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    FastWalker reacted to Stormshrug in Max is gone as well.   
    Point of clarity: I didn't design Twin Laser Turret. My first work was in Wave 9 of 1E, not Wave 7.
    "I'll Show You The Dark Side" was 100% on me, but I'm not to blame for TLT.
    -Max
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    FastWalker got a reaction from OldGrayRat in SirWilli's Workshop: X-Wing 2.0 stuff   
    Do you have a link to this other generator? I just use cpforbes.net/tuckbox/ to generate the boxes and photoshop to add the images.
    Glad someone else has started making their own boxes. Do you plan on sharing the boxes you've created?
    I've been waiting for my Wave 8 ships to arrive before making new boxes.
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    FastWalker got a reaction from CoffeeMinion in SirWilli's Workshop: X-Wing 2.0 stuff   
    Do you have a link to this other generator? I just use cpforbes.net/tuckbox/ to generate the boxes and photoshop to add the images.
    Glad someone else has started making their own boxes. Do you plan on sharing the boxes you've created?
    I've been waiting for my Wave 8 ships to arrive before making new boxes.
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    FastWalker reacted to dezzmont in X-Wing moving to Atomic Mass Games   
    No conversation has ever been more my wheelhouse on this forum than this one. I am going to try to give you a basic 101 level marketing course to help illustrate why FFG did so amazingly poorly at it I am literally adding it to my collection of 'what not to do' case studies. 
    The fact you think that the 'beer and pretzel gamer' who bought a core set and 2 space ships has the same needs and outlook on the game as the person who is ride or die to tournaments booking hotels and tuning their list based on excelent data articles by other tournament players to ensure they can beat all comers in the meta after buying 5 new plastic spaceships per-tournament have the same needs, you are part of the problem. This isn't even a X-wing specific concept, this is called market segmentation, its a super basic concept any business utilizes to evaluate the different needs of different types of people in their target market. FFG could be selling a cleaning products and there would still be a need to consider how different people want to use the product, look at how Swiffer markets itself to two entirely different consumer bases: College Students and Busy Moms. Its just more important for ongoing collectable games because the necessity of creating a personal relationship with the product.
    This isn't to say these two player types can't co-exist either. Most games manage it. MTG did some surface level market segmentation dividing the type of people who want to play complex collectable games into three types, Timmy, Johnny, and Spike, and the OP community is basically all Spikes. Your perspective is hecking valid, and Spikes are naturally a bit 'higher mantinance' but the fact that the attention of X-wing was almost entirely enveloped into the desires for OP players was objectively something that did way more harm than good. Because while you need to avoid making anything that actively angers spikes to the point that OP dies, you also need to kinda... ignore them when they complain about cards for Timmy or Johnny ever touching the OP meta, because the OP environment needs strategies Timmy and Johnny like too.
    For example, 'you wouldn't like a game where control was good' is a supreme example of the Spike mindset, but in fact Johnny would LOVE a game where control was good. This was something a designer for X-wing unironically said which got adopted as a universal truth by the community on these forums that is, to be blunt, objectively wrong? We know from studying the market of collectable games for some odd 20 years. We actually have a pretty good understanding in both marketing and ludology that control would be an archetype many players find fun and the actual challenge isn't ensuring control isn't good, but ensuring control is good in a way that feels like your still rewarded for 'traditional skills' so valuable to Spikes.
    Well if wishes plans were horses bud. Not launching with multiple game modes baked into the DNA of the casual 2.0 landscape was clearly a mistake. No one is arguing that FFG didn't have ideas to mix thing up. They are arguing they weren't a priority at ALL despite diverse play modes being a huge selling feature of collectable games in the market shortly before Covid. 
    Part of the problem is that FFG... very openly treated Epic like garbage and didn't care. And that is bad, worse than Epic merely being 'not good' because, again, a huge part of marketing a collectable game is creating an emotional connection to the product. A really good way to kill that connection is for the product to feel like it doesn't care about you.
    I can think of no way to do that faster than to release a long in demand product a lot of people felt should have been in the game at launch but wasn't (understandable), and then failing to support it in the app that is 'required' to play the game.
    That is... as we say in the communications field, a, 'uhoh,' a big oopsie, a fall down the bad idea tree hitting every branch.
    It was incompetence.
    Product rollouts are a thing that you should be able to do. I am not saying any individual at FFG made the choice to be incompetent, but FFG as a whole was grossly incompetent during the rollout for Epic in a way that damaged brand perception in a big way.
    The message your sending to the 'ultra loyal' casual playerbase, the group that is willing to make your product look as exciting and bombastic on store tables as possible and pay through the nose for doing so is 'your so much of an afterthought that not only did we not launch for this, but the excuse can't be that it was because we weren't ready, because we weren't ready now.'
    And I know they were planning to rework the app. But you wanna here a secret? That is worse. It means that when they designed the app for this game they didn't plan ahead to include variant casual play modes at all. And they didn't care enough about Epic to go out of their way to update it before the launch.
