I am pretty scatter brained and can make some silly mistakes as a result of forgetting what is left in my deck. What add on or software are folks using that keeps track of this? I see steamers using something, but I’m not sure what is safe or compatible.
Any suggestions?
You can either use Innkeeper or Hearthstone Deck Tracker.
TY! I found Innkeeper on Hearthpwn, but they are asking me to sign in to Twitch or my Blizzard account through their site. Is that safe?
Should be. All it does is link your Blizzard account to your Hearthpwn account so that the app can auto-update your collection. I’ve had the same thing with Hearthstone Deck Tracker and it hasn’t been an issue for me.
Just use Hearthtone Deck Tracker, no need to sign into your Blizzard account. When I use it I turn most stuff off, I just keep the left and right bar (what’s in deck, what size is hand and deck). I like to turn everything else off.
I still think they should ban all of it. I use it once in occasionally so it’ll upload my collection onto sites I use that tell me how close I am to making certain decks and filters lower cost decks available to me. But that’s very different to showing which cards you’ve drawn and yeah if you have that information available to you, often you can tell excact percentages of winning if playing certain cards but a really good player should be able to remember what cards he has left and then that too and that’s a skill that I think long and hard about because I don’t use the tracker.
When watching streams of pro players in official tournaments, I often see the players use pen and paper to keep track of what has been played.
Should that be forbidden too?
And should I be forbidden from having a notepad and a pencil next to my laptop when playing?
yes and yes you filthy cheater.
No reason for namecalling.
At official tournaments, a player would not be allowed to bring paper and pencil unless the organization allows it. (In fact, I believe that at most tournaments the paper and pencil are supplied by the organization, to ensure no extra stuff is smuggled in).
So while I respect your opinion that pro tournaments should ban the use of pen and paper, clearly the majority of the organizers (and payers, I assume, since the organizers tend to listen to what the majority of the important players want) disagree with that opinion.
I’m only stirring you, no hard feelings haha. But it still does feel a bit cheap, I mean technically I could have a team of people like a think tank behind my computer giving me possible ideas, possible scenarios. This is rediculous to you maybe but having a pen and paper sounds like you’ve gone way over the top to me.
My point was: if pen and paper is allowed, then why get upset over a tool that does exactly what a player with pen and paper can do?
Yes but maybe pen and paper shouldn’t be allowed. I think it’s trivial to argue this because there are all kinds of ways of getting unfair edges regardless of if they are against game rules. This and for the most part I think I remember some moderators saying these kind of apps were fine and within game rules. But I don’t think they should be.
Would you be ok playing against a card counter in a poker game, or would you prefer to level the playing field against them? Does a card counter have more skill than another pro player? Or does the card counter just have an intellectual advantage that brings something to the game that creates an “unfair” matchup against the rest? Is card counting a measure of skill of the game?
Maybe they shouldn’t. But they are.
Why is “being able to track the cards played in your head” a measure of skill in the game and “being able to track the cards played on pen and paper” not?
I like to measure the skill in the game by looking at the decisions made, based on the information available. Not on the method used to have that information available.
Make prints or image copies of your cards in your deck.
Learn to read. I never said that tracking cards on pen and paper was a skill, I said it shouldn’t be allowed. There are things that lots of games put in their game rules as disallowed yet people still get away with these sorts of things, like two house mates account sharing as an example.
Remembering your cards is definitely a skill, even more so if you change your decks up a lot, also remembering things that happened like albatross’s/bombs etc being put in your deck. recalling possible solutions to problem board states, without looking at each card you have in your deck one by one. I think you’re just salty that your using it as an advantage and probably 90% of the people playing hearthstone aren’t using the tracker and don’t have the same advantage.
It doesn’t really apply to poker, at least in the most standard tournament version of poker they reshuffle the deck every hand just for this very reason and to stop other various cheating strategies. Maybe blizzard staff can’t be bothered to develop a tool of their own to detect addons which is why I think is most likely that they allow this and as you say someone can just use pen and paper at home and cheat anyway.
well its allowed in tournys to use pen and paper and to use some functionalitys of hearth tracker so too bad your not the dev.