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Dumbing Down the Game — Any player who can't figure this out on their own does not deserve the advantage knowing it gives

Everything about the game is revealed...

Every new card is shown before anyone gets one with nothing left unknown. Full stats (ATK/DEF/PWR), skill, picture, and even headshot is revealed. I'm never surprised by what a player has, or be what I draw because I've seen it before.
Every card has predictable stat upgrade multipliers and skills. I know just from a glance at a fresh card how strong that card is and whether I need it or not. No cards with surprising skill changes or off-pattern upgrade stats.
No special evolvers that nobody knows about. Nothing to figure out. No tricks, no skill, a game of luck alone. May as well be a coin-tosser game.
And now the ridiculous page shown to the right is sent to our devices. Anyone who can not do the math shown does not deserve the advantage knowing it gives. By revealing it in such detail, Applibot is insulting its players. "We know you can't figure this out so here it is! See why you want to give us your money in an attempt to own these cards?"

The game is set up so the only thing to ever look foreward to is getting a card. What about figuring stuff out? being surprised? In my opinion,

What percentage of RPGs are sold with a walkthrough in the box? I realize this is obviously not an RPG, but every entertaining game is a mix of luck and skill. Applibot strives to remove all skill from this game, turning it into a game of pure luck. At that point it is no longer a game, but a gambling tool to allow underage kids to gamble their money away just like adults are able to. I realize this is obviously the aim, but why throw away the spenders that enjoy a game that allows for skill as well as luck?

Applibot may as well remove the single remaining unknown the game offers... show us whether we'll win a pvp attack prior to the attack by letting us know if that artifact is trapped or if the opponent can beat you down. At this point does it really make a difference? With this latest page, my half-wit 6-year old cousin can now play LoC while watching TV and still not use up a single brain cell's worth of bandwidth (and still beat me).

Some people play games to bully others or win, some like the thrill of action or gambling, others enjoy the satisfaction of solving puzzles or discovering something new. Why drop the third chunk of cash?

— Amphitere

btw, Timber Dragon is a PWR 5 card.

(sorry, for all the suggestions, but there's a suggestion box, so may as well use it...)

When searching for trade partners or friends, the text box of “ID-based search” should accept wildcards (not regex – keeping it simple) such as the question mark [?] and/or asterisk [*]. If no wildcards are entered, it should assume and asterisk at the end of every search and then bring up a list of players whose ID matches the pattern from which one can be selected. The search should also be case-insensitive by default.

Reasoning:

A lot of players have IDs containing numbers at the end or complicated cAsE-swAppIng or mixed case and mixed letter/number. A normal person's brain easily remembers the word portion of an ID, especially if is spells something pronounceable. However, for someone named AmpHiteRe84O29, the brain remembers only amphitere…<blah>….
Sometimes it's difficult to tell the difference between a zero [0] and the capital letter “O” in the game font at a glance (also the number one [1] and lowercase letter “l”).
I've lost many players (permanently) with whom I would have wanted to trade/battle/cheer because I saw their name, thought I knew what to search for, but when the search page loaded, I could not bring up anyone named what I memorized because my memory is not eidetic.
It's difficult to type in AmpHiteRe84O29 (made up ID) over and over exactly right.

While on the topic of searching, you should be able to search for battle partners and cheer partners in addition to trade and befriend partners.

— Amphitere