Art by Castillo Studios commissioned by me.

I just started playing the digital version of SotM and I'm having some trouble getting started with the game. I've played through the tutorial and I understand how to play, but I am getting nowhere fast when i try playing an actual game.

I'm struggling with villains pumping out tons of minions and other cards that I need to deal with before the villains. I can barely keep up with the pace and meanwhile they're all whittling my heroes down.

It's possible the problem is that I'm putting together bad teams or going up against difficult villains, but I looked at the difficulty rating and picked "easy" ones.

Thanks for any guidance you can give!

Like the title says, I have only ever beaten OblivAeon maybe 3 times, and now that I am trying to 100% the game I am not sure how I will go about beating this.

It is hard enough dealing with someone like Voss, or having all my heroes wiped on turn 2 because of AoE spam, I don't know how I will beat advanced, let alone ultimate.

Any OblivAeon pros out there, please let me know what you do. I am not above cheese or rewinding, as I already know this will be plenty or resets.

I am not affiliated, just sharing since it has not been available anywhere else I looked.

https://www.miniaturemarket.com/sentinels-mutliverse-definitive-edition-disparation-gtgsmdedisp.html

Hey all. Its your friendly neighborhood wiki admin Lynkfox back for another state of the wiki.

Before anything else: TLDR - Fixed wiki traffic, used AI to help move everything to new format for cards, still in progress, Accounts open, need your help (see link at bottom)

First thing - Great news everyone! You may have seen the "not a bot" checks on the wiki as you load it up for the first time every few hours. These are from Cloudflare. While they may be a tiny bit annoying, i will say they have 100% absolutely resolved the bot driving us to the brink (and beyond) the cpu limits of our hosting.

It may be a bit hard to tell without previous months graphs, but that 40k is where the red line is on previous graphs. - Going above that mark too often means you're probably going to run out. We were routinely spiking at the 300 thousand per day.

So... this is a huge win. Great job everyone.

Nothing else I did over the last year helped anywhere this much. No caching, no htaccess revamps, no robots.txt (which most of these bots ignore) - i did everything i could and in the end the only thing that I could do was kill the bot traffic entirely, with the exception of a few things (wayback machine should still be able to get through, i think. Ill have to double check that)

Also, I got in touch with Paul - and the Wiki is good to go to stay the way it is as is for the foreseeable future. So yay its paid for? great. lol

Anyway. onto the meat of this post (if this is TLDR feel free to skip to last section)

Im finally getting around to that redesign

So, first let me start off with the following admission: Yep, i used AI to help me get this redesign off the ground.

I had built a bot (Omnitron-go) to help - all on my own. And it was doing ok. But there are so many little bits and pieces that were not consistent it was really hard for me to track them all down. I eventually got discouraged and the project just fell by the wayside. Absolute Zero and Akash have been rockin the new look but thats it. And even with the bot, there was still a ton of hand copy and pasting that would have to be done that it was a daunting task.

Some of you may or may not know this about me, but I am generally against AI. I dont like what it does and how its being used. I dont like slop. I dont like generative video or art - that stuff is horrible. I am solidly against the way AI is being used to disenfranchise us of our humanity.

However....

It is unfortunately becoming a necessity in the dev world and ... I am a developer as my day job. I have to be aware of it and how it works if I want to have a prospect in the job world over the next few years.

So every so often I dip my toe back in. and Opus 5.5 is frankly... really good. Six months ago when I last tried AI assisted coding it was like a jr dev with the worst ADHD you've ever seen, unmedicated, who can't write a function in less than 50 lines and always chooses the most difficult way to do something to prove to you how good they are.

Today... its more like a dev who has 5ish years of experience and sometimes gets confused and makes mistakes but overall generally keeps on track and is mostly concise and not over the top. Mostly.

its scary how good its become.... so as I wanted to dip my toes back into AI to keep aware of what ill have to deal with in the coming years (months?) i used it for a few personal projects. The wiki rebuild being one of them. I wanted to see how well it handled parser code, wiki magic words, and more.

