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:

1: bad
2: ok
3: good
4: great
5: epic
6: shiny

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

Entity relations and stuff

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

Profile

Steal profile layout from Amaan with more customization

Other

Bug bounty: offer rewards for reporting. Maybe % of a users wealth to

Required

detailed card history
Drop simulator (mass simulate drops to evaluate rates)

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

Optional

Friends list

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

Stage 2 features

Marketplace

put up card/trade offers each offer has a 🎶 fee, setting the anchor for subsequent promotion fees (💎) each offer should timeout, making the marketplace part of the habit loop

Custom cards

Introduce custom cards as a high tier reward.
Mark as custom, dont't allow trading. Don't allow replicating existing cards?
How do we handle new packs colliding with existinc custom cards?

Convert custom card into official shiny card
Make custom cards very distinct

archievements as profile badges

[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 for a higher chance of conversion
[100, 500, 1k] Private Trades completed (Limit trades per hour? Pay for trade limit reset, higher fees than Marketplace)
[100, 500, 1k] Public Trades (Marketplace) completed
[7d,1m,6m,1y] Daily streak
- ties in to the social feed to apply pressure 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

Stage 3 features

referral system

after a referred friend collects 100 cards, both get gems
this moved to stage 3 or later to counter stagnation of user aquisition

Spotify and/or LastFM linking

Depending on the discord presence availability we could use presence updates
or use the Spotify API directly.
Considering the instability of both the Spotify and LastFM APIs, we might need an alternative

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