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 | !!Update 5!!: Rhymestyle made a video. Touched on a lot of problems. The video got 64k views. Almost no one disagreed in the comments. (1week ago)Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NItJt40tMg submitted by Redpill_Crypto to DragonballLegends [link] [comments] Rhymestyle: \"Toshi, we've gotta talk!\" Update 4: 6 Youtubers addressed the curent state of legends so far. Newest addition DBZoom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nmJ3Bx_Wv0 HOT Update 3!!!!: Lets Fight will give Energy Tanks with the next Patch. They listen, if we voice our concerns like this. Here are the ingame news: https://www.reddit.com/DragonballLegends/comments/ld325h/lets_fight_3_is_permanent_all_lets_fight_now/ Keep going! Power of community unity Update2: 3 Youtubers voiced their concerns in the past 10 days. FINALLY a bigger youtuber did a critique/suggestion video. While I do have a different approach, it is important everyone starts doing this and starts giving feedback. We all know what happens next! We have to do something about it Here is your step by step guide!!EDIT: UPDATE 02/05 2021!(YOUTUBERS THAT MADE A FEEDBACK VIDEO)
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WHY DO YOU EVEN PLAY THE GAME?Remember the times, when rates were way higher? UST Banners? etc.- Is it the gacha/gambling (excitement) aspect? - bi weekly new characters and updates? - Team Building Aspect (Z Ability, Equipment, Tags?)- Story? - Mobile only? - gameplay My opinion:The Good:For me, it's the the update cycles with new characters and the feeling of looking forward to always know, that there is always a character that is missing. Gameplay is alright. The Bad: Pay $100+ for full Zenkai7 (one unit balance patch), 14 star units, LF Zenkai with horrible rates, PVP is super fun /s - Compared to any other dragonball game the balance is shit. You have a huge roster an only a small portion is really playable. And only if you invest a lot of money to make them 6+ stars or zenkai (if they have one) - Gamemodes (events) outside of pvp are not fun, just grindy. - pvp is a shitfest, because balance is almost non existing and instead of having a huge character roster which to choose from (like any other dragonball game) old characters are just not usable (everything master pack 1,2,3,(4) that is not zenkai'd WHAT I WISH LEGENDS WAS:A tenkaichi 2/3 xenoverse2, figter z light with gacha, teambuilding, amazing long term game modes and balanced pvp, where almost every character is usable. (Which it is at it's core)Rememeber these? Legends is basically a toned down version of past glory (Ultimate Tenkaichi was terrible though) WHAT THEY NEED TO DO (in my opinion)1. Introduce long term gamemodesDragonball games had so many great game modes in the past(There is so much inspiration they can draw from dokkan, budokai 1-3, tenkaich1-3, raging blast 1-2, xenoverse 1-2, dragonball heroes, other gachas or even mmos) Seriously look at the game modes of old dragonball games. 2. REBALANCERemember the past- Every old character should have a farmable way to zenkai them. - Zenkai power lvl should always be about 25 to 30% below the newest 10 to 15 units, so they always are usable (like any other db game, for diversity) - A new farmable zenkai lvl should be introduced every few months, for the oldest characters. (z8-99) so every character stays somewhat relevant. These 3 points alone make legends a vastly different games, since you suddenly can work towards and use every character, like a real pvp game (fighter z) - Lastly an inspiration from seven deadly sins grand cross -> let us turn heroes>extremes> sparkings -> look at how they do it and why ( makes even bad characters somewhat usable) 3. INTRODUCE MORE SKILL/SKILL BASED CharactersMor Skill mor fun- More Character mechanics to play around (UI Goku, cover change, cover rescue, gogeta red stance, blast armor etc.)- Character specific art cards. (There is way more you can experiment with, other than blast and strike, for example combine 2 blast for a heavy blast, or 2 strikes for a heavy combo -> strategic element) 4. COSMETICSA prime example of how to do cosmetics right (without stat boni) - 7 deadly sins grand crossJust hear me out on this one. I played a gacha that had shallot like costumes for every frickin character. You could even buy different hairstyles. (Seven deadly sins- grand cross) and people spend a shitton of money on these type of things (fortnite, league of legends etc.).Just watch this video and get a feel, what it would look like (without stat boni of course): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppWKdsZBT28 5. The "little" StuffContent? Let me be clear. Login Bonus is no content, rehashed events we already did a year ago are no content, year old legends roads are no content, year old storys are no content. AND 5 MINUTE EVENTS or SKIP TICKET (Android 21) GRINDING FIESTAS are no content either. Space Time Rush is content, coop grinding is boring grind shit- no content, pvp is content. main story is content. Everything fun is good content, everything else is just boring shit we have to do in order to enjoy \"MAIN content\" - More Events, more Energy, more c, more everything - Pity timer for featured units!!!! (other gachas have it too) - Raid boss is available until time is over - Bring UST back - TIme for Master Pack 4 - Step ups need to be great again. - Edit: Guilds are useless. I'm sure there are gachas that handle that aspect way better. Learn from them. Remember it has to be F U N - About shallot (sigh*) use his fucking potentialhttps://www.reddit.com/DragonballLegends/comments/atfwh3/shallot_megathread_the_unused_potentialideas_and/ - (Placeholder) CONCLUSION:What would we get after all these changes?Companies should stop exploiting our love for dragonball.THE Dragonball Legends YOU DESERVEA game you want to play the entire time, without ever getting finished.A game you want to spend a lot of money on, since you know you always can use your charactersA game that stays exciting the entire time. Sincerely YOUR Dragonball Legends CommunityTLDR: What we want from legends and how to get it. Step by Step Guide. |
![Autochess: Market Status and Design Analysis [effort post]](https://b.thumbs.redditmedia.com/OwL9a9QwjLtlx218SIQEQFEkvKu62q0uOafEBE_vaRE.jpg "Autochess: Market Status and Design Analysis [effort post]") | This article was written with the feedback of ~300 highly engaged players from the different autochess reddit communities (TFT, DOTA Underlords, Chess Rush...), which participated in interviews and on a poll whose results are available here. They’re especially thanked by name at the end of the article. submitted by JB-Dev-Bcn to TeamfightTactics [link] [comments] In January 2019, Drodo Studio’s Dota Auto Chess mod became insanely popular. Many companies (including household names like Valve, Riot, Ubisoft and Blizzard) rushed to release their own versions. It seemed like the beginning of something big like MOBA or Battle Royale. But it has been more than a year now and the hype seems to have vanished completely. As quickly as it rose, it went away… This is the first on a series of articles where we will analyze the autochess genre. Here we will be exploring the genre’s history, its current market situation and its audience. And also, what are the core design issues that autochess suffers and that no one has been able to solve yet. https://preview.redd.it/tc2c19k4ipg61.