More Tagging Info
So some of you may have noticed that tags work great if you are just searching for individual tags. For example, searching midrange only brings up decks with midrange tags. But when you start searching for multiple tags there is a problem. For instance, If you search Green, Blue expecting to get only decks with the Green and Blue tags, you will be sorely mistaken. You will get decks tagged Green or Blue, as well as Green & Blue. This can be fixed albeit clunkyly
in the url type https://boards.faeria.com/tags/intersection/green/blue/. To my knowledge this can only be done in the /tags section. Adding “intersection” before the tags allows you to search for multiple tags.
I recently created a bunch of tags in my quest to make it easier to navigate the forums. Tags make it easier to perform advanced searches for keywords. Since I just created the tags, I’ve had to manually add the tags to all the posts. If people like them I’ll continue doing this. If not I’ll remove them. There are still tags I need to make, but please suggests tags you would like to see. I’ve reached my editing limit for the day so I can’t add any more tags to posts, but if any of the higher trust level peeps want to help out I would appreciate it.
The current ones are listed below. I’ve broken them up by which categories they will probably be most used but they can be used anywhere.
feedback and suggestions
meta - Refers to anything related to the hub and forums
feedback - Giving constructive criticism or praise on any aspect of the game itself
suggestion - Things you would like to see added to the game, changed or removed.
bug - For any technical issues you may be having with the game itself.
ios - For devices that run IOS, mainly Iphones and Ipads.
android - Any device that runs a version of the android operating system.
gnu-linux - Computers running the various distributions of GNU/Linux
mac-osx - For all the folks with macs
windows - People running on the windows platforms
*Colors
neutral - Decks that contain neutral cards. If they only contain neutral cards, just tag it with neutral so everyone knows it’s a mono deck
red - Decks that contain red. If they only contain red, just tag it with red so everyone knows it’s a mono deck
blue - Decks that contain blue. If they only contain blue, just tag it with blue so everyone knows it’s a mono deck
green - Decks that contain green. If they only contain green, just tag it with green so everyone knows it’s a mono deck
yellow - Decks that contain yellow. If they only contain yellow, just tag it with yellow so everyone knows it’s a mono deck
rainbow - If your deck contains all colors use this tag. There is a five tag max so this allows you to be more descriptive.
Deck descriptions
aggro - For aggressive decks that try to end the game early
budget - Decks that are faily easy for a newer player to build towards. Doesn’t use a bunch of epics and legendaries
rush - Same as aggro, emphasizes high mobility creatures. The Faeria term for it I think
combo - Decks playing cards in sucession with powerful synergistic properties
sacrifice- Decks which kill weaker creatures to summon much more powerful creatures
handbuff - Deck type that tries to buff creatures in your hand
combat - Decks that use creatures which have additional effects when attacking
control - Deck type with heavy emphasis on events to deal with big threats
ranged - Deck type which uses ranged creatures to attack orbs and other creatures from afar
mill - Decks that tries to overdraw your opponent and kill them with fatigue
burn - Deck type that emphasizes creatures with combat abilities that damage your opponents orbs
midrange - Deck type whose win conditions allow it to peak in the mid game
tempo - A play style for the deck which tries to keep the player in control of the pace of the game
bargain - Discounting cards to play big minions for cheap!
flying - Decks which focuses heavily on creatures with the flying ability
jump - Decks that focus on creatures with the jump ability
pandora - Anything reffering to the pandora game mode
treasure - Decks that include Treasures
beginners - Decks that are beginner friendly either in difficulty or card rarity
intermediate - Decks that are good for people who know most of the mechanics in the game
advanced - Decks with elaborate win conditions that require intimate game knowledge to perform well
Misc
review - An analysis either of cards or different aspects of Faeria
guide - A write up which has the intent of teaching someone how to solve a problem
custom-cards - For all the cool cards everyone thinks of
contest - For any Abrakam or community event
tournament - For those of you who like competition
patchnotes - For the changes to the faeria landscape
balance - Descriptor for patchnotes to indicate balance changes, or to coincide with the suggestion tag
community - Posts related to the community
puzzle - For anything related to puzzles
mission - For anything related to missions
help - When you need help with something!
Features of tagging
Users can choose to auto watch tags as desired
Users can list all tags, and filter topics by tag
Users can ignore notifications from posts with specific tags
You can search by tags by clicking on the search icon on the top right of the screen and hitting the options link. You can edit your tags preferences by going to your profile and clicking on the preferences menu. Tags are limited to five per posts. Right now tags are used the most in the Hub->Decks portion of the forums, but I hope to expand them soon. I’ll continue to update this post, but for now thanks for reading!
Edit
I’ve added some descriptions for each tag to give an idea of how they would be used. I’ve also incorporated some new tagsThe only thing I’m worried about is having too many tags. With the short description, as well as using them in combination, I feel like the content in posts can be more informative based on their titles and tags. I will continue tagging posts with these tags up to my daily edit limit every day. Any additional feedback from everyone would be nice. I avoided using tags like mono, tri, dual, and quad, because I feel like the individual color tags used in combination are enough. The exception is when a deck uses all the colors. Because of the tag limit, using all the colors would already hit that limit. Rainbow will be used instead. I hope everyone finds this useful.
