AST: holding buff buttons to bypass the RR buff

[Lyrinn]

...Except that RNG ensures that's often a terrible idea.

So you draw until you get the balance or arrow you want and do what with the Ewers/Spires in the mean time? Waste them on players who don't need them?

You're better off RRing them if no one needs resources because the next card you draw could be one you WANT to AoE, but then you can (and WILL) wind up drawing 10 spears in a row after you've just spread the balance/arrow.

You're wasting cards either way. The difference with spreading first is you're not locked into a particular combo. Do you really use expanded for anything other than Balance or Arrow? If you RR first, then you've locked yourself out of 4/6 cards because you've made them all useless. In contrast, if you spread first without committing to a particular RR, you can throw every other card drawn at someone and you'll at least get some benefit out of unwanted cards.

As for your comment about Ewer/Spire, unless it's the start of a fight, someone can always make use of them.

[RichardButte]

You're wasting cards either way.

Hence the suggestion to fix it.

The difference with spreading first is you're not locked into a particular combo. Do you really use expanded for anything other than Balance or Arrow? If you RR first, then you've locked yourself out of 4/6 cards because you've made them all useless. In contrast, if you spread first without committing to a particular RR, you can throw every other card drawn at someone and you'll at least get some benefit out of unwanted cards.

You can just right click the expanded RR buff off if you want to use it on one target that badly. That way, at least you HAD the buff on hand in case the next card was an arrow or balance.

As I said earlier, RNG means you'll be cursing yourself for not turning that last Ewer into an expanded RR when you had the chance after you've spread a balance and have drawn no Ewers or Spires in the last three minutes.

As for your comment about Ewer/Spire, unless it's the start of a fight, someone can always make use of them.

If no one is hurting for resources, they're much more valuable as an expanded RR.

[Roxas_Andrade]

-If a player presses and holds the buff button, the card would be cast while bypassing the RR buff

I liked the idea of holding a button to modify some skill. Like, If you hold the button during the cast of some skill it will become more powerful (Like Stone II into Stone III) or the effect of Collective Unconscious just work while you keep the button hold.

There's a lot of mechanics that would benefit from this system, although I think it would be too hard to be implemented...