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=487539f51e104ee7d1aae1a6ded7447b1dee11ca It really helps me if you check this article (or similar content) at my blog https://jb-dev.net/ A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVEThis wasn’t the first time that a mod got the spotlight and ended up becoming the foundation of a genre. It happened in several major, industry-defining cases before (some of which are Team Shooters, MOBAs, Battle Royale…). But on some of these cases events unfolded differently. So we identify 3 distinctive eras related to the evolution of the industry:1st Era (2000s): AssimilationThe company whose original software had been modded (or had a close enough game, like Valve) moved quickly to absorb the successful mods and turn them into even more successful products.Since at that point creating a major game release was very complex (required an expensive development, publishing deals and an infrastructure to distribute the product), the deal was profitable for both sides. But it meant the dissolution of the identity of the original creator team, which became embedded in the bigger company culture. https://preview.redd.it/abyi6d2jipg61.png?width=461&format=png&auto=webp&s=d4171bf9344a162e695a75a91d18eec8206b9123 Team Fortress (1999) was originally a Quake mod. And Counter-Strike (2000) started out as a fan-made mod on the Half Life engine. Both games (and creators) were quickly absorbed by Valve. 2nd Era (2010s): IntegrationBy this time, the previous era model still was going on… but the gaming industry had significatively grown a lot and it was also possible for smaller or even new companies to lure the original developers, and use the mod as a proof for commercial success in order to secure funding and develop it as a full title.The main characteristic of this era is that the original developers were able to keep a bigger share of control and relevance, rather than being integrated as just another gear on a bigger machine, because the companies they joined built their own identity around that key product. This was the case of Riot Games: They were able to raise enough money for the creation of their company through family and angel investors, and then hire some of the original creators of DOTA, and then created League of Legends. https://preview.redd.it/vl6h2l7lipg61.png?width=763&format=png&auto=webp&s=414abb3da2b169966b7bf757a6116f86ef3748d2 Defense of the Ancients (DotA), the foundational title for the MOBA genre, appeared in 2003 as a fan-made custom scenario of Warcraft 3. Foreseeing commercial potential on a full game based on the concept, Riot games and Valve both battled for the Dota IP and the original developers, eventually releasing rival titles League of Legends and Dota2. Interestingly, Blizzard (owners of Warcraft 3) tried to replicate the success without the mod creators in Heroes of the Storm (2015), which hasn’t been as successful as the other two.A similar case happened with battle royale, which also started in 2013 as a successful DayZ mod created by the modder nicknamed PlayerUnknown. Later, it was transformed into a full product through the acquisition of the developer by a korean company (which would later be renamed as the PUBG Corporation, again showing how the company grew around the game rather than assimilating it). This case hints what would later happen with Auto Chess, since Fortnite wasn’t involved in any way with the original creators. They just copied the concept. Fortnite was a product stuck in a kind of development hell (had been 6 years in the works). As the game was getting close to the release, the developers became impressed by PUBG’s success, so they created a quick Battle Royale spin-off which became insanely popular and eventually ate the rest of the game. https://preview.redd.it/zkdv4jjqipg61.png?width=808&format=png&auto=webp&s=0e7ad39e5db4d83b6b927587b59bf1c81fe0ef85 Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (2017), foundational title of the modern battle royale genre, is the successor of PlayerUnknown’s DayZ: Battle Royale, a popular mod for DayZ (which on itself is a mod of ArmA3, making it a mod of a mod lol). The success of PUBG inspired Fortnite (a title on the later stages of a troubled development at the time) to spin towards that genre, becoming PUBG‘s main competitor. 3rd Era (2020s): FragmentationIn all the cases presented previously, the newborn genre ended up in the release of one or two titles which accumulated most of the business. But this hasn’t been the case here.In Autochess, the newborn genre has been quickly fragmented into a big list of competitors. Some are standalone games (like DOTA Underlords or Autochess: Origins), but there’s also several service-model games which released their autochess mode as well (like Hearthstone’s Battlegrounds or TeamFight Tactics, which at the end of the day is a side-game mode of League of Legends). This creates an interesting precedent, which I believe will define future cases where an innovative new game concept appears: The hot idea will be cloned very fast because today the main bottleneck in the industry is having an innovative design that generates player interest and engagement. By 2020, it’s way easier to create and distribute a game, there are way more developers hungry for a hit than ever before, and a lot of service-model games with short development cycles always looking for something juicy for their next update… so new ideas becoming red oceans fast will be the norm. For sure, this won’t affect the ability of small developers and modders to innovate, but it will affect their ability to leverage that to become successful on an independant level, before they get cloned. https://preview.redd.it/51jbq4jwipg61.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=fdfcfeb82e73b48210c4d93386438268d6dcbe3b Dota Auto Chess, was a Dota 2 mod which obtained massive popularity. After a failed acquisition from Valve (owners of Dota), the mod developers (Drodo Studios) went to create the mobile standalone Auto Chess: Origins, while still maintaining the PC version linked to Valve.On Autochess, the fragmentation and fast release pace came at the cost of innovation, though. These games feature few unique selling points compared to the original DOTA Autochess experience: TFT’s ‘anti-snowballing’ character selection rounds, Underlord’s bosses and fast-track mode…. And ultimately, they haven’t fixed the core issues of the original game, which separates it from a true hyper-successful product like MOBA. MARKET STATUSBecause of the rain of clones, it’s hard to map all the autochess games on the market. It doesn’t help that some of them are available in both PC and Mobile (playable in PC, Mac, Android and iOS), and also they’re exclusive to different PC stores (Dota Underlords is only on Steam, TFT is on Riot’s LoL launcher, and Autochess Origins is only at the Epic Store…).And if that wasn’t enough, the Auto Chess mod in DOTA2 is still very active and has no signs that it’s going to be dying soon. It’s still being regularly updated, and presumably still profitable: Some months ago they added a battle pass system, with its revenue shared between Valve and Drodo. https://preview.redd.it/8w2lrid0jpg61.png?width=854&format=png&auto=webp&s=3697396edd8af2dff3f8e25cb2dd3829635506d0 What’s interesting is that none of the contenders has been able to become massively successful in terms of monetization, at least not in terms comparable to even a second or third tier MOBA. And while there are definitively different tiers of following among these titles (led by Riot Games’ TeamFight Tactics), it seems that none of them has been able to gather under its banner a significant amount of players, mobile downloads or Twitch Views… Sources: AppAnnie (mobile metrics), TwitchMetrics (twitch) So ultimately, we’re dividing the autochess market into 3 categories: Squires, Would-be Kings and Peasants.
