Council Update: Frontpage Facelift

Ahh the weekend.  Every time my work week ends, I know two things are coming.  First, the forums die.  That’s right, when I’m finally free to talk, everyone leaves and has fun elsewhere!  Second, we have a Council Update for you.  Those of you with eyes may have noticed some changes popping up on the frontpage.  There have been quite a few lately.

1)  The ‘Rules’ and ‘Downloads’ tabs have been combined so that all rules documents can be found in one spot now.

2)  We’ve made a new tab called ‘Formats’ that contains all currently recognized tournament formats.  Notice that this tab has been updated with the Council’s decision to move Marvel Evolutions to Golden Age, and all Council suggested bans and erratas.

3)  The ‘About This Site’ tab has been modified to include a directory of all Administrators, Moderators, and Council Members.  Because some of these are not permanent positions, we figured it would be nice to have an updated listing on the frontpage.

4)  We’ve added Vssystemonline.org to the ‘Site Links’ in the right column near the Forum link.  We need to make sure that all new players can find this site as quickly as possible.

5)  Finally (the thing we’re most excited about), we’ve added a ‘Player Locator’ tab to the frontpage.  PLEASE head there now and add your information.  This tab will help players find other players and hobby leagues near them.  If you play Vs. at a store, please include the store’s information as well.  This tab was just added, so there aren’t many people “located” yet.  Help us fill the map with pins!

I (scottkthompson) will also use this opportunity to plug the archiving project going on over at Vscorps.wordpress.com.  I’ve been going through old Metagame.com articles and copy-and-pasting them over to Vs. Corps.  Many of the articles appear to be lost for good, but some of them can be salvaged.  If anyone has access to more content that should be saved (including the missing Metagame articles), let me know.  Also, if your blog has been left unattended for some time and you want the content added to the archive, I can make that happen.  It would be nice to collect all old Vs. content in one location BEFORE Google looses all traces of it.  And don’t worry about the terrible paint-created banner at Vs. Corps.  Once this project really gets off the ground, we’ll have someone with Photoshop skills create a banner more befitting our archive (KardKrazy, I’m looking your way!).

Let us know what other changes you guys would like to see on this site.  As always, our PM boxes are open!

The Ring Has Chosen Episoe 87

The episode numeric are address, the rants are lengthy, and the audio gremlins get the best of Cliff. All this and more for Episode 87.
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The Ring Has Chosen Battle of Wills Special.

Its Cliff vs Squire in an Equipment Legend battle.

Council Update: Leggo my ‘Ego’

This week’s topic of discussion comes from Kardkrazy.  He’s been hard at work on DWF Alter Ego cards.  Players have been toying around with these DWF Alter Ego cards since HeroComplex posted unofficial versions last year, but up until now, they’ve just been titillating us.  Well we’re making them official.  As official as the MTU Alter Ego cards are.

But wait, hasn’t Kardkrazy already released his DWF Alter Ego cards?  Yes, and his original versions can be found on this thread: Original Egos. 

 

But when you look back at the MTU Alter Egos you’ll notice UDE used art from the MTU set.  For that reason we’ve decided to release ‘official’ DWF Alter Egos that follow the same formula.  Obviously you can use the ones in the previously posted thread OR the following ones (no one will cry foul either way), but again, we’re simply following UDE’s formula.  Here are Kardkrazy’s new creations:

Council Update: The Fan Set Handbook

Another update?! What can I say, we’re just on fire lately. Buckle up, it’s going to be an exciting ride!

Today’s update is all about the ‘Fantasy Set’ section of the Vssystem forums. It makes sence then that the following information comes from our Fantasty section moderator: Shadowtrooper. He announced a while back that he was working on an Official Fan Set Handbook. The very existence of this handbook was welcomed by many, but an affront to others who were worried it would stifle their creativity. I think the latter group will be very relieved to find that the Handbook does nothing of the sort. For the uninformed, the Handbook is simply a loose set of guidelines that need to be followed in order to have your Fantasty Set submitted for Council approval. A ‘Council Approved’ stamp simply means that your set is eligible for tournaments that use the community’s ranking system. We should clarify that you’re still welcome to create Fan Sets that do not conform to the Handbook guidelines, and you can still use them for online play. They will just not be eligible for the ‘Council Approved’ stamp, and therefore will not be eligible for our online ranking system.

The Ring Has Chosen DC 100 Ideas Round 2 Special.

Its Arkham Insanity Vs. Total Recall.

The Ring Has Chosen Episode 86

Cliff & Squire discuss ratings, rantings, and Play Marvel. Part 1 of the MFA set review,and Battle of Wills Iron-Man vs. Captain America.

Council Update: State of the “.Org” Address

There have been many concerns about UDE’s final set MEV lately.  While the set was probably designed with lots of love from the design team, there is no doubt the set was rushed and had little to no playtesting.  As a result, keywords like Energize and Shift weren’t as well balanced as previous keywords have been.  Cards like Sabretooth, Reformed Killer and Iceman, Jack Frost have effects that would be great if limited to once per turn, but with Energize they simply become amazing.  Shift allows you to generate so many extra resource points that it’s impossible for any other deck to keep up.  It’s almost like Kree, but with a bag of heroin thrown in for good measure.  Bosom Budddies and Runaways have also generated a lot of heat (or is it hate?) for their abusive natures.  Let’s face it, MEV is a set of turn 4 kills and uninteractive combat phases.

100 Ideas: DC Round 2 (Part 1 of 4)

We managed to get Round 1 finished by the end of 2009, which means it’s time to start Round 2; and I can’t think of a better way to usher in a new year!  As a DC fanboy I’m particularly excited to be done with the Marvel side for a while.  You might notice that it says “1 of 4″ in the title.  That’s because we have 16 matches this round, and I never like doing more than 5 in one writeup (because I know how hard it is for those of us who read these things at work on our phones to read super-long articles!).  That means each writeup will contain 4 matches this round.  Today we’ll have 3 written, and one covered by The Ring Has Chosen crew.  If you want to see the updated DC Bracket click ‘here’.  Thanks again to everyone that’s participating.  Let’s get started…

The Ring Has Chosen Episode 85

This week Cliff & Squire discuss MEV, a few tangents on MFA, and battle out our DC 100 ideas.