Unstructured notes and ideas

All numbers are subject to tweaking and balancing

Main currency: notes 🎶 (soft)
Secondary currency: gems 💎 (hard)
Tertiary currency: tbd (if $ value disassociation becomes relevant)

Rating

character independant card based quality -> upgrade/improvement mechanics

Quality:

2 bad cards = 1 ok card 3 ok cards = 1 good card 4 good cards = 1 great card 5 great cards = 1 epic card

Shiny cards can only be dropped with 0.5% chance or upgraded using a store purchased item

Single card of any character
belongs to a band/group
which could be part of their topmost genre (?)

Completed bands reward cosmetics and XP (scaled to band size)

Band levels by collecting duplicates (?) as a long term hook

Steal profile layout from Amaan with more customization

Required

Leaderboards

All time
Monthly (resets every 1st of the month to encourage conversion of non-whales) Top positions get awarded additianal XP + Gems

Each collect += 10 XP (Shiny += 100)
Each upgrade += 25 XP

Daily reward -> notes Weekly reward -> gems
Monthly reward -> Pack with 1 shiny card guaranteed (included)
Each reward tier also grants XP

could be used for a "social feed" outlining friends shiny drops and purchases (availability and social proof)

after a referred friend collects 100 cards, both get gems

[50, 100, 500, 1000, 10k] Cards collected
[100k, 500k, 1m] Notes spent total
- do not encourage saving
- players with low funds (notes) could be targeted by high item discounts with a higher chance of conversion
[100, 500, 1k] Trades completed (Limit trades per hour? Pay for trade limit reset)
[7d,1m,6m,1y] Daily streak
- ties in to the social feed to apply pressure to friends to keep up
[10,50,100] Shinies present in collection
[5k, 10k, 100k] Bad/ok/good cards in collection (each q level separately)
- Discourage converting cards to currency, purchase instead