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<p>[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 5293737, member: 76863"]There certainly are some people that just chase points, but my point was really that they're few and far between. Most people use it for inventory tracking and a lot of the top sets are focused more on quality than if x would give them slightly more points when they think y is the better coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>I'm not a registry person myself, I don't like being constrained by sets and just like to get what I like. I will use it as a tracker and just not load the coins into any sets. There certainly are some weird aspects of the scoring in it though I'm not sure you could really change it much at this point. If you change it the existing sets get mad so I guess they could make new sets with some different scoring like not weighing red so much for copper. </p><p><br /></p><p>At least for the PCGS registry the ability to make the digital album out of your set is a huge draw and I know there are a lot of people that do it just to use that feature. I would even bet a large majority couldn't really care less about the points and just let their set fall where it may in the rankings[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 5293737, member: 76863"]There certainly are some people that just chase points, but my point was really that they're few and far between. Most people use it for inventory tracking and a lot of the top sets are focused more on quality than if x would give them slightly more points when they think y is the better coin. I'm not a registry person myself, I don't like being constrained by sets and just like to get what I like. I will use it as a tracker and just not load the coins into any sets. There certainly are some weird aspects of the scoring in it though I'm not sure you could really change it much at this point. If you change it the existing sets get mad so I guess they could make new sets with some different scoring like not weighing red so much for copper. At least for the PCGS registry the ability to make the digital album out of your set is a huge draw and I know there are a lot of people that do it just to use that feature. I would even bet a large majority couldn't really care less about the points and just let their set fall where it may in the rankings[/QUOTE]
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