Glipp, you may have missed the entire hullaballoo around the Ticket upgrade cards. They were recently made less valuable in exactly the way you don't like. It's a change that's unlikely to be undone soon, I'd guess.
Pascale, that is unfortunate. I did miss the hullabaloo, as I haven't been playing Glitch in a while. The upgrade card tickets honestly aren't useful enough for me to bother using how they are right now.
You can use 11 tickets after you hit your quoin max per game day, that should be plenty, also unlimited img from game cards really was a very unbalanced way of getting so much img so easily. There are many, many ways to get img in game, some faster than others but its not like the cards are the only way to get img either.
Glipp, I didn't start finding upgrade cards really useful for me personally until my quoin multiplier was about ten times what yours is now. I just stored what I got in SDBs and used them when the multiplier was higher, because at lower multipliers I did feel like, while I got more than I spent to activate it, it wasn't enough to justify the time spent on the ticket (or the amount of currants I was giving up by not selling it).
Diaveborn, ah thank you, I didn't realize that it would be effected by the multiplier in the long wrong, I guess it would become useful eventually after all.
It's not difficult to make iMG in game without these cards! I like the cards as a supplement, but just doing some of the daily stuff tonight (donating to a shrine of one Giant to max for the day, tagging my icons and emblems, talking to my rock, and the repeatable 3 quests) I made about 150 iMG short of 30k iMG in 11 minutes. This can be verified by kimikolds, as I told her my total then ran and did it, and then the new total as a test to see how fast it could be done -- and there were two reloads during that 11 minutes.