Please can we change the vampire contesting rule?

Contesting sucks. Basically lost me the finals of one tournament that I remember for instance.

Id be for instant auction.

And/or whever someone concedes, they remove their copy from the game and return all blood on them to their pool.

Anything to soften the blow (But the flipping option which is just messy).

I rather like the idea jamesatzephyr has presented.

Vampires have different level of power balancing. Sometimes you have to choose (in tournament environment) which vampire would be unlikely to contest with others... if we change (or remove) the contesting rule, we lose a lot of flavour and of balancing of the game.

(Italian EC, in Genoa, day 2:
Round 1 contested with my predator
Round 2 contested with my prey
Round 3 contested with my grandpredator)

thelonius wrote:

Vampires have different level of power balancing. Sometimes you have to choose (in tournament environment) which vampire would be unlikely to contest with others... if we change (or remove) the contesting rule, we lose a lot of flavour and of balancing of the game.

(Italian EC, in Genoa, day 2:
Round 1 contested with my predator
Round 2 contested with my prey
Round 3 contested with my grandpredator)

The suggested rules variant will still punish players for playing only the most popular choices. It's just not that crippling. Remember that only one copy can still remain in the game.

Even in the least punishing scenario you'll lose one turn's worth of actions/blocks (cap1-4) and transfers, the worst possible scenario 3-4 turns of transfers (if you're not starting with a full set of 4), and that's crippling AF. Even if you get the pool back for your Stanislava, you lost half of your game's worth of actions.

thelonius wrote:

Vampires have different level of power balancing. Sometimes you have to choose (in tournament environment) which vampire would be unlikely to contest with others...

And sometimes you choose vampires who are unlikely to be contested and they get contested anyway, randomly screwing you and another player out of getting to play.

The current vampire contestation rules are bad.

Brum wrote:

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Then again why should a third party win because two unlucky guys contest.

Because I played a Bindusara deck and my opponents played the clearly superior Maryanne Blair



But no, contesting randomly punishes people for playing good vamps, especially ones with utility (Owain) and I'd like it more if it did more than this.