My attitude toward the game is probably not a common one, for me I donate for each v-set and enjoy looking at the new cards and creative abilities and occasionally seeing a design that may have incorporated elements from some of my designs in the past. I play once or twice a year at family gatherings. I am pretty much a collector now, buying on ebay, keeping the pieces I want, and selling or trading the rest.

Because these are my motivations, I am not personally too concerned about the meta. Maybe poggle bombs are getting out of hand, but I don't play enough (or well enough) for them to be a real issue for me.

However, I do get that if it is an issue for other people, that may cause the community to shrink, shrinking the creative pool, the donation pool, the trading pool, etc. As the quality of those shrinks, so does interest, and you get a bit of a snowball.

I don't really know if we are heading toward a major change. I have no problem with temporary bans of pieces. I respect the challenge that designers face; that everyone wants to create pieces but fewer are super motivated to work to test them out.

I think the best thing is already being done: Designers listening to what people don't like about the current game and designing with those issues in mind. It's a bummer things like the CDO and Heroic Sacrifice got through and don't look fixable with the next round of pieces (one errata, one errata upcoming), but a few bad apples in my mind have not spoiled the whole barrel.

Good feedback guys. I appreciate it. Also, I just donated for V-Set 10 (I was on the fence, but in the end, tradition and support for a game and community that's kept my brains sane for so many years won me over). Do you know if there was a deadline for these v-10 donations?

My own perspective, from my own sales and over all engagement from the Star Wars Miniatures Community, and it's only my perspective, the game is probably not in transition as much as it's run it's course.

The population of players is in decline. The vast majority of my regular customers for map packs didn't pick up a copy of the latest map pack. Most people using my maps now are people who play different RPGS. Overall interest in the latest map pack was at an all time low.

I kind of lurk these forums to gauge what the big issues are and what the latest buzz is, and I'll be honest with you, most of it is over my head. While I'm extremely impressed and even a bit proud of the fact that they've continued the game through V-sets, my own interest in V-sets has faded as well. So I'm not sure what most the big game play issues are.

My own interest in the game itself has diminished for several reasons:

1. PRIMARILY, I miss the social aspect of all of it. Nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd, nothing empties a room like an empty room.

2. I miss opening new boosters, and I don't have time to modifiy minis, and My brain won't allow me to reconcile proxy pieces. I miss prize support, and actual news, and real teasers. I'm the average consumer and my attention is only held for so long.

3. As I stated earlier, I love how much went into the V-sets. but from a casual player's viewpoint, and from what people have said too me, some of the rules seem over the top, convoluted, and there is so much stuff on the cards, its very difficult to read them. And I've never been a fan of the majority of the Expanded Universe, so my excitement for the characters has never been at any kind of level that kept me engaged.

4. There may be about 4 or 5 people that even actually care that I'm making maps. I've personally reached out several times to this community, and old guys from back in the day that played and were active in the forums, and nobody is buying the maps here anymore, and nobody wants to really get excited about it anymore. Honestly the all the bickering that was going on a couple weeks ago that eclipsed every single one of my updates really knocked all the remaining wind out of my sails for this game, and the people involved with it, and making anymore maps for SWM.


THIS IS ALL JUST MY FEELINGS, PLEASE DON'T GET WOUND UP, OR ASK FOR SUPPORTING ARGUMENTS OR EXAMPLES

Do you play vassal?
I really feel that Vassal is a main part of the future of SWM

vassal should be the future of SWM especially with the New Zealand group getting larger and larger. but i think for vassal to work there also needs to be like some kind of group chat/meeting thing where the people watching can interact as well, make it more like a regional where you get that interaction with multiple people and stuff. only so far typing can go on that level.

It still lives in the north! Haha we are big players and enjoy the game in different aspects. Also Matt you will always have a customer in me man. SWM till I die haha

Yes but trying to find the mod for a new player is so hard. Again I don't see the point in trying to grow this game or even play it if its not easy to find stuff. I understand Les is working on a new site and some of these points will be addressed but the game is on a limited life and every day matters.

I don't play on Vassal because I have no clue were to find the new mods and PDFs so I can look over the figures easier for me than Bloomilk.

I like the human interaction, face to face, while playing the game.
playing on vassel would be like playing a regular video game, vs the computer.

Wrong Map Maker. :-) That's Chris West you're referring to. You've probably bought mostly everything from me too if you went through miniature market, but I do have a website you can check out though, and check to make sure! You probably don't have Map Pack 6 yet. it's coming out in a couple weeks. I won't be going through miniature market this time, so get it directly from me! Thanks!

FPMMAPS.COM

Well you can make that 5 or 6 people now that actually care that you are making maps. In the past I wasn't much in the loop for buying maps as I had bought a huge collection of maps from a retired swm player back about 4 years ago. But I have a very good star wars rpg group that I've been GM'ing for 4 years now, and I am excited to play on new maps. I backed the Map pack 6 on kickstarter (first time using that website) and I am looking forward to map pack 7! I think you might have more supporters for your maps than you might know, but just thought you'd like to know you got one more gamer that cares about what you make than you previously thought. I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for future maps to purchase from you from now on.