Dramatic SFB: WoA

[Charles Carroll]

Muhahaha....Whats really funny...is I sent this a one on one email...and it
popped up as everyone. So I cant click worth crap it seems.

Anyway...I do feel we need to sooner or later start doing adjustments of
some kind. Or have an agreed upon cut off turn. Or something But if we do
have a cut off turn. What is the basis for who wins? The amount listed on
the left near the bottom of your screen that says Empire score? How is that
calculated? Simply how much BPV you have?

In other words I have no idea how I am doing over all. And because this is
strictly a scenario based campaign with no Empire Benefits. There is no
effective feed back as to what is happening anywhere in the Empire nor is
there any indication if my efforts have helped the Empire other than more
ships keep appearing.

Now I am not saying in any shape or form that is a bad thing. And I could
see it being possible to effectively kill a player but him never winning a
scenario...and since you lose points every time you defend and lose...it
would be possible to be running negative points. But...that also has no
real world consequences, as in I am down 200 points and have to destroy 200
BPV of ships.

I know this is designed purely around having fights. But....the issue with
that is...as an example, I have 22 borders. I had at the most 4 to 5 actual
fights that could happen. And most of them as MD pointed out...are
impossible to play for him. So we end up with lots of nice treaties.
Protected borders all over and one or two players we beat the crap out of.
But even so. It just means we end up never fighting.

So I am just thinking we need something to make fighting either more
attractive, of failing to fight have actual issues that have long term
effects. Maybe instead of losing points, if you lose. Lose a border, which
will end up driving you out of the game. And give the one who took your
scenario...(Only on Defense) a new border with someone else. So saying
nah...I wont defend this becomes not an option anyone wants. Actual
repercussions to failing to meet the enemy.

Anyway some thoughts on how to keep it interesting. I just feel there needs
to be more than...well I woke up today...a turn ran and...I took a lot of
points uncontested. The few fights I could have had were all overwhelming.
So gee...what do I spend this constantly expanding BPV pool on this
turn....so next turn I can do it all again.

Another possibility, is make all scenarios, have serious limits lime move
cost requirements. Or all need to be size class restricted of some type.
With some just free for all, bring what ever fleet you can build for a
massive contest with serious rewards to make sending your main battle fleet
out worthwhile.

Thoughts from the mind of a demented captain.

Chuck

On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 4:51 PM Gregory Flusche <shagrat1960 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I do understand about the how do we win this campaign. IT is evolving and
> Matt loves feed back :)/
>
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 11:56 PM Charles Carroll via SFBdrama <
> sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org> wrote:
>
>> Lol I have all this stuff sitting around so I send it. But...as I have
>> said....I am certainly willing to sens stuff home and just field a fleet
>> equal to you so we can play.
>>
>> Just give me a point range and I will drop stuff. I am real easy. I am
>> actually getting kind of tired of this type campaign because there is no
>> real way to win. It is interesting. But...after the first few turns...it
>> gets predictable. And once treaties and truces get set...it gets absurd as
>> you are seeing.
>>
>> Chuck
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 11:28 PM TJ Hooker <metaldog09 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I see that once again the bulk of your real and actual fighting force
>>> has managed to find its into the 4 boxes on my boarder while the other *21
>>> BOXES manage to find what? 9 snipes? lol man.. are you kidding with this
>>> crap?* I get your DN and all of your cruisers again, and for the last 5
>>> turns ?!!? If the point of this game is to rack up the biggest strategic
>>> fleet and to play the email diplomacy game lets just stop now and declare
>>> you the big winner..lol. wow man, wow.
>>>
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