With a 6 free pack limit, most people miss at least 2 free packs per day. Also people work for 8 hours and if you don’t have wifi at work for your phone and are not allowed to open Neonmob on your work computer, you can open Neonmob on your phone if you have a fast phone and 40-60 MB of data to spare (unless it’s fixed already). So that’s 2 more free packs wasted if the bandwidth and the loading time isn’t worth it. An 8 hour free pack limit would be nice to prevent losing packs
Maybe a premium subscription can be created that gets you free packs double as fast and allows you to store an unlimited amount of free packs. $10 per month maybe. It may seem expensive, but compare that to buying packs equal to your free packs and nobody will buy packs anymore because this would be cheaper. Free packs are much worse than paid packs, but 720 free packs (30*24) give more chases than 10 diamond packs for $10. A much larger monthly price is too expensive for many people. A month of 1 Ruby pack per hour costs around $300 and a month of 1 Diamond pack per hour costs around $500.
We don’t need more options for paying money, it makes it much harder for children who don’t have access to that.
However, a lot of children could pay for some one time thing that makes the free pack counter go to, say, 10.
While I agree a subscription plan may be the way to go to have a storage of a certain amount of free packs (so people don’t forget to visit completely). The auto pull feature is not a great idea as people will not really care what packs/cards are pulled - and tbh - you start becoming disinterested in pulling because it does the work for you so little by little you just forget to log in and pull the packs so people will want to extend those times - say they are on vacation etc etc. While I agree I am not big on spending money I don’t have - it at least provides an option - maybe there could be levels in the amount $5 - up to 150 free packs - $10 up to 300 $20 unlimited for the month
This is also incorrect because we are across the globe so this time frame would then have to be adjusted “per person” so creates a lot more work. I feel like a storage is the best use of this.
Yes, vacation is annoying. I missed ~ 2 weeks of free packs last time. But I really don’t mind the slow progress rate.
But the subscription thing would detract from the community experience, and Vagrantscout and the rest of the team don’t want that.
I guess I am confused on how a subscription for having free pack storage would take away from community? You would still actively have to use and pull the packs and be involved in the site. But honestly it is rare I don’t use most/all of my free packs - it is the auto pulls I see taking away from community
Auto pulls - Could be done only in the night, and only like 3 of them.
Subscription - You could be gone for a week, pick up all of your free packs, and come back again in a week.
With Subscriptions, you wouldn’t. Of course with your
it would detract. However a small, but permanent (Say, 8 free packs max) subscription would not detract. Besides, why does it need to be a subscription? Too many transactions, and I don’t like constantly paying for this one thing when I could get it forever.
Wow this is the most active thread I have ever been involved with
I feel like this is a great suggestion on it’s own. I’m as free as a free player gets, but I LOVE it when a FTP application or game offers a really great deal, especially considering the pricing of some things… ( On fortnite, most of the skins run you 15 or 20 dollars per skin. Just 7 years ago the average amount of skins you could get as DLC for your games on PSN usually costed only like, 2 bucks.)
so increasing your free pack limit permanently for a one time paid offer for maybe about 10 bucks. I’d push Neonmob on all my family members until I couldn’t breathe. Or them. whoever falls first.
The best part about it is NM could do a percentage of all subs (5 cents on the dollar for example) to go to the creators or something. Imagine that. a little cream on the top maybe?
Those were separate as in, pay like 10 bucks to incease max pack capacity ( and vvhatever else NM prime could include) and a small percentage of total earnings could go to to th creators, since they make all the cool stuff for us and all
I must admit, the more I think about it, the more I dislike such an option. Shouldn’t packs be open actively instead of automagically during your sleep?
I could imagine a monthly membership fee, which gives you 24 free packs a day (or the free packs during your sleep time), but then again… it were no “free” packs anymore… (also, what about the one who works at night and sleep at day?!)
I rather would love to see better search options, more sophisticated when it comes to possible trades. Would pay a membership for that!
