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  1. Posted

    19 hours ago, Wazat said:

    I haven't been keeping up with news lately; these forums are an unpleasant place to do that with everyone spitting venom at each other over nothing every couple of minutes.  :)  But I take it there's an official announcement that the forums are going down (and presumably the new company will make their own)?

    If all else fails, we have the wiki's Discuss forum and article comments, User Talk, etc.  So if there's a hiccup in service or people hate the new forums, that's a good place to go.  It can also be slightly moderated to break up fights or turn people away who pathologically force threads off-topic even after people have been asked not to repeatedly.  We mostly take a hands-off approach, but at least it's an option, unlike here where FFG's basically chosen to ignore everything that goes on here.

    But while we have everyone here, I'd love to get contributions to the credits effort.

     

    As for the actual work, I've taken the liberty to start a page for you, and I filled out the section for Jango Fett's Slave One as an example (since I had that credits page handy).  A note on structure/organization: If we want, we can instead add a Credits section to each expansion's page (e.g. on Saw's Renegades Expansion Pack etc, add a Credits section at the bottom and fill it out).  Or we can have the credits all in one place like I have now.  I'm indifferent, and it's easy enough to move stuff around once it's written, so we don't really have to choose right now -- just giving you options.

    With all that said, I do have one strong opinion.  Having now put in the time to enter the credits for a single expansion through typing, I can tell you that's a lot of work.  Especially the giant playtesters section in minute print... it's easy to lose your place and skip a name, or misspell something or insert a typo really anywhere.  I'm not confident I didn't, but I need to get back to work at my job.  :)  IMO we should always upload a scanned image of the credits page whenever possible, because that's substantially less work and it helps to proofread any text we do add.  If someone wants to also type out the credits, that's fantastic for searching etc, but the image is a couple of minutes to scan, crop, and upload, while typing takes half an hour or an hour per expansion and aggressively destroys the eyeballs.  ;)

    Credits_-_Jango_Fett.jpg

     

    Any information we gather that isn't on the Credits page can also be added in its own little subheader.  Though I do expect people to include links to the source of information... if there's an interview where someone takes/gives credit for something etc, link to the video, article, etc.  Otherwise we'll have to start adding citation needed to every bit of hearsay, or just delete it.  Wikis aren't for urban legends unless it's a wiki about urban legends.  :D

     

    Anyway, that's a starting point.  I hope that gets you off to a great start!

    The devs have said before on stream that generally the head designer on a ship/wave is whoever's name appears first.  Man i am way to lazy to dig up the stream but it was sometime after wave 8 of 1.0. Obviously some waves have only one designer credited which makes life a lot easier for what you're doing. 

  3. Posted

    22 hours ago, 5050Saint said:

    I'll admit my "knowledge" of that was hearsay. My bad for perpetuating it.

    But the point still stands, I'd rather like some veterans like yourself if you really are Max, I wouldn't put it past folks to create an alt and claim your name. still working on the game to be able to veto missteps that have already came before.

    Also, thanks for all the effort and creativity put into the game. Best of luck in your future endeavors!

     

    Alex revealed in an interview years ago you can tell who the head dev was on a wave because thier name appears first in the credits in the package, doesn't mean anything in there was 100% on that person, but definitely the best place to start

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  4. Posted

    On 12/11/2020 at 3:46 PM, Echoseven said:

    So, this leaves Frank Brooks and Brooks Flugaur Leavitt for possible designers that may be transition over to AMG...

    ...Or are they both gone as well...?

    Brooks was let got months ago, shortly before adepticon. I don't think they've moved onto anything else yet.  Frank is the only person I haven't heard anything on. I had the opportunity to talk to him at worlds and he said he was still with ffg but not working on x-wing.

     

    I was immensely sad to hear the news about Max.  Max had wonderful insight into both the game and community. He was my favorite dev and the game is dramatically more fun because of him. 

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  12. Posted

    1 minute ago, gennataos said:

    That's an...interesting point.  So you're saying points drop on RZ-2 generics?  ;)

    Maybe? Uniques with mostly blank abilities open up some cool design space to allow a chassis to stay cheap but not be spammable as well. I think it was @Brunas who asked during an ama something to the effect of "if a generic is good, how do you keep spamming that generic from being the right answer?" obviously 2.0 has been comfortable using the dots on pilots, but only on some pilots. If the points went UP on the generics this would be a cool way to backdoor keep lists focused on multiple rz2s on the table, without giving them so much room to shave points and get extra advantages on the margins. 

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  13. Posted

    7 minutes ago, gennataos said:

    One just shrugs in resignation and moves on?

    It made me raise an eyebrow, too.  I'd definitely thought of all I5 A-Wings, but hadn't arrived at this idea.  That said, Marcel and Nick Tobin doing great with an A-Wing list doesn't move the "for the masses" needle for me much more than @kenoslaw doing great with an A-Wing list (which he did).  The other guy who made cut with all A-Wings (Maui) is also a pretty big A-Wing guy, from what I understand.  

