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Originally Posted by rburgh
The base level PT game is active for about 300 days, from initial release through the end of the calendar year.
In that 300 days, you will get 370 packs from login rewards.
If you buy PT+ for 10 months, you will get another 370 packs from login rewards.
If you average 30K PP's per week, 300 days is about 43 weeks. So in that time period, if you know how to generate PP's from in-game achievement awards, you can earn 1,290,000 PP's.
So, by doing nothing except cutting your smoking by a few packs of cigs a month, or your drinking by cutting back a six-pack of beer as month, you can end the 300 day window with 740 packs and 1.29 million PP's.
In order to position yourself to have the opportunity to make your team relevant for the last 65 days of the OOTP year, you probably need to have opened about 5000 packs and have about 5 million PP's on hand to buy the top end cards.
So the problem is, how can a user generate over 4000 packs so that he has a chance to be competitive at the highest level?
Well, watching twitch streams and collecting the pack drops will earn you 50 or more packs a week. 50 x 43 is 2150, so you can achieve more than half of the remaining pack shortfall simply by logging in to the various OOTP streams. Note that you don't actually have to watch them, you can simply check in every 15 minutes or so to claim your most recent drop.
You can generate a lot of PP's by speculating on the monthly revaluation of cards. There are streams to help you with that, but a much simpler way to play this is to just buy up to 10 of every live iron and bronze who is likely to play well enough to progress to the silver level or higher. I set a buy level for irons at 7-8 and bronzes at 28 or so.
Once you buy up to 10, cards of those players you pull from packs are added to your total. In mid-November, you simply go through your live card inventory and quicksell all of the unlocked silver and higher live cards you own. YMMV, but experienced players confidently expect to earn 5 million + PP's.
This strategy will also help you complete next year's version of the PT Elite missions, which will give you at least a half dozen of the meta open team cards.
You can also enter tournaments, to win packs and Tournament Edition historical cards. None of this is more expensive than the PT+ subscriptions, and as you see they're not really a big contributor to the ultimate goal.
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I enjoy the different direction of this post, and I appreciate a different view. I understand that twitch helps players be more competitive, but again it is an outside source that has nothing to do with the game play, that helps manipulate the game. I figured there are people potentially many who don't actually watch the twitch stream and simply have it playing in the background to gain their perks.
Again appreciate the insight/different perspective, but my post has nothing to do with myself or other players becoming more competitive. I actually stopped playing shortly after I realized that I had bought 24 close to when 25 was coming out. Perfect team isn't a hard game to figure out how to succeed. It takes a lot of grind in game grind to gain packs, buy cards to complete missions to gain great players/packs, etc. Its a great game and I enjoy greatly.
I understand that a player can succeed by not doing twitch. In 21 version of the game I did very well, because I took the time in game to help me succeed. But I would argue that 3000 additional packs a year seems like it would help a team succeed, can greatly help team succeed especially early game.
Again main discussion is how people don't see twitch streaming as just as bad as a AA team purposefully sending themselves back down to A. Both are rule breaks, but the one that stick entirely to the game play is viewed as evil, and the outside source manipulation isn't.
Thanks again for the post. Again, I enjoy Perfect team, and will succeed in 25 (if I buy, still contemplating) without twitch, or pay to play, or tanking. I want no rule change, simply interested on why twitch isn't viewed as a rule break and viewed as manipulation, when it very much is.
Thanks for post!