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Originally Posted by funkadillo
I have some newbie questions here.
I opened up my starter packs and my team is absolute trash. Just two low gold players, two silver players, and a bunch of bronzes. I don't know if this is a lowroll or not though. (I don't have any of the legacy packs or anything like that)
I played in the beta, and it was very different. I bought zero packs but was still easily able to earn them and unlock all the missions. In this it literally looks impossible to unlock any missions unless you buy a bunch of packs.
From what I've seen in the beta and in other similar games (ala NBA2k22 MyTeam), I've had the impression that using your PP to buy packs is a bad idea, as I could easily buy 6 packs and get zero good players, while for the same PP I could actually buy some good players with zero risk. But this way I'll never really complete any missions, which seems vital to building a good team for free. And obviously I am not on track to being able to field any sort of decent roster while excluding some players to fit the rules of this league. My team hasn't changed since the start.
So what's the right play here? Buying all the packs I can? And which packs should I get? Spending 1k of my 6k PP on a basic pack just to have a 1 in 50 chance to get a gold card seems ridiculous. I just don't get how people are posting about all they diamonds they have and the like. I don't get how that's possible without spending money or getting ridiculously lucky.
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that's a pretty standard pull of cards for the starter packs... and don't worry about not having extra loyalty packs or the like... I've been around since v19, so got a couple diamond packs/gold pack/etc.... both diamond cards are Live cards (so can't use 'em once league play begins), but going to play the long game and hang on to them for missions rather than go for the quick 8K pp or so...
you'll definitely get more satisfaction for the points you spend if you buy the cards outright rather than spend it on packs, since you'll know exactly what you're getting.... flip side to that is, you potentially could spend 1K on a regular pack and pull that one-in-a-million historical perfect card that can either bankroll your team for multiple seasons by selling it, or carry your squad for years by playing it...
good way to get some free packs is to go watch the live streams on twitch on the ootp channel (or sanctioned affiliate streamer channels as well)... limited to 5 packs per day, but that adds up after awhile and is invaluable to FTP teams (though streams are still paying out packs for v22 and haven't updated to v23 yet.... hopefully not to much longer for that switch)
btw, below is my squad at the moment.... the Bosio card is the only really big pull I've nabbed from packs so far.... haven't bothered to buy any cards yet myself, just going with what the packs have given me