SQUIRE: The gameplay of TeamFight Tactics (slow tempo, no team coordination, decreased attention requirement…) makes it a nice relief mode to play between LOL matches, which is its purpose in the foreseeable future. If there ever was an intention to make it a standalone game, it vanished together with the player interest on autochess…
DOTA Underlords is an extremely polished product in terms of graphics, character design and UX, and yet another proof that Valve devs really know how to do great games. Too bad they aren’t as good at releasing third installments. THE AUDIENCEWe are of the belief that you can’t talk about a game and not talk about who plays it, and that players say more about a game than analyzing all its features and mechanics. So with this in mind we collected answers from ~300 autochess players (check the raw data here). After examining their responses, we’ve identified 3 main player profiles (the comments on each profile are literal):https://preview.redd.it/satixy6cjpg61.png?width=934&format=png&auto=webp&s=80623e39c57f1252b3fc5d04db1d2a20b06928e2
What these profiles have in common, other than being hardcore gamers and having a big interest in competitive games, is the fact that they enjoy the lack of micromanagement, and the demand of reflexes and dexterity of autochess. This is quite interesting, considering that the genre foundation is so close to MOBAs, which are extremely demanding on those aspects. Overall it seems that they belong to audiences below the MOBA umbrella which are currently being alienated by the bulk of ‘younger and dexterity focused’ players. And when it comes to platforms, it seems that even though the barrier between the classic gaming platforms and mobile is progressively disappearing, the genre is still mainly focused on PC: Out of the ~300 players that answered, 50% said that they play exclusively on PC, 25% played primarily on Mobile, and the remaining 25% played in both. https://preview.redd.it/a25azxggjpg61.png?width=962&format=png&auto=webp&s=dc3677e4203abb44d5b60cc2b55e01f4fe839f74 Players said that they enjoy the focus of the game in planification, as opposed to the focus on execution and performance of MOBAs. And when asked about their main points of frustration, they pointed out 2 main topics: 1.- The strong luck factor that has a strong impact on making you win or lose regardless on how well you played. 2.- The fact that the game eventually becomes shallow and repetitive, fueled by the fact updates were unexciting and not rotating the meta.Surprised by the fact that players mention randomness as a factor of both enjoyment and frustration? Don’t be! Competitive players tend to have a love-and-hate relationship with luck, because they tend to consider that external factors outside of skills (money spent, better draw…) stole their well deserved victory. And it’s even more frustrating in autochess, because there’s a strong snowball effect: Players that obtain a big advantage early on in the game become hard to catch later on. Which means that a few bad or good draws early on can decide the rest of the match. There hasn’t been a single feature more criticised in Magic: The Gathering than the randomness of drawing mana. And yet, luck it’s part of what makes MTG stand out compared to other CCGs: For experienced players, it introduces uncertainty and the need to take risks and gamble, like they’d do in poker. And for rookies, it allows beating someone that has better skills and has a better deck, if Lady Luck is on their side. Won’t happen often, but it will feel awesome when it does. Like a friend likes to say: The best feeling in MTG is to draw a mana when you really need it. And the worst? To draw it when you didn’t. This goes to say that in autochess, perhaps the power of luck needs to be reviewed, but it would be a bad decision to completely remove luck from the equation. DESIGN CHALLENGESIn this awesome DoF article, Giovanni Ducati already pointed out the two main problems that the games in this genre need to solve to achieve real success: Bad long term retention and low monetization.To these issues we would add a third one, which is bad marketability: Contrary to their big brothers League of Legends and DOTA2, these games haven’t been able to achieve high organic downloads (at least not to be able to generate significant revenue through soft monetization mechanics). What’s even worse is that all these games, their themes and target audience are quite close to RPG and Strategy, which are genres with some of the highest CPIs on the market. So they need top-of-the-class retention and monetization to get a high enough LTV to scale up. But why do these games fail at keeping players entertained for a long time? And why don’t they monetize enough? Here’s what we think: Flat Complexity & ProgressionYou have some games out there which have a strong entry barrier due to being quite complicated to grasp. But for those that can deal with the numbers and stats, the depth will keep them entertained for months and years. This is the case in most RPGs and 4X strategy games. And then you have hypercasual games, which are simple and plug and play. So they generate a great early engagement, but are too shallow to keep users hooked for a long time.As a genre, Autochess games are in the middle ground: they have a high entry barrier, but also lack the complexity to keep players engaged for a long time… As a general rule, games with long retention tend to follow Bushnell’s Law of being easy to learn and difficult to master. They achieve that by having what we call an unfolding experience: They appear simpler at the beginning (not necessarily easy), but require thousands of hours of practice to master. An example of this are games that level lock most of the game complexity, so the player understands and masters only a set starter mechanics. And then, progressively unlock new modes and demand more specialized builds and gameplay, repeating the cycle several times to keep the game always interesting while attempting to avoid being overwhelming. https://preview.redd.it/e9f8s8tkjpg61.