im just wondering what the directory size is for
owing all current cards? LAWL

77 Gigabytes...

Ah nice! I have several hundred GBs on my system. Any chance getting a discount if I buy every card? :D

Heh not really, the cheapest to get them *immediatly* is through the "Booster packs" (99.5 cents/card), otherwise it's to get the 50 tickets and wait for the girls to get on "special" (100 cents/card). Technically you can get all of them for that price since when you buy one a new one comes in the empty slot. It's, imho, a bit long though.
Once up to date on the cards, there's normally 7 new cards per week unless some major problem occurs (which they tend to fix up during the week anyway) so the recommended method would then be the 6 month subscription (~33.16 cents/card). I'd do this before actually purchasing tickets since you get 10 of them on your first subscription. [Edit] For sakes of completeness, the "newbie" booster pack comes down to ~82.916 cents/card.

Yep I have all 316 cards available as of 25/05/2008 and I have 55.1gb taken up on my hardrive. Bought a 400gb just for this reason!.

it's a good idea to have an external hard drive like 1 terabyte

I need to setup my networked drive personally... And then make some type of program to switch them locally/networked cauz there's no way I'll do this manually nor leave everything on the net'd drive since I move around a lot with my laptop...

Red1,

If you don't need to move the actual files you could use .reg files to change the path. Once you have 2 of them set up all you'd have to do is double click the one you needed at the time and start VGHD.

The problem with the membership is that you can never really get ahead. If a new member signs up for a six month membership, he'll end up with a lot of cards but at the end of the six months he's still 300+ cards behind what's available.
This is why I've recommended the 2 cards/day membership. I think it'd be a good way to start catching up on what's all available. Who's with me?