And you cheered along the way…
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Had I not wasted stubs on 500+ packs I would be done with it, even had I not spent money($200 but all went directly towards packs). Is it harder to make stubs on the marketplace via flipping? Yes. But I've never completed the live series before mid may and I'm well on pace to do it in the same time frame
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@maurice91932_psn said in And you cheered along the way…:
SDS slyly made this a game where you have to spend actual money to complete the collections.
They did a series of small tweaks that combined to have a massive impact. But, because the stub cost of certain players is lower, people cheered. They didn’t realize that they made it harder to earn stubs. So with the stub supply low, it doesn’t matter that Trout isn’t going for 1 million anymore. It was easier to obtain 1 million stubs in years past than it is to acquire 300k today.
They tiered the quick sell value of the cards. A low Diamond used to quick sell for 5k. You could pay attention to real life baseball, invest in an 84 or 83, and when the roster update happened, you could quick sell them all for big stubs. Not anymore.
They no longer give out as many stubs or packs as rewards. This means people aren’t spending stubs as frequently as they used to. The prices are lower, but the market is stagnant.
They made WS and BR rewards easier to earn. This sounds good on the surface, but it seriously devalued them, thereby reducing the number of market transactions for those cards, too, as well as making them cheaper.
For example, if you could go 12-0 a lot, and the reward got you a million stubs, but I could not go 12-0, but I was lucky enough to pull two Trouts, you would buy my Trout for a million. Now I have a million stubs to spend on the market. That isn’t happening now.
Some like this better. I don’t. But to each his own. They do release plenty of good cards that are usable in H2H, and eventually all the LS collections besides the top three become obsolete anyway. But that doesn’t happen until after the AS break. Where we are in time now, they really want us pulling out our wallets. I won’t do it.
Anyway, if you’d like to participate in the discussion feel free, preferably without calling me or anyone else who comments ridiculous names. Be civil, please.
Collections are still very doable NMS. I’m one card away (Tatis) and have not went 12-0, haven’t touched RS yet, and barely flipped at all. Just be strategic with your stubs. Complete the BR program, play events, obtain diamond equipment packs from RTTS, sell everything not tied to the collection.
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Stop it. Im NMS and im 4 cards away from finishing the LS. Of course i got lucky with a few good pulls (Trout, DeGrom, Hader and Scherzer) but i've grinded my [censored] off for the rest. The only people that actually have to spend money are the idiots that buy bundles because opening packs is "fun" instead of grinding and buying the cards they want like most of us have learned to do.
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I work (NMS) ... completed 4 teams so far...pulled 4 diamonds (best: Judge) flipped like crazy creeping over 200 k stubs... yall are psychos for already finishing or close to. Roughest pack luck and stub margins its ever been since DD started.
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@easy_duhz_it__mlbts said in And you cheered along the way…:
Stop it. Im NMS and im 4 cards away from finishing the LS. Of course i got lucky with a few good pulls (Trout, DeGrom, Hader and Scherzer) but i've grinded my [censored] off for the rest. The only people that actually have to spend money are the idiots that buy bundles because opening packs is "fun" instead of grinding and buying the cards they want like most of us have learned to do.
I haven’t bought a pack since ‘16. But, pulling Trout and deGrom is a major, major advantage. If only everyone could be that lucky, then everyone would be four cards away.
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I’m very happy for you all if have completed the collection with NMS. I didn’t say it was impossible. I said it was more difficult with the changes they made. I think far fewer people will complete the collections this year. I think that is pretty clear.
I’m glad you all are contributing to the conversation, especially those that offered concrete advice on how to get it done.
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@maurice91932_psn said in And you cheered along the way…:
@easy_duhz_it__mlbts said in And you cheered along the way…:
Stop it. Im NMS and im 4 cards away from finishing the LS. Of course i got lucky with a few good pulls (Trout, DeGrom, Hader and Scherzer) but i've grinded my [censored] off for the rest. The only people that actually have to spend money are the idiots that buy bundles because opening packs is "fun" instead of grinding and buying the cards they want like most of us have learned to do.
I haven’t bought a pack since ‘16. But, pulling Trout and deGrom is a major, major advantage. If only everyone could be that lucky, then everyone would be four cards away.
Pulling Trout and DeGrom last year would have been great too but that didnt happen. Still finished LS NMS by the end of May. This year, its not as big a deal because there are more cards in the LS near or over 200K. Last year, Trout hovered around 500K, Acuna, Tatis and DeGrom were around 200K....and then everything else was easily obtainable without a long grind.
Right now i need Vlad (213K), Ohtani (185K), Acuna (225K) and Tatis (185K) and I'll still be done by the end of May. No buying stubs, no flipping, no RTTS cheese....just grinding the game and saving my stubs for what i need.
*I should also add that i sell every card i dont need. I dont waste them on exchanges when i can get all the xp i need by playing the game. Id rather have the stubs for selling them.
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Well, I guess I’m not grinding enough. I’m playing as much as I can but that’s only about two hours a day. I thought that was a lot but I guess it isn’t.
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@maurice91932_psn said in And you cheered along the way…:
Well, I guess I’m not grinding enough. I’m playing as much as I can but that’s only about two hours a day. I thought that was a lot but I guess it isn’t.
Yeah because the only way people can do it is if they live on the game apparently.
Maybe you're just grinding the wrong stuff...or, like i said earlier, wasting stubs on packs.
