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Chapter 145...Do you have all the decks?

In fact, Tang Yao told Si Jinliang that the rules of the card game could be further optimized.

After listening to it, he did some research.

During this period, he has been studying with Shi Wanglin how to further simplify the complexity of traditional TCG.

Because it was unexpected.

Shi Wanglin is actually also a TCG enthusiast.

So the two of them were like dry firewood and a passionate flame when they met. They spent a long honeymoon period and had a lot of fun playing various TCGs on the market.

But it is only in the initial stage.

Because it's fast.

The two ambitious people discovered that TCG is fun!

But if they move the game to the Internet and copy it, the core players will enjoy it, but the thought of getting new players to accept it makes their scalps tingle.

But we need to change it in a simpler direction.

The two found that the game was boring. Without the multiple dimensions of strategic depth and the massive card special effects, it was not fun at all.

this time.

The two of them kept scratching their heads, trying all kinds of ways to change things here and there.

And then... it didn't change anything except making the entire game unrecognizable.

This is also the reason why Si Jinliang looked embarrassed just now.

As for what Tang Yao said at the beginning... replace the original TCG game's three golden elements, collectible cards, mana system, and color pie, with collectible cards, mana crystal system, and class system, while discarding out-of-turn interactions, making it quicker to get started, simpler, and more suitable for the attributes of online games.

Because Tang Yao never gave me the plan.

Si Jinliang thought Tang Yao had given up on her own.

After all, he felt at the time that the reason why Tang Yao was so confident was because she, like himself when he first entered the industry, thought everything was too simple, and took the rules and mechanisms, the two core points of the card game, for granted, and ignored the complex relationship between "fun" and "simple".

It's too difficult to make it deep, simple and fun at the same time.

But this morning Tang Yao brought it up again... and now she brought the plan over again.

Si Jinliang was a little suspicious and curious at the same time, and slowly opened the plan.

Shi Wanglin on the other side was also a little curious, but did not go over.

After all, the boss is here.

He still has to save some face.

but……

After Si Jinliang opened the plan, he didn't look up.

The whole person seemed to be completely immersed in it.

Tang Yao was getting a little impatient waiting on the side. She picked up her phone to kill time, but found that it kept ringing... She had no choice but to put it down, look here, touch there, and then simply found a place to sit nearby, then picked up a pen and started writing something.

Shi Wanglin: “…”

He could still hold it in just now.

And it's actually quite interesting to watch Tang Yao running around.

But now that Tang Yao sat down, he really couldn't help it and took a look at the plan in Si Jinliang's hand.

Closer.

Shi Wanglin then discovered that Si Jinliang's breathing was very rapid.

What did you see?

He looked over curiously.

then.

Watch and watch.

He seemed to be frozen in place, staring at the plan in Si Jinliang's hand without moving.

Time passed slowly like this.

Tang Yao has finished writing everything.

Si Jinliang just finished reading the entire plan, and then.

He stood up suddenly and shouted excitedly, "Tang Yao!"

But Tang Yao was not in front of him at all.

He was a little bewildered.

On the other side, Shi Wanglin was a little anxious: "I haven't finished reading it yet!"

Not far away, Tang Yao heard the voice and looked up: "Have you finished reading it?" "I'm done."

Si Jinliang finally saw Tang Yao and walked straight towards her.

Shi Wanglin was chasing after him.

The two came in front of Tang Yao.

Si Jinliang immediately raised the plan in his hand, and then asked excitedly: "How did you come up with this extreme hair reduction design? It's amazing! Such a threshold! I dare say! Anyone can get started right away!

This simplified resource system! Automatic mana growth! Fixed resource gain every turn! Yeah! Why didn't I think of this? This will greatly reduce the frustration of being stuck on a map, eliminating the need to rely on complex mana resource mechanics and allowing the focus of strategy to shift to card combinations and tempo control! Why didn't I think of this!

The mainstream TCG here, like Magic: The Gathering in Tang Yao's previous life, uses land cards as the core resource system of the game and one of the sources of the game's strategic complexity and unique charm.

