Noahs Second Country wrote:Benevolent 1 wrote:Is there a way to mitigate the damage done by the the players which have overly abused TCALS? I mean, can these duplicate cards taken by the worst offenders be removed and placed back into the guf for redistribution? In doing so, it may dis-incentivize the next selfish manifestation from players prone to such behaviours.
I don't think you can punish players for utilizing game mechanics(accessible to everyone) to improve their deck. Plus, enforcement of this would likely be completely arbitrary, not to mention the more widespread market impacts of simply going in and deleting cards.
Most people would not consider the original April Fool's game to be particularly balanced, and there were lots of ways to manipulate the system to get a leg up on other players. There are still players who haven't really touched cards since April Fool's sitting in the top 100.
Should we punish them for playing during a time where card spawning was significantly buffed? Retroactively going in and punishing players for what effectively is/was just a valid strategy doesn't make any sense to me.
Truthfully these skills aren't all that are needed but also a willingness to violate the game's boundaries and possibly even a wish to attract undue attention.
I guess there was some polling on this subject which I didn't see or participate. Back in April '18 most of us thought of NS Cards as a temporary game for April Fools Day. Some of those inactives in the top 100 possibly weren't wishing for the Aprils Fool Day card game to be anymore than that. Maybe that's why they're inactive?
A very few players would stand to lose what many others players played hard to gain but were denied even though the intent of the game creator was for them to not be denied. Now it would seem unlikely to happen, but rightfully it would be a positive correction. Punishment is the wrong word here. Unless you would also consider that by employing these TCALS tactics of depriving the "good" cards to most of the other players as punishing them. That would imply malice towards the other players and I just don't feel that is at the bottom of it. I see it more as a correction of errors which should be righted. Potential corrections would incentivise card game players to strategize realizing the goodwill of gamesmanship is of some value versus the sole benefit of self interest. Correction creates a positive feedback loop.