Rising Star - Buying Individual Cards instead of Packs - Here's Why

This week I have decided to purchase individual cards instead of buying packs. The reason behind this decision is simple from my point of view.

When Purchasing a Pack

When you purchase a pack for 10,000 Starbits each, you will get three cards. One of which will be rarer or higher. It is a very high probability that it will be a Rare card and very low chance of being an Epic or a Legendary card.

Since I am trying to add more unique cards to my collection and limit the number of duplicate cards unless they have a specific purpose to move me closer to my end goal of being higher in the overall rankings, I would rather control the exact cards that I will be adding to my collection.

This Week's Starbit Earnings

This week I was able to earn 33,113 Starbits from running missions. This is a lot higher than the 27,116 Starbits I earned last week. With 30,000 I would be able to purchase three packs which would add 6 Commons and 3 Rare cards to my collections.

New Unique Cards Released

Since this is the beginning of a new month, new cards are being released which will be available in the card packs. There are also lots of prior months cards which I own several of. There are four Common People cards that are now available which I do not currently own.

Since I am working to own all of the Common People cards, these are the first cards that I will purchase since they more than likely would be in the packs I would have purchased otherwise. This will use 2,700 of the Starbits that I earned this week leaving slightly over 30,000 Starbits to purchase other cards.

Adding Rare Cards

Since I would have received three rare cards in packs from the Starbits I earned this week, I have selected these three Rare cards which are unique for my collection.

• R351 Kean Rapper
• R346 Colton
• R339 Megan

These three Rare cards costs 15,572 Starbits leaving me around 15,000 Starbits from my weekly earnings.

Adding Common People Unique Cards

There are only seven more that I need to complete having all the common people cards:

5 Skater
8 Glam Rocker
9 Dodgy Manager
12 The Ego
23 Jonny
26 Thomas
38 Stacey

I am not counting - 1 The Busker since there have never been any issued so there are not any owned to be placed on the market.

I was able to get four of the missing Common People Cards for my collection with the Starbits that I had left over.

So I was able to get the same amount of cards that I would have gotten by purchasing packs however since I purchased individual cards I did not receive any duplicated nor did I receive any instrument cards. I was able to purchase unique cards that I did not have in my collections.

Yes, by making the decision to buy individual cards I did lose the opportunity to possibly get a Epic or Legendary but I also know that even if I would have received one of those, I more than likely would have also received a duplicate card or two and some of the cards I would have gotten from the packs would have been instruments. My decision took me down a more certain path to get more of the cards that I actually needed for my collection.

Stats

These are my stats before adding the cards:
Fans - 10440 (includes 2411 Temporary Drunks)
Luck - 3048
Skill - 23523
IM - 234
Total Cards - 1184

My stats changed a little after adding the unique cards:
Fans - 10755 (+315) (includes 2411 Temporary Drunks)
Luck - 3060 (+12)
Skill - 24014 (+491)
IM - 248 (+14)
Total Cards - 1195 (+11)

My Level and Ranking

I was just barely short of adding another level so stayed at level 117 this week, 301 points shy of level 18. Still 8 more to go before the next mission opens up for me to run.

I was very surprised when I saw my ranking this week, it had jumped into the 400's. My ranking jumped 67 positions from 534 to 467 this week. The biggest increase in my stats from in the Weekly Minutes for missions run. This week I was able to run 4690 minutes of missions where last week I only had 3815. Now if I can stay in that range or improve further.

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