Mines Malingerer
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Joined: Thursday, 24th November 2016, 18:25
Stack Five alternative
Q: What is the purpose of Stack Five? A: ultimately, to allow the player to play a card of their choosing, and to allow the player to know that this card is always available to them. Shuffle Search achieves the same result without SF's nuisances of making the player
- stack decks out of combat
- stack decks to avoid piety waste rather than out of necessity
- consider carrying/using small decks with poor cards
- calculate the card-loss costs of stacking full vs used decks
- choose among different stacked decks which may have identical top cards
- etc
Side effect: With Stack Five removed in favor of Shuffle Search, decks of the same type can be made to stack - relieving Nemelex's inventory pressure - with few other gameplay changes, namely:
- total number of cards in a deck becomes known (which affects play only with the first few gifts, really)
- Draw Three never involves risk of getting 1 or 2 options instead of 3
- Deal Four never wastes cards, or, has a fixed card cost beyond the Four
Downside: using this ability would be a multi-decision single-turn action which you can't cancel for fear of leaking info or allowing rerolling... which is not great because this is normally handled in an awkward manner that disables most inputs, like Draw Three and gozag abilities and choosing your attribute every third level.
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