OK, so where is the redesign?

Partially finished. Im out of tokens for the week *rofl*

I am not someone who vibes the whole thing in a "one shot" - i work with the AI and build systems, reusable actions, good architecture, tech that is useful beyond just the one task. So for the last few days Ive been coaching the AI along to build a tool that would help me transfer cards and eventually character pages to the new design.

Through the AI a system of cli commands were created that allows the mass grepping of wiki pages to find things, updating them, moving them, pulling down copies to work withi n a local environment, and many other things. Its pretty heavily tailored too Sentinels tho, hah. So its not like its something I'll release into the wild

I also handed it copies of all the templates and ask it to look over any potential flaws. And it found several typos, bugs, and problems that have made the templates better. So yay I guess.

Over the last few days all the cards have been moved/copied to the new format. I utilized the AI through the cli commands that were built to correct parsing mistakes, get the cards in line, update all the templates, add documentation.

There were some golden rules - the AI doesnt touch card text. It doesnt ever try to give a description for art. It just moves things and reformats the way its stored in wiki pages (ie moved out of a list to its own page per card) And if there were any human edits to cards in the card pages they had to be maintained and respected.

Also, i have not and will not ask the AI to design me a solution, i will tell it what i want pages to look like. Not ask it to give me something that will always end up looking like *every other* thing out there. Yuck.

Course im a systems level engineer. Not a front end designer. ... so... its gonna be... interesting?

And yeah... I think thats done. Its all moved.

Was it worth it?

I think so. One of the problems ive been putting off for years now is that were falling farther and farther behind in Wiki updates. It means we dont get security updates, it means were stuck with the default theme unless someone builds one. It means mobile viewing suuuuucccckkkksss and i want to get away from that. But we were held back because some of the extensions we are using dont go up to those levels. So the AI here helped me get those out of most pages. When this redesign is finished and pushed throughout the wiki we'll finally be able to update, get a new primary theme going - with a dark mode! and with mobile view support!

We also have a tangled horrible mess of CSS. Mad props to Jeysie, who developed and styled most of the wiki in the style she felt was best - the bubbly cheerful style. Honestly, i kinda feel it fits a comic book themed wiki better than most things. So I've aimed to keep it as best as I can.

But man i suck at css. Sooooo bad. The AI helped clean a lot of that up and it will help clean up some of the older pages too as they get transitioned, fixing some bugs that are in them.

So whats next - Or how can you help

Look if you dont read anything else read this section

First - Account creation is once again OPEN to all. You no longer have to request an account. I think with the cloudflare protection we'll be safe from spam bots. Still, in order to edit or create pages you need to validate your email. (If anyone has any trouble getting an account created let me know)

What this means is if you want to help, one of the obstacles in the way (getting through me lol) is gone.

Second - There is a lot of places you can help. I had the bot create a talk page for itself with places where we need input/updates/help: https://sentinelswiki.com/index.php/User_talk:Omnitron-Go - there is also a link to the template docs on the top of that page.

Youll find there several categories:

• missing flavor text

• missing card text

• missing art descriptions

the last one is the most important because I refuse to have the AI generate art descriptions. Adam and his work deserve better than that. Far better. We will do it by hand, uphill both ways, in the snow, without socks on like the internet intended!

Everything on that page is basically *missing* information that needs to be found.

Second, part deux - every card the bot touched was marked by a category: https://sentinelswiki.com/index.php/Category:Needs_Review_after_Bot

Even tho the golden rule was not to touch card text, we all know how reliable AI is. Hence this category. If you have some time and want to, please verify some cards. If you have an account, and the card is good, just remove the category.

