Help*** please, had a very rough day on this end and could you someones’s brain to turn this into some really great news. If I end up paying $200-300 for this change (reason for this high cost is below), I can accept that. Just have to find some other games to sell.
I have no negative or positive thoughts on this until I understand what I am in for. Hmmm...sounds like a change for the few (yes, kinda of crazy)casual players like me could be hundreds and hundreds of dollars??? The million dollar question is how many hundreds? Thanks in advance.
Love, love, love the new concept as I have briefly had the time to look of the new squad builder balancing act and dial changes, but worry about costs. Will the old maneuver upgrade dials kits still be good—I own 80-100 upgrade dials ...24-36 per faction? Not bragging and this caused me some very real opportunity costs. I finally paid off the pay pal credit account after of year a long year of work selling of my decade long collection of MTG to afford a huge collection of Destiny, Armada, and x-wing and was planning on never changing these factions. Wife was going to be Scum, me imperials, and the 7 year daughter The Resistance when she got a bit older. I put in hundreds of hours reading expert, and non expert, opinions on how to balance older ships either through point adjustments or making certain things available. For the most part, I ended up with 3-6 cards it seems per ship. That is a lot of text. Obviously, when my daughter would start out I would strip the upgrades, but still found this to be the big downside of my attempt at making list even as I thought someone without much experience could expect. Obviously, theory and reading is great, but experience is better. Making A -wings and b-wings were a real challenge to compete against list consider tournament worthy—especially ace b-wings. To balance some squads clicked in at 108 points—looking at you deatrain squad. Many were just 3-5 points over and adding upgrades seemed the easiest approach for balance since changing a dial was difficult, but some fan upgrades did address this like having a 3 sloop with the b-wing I think it was. I even had other print up fan art cards on Quality paper for b-wings like gyroscopic x, y, and z to mess with. Why? Because the idea was to do it and be done with it except for minor tweaks for the next twenty years. I play lots of games so this seemed like a great idea for my game room appearance as well as time. Will many of the upgrades be worthless in the new edition? What does you git tell you at this point? I am currently starring in front of me at so many EU, TLT VI AS, Extra A, bomblet gen, r2-d2, expertise, etc. in addition to all those pot, and Auto thrusters I am so fond of. Looks like the turrets are getting a make over so the autothrusters ship pack might have killed me and wish I waited to get in, but thought better use this time now when I have it and for it to be ready in two years for the family.
I am so willing to ditch my hundred of hours of effort for a better streamlined game, but I am concerned what the cost will be for people like me who have 12 list ready to go for all three factions. I don’t do things slowly. Being crippled leaves me little money but a bunch of time so this will be a nice project in a way to use my professor mind and keep it crurning. I have no negative or positive thoughts on this until I understand what I am in for. I own 15 or so push the limit cards and likely the same number of autothrusters, so on and so on because unlike most people I really like to display ready to lists on shelves in my hameroom and don’t like proxies or travel to play. If you build it, they will come. Grab and go upgraded dial, ships, and upgrades so thousands poured into a game I’ve played less then twenty times and I am waiting for my 7 year old to get old enough to play.
Will all those $8 autothrusters be for naught? I think I kept one eBay reseller in business...lol. How many conversion kits will I need. Just for scum I own three lancers, three firesprays, three u-boats, 3-4 fang fighters, 2 slavers, 2 is-88, 2 hawks, 6 y-wings, three Kihraxz, three star vipers, two scurrg, two G1-a, x1 tub boat, for z-95, 4 m3-A. This one faction will give me an idea. Tx.
Edited by 1977Valarian