"Retreat from the environment."

Jester's voice was unequivocal, but after such an obscure word was uttered, it was even more confusing to the card designers present.

Retreat from the environment? What does it mean to retreat from the environment?

This time, I didn't wait for others to ask, but Jester himself said to himself: "Actually, the game I designed is not perfect, because in my setting, there will inevitably be a dead loop that cannot be perfectly self-consistent, very simple, the card game I designed is bound to develop in the direction of becoming more and more complex." Because the simple principle has been figured out and even calculated, something new must appear at this time, otherwise luck will have the upper hand when most people have mastered the rules of this version. The reason we designed the deck was to squeeze out the element of luck as much as possible, so we were only able to make the mechanics of the cards more and more complex. ”

Jester paused, he was also a little thirsty after saying so much, picked up the water cup in front of him and took a sip of water, and continued: "In this way, just like what you doubted before, complexity is limited, and it is impossible to be infinitely complicated, otherwise, every time you settle the bill, you have to use a computer to assist, then this experience must be very bad, and in this way, the endless loop will come out - simple - complex - more complex - too complicated...... What to do? As I just said, you can only retreat from the environment. ”

Although Jester hasn't said what the retreat environment is yet, some of his previous words also musically guessed the meaning of retreating from the environment, in fact, this meaning is not difficult to guess, especially when Jester has explained so much.

"One of the first concepts you need to understand about retreating from the environment is sets. That's what I said before, that our TCG cards are released from the set. This set is called the environment. The so-called withdrawal environment means that after a series of cards have been released for a period of time, the cards of the series are forced to withdraw from the current main environment, and the series of cards are not allowed to appear and be used in official matches. ”

Then, a smile appeared on Jester's face, "You heard me right, I was talking about the official competition. ”

This was actually an idea that Jester had for a long time. It's inevitable that video games will move towards esports, but before RTS and fighting games really became popular, there was no point in engaging in esports, but Magic did make an exception, and it was a great card game to play in, with a high level of confrontation and competition.

It can be used as an outpost for future esports, and in the future, it can even be used to play Magic games through electronic devices, and the same can be classified as esports.

It was also an opportunity to expand his influence.

Hearing Jester ruthlessly explain the meaning of the retreat environment, the card designers present all had an indescribable expression on their faces. It seems that in Jester's final statement, the cards they had worked so hard to design were just the ones that would definitely be eliminated in the future. However, they can't argue that if they really follow Jester's statement and continue to make new cards by completing the established rules of what he calls a trading card game, then Jester's retreat seems to be the only option.

At this time, an assistant who came with Jester hurriedly walked over from outside, and then leaned over to Jester's ear and whispered a few words. Then, after thinking for a few seconds, he whispered something to his assistant. The assistant nodded and hurried away.

"Huh. I just received the news and it was a little surprise, so I can only make a long story short. Jester smiled and continued, "Actually, I've already said pretty much what a trading card is and the rules of this card game, it's your business to design specific cards, and it's your business to enrich and improve the rules I just mentioned." ”

"However, I still have to emphasize one point in the end, although I want you to show that different cards have different strengths, but this is definitely not a game that can be won and lost by the strength of the cards, you have to pay special attention to the role of bo, I give such an example, and you must do it, a set of cards that are not very strong in a single card form a deck, through guò effective bo, he must be far stronger than a deck that only relies on the strength of a single card to win, as for why is this? Because at the heart of Magic: The Gathering is bo. ”

Jester waved his hand, motioning for those who had doubts not to speak, and asked him to finish what he wanted to say before he said, "Next, I'll give you some ideas that might help you guys when designing cards, like graveyards......"

For the next hour or so, Jester talked about the experience he had gained from various card games in the future, talking about injecting into the graveyard, activating abilities, arena elements, and so on, not that Jester didn't want to explain more, but that he didn't know it very thoroughly, and he said these ideas because he wanted the card designers of this era to improve them.

When Jester felt that he had said something about the same, and finally asked the designers present to ask a few more questions, he was about to leave, so that when his assistant hurriedly told him about the incident, the slightly immature designer raised his hand again to speak, but his speech this time made Jester a little dissatisfied, because the question he asked was a setting that he had already said very clearly in Jester's eyes.

According to the young card designer, although Jester said that Bo is a combination, he thinks that Bo is the core of this card game, and Jester should say it in more detail, because it is difficult for them to have a very accurate understanding of the concept of Bo just by virtue of Jester's previous brief introduction.

Jester was silent for a moment when he heard the young card designer retract his somewhat disgruntled expression, recalling his understanding of Magic's Bo from memory, before Jester spoke.

"First of all, you have to be clear about BO, I am talking about Magic, this is a constructing card game, that is, everyone's deck should be completely different in theory, and Bo is derived from different builds, and how does Bo work? I'll give you a very simple example, you can think of an engine. ”

Seeing everyone's confusion, Jester continued to explain: "Yes, it's the engine. What is an engine? It's the power, and in the deck that the player builds himself, the engine is the card that does the power that his bo needs, and in this process, all the engine principles must be like this - build and then detonate, and how will the more complex rules be established? That is, the detonation of the previous engine completes the construction of the next engine, and the construction and detonation of the last engine must be the VP engine, that is, the decisive engine, designing such a BO card pool is a very complex research process, I just said my assumptions, and the detonation of the decisive engine is diverse - multi-component single detonation, multi-component cumulative detonation, single-component detonation, etc. ”

"I said one of the simplest engine cards you can use as an example, I mentioned earlier that a basic card has a check card in it, which is actually the simplest engine card, and how does a bo built from a check card work? It's as simple as checking, finding the card you need, and detonating it. ”

Jester stood up, he felt like he had said about it today, and it would be enough to make a final summary of the TCG trading card game he was talking about.

"Actually, I've said so much, and it's bo and what is the retreat environment or something, it seems, it's very troublesome, in fact, the whole game process is very simple, you only need to know the player's game process, then it will be easier to design cards - in the card deck of a deck built by the player, one or several key cards are needed, and what the player needs to do is to find a way to get the key card through guò's own engine to complete the purpose of getting the key card, at the same time, It is a process of fighting wits and courage to complete your own plan while stopping your opponent's attempts, and although the card rules and settlement rules will definitely be very complicated in the future, the process of players fighting against them will not change. ”

"Thank you for listening to me so much today, this card game is also my own mental simulation countless times, I also design a lot of cards, but I didn't take it out here to say, I just don't want to limit your thinking, I just said some basic settings, I want you to complete these settings, for example, I said that the ability of the card, there are many types of abilities, these abilities will give different effects to different cards, even if it is a card with the same cost, the effect and strength will be completely different, okay, That's all I'm going to say, and I hope you'll do your best to give me a TCG card game that I'm happy with. ”

After Jester finished speaking, he bowed slightly, and then the designers of Clement in the audience also came back to their senses from the description of the specific operation of the BO that Jester said just now, and the statement that the core of Jester's BO construction is the engine also made them a little stunned.

So they also applauded. (To be continued) R752