Anatomy of a Deckcycle
Features
yeaGO
9 September 2012
3156 views
9 September 2012
3156 views
Hey all,
I wanted to round up a bit on Deck Cycling to make sure everyone knows what it is and what happens when you do it. Due to the increase in users, I recently made some changes which I think will help boost the effectiveness for everyone.
First the basics. This button is located on your deck:
Deck-cycling is one of the major ways that people get feedback on their decks. Many of you know that this basically means this:
Until recently, that's all this meant. But I've begun expanding the 'Deck Builder' section so deck-cycling now adds your deck there, too:
But it also appears on several more pages, depending on the format and hubs your deck is in:
Since my deck is Casual format its going to appear here, too:
And its also going to appear at the top of the pages of the hubs I selected too. This is one of the reasons why selecting appropriate hubs is so important:
Ohthenoises says... #2
So it's NOT useless! ;P just playing. Thanks for the breakdown yeaGO! and thanks for adapting to more users.
September 9, 2012 3:18 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #3
I get the feeling the first image in the post is supposed to be something else...
September 9, 2012 6:11 p.m.
mossflower says... #6
Good job, yeaGO!. I really like this update. I especially like the featured artwork next to the decks.
September 10, 2012 1:52 a.m.
EchoSi3rra says... #7
Question: how come I don't see any art like in your screenshots? All I see is empty space.
September 10, 2012 4:41 p.m.
rckclimber777 says... #8
I like the revamp of the deckcycling, but I feel like featured decks kinda got the short end of the stick on this one. From what I've seen featuring decks puts the deck in the ad box for a brief amount of time then it goes in the featured list and thats it. Am I missing a location here where featured decks show up? It seems to me if this is the case, then deckcycling will, at least in theory, give your deck more views than featuring a deck, which I think is not at all what you want. Again I like the revamp, but I'm just wondering now if its made deckcycling better than featuring.
September 10, 2012 8:10 p.m.
Fixed up the artwork problem
rck, I'm not sure I follow. Deck-cycling doesn't take anything away from Featured decks--they still appear on the top spot on the front page and of course they also show up in the ad spot for a time.
September 11, 2012 1:23 a.m.
PS: Your decks now cycle to the card pages of cards in your deck now, too =)
September 11, 2012 1:25 a.m.
shifterfox says... #11
woot @ the very last post by yeaGO! that will REALLY help as well, as that will allow players to view decks with cards they are thinking about already being used, giving them ideas on how to improve their use of their cards. =3 woot!
September 11, 2012 10:27 a.m.
Hi yeaGO! :) Is there a way to create our own HUBS? Because I've searched the hubs to find one or two that would match a deck of mine and nothing really fit. I have to admit, I build weird concept decks loll, so its probably my fault ;)
September 11, 2012 3:27 p.m.
rckclimber777 says... #14
yeaGO! what I'm trying to say however unsuccessfully was that it seems that deckcycling is now more effective than featuring a deck. I can find my deckcycled deck in many different areas, but last night when I featured it I could only find it in the featured section. This observation may be premature, but if deckcycling is now better than featuring then it doesn't make sense to get feature tokens when I can just deckcycle and get more views than I would featuring it. Please don't get me wrong I like the deckcycling as it now is as I can easily find my deck which leads me to believe that others are also able to easily see it. It was just my observation that deckcycling seems to be much much more useful than featuring a deck.
September 11, 2012 5:17 p.m.
killroy -- oy?
rckclimber -- I dunno about that. The ad space up top and the features header on the front page are very prominent spaces--you're practically guaranteed to get hundreds of eyeballs and at a bunch of clicks to your deck in those spaces. The featured section is simply a new place which shows all featured decks historically. Its not the primary visibility for featured decks. All I've done is expand the inventory. I didn't take people away from looking up top or on the front page.
Justarsaus says... #1
thats pretty awesome
September 9, 2012 3:14 p.m.