I've played with 3d cardboard terrain before and it can be amazing, but the terrain in this game doesn't look good enough for the price.
 
An example of good cardboard terrain:

Climate's always been changing, anthropogenic climate change is a hoax. It's manipulating people for money and power, trillions of dollars involved.
You get quite a lot more for the money in that obstacle pack, it's not just 3 asteroids. If you make the same value calculation that pack's worth at least $90! What value!
Those range rulers are generally considered pretty bad, and you can get better acrylic ones for less from etsy, and you could probably get a set of the cardboard ones for under $5 from a local who has the core set and a set of acrylics.

This is literally the stupidest thing I've ever read on this website, and I spend a lot of time in the rules subforums.

Any company that has its own forum/website where official news is distributed (like FAQs, errata, or previews of new content) should be using that first to display any news. Using social media is fine, and a good tool, but as others have said- many of the playerbase may or may not use those avenues as sources of news from the company. Putting up a quick article or making an official News sticky thread that can only be commented on by FFG employees for the specific purpose of informing the players would be the most logical and easiest way to do things. Then you can just link that post to whatever social media service you want.

I realized that I've never made a post for the Lego Investigators that I've made.  So! Since I just finished making the Dream-Eaters I figured it was about time. I'm not particularly happy with Mandy. I couldn't find a torso that really matched her outfit. And Tommy looks okay but is a bit bland. Perhaps I'll see if I can find a way to strap Becky to his back.

The Full album contains pictures of all of the investigators next to their player card.  And the Google Sheet has a list of all of the parts that are easily searchable on Bricklink.  And that's where I got almost all of the parts from... With the exception of a few small odds and ends.  The Trenchcoats for example were bought custom made from a bricklink store, and the Violin was gotten from an ebay seller.
Google Spreadsheet of Parts
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IG1LjRbRDbrpfHmyGWm9EmoU3er13_wGwJ1nS6yc7jo/edit#gid=823244805
Full Album of Investigators
https://www.flickr.com/photos/24370853@N04/sets/72157694959873830/
I've had a lot of fun over the past year putting these figures together and I'm glad that you all have enjoyed them!  Thank you all!
 

When you assemble your dice pool, you add as many white dice as your skill rank.
If you have 0 rank, you add 0 white dice.
 
Careful, here.
You keep UP TO your ring value (minimum 1)

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I use some wooden tokens I made for strife, fatigue, and void points. I like the idea of a D6 with the elements on them.

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They're not inflicting a condition, they force the opponent to make a check. The potential condition is the result of the check, not of the opportunities spent. The opponent might even suffer a crit on top of the condition depending on how much fatigue they take.

Move your mouse over their name. A window will pop up. Choose "Ignore User". Check what you want to ignore from them. Click "Update Preferences". Enjoy.

Move your mouse over their name. A window will pop up. Choose "Ignore User". Check what you want to ignore from them. Click "Update Preferences". Enjoy.

Move your mouse over their name. A window will pop up. Choose "Ignore User". Check what you want to ignore from them. Click "Update Preferences". Enjoy.

Move your mouse over their name. A window will pop up. Choose "Ignore User". Check what you want to ignore from them. Click "Update Preferences". Enjoy.

Move your mouse over their name. A window will pop up. Choose "Ignore User". Check what you want to ignore from them. Click "Update Preferences". Enjoy.

Remember the golden rule:
"Don't feed the troll"

I'd like to address just this last point.  I try my best to be polite on the various forums I frequent but know that I'm not perfect, so want to be clear that no insult was intended anywhere.  When I said that our experience of the game is so different it wasn't worth discussing, I meant it literally - we appear to approach L5R 5e (and possibly roleplaying in general) from such diverse starting points that we'll only ever talk past each other.  I really do wish you the best, but have set your account to ignore, because I was just scrolling past every post you made.

Why on earth didn’t you simply buy one of the already functioning 3rd party apps made by the community?
1) no offline- this is a no brainer make this a priority 
2) ridiculous issues when saving (see multiple threads on this
3) can’t copy ships- if I want to make 3 ships with same load out, I have to enter the ship and all it’s upgrades 3 times.
4) can’t change pilot of a particular ship after it’s been selected, if I change my mind between Wedge or Luke, I have to delete and re-enter an entire new ship  
5) the app is slow- this is probably related to number 1- make it offline.
6) no dials 
7) UI is ugly and frustrating. 
Your web app developers should be embarrassed by the terrible product they rushed out. You should be embarrassed by the terrible quality of the app and the frustration it is causing your customers. 
Get your stuff together FFG. 

