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  2. Posted

    I know things got a little patchy around here towards the end, but just wanted to give a personal thanks to everyone for contributing to real discussion and such.  It's hard to achieve, especially mostly anonymously over the internet on something like an official forum. I assume this forum/board will be shut down... soonish, the end is nigh, etc.

     

    Anyways, thanks for being great!

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  3. Posted

    10 hours ago, gamblertuba said:

    In the defence of the designers, how in the force do you make a fair and balanced in-game representation of space wizards that can see the future?  It's tough.

    Unrelated and unspoilery I think.  Have we now discovered that plot armor has been made from Beskar all along?

    I don't think it's the developer's fault - it's the ship everyone playing the game wants.

    9 hours ago, MegaSilver said:

    It's that cannon slot. 

    what?

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  5. Posted

    2 hours ago, IceManHG said:

    Someone in my X-wing discord group just posted this.

    AlexDavy.jpg

    Yeah, from the sounds of things, this is not a unique experience just for Alex.  Rough week for a lot of very great people that did a lot of stuff for us.

    If for whatever godforsaken reason you're reading this, everyone who put up with our nonsense at FFG - you know who you are, we appreciate you more than you'll probably ever know.  Thanks for the good times.

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  7. Posted · Edited by Brunas

    Also I don't really understand what's going on.  I don't know why you're so upset at me not while I'm not making any interesting claims, but I'm pretty checked out on the game in general at the moment as it's impossible to play, and care a lot more about the people I respect and like a lot getting screwed over by FFG than I do whatever the flavor of the month fight is in here.  Apparently it's over whether or not whatever tournaments there have been recently matter? I don't care about whatever it is we're all fighting about at the moment.

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  8. Posted · Edited by Brunas

    9 minutes ago, Sunitsa said:

    I might be a drunk and wooshing irony over my head but I have to bite it... No data for the past months? Really? I wasn't expecting youof all people to dig to this narrative. After literally YEARS of premier tournaments where data was at best partial, at worst completly inexhistant, the only bright side of covid were tournaments with all lists and matchups recorded and we are dismissing them because...? Can someone please tell me why the **** are we dismissing them? And I didn't even played there, so I'm not biased in that sense.

    Is it a small sample size? Of course it's small. Did we ever had a meaningful sample size? **** no. Did that stop anyone before?

    Were they attended by a particular kind of players? Yeah of course not everyone is playing online. But it's not like we hadn't the same problems before when, for example, USA tournament were far more reported than european ones. It never particularly bothered anyone before, but suddenly it does now.

     

    I can agree we shouldn't jump to conclusions just because at one of those there were some kind of snowflake, but that's nothing we hadn't already faced times and times before, but why are we startingjust now to dismiss some of the most complete data we ever had about xwing?

    Am I missing something? Is it because it's just online? Since I don't see people looking at the few live tournaments that actually happened I doubt that's the real answer, or at least it shouldn't be.

     

    We can obviously talk about how the 3 green generics panic is justified or not after the nantex nerf (by myself I'm more toward it isn't), we can talk about how ******* bad republic is right now (it's ******* bad, LAATs are overpriced and jedis were a dumb design almost impossible to properly balance because they cheat the game) and we can discuss about how broken Sloane is (she's another ******* mistake, you get a great howlrunner effect AND the best control tool in the game with the same cheap upgrade which punish your opponent when he fulfills his objective. Yeah she's always has been, but she was overshadowed by far more degenerate stuff before like squad of legends, 4 phantosm or oli aces just to name a few in faction), but I can't really get this whole "2 spacejames, 4+ galaxies and 1 invitational" provided only meaningless data narrative is beyond me.

