<div dir="auto">I'm not 100% in agreement on the need for new rules to push everyone towards a specific style of 'strategic level' play. I understand we need some rules to make sure everyone has as much fun as possible, but not so many that it begins to stifle the fun - and to make things more complicated for the GM, that threshold is different for everyone.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Let's take the ship assignments as an example. If I decide sector # is the most valuable thing on my border and assign the biggest fleet I can command to it, that's its own handicap everywhere else along my border without even needing extra rules.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Similarly if I notice my neighbor always assigns big fleets to sectors with +10 income, I can choose to bid a big fleet against them in that sector and play the battle or to take advantage of their weakness every where else.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Respectfully,</div><div dir="auto">Brent</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 24, 2021, 15:11 <<a href="mailto:sfbdrama-request@lists.mattnet.org">sfbdrama-request@lists.mattnet.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send SFBdrama mailing list submissions to<br>
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1. Re: New "Main" Campaign (Wayne Power)<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Matt did say campaign set between Y166 and Y180.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">"So it's time to start up a new "Main" campaign:<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">- This is open to anyone and everyone, with no limit on the number of<br></div><div dir="ltr">players<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">- It will be set sometime between Y166 and Y180. Three turns to a year.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">- No conjectural ships (unbuilt variants, impossible builds, or other<br></div><div dir="ltr">non-historical designs.)<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">- The game will go for 24 turns (8 game years). The winner will be the<br></div><div dir="ltr">player with the largest fleet BPV at the start of the 25th turn".<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"></div></div><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Monday, 25 January 2021, 03:24:19 am AEST, Majead Farsi via SFBdrama <<a href="mailto:sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org</a>> wrote:
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<div><div id="m_3161313915635563626yiv9365933047"><div><div dir="ltr">I'm easy with the year! But think we should go with the following choices Y170, Y175 or Y180! From what I have read so far I would think Y175 to be a good choice, but 178 is OK too !<div><br clear="none"></div><div>Majead</div></div><br clear="none"><div><div id="m_3161313915635563626yiv9365933047yqt59363"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 at 16:19, Peter DiMitri via SFBdrama <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer noreferrer" shape="rect" href="mailto:sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org" target="_blank">sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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I like 178 too. In those 8 years you get the PF deployment and the last "refits" and some x-tech. It's a good transitional period.</div>
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My only issue with starting 171 in and 8 year campaign is that it ends in 179, where some races will have PFs and some races won't. I'd rather a timeline that allows the new technologies to be fully deployed across the empires. That could be solved by making
it longer than 8 years, but I guess 8 years and 24 turns is a long campaign!</div>
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<div>Great news Matt! Thank you for the work that you do for us.<br clear="none">
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<div>Concerning the starting year, I'm easy. Perhaps Y178? That would give everybody interceptors and a short lead up to full PFs and X-tech, and then several turns to play with all the advanced designs as they become available.</div>
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<div>No preference on Omega stuff, just about everything is new to me anyway lol.</div>
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<div>Don, on getting into more battles: Last campaign Wayne had a neat idea. He would send me the approximate strength of some of his fleets when he was spoiling for a scrap, something like "You detect multiple vessels with a warp signature of 1.5 in Sector
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