Thoughts on collections
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I’ve always planned ahead when it comes to collections. I try to earn & buy all the cards I can so when collections get announced I’m already prepared and not playing catchup and overpaying when cards jump up in price. I’ve been doing it this year as well but now I’m starting to wonder if I should? Reason being with only one wild card spot available, What’s the point? I look at Chipper Jones as a complete end game card - There will not be a better 3rd baseman all year, So he will definitely be my wild card. Now say season 2 they have a Mantle as the no brainer collection card…Again, Won’t be a better center fielder all year. But now you’ll only be able to play with Chipper or Mantle once the following season expires. Along with all the abundance of great usable rental 97-99 cards - Does the need to collect still exist? I would love to hear the community’s opinions on this as right now I’m thinking once I get Chipper, I’ll probably stop collecting and instead sell everything I don’t need and just buy rental players for the rest of the year.
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Unless SDS expands WC slots by adding one each season. Never can tell what they'll do.
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I'm still going for as many as I can in case any of the other collections are Core players
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Those are both excellent points & definite possibilities.
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I'm going to say the same thing tbh.
I feel like Mantle or Griffey or Mays have to be a part of the next set for the next season so I wanna collect every card I can possibly get.
Right now I'm going NMS and enjoying the game a lot.
I've played more online this year than last years game already and nearly done everything that I wanna do tbh.
With Double XP coming next week I plan on playing even more to get the wheel as much as possible to grind for stubs and to complete the set rewards for Chipper and Babe Ruth and potentially for Jeter and the other cards as well. -
Definitely the million dollar question. I need 4 big ones for live series so think I’m gonna get chipper then work on live series and just play the rest of it by ear for the year.
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I have not been overly concerned about collecting anything this year. They have been releasing a grip of cards all the time and because the set collections are not divided into 15 separate collection vouchers I don’t anticipate having to overpay for garbage cards I don’t want. Also in years past I have seen the grind to collect all cards immediately when they come out ends up been rather frivolous; why spend hours flipping to make the stubs to get all cards ASAP when I know SDS’s MO is to make cards more and more available throughout the year so people who buy the game in august can grind for 2 weeks and have all the same cards I have been grinding all year for. Basically I’m not afraid of missing out on anything I know I’m going to have all the cards I want this game has an abundance of content coming all year.
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I learned in 22 that there are soooo many good cards that the collections is a little too much. I did all of the collections and had all the cards but you can only use so many cards in a game. I don’t plan on doing any collections in 23 or later.
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I'm interested in seeing who the first big collection is for the vouchers and stuff.
I'm hoping we see a good closer or starting pitcher for the first one but my guess is it'll likely start out with potentially a catcher or outfielder.
The one card I'm most excited for this year to see is 99 Napoli since his 89 hits bombs online for me. -
I'm in the same boat with collections. I'm going back and forth on chasing collections all year or just buying different players to use throughout the year. I usually have a big chunk of the LS done by now, but I have only locked in a couple of them and holding my LS cards as of now. I'm not really too excited about any of the big 3 LS rewards, but having all of those cards would help with other collections throughout the year. My guess is that any big collection reward will be core cards, because I can't see SDS limiting the use of a big collection reward. I'm not a big fan of this limited use change... it's just making me not wanting to buy any set 1 cards with my stubs so far. I like a couple of the pricey WBC cards, but don't want to spend half a million stubs on a couple cards cards that have limited time use.
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@PScrabro_PSN said in Thoughts on collections:
I'm in the same boat with collections. I'm going back and forth on chasing collections all year or just buying different players to use throughout the year. I usually have a big chunk of the LS done by now, but I have only locked in a couple of them and holding my LS cards as of now. I'm not really too excited about any of the big 3 LS rewards, but having all of those cards would help with other collections throughout the year. My guess is that any big collection reward will be core cards, because I can't see SDS limiting the use of a big collection reward. I'm not a big fan of this limited use change... it's just making me not wanting to buy any set 1 cards with my stubs so far. I like a couple of the pricey WBC cards, but don't want to spend half a million stubs on a couple cards cards that have limited time use.
I'm personally most interested in Sosa more than McGuire tbh.
Jeter is a great card and I feel like will be elite the whole year.
There will be other options at short that could compete I feel like Honus Wagner, who for me is my favorite card at short every year because his swing and his contact and speed. -
@IrishFist412_XBL said in Thoughts on collections:
I’ve always planned ahead when it comes to collections. I try to earn & buy all the cards I can so when collections get announced I’m already prepared and not playing catchup and overpaying when cards jump up in price. I’ve been doing it this year as well but now I’m starting to wonder if I should? Reason being with only one wild card spot available, What’s the point? I look at Chipper Jones as a complete end game card - There will not be a better 3rd baseman all year, So he will definitely be my wild card. Now say season 2 they have a Mantle as the no brainer collection card…Again, Won’t be a better center fielder all year. But now you’ll only be able to play with Chipper or Mantle once the following season expires. Along with all the abundance of great usable rental 97-99 cards - Does the need to collect still exist? I would love to hear the community’s opinions on this as right now I’m thinking once I get Chipper, I’ll probably stop collecting and instead sell everything I don’t need and just buy rental players for the rest of the year.
Unless Chipper, Pedro, AND Babe are required for the Set 2 Collection.
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@DRHM100_XBL said in Thoughts on collections:
@PScrabro_PSN said in Thoughts on collections:
I'm in the same boat with collections. I'm going back and forth on chasing collections all year or just buying different players to use throughout the year. I usually have a big chunk of the LS done by now, but I have only locked in a couple of them and holding my LS cards as of now. I'm not really too excited about any of the big 3 LS rewards, but having all of those cards would help with other collections throughout the year. My guess is that any big collection reward will be core cards, because I can't see SDS limiting the use of a big collection reward. I'm not a big fan of this limited use change... it's just making me not wanting to buy any set 1 cards with my stubs so far. I like a couple of the pricey WBC cards, but don't want to spend half a million stubs on a couple cards cards that have limited time use.
I'm personally most interested in Sosa more than McGuire tbh.
Jeter is a great card and I feel like will be elite the whole year.
There will be other options at short that could compete I feel like Honus Wagner, who for me is my favorite card at short every year because his swing and his contact and speed.Jeter looks like a very good card, but I'm a Red Sox homer and not a Jeter fan. Jeter was a great player and a class act... but still the enemy. I tend to build my team mostly with players I actually am a fan of in real life.
I just think spending millions of stubs to complete the LS collection may be a waste for me this year if I'm not chasing the big collections later on. There are already a few OF that would be almost as good as Sosa for a lot less stubs. Passing on the LS would give me a big stack to just buy and try a lot of different guys instead of just feeling I have to use the LS rewards to justify the price. I don't play like it's my full time job like a lot of forum members... so completing the LS is a huge commitment for me in how I play the game in the coming month or two.
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I still think they do what 2k does and 2-3 weeks before the Season ends just dump these 99 promo cards everywhere and anywhere in as many “shark map” conquests as possible. This year I could even see 100,000 coin packs at the end of the season with multiple choices.
But I really don’t think by the end you’ll need to collect a whole lot you don’t have as about half of it is completely free, by the end it probably will be. It’ll come down to wether you want ANOTHER one of them which again is a bit strange because you’ll have to choose who to use. I think the first pack for 140 will 100% be worth it. The second one I’ll sell off the others and use them for set 2 instead of 2 wild cards. And Chipper was already close to the best in any position. Chipper with quirks is wild.
