Can something be done about TT Tournament?

Me and many others are spending 100s of hours trying to get 120+ cards.

Originally i started because i wanted a better deck for when it came to the tournaments to even have a chance of being in the top 20.

All this time was for nothing, all people do is find a friend who will deliberately lose for them. I even struggle to find a legit person to play against so end up with a lower score by having to play the Npcs.

I'm at 99 cards at the moment, is there any point getting anymore...
It doesn't feel like a Tournament the way it is at the momoment , just saying -_-

This has definitely been a problem for some time, and my friends and I talk about it every couple weeks when we get together to legitimately (yet in vain) play the current tournament. We like doing it because we simply like using it as an excuse to get together and play.

Unfortunately, not everyone has friends to play with and the way the tournaments are handled with the easy way to cheat the system turns many people off. Even myself, who's a proponent of Triple Triad itself, and rather difficult to "offend" by things in-game that aren't quite right, is starting to become disillusioned.

On top of that, completing the tournament, in my opinion, does not give as good of rewards incentive as it should. Just as an example, in the last two tournaments I wasn't on the board at the end, likely because the first 8-10 people listed were all obviously cheating, and I got about 15,000 MPG and three platinum packs. The last tournament I got three Lahabrea cards (which I already had) and this most recent tournament I got three Shiva cards (which, again, I already had). It's darn near impossible to get a card I need, so I'm greatly just considering giving up on the tournaments altogether.

A change in the way tournaments are handled and their rewards need to be implemented for Triple Triad to ever gain ground and for us to find new players to play with who actually want to play legitimately.

Yeah this. I won every match against the King and I made it to 18th. Then was dropped off the leader board on the last day and ended up with 3 platinum packs.
It's so frustrating. Either make the matches DFable (and only via DF) and only one match per opponent or make it so so that a certain amount of points gives the card. There's no skill involved with the winners at the moment and those of us trying to get the cards have to cheat. And since everyone is already cheating it's still impossible.

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Originally Posted by Chadness

The last tournament I got three Lahabrea cards (which I already had) and this most recent tournament I got three Shiva cards (which, again, I already had). It's darn near impossible to get a card I need, so I'm greatly just considering giving up on the tournaments altogether.

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for well over half a year, i only got lahabrea/shiva/ultima (and 3 nanamo) cards from those stupid packs, never once did i get a rare one. i dont even bother trying anymore, just doing the matches against an easy npc for some extra mpg every two weeks, everything beyond that is wasted time
this is just stupid

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Originally Posted by FunkyBunch

It's so frustrating. ... There's no skill involved with the winners at the moment and those of us trying to get the cards have to cheat. And since everyone is already cheating it's still impossible.

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No kidding. There's nothing like winning every match and being bumped off by people who only won one match. I actually saw this on my old server. The tourney starts (I have a night shift so I'm up with it starts) and, beside myself, there were only two others on the list. They (surprise! surprise!) had finished their tourney matches. One had 49 wins out of 50 and the other had 1 with out of 50.

I take a screenie and send it to SE with a 'look, the tourney just barely started. There's no way anyone can get through 50 actual matches this fast if one wasn't throwing the game for the other.' I heard nothing back, naturally. I don't think they care.

In ARR I was playing TT all the time, farming cards left and right.

With HW I have all but given up. The tournament is constantly rigged, pretty much all NPCs have a Random rule that make them Not Fun, and since sometime in 3.1 I haven't even bothered playing a single match. I burned out on the lack of fun. :-/

They just don't seem to care about Triple Triad at all. I spoke with a GM about this and they said it's a bannable offence, yet every tournament I see the exact same players cheated their way to the top just so they can take the MGP to afk 20 hours a day in idyllshire on a fenrir mount.

It's sad that the actual Triple Triad players get shafted by this and they have zero intention of fixing it.

Just forget about the tournament. You'll have more fun playing with friends or linkshells dedicated to triple triad.

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

Just forget about the tournament. You'll have more fun playing with friends or linkshells dedicated to triple triad.

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Kinda seems to defeat the purpose when the prize is rare cards isnt it? Honestly I only join for the free MGP for participation.

was actually having fun every week with TT tournament, when you had chance to stay on leaderboards by playing well against NPC opponents, then they nerfed points you can get from them, so now only way to get a decent payout is to play other people, sadly most people don't want to play, or want to be paid gil to play.

I gave up on it, maybe someday they'll fix the cheating.

Yeah wish it was like a real tournament experience. With pools (if too many people), a double elimination bracket.
When you play people it's best of 5. With the loser allowed to change a rule. Or something, or loser can keep same ruleset but must keep same deck. Or w/e.



