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Guide for Farming Cards on the DS 14 Jul 2011 13:21 #5880

I thought I would post some humble suggestions to help those with the DS farm cards more easily.
While the DS is not nearly so easy to farm for specific cards for as the 360 version of the game (the DS also makes farming a much slower process than on Saga) it is possible to set your DS game up so that it plays itself for cards. To do this I would recommend setting up a versus match (third option on the main menu) with the following conditions:

Map: Windmill (or the map with the highest card prize that you've been able to unlock)
TG goal: lowest possible for the given map (on Windmill it's 8000 TG)
Round Limit: lowest possible for the given map (on Windmill it's 40R)
Time limit (the 4th line down): 10secs
Taunts (5th line down): OFF
(Thanks to lVlad lVlaxx for this time saving suggestion)
Sudden Death (7th line down): OFF
Land Level (bottom line): LV2

-then pick 3 other AI cepters to play the match as well. Try to pick 2 that use similar colour books as the one you plan to use, and a 3rd that uses an off colour deck.

-Set teams as follows: you and the two cepters with similar coloured decks on one team, the cepter with the off-colour deck on the second 'team' playing by himself. (you should be ganging up against the off-colour cepter 3-1).

(as an example, I tend to use a red deck myself and pick the cepter with the eyes on his palms (Horowitz) and the cepter that looks a bit like a baboon or something (Kou-Tetsu) to be on my team and set Goligan as the sole player of the second team (using their default decks) and begin the match from there. -Remember it is not *necessary* to use a red deck to farm I am only using it as an example. the important thing to remember is to try lining up your teams' colours as best you can to increase the AI's likelihood of making chains).

-Now start the match, sit back and watch the game play itself for you. (with the turns set to 10s and the other 2 cepters laying creatures down, the game does not need any attention from you from this point on).

-check your DS in 20-40 minutes to see if the match is over. Once it is over, collect your cards (98% of the time you'll have won despite letting the AI play for you)

-rinse and repeat.


this method is a little slower than if you played the match yourself, however it does free you up from playing monotonous games against the computer to farm cards and allows you to just keep your DS doing the work for you pretty much indefinitely (I have been able to go from less than 500 total cards in my collection to 4,000+ in just a couple of weeks' time using this method).
I hope my small contribution helps some of you fellow ceptors trying to collect all the cards on the DS version. If there are any questions/suggestions for improvement please feel free to ask. good farming!

"Mercy is the mark of a great man!" *stabs a little* "Guess I'm just a good man" *stabs again* "well... I'm alright." -Malcom Reynolds in a duel; Firefly.
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Guide for Farming Cards on the DS 14 Jul 2011 13:29 #5881

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Great idea!! I'm glad you posted it after we discussed this in the #culdceptcentral chat room. :D

I'm actually doing this process on my DS right now to get the last 8 or 9 cards I need.

I also turned Taunts OFF, since this can slow it down a few seconds :) .

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Guide for Farming Cards on the DS 14 Jul 2011 13:35 #5882

that's a good point to turn taunts off. I'll edit my original post to include that instruction as well. :)
thanks for the praise as well. Though I believe much of the credit should go to 'thesideburns' for his card-farming guide for Saga since that's what gave me the idea to try this method.

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Guide for Farming Cards on the DS 14 Jul 2011 15:16 #5883

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This great guide is now an article on the main site as well. Thanks, Monk! :D
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Guide for Farming Cards on the DS 25 Jul 2011 15:54 #5962

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I used this strategy to get my last 7 or 8 cards.

I just got 4x each card last night. It took me 43 games to get my last card - Ormec Head (makes me think of Cormac62, my old nemesis).

I changed the map to Bisteam Forest thinking that more Earth cards would be given away there. 20 cards are awarded to 1st place on Dark Abyss - only 17 on Bisteam Forest. I figured just like in Saga, the elemental maps would award more cards of the matching element. I'm not sure if this theory is correct, but it did only took me three games played there to get my last Ormec Head.

When I got my 4th Nuclear Fusion, I had 6499 total cards and only needed one more Ormec head. When I got 4x all, I was at the 7350 card mark!

Thanks again for sharing your idea Monk! :D

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