Sunday, July 12, 2009
New Site!
Welcome to this, the new version of Shalandar.com. I've moved some stuff around, featuring the navigation in the middle. Experimenting with some technology that lets me use the actual font from the game in the headers.
Tell me what you think. Is the text easy to read? Were you able to find the instructions and install the game?
posted by Nils T. Devine # Sunday, July 12, 2009 
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Hello Nils, and a big THANK YOU for a great collection of MtG goodies! From general deck building discussion to comments about particular decks, and cards. Everything here is top-notch.
Site looks geat - this lighter background is more easy on the eyes than the dark brown you had earlier.
Even though the game is 12 years old, I have my periods when I play it a LOT. I´m a big fan of Shandalar and I really like the Gauntlet as well.
I play Gauntlet on the hardest setting - only one match per enemy, and a maximum of 50 in a row. I have also "hotted up" the pre-exisiting decks: given appropriate dual-lands to all multicolored decks, given Kird Apes to the Ape Lord, Sedge Trolls to the Sedge Beast, replaced Blight with Sinkhole, etc. The decks for the creatures in Shandalar are unaffected, though. The are probably hard-coded into the game (at least I have not found any other place that stores .dck files).
So far, I have never been able to get through the Gauntlet completely, but I´ve lost in match #50 once, and in match #48 once. My three best decks average something like 15-20 wins before I get busted. That is my form of playtesting a deck: play a LOT of Gauntlets and see how far I go on average.
I have two long-term projects I have recently started:
1. Make a list for all the situations (and cards) where the computer is clearly stupid. I think it´s interesting to keep track of them.
2. Make a list of cards you can not trade with amulets or get as quest reward in Shandalar, and mention the methods you CAN get those cards (if there are any). For example, the only way I know of to get hold of a Serendib Efreet is to enter the Blue castle on Wizard level. Some of the enemies there have a Serendib Efreet as starting advantage, and then it´s possible to become owner of that card using a Bronze Tablet.
Another example: I have never received Elephant Graveyard as a reward in the enemies´ ante (and it does not appear in reward lists either), but I have found it in lairs a few times. Not as cards you win when you defeat a dragon/djinn in the lair, but as cards that you just happen to find there after whatever else happened in the lair is dealt with.
There are still a number of cards I have never seen in Shandalar at all (including Arena, Juzam Djinn, two other Djinni, two Efreeti types, etc.).
I would like to share the five decks I have built so far (the ones I consider more or less "complete") - their history, thoughts behind them, changes I made, strengths and weaknesses, etc. How do I go about that in the best way? E-mail you about it? Should I upload the file somewhere?
Kind regards,
Anders Johansson, Malmö, Sweden
Site looks geat - this lighter background is more easy on the eyes than the dark brown you had earlier.
Even though the game is 12 years old, I have my periods when I play it a LOT. I´m a big fan of Shandalar and I really like the Gauntlet as well.
I play Gauntlet on the hardest setting - only one match per enemy, and a maximum of 50 in a row. I have also "hotted up" the pre-exisiting decks: given appropriate dual-lands to all multicolored decks, given Kird Apes to the Ape Lord, Sedge Trolls to the Sedge Beast, replaced Blight with Sinkhole, etc. The decks for the creatures in Shandalar are unaffected, though. The are probably hard-coded into the game (at least I have not found any other place that stores .dck files).
So far, I have never been able to get through the Gauntlet completely, but I´ve lost in match #50 once, and in match #48 once. My three best decks average something like 15-20 wins before I get busted. That is my form of playtesting a deck: play a LOT of Gauntlets and see how far I go on average.
I have two long-term projects I have recently started:
1. Make a list for all the situations (and cards) where the computer is clearly stupid. I think it´s interesting to keep track of them.
2. Make a list of cards you can not trade with amulets or get as quest reward in Shandalar, and mention the methods you CAN get those cards (if there are any). For example, the only way I know of to get hold of a Serendib Efreet is to enter the Blue castle on Wizard level. Some of the enemies there have a Serendib Efreet as starting advantage, and then it´s possible to become owner of that card using a Bronze Tablet.
Another example: I have never received Elephant Graveyard as a reward in the enemies´ ante (and it does not appear in reward lists either), but I have found it in lairs a few times. Not as cards you win when you defeat a dragon/djinn in the lair, but as cards that you just happen to find there after whatever else happened in the lair is dealt with.
There are still a number of cards I have never seen in Shandalar at all (including Arena, Juzam Djinn, two other Djinni, two Efreeti types, etc.).
I would like to share the five decks I have built so far (the ones I consider more or less "complete") - their history, thoughts behind them, changes I made, strengths and weaknesses, etc. How do I go about that in the best way? E-mail you about it? Should I upload the file somewhere?
Kind regards,
Anders Johansson, Malmö, Sweden
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Thank you for the great comment! Sorry I took so long to moderate it live.
There's actually I post where I have people submit decks as comments. It used to be in the navigation, I'll have to put it back:
http://shalandar.com/2005/06/submit-deck.html
There's actually I post where I have people submit decks as comments. It used to be in the navigation, I'll have to put it back:
http://shalandar.com/2005/06/submit-deck.html
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