Something more interesting than just spam playing a NPC for like 45 games straight every 2 weeks

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Originally Posted by AlphaFox

Kinda seems to defeat the purpose when the prize is rare cards isnt it? Honestly I only join for the free MGP for participation.

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At this point, the devs aren't going to bother with the cheating issue, so consider those cards lost forever.

Just once I would like to see them turn one tournament NPC vs only. Just to see how the boards would really look. 100 billion Gil says the only people who will hate that idea are the ones who cheat :rolleyes:


Adding a sort of roulette is a semi decent idea, but could be exploited (que same exact time / dead hours). Maybe if they added a few NPCs into the roulettes just to make sure? Sort of like the chcocobo races if not enough players sign up, it will generate the other racers as NPCs.

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Originally Posted by AlphaFox

Kinda seems to defeat the purpose when the prize is rare cards isnt it? Honestly I only join for the free MGP for participation.

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same... there seems to be no interest in removing win trading from TT tourneys in the future.. should just remove the tournys all together

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Originally Posted by Spawnie

same... there seems to be no interest in removing win trading from TT tourneys in the future.. should just remove the tournys all together

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I could care less if the Tourneys continued in whatever form, so long as the CARDS it offers can be obtained by beating an NPC. It can be an uber annoying NPC like Taru or Lewena but there should be an NPC path to them. Let me play for my rewards.

I have 12 cards left to the full 140. A full quarter of them are locked up in the Tourney and Platinum packs that I basically get 2 or 3 shots at every 2 weeks. It would be nice to have a path to completing my set that could actually happen in under three years.

i dont care much about tourneys eithier.. but with win traders abusing the system not giving every1 fair a chance at those cards so eithier remove the tourneys all together or give them a complete overhaul to prevent win trading

imho remove tournament cards.

People who do not win trade have 0% to win those cards by tournament. Every week you see the same person(s) up there.
And not because they're totally legit & pro players, Nah just have some friends/alt accounts to trade wins.

Easiest fix - rename it to "Triple Triad Win Trading Tournament"

They updated the chocobo races, just hoping they will put the same amount of attention to TT.

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Originally Posted by Duuude007

They updated the chocobo races, just hoping they will put the same amount of attention to TT.

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not gonna happen tho... if they cared about win traders they would of nipped it in the butt from the get go.. instead just continues to be ignored sooo more than likely nothin will change

The only way to prevent match-fixing would be to have a GM oversee every game played between players in a tournament. This is not going to happen. Triple Triad is a mini-game with a voluntary weekly "tournament" that's exists solely to reward prizes. You can't use the duty finder since so few people actually participate in the tournaments to begin w/. The most likely players to exploit the system are those who are most interested in playing triple triad anyhow.

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Originally Posted by Laraul

You can't use the duty finder since so few people actually participate in the tournaments to begin w/. The most likely players to exploit the system are those who are most interested in playing triple triad anyhow.

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you would find alot more people would actually do the tourneys if SE actually did somethin about the win trading cheaters.. most people dont bother due to the fact win traders always take top spot

I have 129 cards.

I'm missing cloud(Bought fenrir first xD) and some dungeon cards. And ofcourse. 2 cards that are only obtainable from the TT tournament. Getting 1st/2nd/3rd place is not an option since its always the same people who take it.
Now i've grinded my teeth through some NPCs. I remember one particilar npc took me over a week of non-stop grinding and i ended up with over 150k MGP by just the rewards of winning alone. And this was not even a time'd NPC so i could go full mode crazy on it.

But this TT crap takes the cake. Every week i'll participate. Well knowingly i will not get 1st/2nd/3rd. But hoping that the cards will drop from the few packs that i get. Nope nope nope.

I honestly think this is a slap in the face of people who actually try to do stuff the legit way.
I'm saving up for Cloud as we speak and if i get cloud and by that time i still have not had the luck of getting these cards from this crappy TT i might just give up honestly.

I still hold that the real solution to the Tourney, for the few of us that are card collectors, is to place the four cards onto NPC's to play against for them. Restoring Taru solves half the problem, plop a new NPC at the table next to Rowena for the other two and problem solved. I'll happily grind a difficult NPC because it puts the ability to get the cards into my hands. I can invest as much or as little time as I want.

Coincidently last night I got Tidus from my two bonus packs for being part of the tourney. That puts me at 1/31 for the platinum packs on the four 5-Star cards. It was a total surprise, and certainly brightened my evening.