6 minutes ago, catachanninja said:

man i did not think wed make it

1 minute ago, Boom Owl said:

Im speechless...

Speechless? I see a new Krayt bounty....animate our intro!

Also, here's a great new outro for most episodes-

https://soundcloud.com/neutralstar2/star-wars-machine-broke

Great for any episide after the Krayts crush an event, AKA when a Krayt goes to an event.

3 hours ago, Boom Owl said:

I forget do the Krayt Thread Floor Rules allow Yoda vs Palpatine GIF battles?

9 minutes ago, FlyingAnchors said:

3 hours ago, defkhan1 said:

So, I just finished giving my talk at APS March Meeting in LA. Should I go troll one of the crackpot sessions later in the week by presenting my predictions on the X-wing stock market? It'd make at least as much sense as the crackpot theories presented in those sessions.

Just replace keywords: ghost fenn into topological system, maul into Kondo lattice, tlt into superconductivity, turret into iron pnictide, expertise into weyl fermion, etc.

18 minutes ago, jagsba said:

Just replace keywords: ghost fenn into topological system, maul into Kondo lattice, tlt into superconductivity, turret into iron pnictide, expertise into weyl fermion, etc.

What is happening??

1 minute ago, Tlfj200 said:

What is happening??

It's happened. The game is broken, and it has broken us. Now we all descend into madness.

I’m so in on flight assist Astromech. I picked a probably-too-wholesome approach, didn’t practice enough, got tabled by Dion on stream, and still fought my way to 3-3, losing to Zack and Papa Eide.

How dumb is it to try for bomb dropping with it? Has anyone even looked into that? You could get 8 cluster mines on y-wings.

Why am I still probably wholesome?

4 minutes ago, AEIllingworth said:

How dumb is it to try for bomb dropping with it? Has anyone even looked into that? You could get 8 cluster mines on y-wings.

One of our local non-meta crazies tried it out. Y-Wings with bombloads and flight astros.... yeah... It was more than he could handle without practice. It's not like a K-wing SLAMing around, but it opens options! I wouldn't go all in on it though...

6 minutes ago, AEIllingworth said:

I’m so in on flight assist Astromech. I picked a probably-too-wholesome approach, didn’t practice enough, got tabled by Dion on stream, and still fought my way to 3-3, losing to Zack and Papa Eide.

Sounds like a good run with a possibly wholesome list. Flight Astros are fun though, and are pretty strong. Not enough, yet, but they are wonderful toys. Don't worry about practice though. Let go of your instincts and let your feelings guide you!

35 minutes ago, AEIllingworth said:

I’m so in on flight assist Astromech. I picked a probably-too-wholesome approach, didn’t practice enough, got tabled by Dion on stream, and still fought my way to 3-3, losing to Zack and Papa Eide.

How dumb is it to try for bomb dropping with it? Has anyone even looked into that? You could get 8 cluster mines on y-wings.

Why am I still probably wholesome?

I believe again. X-Wing can still be fun. Live free, three and three.

• Imperial: Quickdraw, Inquisitor, Sabacc
• Scum: Fenn, Talonbane, Torani
• Rebel: Poe, Jake, Wedge

Keep up the good fight. We can do this.

36 minutes ago, Tlfj200 said:

What is happening??

science?

26 minutes ago, LagJanson said:

One of our local non-meta crazies tried it out. Y-Wings with bombloads and flight astros.... yeah... It was more than he could handle without practice. It's not like a K-wing SLAMing around, but it opens options! I wouldn't go all in on it though...

Put it on Braylen Stram with Sabine, get yourself into a position so that you can bomb during the combat phase.

1 hour ago, LagJanson said:

It's happened. The game is broken, and it has broken us. Now we all descend into madness.

Some of us don't have to fall as far...

Also, world prizes up. Still sad that I can't make it because of a final... oh well, there's always more years.

I wonder if any of the well known acrylic making companies would replicate the minimalist style of those rulers without the Worlds Logo on ... I can't make worlds (ever, living in the UK, with a young family) but I feel inspired ...

One more:

This plots the amount of ships during swiss vs amount of ships during cuts. The slope is at cut = swiss/3

There are no huge outliers as far as I can tell. Maybe that Dash, Poe, QD and Nu are rather bad.

edit: ****, all ships I like with the exception of Inq are below the slope. I‘ll later add a proper correlation instead of this arbitrary one.

edit: allright, replaced the arbitrary slope with the proper correlation between Swiss and Cut

So Rebel Fenn is faaaaaaar ahead of anything else. Do we want him fixed? On his own he's not entirely abusive. He is totally killable. He's not a broken ship on his own. Do we care?

7 minutes ago, viedit said:

So Rebel Fenn is faaaaaaar ahead of anything else. Do we want him fixed? On his own he's not entirely abusive. He is totally killable. He's not a broken ship on his own. Do we care?

That's not really the take away. It shows that Rebel Fenn is played WAY more often than most other ships, and that he more consistently makes the cut, yes, but it's not crazy. I'll dig a bit more though.

35 minutes ago, GreenDragoon said:

That's not really the take away. It shows that Rebel Fenn is played WAY more often than most other ships, and that he more consistently makes the cut, yes, but it's not crazy. I'll dig a bit more though.

Yeah I understand that. This isn't looking at archetypes, it's individual ships and their frequency of play and making cuts. Rebel Fenn + 75'ish points of other rebel stuff is very competitive and making a lot of cuts. But our job on the internet is to ***** about things that are good and get them "fixed".

Which is the conundrum with Rebel Fenn. On his own, he's not overly oppressive like a 50 point Nym or Miranda. He's a lot easier to kill than Biggs in FSR lists. And he's not as oppressive as playing some of the more broken lists that have been out there. But yet he's there in a huge percentage of high performing lists. Which is why I ask...do we care?

I have been trying to say that Quickdraw, Dash, Nu, and Poe are fun but basically bad for awhile. Not sure if this graph confirms that gut feeling or not but I always found the counter point from people "but look how many are used at tournaments" to be vague and unconvincing.

Winning is Winning.

Question on the "Nu's" and how it relates to the graph. A list can only have one Rebel Fenn, but others can have 3 x Nu's. If a list has 3 x Nu's are they being counted three times, or just once?

Also important to note that the entries are biased towards cuts, meaning we definitely expect a correlation

16 minutes ago, viedit said:

Question on the "Nu's" and how it relates to the graph. A list can only have one Rebel Fenn, but others can have 3 x Nu's. If a list has 3 x Nu's are they being counted three times, or just once?

Three times. I could do the „at least 1 per squad“ but didn‘t yet.

This means many losses with 3bqd but fewer with qd vader nu skews the result against the latter

edit: a numerical example

3x 3bqd, 3x imp alpha. All imp alpha make the cut. But only 1/4 of all gunboats made it. Correct would be 1/2 of lists with at least 1 gunboat.