Has anyone actually played it?

No. Don't plan to. Doesn't seem interesting at all.

i played once... but me and my sister didnt have enough cards so for 2 hours... we play dragon booster vs yu-gi-oh. my sis had the yu-gi-oh deck and i was with the dragon booster deck.... i never played again after that

Goddesstears was talking about buying some today.

Doubt that we'll ever get 'em down here.

The trading card game doesn't really interest me either.

I usually end up buying trading cards just to collect. LOL! I mean, I did have like Yu-Gi-Oh cards and played some games, but now people get into other things and you're just left with cards sitting in a box. :lol: But oh well. They are pretty neat looking. Call me crazy if you must, because well, I'm crazy. :lol:

I used to play TCGs, but I can't really anymore. Not without some help, anyway. I don't miss it much! There were never many people to play with and it gets boring playing the same people after a while.

I collect lots of trading cards i have a really big collection on pokemon cards i have about 1500 cards i also collect yugioh, duel masters and dragon ballz and im waiting for dragon booster cards so i can collect them to but not really into playing with the cards just collecting

Waiting? The cards came out over a year ago. Or did you mean you're waiting for someone you know to give them to you as a gift. ;)

I wanna start collocting DB card O.O
That would be a nice hobby

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As would I.. I wounder if they are sold here in Atlantic Canada.. I have not seen any yet.

If you folks want cards, I can get them for you at the local game store. They give me a hefty discount on them since I've helped them run tournaments and events. Starter decks (60 random cards plus 1 dragon card and 4 assorted gear/crew cards) are US$5. Reimburse me for the cost of the cards plus postage and I'll send it to you. I'd consider trading for something as well.

If you plan to get into serious collecting and/or deck building, I can get booster packs as well.

Im waiting for the to come out in australia Furox :D

The trading card game is pretty difficult to find in stores, but I'd say it's about as out now (worldwide) as it's ever going to get. :) If it hasn't appeared in any of your local stores by now, it basically never will. If you're looking for cards, I'd recommend finding a mail order place that has them before it's too late. It's a decent game and I've enjoyed playing it, but unfortunately it just hasn't caught on which is too bad.

Although I dont know much about the game. I just might by a traiding pack and, learn to play. Just to show my support for the show. And, to help keep it on the air.

Of course, if you want to play, you'll need two decks: one for you and one for a friend. :)

The game is well designed. I like it a lot better than Magic myself. In particular, DB is a lot faster paced. The difficulty is finding other people who want to play.

You know, if any of us had fairly good programming skills we could make a sort of virtualised version that we could play over the internet with each other. Sort of like the NetBattle thing for Pokemon.

I want the cards for display.

Is that a not-so-subtle hint, SilverDragon? :D

Yes, I'm a software engineer and I'm doing network programming these days. And I've actually thought about the possibility of implementing an online version of the TCG in some (probably simple) form. In fact, I started thinking about it over a year ago. I would probably do it as a web based application to simplify the display end of things and eliminate the need to download any software to your computer, but I'd still have to write a server capable of allowing people to link up and play a game together. That's something I haven't done before and would require some study on my part. I could learn how to do it, but the whole thing would be a fairly significant invest in time for me which would take away from doing other things. And therein lies the rub:

If I were to take on a pretty big project like this, who here would actually get seriously into the game and play along with me? I would love it if there was a group here who wanted to explore all the game play possibilities with me. The premiere set of the games contains 13 dragons, about 50 pieces of gear, over 40 crew members and plenty of event and maneuver cards to make an enormous number of strategic possibilities. Just trying out all the dragons alone could keep us occupied for quite some time. But unless there's a group of people here who would really want to play over a long time period and not just play a game or two and then bow out, it's difficult to imagine putting in the development time on making an online version of the game.

So would anyone seriously be interested in playing this game online and making a serious time commitment to explore the strategies? If enough people were to step up and convince me that they're serious about playing for the long term, I might actually do this.

I can get you all the cards you want. The cards themselves are pretty cheap; the postage to mail them to you would be a bit more. You might look for an online retailer in Australia that sells them first. But if you can't otherwise get them, then just ask me. I just shipped off a bunch of cards to IbanezJFS, so it's easy enough to do.

I think I'll look around in Australia first. I think I heard someone say they found them in some store here.

I've heard that too from someone who contacted me through dragon-city.org. For reference, the cards are priced here as follows (all prices in USD):

Starter decks have a retail list price of $15, but most stores sell them for $10. I can get them for $5.

Booster packs generally sell for $4 each. I can get them for $2 each. And if you let me peek inside to see if Brutaris happens to be in there (the one dragon I haven't found yet), then I'll let you have them for $1 each.

If you decide you want some cards, just ask.

Im purchasing some through the Furox and I intend to play a ton however hard it is. If nothing else they will bring back wonderfull memories.

I've played quite a bit locally when the store here was running tournaments (sadly, those days have ended), and the game is definitely fun if you're into the show. Each dragon has different strengths and abilities, then you have to pick compatible gear, crew members, plus event and maneuver cards to make up a winning deck. There are 13 different dragons to start with, so the possible strategies for building your deck is almost endless. You can play this game a lot of different ways for a very long time if you wanted to. It's a fun sort of puzzle if you're into that sort of thing. :)

In regards to the online game, I tend to be off-and-on with anything online, but I would definately make an effort to get on to play regularly.

I've still been thinking on and off about making an online version of the game. I read about some new web technology called AJAX that would greatly simplify the game server and make this easier to implement. For anyone who cares, AJAX stands for Asynchronous Javascript with XML, and XML stands for Extensible Mark-up Language. You just gotta love nested acronyms. :D

We seem to have a few people who have expressed some degree of interest in playing. I think the group is IbanezJFS, The Hydrag, Renesh and myself. Maybe that's enough to try something. We'll see. The problem is trying to find time to write the programs.