    Of course it was a meta deeply influenced by nantex wich are now less menacing (albeit they were probably an initiative roll away from winning the only big post nerf tournament) and of course we wil soon get a points update, but this whole attitude of dismissal is triggering me

    Sorry for quoting just you, but I consider you one of the most interesting person I talk with in this thread, so my intoxicated rant wouldn't have happened if was just one another fort hyperspace yelling boor saying the same ****

     

    Err, yeah, I think there's some miscommunication here.  Since we had a points change, there's been two(it might be one, just coruscant?) tournaments that have data.  There wasn't much data for the nantex period so I don't think there a big lessons to learn there, but trying to use that season's data for the post emergency change meta isn't really relevant, as any meta is a chaotic system.  It could be that, for example, republic was only trash because Nantexes destroyed them, and now they're the apex predator.  That's probably unlikely, but we don't have information either way.

    To be more clear - online/covid season had little to no data (it's not that it's low quality, it's just that there isn't really enough) that ranges from hard to impossible to draw conclusions from, while post nantex change is actually zero data.  I would be uncomfortable trying to draw conclusions from covid stuff, but would refuse to draw conclusions from post-nerf nantex stuff

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  9. Posted · Edited by Brunas

    3 minutes ago, Transmogrifier said:

    Yeah that came off a bit more glib than I meant. I really hope they didn't gut the team but it's hard to tell through the upbeat corporate non-information that has come out officially how much this is an on-paper change vs. a real reconfiguration of who is doing what (and who is looking for a new job :().  

    Oh.  Yeah, from what I've gathered from a few public postings, pretty much everyone we (the community in general) interacts with was gutted.  Quite a few of the developers too.  I don't really want to go into details since it's people's personal lives, but yes, lots of people looking for new jobs :(

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  10. Posted

    On 11/16/2020 at 12:37 PM, GreenDragoon said:

    If you wouldn't dismiss data from 1122 lists, or way more if adding Spacejams, then you would add facts to help you make sense of it. However good you think those numbers are - they are better than nothing. Which is what all the other feelings around here are based on...

    What is a low rate of adoption to you? Ask Mark, he has seen the numbers. I was happy to share but have since deleted it because facts apparently don't matter anymore.

     

    On 11/16/2020 at 1:24 PM, gamblertuba said:

    Exactly.  Have not been able to find the lists for Coruscant.  So the question becomes why weren't they played more?  Is Galactic Republic unpopular because it's bad?  Is it a bad faction because it's unpopular?  Is it only popular with bad players?  

    Or is this just noise and we'll see plenty of them in the next big tourney?

     

    On 11/16/2020 at 1:41 PM, GreenDragoon said:

    I don't believe you.

    This thread, in particular, has championed data based takes on the game for years.

    Response to all three - yeah, it's really unfortunate that there's no real data for the past... almost 10 months now, sadly.  Obviously the cause of that no data is even more sad, but not being able to look at results meaningfully (and in fact having to explicitly try and convince people data is currently not valuable is... jarring.   Like here for example, is republic bad?  I certainly can't meaningfully contribute, we have one or two events with current points, and on top of that most of those lists were presumably all constructed before the points change, so even that meta is a bizarro once off meta.  They might be bad, they might be great, but no matter how much we pour through these couple tournaments, we aren't going to find anything meaningful :( 

    2 hours ago, Transmogrifier said:

    This seems like a good time to get some people in front of a camera to calm people's anxieties and wild speculation. Maybe get the dev team out there with a current newspaper so we know that they still work there?
     

    I'm not sure if this is a joke or not or actually just not informed, but... yeah. I'm very upset at the way FFG/Asmodee treated their staff through this, but I also know they don't care because we aren't their customers anymore anyways.  It's infuriating. 

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  11. Posted

    11 minutes ago, GreenDragoon said:

    Not really, no.

    Now if you'd ask if I would mind a named, unique John Doe pilot without an ability, then that would be fine for me.

    Mechanically the same as a triple dotted generic would be three unique pilots of same initiative and no abilities. If your comment was going in that direction then I'm in.

