Agreed with Thisisnotasmile.
Having a defined kingdom actually teaches you how to play the game better, learning the strengths and weakness of each card and discovering unique ways that they interact. However, making your own kingdom is all about creating an ideal set-up which will never happen in real life and the end result is more often than not, how can I best use king's court.
I agree to an extent but it's pretty easy to just ban the most warping cards. Even without bans, there were some really creative solutions to the "gain and trash all the curses" challenge.
There's definitely room for both
right now. But my guess is that we'll quickly run out of generic goals that are actually interesting (if we haven't already) and then we'll just be doing the pre-made Kingdom challenges. It's kind of a non-issue, though. Let people post and complete boring challenges if they want; nobody has to compete in them.
Dilution is an interesting point, though. I definitely don't have time to compete (well) in all the challenges and I'd rather not submit than submit something I know is bad. So, yeah, having a lot of challenges probably reduces interest. We just don't have the critical mass necessary to support so many. But part of the problem could just be lack of overall organization. It would be nice if active challenges were stickied and had an end date posted in their title. Then when they complete they get unstickied with a [COMPLETED] tag or something. Some masochist who wants to queue and manage all the challenges would be nice, too, but I find it unlikely anybody will want to do that for anything but their own.
And, about points: I think
all points for the challenges are silly. An accurate leaderboard would require everybody to participate in all the events. That's not really going to happen so, once it loses its accuracy, it loses its relevance to me. I realize not everybody thinks this way, so I don't mind that there are points, but I have trouble seeing how bonus points are much of an incentive to participate otherwise. I mean, how many people want their name on the leaderboard just to have it there? Did you challenge runners find that you had people entering for
just the bonus points? GendoIkari makes a great point that you could potentially get another challenge out of the idea used for the bonus points.