Duplicate Protection in Packs ever discussed?

[Hoover36]

Has there ever been a discussion on implementing duplicate protection from cards in packs before?

I am not suggesting a change to the odds of pulling the various tiers of players. Only that you wouldn’t see a duplicate player from each tier until you had all of them.

It would certainly entice me to buy more packs this way.

[dkgo]

You can't do that because cards in the same tier can have wildly different values. This isn't hearthstone where every legendary is worth the same amount of crafting resource. People would hold the crappy diamonds/perfect to ensure they only pull the high value ones.

[QuantaCondor]

Also logistically this would be a huge drain on the servers, and definitely slow down the rate at which you could open packs. Imagine on new content drops, the servers having to cross reference every single packed card against the entire collection of the user that opened it. This isn't hearthstone where the devs have massive server budgets and also expansions which help constrain the dupe protection search, No thanks.

[Kushiel]

I was an avid baseball card collector from the 50's until 1989. I have my collection of approximately 200,000 cards but it has not changed in years. Duplicates and commons are part of collecting. We used to put them in our bicycle spokes but you can't do that here.

[mcdog512]

Originally Posted by Kushiel

I was an avid baseball card collector from the 50's until 1989. I have my collection of approximately 200,000 cards but it has not changed in years. Duplicates and commons are part of collecting. We used to put them in our bicycle spokes but you can't do that here.

I think we talked in the past about collecting. I have cards from 1888 to present but most from 1989 and earlier. I gave earlier this year an old friend who is a baseball fanatic living on a farm that I hadn't seen for many years all my duplicates, maybe 1000-2000 cards. He's in his 60's and he and his brother had a great time. There was a 1958 Gil Hodges in there!!!!! he eamiled me. They had a great time......I was so happy I didn't trade them in for peanuts at a card shop.


Sorry, I digress, as other have said, the technical barriers would be huge.

[Will_L]

Originally Posted by Kushiel

We used to put them in our bicycle spokes but you can't do that here.

Can't do that here yet...
OOTP 22 will have a 3D bicycle with placement slots for cards on the spokes. Then you'll be able to complete in bike races based on the tier of your cards or caps on total value winning packs based on your placement at the finish line.
This subgame will also allow you to set specifications for the neighborhoods in which you'll race.

[rudel.dietrich]

Originally Posted by Kushiel

I was an avid baseball card collector from the 50's until 1989. I have my collection of approximately 200,000 cards but it has not changed in years. Duplicates and commons are part of collecting. We used to put them in our bicycle spokes but you can't do that here.

I have to ask, how in the hell do you even begin to store 200,000 cards?

[mcdog512]

Originally Posted by rudel.dietrich

I have to ask, how in the hell do you even begin to store 200,000 cards?

Yea, I have about 40k including complete sets from 1968-1989, 1953, 1959,1965.

200k is amazing!

[Kushiel]

Originally Posted by rudel.dietrich

I have to ask, how in the hell do you even begin to store 200,000 cards?

I have a a bedroom converted to my card storage room. All the commons are in 5000 ct. card storage boxes stacked to the ceiling. I have a large bookshelf with card notebooks for cards that I like to look at. There is a small safe with the very valuable ones in hard cases. as I said I was an avid collector for over 40 years before greed ruined cards.

[tbonetim]

Originally Posted by Kushiel

I was an avid baseball card collector from the 50's until 1989. I have my collection of approximately 200,000 cards but it has not changed in years. Duplicates and commons are part of collecting. We used to put them in our bicycle spokes but you can't do that here.

Kevin Costner: "Is this heaven?

No, it's Kushiel's home.



That is too awesome.

[BMW]

I'm like a yannigan at about 100K cards! I went to a flea market last year and I saw a guy selling about 10K worth of commons from the 1990s-2000s for about 30$.

I loved going through all the card sets I had never seen before, looking at all the rookie prospects that never made it. To me that's where the joy of cards is.

This month, I went on a kick that I always wanted to do since I was a kid, I bought about $100+ dollars worth of old minor league sets. I have some 40+ that came in. Including 1979 and 1980 Tidewater Tides sets.