Well, that person is not one of the design people for the virtual minis. If memory serves, Boris the Dwarf is one of the designers. Engineer is the one Sithborg was referring to when he mentioned SSB. From what I hear, Engineer revamped the whole rule system for that game. Actually made it fun and playable. I think one of the others is fingersandteeth.

As for the "voting," that was Motti's big idea. He wanted community input, so that thread was made. I don't think the tally/vote matters too much. That thread is more about bringing names and ideas to the attention of the design team. They will probably look to "update" some older characters. Think of new stats with a suggested miniature to use. In the case of Nien Nunb, there will probably be a virtual mini of him suggesting you use the Universe miniature. Some newer Force Powers and SAs are very appropriate for certain characters (Bravado for Han, Dark Temptation for Luke). So I would expect virtual versions with some of those SAs/Force Powers.

Funny thing about C3PO, ED is that he's the perfect nerf to Zuckuss. After all, he's mostly going to sit there if he's hit.

Plus, if I remember the Ko Sai thing correctly, you were given a 'cold shoulder' because you continually kept commenting in the thread something to the effect of "I don't like it" but not offering any constructive criticism beyond that. It wasn't meant to sound like "stay out of custom/virtual set stuff". It was just meant to be a reminder that for customs, 90% of it comes down to a person's individual wants, so if you don't like it, then that's your thing to deal with, and there's no point telling someone that multiple times unless you have some suggestions to improve it.

I can guarantee you, the Virtual Set process will be much different than that. Just the fact that there will be 3 people designing, plus people play-testing, plus quality-control people looking at the cards...it will be much better than an individual or two just making custom card ideas. Plus, from what I know of the 3 'design' guys, they are less EU focused players anyways, so I would expect we'll see more things like re-dos of old characters first, before we see much of the outlandish EU characters.

I wouldn't worry about it so much. :)

But I want outlandish EU characters!

It was just a bad idea, making a player able to run more than one of the same unique - and since Ko Sai never cloned any individuals, it didn't really make sense in terms of story either. I suggested Immediate Clone Reserves (a la Kazdan Paratus) made more sense, but the designer was sold on his concept. We were just sort of butting heads on it, each of us arguing it was unfathomable why the other wanted/didn't want the ability and a third guy stepped in and pointed out it was a pointless debate so I just bowed out.

I just got a little worried that we'd be seeing a slew of overpowered/under-thought-out abilities and tuned out. But, you guys are more familiar with the folks in charge than I am. I'll hope for the best. I wasn't aware there was a reworking of the Starship Battles rules out there (but I never messed around with the orignal game). I'll take a look at them - maybe it'll bolster my confidence.

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I like that Nadd

I said it out loud.

I don't like Lando. Nadd is OK

I see no point in nadd's CE I'm very dissapointed, why use him over malak DLOTS other than survivability, and he costs more. I find lando overcosted

Why isn't everyone singing the praises of the glorious Ng'ok? Actually, paired up with Ithorian commander and Han, RH, this guy can doe some serious damage. He has potential.

Lando would be useful with the new Red Hand trooper, a group of these guys attacking at +13 for a possible 40 dmg against characters w/ half their hp. Throw in a Czerka for good measure and you could be packing quite a punch.