(S24) - PT 5 - Trade Ya

[bjbren17]

PBE PT

[RansackTheUniverse]

I think Dotts has been been a great addition to the league, and I have to say I am amazed at both the quality of the cards and how extensive the initial library of cards is, so well done! I think one great addition would be cards for Ultimini winning teams, as I believe the DSFL may not always get the attention it deserves, so I think Dotts could be a great way to help memorialize some of the best and brightest in our developmental league. However, as that was already mentioned in the question, I’ll briefly talk about another idea. I think rookie cards could be a cool little addition to the Dotts collection. There would be plenty of options for how to decide which players would get their own rookie cards. One option would be hall of fame players. However, as (I’m pretty sure) that Hall of Famers already get their own HoF card, it may be a little overkill to give these players yet another card. Another option could be all players that were on the ballot for the Hall of Fame, but never made it in. These would be players that had fantastic careers, but just weren’t quite among the best of the best. I’m sure it can be easy for some of these players to be forgotten, not being on the Hall, so I think this could be a great way to give them some much deserved recognition. Instead of rookie cards, another option could be giving these players a DSFL card. Much like a rookie card, it would still be a fun way to look back on the beginnings of some great players’ careers.

[RDBSouthPaw]

The launch of Dott's has seemed to be an overall success and I for one think that the cards look great. I will say that they have a Madden Ultimate Team feel to them and that is one thing that I really wish could be changed. I think it would be much better if the base set cards for every player had a matching theme. I would want to get rid of this bronze, silver, gold, and elite tier system. Instead replace it with a uniform numbered base set. This means each card would have a number and in the set there would be X number of cards. For example if there 150 cards in the base set (these are non-special cards) then every card would have a number of 1-150 that would allow for the player to slowly collect them all. Then I would like to see the unique sets from a series. I want to see more rookie card designs and even the idea of running patch or letter options. I think that the collecting would really benefit as a whole from an increase in variety of unique pulls and an increase in uniformity of the common pulls. Another great set addition in my opinion would any sets that are numbered out of limited amount of cards. For example if you pulled a Brach Thomaslacher Rookie Auto it would be awesome if there were only 50 of those cards and you pulled one that said 27/50 or 13/50. My final suggestion for Dott's is to work together with the Bank and figure out a way to allow for us to sell and buy cards on the site.

[dahayn]

It is the opinion of this person that the International Simulation Football League has many problems with how money is being allocated. Some people like to horde cash but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Made up International Simulation Football League money actually has no value since potentially an infinite amount exists. There is no cap to how much per season is created so a person could, if they had enough time, they could make a billion ka jillion money units. I suppose the limiting factor is time but again since there is no seasonal cap, I guess that the biggest problem is inflation. Fake cardboard should not cost 8 thousand money units per card. Where is the return on investment? And stocks?! You can possibly get a return on investment but when you buy real stocks, you are part owner of a company. With stocks in the International Simulation Football League, you can spend millions of money units but not own any part of the team. I think stocks should allow a person to be part owner with voting power. They could make decisions about GM assignment and/or relocation or name changes. Yes I like that idea. Actually, don't listen to anything I said. Chaos would rule. It would be awesome for a few weeks then not fun at all.

[ReverendOReily]

The premiere of Dotts has been wonderful for a lot of reasons. It's given league veterans and new users alike a reason to learn and relearn about league history in the form of past players. Dotts has obviously provided a way to take money out of the league's economy, but it also provided jobs to many of our league's extremely talented graphic artists. Dotts has already added a lot of excitement to our league, but there are some ways I think the catalog could be improved. I think the foremost change I would make is the removal of players who went inactive shortly after creating. Perhaps players should be required to hit a certain TPE before being gloriously immortalized via Dotts card? Someone suggested team cards (like a team photo of many players in uniform) and I thought that sounded like a great idea, but I imagine something like that would be tricky. DSFL cards and prospect bowl cards both sound like they could be really interesting, but I can see where implementing something like that would really flood the catalog. Maybe once a player reaches enough TPE for a red background, they earn a DSFL design for their player, or a prospect bowl design? That way, the card creating team doesn't have to make DSFL/Prospect bowl cards for every single player, only high earning players.

