Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-4447919-20130917200746/@comment-10667507-20130918063159

I think that trading isn't a bad thing at all. I've been playing Blood brothers for a while and as long as you are smart enough to not trade down a level unless you REALLY REALLY want a card, it's all fine. I'd love to trade for an Omega Supreme. If I get an extra ME'd Thundercracker that they'd like to trade for it, why would it matter. TC is better than Omega Supreme is now, but just to say that I have the Omega Supreme in my cyberdex would be great. The one caveat that they have in Blood brothers is that episode cards cannot be traded until after the episode ends which makes things fair. You won't get that 10x power boost from grimlock, but you can at least complete him later. You can always put something crazy on it too like trading the newest Optimus Prime for 1000 BC's. If someone is willing to accept your offer, then you both have to accept it. People can put up their R2's and R3's and ask for an R4 or R5, but you have to accept, and then confirm the trade just to make sure you want to do it. So they do have some safety precautions. I'm not going to go for one of those trades, but if a newbie came in and needed an R3 Grimlock ALT and offered an R3 skywarp Bot, I'd help them out with the trade so they can improve their deck because it's something that I'll never miss having. You can search by name or level to find the character that you want. You can put up terms like MTM'd Ironhide for Thundercracker evo level 1 x4, or MTM Bumblebee for Snarl Evo Level 2, or Megatron Alt Maxed for Grimlock Bot plus 10 BC's and 10 Transmetals and 10 Energon recharges. If you're ok with what you're asking, then it's ok. I've traded down for other cards too. A T3 reward from 2 or 3 events ago would be an easy trade to a newbie for a Skywarp ME'd since I didn't try to get one. I'd get rid of a card that will never make my deck and will probably make someone else's deck a lot better real fast and get something to complete my cyberdex that I never tried for. There would be a lot of good in trading for us. Now, we just need to convince Mobage that it's in their favor to start doing it. We need to let them know that it won't hurt profits because it's already being done in their other games without causing profit losses. Blood Brothers just got 100,000 likes and 1 million downloads, so it's already proven to be ok for business.

Now, the other thought that I had to make things better for everyone would be a once per event Wild card Bot and Wild card Alt cards that could be purchased for 2000 mobicoins each. They would be level 5 characters with no stats so it couldn't be used in the event very well. They would need to be leveled up to get the MTM stats, and they would match any one card that you have (doesn't have to be an episode card) of the other form. So, if you have an Alt Grimlock, the bot one would be needed to complete it. This would make a lot of people happy to complete other cards from past events that they would like to complete too. 2000 mobicoins isn't too much to ask since people pay for space bridges totaling 3150 for one loop and even more in the past. Level 5 means that It matches anything you have and requires a decent amount of medals opened or transmetals to max it out. If you don't use it during the event (or up to 24 hours after the event), it gets changed to a random R4 Elite card which would hinder saving it for a future event. That's a pretty well rounded and fair concept that would stop a lot of frustration. It would still increase their profits, increase our decks' potentials, and keep the power creep going up like they like to see (but we don't like to see). I think that it would work out MORE in our favor though in the end because the guy that wanted one MTM Grimlock this event in another thread got 8 Robots and 0 Alts. If he could have bought the other one, he wouldn't have spent as much money on getting the other one which would level things out in the us vs them problem. There will probably be more paying members if they did this, but their amount from each player will probably go down a bit for an episode from some of the higher spenders and then go back up.