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2 years ago ::
Dec 23, 2010 - 10:57AM
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Oh, I considered using the common/uncommon/rare aspect of the cards. It just ended up being more work than it's worth, and I sort of WANT to see the rarer stuff more often.
Additionally, the Common:Uncommon:Rare ratio is probably 4:3:1 or 5:2:1, considering that there are eight cards to a pack.
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2 years ago ::
Dec 23, 2010 - 11:52AM
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Rare ratio is probably 4:3:1 or 5:2:1, considering that there are eight cards to a pack.
Yep, 5:2:1 in the boosters.
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2 years ago ::
Dec 26, 2010 - 10:04AM
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It seems people are forgetting the common,uncommon,and rare types of the cards. I have 3 of each common, 2 of each uncommon, and 1 of each rare. I shuffle them at the start of each session and let my players draw their decks, so it balances out the way its supposed to in theory... the charts dont reflect this in a percentile chart.
The rarity factor isn't meant to go in like that. It's meant to be a lure to buy more cards. Players are supposed to build their decks from their collections, rather than having a deck made of random cards. By having your players draw random decks, you might as well just put all the cards into the GM's deck and then not bother using player decks.
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2 years ago ::
Dec 26, 2010 - 11:16PM
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That's not entirely true. It gives each player a unique, mostly exclusive subset of cards. It's not my favorite method, but it's not exactly the same as simply using a GM deck.
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2 years ago ::
Dec 27, 2010 - 9:38PM
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Im not sure about being lured to buy more cards because some are "rare"... I only play Gamma World with a few people, and no one I know of "stacks" their own decks and we also dont use Player/DM decks... we shuffle a deck of each Alpha/Omega and draw from those, so its as random as the game suggests it should be.
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2 years ago ::
Dec 28, 2010 - 12:22PM
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"Lure" is just a disparaging term used by people who don't understand why someone would enjoy collectible media when describing people who enjoy collectible media. It implies that the only way one could enjoy the act of collecting objects of intentionally orchestrated "rarity" is if the participants were in some way tricked or trapped by the company's marketing department. But then again, some people juggle geese.
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2 years ago ::
Dec 28, 2010 - 10:40PM
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"Lure" is just a disparaging term used by people who don't understand why someone would enjoy collectible media when describing people who enjoy collectible media. It implies that the only way one could enjoy the act of collecting objects of intentionally orchestrated "rarity" is if the participants were in some way tricked or trapped by the company's marketing department.
But then again, some people juggle geese.
Or it could just be a term for a general marketing strategy. Would you have prefered if I said "draw" or "temptation", instead? It's not meant to be disparaging, it's just the way marketing works. By making the cards random, and then making some more rare than others, they're trying to get people to buy more of the product than they might otherwise - It's the same strategy they use for Magic, and that they used for D&D minis, and the Star Wars Minis... It's an effective strategy, but that doesn't make it an insult.
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2 years ago ::
Dec 29, 2010 - 8:59AM
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Unless one assumes that to enjoy it, one must have been tricked by the strategy. Just so we're clear, this is not what you said, but simply a common assumption in this forum.
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