I have been trying to think of a reason where this makes sense. The point of the conversion boxes was to make the first edition ships playable in second edition, so why limit a second edition game format to only those ships that have a 2.0 re-release?
I can understand a first edition and second edition game mode, but just can't see the use of the current setup.
On 9/21/2018 at 8:49 PM, OldGrayRat said:why limit a second edition game format to only those ships that have a 2.0 re-release?
Because there is (or will be) a tournament format for only 2.0 re-released ships, so the builder needs to support that format.
8 hours ago, papy72 said:Because there is (or will be) a tournament format for only 2.0 re-released ships, so the builder needs to support that format.
I get that you could have a tournament format for just rebranded ships, but that just sounds like a custom format (select only ships released starting with 2.0). Also, as more ships that were converted from the first edition are re-released, you make less of a need for the extended format.
It just feels like there could have been a better design, maybe like normal, tournament, variant (or scenarios), and custom. Then you have a normal game play mode, and the other three have their own options under them.
11 hours ago, OldGrayRat said:I get that you could have a tournament format for just rebranded ships, but that just sounds like a custom format (select only ships released starting with 2.0). Also, as more ships that were converted from the first edition are re-released, you make less of a need for the extended format.
It just feels like there could have been a better design, maybe like normal, tournament, variant (or scenarios), and custom. Then you have a normal game play mode, and the other three have their own options under them.
I suspect that what will eventually happen is that the Second Edition mode will become the standard after all the re-releases are done, and the Extended mode will go away. But yes, a better overall design would have been nice, but it doesn't look like any significant effort went into making the app a premier product.