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=825c85b7c479b3bf05fc43ac668cbd1eddf17c97 In World of Warcraft, character depth is huge. But this complexity is unfolded progressively, forcing the player to spend time mastering each skill and activity as they level up, before moving further.Another approach to the same idea are competitive games focused on mechanical ability, dexterity or micromanagement. Like CS:GO or Rocket League. They may unlock all the mechanics from the beginning, but a newbie player will only be able to focus and manage some of them, and then progressively discover and master the rest in an organic way. https://preview.redd.it/42cbth8njpg61.png?width=951&format=png&auto=webp&s=241cd59b4468cabf2d0d24e1a4e3a703b74ada51 Rocket League hides its complexity by matchmaking early players with others of a similar skill. This makes beginner players viable even if they grasp only the basic mechanics. But, as they climb further, they’ll face rivals that take those basic skills for granted and the player will need to master more challenging techniques to keep up.League of Legends and Overwatch are actually a combination of both: The game first introduces the player to a small selection of heroes which progressively gets expanded, while at the same time having an insane mastery depth that requires a high APM and reflexes, team coordination and thousands of hours of practice. Contrary to any of those examples, Autochess games throw everything at you from the beginning: Character Skills, Synergies, Unit Upgrade, Gold Management, Items… It’s a lot to swallow. And there’s not even enough time to read what each thing does before the timer runs out. This creates a complex, overwhelming first impression that drives many players out. But that’s quantity, not depth. Once you’ve gone through that traumatic starting phase, you’ve grasped all the mechanics and you know which team builds are dominating on the meta, it’s just a matter of making it happen by taking the right decisions and adapting to a few key draws. Eventually, unless luck is really against you, your skills won’t be challenged and you won’t have new mechanics to master. At that point, winning will be based more on the knowledge of the content database and luck rather than your planning and strategic ability. And that’s boring. So ultimately, these games are hard to grasp for a newbie, but also lack the ability to keep players interested for a very long time since they eventually run out of new features and mechanics to discover and master. Unexciting Updates, Lack of CollectionOn top of that, autochess games seem to have a hard time adding content which reawakens player interest and makes churned ones come back.https://preview.redd.it/52umfcvqjpg61.png?width=796&format=png&auto=webp&s=dd8095e71d025886d3c0313187ead49587459453 The DAU that we would expect on a long term retention game: A decreasing trend of players until reaching a stagnation stage. At that point, a big update (or new season) is required to attract and reengage users back with new content. This is the model we would see on Fortnite or Hearthstone, but it’s not what we see in most autochesses.On this topic, perhaps the one that has put the most effort is Riot’s TFT. Each season update, the game releases a new series of heroes, synergies, items and rebalances, as well as a big bunch of cosmetics. This generates a short lived boost on revenue (due primarily to players buying the pass) and downloads, but ultimately nothing that really moves the needle in a relevant way. ‘Why seasonal updates don’t work?‘, you may be asking. Part of the reason is that TFT, as well as every major contender do not include elements of content progression or collection. Instead, they all stick to the roguelike approach of the original mod: Players have access to the same set of units, and build their inventory exclusively during the match. While at first this seems a good idea, since it keeps the game fair in a similar way to MOBAs, it’s oblivious to the fact that new units do not offer the same amount of gameplay depth as in League of Legends. In LoL, a new unit means weeks or even months of practice until mastering timing, range and usage of the skills, how they interact with every other champion, etc… In comparison, in TFT the new content can be fully explored in just a bunch of matches, both because the new content doesn’t offer that much depth to start with and because it’s available from the moment the player gets the update. By lacking content progression and collection, autochesses miss the opportunity to create long term objectives after an update, more innovative mechanics and less repetitiveness. As a consequence, they have it really hard to hype players on updates. Big ‘Snowball Effect’In game design, the snowball effect refers to the situation where obtaining an advantage or dominance generates further conditions that almost invariably means winning the match. As you can guess, on competitive games this effect can generate a bad experience, especially when the divergence starts early on: The player that obtained the early advantage will keep on increasing the advantage and curbstomp the rest.For example, this can happen on a Civilization game if a player gets ahead of the rest acquiring key resource territories, and uses them to achieve a greater progress in tech and income at a faster pace than the rest. Or in League of Legends if a team scores a bunch of early kills and levels up, becoming more able at scoring even more kills… https://preview.redd.it/s07v5umtjpg61.png?width=620&format=png&auto=webp&s=ae14e6101c2c35da175150251bf592d0598fb76c In this match of Age of Empires 2, the red player (Aztecs) managed to decimate the blue player (Turks) military units early on. Since without an army it was impossible for the blue player to secure enough resources to perform a comeback, for the next 2 hours the blue player was in a pointless, hopeless match. Kudos for not abandoning, though!Autochess games have a huge snowball effect, due to the following reasons:
TeamFight Tactics attempts to decrease the snowball effect by introducing Carousels: rounds where all players pick a character from a list, and where the players that are losing (i.e. have less health) get to choose first. While this decreases the issue, it doesn’t really solve it… It just makes that smart players aim to lose on purpose at the beginning so they can get the better pick and generate the snowball slightly later on.
