[I]FIRST[/I] Trading Card Co.

[Joseph Lewis]

Thank you to everyone's suggestions and feedback so far. As I reread the OP I began to realize that I never quite explained how the game would work (retail / marketing wise).

The game would be designed to be played on an App on any Android, Apple, or Windows device with internet connection (against other players) or not (against a computer opponent).

The volta system is still in the works, as it is, I know, very clunky and confusing right now. I am considering the idea of the deck building game...

The idea of linking scouting and the data on the cards was meant as a way to encourage teams to scout with the same system, so that the information would be pooled together. Perhaps I was vague. As you scout more on the system, your account in the Trading Card Game would gain points if your data fell within the standard deviations of data collected for that same match. Other teams at the event would look at data collected at that event and decide if it really was accurate or not. The more accurate you are to the actual score of a robot (all our scouting data is based on individual robot performance) the more points you would receive (based on the avg from the data collected). You would then spend those points to purchase card packs that contained random cards. The general community (not of FIRST) would spend $0.99 per card pack (having started with basic deck for free), and the money would raised would go towards funding FIRST Teams. Those who don't participate in the scouting could also purchase cards this way.

The idea of limiting the players from simply playing the same best cards over and over was residing in the voltas. If the really good robots (254, 1114, 2056, 67, etc.) all cost say 10 voltas, then they couldn't enter play until much later in the game, and certainly not all in the same round. The idea is to make a deck that includes the lower performing robots in order to be able to play in the earlier rounds.

I love the idea of adding FTC and FLL into the game. Perhaps something lies in the strategy cards? Adding FTC and FLL teams in as strategy cards could hold some promise. I'll look more into working them into the game. Maybe you could even play FTC and FLL team robots onto the field as robot cards? (beyond the 3 FRC ones). I will definitely find a way to work that in. I want the game to appeal to the entire FIRST Community, which includes FTC and FLL.