ahhhh, I think I understand more now. I have never actually used ships with SLAM before, so I guess I've never personally seen the uses for it. Hypothetically, if she ship still had its boosters attached, would it be able to launch its buzz droids if it took the calculate rather than the SLAM action?

This is referring to th new configuration for the Droid Tri-fighters when they are released. When they are active, they instruct the player to attach a disarm token to the ship unless it chooses to flip/deactivate the configuration. But the only effect of the boosters being activated is that they are able to slam, which also attaches a disarm token to the ship? What is the purpose of the intercept boosters attaching a disarm token to the ship? I'm having trouble seeing the benefit of this configuration since it disarms the ship regardless of whether it chooses to take the slam action or not. Is the entire point of the card simply to add the slam action at the price of being disarmed before even choosing to take the slam action?

also, has it been confirmed that there is going to be a november point change? or is this sheer speculation?

I think in general all cheap small-based beef ships needs to go up in price. Hopefully this allows large-based ships to be more competitive. I don't know if this is do-able, but perhaps make Sloane's price vary with the ships that are in the squadron? If you want to put her on a list with 2 or 3 ships, fine. Keep her cheap. if you want to start going above 4 or more? Start raising it. To just be able to hand out double-stresses like candy and then get extra benefits from those stresses is too much imo. Controversial take... With the rule changes to tractoring, I think it's time to bring ensnare down to make it viable... the stress-rotate option after tractoring still allows ensnare to remain strong, while not completely leaving ships that fall pray to it to be dead in the water. I think the original scum Slave 1 title needs to go up. I THINK that should deal with some of the Boba Fett problems?

There might be some type of rule paradox that comes from this, but is there anything preventing FFG from giving a card like Sloane variable pricing based on the size of the player's squadron? This would obviously solve the problem of how Sloane is being used currently, but would still allow her to be used effectively for smaller squadrons where she activates less frequently.