Excessive Match LengthCompared to PC, on mobile is much harder to keep the player focused for a long period of time on a single session. And having a very long minimum session kind of goes against the premise of being able to play anywhere which is a primary strength of mobile as a gaming platform. This is a problem for autochess games since a single match can last for 30-45 minutes of synchronous, nonstop gameplay.https://preview.redd.it/eh020bi1kpg61.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=5e98aefdec1c79141d7fe13d02acfadb13e789b7 The knockout mode in Dota Underlords aims to make the game more accessible by skipping the slow beginning of the match (you start with a pre-setup army), and by simplifying the health and fusion systems. This shortens the matches to ~15 minutes, which is still too long for mobile, but better than 30. The problem is that it also increases the snowball effect, since the match has less turns to allow comebacks, and makes any mistake (or a bad roll) way more punishing.‘Isn’t the solution just make the match shorter?’, you’re probably wondering. Unfortunately, there are several reasons that make this more challenging to the core design than what it seems:
FINAL THOUGHTSThe history of the autochess genre serves as an example of the risks of design endogamy: The devsphere rushed to clone Auto Chess, and before a year all the major contenders were in the board. But that speed came at a cost: None of these projects has brought the concept much further than its original conception, and in doing so they haven’t solved any of the core issues.https://preview.redd.it/jptzdrj8kpg61.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=8f3fb34eb46b610e6ee355ba47782c804cb74186 The folks at Riot games developed the TeamFight Tactics in less than 5 months. This allowed them to release while the hype was still at its peak… but it also meant it added just a couple of improvements, and it’s otherwise very similar to the original Auto Chess mod.After seeing all these projects fail to meet the big expectations that were placed on them, the question is if perhaps the best approach was to avoid rushing, and instead tackle the genre with a title that is not a clone, but rather a more groomed, accessible and innovative successor of the original idea. In our next article on this series will make an attempt to see how such a game could be, rethinking the spirit and fresh design ideas of autochess to solve the issues mentioned above. (May take a while though, I want to focus on smaller articles for a couple of months…) Meanwhile, if you want to read more about this genre, we suggest you these awesome articles from the folks at DoF: Why Auto-Chess can’t monetize – and how to fix that and How Riot can turn TFT into a billion dollar game Special Thanks to…These articles wouldn’t have been possible with the collaboration of ~300 members of the reddit communities of the different auto chess games who provided us with feedback and data. You folks have been incredible solving all our doubts. One thing that this genre has is some of the most awesome players around.So big kudos for Brxm1, Erfinder Steve, Xinth, Zofia the Fierce, STRK1911, LontongSinga22, bezacho, hete, NeroVingian, marling2305, NOVA9INE , asidcabeJ, Eidallor, Rhai, Lozarian, bwdm, Toxic, Ruala, Papa Shango, MrMkay, Dread0, L7, kilmerluiz, Amikals, Sworith, Tankull, B., hete, Bour, Denzel, DeCeddy, Diaa, hamoudaxp, Benjamin “ManiaK” Depinois, Katunopolis, DanTheMan, MikelKDAplayer, 0nid, Tobocto, Tiny Rick, phuwin, Alcibiades, triceps, d20diceman, shadebedlam, stinky binky, Tutu, Myuura, suds, Kapo, Hearthstoned, Engagex, Pietrovosky, Daydreamer, Doctor Heckle, Ignis, ShawnE, NastierNate, LeCJ, Nene Thomas, Chris, trinitus_minibus, Nah, Kaubenjunge1337, Mudhutter, Asurakap, Nicky V, shinsplintshurts, bobknows27, Willem (Larry David Official on Steam), Jonathan, Dinomit24, Monstertaco, GangGreen69, Veshral Amadeus Salieri (…lol!), Kuscomem, Cmacu, Pioplu, Dilemily, qulhuae, Ilmo, MarvMind, facu1ty, crayzieap, Saint Expedite, Lobbyse, Lukino , tomes, Blitzy24, Mcmooserton, magicmerl, i4got2putsumpantzon, radicalminusone, Pipoxo, Kharambit, Bricklebrah, Rbagderp, Merforga, Superzuhong, Mo2gon, MoS.Tetu, MeBigBwainy, Zokus, CoyoteSandstorm, Stehnis, Noctis, Fkdn, Ray, Fairs1912, Fairs1912, Krakowski, HolyKrapp, Damadud, Pentium, Mach, Mudak, CaptSteffo, jwsw1990, Omaivapanda, Inquisitor Binks, Jack, yggdranix, GoodLuckM8, Centy, Prabuddha (aka Walla), dtan, Philosokitteh, Doms, ZEDD, Calloween, Synsane, Kaluma, GordonTremeshko , Djouni, DOGE, haveitall, ANIM4SSO, Task Manager, Submersed, BAKE, Viniv, La Tortuga Zorroberto, BixLe, Rafabeen, Blzane, bdlck666, FatCockNinja86, R.U.Sty, Yopsif, blesk, Quaest0r, FanOfTaylor, StaunchDruid, Rushkoski and everyone else that took some minutes to help us out on the article. |
![Detailed DD post [re-post after pennystocks removed it]](https://a.thumbs.redditmedia.com/-u8f_3KNR4C4xszR_qNH3GzIEi4iY0UWG9PLnkrOHt8.jpg "Detailed DD post [re-post after pennystocks removed it]") | I posted this yesterday morning (UK time) but after 5 hours or so, pennystocks deleted the original post. A few people messaged me asking for it to be shared in a few High Tide specific pages. So here it is! submitted by AlexM-YT to HITIFSTOCK [link] [comments] -- This is my first time posting a DD post – a friend of mine who moderates on SPACs has shared some analysis I have written previously, but I’m keen to share this here, and see if there is any appetite for sharing my own personal written DD I have on the 30 stocks I have across a number of different portfolios. I have modified this format, as it was originally a script for a video which I created on the stock. If you prefer to listen – check it out here: https://youtu.be/qsjwU7kkPsw Some of the market stats (market cap, current multiples, etc.) are correct as of Feb-06, and clearly a little outdated since the price movements. Not a financial advisor, do your own DD. I am long HITI and have an expectation of a long term hold on this stock. Overview
Very strong market growth:
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https://preview.redd.it/vkrb2ousvmg61.png?width=602&format=png&auto=webp&s=40f8f4c65b92efc15af0eba42bb873c774700eff Potentially misleading cost basis information
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 | Hello everybody! We all have our own ways of having fun in classic WoW and enjoying our trip through Azeroth. After all it's about the journey and not the destination as they say. Just recently I have achieved a goal my mine and I wanted to share my own journey through classic with you. I have hit the gold cap! As always, pics or it didn't happen so here is a screen cap of my gold and a few others I took along the way to amassing 214,748 gold, 36 silver, and 47 copper which was done entirely on my own without farming gold once. submitted by Zurathustrawow to classicwow [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/lde8dn3f4i561.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=56a2fc4a45a2e0db32965d8d9287305ef34fdbb8 These images are the average amount of sales from Teusday through Friday during common raid times. I usually have about 3k come in through the mail on normal nights and as much as 6k during DMF weeks. Of course the percentage of that income as profit will change significantly depending on the day. https://preview.redd.it/6ui7ooni4i561.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3723791a3b039be012b780934f290f0778b06ca7 https://preview.redd.it/ydcughzl4i561.