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.

 

Of course none of us want it to be possible to cheese your way to better rings. The main goal here is to give value to otherwise worthless extra card drops.

The suggestion as it is now offers 2 ways of balancing this:

• Setting a higher token price for packs
• Setting a lower % chance to get 1 rare card from the next tier

After reading everyone's replies, a few more ways to balance came to mind.

Facts about cards

Red - 13
Orange - 58
Lime - 91
Green - 75
Cyan - 53
Blue - 34
Purple - 36
Black - 32
Yellow - 58

Total available : 450
Total needed for tier 10 ring : 300

So the earliest possible point to get each ring if all cards are collected is as follow :

Red - tier 0
Orange - tier 1,2
Lime - tier 3,4,5
Green - tier 6,7
Cyan - tier 8,9
Blue+ - tier 10

These facts outline how necessary it is to polish this idea for it to become a good one.

Proposed solution

• Exclude Yellow, Black from being available in booster packs
• Have Purple cards only available as a rare in Blue booster packs.
  
• Include all Red and Orange cards all the time
• Include random (or hand picked by staff) 10 cards from each Lime, Green, Cyan, Blue, Purple sets as limited edition cards (total of 50)
• Replace the cards available as limited edition after a certain period of time. (Every month? Every Season? Every Event updates?)

At any given point in time there will always only be 121 different monster cards available in booster packs making it almost impossible for one to cheese his way to a tier 10 ring while retaining the positive aspects of the suggestion.

As mentioned by Nightz earlier Rino is not yet available for Islanders. However if this suggestion gets implemented Islanders will eventually be able to get rare orange cards from red packs and eventually have 30+ sets completed. At this point in time, having Rino in Southperry will be necessary. It would even be possible, although extremely lengthy process, to obtain orange tokens when rare orange card drops start becoming duplicates themselves. Then buying orange packs could become possible and the process repeated for other available colors.

Thanks to all of you for the contribution you are bringing to this topic. Keep ideas coming

Edit: I thought of another way to limit the value of farming a lot of tokens on certain maps.

• Define a cap value for maximum amount of tokens that can be accumulated before having to be used.