Dear Yoshi & Team: About Current TT Tournament Model

[Pterois]

* Platinum Triad Card - Please make sure that *all* Rare Tournament Reward Cards are added to the Platinum grouping.

As long as that is the case, then I think it gives *all* Players hope that even if they can't place in the Top of the Tournament, that they can earn these Rare Cards one day.

not only that but all the cards in the plat pack should have an equal chance at dropping like if it drops 4 cards each is 25%. If you if really want to push it have those 4 rotate to like 70% for 1 and 10% for the other 3, but certainly none of these .000006 drops rates we have been seeing.

[Nyalia]

not only that but all the cards in the plat pack should have an equal chance at dropping like if it drops 4 cards each is 25%. If you if really want to push it have those 4 rotate to like 70% for 1 and 10% for the other 3, but certainly none of these .000006 drops rates we have been seeing.

From what I've experienced, the drop rate of cards from packs corresponds to their relative drop rates from all other sources. Meaning, if a 5* card has 1/20th the chance of dropping compared to a 2* card when playing an NPC, and a pack can hold both a 2* card and a 5* card, you'll see ~20 of a specific 2* card from the pack for every one of the 5* you get. I kinda wish they were more even odds, but they're not. I've only obtained 2*s from all ~6 gold packs I've opened (almost entirely dupes), and I've never obtained a Lahabrea or Behemoth from the Silver or Bronze packs. Because of these odds, I've given up on getting the cards exclusive to the packs, and am spending my MGP on things that are actually interesting. Spending 2,000 MGP and getting nothing but 10 MGP from it is just depressing.

I would expect Platinum packs to be similar. But, a chance is better than nothing!

[Osiril]

AMENO

This is Great also good to see Holy Inquision acting.

YES

[AryaSpark]

we would then run the risk of alienating all but the most dedicated Triple Triad players.

As opposed to now where you are alienating every player w/o the resources or desire to collude their way to the top??? You Devs really should have made the tourney NPC only until you figure some things out. Better to have someone "luck" their way to the top than conspire/buy their way there. If there was something seriously wrong with your billing system, there would at least be an effective stopgap asap rather than what's going on here...

[h0tNstilettos]

For those that are saying the Lightning card is not any more powerful than other 5 stars are missing the point. It doesn't matter. The gameplay aspect of the card is different as no 2 TT cards are the same. This causes an imbalance by giving the winners more options for deck building, but luckily Yoshi mentioned a way this will be resolved.

Good news!

Thank you so much Yoshi for finally shedding some more details on the future of TT tournaments. I think the idea of having the winning cards possible to achieve by earning them with points earned from playing in torunaments is genius. It solves multiple problems with 1 solution, plus they are still hard to get.

[NessaWyvern]

"But supposing we did change the system to rely solely upon random matching, we would then run the risk of alienating all but the most dedicated Triple Triad players."

Lol, you are already alienating EVERYONE included the most dedicated players of triple triad, such as me and my brother who still do the tourney regardless. Nobody in my free company even wants to try the tourney because of all the rigging. Whats the point in doing the tourney if it's not even about skill, just how many friends and accounts you have? It's complete bull, and it wasn't even fixed with last patch, if anything it's only going to make it worse, as now ALL riggers get their lovely mgp from rigging. Before it was only the top riggers that out rigged the other riggers that got the mgp.

[Hiruke]

"But supposing we did change the system to rely solely upon random matching, we would then run the risk of alienating all but the most dedicated Triple Triad players."

Lol, you are already alienating EVERYONE included the most dedicated players of triple triad, such as me and my brother who still do the tourney regardless. Nobody in my free company even wants to try the tourney because of all the rigging. Whats the point in doing the tourney if it's not even about skill, just how many friends and accounts you have? It's complete bull, and it wasn't even fixed with last patch, if anything it's only going to make it worse, as now ALL riggers get their lovely mgp from rigging. Before it was only the top riggers that out rigged the other riggers that got the mgp.

Hey, they aren't alienating the cheaters. There's at least 1 person each tournament who is really happy with the current system. That one person per server is all that matters to SE, ok?

[Richiealvian]

The idea of Platinum card just reignited my passion for the game. Thank you!

I totally gave up on tournaments after day 1, even though to be honest, I've been telling everyone in the world that I know that I've been waiting for triple triad for 10 years or so. While it was truly a dream come true, I loved the collecting aspect and soon realized I'm not that good at the game (yeah, git gud comments incoming), managed to gather 60 cards in 3 days but after that I'm losing pretty bad in the tournaments. Now I play against Elmer a few times and call it for the tournament. The NPCs aren't that difficult to be honest, but you do need to be lucky for the drops (which I thoroughly enjoyed)

In my opinion though, a strictly double roulette tournament would've been fun. This way, the people winning each week would truly vary.

Even though it's cheating for the current tournament, however it does require massive effort to have 20 alts that has OK score. So I think people who spent the effort have earned it. But would it be possible to have some sort of lockout after you win a rare card so that you're banned from that tournament for the next 3 times the card is featured as a prize, for example?

Would there be ever an option to play cards in player housing? That would be incredible!

[Shneibel]

Platinum pack !....more RNG missile incoming...take cover !!!!

serious note: Alternative route to archive a goal or do something is always welcome. This will reduce the uniqueness of certain thing, in this case is the collection cards (platinum card), but in return every player have a chance to get them.

[Fyce]

So, in short terms, people now have even more reasons to cheat in order to get, at least, the Platinium Pack and the MGP bonus.
"You gotta secure these tournament victories to have your pack yo'!"

Also, Tournament 5* cards are still rewarded to cheaters only and it will remain that way until Heavensward comes out (maybe even 3.1).

Great.