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First completed (almost no-leak) replay submitted already.. players are playing by different strategies.. this draft features choice not seen in #2..

a kindle tower with 2500 range..heh

that is way too strong. built at / VIII VII especially, every creep or at least 75% of wave will be hit.. tower can be massed to basically destroy everything at creep entrance with no micro.. even with say slow bounce speed and really long cooldown.. doesn't add much strategy.. bouncing damage exists in electricity.. besides, we already have a full set of working towers in the private betas.. for your info if you don't know, some towers have been changed totally since pb.. karawasa has more or less put an end to new content unless it is really significantly better and easy to implement and all beta leaders must be in agreement..

b16c..

Draft isn't designed to be easy.. with the tower and elements restrictions.. and yes.. quite a number of towers have changed.. other tower changes include new disease, jinx, ice, golem, quark and (...) since 4.0pb at least.. much has changed.. we nearly have a set of fully working towers now.. no more 'useless' towers now..

Corrected. Thanks for pointing that out..

Tower removal summary Duals removed: Gunpowder, Well, Electricity, Trickery, Hydro. Triples removed: Oblivion, Corrosion, Laser, Gold, Nova, Zealot, Tidal. ELEMENTAL DRAFT SUMMARY: in draft order: $ f3 l3 w3 d2 e3 w2 l2 f2 $ $ e2 l1 w1 d1 giving us $ X3 F X2 L X3 W X3 D X2 E X2 All drafters have 168 hours (7 days) from the time of this post to submit your final replay by PM. Replay files can be attached! So no external filehosting sites are needed anymore You can submit replays early and replace it with another replay anytime until draft closes. Scoring and winning replay Replay with LOWEST score wins. Final score will the sum of each component below. Leaks (least to most) : 1,3,4,5,7 Time taken (fastest to slowest) : 1,3,4,5,7 Networth (highest to lowest) : 1,1,2,2,3 Ronalds killed (most to least) : 1,1,2,2,3 explaination: eg. for leaks, the replay with the fewest leaks will score one point. the 2nd lowest leaks will score 3 points and so on. therefore, replay with most leaks scores 7 points. in case of ties, all will receive the lower score. Time taken is until victory message appears. This excludes the ronald hunt. Best build design will have 2 points subtracted from the replay's total score. best build design will be picked by me. ( as per draft traditions where best build design is picked by host). This condition may not be used if there is a clear winner.

As expected we have $$$LLL... lol!

!users (a long list of 402 users) at the time of this post users! more users!

hm.. the meeting in ongoing now...

And do remember even if all 6 elements are drafted, periodics are removed from the pool by draft host (this is in the opening ruleset).

maybe there'll be $$$LLL in play.. heh

Had a discussion with lesher in irc guessing kirby will pick $ and dev1 light... and the drafters picked as guessed.. heh..

for my replay fans warm-up round: DNEL 4th attempt seems like i have to do it this way.. at least the build is solved.. eletd_beta_236_DNEL_61_21lives.w3g

ELEMENT DRAFT PHRASE Draft order: 1st pick: DDRKirby(ISQ) 2nd pick: lesher 3rd pick: DevouringOne 4th pick: m0rph1ing 5th pick: jolin012 6th pick: jolin012 7th pick: m0rph1ing 8th pick: DevouringOne 9th pick: lesher 10th pick: DDRKirby(ISQ) 11th pick: DDRKirby(ISQ) 12th pick: lesher 13th pick: DevouringOne 14th pick: m0rph1ing 15th pick: jolin012 For your pick, pick a element and it's corresponding tier, for example, fire tier 3. You can pick higher tiers without needing the lower tiers to be drafted first. No repeats. Interest and extra pures must also be drafted if you wish to have either interest/extra pure available for summoning. I will not be adding either into the pool at the end. The tier is important. read the original draft thread for some explaination of the importance of specifying the tier. 3 picks only per player. 15 picks in TOTAL by all 5 players. Each player contributes 3 to make the final 15. DDRKirby(ISQ): 1st, 10th, 11th pick lesher: 2nd, 9th, 12th pick DevouringOne: 3rd, 8th, 13th pick m0rph1ing: 4th, 7th, 14th pick jolin012: 5th, 6th, 15th pick please wait for your turn. ensure that the drafter who is before you has made his choice before you make yours. keep to the order above. to help others, include the pick number when making your choice. therefore, the first post by kirby should be something like 1st pick: fire tier3 second post by lesher would be something like 2nd pick: water tier3 and so on... First drafter can take some time to think through before starting. Consider what towers have been removed. It may be good draft strategy to start with something like fire/water/earth tier3. Tier3s and tier2s usually make good choices for the first few picks. Remember, some diplomacy is part of the draft. You could include comments about your choice of element picks to influence other players. Have fun!

Tower removal summary Duals removed: gunpowder, Well, Electricity, Trickery, Hydro Triples voted: Oblivion, gold, voodoo, enchantment, corrosion, laser, storm, nova, golem, tidal, drowning, zealot Triples removed: oblivion, corrosion, laser removed with 2 votes. Gold, nova, zealot, tidal randomly removed by draft host. Duals removed: Gunpowder, Well, Electricity, Trickery, Hydro. Triples removed: Oblivion, Corrosion, Laser, Gold, Nova, Zealot, Tidal.

from build project earth needs a buff darkness a slight buff. fire feels like it needs a slight buff. water and light balanced. nature feels balanced. in random mode, refined elements have their uses.. elemental arrows and cannons are early game towers.. Making elements minus pures sell 100% would actually allow more sell and rebuild interest farming in midgame.. like they can be built to cover a defence's weakness and sold after that wave, where using a few focused or refined is stronger than spamming elemental arrows or cannons.. usually also the refined element tower is built a few waves before pures.. which if they can be sold without penalty is interest farming.. the interest here can be quite significant..

Other trickery bugs to point out.. mirage tower generates 15sec clones.. i mentioned this before and it occurred again. Seems like this bug only affects me... or no one has realised it yet? eletd_beta_trickery bug.w3g

in UTC +8 Friday 2100 which is UTC 1300 is a possibility.. if not maybe sat 1600 which is UTC 0800..

LET THE DRAFT BEGIN! http://www.eletd.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f...=1165&start=105

THE FORUM DRAFT #3! This will be the thread for the forum draft and uploading of replays... for information on how the draft works, refer to the draft mode. Discussion of the mode is to be done in that thread. This thread is only for the drafters and hosts. UPDATE: The clock's ticking for replay submissions...

You're in.. Should know the rules? well.. you should know that i always take a long time to find that 4th player.. let alone the 5th.

Pure earth is on the weak side... pure light or water is more or less the 'standard' .. pure earth and pure dark probably a damage buff. although in my early build project, i actually used pure dark for a few replays.. then pure light.. before putting the splash pures into play.

Back to the draft. SO the drafters for #3 will be: DDRKirby(ISQ), jolin012, lesher and DevouringOne. Pls PM me your confirmation.

UPDATE: i'm returned from vacation.. so set the date and time and hopefully i can make it (mainly due to timezones).. like sat/sun 2hrs before my usual 'out for the night'.. then i sort of make my point then the discussion continues from there..