Update 5.0 stuff outside the lj cut is important, so please read!
New Decks
Some of you might have noticed the sudden game decks. The Doubles no Oujisama games were just released recently. They don't include a lot of playable characters you can partner up with, but the ones that are included can learn other characters moves and lines. It is soooo awesome hearing Sanada say if he missed his shot, he won't get a kiss. Tarundoru! XDDD I'm slowly playing the game but still don't quite understand the tennis.
New Members
Moe-chan has joined us! (sort of?) Juu, you might want to poke her/him because the join comment was incomplete.
New Affiliates
Game Set
yuzurenai mastered mother and is now collecting serious!
juudenkanryou mastered soliloquy and is now collecting memories!
himilika mastered bigi and is still collecting ponta!
nnoilalala mastered prowess and is now collecting bigi!
lucathia_rykatu mastered adieu and is now collecting platinum!
kazeookami666 mastered limit and is still collecting voice!
llamachan mastered natural and is now collecting ecstasy!
hiyokonojinsei mastered moonsault and is now collecting roses!
Congrats, everyone!
Match Set
aoi_honou, ashkahchan, butterskotch, llamachan, drkparadise, xtiggzie leveled up from Two Years Braggin Experience to Rookie! nerrin and kazeookami666 leveled up from Rookie to Ranking Tournament!
New Donations
Juu donated new level banners. Juu and reinspire donated new tennis scoresheets. Kaze donated new link buttons.
New Deck Freebies
Please take 4 cards from the newly released decks displayed above! They must be from different decks. Comment with what you took.
If you're a prejoiner, please take this as well:
This card is part of the special event deck that includes cards for events, birthdays, and milestones. That means you get cards for participating in events like the Easter Egg Hunt (which ends in 24 hours!). I have a few milestone cards up and may be adding more since I think all of you will be getting these pretty easily. It wouldn't be fun if you accomplish everything right away! Event cards and birthday cards will be handed out in update posts. If you reach one of the milestones, just comment on the most recent update post for your card! Also, if these extra decks ever feel overwhelming, you can just ignore them.
For the Easter event card, all you have to do is participate. Even if you comment with only one egg, that counts as participating!
Birthday Freebies
Mi-chan, happy early birthday! Please take the following:
Players will be getting freebies for their birthdays too and not just for tenipuri character birthdays! =P You get the special birthday event card for your month, 3 cards from your school, one set of uniforms from your school, and a choice tennis ball.
Happy birthday to Shiraishi Kuranosuke, Shudou Satoshi, and Mori Tatsunori, the last two being quite forgotten characters. Your birthday freebies this week includes:
-any choice card featuring Shiraishi from a normal deck
-one random card from the Rokkaku randomizer and one random card from the Fudoumine randomizer (randomizers are here). Save the first card that comes up for you! Do not reload!
Comment with what you took and received!
About Deck Releases
For those who are interested, deck release depends on:
-category (I try to vary the categories. The "anime" category has the most decks, so I will be releasing less from that category at the moment, sometimes skipping out on it. The musical category still need more decks!)
-character availability (if you donate a character that already has another deck, priority will be given to another character that has no deck at all. I didn't take this into consideration before and just made every donation I got in the order I got them, hence why we have so many Tezuka decks at the moment.)
-school (decks from schools with few decks will be released first when donated. If you're donating a Seigaku or Hyoutei deck...it'll still be released, but there may be a queue.)
-donation date (after the above 3 considerations, I will then release decks roughly by the date they were donated.)
-miscellaneous/special decks (sometimes there are special themed decks that don't fit anywhere since they're not based on a single character or school. these will not factor into the 5 decks per week and will be released as an extra deck that week.)
Sadly, the considerations don't always work out when I run out of time and don't plan as well.
Be aware that even if a deck is already made, that does not mean it will be released that coming Saturday. So don't get too excited, or you might feel let down when it's not released that week! If I find this becomes a problem, I will remove the upcoming list all together.
Some clarifications about games:
-You do not need to reply to game rewards unless the game mod asks you to. Some may ask you not to reply to game rewards.
-Game mods, you get to decide if you want players to reply to game rewards telling you what they claimed. Replying to rewards with claims lets us know exactly what everyone took so that players are less likely to change what they took based on what they think is tradable later on, but replies also generate a lot of extra emails for the game mods, so it's really up to game mods to decide what they prefer. I don't mind either way. I trust players to play fairly, or else playing has no meaning at all.
About trading
-Trading should occur in your card posts and not in the game posts. I know sometimes people get really excited, but keep interaction in game posts to a minimum. Of course, some mods might not mind! You're also free to trade in your trading community posts or through email and such. We just don't want to generate too many emails for game mods.
-Do not hound people for cards in the game posts. It's fine to see what are available for people, but do not ask them to claim certain cards in the game posts. If they're your friends or buddies, go ask in their card posts or wait to see if they claimed it for you anyway.
Some reminders and changes
-The Easter egg hunt is ending in 24 hours! If you found any egg at all, comment to get the special easter event card!
-If you haven't contributed to theme deck#1: serves, please consider donating~. There are six spots left. If they are not filled by the next Sunday, I will fill them myself.
-The quit/hiatus post has been renamed as information change since there wasn't a place for people to tell me when they need their info updated on the members list. Do not comment about game set or match set changes because the mods will tell me that. Only comment if you change your info outside of those two cases.
-I noticed that I made a mistake with the filler for the dear prince deck. I wondered why I was short one card when making the deck. The filler card was supposed to be the first card! Do any of you mind the weird filler? Should I replace it with a blank one?
-Muga has some funky corners. I've fixed them but haven't resaved and uploaded them. They'll be fixed by next week!
