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Post by MHardcore on Mar 3, 2018 2:56:52 GMT -5
Get a decent printer. Look around. Probably plenty of sales right now. Good card stock (110 lb is what I get). Walmart has 150 sheets for $5. Other places can be up to $20 for almost the same paper. It will all pay for itself real fast once u start printing out all the awesome bootlegs and sets available on (through) the boards. I also got a Swingline paper cutter at walmart (for around $27). There are plenty of cheaper options too. If u get an HP Printer I would advise getting HP Instant Ink subscription as well. U may find yourself printing up lots of stuff.
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Post by DMKII: 'The Revenge' on Mar 3, 2018 20:19:07 GMT -5
Let me take you all back to December 1991. Now, I've probably told this story a few times on various COTG boards, but it never gets old, LOL. I had been playing the original set for a year. Then, I somehow found a COTG envelope because my mom didn't hide it well enough, haha. From watching my mom steam open my dad's mail on the stove (their marriage wasn't the best at that point and she must have been paranoid about something) and taking notes, I then steamed open the sacred COTG envelope, got everything out, walked to the library, and copied EVERYTHING. I just stapled the card front and backs together. After playing Invasion 2088 for 3 weeks, I then I put on an Oscar-worthy performance on Christmas morning. Mom was none the wiser. However, karma hit me bad a month later when my dad got ticked at the mess in the basement and threw out all my cards (except 2088, ironically). Of course, I turned it into a storyline, LOL. What I'm getting at here is that it's not the "style" we get the card info; it's the info itself. I played a WGX fed and never had physical cards (I just played CACs on COTG Online). But hey, whatever works for you. My favorite part of this game and community is that everyone does it their own way. Happy rolling/clicking/whatever! LOL. While I agree with this, there is a certain part of me (probably the collector in me) that likes having physical stuff printed by FED HQ, but I'm not a stickler when it comes to that and in the end, if I can print my own stuff out and have it be of qualifty close enough to the official stuff, then I can't complain. |
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Post by DMKII: 'The Revenge' on Mar 3, 2018 20:21:33 GMT -5
Let me take you all back to December 1991. Now, I've probably told this story a few times on various COTG boards, but it never gets old, LOL. I had been playing the original set for a year. Then, I somehow found a COTG envelope because my mom didn't hide it well enough, haha. From watching my mom steam open my dad's mail on the stove (their marriage wasn't the best at that point and she must have been paranoid about something) and taking notes, I then steamed open the sacred COTG envelope, got everything out, walked to the library, and copied EVERYTHING. I just stapled the card front and backs together. After playing Invasion 2088 for 3 weeks, I then I put on an Oscar-worthy performance on Christmas morning. Mom was none the wiser. However, karma hit me bad a month later when my dad got ticked at the mess in the basement and threw out all my cards (except 2088, ironically). Of course, I turned it into a storyline, LOL. What I'm getting at here is that it's not the "style" we get the card info; it's the info itself. I played a WGX fed and never had physical cards (I just played CACs on COTG Online). But hey, whatever works for you. My favorite part of this game and community is that everyone does it their own way. Happy rolling/clicking/whatever! I don't remember reading this on Chris' old Board, but that's a GREAT story! Nice life hack you learned on the steaming open letters, haha! Yeah, I used to make copies so I could keep my originals in mint condition! Then, if I wore out a copy, I could always make a fresh one! The copy place I used to go to in town was always great at lining up the copies (front and back) so they'd come out as perfect as possible! Not like Kinko's that wouldn't care at all, and would charge you for mistakes and not print up TV scripts either! (So glad they aren't around anymore up here!) So yeah, I'd love to see that Oscar-worthy performance! I'm sure it'd get quite a few laughs from everyone here, haha!  This is exactly what I am in the process of doing right now. I hold the original 2087 edition up on a pedestal and almost feel dirty playing with the actual official cards in fear of damaging them somehow. lol I'm less concerned with the 'safety' of any backup copies, so that's my current mission, making usable copies of everything I have so I can preserve the officially FED HQ printed stuff. |
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