    Maybe they cared about epic a lot. Maybe their hands were tied, or maybe they had a rework to the app being worked on for day 1 and the timing didn't work out. But that doesn't matter. You can be the most benevolent well meaning company ever but your choices for how you release and market your products are what they are and the only thing the customer base is going to judge you on is the end result. You gotta actually deliver
    And if your a 200/6 Op player? Sucks, you wanted to give epic a try, but it isn't too big a problem. But if you are a fan of epic, or a casual player who is dissatisfied with 200/6 and getting trashed by gatekeeper ships all the time? It tells you very clearly that FFG, intentionally or not, is not willing to invest resources into maintaining your good time.
    This isn't the only big huge market segmentation oopsie FFG did, the great 'Go to **** OT players' issue is arguably way worse in terms of how to mishandle stewarding a product (Because, you know, not monetizing the OT isn't just a good way to make people feel like the product doesn't care about them, but is also a refusal to print money), but its a great example case because there is absolutely no excuse for how badly Epic was handled. The literal only conclusion you can draw from the handling of Epic was that it wasn't a priority and it was mishandled. The question is more 'how much do you care about that.'
    There is no artificial division here. There is just a division. We aren't same team bud, and people on the forums have been trying to tell people like you that for a long time. Acting outraged that I am 'trying to divide the playerbase' misses the point, that you are in fact already standing alone. That doesn't mean we aren't one community, and can't co-exist, we absolutely should. All wargames NEED their OP communities, and those communities deserve to be happy and healthy. But holy crap do you guys not understand how casual players think sometimes, and the fact of the matter is you all really need to take more time to practice empathy. I am not saying you gotta agree with casual players or even think they are right, but the sheer level of scorn that oozes from OP towards certain things casual players want is... visible, and gross. 
    Like, a meta example in this thread: Hey maybe stop telling the person who's primary concern is their favorite casual play mode is second banana in FFG's eyes when it super obviously is that they are wrong and just trying to stir the pot or cause strive. You shouldn't come at a disagreement accusing the other person of just being deliberately deceptive or inflammatory because that is a deliberate attempt to avoid engaging with their point of view. It means you aren't talking to them, you just want to be right so bad that anyone who has a different viewpoint and values to you has to be LYING.
    Think about that for a second. Someone is telling you to your face that you don't understand them or their desires and has given a pretty clear example of that and why they think that, and your response isn't to say 'Oh I don't agree but its clear this is important to this player' but instead accusing them of some conspiracy to artificially divide the community. What is more likely? Darth Meanie is some weird agent of mischief trying to kill X-wing from the inside just... I dunno... because? Or Darth Meanie cares about different things than you and its hard for you to understand Meanie's viewpoint without first recognizing they want different things than you, and you refuse to do that to the point you need to invent a reason for Meanie to do what they did while still sharing your beliefs about the game.
    Your conspiratorial mindset towards people saying "Hey Epic was important to me and shafted" is a perfect example of why you ARE out of touch. You just put it on full display here and its kinda amazing. "I am not out of touch, your just lying about what you want!"
    And, again, I am not saying OP is not important, or that it should bend over backward for the casual player base. We shouldn't go back to 1.0's wacky nonsense just to appease the casual playerbase. What I am saying, though, is that OP is a bit more out of touch than it thinks it is, and some of the things it wants if perused too much hurt the casual player base. We SHOULD be same team, even if we aren't the same faction in the same team, but right now we just aren't and that is in part a listening problem and a refusal to engage with ideas you don't agree with in good faith. In fact, for a game to survive both sides of the community don't just need to exist, but be stoked the other side does as well. And that just... isn't the case at the moment.
    TL;DR: Get a grip my dude, you are in fact out of touch to the point you believe people are conspiring to divide the community to avoid engaging with them telling you to your face that they think your out of touch. This doesn't make you a bad person, but it does make you kinda part of the problem, when ideally we should want every pillar of this community to support each other even if we value different things.
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    FastWalker got a reaction from sirjorj in SirWilli's Workshop: X-Wing 2.0 stuff   
    Thanks! Glad you like them.
    As for the Servant's of Strife (SoS) Vulture Gearbox, they were designed for 1 gearbox per ship. Since the SoS comes with 2 Vultures, you need to split their "assets" between 2 gearboxes. This occurs frequently with the boxes i made.
    After i split them, i just use a pencil and mark (small dot) next to whichever pilots were placed in that box. Also, some gearboxes were made to give you extra space for at least 1 ship token. This is to account for future Aces Packs (AMG???).
    Fly well and May the Force be with You. 
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    FastWalker reacted to Firebird TMK in X-Wing moving to Atomic Mass Games   
    No. NO. N-O.  N-to-the-O.  NO!!!  Do NOT operate like 40K!!!

