Dramatic SFB: Hidden mines

[Matthew]

> I was just surprised to find out that the campaign was using hidden 
> mine placement.
> I personally like narrow salvos.. many do not.
> I would also lobby for energy balance due to damage...

Currently, the ship has sailed on these issues. I'd like to direct your 
attention to the SFB Rules of interest 
<http://sfbdrama.mattnet.org/docs/rules.html#sfb%20rules> in the campaign.

tl;dr: Give the campaign a chance and then hit up the mailing list after 
the campaign is over.


The Secret placement of mines have been part of the campaign since it's 
first public game, where the Romulan player of the time had successfully 
used his Jedi Mind Tricks on the rest of us, to get us to include it. As 
it's optional, I'm not surprised to see that players might want it out. 
But it's in, it's marked in the campaign rules as in, and so the best 
recourse is to minimize it's effects on you (or maximize it's effects on 
your opponents, in hopes that *they* want it out.)

Narrow Salvos are marked as "Advanced", not "Optional". Therefore the 
game is already balanced with those figured into things (the same way it 
is for self-generated EW.) Personally, it never crossed my mind to 
remove Narrow Salvos; they seem to me to be as much part of the game as 
fancy shuttles and t-bombs.

Energy Balance Due to Damage, Leaky Shields, Critical Hits, Pre-Plotted 
Movement, and so on, also are not part of the game as called out by the 
campaign. If you want to include some certain optional rules or leave 
out some certain non-optional rules, then I'm willing to entertain a 
discussion.

**However**, the middle of ongoing campaigns are not the time to go 
changing the rules. There is usually a short haitus between major 
campaigns (in this case, the Attrition War is a major campaign. The 
other two campaigns are to support it.) That is the time to discuss 
changes to the campaign structure, allowed rules, disallowed rules, and 
the aim of the next campaign(s). We've successfully done that in the 
past: Scenarios used to include rewards and penalties to your income 
stipend, pre-laid minefields have been officially disallowed, Tugs and 
pods have been added to your build lists, changes to the Command-Rating 
format had been discussed and knocked out, and so on.

So let things run their course. See if you can make the current batch of 
rules work for you. And then when we wrap up the current iteration, see 
if you can convince the others to your thinking (and bribe them with 
cookies.)

--Matt
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