I want to open by saying I quite like this prompt as someone who is enjoying their Dotts experience thus far. Quite easy for me to come up with several fun suggestions that I would love to see come to fruition. Some that are feasible and some that very much are not feasible most likely. I have a background in trading card games actually as I have played Magic: The Gathering, the Pokemon Trading Card Game, Yu-Gi-Oh, and even Duel Masters. So some of these ideas might actually be worthwhile.
First and most reasonably would be multiple subscription options. Right now the league adds more actives in a draft than you can draw in a season, and that is before you take into consideration awards cards. I have over 200 million in the bank and possess a solid salary from my media work. If I could buy a five pack a day subscription to be able to flesh out my library I would.
Second and still reasonably would be user Hall of Fame cards. Based on the answer to my questions in the podcast I do not believe this is a thing at the moment, but would be super cool to see in my not at all humble opinion. There are a few users who I would go above and beyond to try to get their cards and it would be sort of like the top tier cards in Triple Triad I feel. Plus it would make an Agent Tesla card a possibility down the road which makes my heart sing.
Third and less feasibly would be a singles market. There are a few cards that I have basically zero chance of getting through a draw before they phase out in the form of award cards and would love to be able to just throw down a pile of money to get them. Extending from that the ability to buy 'out of print' cards could be cool as I would love to have a Magnus at every TPE tier, but that is going to be impossible because of when Dotts launched as it stands. (That could also be used per the suggestion in the point task of adding older awards cards. Just make them more and more obscenely expensive to purchase. People will either bankrupt themselves to get them, or as has happened thus far it would lead to a boom of media production. Either of which I feel would be a positive in regards to the league.)
Fourth and probably least viable would be different booster pack options. Examples being a team booster pack so that you only get New Orleans players for instance. A more expensive jumbo pack that gives more cards. A more expensive guaranteed rare pack that will always give one of the hard to get cards. A positional pack that will only give you offensive line players perhaps.
Fifth and this will never happen, but I love it for selfish reasons. A Media Nobility series with Podcast Emperor Joe, Media Queen Tesla, Podcast Archduke Sylphreni, Media King Isa, Podcast King Sloth, et cetera. You could also go with the Colossi of Capitalism with the richest players in the league like Infinite, Isa, or Tesla. Sloth might be my favorite of the sins, but pride is still comfortably in that second spot after all.
Now this is only partially a Dotts change, but if we truly want to take money out of the economy it might be worth looking at changing rules regarding pack opening media. I do not mind them as a media grader, however I do know several users have made profits by doing media based on what they open in their Dotts pack. Which kind of defeats the purpose of a money sink. That said I enjoy the joy that Dotts has brought to so many players so this is just mostly to flesh out the suggestion list with one more possible suggestion.
Also I know solutions to duplicates is being looked into at the moment, and assuming we cannot track duplicates currently it would be nice to be given packs to accommodate the lost cards. Since all pack purchases are tracked and are for six cards the amount of cards everyone should have should be known. Even if we do not know the exact cards that they should have duplicates of at the moment.
This ended up way longer than I needed it to be for this point task and I normally wait until Wednesday to do these, but Dotts is just such an exciting experience for me. There is something exciting about seeing whether I will get a player I recognize, or perhaps a rare player I never met. Thank you for the fun inspiration in these times and for this quality point task. Cheers!
First and most reasonably would be multiple subscription options. Right now the league adds more actives in a draft than you can draw in a season, and that is before you take into consideration awards cards. I have over 200 million in the bank and possess a solid salary from my media work. If I could buy a five pack a day subscription to be able to flesh out my library I would.
Second and still reasonably would be user Hall of Fame cards. Based on the answer to my questions in the podcast I do not believe this is a thing at the moment, but would be super cool to see in my not at all humble opinion. There are a few users who I would go above and beyond to try to get their cards and it would be sort of like the top tier cards in Triple Triad I feel. Plus it would make an Agent Tesla card a possibility down the road which makes my heart sing.
Third and less feasibly would be a singles market. There are a few cards that I have basically zero chance of getting through a draw before they phase out in the form of award cards and would love to be able to just throw down a pile of money to get them. Extending from that the ability to buy 'out of print' cards could be cool as I would love to have a Magnus at every TPE tier, but that is going to be impossible because of when Dotts launched as it stands. (That could also be used per the suggestion in the point task of adding older awards cards. Just make them more and more obscenely expensive to purchase. People will either bankrupt themselves to get them, or as has happened thus far it would lead to a boom of media production. Either of which I feel would be a positive in regards to the league.)
Fourth and probably least viable would be different booster pack options. Examples being a team booster pack so that you only get New Orleans players for instance. A more expensive jumbo pack that gives more cards. A more expensive guaranteed rare pack that will always give one of the hard to get cards. A positional pack that will only give you offensive line players perhaps.
Fifth and this will never happen, but I love it for selfish reasons. A Media Nobility series with Podcast Emperor Joe, Media Queen Tesla, Podcast Archduke Sylphreni, Media King Isa, Podcast King Sloth, et cetera. You could also go with the Colossi of Capitalism with the richest players in the league like Infinite, Isa, or Tesla. Sloth might be my favorite of the sins, but pride is still comfortably in that second spot after all.
Now this is only partially a Dotts change, but if we truly want to take money out of the economy it might be worth looking at changing rules regarding pack opening media. I do not mind them as a media grader, however I do know several users have made profits by doing media based on what they open in their Dotts pack. Which kind of defeats the purpose of a money sink. That said I enjoy the joy that Dotts has brought to so many players so this is just mostly to flesh out the suggestion list with one more possible suggestion.
Also I know solutions to duplicates is being looked into at the moment, and assuming we cannot track duplicates currently it would be nice to be given packs to accommodate the lost cards. Since all pack purchases are tracked and are for six cards the amount of cards everyone should have should be known. Even if we do not know the exact cards that they should have duplicates of at the moment.
This ended up way longer than I needed it to be for this point task and I normally wait until Wednesday to do these, but Dotts is just such an exciting experience for me. There is something exciting about seeing whether I will get a player I recognize, or perhaps a rare player I never met. Thank you for the fun inspiration in these times and for this quality point task. Cheers!
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