Phew, that turned out long! Wish me luck on my RICA test this afternoon...
Some of you might have noticed the sudden game decks. The Doubles no Oujisama games were just released recently. They don't include a lot of playable characters you can partner up with, but the ones that are included can learn other characters moves and lines. It is soooo awesome hearing Sanada say if he missed his shot, he won't get a kiss. Tarundoru! XDDD I'm slowly playing the game but still don't quite understand the tennis.
New Members
Moe-chan has joined us! (sort of?) Juu, you might want to poke her/him because the join comment was incomplete.
New Affiliates
Game Set
yuzurenai mastered mother and is now collecting serious!
juudenkanryou mastered soliloquy and is now collecting memories!
himilika mastered bigi and is still collecting ponta!
nnoilalala mastered prowess and is now collecting bigi!
lucathia_rykatu mastered adieu and is now collecting platinum!
kazeookami666 mastered limit and is still collecting voice!
llamachan mastered natural and is now collecting ecstasy!
hiyokonojinsei mastered moonsault and is now collecting roses!
Congrats, everyone!
Match Set
aoi_honou, ashkahchan, butterskotch, llamachan, drkparadise, xtiggzie leveled up from Two Years Braggin Experience to Rookie! nerrin and kazeookami666 leveled up from Rookie to Ranking Tournament!
New Donations
Juu donated new level banners. Juu and reinspire donated new tennis scoresheets. Kaze donated new link buttons.
New Deck Freebies
Please take 4 cards from the newly released decks displayed above! They must be from different decks. Comment with what you took.
If you're a prejoiner, please take this as well:
This card is part of the special event deck that includes cards for events, birthdays, and milestones. That means you get cards for participating in events like the Easter Egg Hunt (which ends in 24 hours!). I have a few milestone cards up and may be adding more since I think all of you will be getting these pretty easily. It wouldn't be fun if you accomplish everything right away! Event cards and birthday cards will be handed out in update posts. If you reach one of the milestones, just comment on the most recent update post for your card! Also, if these extra decks ever feel overwhelming, you can just ignore them.
For the Easter event card, all you have to do is participate. Even if you comment with only one egg, that counts as participating!
Birthday Freebies
Mi-chan, happy early birthday! Please take the following:
Players will be getting freebies for their birthdays too and not just for tenipuri character birthdays! =P You get the special birthday event card for your month, 3 cards from your school, one set of uniforms from your school, and a choice tennis ball.
Happy birthday to Shiraishi Kuranosuke, Shudou Satoshi, and Mori Tatsunori, the last two being quite forgotten characters. Your birthday freebies this week includes:
-any choice card featuring Shiraishi from a normal deck
-one random card from the Rokkaku randomizer and one random card from the Fudoumine randomizer (randomizers are here). Save the first card that comes up for you! Do not reload!
Comment with what you took and received!
About Deck Releases
For those who are interested, deck release depends on:
-category (I try to vary the categories. The "anime" category has the most decks, so I will be releasing less from that category at the moment, sometimes skipping out on it. The musical category still need more decks!)
-character availability (if you donate a character that already has another deck, priority will be given to another character that has no deck at all. I didn't take this into consideration before and just made every donation I got in the order I got them, hence why we have so many Tezuka decks at the moment.)
-school (decks from schools with few decks will be released first when donated. If you're donating a Seigaku or Hyoutei deck...it'll still be released, but there may be a queue.)
-donation date (after the above 3 considerations, I will then release decks roughly by the date they were donated.)
-miscellaneous/special decks (sometimes there are special themed decks that don't fit anywhere since they're not based on a single character or school. these will not factor into the 5 decks per week and will be released as an extra deck that week.)
Sadly, the considerations don't always work out when I run out of time and don't plan as well.
Be aware that even if a deck is already made, that does not mean it will be released that coming Saturday. So don't get too excited, or you might feel let down when it's not released that week! If I find this becomes a problem, I will remove the upcoming list all together.
Some clarifications about games:
-You do not need to reply to game rewards unless the game mod asks you to. Some may ask you not to reply to game rewards.
-Game mods, you get to decide if you want players to reply to game rewards telling you what they claimed. Replying to rewards with claims lets us know exactly what everyone took so that players are less likely to change what they took based on what they think is tradable later on, but replies also generate a lot of extra emails for the game mods, so it's really up to game mods to decide what they prefer. I don't mind either way. I trust players to play fairly, or else playing has no meaning at all.
About trading
-Trading should occur in your card posts and not in the game posts. I know sometimes people get really excited, but keep interaction in game posts to a minimum. Of course, some mods might not mind! You're also free to trade in your trading community posts or through email and such. We just don't want to generate too many emails for game mods.
-Do not hound people for cards in the game posts. It's fine to see what are available for people, but do not ask them to claim certain cards in the game posts. If they're your friends or buddies, go ask in their card posts or wait to see if they claimed it for you anyway.
Some reminders and changes
-The Easter egg hunt is ending in 24 hours! If you found any egg at all, comment to get the special easter event card!
-If you haven't contributed to theme deck#1: serves, please consider donating~. There are six spots left. If they are not filled by the next Sunday, I will fill them myself.
-The quit/hiatus post has been renamed as information change since there wasn't a place for people to tell me when they need their info updated on the members list. Do not comment about game set or match set changes because the mods will tell me that. Only comment if you change your info outside of those two cases.
-I noticed that I made a mistake with the filler for the dear prince deck. I wondered why I was short one card when making the deck. The filler card was supposed to be the first card! Do any of you mind the weird filler? Should I replace it with a blank one?
-Muga has some funky corners. I've fixed them but haven't resaved and uploaded them. They'll be fixed by next week!
Phew, that turned out long! Wish me luck on my RICA test this afternoon...