Monster Card Booster Packs

Did you ever wish there was a use to duplicate cards that you keep getting after having collected 5 already?

What if the extra cards could be turned in to buy Monster Card Booster Packs ?

Here are the key points :

• Add a new untradeable token currency (one for each corresponding color of cards you can get).
• Increment token balance by 1 when an extra card is picked up (balance could be shown in monster book).

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• Add more Rino NPC in all main cities (including Southperry - link to thread that requested something similar in the past) and make her sell booster packs (one of each color).

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• You can only purchase booster packs with tokens of the same color as the pack.
• A pack contains 5 random cards of the same color as pack. (The cards would dropped to the floor around player when opened)
• Optionally, make it so 1 of those cards has a rare chance to be of the next color tier.
• The new feature can be balanced by carefully setting the booster pack prices.
• The boss cards would be excluded from the booster packs as those are special trophies in themselves.

It would still be faster to hunt them down individually but would give a slower alternate route for anyone to progress their collection.

It would potentially attract more players because... who doesn't like opening a booster pack !

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It would also make Monster Book Ring <Tier 1> available for Islanders. And in theory all the other tiers too but would take an astronomical amount of time to achieve since the only way to get next tier color is from 1 rare chance to get 1 next tier card per pack. It could give a reason for higher level Islanders to keep being active by wanting to hunt tirelessly for the next tier up.

Of course these are just my thoughts on the topic. All opinions are welcome

Note: Since the Monster Book thing was not in GMS v62 anyways, I figured it would be easier to tweak it without MapleLegends being called out for being non-authentic.