The "how" of the resolving of this contentious issue is a detail,
at this juncture, it's a "when", not an "if" as to the mouse droid/gha nackht being resolved.
We are all solving it as we speak.

Sithborg may have misspoken (just as others misphrased an option),
though what I hear Sithborg to be saying ---
that a particular path to the resolution/solution...
would cause more problems and lead to a vicious circle of alterations,
that's fair enough.
Saying that one avenue, to solving this pickle which we all find ourselves in
(which, it's not the inanimate cards fault, nor so much the designers who made the cards as such,
as it is a min-max TKO mindset in the playerbase, though that's a tangent for another time )
- is 'off the table' or non-compromiseable, what is so wrong with that?

That is an area which historically in other games, has been a snowball effect, as others have em-passionately put forward before.
Case in point? Rogue Trader through v8 of GW40K rules - at one point, 3 new 'core' rulebooks inside of 18months. It was hellish,
let alone the cost, let alone the 'rules-sticklers' mentality of that game...
Sithborg is not precluding other options or pathways - which there's a zillion ways to go from A to B; 2+2=4, 5-1=4, 2^2=4... -- and there have been several good ideas here and elsewhere.
As I've said - it's a matter of time, and this minor speedbump will be solved

It would be unfortunate to see any... misunderstandings occur,
months from now - when we've solved this issue, and the good times of fun till the next broken combo is found, we'll look back and laugh at how much like Boba BH or GOWK like this tangent was.
when we all have, these minor issues aside, so much more in common than we have in difference
(we're all SWMinis fans, Sci Fi fans, looking for good clean tabletop fun hehe . )

On that note -
thanks everyone -
thanks for speaking frankly on this issue, about perspectives on the ways to make the simplest alteration (without too many unforeseen new problems)
and for coming up with awesome ways in which to resolve this momentary problem.
It takes a lot of intestinal fortitude to be prepared to speak up in a public fora, and to persevere through to a solution.
It's a "when", folks, and at this rate, we'll have it solved inside of a week or so - that is rapid turn around time.

+1

In this thread. The idea that changing rules has unforeseen consequences that can be only seen by one guy who is the final word on ruling calls. Makes sense, why tackle issues as a group when you can have one person who is omnipotent imo.

Why won't just admit that this won't be changed because the one's who want the change are for the most part, not the premier Gencon players. If they asked for it, it would change, but it seems unlikely otherwise.

+1

As a designer I am slowly getting better at foreseeing consequences and interactions, but I am still nowhere near Sithborg and Swinefeld in that regard.

I am a firm believer in the general idea that large changes = unforeseen consequences (often negative ones).

Changes in the game can be made, but only cautiously and with extreme help and input from the rules gurus. This is essential for all of our sakes.

Sorry, there is nothing nonsensical about changing the way Mouse Droids work. Stop being so arrogant for three seconds and acknowledge that there are people clamoring for a change.

it's always been that way.
Scott is very Sithy,(rule of two, as long as he's one of the 2) and very Borgy(resistance is futile, join the collective,where free thinking is a thing of the past)

*just for fun, say the italicized phrase in your best German accent , and you'll hear it how I hear it

pretty sure that's what the majority wants

I wouldn't be to sure about the circulating through the community part though. I know at least one person brought a Dalaa squad to Gencon this year and didn't realize before filling out their squad sheet the morning of the championships that she had been errated and it was someone who I would have thought would have known about the changes so might not be a bad idea to try and make cards and or PDFs available to players for pieces that have been or will be changed, as that really sucks to drive a long way to a tourney and then find out that what you had planned on running is no longer an option.

is that why the championship started so late?
we were waiting for him to remake a squad?

No Jak, that player wasn't the last one to turn in his squad sheet, he did however have to fill out a new one after I informed him of the erratta. It was alek, or Alex not quite sure on the name but he is the younger guy that has been playing in the championships for several years now since he was a young teenager, I think he may be from Iowa or western Illinois possibly. I was talking to him and he told me what he was running and so I let him know about the changes fairly quickly, but I also think he may have dropped from the tourney early as well, not sure if having to play a squad that was handicapped from what his original intent was had anything to do with that, but hopefully not.