Honestly, auto opening just sounds lazy and entitled to me. It would also take away from the community interactions with the trading aspect. Because with more packs being open then people usually get around to, let alone with no actual effort put into it, that can mean people could leave for a few days, come back and find they finish a set without lifting a finger! This also detracts from Neonmob and the creators, as even more free packs are being opened then bothered to being bought.
mckayrulez, have you read the thread? As pagodapanda said it must be very restricted — only a few auto opening packs for a few or even single day.
Now, if you really want to finish all your serieses, you can simultaneously collect [by opening free packs and trading] no more than 6-7 series. Of course, you can open only one-two packs per series but then increases a risk of getting unfinished series that out of print. This feature allows you to collect one-two additional series. And if you want to finish them quickly and start next series you have to trade to get missing cards.
My example was extreme but that was the point of what could happen. I know people say it would be ‘limited and restricted’ but it still doesn’t diminish my concerns on that specific point.
As for what pagodapanda stated about allowing people to increase max capacity, I didn’t say anything on it because I’m fine with that.
Edit: Also really, it seems like we get 6-5 months for collecting a series. If your major concern is left with unfinished sets I don’t know what to tell you if half a year isn’t good enough. Well unless it’s the sets with 100 plus cards but those aren’t the norm. lol
The risk of not finish a set you like is minimal, with 3 packs you can do a small set (13 cards/2 chases) in a couple of weeks. The longer it took to finish was Robowars, 4 and a half months for a set with 26 chases. And there’s plenty of dupes in current sets, infinite cards made harder to find compatible traders, since most need very few cards to finish after a while. Also, you can use points, and you know, buy packs.
I know this because I used to do a post each month for series about to be out of print, but after a while the activity is that tread declined because a big chunk of people interested (and active here) already finish, or can cross trade easily. There’s no pressure.
You have years to collect some series. But what about season series? Or For a Season (Phase I) with 10 chase cards that available only one and a half month? (10 chases * 1 chase per 20 packs / 3 free packs for a series per day = 66,(6) days, hence it impossible to collect all chases without trading). And even if you will spent your point to open additional pack you still need 50 days. And it if you start collect from the first day and every day.
Exactly! If people want a series it’s not that bad right now. It’s been a while so I can’t remember with 100 percent certainty but didn’t it used to be just 6 packs a day before they changed it to the timer? Which gave us a lot more cards, now there’s a point system to get even more and now people want even more cards when they sleep. It’s crazy. That’s why my example was extreme because more and more changes keep being made that keep adding more and more cards. It’s just a slippery slope.
I assume (I not so long here and don’t have the statistic to prove the assumption) that community of the site increases = increases the number of series = you need more packs to collect all interesting series.
More free packs and collectors doesn’t necessarily mean more interesting series will be put up.
Look, we can have both have our opinions. There’s probably no downside to people who just collect packs on neonmob, so of course they’d love more options. I mean I don’t pay for packs either because there’s no point to do so. Which is my whole point against even more free packs. It’s very easy to collect now. I’m very grateful for those few that still do though pay. They’re amazing. That’s why I’m fine with peoples membership ideas and paying for max pack size.
I hope this doesn’t come off as off topic because this is why I view queueing as a bad option. All I can say is I’m coming from the mindset of someone who used to be (and wishes I still was lol) a neonmob series creator, so I’m worried for the amazing and talented artists that still are. I can’t give you other peoples statistics but I’ll give you mine. People collected 87,276 free packs of my series and that was before this point pack option. 308 where bought, (and 139 of those packs sold came from 1 series having 125 cards. So if that series didn’t have so many cards that probably wouldn’t have happened.) Now I wonder how much lower that has become for others now that collecting is so much easier and people want it to be even more easier that they don’t even have to collect it themselves.
Sure, there’s probably plenty of artists that will continue to put up series even if they don’t get paid, but not all. Think of the lack of incentive now, let alone the grueling voting process to even get picked to make a series. I know I keep trying to get more series to go through but guess I just don’t get enough votes or 6 series was enough and they’d like new talent.
Anyway, that’s my two cents, but again I completely understand why other’s would want more cards, I just want to be considerate of our card artists.
A much larger monthly price is too expensive for many people. A month of 1 Ruby pack per hour costs around $300 and a month of 1 Diamond pack per hour costs around $500.
but again I completely understand why other’s would want more cards, I just want to be considerate of our card artists. 