Farewell!
I got a long holiday off work this week and decided to drop by and
say farewell to the friends Ive made here.
Bard (and Laura) - Its been real. Once in a while we will have to try to play some "COC CCG" on line.
Your a good player, and I expect you to carry the Stahleck mantle next yr (if there is anyone
left playing this game by then). Ive been looking at some other games, so we will have to get lackey fired up again.
Nomad - Lets try and get a 3R game going..or perhaps some Titan or Russian Campaign.
Carioz - See you again on other projects!
Meatheard - If your still on these boards - if you do end up in the orient let me know, Id
be happy to hook up.
Thorondor - Stahl was real. If you decide to make it "nate free" maybe Ill show again (My wife badly wants to visit near your
hometown, and we do a trip a yr). ill have to look up the middle-earth stuff up you had mentioned...do you guys do any online stuff?
To the PA gang - Its been real, I'll most certainly be back in Rons shop, so Ill see you guys again,
and to Hastur, good luck on the up and coming move. Hastur has filled me in on Dominion, so I will be building
a deck to attempt to out-inifinite draw Ron ;-)....just like old times! I'll most certainly be back in town at least once
next yr, so Ill ping you guys before hand.
............
Actually I quit this summer (exactly 2/3 of the way through Nates brilliant "I coulda made it Highlander" threat (and BTW Nate,
its not wise to threaten those who pay your salary)). Carioz got ahold of me a bit ago, and curiosity
got the better of me. After almost 6 months off, I thought that maybe it wasnt as bad as I had thought.
Turns out it was worse.
So it looks like rotation is now a reality (just look at AGOT, out of the handfull of metas I know there, NONE are playing..and every Tier 1 player that I know of in COC has already pitched all their coc cards).
With the core set released, we can now see that combo is officially history and so is control. We are down to "random" as
the remaining deck type.
Down to 1 deck type..looks like the dumbing down prophecy came true...
The new cards themselves are god-aweful. Nate should be embarrassed (and fired).
They really kill the creativity in the game. Notice there isnt generic effects anymore (or useful ones for that matter).
The thing I loved most was taking "generic" effects and using them. Its only a matter of time before FFG begins issuing "decks" for tourny play.
Im curious Nate, what took longer
1) Reading the Mountians of Madness (did you actually read it?)
2) Making the cards
3) Finishing your latte
Carioz and I played some last week to test out the "polar == crap"
hypothesis....turns out its not crap, its worse. It was fun(ny) (we laughed for at least 30mins at the
innanity of the new cards) on a nostalgic level though, but given the state of affairs, I wont be continuing on to the white borders version of the game.
I may (time willing) be posting this week, and for those of you I met, please drop a line over the next few days.
Peace out
G