1 minute ago, drjkel said:

My initial reaction to dice mods getting nuked is that it will reward people that are good at the positioning game. So the better players will have even more of a crushing edge. I'm generally ok with that.

However, seeing the reaction of people to my son when he keeps rolling natural evades and crits (yes, crits, not hits, so many perfect rolls...), the whining about unfairness will be through the roof.

You'll need to be really good or really lucky and since only one of those can be worked on, the salt mines should be extra salty.

Interesting experience from IA worlds salt mine: People I know that are VERY unhappy at losing "to dice" in xwing were down there with me, but instead of being upset they had a big smile on their face while they made the same complaints, because IA is such an enjoyable experience.

I think a lot of the salt mine anger comes from not having fun AND losing, so if the second edition gameplay is fun the salt mine attitude will probably improve.

3 minutes ago, drjkel said:

So the better players will have even more of a crushing edge. I'm generally ok with that.

Better Players are the original NPE.

5 minutes ago, Makaze said:

It's init 2 so blocks are unlikely and in the demo game it had advanced sensors so turning around wasn't a problem. So I think the combo is pretty much going to happen every turn, short of a tubectomy.

Also side note, the U-Wing now that it can rotate 90 seems... dare I say it, not terrible now.

LOL @ tubectomy. That may be the first and only time that word will be searchable in these forums.

Just now, Boom Owl said:

Better Players are the original NPE.

FFG Nerf better playe-

Oh wait, we have Ghost-Fenn in 1.0.

1 hour ago, Sunitsa said:

But that's true for xwing 1.0 too.

In Xwing 1.0, most highly competitive ships were able to take reposition actions and still have modifications of some kind on attack or defense either through passive modification or carry-over actions.

20 minutes ago, Tlfj200 said:

Natties happen all the time though... the difference is that people wont get a lot of "free" stuff anymore, so they'll SEE that maneuvering for mods matters, vs now, where most ships get full mods regardless of what they did.

I almost tried to walk a salty through the actual dice probabilities once, but decided against it.

I used X-wing to teach my 8 year old basic probabilities though, that was super fun and will be useful for life! He even corrected a whiner who got hit-focus-blank once, which got lots of laugh from those of us who understand math.

20 minutes ago, AlexW said:

In Xwing 1.0, most highly competitive ships were able to take reposition actions and still have modifications of some kind on attack or defense either through passive modification or carry-over actions.

Yeah, like flying Soontir at range 3 of Kavil behind an asteroid (who roles three hits and a crit) and Fel blanks out all five dice (yes, all blanks) and dies despite focus, Autothrusters and Stealth Device.

6 minutes ago, clanofwolves said:

Yeah, like flying Soontir at range 3 of Kavil behind an asteroid (who roles three hits and a crit) and Fel blanks out all five dice (yes, all blanks) and dies despite focus, Autothrusters and Stealth Device.

Shoulda had palp

9 minutes ago, clanofwolves said:

Yeah, like flying Soontir at range 3 of Kavil behind an asteroid (who roles three hits and a crit) and Fel blanks out all five dice (yes, all blanks) and dies despite focus, Autothrusters and Stealth Device.

Pretty bad luck, but he still had modifications, didn't he (AT and Focus)? And a lot of players talk about situations like that but Soontir still managing three evades because of AT, Palp, and an evade.

1 minute ago, AlexW said:

Well, he still had modifications, didn't he? And a lot of players talk about situations like that but Soontir still managing three evades because of AT, Palp, and an evade.

Yeah, I'm just saying that modifications are IT, dice alone means squat in a tournament, squat.

How many KraytKoins do we have to mine to crowdfund 1.7 billion dollars?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-asmodee-m-a/board-game-company-asmodee-explores-sale-sources-idUSKBN1IA38V

7 minutes ago, viedit said:

How many KraytKoins do we have to mine to crowdfund 1.7 billion dollars?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-asmodee-m-a/board-game-company-asmodee-explores-sale-sources-idUSKBN1IA38V

Huh. Odd development. Super expansion followed by sell everything?

Just now, LagJanson said:

Huh. Odd development. Super expansion followed by sell everything?

Quick cash spike to make the books look good for the quarter.

Just now, viedit said:

Quick cash spike to make the books look good for the quarter.

Look upon our cash flows and weep!

Alternatively:
'We have synergized business units across the enterprise to increase efficiencies and lower costs using outside-the-box thinking and cutting-edge management strategies...

...u buy us nao?'

Eventually one of these giant maintenance/server errors will be this thread being moved to off-topic, and it will be sad.

Clearly moving a thread with such girth would require downtime.

17 minutes ago, Brunas said:

Clearly moving a thread with such girth would require downtime.

THICC

^^ That's what she said.

35 minutes ago, Brunas said:

Eventually one of these giant maintenance/server errors will be this thread being moved to off-topic, and it will be sad.

Clearly moving a thread with such girth would require downtime.

I hope that day never comes. Its ridiculous every other thread I try to create that is intended to just be another happy place turns to the darkside after only a few pages.

Apparently a critical mass of Krayt groupies is needed to keep any given thread wholseome and full of truthiness.

@Boom Owl, don't bother with the rest of this forum. We've got this thread, and as a backup, we've got our Discord.

Is there anyone you actually like on these forums who doesn't post in at least one of those two places?

5 hours ago, Tlfj200 said:

Shh.... Sh.... Just let it happen...

19 minutes ago, Kieransi said:

@Boom Owl, don't bother with the rest of this forum. We've got this thread, and as a backup, we've got our Discord.

Is there anyone you actually like on these forums who doesn't post in at least one of those two places?

This is the second time I've heard of this mythical discord, is there an easy to find link to such a place?

1 minute ago, mdl0114 said:

This is the second time I've heard of this mythical discord, is there an easy to find link to such a place?

same here.

Just let me or @Brunas know if you're interested and we'll PM you the link

4 hours ago, LagJanson said:

Huh. Odd development. Super expansion followed by sell everything?

"The Guyancourt, France-based company, owned by private equity firm Eurazeo SE (EURA.PA), has hired investment bankers to run a sale process, said the sources, who asked not to be identified because the deliberations are confidential." (emphasis added)

That should answer all your questions.

I'd love to get a look at their financials. A 10.5x increase in valuation in 4 years in impressive, but their EBITDA is somewhat lower than I'd expect and a 15 to 1 price/earning ratio is really not that high (Games Workshop is at 25.8). I wonder how much debt it's saddled with, what with the buying spree they went on.

Or, just the part I bolded, again.

Oh, wait, that was content. Let me fix it: GhostFenn is a nuanced and balanced list and people who don't see that have just not hit a high enough Git Gud Level (tm) yet.

14 minutes ago, drjkel said:

GhostFenn is a nuanced and balanced list and people who don't see that have just not hit a high enough Git Gud Level (tm) yet.

*twitch*

On another note... I'm actually starting to crave a standard format game of X-Wing again... It's been a while since I've played one.