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Suggestions for quality of life updates

Hi PTCGP dev team,

Thank you so far for your time and effort into developing this game. It's great that it can be either a casual game or more competitive, and anything inbetween depending on the type of player you are.

I started playing on day 1 and have a few suggestions:

  1. In the shop it would be great to be able to mass select how many items we're buying
    1. E.g. when I buy the hourglasses with shop tickets I would like to be able to select how many (for example all 10 lots at once), instead having to click and buy each lot of hourglasses 10 times.
    2. This reduces how many 'clicks' we have to do to buy items.
  2. When a pack is ready and we load into the game - it'd be nice to have the booster pack that pops up upon opening the app to be an optional screen (something we can turn off in settings).
    1. Sometimes I either want to save my pack until later in the day and having less clicks is just nicer overall for the game.
    2. Making it an optional part in the settings would allow casual players to still see the screen and open packs quickly, but lets other players choose when to open their packs without being pushed to.
  3. For ranked (and to some extent casual) - penalties for players that waste time/disconnect on purpose should be considered.
    1. Maybe for the first one to two games, disconnect/time wasting it can be ignored but if there's a pattern of disconnecting/idling within the past x games (e.g. 5 games they've lost they've disconnected/idled 3+ times) then enforcing a penalty like no ranked for an hour (and the penalty can increase if they keep doing so).
  4. Ranked rewards are nice, but the inclusion of wonder hourglasses will be appreciated.
    1. Maybe not rewarded as the same amount as pack hourglasses, but potentially 10 per poke ball rank?
      1. E.g. Beginner gets 10, Poke Ball gets 20, Great Ball gets 30, Ultra Ball gets 40, and Master Ball gets 50.
  5. More solo battles!
    1. Potentially inbetween a set release, release a mini solo battle based on the top meta deck/s at the time. It doesn't have to be many, maybe just 1-2 solo battle decks so free to play players have more chances of getting items (shop tickets, hourglasses, exp, etc.).
    2. Obviously don't want to overwhelm players with too many solo battles, but when there's no battle events and it's 3+ weeks after a new set has released, there isn't as much to do (other than ranked now).
  6. Moving deck order - would be nice to be able to move decks around (i.e. we create a new deck and moving it to first place would make it easier to access/select).
  7. Stop changing the energies in a deck when it's been updated (or make it an optional setting at least so the kids won't have a mismatching energy deck).
  8. Potential to include a "No-EX" category to ranked or even in casual play?
  9. [Probably something to add in the future] New "Boss" gamemode?
    1. Play with 2-4 other players to battle a "Boss" pokemon, with higher stats.
    2. Ability to play with friends (a lobby) or with other trainers.
    3. To promote playing the new gamemode, allow for rewards such as:
      1. Points contributed to ranked (maybe half the amount of points that winning a ranked battle would give);
      2. Providing pack or wonder hourglasses (maybe capping this to 1 a day);
      3. Providing shop tickets (capping this to maybe 2 a day and making it separate to the 5 we get from thanks).

I know this is a lot but hope this feedback helps!

Comments

  • Mod_Bee
    Mod_Bee Moderator Posts: 773 mod
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    Hi there, @Asean08, thank you for taking the time to share your input with us. We'll be sure to pass this along for review.

  • SuperDeep76
    SuperDeep76 Member Posts: 1
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    @Asean08 - Agree with you on everything.

    @Mod_Bee - Can I please add to this list? Can we make pack selection static? Right now when you click to open a pack, the latest pack are set as default. But for someone like me who started playing the game late, I want to open older ones first. And to do that I have to click 3 times: 1) click to open pack, 2) change set, 3) select which set... Then open. Doing this twice a day is a lot. Thank you!

  • Mod_Bee
    Mod_Bee Moderator Posts: 773 mod
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    Hey there, @SuperDeep76! Absolutely, I've passed this along to our team as well. Thanks for your input!