Wow lucky for you guys, our championships are all in Jan/Feb, not sure why they're in such a hurry here.

We had our first that I ran with 34 players on Jan 9th, 4 in February, 3 in March. I'm hoping to go to one in March and would love to have had wave 8 for a bit by then.

I have only one store champ, on February 21st, and have only been working on wave 8 lists and meta. Yuck.

I have only one store champ, on February 21st, and have only been working on wave 8 lists and meta. Yuck.

I have two, but they're both Feb 27th.... so really only 1.

I have only one store champ, on February 21st, and have only been working on wave 8 lists and meta. Yuck.

I have two, but they're both Feb 27th.... so really only 1.

Boo, that's dumb. We have 4 according to the master list, but 1 isn't on the calendar yet (they're moving locations, so probably not high on their to do list right now). So I guess there's hope we'll have 1 with wave 8.

Jump Master 5000 must be a meta defining ship. FFG is really leading us to believe this will make an impact with the long delay to showcase it. Now the question is, will it live up to the hype? I'm going to guess no.

What hype? The only hype is the community getting antsy because they are suffering from delayed gratification.

It's not the ship hype. It's the crew hype.

Also we just want wave 8 to release ASAP.

Wow lucky for you guys, our championships are all in Jan/Feb, not sure why they're in such a hurry here.

Are you UK based by any chance? If so, I've heard it's because they need to get through Store and Regional levels of championship before Nationals are held, which in the UK are relatively early. (Games Expo IIRC?)

Wow lucky for you guys, our championships are all in Jan/Feb, not sure why they're in such a hurry here.

Are you UK based by any chance? If so, I've heard it's because they need to get through Store and Regional levels of championship before Nationals are held, which in the UK are relatively early. (Games Expo IIRC?)

All the X-Wing events here in KY are starting this Sat and going through Feb.

The ship itself has hype along with the crew that comes with it. The first PWT for scum and a white S-Loop. It also has the upgrade slots for an astromech and crew. For whatever reason, it has 3 extra shield tokens included which could be a defensive upgrade for scum, it badly needs this.

I personally think it has a very good possibility of being an overcosted ship with the title costing 12 points. The Falcon gains so much more with 3 extra HP and the 3 attack PWT for 15 points. This could be offset if Jump Master has a superior dial to the Falcon.

As I stated in another post, we are officially being trolled by FFG if it slips past today. They have averaged 1 preview article about every two weeks since early December, most of them at the end of their weeks. That pattern would put it on today, but if not, I will point that they have 9 articles and counting over the last 2 days, so they may be running out of bandwidth for the week.

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I personally think it has a very good possibility of being an overcosted ship with [...]

So what is everyone's preference? Under costing a ship and having power creep and meta breaking that they'd need to errata in an FAQ. Or Over Costing it and fixing it in one or more expansions? Given the choice, if they couldn't balance it to start with, I think most prefer overcosted with future fixes. Better to nudge ships a little at a time until close enough.

Though some will still argue that it is never enough and others will say the number of fixes and" best includes" is a bit daunting. No perfect state I'm guessing.

[...]

I personally think it has a very good possibility of being an overcosted ship with [...]

So what is everyone's preference? Under costing a ship and having power creep and meta breaking that they'd need to errata in an FAQ. Or Over Costing it and fixing it in one or more expansions? Given the choice, if they couldn't balance it to start with, I think most prefer overcosted with future fixes. Better to nudge ships a little at a time until close enough.

Though some will still argue that it is never enough and others will say the number of fixes and" best includes" is a bit daunting. No perfect state I'm guessing.

I would hope that they do no intentionally do either of those but I have few problems with the cautious approach that FFG currently uses. Some choices do seem overly cautious. If a Scyk "fix" ships with a Scum Epic ship for $100, it will create howls of protest. I'll buy it cuz I enjoy Epic games but the community of complainers will have a valid point to make.

[...]

I personally think it has a very good possibility of being an overcosted ship with [...]

So what is everyone's preference? Under costing a ship and having power creep and meta breaking that they'd need to errata in an FAQ. Or Over Costing it and fixing it in one or more expansions? Given the choice, if they couldn't balance it to start with, I think most prefer overcosted with future fixes. Better to nudge ships a little at a time until close enough.

Though some will still argue that it is never enough and others will say the number of fixes and" best includes" is a bit daunting. No perfect state I'm guessing.

I would hope that they do no intentionally do either of those but I have few problems with the cautious approach that FFG currently uses. Some choices do seem overly cautious. If a Scyk "fix" ships with a Scum Epic ship for $100, it will create howls of protest. I'll buy it cuz I enjoy Epic games but the community of complainers will have a valid point to make.

That I can't argue with. TIE Advanced fix in the Raider, TIE Interceptor good/best include in the Star Viper are both examples.

Autothrusters are a different situation from the tie advanced fix though. While they're basically required if you want to fly an interceptor, they aren't ONLY a fix for that ship, they're quite good on the starviper itself (as well as any other ship with boost), you get 2 of them in the pack, and the ship itself only costs 20 bucks retail as opposed to 100.

Wow lucky for you guys, our championships are all in Jan/Feb, not sure why they're in such a hurry here.

Are you UK based by any chance? If so, I've heard it's because they need to get through Store and Regional levels of championship before Nationals are held, which in the UK are relatively early. (Games Expo IIRC?)

Nope, Kansas City area.

No, they aren't required. They are useful, but they're not autostuck to it.

Jumpmaster article....

Monday

This thread will not be rewarded with fruit until it has exceeded the length of the XG-1 thread. Because they clearly have not been rewarded, and they're up to near 80 pages.

The Rebels thread has 145 pages, and they get rewarded weekly.

Woops I should have told that I am living in France and that the FO and T70 are not here yet so...

Woops I should have told that I am living in France and that the FO and T70 are not here yet so...

Guys men in my family die early of heart problems. If we're gonna be spreading rumors let's see that they are relevant!

Woops I should have told that I am living in France and that the FO and T70 are not here yet so...

Guys men in my family die early of heart problems. If we're gonna be spreading rumors let's see that they are relevant!