asobot | The Asobot Initiative

OVERVIEW

Got some cards that have been gathering dust in your trade pile? Can't seem to find anybody who wants them? The Asobot Initiative is a place where you can get rid of your unloved cards and earn some masteries!

Pretty much everything here has been gutted from the previous admins of the Initiative, so thanks to everyone who worked hard and got this thing rolling!

ACTIVE DECKS

Decks with little current demand: they're not being collected much, recycled art is overflowing with doubles, stuff like that. There can be as few as 1 active deck and as many as 24. To suggest a deck that the Initiative should pick up, please comment HERE.

NEARLY COMPLETED DECKS

Decks with between 16 and 19 cards are moved into the "Nearly Completed Decks" section to free up spaces in our Active decks. There is no limit to the number of Nearly Completed decks we can have, but the goal is to finish them fast!

COMPLETED DECKS

Each time an active Initiative deck (see below) fills up to 20, it is transferred into the Completed Decks section where it will wait to be claimed.

DONATIONS

Comment in this post with the image and card name, and the number your donation corresponds to to donate! Please mark in your log. Donated cards do not count as trades. Log them, and the initiative, as you would log a game.

Please take note! DO NOT trade in crayons to get cards for the Initiative! The Initiative exists to take spare cards off of trade piles and turn them into organized masteries. We don't need to create more spare cards just for this! We will not take cards obtained through crayons as donations.

CLAIMING MASTERIES

If you have kindly donated 20 cards to the Asobot Initiative, we will gladly return the favor by giving you a deck in either the Completed Decks ection OR the Nearly Completed Decks section for you to cash in and keep for yourself. You are eligible for a mastery for every 20 donations (20, 40, 60, etc). Decks from either section all cost 20 cards each!

BONUS CRAYONS!

Along with getting the right to claim a deck every 20 cards, you will receive 1 random crayon for every 5 cards you submit!

Have fun! :D

Open Slots: None. Suggestions will be added to the waitlist.
Waitlist Decks: doghouse, ghost, golden, hyakka, loyal, lure, marriage, ocean, pasta, peacock, windmill,
kazoku, strikers

THE DECKS
CLAIM A DECK - SUGGEST A DECK - QUESTIONS/COMMENTS - LOG - MOD

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Hi! Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I read the instructions and I'm not entirely sure what this is! To clarify:

You donate unwanted cards
When you donate 20, if a deck has been completed through other people's unwanted donations, you can claim it...?

I don't understand the decks nobody is collecting -> active decks category -- how do you know if anyone is collecting it?

Thanks! Sorry for the confusion, I just read this over and I'm blanking on the actual concept and how it works.

You've got it! You count up every card you donate, and once you hit 20 you can submit to be given one of the completed or nearly completed decks. So once you've donated 20 cards to any combination of active decks you can ask for a completed or near completed deck and it's all yours to snag and go claim the mastery for!

As for knowing what people aren't collecting, in general people who haven't been able to get rid of cards from a deck will come and I'll do my best to confirm that nobody is collecting it. For the ones that are already up, I included Asobot for old time's sake and since nobody seems to be collecting it STILL, and I looked at what decks had a crapton of cards in recycled art that nobody was claiming. Those are usually good signs. I also plan on going around with trade offers later this week and I'll look for more decks nobody is collecting then. So TL;DR I keep an eye out and depend on you guys as well. :)

I hope this helps!

Thank you!

Oh! I do have another question. We're getting a lot of new players every week -- what happens in the case that cards get donated, but a new player would have wanted to collect those? Especially since those are likely to end up here now (due to a rough 1:1 trade ratio) instead of in the art studio -> to get pushed back out through recycled art? I'm just a little concerned due to the influx of players so if there's anything you've thought of for that I'd be super grateful to hear it.

Edited 2013-09-27 02:39 (UTC)

I'd like to ditto this concern. There are a lot of decks that aren't very easy to collect as it is, and I don't really think there's a good way to keep track of what people are collecting, especially with Colors' current size and growth rate.

Replied here: http://asobot.dreamwidth.org/1123.html?thread=4451#cmt4451

I really try to make an effort to pick unpopular decks so hopefully that doesn't happen, but people are welcome to reply to questions/comments saying "Hey, I want to collect this!" ... On the provisio that the deck isn't already at over 5 cards. If a deck is already well underway, my only suggestion to the player would be to participate and earn that deck when it's completed or look around for the cards - If a deck is unpopular enough to be here, there's a good chance there are plenty of doubles floating around.

Also keep this in mind: I don't plan on having the same deck be collected over and over here unless it's CRAZY unpopular. Asobot may be a unique system, but it doesn't suck much more cardage from the TCG then, say, a high-profile member who lets people swap in and out of their trade pile as they please would.

Also, I'm not really worried about art studio receiving a shortage - Asobot rewards take a while to collect and require very specific cards. Plenty of people - including me - are wayyyy too impatient and want too specific of cards to use only one of the two services. xD

I hope this helps? Also, here's one more thing to consider: Asobot can have a maximum of 24 active decks. Colors has 3544. That means Asobot works the collect roughly the lowest .6%.

Tl;DR Try to think of it as a huge trade post or like a group collect game - Neither has been known to make cards impossible to find.

Thank you for this explanation!

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