Triple Triad has its quirks

[Lemuria]

This game can be a really fun diversion from the norm, but I think there seems to be a wide disparity between what players can do and what your NPC opponents can do.

First up, there's no real middle ground for most opponents. Your early targets are either the training NPC which you pretty much can't lose against or opponents with a full deck of rather more difficult cards with values of 7 or higher on multiple sides.

Trying to build a deck to face off against these opponents does you no good either. After assembling such a deck I was informed there were 'too many rare cards' in the deck so it couldn't be used for a match. Despite all this, countless NPC's will face you with an entire hand consisting of rare cards.

How exactly are we supposed to play a friendly game when we're getting our hands tied behind our back from the start?

[Gaulent]

Maybe you have to farm cards first? :O

[Garlyle]

Go looking around the world for other NPCs to challenge; or gather MGP from various events in the saucer and buy silver/gold card packs from the trader to get you off your feet.

Also, look for opponents that use Plus (or to a lesser extent Same). King Elmer can be beaten with careful use of Plus and gives the Godbert Manderville card sometimes on defeat, for instance.

[Magnesium02]

I got a Titan Card from Titan Extreme. Dropped straight to me like the crafting mats do.

[Ecks007]

One of the players I was doing Garuda HM runs with got a Garuda Card randomly, well, before we all got stuck in the loading screen void and can no longer play.

[Lemuria]

It's great that you're all getting rare cards, but the point remains that rare card drops do you no good if you can't use them. I've scoured Eorzea for opponents and virtually all of them outside of the Gold Saucer use high strength character cards, usually in multiples. Sometimes you get lucky if its a random draw and you're pit against a more manageable hand, but there's often no 'Plus' rule to help you out, so highest number takes all.

Most of my victories have come from abusing the 'Plus' rule, so opponents which lack that are proving to be considerably more difficult. There's also no guarantee that you'll win a card, and when you do there's no guarantee you can even use it. Most of the cards I've won have been considered 'rare', but my deck can only house one at a time meaning I'm limited to having the starter hand +1 rare.

I just feel there should have been a wider range of opponents for starting players which don't require you to be a Triad master before you've even begun.

[RathSkybreaker]

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Once you get 30 cards you can use more rare cards, go do primals, go farm content like garuda hard, go buy packs of cards, the npcs with the plus rule are at least beatable. QQ

[nbiscuitz]

This rare card limit really suck...

[Kenji1134]

Once you get 30 cards you can use more rare cards, go do primals, go farm content like garuda hard, go buy packs of cards, the npcs with the plus rule are at least beatable. QQ

"Once you get 30 cards"

Those last 5 or so cards are RETARDEDLY difficult to get.
Those last 5 cards should be called "you must now defeat NPCs who's hands contain 2-3 4* and 1-2 3* cards, with your hand of 4 1*s and maybe, just maybe, if you spent hours upon hours of playing math games with King Elmer, Bahamut.

TBH, I managed to get 20 cards without "excessive" difficulty. But after 20, things got progressively more difficult as I blatantly ran out of NPCs who's decks were anywhere near my game gimped level.
So, maybe if they cut down the gating by 1/3, things would be reasonable.
0-19 cards, 1 star hand.
20-39 cards, 2 star hand
40-59 cards, 3 star hand
60+, 4 star hand

Atm there are supposedly 80 cards total.
Of them, 20 are 5 star.
So to unlock a 4 star hand under these rules, you literally need every card BUT the 5 stars... Seems fair doesnt it?

Honestly what is the point of 4 star cards anyway?
Under the current system we cannot use more than 1 card above 3 star. And with 5 star cards available, who would use their one slot on a 4 star?
Under the current system, the only purpose of 4 star cards is for NPCs to stack their decks with to kick our asses. This is just bad design.

[Luvbunny]

Triple Triad is combination of skills, luck, and random number generation (for the rewards). So yeah this is not going to be a one day collect them all kind of activities. Try WoW Hearthstone... without buying additional card using real money, it will take awhile to get the rare cards. I think all these complainers need to realize one cold hard fact: this game IS NOT to be played for ONE WEEK and to be done with everything 100%.... You play it a little bit at a time over LOOONG period. And maybe take a month or two offs in between if you should choose - and you will still be fine in catching up with gears when you are back. Enjoy it. SLOWLY. Or go back to Call of Duty: Pew Pew Edition - "I have no clue what I am doing - just hitting random buttons mashing for abilities".