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Originally Posted by DotDash
This doesn't just impact 'speculators', so even if that was the intended purpose the mark was missed completely. Players that try to prepare for upcoming missions without the specific intent to make a killing on the AH were left to dry. F2P players like me, for whom pack opening is the main focus in an otherwise (IMHO) stagnant game, idem.
I've opened 8400 packs on one team, and currently have 283 silver cards which still aren't used in any missions, yet many of the silvers required for the latest mission set were double or even triple dip cards, as mentioned. This is especially lame if you've actually completed the missions that some of these cards were previously required for, but using different cards. You get to pay the inflated price, without working towards completion of multiple missions at once. Paying 13K for a Rockies silver card was nice.
Especially egregious is the Mets TM2 mission (maybe others as well that I lucked into completing more easily.) In order to complete it, you must obtain either: Ed Charles 92 (already used in Goldschmidt BAL), Todd Hundley 91 (already used in Lucroy BAL AND an All-Star card), or spring for the 'Perfect' (but unusable at higher levels) Carlos Beltran card.
So if you completed those earlier missions using different Diamonds? Have fun paying 100K for a card which you only need for this one mission.
There are Diamond Mets cards which aren't used in any missions yet (I can see Sid Fernandez and Bob Ojeda on the AH), and probably some others that were used in earlier missions. Restricting the mission requirements this way seems very arbitrary and only benefits players who had the fortune of completing earlier missions with these exact cards. Like to speculate / plan ahead / open packs? Tough luck.
Sorry to once again sound down on this game, but I'm also currently on a 24 (!) straight live Diamond cards streak from packs, which is setting off my 'this is bull-crap' alarms. Some balance and variety (and usable cards!) from this mission set would have been a most welcome distraction, but alas...
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I made the mistake of selling off several team mission cards after #1 to fund finishing the rest of them, only to see many of them used again. I don't think I've opened quite as many packs as you but definitely in the thousands and this is my current count of non used historical silver+ cards:
Perfect - 7
Diamond - 6
Gold - 15
Silver - 168
I probably sold 10-20 historical diamonds, 20-30 historical golds and many high priced silvers used in BALs and TM#1 to finish off all the mission content. Part of me regrets it but I did enjoy seeing an empty mission screen until Thursday (still have 4 teams to go to finish that one off).
I'll also add that the cards are all useless outside of missions, maybe if you want to wait 14 hours for gold or silver tournaments to go instead of grinding bronze like everyone else? Please for my sanity add Ice Box Chamberlain to a mission who've I've been sitting on since week 1 and is maybe the most unplayable perfect in the game.
There just was no reason to reuse silver cards with so many available to pick from. Ron LeFlore some random 81 gold is used in 4 missions. I have 40 other historical cards that are used in 3. The only explanation is they just don't look at this when making new missions, or we have a massive amount of missions dropping after TM#2.