Triple Triad has its quirks

[Kenji1134]

The issue isnt time investment, its artificial difficulty.

For example, Gegeruju with the swap rule.
If he swaps your best card for something weaker, might as well throw the game now, he's got 2-3 5 stars in his hand.
If he swaps a bad card for a 5 star, then you are in luck and may win.
Why? because the power dynamic is no longer one-sided.
Frankly NPC decks are tuned like crap. They are either super weak, or just OP.
There are a whopping TWO reasons why we win even 10-15% of the matches against the OP decks.
1. We can use the Plus and Same rules a lot better than they can.
2. The AI tends to make dumb moves.

The problem is, if we have no rules to exploit, the AI blatantly overpowers us.
I am still trying to get my 30 cards to unlock 2 stars. My hand consists of 4 cards who's total power is barely 15, and Bahamut.
I am playing against NPCs who's hands have 4 and 5 star cards, several of them, with power totals of nearly 30 per card.
Were it not for "lucky swaps" and the AI making bad moves, there is no way in hell that my 1 star hand could beat Gegeruju.
Mathematically (and realistically), if you were to play a HUMAN opponent who's hand was all but literally TWICE a strong as yours. you would be unable to win.
The only reason we win against these super decks is because of RNG and dumb moves by the AI.

[TheRogueX]

The NPCs need to play by the rules, too. I've noticed that they pretty much ignore Random. Momodi has no more than 10 cards in her deck, but she always draws Momodi and at least 2 of the following: Thancred, Miounne, Baderon. I have never seen her draw truly randomly. The same goes for Wymond. Those are the only two I've experienced the Random rule with so far, though.

EDIT: Oh, yeah.. also, they don't seem to be limited by the same rarity rules we are. This is an example of Kenji's 'artificial difficulty' mentioned above.

[Spawnie]

triple triad isnt supposed to be easy... its a stragey minigame that requires alot of planning not just throwing a card with a high number to beat a card with a low number you will lose almost everytime if u resort to tactics like that

[EdwinLi]

ya you'll have to farm TT cards from old and new content. I believe each level 50 dungeon and Trial, or atleast certain dungeons and Trials, drop their own TT cards you can collect.

[DemonFury]

Maybe you have to farm cards first? :O

no i have a total of 18 cards and i get the same issue it will not let you put in more than 1 2 star, 3 star, 4 star, or 5 star card in your deck you are only allowed to have 1 of those cards with 4 1 star cards to make your deck where as all teh npc's can have any card combination there is and 90 % of the npc's have all the power house cards such as bahamut, odin, ifrit, titan. ramuh, ultima weapon ... its almost impossible you you have a 1% chance on actually beating one of these npcs and gor help you get an npc that has only random rule cause randomly your cards will be the crapiest you have in you collection where as teh npcs do not have the crappy cards at all they only carry the good cards there as they only get good cards out of a random draw..

[DemonFury]

triple triad isnt supposed to be easy... its a stragey minigame that requires alot of planning not just throwing a card with a high number to beat a card with a low number you will lose almost everytime if u resort to tactics like that

it also originated in final fantasy 8 and in 8 you were able to use all teh powerhouse rare cards in a single deck in this version you can only use 1 rare cards and the rest common or uncommon.. has nothing to do with being easy or hard when teh npcs dont even carry the crap that we are stuck with 1% chance of winning against some of the npcs is being being hard or challenging its impossible especially with random since the random cards you get are all the crap in your collection and teh random cards and npc gets has 0% crap in it cause they don't even carry the crap cards with them.

[DemonFury]

in the patch notes this is how the cards are listed
1. 1 star is a common
2. 2 star is an uncommon
3. 3 star is a rare
4. 4 star is a epic
5. 5 star is a legendary

Now as for building a deck in game the game counts legendary, epic, rare and uncommon as rare cards and will not let you put more than one of these in your deck at one time which in final fantasy 8 there was no problems intermixing these cards in your deck. in this game you are only allowed you are allowed only to use 4 common cards mixed with 1 of the other 4 choices which makes you ability to win maybe about .0001% especially against npcs that use only the random rule since there is no such thing as an npc with common cards except for teh one that you get training from first off.

[Spawnie]

lol 1%?? its quite easy to beat some of the harder npcs with 1 3 star card n rest 1 star if you plan each move right u can win 4/5 times

in TT in ff8 was harder since you lost you good cards if lost a match with all the QQ threads atm id wish they implemented that feature in to this update aswell lol

[DracotheDragon]

One thing i wish they would add is a rating system when you challenge a NPC 1 star = weak and 10 stars = very strong, this would help players find weaker NPC's to play against.

[EdwinLi]

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Ya the limit sucks but as other said the 1 rare limit is removed once you have collected 30 cards so the best you can do now is just buy packs and obtain rares from Trials, dungeons, and CT raids.

You can obtain some neat rare TT cards like Onion Knight TT card from World of Darkness.