No Money Spent guys
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Same thing here. Haven't spent a dime this year or worked the market at all really. I've been fortunate with pack pulls and with FotF cards there's no real reason to spend money if you're good at Showdown.
This years game also just has too many flaws in it for me to waste money on it.
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In the past I’d buy the $100 version of the game to get the extra stubs and the pre order diamonds. This year I didn’t do it.
As of right now I have all the collect teams at 30+, a all diamond team with 35k stubs and I’m at bronze 70.
I’ve been grinding xp to get those great reward path cards. I haven’t played any ranked seasons yet, just event games conquest and showdown
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Never spent money, playing since 16. Last year was my first time getting the collection rewards/honus. I dont flip the market, its boring.
The main thing I do is only spend stubs on cards I can use the most time during the year, and only buy the high collections when I have the stubs for it. For example, I dont buy bellinger until I am about to complete all the collections, because I dont need to tie up 110k stubs in someone I'll use for a month. Heck, just the high diamond/level up rewards (Minoso and Jackson) are better, so why spend 100 dollars worth of stubs for an inferior card. I have done the AL east collection because I can use the giambi, cole, and alomar and they are, more or less, the top options at those positions right now. I am comfortable tying up those stubs in 3 starters that rake and will rake for a while.
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@GoHardGrandpa said in No Money Spent guys:
In the past I’d buy the $100 version of the game to get the extra stubs and the pre order diamonds. This year I didn’t do it.
As of right now I have all the collect teams at 30+, a all diamond team with 35k stubs and I’m at bronze 70.
I’ve been grinding xp to get those great reward path cards. I haven’t played any ranked seasons yet, just event games conquest and showdown
Last year im not gonna lie, I spent $200 on stubs and bought Trout right away on the market. Yeah he was amazing but I could get that production from most hitters and if I need a base runner I could always sub out my outfielder for Trea Turner and boom there you go problem solved.
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@yeahlexx said in No Money Spent guys:
Never spent money, playing since 16. Last year was my first time getting the collection rewards/honus. I dont flip the market, its boring.
The main thing I do is only spend stubs on cards I can use the most time during the year, and only buy the high collections when I have the stubs for it. For example, I dont buy bellinger until I am about to complete all the collections, because I dont need to tie up 110k stubs in someone I'll use for a month. Heck, just the high diamond/level up rewards (Minoso and Jackson) are better, so why spend 100 dollars worth of stubs for an inferior card. I have done the AL east collection because I can use the giambi, cole, and alomar and they are, more or less, the top options at those positions right now. I am comfortable tying up those stubs in 3 starters that rake and will rake for a while.
Aww man I wish I could be in your position. My pitching and bullpen is not the greatest being one diamond pull Morton and 4 golds on my pitching staff. My bullpen is mostly golds, the diamond cubs closer (Whos name is escaping me right now) and Mariano Rivera that I got off the market for like 9k and was surprised.
Im sitting on 25k from the collections redemptions and I want that Gerrit Cole, but that seems to be getting more expensive by the day (90-100k).
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I have everyone collected except for the diamond players on every team. I’m happy with how my team is now and dont think I’ll spend any stubs for a long time. I’m about to get kluber then I’ll get my silver 1 reward after that.
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@Agent00Cage said in No Money Spent guys:
@yeahlexx said in No Money Spent guys:
Never spent money, playing since 16. Last year was my first time getting the collection rewards/honus. I dont flip the market, its boring.
The main thing I do is only spend stubs on cards I can use the most time during the year, and only buy the high collections when I have the stubs for it. For example, I dont buy bellinger until I am about to complete all the collections, because I dont need to tie up 110k stubs in someone I'll use for a month. Heck, just the high diamond/level up rewards (Minoso and Jackson) are better, so why spend 100 dollars worth of stubs for an inferior card. I have done the AL east collection because I can use the giambi, cole, and alomar and they are, more or less, the top options at those positions right now. I am comfortable tying up those stubs in 3 starters that rake and will rake for a while.
Aww man I wish I could be in your position. My pitching and bullpen is not the greatest being one diamond pull Morton and 4 golds on my pitching staff. My bullpen is mostly golds, the diamond cubs closer (Whos name is escaping me right now) and Mariano Rivera that I got off the market for like 9k and was surprised.
Im sitting on 25k from the collections redemptions and I want that Gerrit Cole, but that seems to be getting more expensive by the day (90-100k).
Idk what you’ve done collection wise so far or what level you are. If you haven’t knock out the collect 20 for each team and get that easy xp.
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@GoHardGrandpa said in No Money Spent guys:
@Agent00Cage said in No Money Spent guys:
@yeahlexx said in No Money Spent guys:
Never spent money, playing since 16. Last year was my first time getting the collection rewards/honus. I dont flip the market, its boring.
The main thing I do is only spend stubs on cards I can use the most time during the year, and only buy the high collections when I have the stubs for it. For example, I dont buy bellinger until I am about to complete all the collections, because I dont need to tie up 110k stubs in someone I'll use for a month. Heck, just the high diamond/level up rewards (Minoso and Jackson) are better, so why spend 100 dollars worth of stubs for an inferior card. I have done the AL east collection because I can use the giambi, cole, and alomar and they are, more or less, the top options at those positions right now. I am comfortable tying up those stubs in 3 starters that rake and will rake for a while.
