I think discussion sites need a “how to post decklists” sticky, in the vein of ESR’s old article how to ask questions the smart way, but without the condescension and hacker-mystique stuff.
To me, posting a decklist is more than just clicking around in NetrunnerDB for a while and copy-pasting it back to your forum of choice. Have a look at a thread like the Dead Coats discussion:
- It explains what the deck is trying to do: HB glacier, no fast advance, Punitive Counterstrike as an alternate win condition.
- It explains some of its choices: Where is Jackson Howard? Why no NEXT ICE? Why Sweeps Week when HB has good economy in-faction?
- It asks specific questions: The OP thinks that this deck is going to become less good as the metagame (briefly: what deck styles are popular/considered good/played/feared)
If the OP (original post/original poster) doesn’t explain these things, then the first few comments will inevitably have to draw out answers to those questions. And that’s effort. Effort that can and probably will be spent on threads that are easier to engage with. And that’s a shame, because newbies who bring enthusiasm, new ideas and who are critical to the long-term survival of a community then get discouraged and leave. But there has to be a balance. Each post that is made to a forum consumes many more person-hours in reading time than writing time, which means that refining a post before hitting submit has a wonderful return-on-investment in terms of time saved.
Sometimes you can write lots and still not get any responses, and that’s okay. It stings, but it happens. Maybe something else more exciting came out (e.g., new data pack, radically different tournament winning deck)? Maybe you posted in a quiet time? Maybe your deck just wasn’t that good? (My linked DLR deck is going to be totally garbage in the new age of Blue Sun and Near-Earth Hub.)
I’m trying not to make this a flame, because it appears that a) you’re new and b) English might not be your first language.
Have a look at the Tournament Winning Decklists page on Stimhack and play with some of those (if you have all the pieces - I see that you’ve only got 1x core). I still remember the first time I net-decked (i.e., copied) a good Andromeda deck: runner was suddenly like being strapped to a rocket! I had no idea running could be this profitable or this good! Those sorts of experiences can teach a lot, particularly once you start learning how to pick out individual subsystems from a deck: why THIS set of icebreakers? How does THIS deck make its money?
I understand the temptation to create, the drive to find a deck or a combo that you can truly call yours. (It’s a weakness of mine, too.) But try to hold back on it and avoid having to retread a lot of ground that others have already walked. Imagine if everyone had to re-discover everything for themselves, instead of learning things at school or uni? We’d never push the boundaries of human progress like we do now.
I think that if Stimhack is picking up newbies instead as well as catering to the top-end of the competitive scene*, some more articles in that Script Kiddies series would be really good:
- How to choose your economy
- How to choose your ICE/breakers
- How to post a decklist
*I’m not counting myself here: I’m too preoccupied with jank to be more than a tier 2 player at this point. My best was 4th at a store championships and even that was a fluke.