[Official] The Pick Limit is now 50

[brad_nicholson]

hey guys,

just wanted to drop you a note: we're adjusting the pick limit to 50 in the next few minutes. if you're one of the couple hundred people who has more than 50 picks stored up, you won't be able to gain picks until you've spent your existing stored picks. once you get under 50, play should resume as normal.

feel free to throw any questions my way.

[vermouth]

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Any particular reasons for this change? I never really stacked picks but I'm curious why implement the restriction.

[iiitroy]

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Why exactly was this changed?

[CitronsG6]

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Noooo!!!! Please Nooo!!!! I don't not want to ruin my star reset again like I did in the last RTTC

[Brinkus]

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This stinks for those, like me, that store picks for RttC.

[brad_nicholson]

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Why exactly was this changed?

great question. there's a couple of reasons. i think, foremost, it's because pick storing is a system that can be easily exploited. we all know a guy who drops tiers in order to get easy wins and store picks before moving back up into his actual tier and using them. another big reason? it's not a supported form of a play and we want to protect folks from losing their picks as much as possible. generally speaking, the more you have the more unruly it gets.

[tkelly]

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There is prise for everything.. Great update.. People loving it, so there has to be something to balance it out. Did not see this comming:-(

[Uncle Wes]

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great question. there's a couple of reasons. i think, foremost, it's because pick storing is a system that can be easily exploited. we all know a guy who drops tiers in order to get easy wins and store picks before moving back up into his actual tier and using them. another big reason? it's not a supported form of a play and we want to protect folks from losing their picks as much as possible. generally speaking, the more you have the more unruly it gets.

Just tell the to store at their own risk. It's not your fault if somebody loses picks because they are exploiting a loophole in a game.

[wjpsplash]

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definitely an unjustified move on CatDaddy's part, looks like rttc will be subpar yet again

[richie_r1ch]

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sometimes it was just fun to draft 200 picks in a row.. ah well it was good while it lasted.

[brad_nicholson]

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Just tell the to store at their own risk. It's not your fault if somebody loses picks because they are exploiting a loophole in a game.

i can see that viewpoint, for sure. i think the key component to that, though, is the time and effort our support team spends on these kinds of issues -- even if there are quite a few elements of user error involved.

[qtdi123]

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I feel like a lot of people look forward to rttc's to store up draft picks with the thrill of being able to pick hundreds at once. Since it is so hard already to gain cards from rttc without spending, taking away the other aspect of rttc seems ridiculous. Also, as for exploiting the game, let people lose picks at their own risk.

[Superdude81]

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Noooo!!!! Please Nooo!!!! I don't not want to ruin my star reset again like I did in the last RTTC

From the sounds of things, you will still be able to store 50 picks, meaning that you can play a full 5 rounds of RTTC and have 40 picks saved, then go back into Quick Game to use your picks. Seeing that they put the limit at 50, instead of say, 15(which would allow 1 pick used to reach card limit from RTTC and then play another RTTC, get another 8 picks so 15) they may be allowing some sort of pick storing for those players who don't want to lose their max tier pity reset pull. I may be wrong but having a 50 pick limit seems like a very reasonable adjustment they are making.

[kclutch24]

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great question. there's a couple of reasons. i think, foremost, it's because pick storing is a system that can be easily exploited. we all know a guy who drops tiers in order to get easy wins and store picks before moving back up into his actual tier and using them. another big reason? it's not a supported form of a play and we want to protect folks from losing their picks as much as possible. generally speaking, the more you have the more unruly it gets.

Is the main reason because some people exploit it as you mentioned in dropping tiers?

Because if that's the case...people can still exploit it by storing 50 picks, then using it on the tier that they're in. The only difference is they can't use 200 now.

[brad_nicholson]

Re: [Official] The Pick Limit is now 50

I feel like a lot of people look forward to rttc's to store up draft picks with the thrill of being able to pick hundreds at once. Since it is so hard already to gain cards from rttc without spending, taking away the other aspect of rttc seems ridiculous. Also, as for exploiting the game, let people lose picks at their own risk.

well, let's not forget that a key component of the exploitation was moving up and down tiers.