Going to try to update the UNDERDOG LIST tonight!

Since the shop was down for a few hours this afternoon and (mostly because we were busy fixing it) the mass email reminder about the Black Friday sale ended going out really late, we are EXTENDING the black friday sale through Saturday!  (except for the hyper rarity lotto, that's going to Sunday as normal.

Enjoy!

And we're back up. All is good. All active accounts have been given a starter switcher card.

And we're back up. All is good. All active accounts have been given a starter switcher card.

Still tweaking... will post when everything's happy again.

We will be having a short maintenance period around 1 PM while we move the new starter cards and info to the main server.  Please make sure you're duels are done before then.

--Logress

The big Black Friday sale is on!

For Black Friday only (actually, will go down at 6 AM Sat morning, EST):

EX: Black Friday Pack

300 Gran for 5 random EX Cards - That's 60% of the cost of the EX: Lotto!!!

500 Gran for 5 Refess EX Cards - That's 83% of last year's special Sphere EX Lotto!

500 Gran for 5 Lawtia EX Cards

500 Gran for 5 Gowen EX Cards

500 Gran for 5 Falkow EX Cards

NOTE: These include the special high-rarity EX cards like Sakon and Meltiria!

For all weekend long (actually, will go down at 6 AM Mon morning, EST)

Rarity UP Lotto, with YOU GET COMPLETE SET CARDS for Sets 1-10.

You get one, email me at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and I'll give you one of every card in the set you got!

And we thank you for your support!

As I mentioned, tomorrow is new starter day.  So we all can be in front of a computer at the same time, despite being spread out at various family homes, the Apocoplay team will be putting up the new starters in the afternoon.  We may do a short 20-30 minute maintenance to complete it.

Also, there will be two small erratas.  The first involves some old 1 and 2 star cards that we buffed or added soul skills to (meaning they had no soul skills before) in order to make our vision of the new starters work smoothly.  Also, due to feedback from new players (and randomly chosen TCG gamers who we felt would like the game), we wanted to add a little more art into the Gowen starter that would appeal to more general US gamers (meaning more monsters, generally).  Nothing serious in the unit department (other than buffing the afformentioned 1 and 2 star cards), but we did take two cards with great art (Volcano Wyvern and Gaia anaconda specifically) but extremely low use soul skills and gave them better soul skills so we could include them without weakening the soul skill linup.  The original Gaia Anaconda soul skill was part of a cycle, so we didn't want to eleiminate it. It was moved to Amazon (same set, same rarity), and amazon's will be moved to Highland Born Hunter (who had no soul skill). The original Volcano Wyvern soul skill was unique, but near-zero use. We might toss it onto a 1-star in Set 12 or something.  NOTE: we only made changes to make the starters to work the way we wanted with the rarities we wanted. (We also wanted alternate versions for units and souls we liked, but felt were a little too complicated for new users.)  We did not have any higher aims than that. So, for example, we added souls and buffed some cards in some colors, without buffing similarly needy others in other colors, since we didn't have use them for the starters.  We will 'catch up' those other unbuffed commons the next time we do a 'full' errata.

The second errata will be a 'spike' hunting errata.  No, I don't mean agressive players, I mean 'spikes' in our card usage data.  A lot of times, when running card usage, there are ups and downs in the graph, but a handful of cards will skyrocket above all the others, and only get worse over time.  We want to 'clip' these spikes in the graph so they don't disrupt the game. These are for general game health, and are not intended to be a widespread balance change.  I did one of these types erratas before, on Apoco-launch (I think it was Emana, harpest and Chaos anna).  This time, our lucky winners are Super Verlaat, Super Miffyre, Phoenix Chick, Magic Doll Augmented, and Jewel of the Deep Sea.  

In any case, tune in tomorrow for some excitement!

That's right, this year's Black Friday sale is so special, it's EX: BLACK FRIDAY!

EX Cards will be on sale!  As in cheaper!  For ONE DAY only!

Not only that, but we've got options...

EX: Black Friday Pack

300 Gran for 5 random EX Cards - That's 60% of the cost of the EX: Lotto!!!

500 Gran for 5 Refess EX Cards - That's 83% of last year's special Sphere EX Lotto!

500 Gran for 5 Lawtia EX Cards

500 Gran for 5 Gowen EX Cards

500 Gran for 5 Falkow EX Cards

BUT THAT'S NOT ALL

We are also haveing a Hyper Rarity up Lotto, with the "you get Set X" cards all weekend!

That means chances of getting rare cards in the Lotto is up, AND if you get one of the special present cards, you get AN ENTIRE CARD SET (60 cards)!

As always, sales made for any Gran purchase will be treated as a donation. We will be reporting our monthly finances, and spending as much as possible of any income on new development. That means spending on sales events like this one translate into a better Alteil for everyone!

OK, everyone has their weekly ranking gran now!  In additon, I remembered to save the toplist outputs, so we can take a look at all the fun that's been going on in the arenas.  Remember, in the past the 'points' here corrisponded to the amount of ranking gran, but now  since you're not penalized for a loss, you'll end up with quite a bit more.

WEEKLY TOP ICZER

WEEKLY TOP GUILD

Rank Guild Name Guild LV Points

1 Circle of Eldritch Magi 4 533

2 Black Propaganda ™ 3 280

3 Fluffy Pokemon Lovers 3 151

4 Yuni City Duelists 3 149

5 Order of the Black Knights 5 127

6 Gowen Academy 4 116

7 Team-Transcend 3 98

8 Johnjo's fan club 4 96

9 Lunar Requiem 3 71

10 The Heroes Of Lavato 3 71

11 Royal Flush 5 70

12 Miku Fan Club! 1 70

13 xx420noscopeheadshotsmokealldayxx 1 68

14 Syncopation 1 57

15 MasterMind 3 48

16 Philippine Crusaders 3 47

16 ~mortem masters~ 5 47

18 SRX Team 4 36

19 set11不好組呢? 1 34

20 AMALAYER 1 32

GUILDS THAT LEVELED UP

Baka Rangers leveled up to 2

Miff Divers leveled up to 3

GUILDS THAT BECAME OFFICIAL

Miku Fan Club!

Valkyrie

ReVengeance

Leaf Ninja

Rebels Without A Clue