it causes your opponent to lag? I get the get spam requests for trade. I have had someone do that. They have a friend spam you so that they don't get caught. Same with having a friend send you constant chat messages. I just don't understand how there could be something they are doing (that isn't one I said) that could cause your timer to drop. Can someone team up with a friend in the casual room and reproduce this on video for us? I have lost events to time out more than once. I look at the screen and their timer is running so I just sit there. Next thing I know I am getting dropped from the event for time out. Or I log out/in only to find my clock down nine minutes not theirs. I've always chalked that up to lag at my end. I would hate to think that was something someone did to me.
Lours as people have been saying there are little tricks to cheat with on mtgo.