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rburgh · 12-11-2025, 08:11 AM

to flood login reward packs with the "bottleneck" cards for the premium missions after about 6-8 weeks. This would allow maintaining a single pyramid, and would simultaneously reduce hoarding of those cards and supply the FTP players with the wherewithal to have some of the best cards while they still have some playability left.

Some examples:

Brett Lawrie for the initial Launch Deck Nolan Ryan mission. There would have been no cataclysm if Brett had become readily available in historical diamond packs after Memorial Day.

FL Starlyn Caba and Gold Fred McGriff - I have several FTP teams waiting for them and a couple of the relatively noncompetitive perfects to complete the Madison Bumgarner mission.- that card has pitched an average of about 10 innings per team in the current PeL after 3 league months, and only two teams have allowed him to start (one team started him 9 times and another 17). What harm would it do to make it easy for teams to complete all those missions and get Bumgarner now?

There are many other examples. The devs can easily track usage of some of the former meta cards and scale up the frequency of occurrence of their bottleneck cards in packs - say triple their appearance frequency in packs when the big guy becomes bottom of the barrel in Pel, and triple them again when he stops being used regularly in HD.

Releasing these cards to guys who play their favorite franchise, or EVC's theme teams, or just casual players can only help keep the total number of players growing, which may eventually lead to some of them starting to occasionally buy points when that elusive FL Gold SS becomes available for 15K instead of 75K. Or the ridiculous Immortal missions for Nap Lajoie and Aroldis Chapman where you have to buy a total of four perfect cards (who are rarely used) to get two mission rewards (who are also rarely used). Yes, I get it, this would result in a lot of casual players to also get a lot of high-end packs, but again, what harm will that do? So one of them pulls Cobb - they may well sell him off for points rather than keep him for the fun of it. But that's a decision that has no real downside for the "whales." In fact, it will help some of them to buy the top end cards for 350K instead of 750 K, which will open up opportunities for some of the better players who spend sparingly to get to PeL, which will keep them from giving up entirely.

12-11-2025, 08:11 AM	#2
rburgh All Star Starter Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 1,071	It wouldn't be terribly difficult for them to flood login reward packs with the "bottleneck" cards for the premium missions after about 6-8 weeks. This would allow maintaining a single pyramid, and would simultaneously reduce hoarding of those cards and supply the FTP players with the wherewithal to have some of the best cards while they still have some playability left. Some examples: Brett Lawrie for the initial Launch Deck Nolan Ryan mission. There would have been no cataclysm if Brett had become readily available in historical diamond packs after Memorial Day. FL Starlyn Caba and Gold Fred McGriff - I have several FTP teams waiting for them and a couple of the relatively noncompetitive perfects to complete the Madison Bumgarner mission.- that card has pitched an average of about 10 innings per team in the current PeL after 3 league months, and only two teams have allowed him to start (one team started him 9 times and another 17). What harm would it do to make it easy for teams to complete all those missions and get Bumgarner now? There are many other examples. The devs can easily track usage of some of the former meta cards and scale up the frequency of occurrence of their bottleneck cards in packs - say triple their appearance frequency in packs when the big guy becomes bottom of the barrel in Pel, and triple them again when he stops being used regularly in HD. Releasing these cards to guys who play their favorite franchise, or EVC's theme teams, or just casual players can only help keep the total number of players growing, which may eventually lead to some of them starting to occasionally buy points when that elusive FL Gold SS becomes available for 15K instead of 75K. Or the ridiculous Immortal missions for Nap Lajoie and Aroldis Chapman where you have to buy a total of four perfect cards (who are rarely used) to get two mission rewards (who are also rarely used). Yes, I get it, this would result in a lot of casual players to also get a lot of high-end packs, but again, what harm will that do? So one of them pulls Cobb - they may well sell him off for points rather than keep him for the fun of it. But that's a decision that has no real downside for the "whales." In fact, it will help some of them to buy the top end cards for 350K instead of 750 K, which will open up opportunities for some of the better players who spend sparingly to get to PeL, which will keep them from giving up entirely. Last edited by rburgh; 12-11-2025 at 08:14 AM.