User blog comment:Beboper/Return of the Ultra Rare Price Guides (Part 2)!/@comment-202.93.215.69-20140422150929

I realise that this is exceptionally late, but it bears noting that card power efficiency, card rarity and card art have bigger effects on card price than is currently reflected under your tables, which only show skill and the higher maximum stat - which is in itself misleading since I believe defense cards are a lot cheaper than their attack counterparts - this may not be the case; I'm admittedly drawing from outdated knowledge. Case in point, though, on Android Geryon is 200pm while CD is 70. Their only real difference is in skill - Gery's Atk ratio is equal to CD's def ratio, and his Def ratio is equal to CD's Atk ratio. Oh, they're both pwr14, so that means they have the same stats.

Additionally, combining the Pwr 14-16 cards into one table is, in my opinion, a mistake, due to the large effects this has on card efficiency - not to mention the discrepancy between "Large" and "Great" boosts, which have a significant impact on price. Lastly, the current card values listed - at least for the Android market - have an extremely large variation - 250-500 is not a useful price to see - and that's for the prices that have listed values at all; most of the table is blank.

It's far easier to simply revert the page back to a list - each number on the list affects just one card - but that is, as you say, unsustainable in the long term. The table format, in contrast, requires a lot less work to maintain, but it also needs a lot more work to get the initial values up, which I believe is one reason why most of the page is blank, even after more than half a year (frankly, by any standards, that's unacceptable - I'm not judging - I know it's tough - but still, half a year).

It's late, so I'm going to bring up a few examples but not elaborate too much on them - if I'm wrong, do correct me. Vivian is going to be way overpriced for her section of the table; so's QoSW (I think - I don't have a frame of reference for all the other cards around her). On the other hand, Barth and Edgardo are going to be dragging down their sections. SMH is another notable offender; let's not even talk about Najasho...

Granted, that's the point of the exceptions list - but the whole point of the table is to reduce the number of cards that need to be indivivually maintained, so the smaller the list can be, the better.

I realiise it will be quite a task to propose a better solution. Minimally, I think, it's worth splitting the pwr 14-16 table into individual tables for each pwr value. It may also worth considering splitting attack and defense cards. Every split is more work, of course; a balance between ease of maintenance (and setting up) and accuracy needs to be struck, and that's really the toughest part of the overhaul... give me a few days, I don't know, I'm sure I can come up with *something*...