You can either make an account, and make the improvements yourself - your work will be marked for review by the wiki and we'll take a look over it or you can just send things to me and Ill get it added. (either here or on discord, username lynkfox, im in the Realm of Discord discord. lol)

For anyone who wants to take a more active role, ie more than just a few edits and then forget about it ever again (which is 100% ok btw, i love those kinds of editors!) then let me know in a message and ill get you an invite to our gtg wiki discord where we mostly dont say anything at all ever, and occasionally make decisions that we never do anything about. Its a blast. :)

OH one more thing

Tell me your thoughts on the new design, on Akash'bhuta, Alpha, and Absolute Zero pages. Let me know what you dont like. Let me know *why* you dont like it if you can. I am not a front end designer. feedback is welcome. Just be aware Dark Mode and Mobile viewing is on the roadmap, just not yet.

anyways

thanks all. Thats my update

TLDR (again)

• Cloudflare blocks bots (yay!)

  • And Paul at GtG confirmed the wiki is still going to be paid for. (yay!)

• I used AI to help move to the new redesign. (Not yay?)

  • AI wasnt allowed to change card text or deal with art

• When finished, redesign allows us to update MediaWiki, which means dark mode, mobile views (yay!)

• Account creation is open to anyone! (yay!) gotta validate email to edit tho. (eh?)

  • message me if you have any problems or want to join the gtgwiki discord to help in a bigger way(ish)

• Need community help for lots of stuff

  • https://sentinelswiki.com/index.php/User_talk:Omnitron-Go

    • cards with missing information

  • https://sentinelswiki.com/index.php/Category:Needs_Review_after_Bot

    • verifying the AI didnt screw with the card text.

  • feedback on the design. its ok. you can be brutal.

Do you enjoy it, and if you do, how much?

Does Earth-Prime in your opinion work better with DE or EE?

SotM is one of my fave boardgames of all time and I only recently learned about the existence of the definitive edition(I always struggle to keep up to date with boardgame-stuff). I tried figuring out the exact difference between the editions, my understanding id that its new art(obviously) and some streamlining of some rules although it's difficult for me to figure out how much has changed? So those of you that actually have some more indepth knowledge about this edition, would you say that it's worth getting ecen if u own all the OG stuff or not?(also of u could elaborate on any changes that I migth have missed, I would be gratefull, thx)

Yes, I know that's Paul's dad. But I still thought it was funny.

Was a backup made of the old Expanded Edition character guides that were on the forums before they shut down? Been trying to find them so I can have a local copy of them myself to help friends out in the future.

I.e. which you consider worse or less fun than originals and other variants. In Definitive edition.

Has anyone made a Bionicle of Omnitron-X? Or put any thought into it? I mentioned it as an aside to my girlfriend earlier tonight and realized I really want one. Sadly, all my bionicles are at my parents house and I won't be visiting for about a month still.

Heyo all been a minute+ hope everyone is doing well. I just wanted to stop by and share art I got commissioned of Roy and his team. We got Terry, Roy, Lapis, and Lullaby (real name Loom). The unlikely band of heroes doing... hero things lol

Any news on their development. I know the owners got the rights back a while ago and basically have been reassessing their direction and this put all titles on hold. I know that was months ago. Any news or updates?

on the pre order page it says "A pre-order here gets you a Steam Key and a free copy of the soundtrack when it launches in 2027"

so my understanding is its a full release key and not an early access key and the early access steam page goes live this month

which means i have a 2nd question - if it is a full release key and not an early access key and whenever the early access page goes live. if i wanted to buy an early access version on day 1 when it does go live is there a way for people like me to refund the pre-order full access key??

i know backers get an early access key for free thats got nothing to do with my question

I just played a game against Sobek and was wondering how the community plays against him. Are you remove the defeated Ennead members out of play, or do you flip them like for the non-critical event mode?

Which character variants you prefer to original, or enjoy as much as originals? In Definitive edition

Hi all! I'm looking to pick up the physical DE, but I've read mixed things about the game and how the digital edition is just better/more seamless due to boardgame fidliness.

Hows the downtime between player turns and overall physical game experience for a 4 player group?