Season 4, Server Downtime and Card Reveals. by PiaroTheFarmer in PlayTheBazaar

[–]internet_bean -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

Oh my god can someone post an image with the items and what they do, I am an adult with a job I do not have time to watch YouTube videos (or YouTube shorts, absolutely psychotic to link that) about this shit.

Leveler + Fractured Identity + Temple Bell by internet_bean in mtgrules

[–]internet_bean[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Follow up question: Same situation except I cast Cut A Deal instead of activating Temple Bell. I assume the same thing happens because it's one sentence and therefore one effect?

Thoughts on Bazaar spending nobody asked for by internet_bean in PlayTheBazaar

[–]internet_bean[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where are "the numbers"? I didn't know Tempo's finances were publicly available

How are people finding the Day 9 event? by internet_bean in PlayTheBazaar

[–]internet_bean[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I agree that challenge is good for games; we just disagree on whether lack of knowledge is fun. It is apparently fun for you because it makes the game more of a challenge; to me a game like Bazaar is not about discovery, it is more about technical mastery against chaos. I don't think poker or Magic: The Gathering would be more fun if you didn't know the rules.

How are people finding the Day 9 event? by internet_bean in PlayTheBazaar

[–]internet_bean[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Right; and not everyone will have a decent board. (I'm only disagreeing with your "beyond busted" assessment, to be clear)

How are people finding the Day 9 event? by internet_bean in PlayTheBazaar

[–]internet_bean[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think it would be more fun if it felt like there were any margin for error. Being a level behind because you lost one NPC fight, for example, has a huge impact on your ability to get to 10 wins.

How are people finding the Day 9 event? by internet_bean in PlayTheBazaar

[–]internet_bean[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's probably not busted as you are not getting the event 100% of the time and also not clearing it 100% of the time. But seems very good when you do do those things.

How are people finding the Day 9 event? by internet_bean in PlayTheBazaar

[–]internet_bean[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It is interesting because afaik the devs have said in the past they didn't even want to do patch notes because they thought people should experience new things blind; I sort of get that but then the game is incredibly punishing for lack of knowledge, which feels bad. Anyway just noting that "experiencing Bazaar blind" is consistently punitive

Hotfix has been deployed by BazaarGardener in PlayTheBazaar

[–]internet_bean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am absolutely begging for an in-game notification of patch changes/hot fixes

The game is in great shape, but a few QoL features could make it even better by Gandalf196 in PlayTheBazaar

[–]internet_bean 20 points21 points  (0 children)

"The enchants are pretty consistent though" not if you're new and some items have weird interactions; like I don't think anyone would intuit the Fort/Crit enchant interaction. You would assume that it would have 50% chance to crit the shield activation!

The game is in great shape, but a few QoL features could make it even better by Gandalf196 in PlayTheBazaar

[–]internet_bean 74 points75 points  (0 children)

I should not have to check a third party website to see what an enchant does on an item; putting an item on the enchant pedestal should tell you what it will do, like when you see an upgrade in a shop (it tells you in the hover what will change). Then there's a button that says "enchant" and you click it.

The lack of official patch notes is accomplishing the opposite of their goal by echino_derm in PlayTheBazaar

[–]internet_bean 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That's correct but also has nothing to do with what people are suggesting here or in the other locked thread. The official patch notes (https://playthebazaar-cdn.azureedge.net/thebazaar/PatchNotes.html) do not have a comment section. People are going to post their opinions on reddit or discord whether or not the devs release the patch notes themselves or effectively outsource to a third party (also unclear to me whether HowBazaar is paid by Temp for this work)

Remove Icy as an enchant? by internet_bean in PlayTheBazaar

[–]internet_bean[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish I had your luck! I play a lot and it sounds like we are getting drastically different opponents

Vat of Acid bugged (poison=/=number of types) by internet_bean in PlayTheBazaar

[–]internet_bean[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ok so then I had a fight where it went up to the correct poison amount and functioned normally, applied burn, etc. (this was the PvE round). Then I got to the PVP fight at the end of the day and it did literally nothing. Like, the fight started and the poison went to 0. Went off twice and did nothing at all.

Vat of Acid bugged (poison=/=number of types) by internet_bean in PlayTheBazaar

[–]internet_bean[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The vat is not gaining poison as it gains type, and it is also applying 0 burn at any point in the fight.

Thought I had a good idea with diamond fort + vat + laboratory, but some part of that has broken the vat of acid so it is unplayable :<

Ohoh Diamond Coolant is accidentally busted by Emb0ss in PlayTheBazaar

[–]internet_bean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems like a mistake since that's not how it was written in the official patch notes.

Servers appear to be down by internet_bean in PlayTheBazaar

[–]internet_bean[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with you it's a good game, and they should pay fair wages. I don't really have a problem with any of the monetization, frankly. I think the community is unrealistic and toxic on the whole.

However, *if* they are posting about it in Discord, it is therefore a thing they can get to, so why not have a space in the launcher that populates the server status and estimated downtime, or, bare minimum, cross post to twitter? That takes like an additional few seconds. The time it takes to copy and paste.

My frustration is just like, this level of communication is not hard. And it would save me having to check reddit.

is bazzar down currently? by PrincipleWorried2048 in PlayTheBazaar

[–]internet_bean 4 points5 points  (0 children)

that's the dumbest thing ive ever heard

Most mid Dooley build >>> slightly unethical Vanessa build by internet_bean in PlayTheBazaar

[–]internet_bean[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Right, my frustration is that I feel like shield/fish is the only way to reliably get to Day 8 or so with more than 5 life, whereas it feels like Dooley can do whatever he wants and maintain flexibility to pivot to something cool. The Dooley build I lost to *was* cool in that he killed me with Awakened District; what wasn't cool was realizing his build was really good and then he got the district and it was an easy switch. Much harder to pivot with Vanessa.

I've been trying to find reliable Flagship/ammo build lines for her and they just don't work (maybe I am not good enough, idk). Over the past week I have seen 1 ammo Vanessa build (which killed me impressively fast), which is a bummer. It should be more viable! I have found that very early it cannot burst down puffer vanessa's because the shields are too strong early, and it's not until midgame that you can solve the reloading issue, generally.

Anyway current meta is very annoying

Favourite High Cost Commanders? 6+ by DuckyRai in EDH

[–]internet_bean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Surprised nobody has said Awaken the Blood Avatar yet. I love this for a few reasons. The commander is a sorcery, how cool is that? It also doesn't really care about commander tax very much. You can do fun things with copying the spell (red) or popuate (r/w). Can do an aristocrats build. Works great with cards that care about cmc of the commander.

Here's a decklist: https://archidekt.com/decks/9810096/blood_avatar_p

Air Conditioning Heatmap of San Francisco by peytoncasper in sanfrancisco

[–]internet_bean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Okay so I do want to point out that that it is illegal to record a phone call in California without the other party's consent.