How did NMS players complete the live collection?
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@TripleH-4481_PSN My thoughts exactly. Again, I still play MLB the Show 26, and enjoy it, but just not engaging with the Diamond Dynasty aspect of it anymore. No more cards, stubs, XP, etc that I am even worrying about going forward.
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Let’s see, I have just about every collection done, just 2 cards away from Jram:
Flip/Invest - Nope, not a single one
Spend money - Nope
10 win BR runs - Not even close
Get lucky with pack pulls - Relative, I’ve pulled a couple of 90+ but nothing super special. I did pull a mid-tier Mural, but that’s the only one I’ve gotten that wasn’t base.You refuse to acknowledge there’s an easier way to earn stubs without banging your head against pack luck. There’s a mode that guarantees you at least 18k stubs with the likelihood of 30k if you can play higher difficulty. In the same amount of time it takes to play a WBC MS.
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I'm no where close, but will be soon I am over a million stubs saved from flipping and selling off dupes. I'm working on the NL right now. Spending a percentage of my stubs towards LS so that way I have enough liquidity to pluck off the big dogs whenever the next flash sale comes around. Yeah I agree with @demise4_xbl, you have to flip/invest or spend money. I would much rather flip, I set a bunch a buy orders in the morning around lunchtime I sell them off and rinse and repeat once more. I can't grind miniseasons for that long it's so mind numbing.
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With my NMS bank card.
Most people who say they are nms are just lying.
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@LuvMyXBOX_XBL That’s actually a pretty good result from 30 standard packs.
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@go4stros25_PSN I doubt it. Maybe you just don’t realize how easy it is to generate stubs. I have every card in the game I want and about 3 million in duplicates no money spent.
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Keep in mind that back in the beginning when wbc was the only miniseason, 7 games to get the bundle but also had 4 wbc programs and 30 ta programs dropping packs on you, card values were also much higher then and it wasn't a stretch to be opening more than 50 or a hundred packs at a time( especially if you did multiple seasons between openings) and with card values higher it wasn't unusual to get 1000 or more per pack even with no diamonds in them.
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@GoozeFn_PSN cool story.
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@go4stros25_PSN I’m 40 years old dude. I have no reason to lie about a meaningless game and I couldn’t care less whether or not you believe me.
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@GoozeFn_PSN clearly
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Let’s see, I have just about every collection done, just 2 cards away from Jram:
Flip/Invest - Nope, not a single one
Spend money - Nope
10 win BR runs - Not even close
Get lucky with pack pulls - Relative, I’ve pulled a couple of 90+ but nothing super special. I did pull a mid-tier Mural, but that’s the only one I’ve gotten that wasn’t base.You refuse to acknowledge there’s an easier way to earn stubs without banging your head against pack luck. There’s a mode that guarantees you at least 18k stubs with the likelihood of 30k if you can play higher difficulty. In the same amount of time it takes to play a WBC MS.
You mean play DQ 50 times for Shohei. Hard pass, that mode sucks worse than mini seasons. I have over 3 hours per day since launch. I would say majority of people are having trouble with collections. Are you going to tell us you don't have a job and play 8 hours a day? How many total hours do you have?
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That, plus spamming DQ requires you to bunt cheese on goat difficulty which most people including myself simply can not do repeatedly with any success.
Regardless, it’s a miserable way to play the game and shouldn’t be necessary if every other method of making stubs wasn’t tanked this year. Coupled with the bots farming mini seasons and manipulating the market which has inflated prices and destroyed margins.
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Would the packs in mini seasons be better if cheaters weren't farming it 100k times? Not sure but it is worth a mention. Maybe if they aren't farming so many packs illegally my pulls would have been better and I wouldn't be having this discussion.
Anyone heard anything on the cheating or does SDS think it is going to go away with scare tactics? FYI - those don't work.
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No idea but I can confirm my pack luck has been awful. I’ve never been terribly lucky with packs in 7 years of DD but this year has been the worst. Skenes is my only decent live series pull and that was back in March. Since then I’ve only pulled low diamonds 85/86 and doing that repeatedly tends to ruin my desire to play this game. I’ve been lacking the same 12 diamonds for 2 months.
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I'll never understand letting the difficulty of completing the live series have such a big affect on enjoying the game or not. It's not even close to necessary to complete to have a good team unless you have visions of competing at the very top levels and even then it's not exactly necessary.
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@Pergo_MLBTS a lot of people are in this for the collecting aspect, because, well, DD is as much a card collecting mode as it is a straight game/gameplay mode. It’s why the collections are considered content.
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Bingo it’s a season long goal for a lot of us. I was able to collect every card for 21-25. Then use the best versions for theme team builds and just play.
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Having it as a season long goal makes total sense. But letting it ruin the game for you if you don't have it done in May does not make sense.
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@On_a_Power_Trip_PSN Sure but the collection is easy late in the season. Collecting it early is only about competing early. To me, it’s already irrelevant.
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I'll never understand letting the difficulty of completing the live series have such a big affect on enjoying the game or not. It's not even close to necessary to complete to have a good team unless you have visions of competing at the very top levels and even then it's not exactly necessary.
Here's the deal. Whether you're doing the LS collections or not everything is predicated on a RIDICULOUS (talking 6+ hours as I have about 3+ per day on average) amount of grinding and extreme pack luck. Every collection is the same. We'll give you 3-5 cards of the collection then you need pack luck (with rare pulls) or buy the remaining cards. I do not have a problem grinding or buying cards but I do have a problem with 15 of the 20 needing pulled by being lucky or paying for those cards in a game that stubs are hard to come by.
Sure if I pull Ohtani twice it's great. 99.9999% don't pull him once and there you see the problem. It isn't only the LS collection you can't get it is every collection every week or two. I have played a lot (ton less the last 3 weeks) and still around 850k from LS and probably 8 vouchers from 99 Miggy. Not close to Murals or Cityscapes either. Still 110 out of 142 on WBC.
It is a ridiculously unrewarding game. It will catch up to them.
