Shuffling booster card positions when opening boosters

[KserSke]

As we all know, the positioning of booster cards in a pack indicates which cards you will get based on the rarity probability. e.g top left is always either a rare/ultra rare. 

 

For someone that finds opening boosters pretty fun, i think it would spice up the booster opening element if there was some way in the option to "Shuffle booster cards". Basically what this does is that the card positions that you get based on rarity can be moved randomly to any position. This would mean that the top left does not necessary equates to a rare/ultra rare and this position can appear in any of the other card slots in the booster. Hopefully, it will be much more fun and exciting to open as you technically don't know the cards you get. 

[Eirias]

Excellent suggestion and I've added it to QoL queue 🙂

EDIT: not a confirmation that it will actually happen, as this may not be straightforward to implement.

[Kubik]

🤔 to me personally it sound stupid to not have them in defined order, but designers seems to like to have it as an option, so here is an preview:

[LEBOVIN]

@Kubik Hehe now you have to add another GUI button somewhere 😛

[Kubik]

6 hours ago, LEBOVIN said:

@Kubik Hehe now you have to add another GUI button somewhere 😛

😛 no 😛 I made only a config option for it 😛 I am not touching that GUI 😛 you can make it yourself 😛

[KserSke]

wow that is some good stuff 🙂 

Got to make opening every single card position to have a certain level of suspense. I think i open the bottom 4 (even the top right) so quickly because you know its just some lame commons haha

 

 

[Kubik]

And merged, so it will go out with next patch for the main server, I guess UI will not be ready by then, so in config.json in section "ui", add "randomize_cards_in_booster" with value true, and be surprised when when it starts working 🙂

[Xamos]

Uh that´s nice, I think I´ll use that option! For the exitement 😄

Maybe that´s a topic where a poll could be made to ask the whole community on what should be default - random or fixed

[Kubik]

I never heard about any game having boosters random, and I think it would be stupid decision, to make it random.

[KserSke]

1 hour ago, Kubik said:

I never heard about any game having boosters random, and I think it would be stupid decision, to make it random.

Well, I think hearthstone goes by that logic. Legendaries can appear anywhere xD although you can hover on the card to have a peak on it's rarity

Unless somehow we can hover onto the battleforge cards to have a glimpse of its rarity

[Kubik]

well game knows what the cards are before you flip them, so it can be "relatively" easily implemented to show rarity in tooltip, but we lack developers in the UI area, so even if you write request for that feature and it will be accepted, it would be put quite low on priority list, so without more people, I would not expect it this year, even if it would be accepted right now.