This topic is going to be covered in two posts, one tonight and the other tomorrow. I'll cover the more technical side tonight, and then the more content-oriented side in tomorrow's post.

Coming very soon (perhaps as early as next patch, but likely more like patch after, depending on a number of variables) there is going to be a major upgrade to your Diplomacy strategy and how you plan and play Diplomacy in Vanguard.

One of the goals of Diplomacy is to give every parley a feeling of choice and consequence, and to have nearly every parley to present at least some challenge.

To this end, we're increasing the number of card slots available in your (and the NPCs') Strategy by a significant amount. I'll list off the numbers in a moment, and please understand they may be very slightly tweaked before they hit live.

Players will also note that NPCs now have a larger card pool to play from. To this end, we are iterating through a revamp of every NPC deck in the game. I'll elaborate the details of this revamp tomorrow, but the basic news is that every race and station possesses a pool of cards in which it can play from. When NPC multi-deck arrives, this pool will be used to build a number of decks that the NPC uses - meaning that while you will not be able to predict exactly what cards an NPC uses in a deck, you will be able to learn which cards it COULD have used.

For this update, what this means is you will see some consistency every time you play a specific race and station. High Elves all possess (but don't necessarily use) Elven Wisdom, and the inclusion of Station cards means that a High Elf domestic will possess (but not necessarily use) Domestic Dispute.

There will be a period of readjustment in how you view each parley when this change hits. Personally, I believe that the increase in choice, the ability of an NPC to play "around" being cut out of a single Expression type, and the inclusion of interesting new cards to fill out your decks will be an extremely positive one. Early indications on our end is that this update will hit these goals well.

The specific card roll out will be presented as:
Skill level: (old value)/(new value)

0-39: 5/5
40-99: 5/8
100-149: 6/9
150-199: 6/10
200-249: 7/11
250-299: 7/12
300-349: 8/13
350-399: 8/14
400-449: 9/15
450-499: 9/16

At this time, there is no further card increase at 500. We are looking at alternate rewards for the player who reaches 500.

We're very excited to be bringing out this update to your Diplomacy gameplay - an opportunity to see Diplomacy more closely aligned with our vision for the sphere in this game.

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