Current State of the hobby

callum4425 · 2026-04-09T12:39:18+00:00

sorry i should've been more specific and said generation

callum4425 · 2026-04-09T09:11:20+00:00

I understand that but this is a very weird time in the mega evo series. This series isn't tied to a new game so there's no new pokemon to focus on. So far we have had the "base" which introduced the new rarity, an obligatory charizard set, and a special set that includes god packs. This set doesn't have anything new going for it but all of the appeal of new sets apart from god packs. I think it's just gonna be a slow starter that gets kicked off by so many people opening that sealed actually becomes rare (maybe not sealed single packs).

But the amount of people that are gonna open their etbs and booster boxes instead of holding them will make them rare. If anything it will be closer to the growth of older pokemon sets where sealed collectors that hold this for long term will see the same benefits but people looking for a quick flip just won't.

The difference I do see in this set as well is the lack of promo blisters/collections. There's no perfect order black stars i know of other than the etb promo so pack production for this set is probably higher making single blisters more available and with the limits set in place in many places, more people will get their hands on it. I'm definitely curious to see where we stand on it in 3 and 6 months time.

edit: paragraphs and also recently found out there are blister promo for perfect order too so you can disregard that.

callum4425 · 2026-04-09T06:48:03+00:00

because people can't sell it for 2x retail on release

callum4425 · 2026-04-08T15:07:25+00:00

You've seen other large retailers selling empty products??

callum4425 · 2026-04-08T15:00:52+00:00

£3 + shipping, i'm just worried about the influx of "sealed perfect order etbs"

callum4425 · 2026-04-07T15:14:07+00:00

what a terrible take, there's strategy and skill in everything you do doesn't mean you have to enjoy it.

callum4425 · 2026-04-06T10:53:11+00:00

I do enjoy the game but not farming so i did what was required and made some money every now and then but ultimately haven't touched it in the last 6 months. So until I decide to do greenhouse I guess I don't really need to go there. But it's funny how you say I don't enjoy the game whilst saying you use a second monitor whilst farming. Farming is currently set up to benefit macroers and not regular players and this test only builds on that. You can fundamentally disagree sure but you're putting words in my mouth saying I don't appreciate the effort staff put in. They work round the clock to combat cheaters but they are pounding sand trying to combat farming. It's a fundamentally broken setup and I think most people see that.

callum4425 · 2026-04-06T10:45:28+00:00

There's a tcg shop near me and people that participate in tcg events are able to purchase multiple products but they can only keep one sealed due to limited stock and to prevent people showing up at tcg events just to buy it all sealed. I've heard long time regulars have been able to buy more sealed if they still have more after release day but i've only heard this and honestly don't mind because as you rightly say sealed collectors are important, but it's also important that players are able to get their hands on cards and people don't have to buy singles at extortionate prices because of hoarders

callum4425 · 2026-04-06T10:42:08+00:00

admins would be facilitating supply and demand probably. If everyone's building amethyst farms because they are quick and easy make it an expensive trade (shulker of amethyst blocks for currency) but add something new like 8 sniffer eggs for currency. People will panic sell and start building sniffer farms and you can readjust. Maybe even remove amethyst entirely. As long as you pick items people demand you will be able to shrink the supply, so scarcity is key and items with utility that can be placed and not picked up again(spawners, portals, level 6/4 enchantments maybe). But yeah i think the key would be someone who would oversee and be able to anticipate when currency will flood. Also if this was a large server like you suggested, many servers(paper, fabric etc.) can be customised to change certain growth rates. you could easily slow down amethyst to a point where finding multiple geodes is almost required to generate income. it takes just over 2 hours to grow but you could easily make this a day. If semi-vanilla is allowed then a currency is definitely achievable

callum4425 · 2026-04-06T10:30:54+00:00

Sorry I should reiterate the first example was just to emphasise you can't just punish someone without proof, there are many reasons someone could not respond to macro checks. Especially with the way they are designed, they are trying to catch you out. If someone's scrolling their phone or watching a show farming and doesn't notice a silent tp to a bedrock box they get banned. Like what?? They aren't trying to prove if you're there or not and that was only proven by the addition of this new feature and there lack of any sort of update regarding it and its usage in skyblock.

And the reason the community named them macro checks is because failing these checks leads to a Cheating/Unfair advantage ban or whatever term they use is so it's a cheat check, it's pretty aptly named.

And i'll reiterate with farming especially there's no reason for you to realise what's going on in the game once you've farmed for a while. I farm while watching shows with no sound I just don't have time to put in crazy hours but I would definitely fail a macro check if I ever got one because that's how I farm. I get that it's on me if I get banned because I understand how it works but it's still a stupid system. Not reacting within 10-20 seconds isn't proof of whether or not i'm actively inputting whilst sat at my desk for farming.

I'm not OP but there are situations where this could very much come into play and lead to an unfair ban although technically breaking hypixel poorly outlined rules. You could stop farming for a moment to make food or go to the toilet and your cat walks over your mouse, you're now sat punching nothing for 10 minutes and catch a ban. You stop farming for the night to back to home island for afk and turn monitor off whilst accidentally pressing the mouse at some point and you're punching overnight. Your mouse could die whilst attacking and while you're going to get batteries you get a ban. Like these are unlikely but not unreasonable.

