#Daily Discussion #0 - What do we want to talk about?

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honest kayak
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This thread will (quickly) choose the topic for our daily discussion today, as well as have suggestions for future ones.

I don't want to do solely existing content discussions, whether jokers or consumables or game mechanics, so I have brainstorming topic options as well, and we can find other Balatro-themed things to talk about as well. Maybe we want to discuss the art or music. I'm sure we can figure out a good rhythm for getting topics everyone wants to talk about fairly as we go.

Here are topics/categories I have on hand for us to choose from:

Brainstorming (some removed because already done)

  • Non-normal card ranks/types (what if an 11 card existed? what if Jokers could exist as a playing card, or the Wizard, or a double-backed card?)
  • Hand levels and planets (a seemingly already closed and finished system - is there any way we can expand it?)
  • Special Enhancements/Seals/Editions with negative effects/"cursed" cards (lots of design space for downsides/difficulty levels)
  • Modifying existing content (changing numbers on jokers while in-game? Joker/consumable upgrades?)
  • Effects that change over time (each round, each discard, each played hand, randomly, etc., mostly Jokers?)
  • Crossovers (Scrabbalatro? BalatrUno?)
  • Skip Tags

Existing content (choose one or a coherent set and we discuss them from the most current experience, their history, our predictions for their future, etc.)

  • Jokers
  • Consumables
  • Money
  • Skip tags
  • Bosses
  • The Shop
  • Yeah, any existing game mechanic

Other

  • Suggestions (want to talk about an idea you made/saw? we can absolutely talk about it)
  • Self-imposed gameplay (challenges, world records, speedruns, etc.)
  • Art and Music of Balatro
  • Powercreep/complexity creep
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  1. Edition Brainstorm: #1195909575770128445 message
  2. Scholar (Joker): #1196258262895562833 message
  3. 6+ Card Poker Hands Brainstorm: #1196645107609378906 message
  4. Smeared Joker: #1196911063136997386 message
  5. Achievements Brainstorm: #1197276904265367743 message
  6. Ride the Bus/Supernova (Jokers): #1197634696406896731 message
  7. New Demo Theoretical High Scores: #1197995315001819308 message
  8. Four Fingers (Joker): #1198360712062447698 message
  9. Jan Demo Joker Lineup: #1198720251689443389 message
  10. Raised Fist (Joker): #1199092848117694526 message
  11. Superposition (Joker): #1199446286085148732 message
  12. Jimbo (Joker): #1199806446842429461 message
  13. Jan Demo 1st Impressions: #1200177119934828594 message
  14. New Seals (and their spectrals): #1200576039626215556 message
  15. New Decks: #1201255132214599731 message
  16. New Packs: #1201680350196289576 message
  17. Flush Five/Secret Hand Nerfs: #1201980596533084160 message
sterile rapids
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oh god so much reading

honest kayak
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To be honest, I'm itching for another brainstorming session with the top set of stuff, but I will leave this up to the will of the people if they desire otherwise

honest kayak
sterile rapids
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dont you 🚫 me

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seems cool

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never thought of upgrading existing jokers as an option

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like what if you have tarot lvl ups and such

honest kayak
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yep

verbal vault
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you brought up some damm good catagories

atomic lotus
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Brainstorming new ideas and discussing suggestions are some of my personal favourite topics

heady leaf
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I've been thinking a bit to hand levels system and to 6+ cards hands (with the eventuality to play negative playing cards as extra cards in played hand), so I'd like to hear thoughts of others on that too.

sterile rapids
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I had a joker idea with stone cards and playing 6+ cards with stone but not other cards but then local posted the vampire joker

heady leaf
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Also, the idea of non-standard playing cards (like 11 card, double-backed, etc...) is wild enough to pique my interest.

sterile rapids
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I didnt know what any of the stuff meant besides 11 card for non standard playing cards

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oh and I guess jokers as playing card

honest kayak
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double backed is just both sides of the card has the pattern on the back of the card

verbal vault
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starts playing magic the gathering

heady leaf
verbal vault
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negative cards could also not count toward hand size, so if you can hold 8 cards and you draw a negative as the last it would draw another

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avoids the issue of 6 cards poker hands

heady leaf
heady leaf
sterile rapids
honest kayak
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shout out your topic preference gang

austere copper
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I think doing a group-brainstorm suggestion session would be fun at one point, but don’t rly mind what we chat about

verbal vault
atomic lotus
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brainstorming seal effects would be fun

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we have red, blue, and purple, there's plenty of other colours to speculate on

sterile rapids
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pink = gum

atomic lotus
honest kayak
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any chance we can make that topic clearer?

atomic lotus
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jokers that change their requirement/effect each round/hand/ante

honest kayak
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i see

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i did see the conversation, so along those lines & to-do list

atomic lotus
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ye :3

honest kayak
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alrighty

alpine burrow
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we should discuss satellite

honest kayak
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even though it's not been available since the playtest?

wide valley
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Powercrepping: not traditional powercrepp, but the sense that more simple mechanics are lacking, and the more jokers localthunk cranks out would have to be complex to be unique from the crowd, which means that you'll end up seeing more complex jokers than the more standard ones. Like when's the last time localthunk posted an ability that was just "+M for X"

honest kayak
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ah, i see

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i think i've seen this referred to as complexity creep

austere copper
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I feel like those just might not be the ones he feels like sharing about on the server

wide valley
austere copper
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The +chips when hand played jokers were new but not leaked until the invitational

honest kayak
austere copper
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And the green scaling joker is probably also something simple

honest kayak
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this sounds like a good start to the discussion we will have later

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we don't have to confirm there's a complexity/power creep problem before having the discussion. it's fine to just have it end up a quality check

steel owl
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topic: achievements? one thing i'm slightly worried about is that on full release certain achievements might be easier to get than intended, and after balancing patches they'll be the right difficulty, but anyone who already got the achievement is kinda stuck with it unless they use tools like SAM for Steam that might get your account banned.

austere copper
steel owl
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smh i'm blind

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just gonna repost myself

honest kayak
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that one was more of a brainstorm/for fun session

steel owl
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yeah i guess it is not exactly on topic

honest kayak
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this sounds more like something to just ask the dev when they're around

steel owl
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hm yeah

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i'll ask thunk for his thoughts when i see him around

honest kayak
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Back to top: #1195842168493981797 message

  1. New Bosses: #1202343372728315964 message
  2. New Spectrals/Rebalances: #1202720478142267402 message
  3. Cerulean Bell: #1203084694766231572 message
  4. New Vouchers: #1203430078370029649 message
  5. Banner (Joker): #1203794206540173353 message
  6. Sly, Wily, Devious, Crafty Jokers: #1204154614417719407 message
  7. Steel and Lucky Card Buffs: #1204881307079938048 message
  8. Baseball Card (Joker): #1205241005859934248 message
  9. Throwback (Joker): #1205607840656527370 message
  10. Ramen (Joker): #1205965555790778378 message
  11. Spare Trousers (Joker): #1206333116151758909 message
  12. Seance (Joker): #1206693574549176351 message
  13. Hack (Joker): #1207052887973298228 message
  14. Hit the Road (Joker): #1207416803303624776 message
  15. Skip Tags (Tags): #1207779423152111666 message
  16. Flower Pot (Joker): #1208139932842070077 message
honest kayak
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bumping for maintenance purposes

verbal vault
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appreciate having a easy place to find the new discussions, they often get lost in the messages for me

honest kayak
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glad it helps. it's good for my own purposes as well

honest kayak
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bumping for maintenance purposes