Trading Suggestions
Thank you for the messages about improving the trading system, and for the gifted trading tokens.
I have some suggestions for the mechanic of offering and finding trades:
- In the My Cards tab we can mark cards as being 'available' or 'wanted', similar to the way we can currently mark them as 'favourite' or 'wishlist'.
- Then when we go to Trading tab, there a Matches button, which shows us a list of matches with other players who have a mirrored 'wanted' and 'available' of the same rarity. We can then click 'propose trade' to send the trade offer.
- When we view our friends' profiles, we can see their 'wanted' and 'available' cards.
'Wishlist' could actually do the job of 'wanted', provided we were able to add cards that we already have a copy of to the wishlist (for when we are trying to get two copies of a card for use in a deck). In fact, it would be helpful to have that change to 'wishlist' anyway, so we can see when a double that we want is in a wonderpick.
And some comments and suggestions about the cost of trading:
I was initially very disappointed with the trading system, but the gifted coins have shown me that it could be fun if the cost wasn't so high. Burning cards to obtain trade tokens feels like it's against the spirit of the game. It also sets up the impossible situation that you have to burn all the cards that you would be able to offer for trade. I would prefer there to be no trade tokens (trade is already limited by the hourglasses), but if they're required, here are a few suggestions for alternative mechanics for obtaining them:
- five free trade tokens with the shop gift each day
- five trade tokens as well as five pack points each time you open a pack
- trade tokens as additional rewards for the activities for which we currently get shinedust
- trade tokens exchangeable for shinedust
- trade tokens exchangeable for shop tickets
- trade tokens for posting community content like binders
Thank you for listening, and thanks for you work on the game, which has overall been an excellent experience.