The Biweekly Tournaments Suck

[Rubiss]

Platinum Triad packs are similar to Ragnarok Online card drop rates.

I've been doing these tournaments (which can be Random/Random as a ruleset which is by far the most cancerous ruleset I've seen in any card game) for practically a year now. I always open around 3-4 packs constantly placing in top 10-20.

I don't know what kind of droprate these packs have, but it's absolute garbage. I've only gotten one Silver card in a year and it was Tidus. Worst off? Cards aren't unique. This game isn't sophisticated enough to check your deck to see if you have a card. So I very well could get Tidus again.

On top of rampant cheaters who get in the top 3 each tournament, the card drop rate is complete trash. I've gotten Shiva and Lahabrea dozens of times. Tataru used to drop Lightning Card, but I guess new players have to do the tournament a bit more than older ones.

Honestly, what was SE thinking with this implementation? There is nothing in this game that is more annoying and time-gated to farm than these cards. The only thing close are some achievements. The fact that cards aren't unique and can be gotten more than once and that the ruleset can literally make the match a coinflip is just really bad.

If you're in the top 20, you should get a voucher that you can turn in for a silver card. We have these with extreme primals for the ponies, etc (literally an easier farm). Hell, we even have it in Savage. I can gear up in Savage much faster and easier than I can acquire a silver card. I've spent less time getting a top tier chocobo and destroying every challenge.

[Liam_Harper]

Aye, I just get an endless stream of Shiva's, Lahabrea and Ultima Weapons. I've hit top 20 a fair few times and got more Lahabrea's. It's discouraging to place well, get your reward and it's 3x Shiva and you have another 2 weeks to try again.

I'm not sure why more than half the cards need to be extremely low drop chance from a pack you can only get once every 2 weeks. Even if they were all fairly even, you'd need a few months with decent points to collect the full set which is fair enough. Nowadays I don't really see the point entering, besides the MGP.

[Kai_Lee]

How about SE actually update these tournaments with new rewards. Gosh it's been 3 years with the same rewards card given out.

[DrWho2010]

i would have thought they would have old FF games boss platinum cards by now.

[Mimilu]

I think Triple Triad as a whole needs a face lift.
We haven't seen any new rules, new types (Garlean, Beast-tribe, Scion, etc.), and Rank 4 cards are in some weird limbo state.

[Rubiss]

How about SE actually update these tournaments with new rewards. Gosh it's been 3 years with the same rewards card given out.

No thanks. Even with a pool of 4 silver cards, it's next to impossible to get them.

[Stormfur]

If there's anything I could wish for Triple Triad, it would be to make NPCs play by the rules that we have to play by.

[PangTong]

I'm fine with NPCs breaking rules on deck composition, it's there to compensate for their bad AI which makes them predictable and sometimes causes them to make really dumb moves. But I agree with the tournament cards, even though have all 4. I managed to farm Lightning and Firion from Tataru when she was still playable and was lucky enough to get Cecil and Tidus in platinum packs. But the pack drop rates are still really bad, I had to open over 200 gold packs to get Zidane. If they implemented some system where you could exchange a certain number of unopened platinum packs for a card of your choice, that would be better.

I also agree on the tournament rulesets. The only tournament I consider to have good rules is the Tournament of Champions, everything else puts you at the mercy of chance. Even the Order rule in the Durai Memorial, while not based on RNG, heavily limits what you can do in a match, and matches will mostly come down to which player's card order counters the other. I think the bad rulesets are partly because TT lacks many good advanced rules in general. Same, Plus, All Open, Fallen Ace, Sudden Death and Reverse are the only rules I'd consider appropriate for competitive play. It'd be nice if they reconfigured the tournaments to draw only from these rules, or if they came up with some new rules.

As for cheaters, I guess they're still around but it's not nearly as bad as it was before they added the battle hall. I'm not really sure what more they could do to curb cheating, since it's hard to detect people intentionally feeding points to others. At best they could maybe prevent players from being matched with alts of players they've already faced.

[Sannsenn]

I guess cheating is no longer a problem.
Triple Triad is just like all trading card games, what your decks do is just raising up the winning rate.
And the "Battle hall" + "tournament rule sets" is something decent to dig in.
Constantly I get like placing 1~10 in all kinds of rule sets, and once you placed 1~3, you get the silver card, which means you don't have to bet on those platinums.

One can never have enough cards.
But one can never do enough research about his/her cards, either.

[Rubiss]

I guess cheating is no longer a problem.
Triple Triad is just like all trading card games, what your decks do is just raising up the winning rate.
And the "Battle hall" + "tournament rule sets" is something decent to dig in.
Constantly I get like placing 1~10 in all kinds of rule sets, and once you placed 1~3, you get the silver card, which means you don't have to bet on those platinums.

One can never have enough cards.
But one can never do enough research about his/her cards, either.

Issue is, 1-3 is riddled with cheaters and with some rulesets, you can't consistently beat players without luck. Researching your cards does very little against double roulette. No one cares if you made the perfect plus deck, but the ruleset is chaos ascension.