    Oh, interesting! Apparently there are a non-zero number of people who prefer having the options for generics.  I wonder what the breakdown is of (non-tournament) players who ever include any generic pilot in their list vs always using named pilots.  Obviously I don't have any insight into it, other than assuming it's very low.

  12. Posted · Edited by Brunas

    4 minutes ago, Kaptin Krunch said:

    Am I not real?

    no

      

    Just now, Kaptin Krunch said:

    I wouldn't. 
    I don't like the card interaction aspect of the game. I like poisitioning and the more of my list is words the less I'm happy. 

    I didn't come here to play card games. If I wanted to do that I'd gain 300 pounds and get into magic or something. 

    Sure, but the people that are into ONLY the raw positioning aspect of the game seem to be the extreme minority.

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  13. Posted

    3 hours ago, GreenDragoon said:

    I want to play generics. Two of my favorite squads in 2.0 were Lulo+4 Greens, and Snap+4 Blues. Other favorites include 5 (now 6) strikers or interceptors, Droid swarms, the fun sloane swarm (ie not rac and not aggressor), and of course the ace+gang lists like Poe+3 or Holo+3. I wish I could have my ace+Jousty ace+gunboat squad from 1.0 back.

    That does not mean generics are 100% ok the way they are now.

    Would you have preferred playing Lulo + 4 different named low initiative As with different abilities, though?  I was late night posting so the core point got missed (by me), but the attempt was that named pilots are basically just cooler than generics, and in an ideal world we'd just have more named pilots.

  20. Posted

    On 10/10/2020 at 4:48 PM, dsul413 said:

    Did I see some Krayts playing Squadrons today, taking down Stache Squadron? They were on this Operation Ace tournament stream for that game, at least part of it.

    Haha yeah, we sniped a few streamers to see if we could get some harder haha. The Stache guys were definitely the best team, was glad to see them win despite us wasting 20 of their minutes.

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  23. Posted

    1 minute ago, catachanninja said:

    my secret has always been to be really belligerent and take a better jousting list so that my opponent just flies into me to end their suffering early

    very altruistic - also you're kind to give your opponent such nice triangle tokens, and so many of them!

     

    not like those of us who put the squiggly tokens and eye tokens on our own ships, rolled dice, and then ignored what they said though.  That was truly the most interesting gameplay out there.

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  24. Posted

    2 hours ago, EBerling said:

    Objective play would have also solved one of the biggest problems in X-Wing -- the lack of incentive for either player to engage.  So much of competitive X-Wing is about jockeying for a favorable engagement.  Sure, it's a strategically and tactically interesting exercise playing chicken to see who will eventually cave first and engage the opponent on their terms, but it's also booooring and exhausting, and I suspect most players, especially new players, don't really like it.  I got a point near the end of 1.0 where I just started really hating tournaments because the thought of spending 15-30 minutes every game as my opponent and I jockeyed for the best engagement terms was really tedious, repetitive, and uninteresting.

    same team, yeah I'm sure it's no surprise, but the game of "who gets bored slower or does something stupid out of boredom" at the start of every game is... boring.  Shocking!

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  25. Posted

    5 minutes ago, Jeff Wilder said:

    Yep.  I'm not sure I know anybody local who would have simply re-purchased everything.  (I'm sure there's someone -- there always is -- but not many.)

    I don't think those arguing against conversion kits (or at least myself) are arguing against the idea of conversion kits outright - it's the manner in which everything was ported and dumped on everyone at once.

     

    If for example, at the launch of 2e, there was a "conversion kit", but it only had ships that had been rereleased full into second edition so you didn't need to buy new models, and then in future waves when ships were re-released each wave had an "update pack" or whatever you'd want to call the pack of cardboard/cards would be the desire instead.

     

    Basically, it's really obvious a lot of work when into the design of the initial re-released ships, and very little went into that in conversion kits.  That's not a knock against the developers - there's a huge amount of stuff in the kits, the fact that things have gone as well as they have is a miracle.

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