The changes to the Variants Custom Games after the merge

Good day everyone, I'd like to elaborate on the full list of changes we made to the variants in a view of the merge event. I may ascertain that changes of ours, the CGA team, may and probably will confuse the variants creators and members. So, let me list all the changes we made during the extensive merge preparation:

1. Thermopylae, Villagers Chess II have had their useless promotion options cut down.

2. Best Friends Forever, Storming the Castle, Euler's Game, Salvation Bastions (formerly Bastions of Salvation), Underground War, Petrified and Unison have had their starting position/game rules changed according to the creator's ideas and their assent.

3. Almost all the variants have had their default time controls changed.

4. Bastions of Salvation (now Salvation Bastions), Fight in the Amazon Jungle (now Amazon Jungle), Behind the Mirror II (now Behind the Mirror), Laboratory of Knights-Sergeants (now Sergeants Laboratory), War for Throne II (now War for Throne), War for Throne Chronicles (now War for Throne Mini) have been renamed to make the names shorter.

5. Three variants by @RALRAL3333 have been added without a submission, due to the fact of numerous testing games and to bring variety to the two-player variants section.

6. Approximately 50% of all the variants on both former servers have been removed indefinitely, precluding their ability to be re-accepted also indefinitely. The complete list goes as follows: 6 Placementile, 2-player Chess 2.0, 2-player Chess: Upside Down, Arena of Heroes, Battle of Twins, Chaturaji BNRK, Capablanca Chess, Checky Chucky, Dead King Labyrinth, Foursquare, General War, Octagon, Sandworm, Smothered Kings, Spiral Flower, Triad, Field of Archers, Hades' Stallion, The Eyes of Horus, Gatekeepers, Charybdis, Hnefatafl, The Colosseum, Max's Game, Knightmare, Typhoon, The Burning Maze, 4P Fog of War, Giveaway in the Fog, Atomic Fog, Atomic Hill, Fog of Atomic Giveaway, Bells and Whistles. This was done in orde to ensure that the remaining half of variants shall thrive more in popularity and that it will be possible to popularize and bring attention to the remaining 4P variants.

7. The following positions have been converted to Wheels of Fortune: Hailstorm.

8. All antichess variants have been renamed due to a new naming standard to giveaway were they to have antichess in their name. 

9. 4P Giveaway Hill was added as a giveaway variant.

These changes were made after extremely tedious and careful consideration of all the aspects, with the goal to increase variant popularity and get rid of similar, too badly-made and dead variants but the ones that are played a lot by under 8 players in order to conceive perspectives for the remaining variants. 

We hope you like the changes, and please remember that they were made after month-long votes and discussions, with the prime consideration being the longest-term goals.

In the nearby month, we are not accepting ANY more variants, to see how variants go.

War for Throne II (now War for Throne), War for Throne Chronicles (now Throne War Mini)

Thanks to you, qilp, and the rest of the CGA/NCP team for your continued efforts in promoting 4PC variants. Can't say enough good things about it!

Why did foursquare get removed? I don't see your point. It looked to me as a good and well-made position ig

I hope you mean WoFs can still get accepted? They're played solely in arenas anyway : P

we needed a clear out of unplayed/rarely played/useless variants

I've suggested this idea (and others) here. If you support that idea, leave a thumbs-up vote, or reply in the comments.

That link isnt working

Erm... it is for me. Try this instead (or copy/paste)

https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/variants-server-suggestions-post-4pc-merge

thx it works now

Yes, we will still be accepting WoFs given valid submissions.

6 Placementile

WAS MY FAVORITE GAME THIS MERGE THING WENT TOOO FAR WITH THAT

It can be reinstated after the testing period of 1 month.

I'd like to note that NO positions we deleted can be reinstated in the nearby future unless changed or improved drastically.

Where are the detailed instructions on how to play Amazon Jungle? The ones that show up in the game description are junk and offer no wording as to how the game is played, no screenshots, no nothing.  This is a Fail on the part of this website.   Where can I go to find the detailed instructions?   I had some admin say they would show me in an non rated game.  ( cool, but that doesn't help)   I need something I can read with pictures.  I'm a very low IQ with no education.  That's why I'm on variants.  I need see spot run books.

What will happen to the variants-test server?

UPDATE: We're pausing accepting any new WoF submissions for 10 days, until April 10th.

It was one of the most unbalanced variant, based on teaming and shuffling (nothing else to do).

Blind Box and Golden Ratio are very nice alternatives!

Nothing special.

The link includes "cid=6845204". It means something like "change comment with id 6845204". Only the author of that comment is allowed to change it. So the link won't work for anyone else :]

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2. WoF arenas are active again but the player count seems to have went down by 200x...

so you just kept on the other half because they are more popular amongst the community?

When is the 4pc server coming back?

Never