Posted: 07 November 2007 at 8:47am | IP Logged

werewolflht65 wrote: Not you Mog. There are others that complain about the promos being too tough. I keep telling people to shoot me a Snail Mail address and I'll put together a CARE package. That means FREE people! But no, do I ever see an addy? Of course not, because it's easier to bitch and moan then it is to type out an address.

its funny Ive offered several people free cards and one wouldnt answer my queations to figure out what they needed

Posted: 07 November 2007 at 8:55am | IP Logged

-On the subject of "free cards", as i have been the lucky recipient of some most-gracious and welcoming players, i have a unique perspective versus most of you old-timers. That perspective, mostly, is that care packages are a nice way to introduce new gamers to a game, but it gets more complex when you start asking specific questions about what cards are needed.

Example: I'm the type of guy that doesn't normally beg, plead, or demand anything. I've been lucky enough most of my life to not develop too much of a greedy streak. If someone wants to send me some cards to help out my collection, great. That's a nice thing to do and i appreciate it. But when you ask for specific needs, i'm probably not going to give you much to go on. At that point, it feels too much like i am "ordering" cards, and i feel bad if i don't pay for stuff i order.

So, if you have 90 extras of one card lying around that you don't want or can't sell, i'm happy to take them off your hands. If i end up with extras that i don't need, i'm sure i can find folks that may be just interested enough to use some of those extras to build their own decks. But don't push the specific card issue. I feel dirty in the morning if you do.....Lobo, giving thanks to the GE community as a whole for their welcoming attitude

Posted: 07 November 2007 at 9:22am | IP Logged

I gotta disagree when I offer somebody free cards Im doing it w/ a community spirit but I also dont want it to go to waste,I need to know which race you are playing so I can send tufer and not POT.I need to know that you hate crew or love equipment,or that you got plenty of Persona but no time Gates.I love ALL my cards but want them to find good homes.

Posted: 07 November 2007 at 9:38am | IP Logged

-Ah, well then i offer an alternative. Let us say you have multiples of everything in the game. And let us further say you want to spread the wealth and try getting other players that may not have some of these cards a fun little holiday gift package. As a new player, it may feel less like begging if someone said:

" i'll send you a good heap of cards for use with the following empire(s), which one(s) would you be interested in? Or if you just need terrain/equipment/etc which of those categories are you interested in?"

Then just give a list of available packages. I did this with L5R and the Decipher Trek game and it worked pretty well with new players. Magic less so because by the time i had enough cards to offer freebies everyone had more than me anyway!

You don't have to, certainly, but i know for me *personally* i am more inclined to pick from that list than to command that you give me certain cards. It also further reassures me that you are not in any way giving up cards out of your personal collection that you have earmarked for personal use.

Again, this is all just personal preference anyway, so please don't feel as though i am saying that one way is right or wrong. It's just that i have a difficult time saying "Gimmee all yer dragons".....Lobo, who will actually take all yer dragons if the spirit moves you

Posted: 09 November 2007 at 3:01am | IP Logged

free.  I wonder where I went wrong.