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I'd like these.

10 pages of the same old bitchin' and complainin'.
the poor horse has been dead for 6 f-ing years already, stop beating the poor S.O.B.

I'm sooo done with this shit!
movin' on.

anybody wanna buy some minis?

Hello all,

I havent been on for a while. Last time I was on I was supposed to help play test for this last set, life happened hardcore, worked a ton over spring and summer to save to bu a house, just to have a sneaky loan go to creditors (didnt know about it) right as the bank was looking over my credit ;(
So, I took a job in Jacksonville, NC and moved as a fresh start.

Anyway, my life will be in order in a about 3 weeks and I look forward into getting back into the game. and sorry for not being able to play test this time around.

The point that Shmi15 is trying to make is that the COMMUNITY KNOWS THE GAME! I promise you that EVERY SINGLE errata from that was made by the balance committee was fought by the TN guys and others for YEARS. (except maybe a few where the piece changed had not been out for years).

IF the community had listened years ago and COMPROMISED, the chances of a lot of those players staying in the game would be very high. After all, we loved the game so much we made out own version of it with our own house rules and have had a blast.

Anyway, The point of community is very very real and the point of competition being suffocating is also very real.
The idea of being rigid is also very real. It takes more than act of Congress to get something changed.

I truly truly feel like we should revisit the balance committee with a few things that MIGHT NOT BE BROKEN, but do create a NPE. and yes, everyones npe's are different, but a lot of people have the same npe's.

The reason I was (and am) excited about play testing was because of the changes I saw from the balance committee and being heard (tecnically I was never heard, I was blacklisted. but Atmsalad was heard because he won some regionals with NPE's). but i was glad regardless.


Anyway, as for Gencon.

I think if you want more players, you make the game fun in the competitive sense. I think listening to the community would be a great start.
I think the ones in charge should ask the community what makes the game fun, and get responses from people, (before that individually reach out to everyone around so they have a chance to communicate their thoughts) and run some data on the results. At the same time I think offering some known choices would go a long way to stop all the "individual and specific requests"
For instance say, "list the things that stop you form wanting to play competitive from this poll"
option 1: Full board CE
option 2: over-powered pieces
option 3: swarms
option 4: activation control
option 5: shooter advantage / not a lot of melee playable
option 6: pieces that cover so much ground (Strafe/galloping/etc)

I think if a rule as easy as your squad cannot contain more than 10 non-uniques would be great.
I think a rule such as if a shooter is more than 6 squares away it gets -2 attack to its shot or something like that would be great.
I think a 3 pt non-unique droid with screech or something that says that enemy commander effects cannot be relayed to characters within 2 squares of this character. Booming Voice is suppressed within 2 squares of this character.



Anyway, I look forward to getting back into it once my internet is up (family is not up from TN yet and I am at Wendy's).

I hope that going forward the game continues to move towards more game friendly and fun playing. I look forward to fun pieces being designed.
I also have sentiments that melee pieces have to be crazy crazy powerful to be playable because if other NPE's and it, in turn, creates NPE's
Like Bane and Lothal. I think some board rule changes or a well designed, easy to implement and flavorful and fun piece can go veyr far into getting melee force users playable without making them so ridiculous

Greetings SWM community!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Hey one good thing that I want to bring up that might be a glimmer of hope for us now.........................did you see the statistic at the bottom of BlooMilk, in regards to BlooMilk users?????????????? It states......................

"Most users ever online was 271, Tuesday, August 23, 2016 6:01 AM."


To me this is a positive that we should build on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Long Live SWM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


May the Force be with us all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!