    I came to X-Wing 1.0, and stuck around for 2.0, specifically to get AWAY from 40K and everything else GW.  Do NOT go down the plastic-crack, pimped-model-of-the-month, stupid-rules-designed-solely-to-push-stupid-units, don't-give-a-bleep-about-breaking-the-game path!

    If they do, good-bye X-Wing.
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    FastWalker got a reaction from KCDodger in STAR WARS: REBELS Discussion Thread!   
    Sounds better than what we got from the actual Sequel Trilogy... as long as we didn't end up with trade embargoes, coarse sand, and Gungans.
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    FastWalker got a reaction from CaptainJaguarShark in STAR WARS: REBELS Discussion Thread!   
    Sounds better than what we got from the actual Sequel Trilogy... as long as we didn't end up with trade embargoes, coarse sand, and Gungans.
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    FastWalker got a reaction from LUZ_TAK in STAR WARS: REBELS Discussion Thread!   
    Sounds better than what we got from the actual Sequel Trilogy... as long as we didn't end up with trade embargoes, coarse sand, and Gungans.
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    FastWalker got a reaction from Kleeg005 in Total Destruction - Droid Tri-Fighter preview up!   
    Triple Fearsome Predators is going to be fun to fly.  Hopefully you can squeeze in, at least, a pair of HMPs to act as anvils while Trifighters are the hammers.
    Independent Calculations sounds intriguing.  Not sure if I like it or not.  Depends on cost.  I do like the design space.
    I'm surprised Thread Tracers have 2 charges instead of 1.
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    FastWalker got a reaction from Odanan in Stay Sharp - V-Wing preview live!   
    I know why FFG is limiting 3-attack ships.  But I so wanted the V-Wing to have 3-attack stat.  In any case, V-Wings look fantatic, especially with Payload and Astromech slots.  Woohoo!
    Right?!  V-Wing might be the first ship that players will fly Oddball.
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    FastWalker got a reaction from Npmartian in Stay Sharp - V-Wing preview live!   
    I know why FFG is limiting 3-attack ships.  But I so wanted the V-Wing to have 3-attack stat.  In any case, V-Wings look fantatic, especially with Payload and Astromech slots.  Woohoo!
    Right?!  V-Wing might be the first ship that players will fly Oddball.
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    FastWalker got a reaction from Phoenix4427 in Custom foam trays?   
    Thanks for the compliment.
    These MicroHangars and GearBoxes makes organizing and storing pretty simple. You don't need to rummage thru your collection for dials and base tokens. You just grab the boxes you need and go. The only issue is investing time to make the boxes, which i do while watching TV.
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    FastWalker reacted to Phoenix4427 in Custom foam trays?   
    I really can't recommend battlefoam custom trays for Xwing.
    I had a really good experience with them for WH40k and thought it would be ideal.  I created 6 trays for my collection with the idea being that as the collection grew I would simply expand the number of trays.  Out of the box there were issues with the xwing shapes.  They were far too tight and and I was worried that I would damage they guns (which I later did, despite being very careful).  I spoke with Battlefoam as soon as I found the issue and they were simply not interested.  The short version is "the community didn't like the old xwing shape so we made a tighter one, we don't offer the old shape, there is nothing we can do, you can cut your foam but you void warranty, bye".  Needless to say my review never made it onto their sales site...funny that.
    Enter........(drumroll)........SirWilliblads!    http://sirwillibald.com
    Sir Willi produces pdfs for cardboard hangers in a variety of different configurations as well a other things. The PDFs are free. Your only costs are a ream of 200gsm paper, a glue stick, your printing and your time.  I use the individual ship boxes (microhangers) and a friend of mine uses the ship+base+plastic boxes(gearboxes).
    The protection is surprisingly good as the boxes are tight but square allowing you to pack them and they don't move around.  They also take up waayyyy less space in what ever container you decided to put they in. I carry my collection is 5 plastic boxes I got from the reject shop.  one each for Empire/Rebels/S&V, one box for Resistance/New Order and one box for Galactic Republic/CIS.
     
