Triple Triad appears to be the most popular minigame in FF14 and for good reason, its fun to play, has a fair amount of strategy and gives players a goal to collect multiple cards from NPCs.

The Current Problem

The current TTT tournament has the rule "Swap" in place. This rule is completely RNG based and makes the game frustrating to play. For example, 2 players both of whom have 1x ★★★★★ and 4x ★★★ cards can be swapped so that one player starts with 5x ★★★ and the other starts with 2x ★★★★★ and 3x ★★★. This makes me feel annoyed when my ★★★★★ card is taken and feeling sorry for my opponent if their ★★★★★ is given to me.


The Proposed Solution

I propose a new rule Fair Swap that does as it sounds, fairly swaps cards between players. Fair swap will only swap cards with the same ★ value, or if none exist will swap cards with the closest matching ★ values as possible.

Examples and further explanation below