Aww man I wish I could be in your position. My pitching and bullpen is not the greatest being one diamond pull Morton and 4 golds on my pitching staff. My bullpen is mostly golds, the diamond cubs closer (Whos name is escaping me right now) and Mariano Rivera that I got off the market for like 9k and was surprised.
Im sitting on 25k from the collections redemptions and I want that Gerrit Cole, but that seems to be getting more expensive by the day (90-100k).
Idk what you’ve done collection wise so far or what level you are. If you haven’t knock out the collect 20 for each team and get that easy xp.
Level 50 bronze and I got the 28k diamond closer Chapman yesterday. That means I would have more stubs, but unsure where to put those stubs at in terms of collections.
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If you can string along a few good event/BR runs and get to WS in ranked a few times, you can complete collections without having to spend money. Just takes some patience, skill, and a pinch of luck haha.
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@Harryhukari33 said in No Money Spent guys:
If you can string along a few good event/BR runs and get to WS in ranked a few times, you can complete collections without having to spend money. Just takes some patience, skill, and a pinch of luck haha.
I tried to do one of the event games and ran into one of those twitch streamers. I threw a ball in the dirt and teleported into a homerun. Wont be trying that anytime soon lol.
Ranked seasons has been pretty nice but once my graduate program classes end and my responsibilities at work start to slow down, you best believe I'm going to put in that work on the field.
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@Agent00Cage said in No Money Spent guys:
So im here to say that used to spend mass amounts of my personal money to make a god squad in the previous titles of the show and I feel like I don't need to anymore. So this season im trying the no money spent thing and its going well for me and developing a low diamond squad is actually pretty good.
Who needs Mantle when I got the gold Griffey Jr. and his godly swing that sounds amazing when you get that perfect/perfect contact. This game is a slog when grinding out cards and I still cannot finish those multi-series evolution games for Cargo, but I will one day.
Who else went from spending money for stubs to no money spent teams?
Last year I spent entirely too much. Aside from the purchase of this game, which I pre ordered months ago, I haven't spent a dollar. Nor will I. Even if the game played perfectly, with everything going on in this world, I wouldnt. I cant justify it. Too much unknown right now. And I might just need that money for much more important things. As much as I do gripe about this game, and I undoubtedly do, I am thankful that it is here for the distraction alone. Even if it does tick me off, and it does, it takes my mind off of everything else.
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@Agent00Cage said in No Money Spent guys:
So im here to say that used to spend mass amounts of my personal money to make a god squad in the previous titles of the show and I feel like I don't need to anymore. So this season im trying the no money spent thing and its going well for me and developing a low diamond squad is actually pretty good.
Who needs Mantle when I got the gold Griffey Jr. and his godly swing that sounds amazing when you get that perfect/perfect contact. This game is a slog when grinding out cards and I still cannot finish those multi-series evolution games for Cargo, but I will one day.
Who else went from spending money for stubs to no money spent teams?
yep i hear you on all of this gold griffey baby plays like a SS
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I'm going no money spent also this year since my hours have been cut due to covid19. But I have to say, my team suchs. I have two diamond pitchers (smoltz and Beuhler) and two diamond players (Grandy and Sanchez) rest are golds/silvers. But it's all good, I think I get more satisfaction from building a team than buying a team.
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@thinkbluedgr said in No Money Spent guys:
I'm going no money spent also this year since my hours have been cut due to covid19. But I have to say, my team suchs. I have two diamond pitchers (smoltz and Beuhler) and two diamond players (Grandy and Sanchez) rest are golds/silvers. But it's all good, I think I get more satisfaction from building a team than buying a team.
Absolutely! You get this sense of achievement from building a team from the ground up and you also feel good that you are not spending your money on digital cards. I probably spent $300 last season when I shouldn't have, but now it all makes sense to me to be more financially responsible and not waste my money on ballin is a habit packs.
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Have always gotten $100 versions and built from there. This year no exception. Was lucky enough to pull Trout 1st day so all gravy since. Only problem I have now is resisting the urge to sell Trout just to substantially upgrade a few other positions. Proper grinding continues to curb that idea tho. Plus Trout MASHES lol. Feel like I'd immediately regret selling him -- esp. if I don't do well w/ Rollins, Belli, Rutschman or whoever.
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I haven't spent money since 17. I'll probably have a mostly gold team until May at least. I just upgrade where I can when its available.
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I spent a ton in ‘17 and ‘18, hardly anything last year because the game was set up very generously in terms of rewards for playing. Not spent anything this year and doubt I will, starting to worry about money very seriously due to the current global crisis playing out. Hard to justify spending extra money on stubs when you have to put food on the table for your family.
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1st year player here. I've got an 87 ovr team now with about 31k stubs, gold level 81. I bought the $80 version and got lucky with a bellinger pull day 1. 6 diamond infielders that could be 7 if I swapped Grandy for Gallo, plus fof Rizzo on the bench. Just a lot of solo grinding mainly (all 3 conquests done, cubs mto, etc).
NMS is totally doable
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At this time of year I mostly look for cheap guys that have great defense. I know I cant hit well anyway so my game plan is keeping the score close and hoping for a break on offense. So I've got guys like Kiermaier and rookie Ozzy Smith.
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Well I ordered the digital deluxe version and started with 30k stubs and am at 97k right now. So in 2 weeks I've earned 67k stubs. Not bad so far. I'm trying to limit my spending stubs on player cards to what's needed to complete missions and let the free packs finish my team collections as much as possible versus spending everything I earn.