[indonesianhusker]

Dotts Trading is a godsend to this league. In this capitalist world we live in, more things to spend money on the better. It is also super cool to be able to collect players’ renders, especially superstars like Gimmy Jaroppollo or Julio Tirtawidjaja. This will also help users recognize other player’s renders. But you know what can make the cards better? COLLEGE FOOTBALL CARDS! You heard that right, players cards but with where they went to college! You know why this is unique? Because the ISFL has players not only from conventional universities but also all kinds of universities. Like Literally Just A. Hexagon went to something like a geometry university or something like that and a special edition card with the jersey and colorway will be awesome. It would also be cool if we can do card transactions and do trades with other people, in case we have duplicates. Putting up cards for sale would also help the money movement of the league so people with lots of cash in their bank have something to do with their money. Last thing I would add is probably some sort of trading card game in the likes of Pokemon or Yu Gi Oh with aspects of football translated into a card game system.

[GlimsTC]

One addition I'd like to make to the Dotts catalog is a "Faces of the Franchise" series. It would basically just be special cards representing players who are absolutely the biggest representatives of their team. Now this is just me being a new guy, so maybe there's a better example, but my example for this would be a special Jay Cue card for Arizona that lists his career stats with the team. It would preferably be stylized similar to the Ultimus cards (But more themed around the team. Unsure if that's already how they are, as I've collected three of these things and they're all for the Wraiths!). Additionally, you could also go the direction of just having an all encompassing card, so you could have 3-5 players on one card that best represent the franchise. There's a lot of really cool ways you could take this idea in order to really pay tribute to the legendary players some of these franchises have had.

If I could make one systematic change though, I think having more information available to buyers on things like odds, what cards people are missing from their collection, and a page listing all the cards totally would be a great idea. I know that people might like the surprise more, but if you're serious about collecting all of the cards, having to ask and confirm that a card exist is a less than preferable way of doing it I feel.

That being said, Dotts has been wonderful so far, and I can't wait to see what the team has in store next! Hope they keep up the fantastic work!

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[Tayjay]

PBE affiliate

[NylarthePhoenix]

I've been collecting hoarding trading cards and playing gacha mobile games for quite some time now. There's just something about them that triggers something in my ape brain that makes me want to buy as many as possible. So I'd like to think that I know a thing or two about how they're sold and what attracts people to them. I think the biggest thing that Dotts is currently missing are limited-time varients. For example, releasing specially made rookie cards would add a sense of urgency and invoke the buyer's sense of FOBO. Other possible examples of this could be a separate, limited-time set for Hall of Fame players. The season's pro bowlers and Ultimus champions could also have their own separate cards or sets. Another good idea would be to run cards for retired players to expand the card pool and rerunning certain cards so people can try to get a certain card they missed the first time around. An option to trade cards with other users should be implemented. Essentially, the whole reason trading cards exist is to be collected and traded. If I have 5 copies of one card, I should be able to trade them for other cards.

[Baron1898]

I’ll be honest, I was super skeptical of Dotts right up until launch when I caved to my addiction to trading card loot boxes. And although I think that Dotts has been a pretty major success story thus far, at least in terms of my enjoyment, there’s a couple of things I’d love to see added.

First is a freaking Gimmy Jarappolo card. We’ve waited long enough. When will the GOAT finally get his time to shine?

Secondly are a list of additions I’d love to have eventually, and a lot of them are pretty common. I know that trading is being worked on, but now that the duplicate issue has been resolved, until trading is finished it remains by far my largest disappointment with Dotts as is. Allowing trading would be a goldmine for allowing people to finally begin assembling collections of cards they care about and getting some usage out of the ones they don’t. I also would like a way to display our cards in a way other than per team - an option to see all of them at once, sorted alphabetically or by season - and even more hopefully a way to create custom groups in our collections for displaying certain cards. To facilitate trading, I hope that a search function to find specific cards is added to the website. As it stands right now, it would take ages to sort through every single member’s collection to scour for any particular card, which would prove an issue come trading time.