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Meh, I dunno. I’m NMS and I finished LS a couple weeks ago. You can grind that conquest for packs upon packs. Prices of LS players on crappy teams are high, so easy stubs there on duplicates. RTTS grind easy for xp and stubs via diamond equipment. It’s doable
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@easy_duhz_it__mlbts said in And you cheered along the way…:
@maurice91932_psn said in And you cheered along the way…:
Well, I guess I’m not grinding enough. I’m playing as much as I can but that’s only about two hours a day. I thought that was a lot but I guess it isn’t.
Yeah because the only way people can do it is if they live on the game apparently.
Maybe you're just grinding the wrong stuff...or, like i said earlier, wasting stubs on packs.
Did you read what I wrote, fool? I said I don’t buy packs. Besides, you pulled Trout and deGrom. You really have no advice to give on this topic. Beat it, [censored].
(I can’t stand people like you who get sarcastic online for no reason. I hate people who say things online that they wouldn’t say in person. Mike Tyson was right).
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@chuckclc_psn said in And you cheered along the way…:
I was worried about the LS collection at first, but now I am just a couple big NL cards away from complete. So I am right on pace with the last couple years game. Definitely dont need to spend extra.
Same here. 3 teams left in the AL, I have 350k stubs and have not spent a dime. I could easily finish 2 but instead I'm grinding for Trout first. Stubs are harder to come by but still possible. I do agree that adjusting QS values has hurt. Golds are still hard to pull in packs but some of the 80s are going for around 500 stubs which is less than some silvers.
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Bee. You. Em. Is censored? Strange…
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@easy_duhz_it__mlbts said in And you cheered along the way…:
Stop it. Im NMS and im 4 cards away from finishing the LS. Of course i got lucky with a few good pulls (Trout, DeGrom, Hader and Scherzer) but i've grinded my [censored] off for the rest. The only people that actually have to spend money are the idiots that buy bundles because opening packs is "fun" instead of grinding and buying the cards they want like most of us have learned to do.
It's hilarious that you think playing video games 6 hours a day is honorable because you didn't spend money, but yet to those that can't sit home and play videogames... your an idiot if you spend money to enjoy the game. So spending money is for idiots, but playing videogames 40 hours a week is fine. If your 4 cards away from completing LS and haven't spent a penny on packs.... you have sunk massive amounts of time playing a videogame. For me I enjoy the game, but it's way easier to drop $100 on this game than get 3 hours free time on a random week day. When you people say spending money makes you an idiot, it makes you sound jealous, poor, and pathetic.
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@pscrabro_psn said in And you cheered along the way…:
@easy_duhz_it__mlbts said in And you cheered along the way…:
Stop it. Im NMS and im 4 cards away from finishing the LS. Of course i got lucky with a few good pulls (Trout, DeGrom, Hader and Scherzer) but i've grinded my [censored] off for the rest. The only people that actually have to spend money are the idiots that buy bundles because opening packs is "fun" instead of grinding and buying the cards they want like most of us have learned to do.
It's hilarious that you think playing video games 6 hours a day is honorable because you didn't spend money, but yet to those that can't sit home and play videogames... your an idiot if you spend money to enjoy the game. So spending money is for idiots, but playing videogames 40 hours a week is fine. If your 4 cards away from completing LS and haven't spent a penny on packs.... you have sunk massive amounts of time playing a videogame. For me I enjoy the game, but it's way easier to drop $100 on this game than get 3 hours free time on a random week day. When you people say spending money makes you an idiot, it makes you sound jealous, poor, and pathetic.
While I agree with the sentiment that complaining about people spending money is dumb so is bashing people that choose to play games with their free time. Your comment makes you sound like a [censored].
If people want to play games 40 hours a week? Cool let em
People don't have time to play and want to drop money? Cool let em
People DO have time to play but still want to drop money? Cool let emAside from cheating and boosting I don't get the obsession with how much money or time other people spend on the game
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Look, I've had red hot luck from the packs this year and I'm three teams away from the live series collection. I'm in no rush. The mystery map and mini seasons are a great way to make stubs and earn xp.
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@texastauper_psn said in And you cheered along the way…:
Just finished LS collections yesterday NMS. Got lucky on a few diamond pulls but most of it was just from grinding and flipping cards when the market was hot.
It's so hard to time the market this year, the SDS bots that instantly undercut sell orders aren't helping either. The profit margin just isnt there anymore either, now you've gotta grind flip common cards...which is now just way too cumbersome.
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@xxfireflyxx69_mlbts said in And you cheered along the way…:
Look, I've had red hot luck from the packs this year and I'm three teams away from the live series collection. I'm in no rush. The mystery map and mini seasons are a great way to make stubs and earn xp.
If they work!
Shout out to SDS for constantly breaking [censored].
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@chuckclc_psn said in And you cheered along the way…:
I was worried about the LS collection at first, but now I am just a couple big NL cards away from complete. So I am right on pace with the last couple years game. Definitely dont need to spend extra.
Me too I collected pretty much everything besides the diamonds I don't have. Now I grind free packs then sell all the duplicates for free stubs to buy the big diamonds. So this doesn't apply to me. Haven't spent a dime. I'm having a blast so far this year.
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I was able to flip to the LS collection. It's tedious but not impossible. The best pull I've had from packs was Trea Turner and that was after he was downgraded and after I'd gotten Randy.
