Card Game Values

[dichebach]

From here: www.reddit.com/r/StarTradersFrontiers/comments/cpc5wy/card_game_values/

Me:

It is a wonderful game. Incredibly elegant design and overall very good UI/UX. The extent of my feedback is: in some of the interfaces (the card games for example) the saient information a user should attend to in making decisions is not entirely clear. Since it is not entirely clear, I do not fully understand it, and it honestly is not worth my time and energy to study the documentation sufficiently to grasp the actual nature of the information and put myself into a position to make more substantive suggestions. Combine this with the fact: I'm not even sure what source-code language they've programmed this in, or what their plans for the future are, much less what sort of architectural constraints they face by virtue of programming their game to run on multiple platforms: there is no way I'm going to attempt to provide more substantive suggestions!



Some of the interfaces are not clear.



That is all I have to offer. If they want my help they can "pay" for it! I'm still an apprentice bordering on journeyman programmer so I'm cheap Gimme an NDA $1 per day and a handshake to give me a good recommendation. I'd love the experience!

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Thanks for the suggestion! It is on our list to add tooltips to those risk and reward values.

In short --

Card games are based on a deck of cards. Based on the Risk Factors and Reward Factors, positive and negative cards are used to create the deck. Risk and Reward Factors are also used to calculate the chance of Common, Good and Rare positive cards and Risk Factors calculate the Low, Medium and Max Risk changes. These are used to then determine which positive and negative cards are in the deck. For example, areas with higher Common Rewards will feature more +1 and +2 cards, while areas with high Max Risks will feature more -5 cards. Once the hand is shuffled and dealt, 5 cards are shown and the chance to draw any one of those five cards is 20% (random card selection). Upon completion of the hand and after the results of the final card are handled, the deck is reshuffled and 5 new cards are dealt.

The choice of a *good* location on which to play your card games is a top 3 influencer of how well you do, right next to Rumors and Talents.