I vaguely remember reading about a "community edition" of x-wing that might be in the works, that fixed a lot of the problems with balance (fan made). Is this a thing, and if so where can I find more info?

There's a lot of people here who are into stat and number-crunching, so I figure someone must have put together a list of tweaks to bring balance to the game again. To be clear: I'm not saying the game as a whole is broken, or even that the factions are imbalanced, I am just saying that some ships and upgrades seem definitely better than others. I just want to be able to have access to all (or at least, more of) my collection when I build my squad. I do not play competitively and I'm fine with house rules.

The forum is full of individual "fixes", but I'm looking for an entire collection of fixes, preferably play tested. Does such thing a exist? Thanks!

4 minutes ago, period3 said:

I vaguely remember reading about a "community edition" of x-wing that might be in the works, that fixed a lot of the problems with balance (fan made). Is this a thing, and if so where can I find more info?

There's a lot of people here who are into stat and number-crunching, so I figure someone must have put together a list of tweaks to bring balance to the game again. To be clear: I'm not saying the game as a whole is broken, or even that the factions are imbalanced, I am just saying that some ships and upgrades seem definitely better than others. I just want to be able to have access to all (or at least, more of) my collection when I build my squad. I do not play competitively and I'm fine with house rules.

The forum is full of individual "fixes", but I'm looking for an entire collection of fixes, preferably play tested. Does such thing a exist? Thanks!

There are two main versions of this I've seen- The Player-run FAQ/Errata that I am trying to create, and MajorJuggler's X-wing 3.0 remake.

Mine is intended to have the scope of a big FAQ that could be released as a pack of cards- MajorJuggler's is an entire reworking of the game.

I'll probably try to recruit developers and offer prize support again in a week or three if FFG doesn't release their FAQ by then.

I have no idea if @MajorJuggler is looking for helpers, but if you are- My degree is in Statistics and I think I'm pretty good at game design if you want help.

I am not sure if anyone has playtested fixes for, say, Mercenary Copilot. But many "back of the envelope" fixes are proposed in the pinned beginner's guide to x-wing.

Major Juggler and a few others (Sozin, I think?) were working on their own version of X-Wing, drawing heavily from "Math Wing" to adjust point-costs. I don't know the status of the project, though, but there's always a risk with these ambitious homebrewed undertakings that they run out of steam and never get completed.

HotAC is the closest thing you're going to see for a while.

That, or limited format events. Limit the ship choices and presto, the game thrives again with pilots you've never seen on the table.

There is also a community driven objective scoring system for tournaments that is being developed. Which will also shake up the meta.

2 minutes ago, Timathius said:

There is also a community driven objective scoring system for tournaments that is being developed. Which will also shake up the meta.

That's interesting. Have you more intel to share about it?

46 minutes ago, Giledhil said:

That's interesting. Have you more intel to share about it?

There should be a big info dump on it coming soon and there are some events that are already using the system as a beta test.

https://www.facebook.com/events/704748326387921/?acontext={"ref"%3A"4"%2C"feed_story_type"%3A"370"%2C"action_history"%3A"null"}

for example

I'm waiting for MajorJuggler's version- I've lost all hope that FFG can or will fix this game- but MJs has a chance to rekindle the flame.

50 minutes ago, Timathius said:

There should be a big info dump on it coming soon and there are some events that are already using the system as a beta test.

https://www.facebook.com/events/704748326387921/?acontext={"ref"%3A"4"%2C"feed_story_type"%3A"370"%2C"action_history"%3A"null"}

for example

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