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Originally Posted by dkgo
Yeah, I get all that when looking specifically at the competition set up in yalls new league. And you are right that the F2P genre of game allows you to use time or money as a currency. Grind enough and you can get to where the whales are, I've done it myself.
My biggest point is looking at the game structure as a whole. I think it is a problem when a major feature of the game in collections is literally cut off from people who aren't there to refresh for bottlenecks all day.
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The bottleneck flipping should be significantly curtailed going forward in light of the L7 bug fix, although it may be an issue if there are no sales in a particular 7-day period (I'm not sure how the system handles it or whether the ongoing evolution of all-time average covers it). There is still an adjustment period after new collections come out, which would favor folks with a better intuitive understanding of real values.
At the same time, it's also important to note that bottleneck flipping wasn't the most substantial component of wealth generation. QuC's 200ish-K is probably a league outlier and I can't say how many weeks it may have shaved off; I'd trust him rather than me on that. For my own part, I think my flips have included two cards on collection days, maybe 3-4 Pollets and Slaughters, and maybe another Haddix, maybe about 50-60k total (when I was hunting down The Cat). And it's difficult to understate how much tournies have helped in generating liquidity relative to a pre-tourney PT (QuC generated about 30k+ in the beta week, I generated about 60k before the 8-mans were lowered to 200pp).
In terms of trading time for wealth, collections and tournies did a pretty good job of shortening the time horizon. And finding the right card on the right schedule is often a matter of luck; at least three of my flips had been on the AH for at least an hour, for example. Having so many different cards, and such low odds for generating any specific one, makes shortages of certain cards an inevitability.
Give me 15-20 seasons and I might get to where he got. It's the efficiency and the ability to manage liquidity as an f2p player and not get distracted by the new shiny toys like Posada -- like I frequently do -- that put QuC above the rest of us.