Loosen up a bit on deck composition rules?

Right now, I'm using a grand total of 0 four-star cards in my Triple Triad decks. With how the deck composition rules are now, there's no reason to use any of them when you have five-star cards for the single "rare card" slot you're allowed.

It's a damn shame, because there are a lot of four-star cards, and it would offer a great deal more flexibility in creating decks if they were allowed in a less restrictive manner. Primal themed decks would benefit a lot especially, since there are a lot of four-star Primal cards. (Odin, Ramuh, Leviathan, Shiva, Ravana, Bismarck, Sephirot)

What I have in mind is perhaps something like this:
[1] 5* slot
[1] 4* slot
[3] 1-3* slot

At least that way four-star cards may finally have some use.

yeah that be to much to your benefit only let you use up to 3star cards x4 and then the one rare card frankly by now should be able to put x4 4star cards in our decks not that matter much with the random/swap rules anyway.

I'd rather they lift the restrictions entirely. As far as I'm concerned if you've taken the time and effort to get that many AA cards you should be able to use them, all of them. Or at the very least it's time to unlock four star cards.

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Originally Posted by Khalithar

I'd rather they lift the restrictions entirely. As far as I'm concerned if you've taken the time and effort to get that many AA cards you should be able to use them, all of them. Or at the very least it's time to unlock four star cards.

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can agree there I mean what the point gathering all these and yet still can't use 4star cards as the main cards with your 1 rare

Can't wait for 4.0 NPCs to all use Random. Punishing the player for collecting cards.

Only for them to remove it in 4.5

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Originally Posted by PatheticBrony

Can't wait for 4.0 NPCs to all use Random. Punishing the player for collecting cards.

Only for them to remove it in 4.5

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yeah sounds about right too

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Originally Posted by PatheticBrony

Can't wait for 4.0 NPCs to all use Random. Punishing the player for collecting cards.

Only for them to remove it in 4.5

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NPC's don't use the random rule anymore. This was in the 3.5 patch notes. They now use a different rule instead of Random.

Maybe they should limit the deck based on the total number of stars instead.

For example, if the total stars allowed is 17, then we can use:
- 4 3-star cards and 1 5-star cards like right now, or
- 3 3-star cards and 2 4-star cards, or
- 3 5-star cards and 2 1-star cards, etc.

It would also be easier to incrementally increase the limit. Going from freely using 1 star cards to 2 star to 3 star, each represented huge leaps in our deck strength. And going to 4 star would also be a similar leap, rendering many of the npc trivial to beat. I know the OP is not suggesting this, but that rule feels needlessly complicated and still feel quite limiting to me. By limiting the total number of stars instead, there would be a lot more variety of decks that we could create, depending on the npc and the rules at play. And also it is easy to incrementally up the player's power level every 30 cards (or whatever) that we collect like last time, just add 1 more star to the limit each time.

17 star cap is a good idea, i'd probably still limit it to 1 Five Star max though.

I already know this will get shot down in flames, and I will be hounded out the forums forever, but anyway... how about if your deck had to include one card of every tier?

I know this would probably make everyone's deck "worse", but might allow for a bit more creativity and strategy if everyone was using at least one 1* card. I guess I just find it a bit dull that everyone I play seems to be using the exact same cards (which are also the same ones as me). The only element of surprise is guessing what 5* card they have

could be interesting to plan when to use your sh*t cards as opposed to just playing all-powerful cards all the time

I'm for removing the restriction entirely. It's not exactly easy to get some of these cards and right now that hard work doesn't really pay off. I can understand possible limitations in tournaments, but for NPC fights let us make impressive decks. We worked hard for that ability.

Yeah ever since I found out you pretty much never had any use for 4 star cards I put Triple Triad down. Pretty disappointing that npcs can have 2 or more 5 star cards but we're always dealt a weaker hand.

The problem I see with removing all restrictions is that it will make TT pointlessly easy and there would be no reason to run anything except a full 5 star deck. (Except when Reverse is active)

Or at least add a rule to casual battles with friends to be able to use an unlocked deck

Perhaps SE can change 1 of the TT Tournaments to be a 4 star only tournament? Of course they'd probably have to nerf the NPC points for that particular tournament since a full 4 star deck would be unfair to them, lol

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Originally Posted by CGMidlander

The problem I see with removing all restrictions is that it will make TT pointlessly easy and there would be no reason to run anything except a full 5 star deck.

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Reverse, same, and plus strongly discourage just running a deck with all A's in every side. It also gives you a fighting chance against enemy npc's that use multiple 4 and 5 star cards. Sure you can manipulate the AI to win, but that just makes winning and losing feel like rng. Either give us a fighting chance by letting us use our four star cards OR lift the restriction and let us overpower them.

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Originally Posted by bardaboo

Or at least add a rule to casual battles with friends to be able to use an unlocked deck

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Can't edit cause I'm on mobile, but I think this should have been a thing from day one.

Getting rid of the random rule for npcs was a good start but these pointless restrictions need to go at least for pvp.

I remember teenager me playing Triple Triad in Final Fantasy 8. As far as I remember, there was zero restriction in that game, and by the end of the game, you mostly played only cards with aces? It goes back a long way. But, I can say that it was boring just playing cards with two aces by the end of the game.

In my opinion, adding an extra 4* card (three 3*, one 4*, one 5*) would be good, because it's a small, yet significant improvement that does not quite break the gameplay for people who don't have it. I believe it should be earned from an achievement, just like all those achievements that allowed to use 2*, then 3*, and those that have cards tied to them. In my opinion, 150 cards is a fairly good number (for today's standards) to allow for one 4* along with the usual 5*.

Having NO restrictions is a terrible idea. Every single pvp battle would become a stalemate, with each player constantly playing defensively with their Aces. I guess you might get some mileage out of Plus and Same rules, but for the most part the game would become incredibly stale.

Having new restrictions with one or more 4* cards allowed - that I can get behind. Right now 4* cards are completely pointless outside of Random rule - and even there, when you get a 4* it's all "Eh, not bad, but kinda wish that had been a 5* instead." Allowing decks with composition 33345 would be cool.