    To keep poking the RZ-2 bear (I'd say in an objective manner, but I'm biased):

    • Merl shouldn't be the same price as an I1 generic, that's dumb
    • Suralinda shouldn't be cheaper than an I3 generic, that's super dumb
    • The abilities of Seftin, Tallie, Wrobie and Suralinda are mostly blank and they should probably be priced accordingly.  I think only Suralinda isn't
    • The compression of the points for RZ-2s is weird and makes things end up weirder with named vs. generic stuff
    • Tangentially, I'd like to see the half dozen or so unplayed T-70 pilots get a points drop to make RZ-2 inclusion less of a default list building choice

    All of the weird pricing on the new a wings will feel better if the rest of the a wings get price drops in line with it. The way i see it, if the devs think i3 a wings should be 33 and surlindas ability isn't particularly useful, there's no reason to release surlinda at 33 and then drop her when next points come out. It reminds me of something Alex Davy said at gencon after the fang was released, he was asked if the fang costing what it did would kill the khirax, to which he responded, there's no reason to chase bad design decisions with more bad design and that probably applies here. 

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  16. Posted

    11 hours ago, hargleblarg said:

    One edge case of keeping them all I4 is that you can keep their foils closed until combat, and if 1 ship can't afford to take a strain due to a nasty incoming shot, it can still shoot 3 dice in a somewhat meaningful way with jamming beam before the rest of the squad fires.

    i'm not sure the math for jamming beam really helps the rest of the squad, unless its like, a reinforced ghost, but im also too lazy to do the math right now

  17. Posted

    12 minutes ago, gennataos said:

    If I can avoid formation flying, I will.  There were at least a couple times between the two games that I had to consider movement order and it was important, but doubt it's necessary.  You can easily slot in Bastian and Nimi and immediately improve the efficiency of the list.  I was running the I4 because:

    • Baseline test
    • HoH came with two more BSA cards/bases, so I could actually run the list without borrowing!
    • Safety net of MUH HEROIC (not really, but....maybe)

    [edit] - I guess it just comes down to the meta and if I4 means anything.  Seems like it does.

    putting aside a lifetime of conversations @Brunas has had about heroic, it would seem like snap would lower the value of heroic since you occasionally get shot while strained. Mods plus obstacles makes me think maybe snap makes backwards tail slide not a joke? My first instint, while a little on the wholesome side, would be like snap-nimi-blue-ello for four t70s or maybe one of the i5 a wings pulled from a hat with some points in upgrades is a little better? Snap seems solid and Ello seems like a ship that's probably the happiest to have him around (high I, doesn't need a ton of upgrades taken off of other ships). Nimi also seems to like snap thanks to the sort of synergy of likely having more eyeballs around. The list certainly looks fun and is on my docket to try

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  18. Posted

    2 hours ago, gennataos said:

    Riffing off what @MasterShake2 said....

    I used new Snap with 3 heroic BSAs for a couple games last night.  My opponent and I were surprised at how powerful it felt.  Things that made it feel great:

    • I locked on approach more than I thought I would.  Makes sense once one ship is already damaged, because the opponent will want to keep shooting at them
    • Mod when doing a red move (obviously)
    • Mod when doing JUST a barrel roll (less obvious)
    • Mod when going over obstacles (even less obvious (to me))
    • Mod when bumping (discovered on accident).  Tactical self-bumps are even better.
    • The big one, IMO, is being able to make that strain/calc determination at the start of engagement for each ship is kind of a big deal.  No shot, probably don't do it.  Already have bullseye, maybe don't do it.  I don't think I can stress this enough. 

     

     

    how important was being all i4? Seems like since the list can easily be out of formation (thanks 0-3!) you can run a myriad of t70s at different initiatives, and just the jump from i3 to i4 ends up being a good chunk of points. 

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  22. Posted

    8 hours ago, Npmartian said:

    2-ship is an option, if Corran, Luke, or Wedge (or a ghost if you're crazy) is more of your jam. You can fit a cheap Thane/Wedge and Jake/Arvel/maybe Blount? in there alongside a slightly thinner Han/Leia/Lando but probably not next to Dash. Massed Z-95s or A-Wings could do the trick if they went down just a touch in points, and Leia or Han+3 Blue Squadron Pilots does fit, albeit with no upgrades.

    There's plenty of options for two decent friends with the falcon, but i think you'll be unhappy more often than not against most other factions options, especially in extended, barring any wild point swings. There's some decent options in hyperspace, i'm particularly curious to see how some of the large base rebels do with less bullseye nantex floating around. 

     

     

    Also @Boom Owl generic x wings are fun, how dare you exclude them!

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    25 minutes ago, Biophysical said:

    Now that Nantexes are diminished in their threat level.  All of those who argued that Nanatexes were horrible for the game because they made it super hard to play mid/low initiative ships can justifiably turn their ire against RZ2s.  5 ships that can fight while arc dodging, are difficult to block, and have a very high initative average are just the thing that noble non i5/i6 ships need the community to be vigilant about.  

    Complaining on the internet has historically proven to be the best use of energy in x wing, I can't advise any other path here

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