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Originally Posted by Charlatan
There’s no question that the live missions have changed the face of the game this year. Overall for the better, but there are definitely some unintended negative side effects for instance the fact that everyone in the league is playing the same 20 players!
As a result, I’ve been thinking about what the rewards for these missions should be. I have thought about lots of possibilities and come to the following conclusions:
I don’t think they can award PP because people will instantly inflate the price of the collection cards to equal to the price of the reward you get. Then I thought maybe they should offer a choice where you have three different reward cards and you choose the one you want. But I’m pretty sure once people figure out which card is worth the most people will gravitate toward picking the “best” reward and if they don’t wanna use It they’ll sell it and buy something else, so I don’t think that would work either. And as we see, the issue with giving specific players is that if they’re really good everyone will use them and if they’re not that good nobody will use them.
You need an award that’s good enough to incentivize people to collect the cards, but not a reward that is so good that it’s overpowering.
One idea that makes sense to me would be to award packs as rewards for completing the missions. The issue with packs is that the contents are so variable but they could do things like award gold packs or diamond packs so you know you’re getting a card you can use (Uh... maybe!). They could invent packs that they don’t sell for rewards... The possibilities are endless... maybe gold/diamond historical packs for people who like those historical cards! Or some combination thereof... say one gold pack and three regular packs for completing a low level collection. What about a historical pack that guarantees an 85 or higher gold card in it (they do this when you’re creating a team, you get specialized packs that aren’t the same as the ones they sell). Or how about a historical pack that’s guaranteed to have a gold or better shortstop? Or maybe you could have a choice between two gold packs with a 2B and a SS or one diamond pack with a CF! What about a guaranteed Negro League card pack? There’s a lot they can do. If I were in charge of this that’s the direction in which I would go. I would try to make it so there is an absolute floor on the value that you get from completing the collection so that people wouldn’t complete something and get a gold 80 live card that sells for 1000.
That’s my deep thinking for the day!
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yeah, I'd definitely support the packs-as-mission-rewards for the live missions path (a few gold packs for some of the teams that are easier/cheaper to complete; diamond/historic pack combos for the more expensive teams; multiple diamond/historic packs for completing divisions; etc).... figure that should hopefully give a more random cross section of players; and might also make it more beneficial to *not* rush to complete them right away.... as more cards are added to the mix, that just adds to the pool of possibilities from those packs