    The only downside was that SirWilli stopped making PDFs a while ago but I used the link he gave to a maker site and I spent the time to make my own boxes with the same art work.
     
    Enter.......(drumroll)......FastWalker. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1srCpFP_8qhPpWnbtQ35FiyCAxmWN5QMQ    Sadly a little late for me as I had already done my own ships but FastWalkers designs are equally good and are a good match up with SirWillis.
     
    I have seen both these guys on the Forums here and cannot thank them enough for the hard work they have put in.
    In my opinion the cardboard is far, far superior storage for a more elegant gaming experience. 
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    FastWalker got a reaction from ForceSensitive in Fight to the finish - Herald of hope preview   
    I'm disappointed that FFG didn't include a Black One paint scheme for new players.  Pity.  I guess the Heroes of the Resistance 1.0 pack is now a collectible.

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    FastWalker got a reaction from Jo Jo in New points are up in the official app   
    FFG always starts cheap with new stuff.  But 3 points for Concussion Bombs?  SERIOUSLY?!!
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    FastWalker got a reaction from ForceSensitive in New points are up in the official app   
    Most likely FFG started pricing LAAT at 51 due to testing. LAAT is an awesome support ship. I bet any lower in cost and Republic players can create insanely efficient lists that reminiscent of Sinker Swarms.
    For me, i really want them to be around 49 to 50 points. Cuz i wanna be able to fly 4 of them. Or 1x LAAT & 6x Torrents. Hmmm, that looks familiar. 🤔
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    FastWalker got a reaction from Odanan in New points are up in the official app   
    FFG always starts cheap with new stuff.  But 3 points for Concussion Bombs?  SERIOUSLY?!!
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    FastWalker got a reaction from ForceSensitive in New points are up in the official app   
    FFG always starts cheap with new stuff.  But 3 points for Concussion Bombs?  SERIOUSLY?!!
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    FastWalker got a reaction from ScummyRebel in New points are up in the official app   
    FFG always starts cheap with new stuff.  But 3 points for Concussion Bombs?  SERIOUSLY?!!
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    FastWalker got a reaction from Gupa-nupa in Fight to the finish - Herald of hope preview   
    I'm disappointed that FFG didn't include a Black One paint scheme for new players.  Pity.  I guess the Heroes of the Resistance 1.0 pack is now a collectible.

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    FastWalker got a reaction from Sciencius in Fight to the finish - Herald of hope preview   
    I'm disappointed that FFG didn't include a Black One paint scheme for new players.  Pity.  I guess the Heroes of the Resistance 1.0 pack is now a collectible.

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    FastWalker reacted to theBitterFig in Tie Heavy: Craig Fan Club: X-Wing is Serious Business   
    No more rhymes! I mean it!
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    FastWalker reacted to That Blasted Samophlange in Tie Heavy: Craig Fan Club: X-Wing is Serious Business   
    Anybody want a peanut?
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    FastWalker reacted to That Blasted Samophlange in Tie Heavy: Craig Fan Club: X-Wing is Serious Business   
    Not liking this craig garbage.   I suggest another brute:

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