User:GoldenSandslash15/Duel Terminal

In late November, I created an account on Yu-Gi-Oh! Wikia. I did this just so that I could edit articles.

At the time, I thought that I would never use the forum.

Boy was I wrong.

Two nights ago, I discovered the Duel Terminal's IRC chat, and decided to duel DemonGodAsura.

He's probably the person who's on the IRC chat the most, so I figured he would be able to help.

I was overwhelmed at first learning all of the commands, but he was able to help me. It was a fun game.

I ended up losing the duel. (For full details, go here.)

Despite it being a loss, I still had so much fun that I went back the next night.

I witnessed a duel (from start to finish) of DemonGodAsura vs. Darkcounter.

DemonGodAsura won, although I was predicting that. He's a good player.

I decided to step in after the duel and challenge Darkcounter.

Once again, I was defeated.

It was clear to me that I am not a strong duelist at all, but I still had fun.

I believe it was during this duel that I discovered that you cannot use parentheses in the IRC chat.

This is a problem as I use them frequently (such as now).

After my duel with Darkcounter, I was challenged by Ranma.

This was my first negative impression of the Duel Terminal.

I mean no disrespect towards Ranma, but he really needs to learn his own cards' effects.

He forgot to gain LP from Marie the Fallen One, he didn't know who drew first for Cyber Jar, and he attempted to fuse a monster in the deck with a monster in his hand using Future Fusion.

I could honestly care less if he makes a few mistakes, but there's something else that he did that really bugged me.

After I chose Option Two for Half or Nothing, he started cursing at me.

I am almost 17, so it wasn't anything that I hadn't seen/heard before, but I am not a fan of cursing and I was concerned that other people (who were younger) may have been watching.

It was a long duel (to the extent that I had to take a bathroom break during it), since we kept restoring our life points (me with Solemn Wishes and him with Marie).

I really thought that this may be my first win, but I was defeated in the end.

It's no secret that I need to improve my deck/skills, and that every time I duel on the IRC chat will probably be a loss, but it is still fun. Most people on there are friendly, and it is as easy to learn the commands as it was to learn Wikimarkup.

Keep the Duel Terminal. I will now likely duel here more than I edit articles (and that is the reason that I made this account in the first place).

There are a few issues though:

1) You seem to be limited to 16 characters for your screenname, so I'm forced to be GoldenSandslash1. It's not urgent, but it would be nice to fix this. 2) Today I went on, and I saw that someone else named GoldenSandslash1 was on. Try requiring a password. 3) There are only two rooms. This means that only two duels can be going on at once (since nobody wants two duels in one room; that's confusing). I would recommend getting a couple more.

Regardless, I alone cannot make a difference in the decision to keep this Duel Terminal or not. Try it out yourself and write about it.

Let's work together and fight to keep the Duel Terminal!

--GoldenSandslash15 18:48, December 23, 2009 (UTC)