Hi everyone,

Floating an idea. I was curious if there was interest in forming/joining a vassal experimental playtest league with a pseudo-alternate scheme of point costs. The listbuilding for this would take a very simple form:

Ships at the top of the heap of the truly excellent http://meta-wing.com/ , would incur a point cost penalty of 1-4 points depending on position. Ships at the bottom would receive bonuses of 1-4 points. Some ships with known deficiencies would receive slightly higher bonuses, especially those in the mid-PS values. This is a fairly crude way to swerve the meta, but the idea would be that each month a complete posted list of every pilot available would update based on what kind of lists had been used. As incentive, ships that were not seeing any use would have their bonuses adjusted at the end of the month. (Also known as the "How many points bonus does it take to convince you to use Fel's Wrath" rule.).

Upgrade cards would not be touched. So you can expect that for ships that carry TLTs, they might incur strong penalties once they start cropping up.

Now this all sounds pretty complex, especially once you get into the realm of 30 or 40 ships having points adjustments to them, but in practice, it'd involve using the master list (an example excerpt below) which showed every bonus from that month clearly identified. So when you picked your ship lists that month, you would simply add the bonus number attached to your list ranging from around -5 points or +5 points depending on the sum of the penalties and bonuses per ship you'd taken.

I'm prepared to run this league, hammer out fine details and arrange prizes at the end of it, but a critical mass of interested players might be necessary for this thing to even work. A general poll of all players involved would be taken for >50% approval of the initial points redistributions, and away we go.

A master list might look something like this (this is far from complete, is only the first half of Imperial ships, and even then misses a whole bunch of pilots, but was done quickly to illustrate the point):

Thoughts?

TL DR; A league with little use for preparing for tournaments, but makes flying Blackmoons totally viable.