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5524d949eb870ce40f89299fb3084a9a3ae399ca https://preview.redd.it/3r9j8e3e5i561.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=390dfbb873f709591ddc956e7949efb0439348bf The answer to how did I do this is actually quite boring. I used tailoring, alchemy, and wise investments. I also do not play every hour of every day. I check my mail in the morning and replenish whatever I sold the night before, do it once more in the afternoon if I can, and then hang out for an hour or so during raid times constantly crafting more of what is being sold and buying materials to keep my stockpiles ready for the next day. However I do try to be logged into the game as often as I can, even if I am not at my desk. A far more interesting question than what did I do is what I didn't do. I have been having fun making gold on retail exclusively through crafting since the middle of Wrath up until Legion and always strive to do as much of it solo and as low effort as humanly possible and have continued with those restrictions into classic. While a couple of people have technically hit the cap they have either been streamers who received literally tens of thousands of gold in donations, played 8+ hours a day aoe grinding, or abused layering farming for several months. All of which are things that the average player is not capable of doing and certainly doesn't fall under the category of "low effort." Here is a short but non-exhaustive list of the many things that I did not do in order to reach the gold cap. I did not... Buy gold. Sell boosts. Any form of botting or anything that is remotely against the ToS. Multiboxing. Grow a neckbeard. Take advantage of the AQ war effort. Gambling. ** Spend hours in Orgrimmar spamming trade with "WTS/WTB" posts. AoE farm (not even while leveling) Farm materials or raw gold in any way what so ever. If I can buy it, I will never farm it. Collude with the alliance or use the neutral auction house. Price fixing or other "mafia" type activities. Receive donations, investments, or guild funding GDKP runs. ** In the interest of full disclosure, I did hang out in trade chat and spend more time crafting than normal during the weeks leading up to and during naxx release to get the last few thousand I needed to reach the cap. However aside from that short period all sales and purchases were done through the auction house and during my normal amount of play time. I know, a rich mage that has never done boosting or aoe grinding, what is the world coming to! As you can see I have placed a lot of restrictions on myself and yet I hit the gold cap. The entire reason I was able to do so in less than five years is because of the fact that we know everything there is in the game and, more importantly, what is coming around the corner. Some people put a priority on leveling their 11th alt on their 8th server while others focus their time on achieving high warlord. I decided to put my time towards building a large scale auction house business. Because of the information that we all have available to us I was able to spend a large sum of money investing into items that would increase in price a few months later on. I then used that advantage to sell thousands of potions for a significant profit. With that said here are some interesting stats from my adventures making that socks made of silk money. Best selling item: Greater fire protection potion From day one all the way through naxx I would sell between two and ten stacks per day every day without fail. Once the heart of fire xmute was added to the game the profit margins went down considerably, but the rate of sale remained the same. However if I were to continue as I have been for another few months I believe that normal nature protection pots would overtake them as my most common sale. This recipe was the first major investment I made early on and spent a few hundred gold to buy it and it began to pay dividends almost instantly. Highest profit items: Bloodvine and Shadoweave gear I would regularly craft the BV gear for about 100g total and then sell the pieces at 260g or higher which is more than double the investment. As you might expect this isn't something you'll sell ten of each day, but for the entirety of p4 I would sell one set per week and sometimes more. With the shadoweave gear I craft them for about 80s and resell at 9g each. While not a massive amount of gold coming in, the returns are incredibly high making them well worth keeping in stock. Best RoS/RoI item: Flask of the titans The rate of sale on a titan flask is quite high when you consider the price tag with three selling on the average raid night and a couple more on off nights. Meanwhile their return on investment was typically around 40% which is quite good for such a large investment. Weirdest item: Greater water breathing elixir I can only assume these are used by rogues while leveling up their lock picking on the coast of the Desolace, but beyond that I cannot imagine why so many of these sold. But why though?! So at the end of this you are probably wondering "Why do this at all? What are you going to do with it?" and the answer is simple: I do it because it's fun. Making gold with loads of restrictions on it is very interesting to me and has become my own mini-game with the gold total being my personal high score. It's also incredibly fun to join a group and have somebody say "hey it's you! I always buy my potions from you!" or that all the gear their alt is wearing was made by me. As for what's next, who knows? Maybe I'll level an alt in style with the best BoE gear and enchants money can buy at every level through 60. Perhaps when TBC comes I will personally bank roll the entire raid from Karazan through Sunwell paying for every gem, flask, and enchant along the way. I can say one thing for sure though, I won't be farming any time soon! I could honestly write dozens more pages about interesting moments, stories, and discuss my methods and the various approaches to the AH game, but this is long enough as is. Thanks for reading and good luck out there! |
Ok just had a look at IPSOS. In Jun 2020 their BAME subtab consisted of 180 people. In December 2020 I couldn't find the numbers at all, but the general satisfaction rating they posted for Starmer that month was: 38 satisfied, 33 dissatisfied. So not only does the BAME number in the image seem to track the overall number (and thus indistinct), it also looks like BAME have a slightly higher net approval than the general number. So not sure the point holds water. Let me know what you think. EDIT: the december 2020 tabs had 100 people in the BAME subtab. So not only is the margin of error pretty stonking, but if you're tacking to the idea of this data being reliable it shows him having marginally slightly higher approvals amongst BAME than the general pop. So bit of a dud theory.(The discussion was here https://old.reddit.com/LabourUK/comments/le14xblack_labour_members_are_set_to_boycott/)
Three problems with Richard Burgon's contribution to the whole patriotism/flags debate - which was (1) voters who like flags and patriotism have their own party - the Conservative party (2) chasing them means taking young and BAME voters for grantedThere is also the following article, which makes for interesting reading:
Losing some votes in seats where Labour has towering majorities to improve Labour's appeal in the much larger set of seats which do not return Labour MPs would seem, on the face of it, a worthwhile gamble.
