So... Triple Triad

[Allegor]

All i can hope is that the AI would not cheat so much xD

NPC with 2 or even 3 4/5 star cards, and if swap is active they conveniently switch their single 3 star with your single 5 star

[Genz]

You're not the first to suggest this, and it's a really good suggestion since, not only it makes the 4-stars cards usable, it also adds a much needed depth to TT (it would also be possible to just allow 3+3+3+4+5, so we can use 4-stars, but we wouldn't earn anything gameplay-wise)
Sadly the devs don't care much about older content.

Importing TT nearly "as is" from FF8 was a pretty dumb move in the first place, because it's not that interesting but it was cool 20 years ago since it was "new", and its short-comings could be cancelled by the godly power of reloading a game saved just before playing.
(for example the "combo" from plus/same rules makes the game feel random)
The only accomplishment with FF14 TT is they found a way to make it even worse with dumb rule like Chaos.

[Gothicshark]

I support the OP, we need more Updates to Triple Triad, because it's an excellent minigame.

[ICountFrom0]

I like the idea of the total star based system, rather then a hard limit on X rares, that will really open up deck design.

[Kisshu]

NPCs could also use an overhaul. Some matches like the Hien-card NPC feels completely random if you win or lose due to the power cards they have and the rules. Other NPCs have several 4/5 star cards and a fallen ace, but no A cards, so you can't even use the rule against the NPC. At least they got rid of random, totally busted rule that only hurt the player and never the NPC.

[Barraind]

I have mixed feelings on TT.

I enjoy the base gameplay aspect of it, but once you get to the last set of cards you have to grind, it stops being fun, and turns into "have these cards, get first card, goad the ai into playing very badly (more than a few cannot lose if the game is played normally, i.e. they dont take your 3-1-2-1 by putting their A-9 into a corner where its two low values are exposed and instead stuff it in a corner where you have no ability to beat it, which they do if they get the first turn, and then take your sacrifice later on when you cant instantly re-cap it), win 6-4.

[DoH]

Unfortunately, I think that the NPCs' logic being so bad is why they have to give the NPCs overpowered cards that violate all of the rules that PCs have to adhere to / silly rulesets like Chaos or Roulette/Roulette (I think that with some local rules you can even get Roulette/Roulette/Roulette/Roulette if I'm remembering correctly). Even then, none of the PCs are very hard. The only "difficult" part is having the patience to play the same PC for hours on end until they drop the card you need because of the abysmal drop rate on some of these cards.

My main reason for suggesting these changes is to improve the PvP scene so that folks can create more innovative decks (instead of the same few card combinations that I mentioned in my original post). Combining that along with some more incentives to place well in tournaments would be a relatively easy way for SE to add some new "content" to the game while also making things a lot better for those of us who like Triple Triad.

[DoH]

From today's live letter:



Pretty excited about this!

[Shougun]

Just wanted to add if you want to go over the character limit you can edit your post after posting it, so your steps would look something like:

1. write post
2. copy the entire post, be sure you've done so in a way that you wont loose all your writing (or else /ja "Mijin Gakure" <t>)
3. publish / post only a fraction of the content or simply write like /10char jibberish to get past the minimum word count
4. immediately edit your post, select all (to overwrite your fragment) and paste the content, save post
5. . . .?
6. Win at the miners guild

Also on a further aside turning on your copy paste history, if you use windows, can be nice so then if you did something silly it's still in the history clip board and can be retrieved.


For my final tangent act! I just wanted to openly wonder about if triple triad on the mog companion app would be played a lot. Like perhaps you get 5 games each day you can play to win MGP and compete in tournaments or whatever, you can continue to play after that you just wont get MGP or other tokens that would make botting a serious issue (botting on android apps even easier than PC). There could be no restrictions, but then you might have more open bots on said content.. so that's a concern. In terms of opponents you could play against any npc you've met before (doesn't have to be won) and naturally join the player queue.