The best way I've come up with to explain this is don't look at the rings to start with. In the beta a lot of people said they preferred seeing all the possible approaches listed together (regardless of skill group) and working from that.
Say what you want to do, in the form "I want to [verb] the [object]" - "I want to fix the sword", "I sneak past the guard", "I seduce the priestess!"*
The Object is the easy bit (normally) and defines the skill - sword=smithing, hostile guard=fitness/skulduggery (depending on situation), priestess=sentiment/courtesy (depending on situation).
Once you've done that, work backwards by figuring out what approach the descriptive word you've chosen represents by comparing it to the examples below:
Refine, Feint, Trick, Analyse, Con - it's an Air approach (also deceive, outmanouvre, sneak, scrutinise, evade)
Restore, Withstand, Reason, Recall, Produce - it's an Earth approach (also fix, prepare, block, hold, sustained march, use continuous steady effort or thoroughness)
Invent, Overwhelm, Incite, Theorize, Innovate - it's a Fire approach (also be aggressive, attack, use a brief burst of strength or passion, sprint)
Adapt, Shift, Charm, Survey, Exchange - it's a Water approach (also strike a deal, use your environment, spot things, search)
Attune, Enlighten, Sacrifice, Sense, Subsist - it's a Void approach (also master your emotions, calm, remain still, use intuition, be divorced from your surroundings and feelings)
 
 
you wouldn't really use fire to perform a tea ceremony because you'd never be aggressively or passionately doing so...the point of the ceremony is the exact reverse.
Which other ring you'd use would be dependent on why you're doing it:
Performing a tea ceremony to calm yourself - probably Performance (Void) Performing a tea ceremony for someone else to make a good impression - probably Performance (Water) Performing a tea ceremony to practice the ritual itself -  probably Performance (Earth) Performing a tea ceremony whilst poisoning the other guy's tea -  probably Performance (Air)  
 
This is also how you determine what skill/approach to use when someone's trying to do two things off one check. If you're trying to search a dockyard for evidence of nefarious doings, without getting caught, there are two ways you could resolve this:
As a check to sneak through the yard, spending opportunities to 'notice a detail of the environment'
As a check to search the yard, spending opportunities to 'complete the task subtly and without attracting attention'.
Which way you do it depends on what's more important to the player - finding the evidence or not being seen.
 
 
* Sorry. The Gamers moment there.
 

Can we wait a little, before we prejudge the new philosophy the development team believes in. We literally haven’t even had an official release and already we’re getting these posts. 

With 2.0, FFG will have the ability to tweak the power of basically any card in the game, without compromising the information on our cards. Should an effect, a pilot or a ship be too much or too little, they could change the costs easily. 
Aside from typos, unclear wordings, or mistakes (actual errors that the errata is for), there are no strong incentives to modify the text of a card. In fact, one could argue that if you CAN keep the game healthy without changing texts, you should be doing so. That way you can keep your cards relevant for the longest time. 
 
However, I put it to you, this is the wrong way to think about design, and it will lead to similar problems as the tools of 1.0 did. 
 
In some cases, there are effects that are just too powerful or too weak to be balanced by point values alone. Some argue Luke Gunner is one such card. Old Palp had a similar issue according to some. There is simply no indication that such effects will no longer plague the game after 2.0, especially with the ludicrous release schedule FFG alludes to. 
Disregarding these problems, and trying to fix them with point values will either result in cards with minimal costs that are still not played, or cards with exorbitant costs that will not be played either. 
 
What I am trying to get across, is that both solutions need to be used simultaneously to achieve a healthy game state. The old X7 was treated right, making the Evade an action, therefore depending on player skill to work, instead of ignoring counterplay options. The decision to change that card's text is the right one, even if we account for the possibility of changing the cost. The mechanic was unfair, and it was made fair, while retaining the cool parts. Similarly, in some cases, raising or decreasing costs is the right way to go, especially when a card does everything the card needs to do, but it is still a sub-par option compared to others. 
 
So, here's hoping that FFG realizes this and will not lock the mechanics of every card in, however useless or powerful they might be, and will use every tool available to them to make the game right. 

So I guess the answer to my OP is "no one knows but will sure as **** ***** given any opportunity on this forum". Should've seen that coming...

Seriously, I understand all that.
The "good" reading you advise is the first reading I got, the one I still have, and the one that makes no sense at all.
Problem is, at the end of the day, someone has to decide that the bushi and shugenja are too far appart just because it makes sense. "He was far away, you moved close to him, so ended up far from were you started" is totally sound and fine.
But what makes even more sense, is either:
 - to not use those  bands and go full narrative. (as everyone at the table can agree to get rid of numbers)
 - to not use those bands and go full tactical. (as everyone at the table can equally  agree use more precise and reliable numbers)
Why bother with some clunky in-between mechanics that you sometimes use, sometimes don't, and always end up overruling with fiat and common sense ?
If that is really how they are supposed to be used, I see them as utter failure to achieve anything but a headache.