- People who like flags and patriotism is "most people" (see Sunder Katwala's thread for evidence). So the argument amounts to "Labour should reject what most people think on this, and actively encourage them to vote Conservative if this is something that is important to them."
- The "most people" who like flags in patriotism includes, actually, most young people and BAME voters. So if your concern is not to take such voters for granted - i.e. seeking to reflect their views not ignore them - then rejecting flags & patriotism is the wrong approach
- Burgon is concerned this will cost more voters than it gains. That seems unlikely given (1) and (2) above, but it also ignores geography. The minority of voters who actively dislike tepid appeals to flags are concentrated in safe Labour seats.
Just to underline that I am not misrepresenting Burgon's views on this, the quote I am responding to is at the end of this article. https://t.co/dEnrJleNQb
The better point Burgon makes is that this kind of thing is no use as a substitute for more substantive policy and strategy. At best it is mood music. But given voters' views about Labour on this topic, a change of mood music is potentially worthwhile
For evidence that Labour has an image/brand problem to address here, see this polling. Voters consider themselves patriotic by a 61-16 margin (+45 net). They are more likely to think of Labour as not patriotic than patriotic - 35-40 margin (-5 net) https://t.co/RXWUjW8kNz
On this latter point, if the idea is that patriotism repels ethnic minority Britons, that feels to me like a foundational misunderstanding of British identity today – and how it has changed during the last decades.In conclusion there appear to be two arguments forwarded. The first is that the strategy should not take the place of more substantial policymaking and should serve as a backdrop. The second is that the strategy will alienate and lose us votes with minority electorates.
Research for British Future soon to be published finds that pride in being British is shared by more than three-quarters of British ethnic minorities and a similar portion of their white fellow citizens. There are differences of tone and emphasis across generations and places but the story is definitely not one of white pride versus ethnic minority aversion.
“There ain’t no black in the union jack” was an old National Front chant before Paul Gilroy repurposed it as a title for his influential book on race, published in the late 1980s. The cover image of a black veteran, war medals on his chest, signified how selective the NF was in tracing the history it claimed to be proud of. Introducing his second edition early in the new century, Gilroy wrote of how British popular culture had put plenty of black in the union jack across the 1990s. How strange it would be if the left of the Labour party remained among the last to believe that devilish old tune.
Talk to refugees about what becoming British has meant to their families and you may decide that we should mark this summer’s 70th anniversary of the UN refugee convention by entrenching seven decades of refugee protection as a British value, too.
British Future found that one-fifth of white British Remain voters now say they are “not proud” to be British – about twice the number of ethnic minority Remainers who say the same. The British identity of ethnic minorities was much less tied up in their EU referendum choice. I would need less than the fingers of one hand to count the black and Asian Britons whom I have heard say they identify as European, yet most ethnic minorities voted Remain.
An everyday ease with our national symbols – the NHS, Remembrance Sunday and our flags, too – is one essential foundation. Only with that is it possible to secure a hearing for the next generation of arguments about what more needs to change.
| Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|
| FC Lorient | 1-0 | Stade de Reims |
| Abergel 53' | ||
| Olympique Lyonnais | 3-0 | RC Strasbourg |
| Depay 20', Toko Ekambi 30', Depay 68' | ||
| RC Lens | 0-0 | Stade Rennais |
| Stade Brestois | 2-1 | Girondins de Bordeaux |
| Mounié 80', Faivre 85' | Hwang 56' | |
| Nîmes Olympique | 3-4 | AS Monaco |
| Deaux 23', Ferhat 32', Eliasson 81' | Golovin 3', Golovin 12', Golovin 62', Volland 77' | |
| AS Saint-Étienne | 1-0 | FC Metz |
| Boye (og) 14' | ||
| OGC Nice | 3-0 | Angers SCO |
| Doumbia (og) 9', Maolida 17', Gouiri 83' | ||
| Montpellier Hérault SC | 4-2 | Dijon FCO |
| Laborde 48', Laborde 56', Savanier 61', Škuletić 90'+1 | Coulibaly 5', Konaté (p) 88' | |
| FC Nantes | 0-2 | Lille OSC |
| David 9', David 83' | ||
| Olympique de Marseille | 0-2 | Paris Saint-Germain |
| Mbappé 9', Icardi 24' |
| # | Team | Pts | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lille OSC | 54 | 24 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 42 | 15 | +27 | |
| 2 | Olympique Lyonnais | 52 | 24 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 50 | 20 | +30 | |
| 3 | Paris Saint-Germain | 51 | 24 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 55 | 14 | +41 | |
| 4 | AS Monaco | 48 | 24 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 50 | 35 | +15 | |
| 5 | Stade Rennais | 38 | 23 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 31 | 24 | +7 | |
| 6 | RC Lens | 36 | 24 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 34 | 33 | +1 | |
| 7 | FC Metz | 35 | 24 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 28 | 22 | +6 | |
| 8 | Angers SCO | 34 | 24 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 29 | 37 | -8 | |
| 9 | Olympique de Marseille | 33 | 22 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 29 | 26 | +3 | |
| 10 | Girondins de Bordeaux | 32 | 24 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 27 | 29 | -2 | |
| 11 | Montpellier HSC | 32 | 24 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 39 | 44 | -5 | |
| 12 | Stade Brestois | 30 | 24 | 9 | 3 | 12 | 37 | 44 | -7 | |
| 13 | OGC Nice | 29 | 23 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 27 | 31 | -4 | |
| 14 | Stade de Reims | 28 | 24 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 30 | 32 | -2 | |
| 15 | AS Saint-Étienne | 26 | 24 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 23 | 36 | -13 | |
| 16 | RC Strasbourg | 25 | 24 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 32 | 39 | -7 | |
| 17 | FC Lorient | 22 | 23 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 28 | 43 | -15 | |
| 18 | FC Nantes | 19 | 24 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 22 | 39 | -17 | |
| 19 | Dijon FCO | 15 | 24 | 2 | 9 | 13 | 17 | 36 | -19 | |
| 20 | Nîmes Olympique | 15 | 23 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 20 | 51 | -31 |
| # | Player | Match |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Memphis Depay | Olympique Lyonnais vs RC Strasbourg |
| 2 | Niclas Eliasson | Nîmes Olympique vs AS Monaco |
| 3 | Jonathan David | FC Nantes vs Lille OSC |
Brest's victory is deserved. For 20-25 minutes, we played the game we had decided to play. Then, either for lack of fitness or lack of quality in the duels, we were overwhelmed. We were amorphous, we stuttered our football. We were lucky enough to score the first goal, I thought it would give us a boost. We'll have to look at the stats, but I think we'll be in deficit in terms of running and recovering the ball.David Linarès, Dijon coach :
I was ashamed in the second half because of the lack of solidarity and fighting spirit. It left me with a bitter taste, especially as we were lucky enough to open the scoring. When you are in Ligue 1, when you defend a club and a city, you must at least have the mental virtues that allow you to exist. I asked myself a lot of questions about the second half. We will try to digest this disappointment first before thinking about the French Cup match.Stéphane Moulin, Angers coach :
In Bordeaux, we were 2-0 down after twelve minutes. Sunday, in Nice, same score but in seventeen minutes. If I was being ironic, I would say that we are making progress. For us, it's irrelevant. Nice were not confident. We did what was necessary to help them. But I'm not surprised in the light of our last training session.Raymond Domenech, Nantes coach :
There are still 14 matches to go, it's obvious that we need to take points. We know it, we knew it, it's confirmed, it's getting tense, but let's not give in to panic. We have to keep this idea of wanting to play, of wanting to play our game, of causing problems for our opponents. Standing solidly behind and hoping to score on the counter won't work.NotMeladroit, no need to introduce him :
We will get the chance to see Dédé Gignac shit on Bayern next thursday.
Gambling statistics 2020: Learn more about how Brits gamble 47% of Brits have gambled in some way in the last 4 weeks. We unpacked the latest stats to see what we are gambling on and how much we spend. Stats on gambling worldwide: 26% of the world population gambles. (Casino.org) In other words, 1.6 billion people gamble. 4.2 billion people worldwide gamble a minimum of once per year. 19. The average adult lost just over 400 dollars gambling in the US, 2016. (Casino.org) Gambling addiction statistics show people between the ages 20 and 30 have the highest rates of problem gambling. 75 percent of college students report having gambled during the past year. The risk of developing a gambling addiction more than doubles for young adults in college settings. Talking about estimates, 2019 was expected to generate US$ 43.2 billion for the online gambling sector. Our sources state that it managed to reach over US$ 53 billion . In other words, it seems that online gambling has the capacity to surpass estimates, and general gambling, the opposite. According to The American Gaming Association (AGA), the gambling industry in the US is worth $261 billion and supports 1.8 million jobs in 40 states (); however, gambling has had a difficult (and illegal) history in the USA and it is just up until now that the path is being cleared.. Several anti-gambling laws have been in place since the great depression and gaming has been heavily regulated ... The North American Foundation for Gambling Addiction Help reports that approximately 2.6% of the U.S. population has some type of gambling issue. That adds up to nearly 10 million people in the United States who struggle with a gambling habit. Their best estimate came to a total of 1.6 billion people gambling at some point during a given year, with over 4.2 billion having gambled at some point in their lives. With the increasing reach of online gambling, those numbers have probably only grown larger in recent years. Some Key Online Gambling Statistics About Us We do the Hard work for you!. At OddsTrader, we do all the hard work providing the best odds for every game from safe, reputable, legal sportsbooks. Find not just odds and stats, but in-depth information, live updates, weather reports, injuries, ATS, matchup info and more, to help you bring your betting skills to new heights. Stats for the US: The gambling industry in the US is worth $261 billion and holds 1.8 million jobs. Most of these are in Nevada as gambling is actually banned in most states. Another growing segment of the gambling industry is online. The global market size of online gambling was forecasted to reach over 59 billion U.S. dollars in 2020, growing by around 20 billion U.S ...
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