The operating mechanism of the land cards, the configuration in the deck, and the player's deployment strategy for the land cards directly determine the rhythm of the game, the stability of the deck, and the outcome of the game.

But precisely because of this, the number of land cards and the probability of drawing them directly affect the upper limit of mana available each turn.

This directly increases the complexity of the card game gameplay by an order of magnitude.

There are not enough land cards, so you can't cast key spells and get stuck.

There are too many land cards, and there is a lack of effective threats or removal methods, resulting in a land overflow.

The land card dilemma in traditional TCGs is essentially the coupling contradiction between probability and strategy. Because almost all decks will contain more than 30% resource cards, the game can easily be ruined by random cards.

The plan that Tang Yao gave him directly abandoned this complex resource system... and instead adopted a very simple and direct automatic mana crystal.

It is equivalent to separating the resource supply and making it an independent system.

But this is by no means as simple as subtraction, because Tang Yao clearly stated in the planning document that the mana curve should be materialized through this system as an explicit constraint on the number of turns.

For example, it costs 3 mana to fight for the scene, and 7 mana to play the big brother. Combined with the card design, these rounds will form natural decision-making nodes.

"And with this fixed turn process, no manual response interruptions, and no ability to respond instantly during the opponent's turn, the operational complexity is practically zero!"

Si Jinliang's eyes lit up as he continued, "Also, your plan outlines unified mechanic descriptions through keywords like Battlecry, Deathrattle, and Charge... This intuitive card description not only allows new players to quickly understand the core mechanics, but also solves the problem of the complex basic rules and massive card effects of conventional TCGs. It's truly genius!"

Si Jinliang really thought so.

What a genius!
It’s actually possible to simplify the rules and lower the threshold in this way!
Moreover, the cancellation of out-of-round interactions seems to be a reduction in depth, but Tang Yao's plan also mentions another mechanism - "secret".

This perfectly inherits the essence of the TCG game response mechanism, but at the same time avoids the difficulty of timing judgment!

so amazing!

"You... shouldn't be here to sigh so simply, right?"

Tang Yao listened to Si Jinliang's sigh and blinked.

"...the rules are simplified and very thoughtful."

Si Jinliang felt a little embarrassed when he heard this, but he quickly dismissed it: "The automatic mana system, the removal of out-of-turn interactions, and the keyword mechanism have indeed lowered the barrier to entry... but there is a problem: how do we maintain strategic depth?
I don't quite understand what you wrote in your plan about controllable randomness, resource and rhythm games."

This mechanism is very thoughtful, but it is too simple.

He still had no idea whether it was fun or not.

Because it’s a little hard to imagine with just words.

"Controllable randomness. I should have given an example... The discovery mechanism and the random summoning pool are all mechanisms designed for randomness."

Tang Yao explained, "As for the resource and tempo game... this has to be combined with the rules just mentioned. Mana crystals automatically increase, so how to build a deck, whether to be aggro or control, how to balance the deck's mana curve, and as mana crystals increase, the board exchange strategy, whether to clear the board or hit the face, all require trade-offs. When combined together, it will form a multi-layered decision tree."

"..."

I saw that the two of them were still a little confused, not quite understanding.

Tang Yao was not surprised. She picked up what she had just written and handed it to Si Jinliang.

"This is……?"

Si Jinliang took it and looked at the words on it, feeling a little strange.

"Under this set of rules, I've come up with two decks: one called Protection Warrior and the other called Zoo. The former focuses on defense, clearing the board, and surviving.

The latter focuses on offense, emphasizing the use of small units for large ones, and tactically focuses on directly attacking enemy heroes to achieve a fast-paced victory."

Tang Yao smiled and said, "If you don't understand the game of resources and rhythm, and can't appreciate its strategic depth, then you and Shi Wanglin can set up a platform. According to the rules of the plan, each of you choose a deck of cards and play against each other once. Then you will understand... I will give you the relevant card descriptions and effects tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."

"..."

"..."

Si Jinliang and Shi Wanglin froze when they heard this, then slowly raised their heads and looked at Tang Yao in surprise.

Slowly put up a question mark?
hiss--

No.

Got all the decks! ?

(End of this chapter)