Random pulls are how boosters are as they should be.

I think at some point we should allow the Huge sets back in to the mix. So many great figures in those sets we are missing out on.

I love that. Really love it. It could make for a very unfortunate situation where the people with the best opening packs maintain their advantage the whole time by only buying the best packs, but that could easily be solved by pro-rating costs to record or just denying certain packs until you lose a game. Or careful costing.

It also lets you do stuff like, grab 5 AE boosters and open them all hoping to get one of the handful of decent pieces versus getting one IE and a JA and knowing that there is lots of good stuff that might come up. Plus it lets you reflect the fact that not all sets previous to Legacy are equal, nor are all sets after.

Yeah, love the idea, would be more than happy to help figure out what the prices should be.

Adding Huges and a Credit system are both very intriguing ideas - thank you for submitting them! Feel free to discuss the ideas further, and I'll put them on the docket for consideration going into the next season. Very cool! =)

You wouldn't have to set prices arbitrarily. You could set up a market so the prices are self-correcting. That's be quite a bit more work, though.


Example:

After everyone chooses their starting boosters, the starting price could be the number of boosters chosen for that set, plus one (so that no booster costs zero). So if there were eight people and 16 total boosters selected, maybe the initial costs would be 1 for Rebel Storm (since no one selected it), and 10 for Dark Times (since a total of 9 Dark Times boosters were selected).

Every time a booster is purchased, the cost for that set goes up by one. Periodically (either every X days, after every X boosters are purchased, or based on some random criteria), all of the prices would fall by one at the same time. The price-drops would be to keep prices in the same neighborhood rather than constantly moving up.

Whatever set is most popular will be most expensive, while the less popular sets will become very cheap, allowing people to possibly buy multiple boosters from that set. For instance, in the above example you could buy 4 Rebel Storm boosters (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10) or you could buy one Dark Times booster.

Definitely - it's not something to try to implement in the middle of the season.

Actually, Legacy and everything newer goes to a Loser of a match, and everything before goes to the Winner. So if we offered Hues under the current alignment, only Winners would get Huge sets. Obviously we have to rectify that.

Perhaps if a player goes 1-3 or 0-4 for a month, they are offered a choice between a huge booster or what they would normally get for the following week.

I think Force Unleashed would be on the Legacy side of the Power level only available after losing a match. CotF, BH and A&E were designed together. TFU, Legacy and KotOR were designed together.

I like the credit system, but agree it might be best implemented from the beginning in another league.
Dean's original logic for excluding the Huge sets from the format was to avoid a power imbalance in the early matches because of the possibility of being able to pull 2 VRs/Rs in a single Huge booster. After a few rounds it really doesn't seem to matter that much though.

That's really clever. I salute you! It is more work to keep track of, but if you only update the prices once per week, it should be OK.