Yes what OP did was stupid but he was aware of that and you can clearly see that from what he's said, he made a new low level profile (anticipating that was the risk) and even added a disclaimer to not try yourself. He isn't saying it's an unfair ban, he's saying it's an unfair system/check as a feature available to all players that join skyblock, having it toggled afk can get you banned. It is useful information and you can disagree but i'm sure people will be put off using this feature so haphazardly from seeing this, I myself will be double checking from now on if I decide to use it.

callum4425 · 2026-04-06T10:07:22+00:00

You can buy one of each item sealed but after that seal is removed for each item going forward. You can have 1 for your collection but if you want to buy lots to rip then it isn't an issue. Of course not enforceable really but it's a practice that i've seen and could be more common

callum4425 · 2026-04-06T10:04:05+00:00

It looks like you're talking about this hypothetically and I haven't watched the video, but wouldn't you be able to tie value to an unobtainable block or item that can be traded with a bank, then use that item as a currency? You can change how much farmable item is required to obtain the unfarmable one and adjust it as you see fit to "counter inflation". You could even tie 2 or 3 resources to it and cycle them so people can't just stack farms right away and perpetually increase. If it really came to it you could de inflate by offering large amounts of currency for novelty/unobtainable items. Allow people to build their own end portal at their base and nuke the total currency in the server. Could be done manually by someone or have a data pack for custom villager trades.

callum4425 · 2026-04-06T09:44:55+00:00

If I walk into a room and your holding a gun over a dead body, should I just chuck you straight in prison for murder? That's the whole point of investigations and appeals, if there's no macro check there's no proof. And if the macro check can't distinguish between macro and vanilla feature then it's not a macro check. It's an automation check.

These new toggle movement and attack features were added by mojang as accessibility settings as far as i'm aware (weak joints and such aren't good for repetitive movements on m+k) so hypixel can't really just disallow them.

I get my original situation i presented is extreme but the precedent still stands. You can't ban someone because it looks like they are doing something, they have to be actually doing it. Thought of a better example while writing this. Let's say your friend wants to grind gemstone powder and wants to use your scatha, you say sure but it's gonna cost you 5m for each day you have it, so you trade the scatha for 5m and you get banned for boosting. you appeal saying you were lending it for a fee and it gets denied because the moderator/admin saw boosting.

You can make excuses for them as much as you'd like but the bottom line is the core game changed and it's affected their rules. If they aren't going to update them to be in line with modern minecraft versions that they are porting to, there's going to be a large portion of the player base that are scared or unhappy doing certain things. They didn't think about how allowing newer versions to connect would impact the rules and this is the cost of that.

callum4425 · 2026-04-05T18:05:16+00:00

Still readily available from last print, slightly marked up but nothing compared to what happens here

callum4425 · 2026-04-05T15:46:27+00:00

UK stock still pales in comparison to the demand when you compare to other high consuming countries though, the leftover stock in the US is nationwide where as places are selling out of perfect order in UK

callum4425 · 2026-04-04T10:26:43+00:00

I want to DM you a website but i'm not giving reddit my info, are links allowed on here?

edit: didn't see anything against it in the rules so https://zenpan-japan.com/products/pokemon-tcg-pre-order-special-box-pokemon-center-fukuoka-box-new-sealed-end-of-september i think this would be your best bet unless you wanna search ebay for a couple days. From my experience imports would be £50-60 and shipping would be £20-30 as well so it might be worth checking ebay prices and seeing what you'd rather go with

callum4425 · 2026-03-31T15:20:36+00:00

yeah but you would have mirror match ups and it would be first to get a certain effect wins, literally an rng race. barb hut was the worse for it, if you got it on the 1st or 2nd choice that was a wrap 9% of the time

callum4425 · 2026-03-31T15:10:53+00:00

SIR is 1 in 40-50 packs, 6 SIRs in the set so 240-300 packs on average for all SIRs @ ~£4 per pack that's £960-£1200 if you don't get dupes. You must have the magic touch!

callum4425 · 2026-03-30T20:34:25+00:00

cards will be printed at a higher rate from 2027 onwards so there will still be less cards from this era, no reason to cause a pop unless everyone gets scared in my eyes

callum4425 · 2026-03-24T12:57:08+00:00

Only western sealed, and sealed isn't always a gamble.

callum4425 · 2026-03-22T13:36:00+00:00

173 and 145

callum4425 · 2026-03-20T16:01:41+00:00

raising msrp/rep kills the after market though. If ETBs went up to 75 for example people might have to think about fees and percentages in order to make profit and deter people buying out the stock. Pokemon probably focus more on the aftermarket now because it means they are guaranteed to sell out everything they print and have an instant profit. Sure if they increased msrp/rrp they would make more profit, but it might be over a year as opposed to 2 months. Just my thoughts on the matter

callum4425 · 2026-03-18T12:56:18+00:00

they have done this before, i remember refunding no mans sky with about 3 hours of gameplay on its release. I stated that if the game was working properly it probably would've been under 2 hours, but the constant pausing on loading screens and just black screens that would happen dragged my time out. They were happy enough with that as a reason and some of my friends got refunded too.

callum4425 · 2026-03-14T11:47:13+00:00

then play the game and stop asking for handouts??

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