(Disclaimer: Marino has outlined all of this in his blog)
Let's say I have the very best lineup money can buy. 25 RS Star Pros in my RTTC lineup. I am unbeatable. I paid so much money for my deck. (hypothetical)
RTTC comes along and the best I can do with my amazing deck is get 14 points each time I play. In order to finish I need a total of 4,326 points. That's about 76hours of game play, if you HS(+14) the entire way. There are only 80hours of RTTC game play.
Most of us already know all of these numbers. I have to assume CD did the math too, but this is the most ridiculous point total I have seen.
So RTTC is 3 nights of sleep. And you can only miss 4hours. 4hours of sleep in 3nights just to finish this phone app's event. Or spend cash on game nights.
This needs to change.
Now I agree that the last few RTTC almost everyone was finishing and getting all the good cards. So each season everyone's top 10 was the exact same. This needed to be fixed. But putting the best cards behind a paywall was NOT the way to fix it.
I don't expect you(CD) to use my suggestions as they benefit the players and not the e-wallet. But here they are none the less.
Instead of 4hours of sleep over 3days, a much more health aware number is 6hours per night, so 18. So the idea is to get rid of 14hours of game nights. And possibly raise the difficulty of the cards.
Here's what I don't understand with the philosophy of how the RTTC is laid out. When Leg was the very best tier and best cards you could get, each tier costs a certain amount. Now you raised a tier, so leg is no longer the best, and likewise SR is one tier worse than before. But your point totals didn't reflect this change in hierarchy. In my very humble opinion, every single card tier total needs to be lowered with the addition of a new top tier. If 448 was the acceptable cost to achieve the top tier, why did you all the sudden make it more than DOUBLE that amount for the final star card? Was this a temporary money grab to take advantage of a new exciting tier? That's a low blow.
With the current timelines, the total points needed to finish should be closer to 3500.
A really easy fix might be to just keep the same structure and simply add one more day to RTTC. (Maybe take one day away from RC too)
Final thoughts(for now). People have sued McDonalds for their coffee being too hot.....And won...millions of dollars. What if someone stays up 3nights in a row because that is what your event requires...and something happens to that someone. Obviously this is not directly your fault, but who doesn't know coffee is hot? Is this really a risk worth taking? You are giving us literally no other choice. And in no way do I mean this as a threat obviously, just another reason to lighten it up a bit.
/endrant
Let's say I have the very best lineup money can buy. 25 RS Star Pros in my RTTC lineup. I am unbeatable. I paid so much money for my deck. (hypothetical)
RTTC comes along and the best I can do with my amazing deck is get 14 points each time I play. In order to finish I need a total of 4,326 points. That's about 76hours of game play, if you HS(+14) the entire way. There are only 80hours of RTTC game play.
Most of us already know all of these numbers. I have to assume CD did the math too, but this is the most ridiculous point total I have seen.
So RTTC is 3 nights of sleep. And you can only miss 4hours. 4hours of sleep in 3nights just to finish this phone app's event. Or spend cash on game nights.
This needs to change.
Now I agree that the last few RTTC almost everyone was finishing and getting all the good cards. So each season everyone's top 10 was the exact same. This needed to be fixed. But putting the best cards behind a paywall was NOT the way to fix it.
I don't expect you(CD) to use my suggestions as they benefit the players and not the e-wallet. But here they are none the less.
Instead of 4hours of sleep over 3days, a much more health aware number is 6hours per night, so 18. So the idea is to get rid of 14hours of game nights. And possibly raise the difficulty of the cards.
Here's what I don't understand with the philosophy of how the RTTC is laid out. When Leg was the very best tier and best cards you could get, each tier costs a certain amount. Now you raised a tier, so leg is no longer the best, and likewise SR is one tier worse than before. But your point totals didn't reflect this change in hierarchy. In my very humble opinion, every single card tier total needs to be lowered with the addition of a new top tier. If 448 was the acceptable cost to achieve the top tier, why did you all the sudden make it more than DOUBLE that amount for the final star card? Was this a temporary money grab to take advantage of a new exciting tier? That's a low blow.
With the current timelines, the total points needed to finish should be closer to 3500.
A really easy fix might be to just keep the same structure and simply add one more day to RTTC. (Maybe take one day away from RC too)
Final thoughts(for now). People have sued McDonalds for their coffee being too hot.....And won...millions of dollars. What if someone stays up 3nights in a row because that is what your event requires...and something happens to that someone. Obviously this is not directly your fault, but who doesn't know coffee is hot? Is this really a risk worth taking? You are giving us literally no other choice. And in no way do I mean this as a threat obviously, just another reason to lighten it up a bit.
/endrant
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