Literally the only prizes I care about are plastic cards and dice (well, and store credit, I guess), but I still like getting other stuff, because I try to give it away at smaller, casual league nights and tournaments to suck new players in. I don't use any of the templates and range ruler sets I've won, simply because I prefer my owns, with quotes from the films.
(I also liked the store champ plaques -- the ones with art -- and I liked the challenge coins. But so much for those.)
2 hours ago, Boom Owl said:DWYWM
wut?
6 minutes ago, PanchoX1 said:wut?
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I think the lure of prizes is what got me traveling in the first place. If it wasn’t for that, I’d probably never have travelled for an event. I might have done GenCon because I go to that anyway.
The true prize really is the friends I’ve made along the way, but I don’t think that'd have happened in the first place without prize support.
4 hours ago, Tlfj200 said:I mean, the satisfaction people get from being handled literally anything is pretty large.
There's zero reason to avoid participation prizes.
At my HST, I gave my 5-year-old nephew a stack of Star Wars stickers and told him to go around the room and give one to everyone. Possibly more popular than the official prizes.
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1 hour ago, Jeff Wilder said:Literally the only prizes I care about are plastic cards and dice (well, and store credit, I guess), but I still like getting other stuff, because I try to give it away at smaller, casual league nights and tournaments to suck new players in. I don't use any of the templates and range ruler sets I've won, simply because I prefer my owns, with quotes from the films.
(I also liked the store champ plaques -- the ones with art -- and I liked the challenge coins. But so much for those.)
I don't typically buy accessories for this game so any tokens/dice/templates I win are really nice. Cards I usually print my own anyway.
But honestly prize support really doesn't dictate how interested I am in tournaments. Better quality accessories can be found online much cheaper even if you value your time way below minimum wage. There's some nostalgia element but honestly if Hyperspace Trials had no prizes I'd still go to just as many
The switch to 2.0 really made the collecting cool swag part drop off my radar as it was all rendered "useless" overnight. I like dice though. Even if the dark grey ones only serve to make my sparklies look better. So it's not that.
I have made some good acquaintances/friends going to events, but my life is busy enough that I don't really get to see any of them often enough for me to pick them as the reason I'd go or not to an event. I'm still mostly an outsider to the group. There are some people I'd prefer to avoid and I skipped events based on that in the past (busy life means very little time to deal with aggravating situations when I could be doing something else). So it's not that.
As for "just playing the game," my son loves the game enough that I can get a few games in per week anyways, and he's decent enough to be a challenge with a small handicap on my part. Still not "it."
I guess, at this point, my answer is "for my (oldest) son." (I didn't vote)
Seeing how he's grown as a person through X-wing, ups and downs included, is fascinating. The last year and a half prove that I'll go to an event when he feels like going too and probably won't if he's not. He got (nearly) participation dice for his first tournament back after a year and a half, and being 10th out of 17, he nearly got templates too. He got real excited when he got the range rulers to begin with, then I asked him if he'd ever actually use them or just stick with his Crack Shot Krayt Templates (tm) and he simply put the blue ones in the bag "for his brothers."
It may even turn into "for my sons" soon. They've rescued my 1.0 stuff from the recycling bin and are playing it a lot on their own, making lists and playing against each other or making up stories. The middle son has expressed a very coldly calculated interest in "participation dice" after hearing about the turnout at our HST 😆 Though funding a whole group of X-wing players gets expensive quickly. Ships get more use so are relatively cheaper, but the event cost adds up!
4 hours ago, Tlfj200 said:unironically the friends you made a long the way.
But we need to remember a lot of gamers are introverts, so please be inclusive.
While more prize support would be awesome, it was worth it just to be paired against 2 friends the first 2 rounds.
Wait, I meant the opposite. It was horrible because I like at least playing against people I haven’t played before.
How hard do you think people would have gone after these as faction prizes (but not available for sale)?
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2019/9/3/beautiful-destruction/
11 minutes ago, gennataos said:How hard do you think people would have gone after these as faction prizes (but not available for sale)?
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2019/9/3/beautiful-destruction/
throwing a batch of these into the prize pool for decently sized events as worst-in-faction consolation prizes is probably a good idea for stores
17 minutes ago, gennataos said:How hard do you think people would have gone after these as faction prizes (but not available for sale)?
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2019/9/3/beautiful-destruction/
a LOT more than $5
31 minutes ago, gennataos said:How hard do you think people would have gone after these as faction prizes (but not available for sale)?
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2019/9/3/beautiful-destruction/
So here it is:
We no longer have to buy a Core Set to buy into X-Wing.
-Templates
-Dice
-Damage Decks
All officially on or coming onto retail shelves.
5 minutes ago, Bucknife said:So here it is:
We no longer have to buy a Core Set to buy into X-Wing.
-Templates
-Dice
-Damage Decks
All officially on or coming onto retail shelves.
And obstacle pack - that's the other big roadblock remedied.
My middle son would be willing to pay a lot more than USD 5 for that Fang deck. My oldest would also be willing to pay quite a bit if that was a Defender deck for the Empire. Then again, they have their Millenium Condor Baladodiffusion decks in a language they can actually read, so it's a non-issue right now. FO should have been a Silencer, or maybe even a Upsilon. The lack of a Firespray deck means I don't have to purchase one either, yay!
Actually do not like large damage cards at all. Take up far too much room.
Feel personally attacked by the Damaged Engine Fang.
Always. Happens.
https://meta.listfortress.com/ship_combos?ranking_start=2018-09-13
On the list of top performing archetypes of all time, one of the lists has not been nerfed like the others
something something imperial favoritism something balance something rabble rabble
3 hours ago, gennataos said:The true prize really is the friends I’ve made along the way, but I don’t think that'd have happened in the first place without prize support.
Same, I couldn't care less about most of the prizes these days but 3 years ago I wanted sparkle dice bad enough to travel for them and that broke the seal
2 minutes ago, svelok said:https://meta.listfortress.com/ship_combos?ranking_start=2018-09-13
On the list of top performing archetypes of all time, one of the lists has not been nerfed like the others
something something imperial favoritism something balance something rabble rabble
is it really imperial favoritism if they're only 4/8 lists? (in a game with 7 factions)
Cascade out for US System Opens?
Prize support is the last thing on my mind when I choose to go to a tournament. Playing x number of matches is the first, and how hard it is for me to consume alcohol at the venue is the second.
Adepticon was the best, by the way.
2 hours ago, Cuz05 said:Actually do not like large damage cards at all. Take up far too much room.
Feel personally attacked by the Damaged Engine Fang.
Always. Happens.
Fly two ships.
The damage cards fit perfectly!
2 hours ago, Cuz05 said:Actually do not like large damage cards at all. Take up far too much room.
Feel personally attacked by the Damaged Engine Fang.
Always. Happens.
*loose stabilizer*
If you have 1 hp, you have roughly an 85% chance of your crit being loose stabilizer
5 hours ago, gennataos said:The true prize really is the friends I’ve made along the way, but I don’t think that'd have happened in the first place without prize support.
Don't you have to be claymation to say things like this?
15 minutes ago, MasterShake2 said:Don't you have to be claymation to say things like this?
I learned it from watching @Tlfj200
9 hours ago, Tlfj200 said:unironically the friends you made a long the way.