crisp fossil
Most of the losing runs, in most cases, are due to the fact that jokers with stickers come across too often, I suggest lowering the chance of jokers getting stickers.:
Eternal sticker - 30% → 15%
Perishable sticker - 30% → 20%
Rental sticker - 30% → 15%
I know that many people will write "but this will kill all the complexity," so, I think that this is a bad approach to the complexity of the game, the player should not win 1/100 of the time just because he was unlucky.
craggy shale
I hate to say skill issue, but like…
The whole point of gold stake is to play around these stickers. With proper play, I’d say at least 60% of seeds are winnable on gold stake
upbeat fog
Eternal is not a downside
white ibex
skill issue sorry
playing around these stickers forces the player to make choices that are good for the game. “is this joker worth it” changes to “is this joker worth it for only 5 rounds” or “is this worth being stuck with or paying extra per round for”
crisp fossil
And the first thing you decide to tell a beginner is "skill issue", not cool
craggy shale
Losing in gold stake due to stickers is a sign that your approach to playing should change, not that the difficulty itself should
weak smelt
Only sticker that really matters is rental, and even then it's not that bad
But suggesting to lower the odds of eternal and perishable is pretty silly imo - eternal's not a strong downside and perishable doesn't matter in most cases either. Most of the jokers you take early on are secretly perishables already, and all of the scalers can't be perishable anyways
crisp fossil
Is there no way to pass the gold stage at all without x mults? It's just that I hardly ever come across them, maybe that's why I lose all the time?
craggy shale
Xmult is pretty much required in gold stake, unless you have some sort of busted alternative like early wee
You should only need it by ante 5-6, though(I play mainly on ghost deck, so that might skew it)
More than Xmult, the main thing you need is scaling
crisp fossil
The most annoying thing is when a rental sticker appears on xmult jokers at the beginning of the run, But when they appear with a perishable sticker, all that remains is to cry.
craggy shale
Or you could buy it and have another 5 blinds to find another one
timber pulsar
Is there no way to pass the gold stage at all without x mults? It's just that I ...
You pretty much need Xmult, but it doesn't have to be from a joker tbf. Glass and Steel can do solid work