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<div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I like the idea of a set amount of EP each turn (the EP each turn could go up or down at a campaign year end based on how many victory/loss in battle each player had)</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Perhaps each empire needs to win certain types of scenarios to also advance EP.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">At present in these types of Campaigns some players make small deals every now and then, others players have allies from the beginning and have them for the whole Campaign.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I think also if there could be a limit on the size of each border empire, and the overall total number of borders.</div>
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On Saturday, 21 August 2021, 06:56:45 am AEST, Majead Farsi via SFBdrama <sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv9866350455"><div><div dir="ltr">yep I remember that one, and that's why I think your format would be better for encouraging players to fight a few as well. I like to do a bit of both! Maybe allowing a certain number of encounters to be resolved by diplomacy but everything else must have at least 1 shop + like your format allocated to it. It would be fair I think. For myself I have not had any alliances but have made some logical diplomacy choices depending on the random encounters where the gain and losses have been mutual.<div>The only reason why players try for diplomacy is because they do not have enough ships to cover all borders that need covering and allocating ships to cover the ones that can be fought will leave them open to overwhelming encounters. Again your format solves that issue 😀.<br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Majead</div></div></div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv9866350455yqt8857587850" id="yiv9866350455yqt44654"><div class="yiv9866350455gmail_quote"><div class="yiv9866350455gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 at 20:48, Marcel Trahan <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:marcel.trahan91@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:marcel.trahan91@gmail.com">marcel.trahan91@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="yiv9866350455gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr">Majead,<div><br clear="none"></div><div>I do understand the need for sporadic diplomacy based on the encounter type. But if it gets like the previous campaign, where allies were sharing 17 to 24 borders, increasing them every turn and only sending Police ships to pre negotiated borders, then it becomes unbalanced. I remember some players that had 35-40 total allied borders and enough small ships to cover half of them, those players were getting so many EPs every turn that they could send 9-10 ships fleets to the few other borders where they did not have any alliances.. I think i did not play any scenarios in the last 4 or 5 turns of the campaign. And once a few players started that process, other players had to do the same to try to keep up with the other alliances. And i was guilty as well of doing it and it is why i am not doing it in this campaign.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Currently, this campaign is still at the point where you try to outwit your opponents, Sending ships where it matters and creating interesting scenarios. If we start alliances, then, it becomes only brute force or whoever has more allies.<br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Marcel</div></div></div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv9866350455gmail_quote"><div class="yiv9866350455gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 3:26 PM Michael Helbig <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:admgrraven@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:admgrraven@gmail.com">admgrraven@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="yiv9866350455gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><div>I have lately only allied with players that are almost totally incompatible with my schedule. Since changing jobs my time has gotten more flexible so need fewer allies. Also learning to enjoy the game again. </div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv9866350455gmail_quote"><div class="yiv9866350455gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 20, 2021, 2:48 PM Majead Farsi via SFBdrama <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org">sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="yiv9866350455gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr">I kind of agree with you Marcel, to a certain degree. I do think that a certain amount of diplomacy has to be in it. The campaign moves forward by granting Ep's to the winner of encounters. Some encounters are fair on both sides and some are not, some have fair EP distribution some don't. This forces us to use diplomacy wherever possible. <div>To not use diplomacy you would need to remove the variation in the EP's granted. All should be equal. All encounters give the same EP advantage. To remove diplomacy entirely then give every empire a certain amount of EP each turn, no reduction or increase and measure the campaign by another means of measuring wins and losses. By Campaign end see who has the best ratio of wins and losses and claim them as winners. <div><br clear="none"></div><div>I think your format FMJ does not get rid of diplomacy entirely but it does limit it. I would like to play a later campaign with your format where we are able to field at least small carrier groups, which would require a higher initial EP to build with.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Just my thoughts!</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Majead</div></div></div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv9866350455gmail_quote"><div class="yiv9866350455gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 at 17:11, Marcel Trahan <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:marcel.trahan91@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:marcel.trahan91@gmail.com">marcel.trahan91@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="yiv9866350455gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr">I agree with you Majead,<div><br clear="none"></div><div>But i do remember the last few campaigns where allies were building lots of cheap units, opening borders between themselve, splitting scenarios to get the most EPby sending cheap units while massing huge fleets to the few enemy borders that were left.</div><div>It ended up that for the last few turns, we did not play any scenarios at all. That was my main reason behind FMJ rules.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>If it goes that way, it means that alliances are the only way to go and we end up not playing any scenarios, which kinda defeats the purpose of the game.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>As for myself, i don't have any allies and will not get any. I am here to play encounters and have fun.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Marcel</div></div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv9866350455gmail_quote"><div class="yiv9866350455gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 11:13 AM Majead Farsi <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:majeadfarsi@googlemail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:majeadfarsi@googlemail.com">majeadfarsi@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="yiv9866350455gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div>To prevent, that Marcel we need to adopt your encounter format which has advantages and has some disadvantages ( I think the disadvantages can be solved!) but it does create more battles. Diplomacy is part of most campaigns.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Majead<br clear="none"></div></div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv9866350455gmail_quote"><div class="yiv9866350455gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 at 15:43, Marcel Trahan <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:marcel.trahan91@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:marcel.trahan91@gmail.com">marcel.trahan91@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="yiv9866350455gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr">The Romulan Star Empire is RTA.<div><br clear="none"></div><div>Diplomacy kills the spirit of the game. It turns the campaign from a scenario generation for SFB to a who gets the most allies and builds impossible fleets to battle against.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Hope this one does not turn into a hoarding game.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Marcel</div></div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv9866350455gmail_quote"><div class="yiv9866350455gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 8:23 AM Majead Farsi via SFBdrama <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org">sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="yiv9866350455gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div>Federation Horde are RTA.</div><div><br clear="none"></div></div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv9866350455gmail_quote"><div class="yiv9866350455gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 at 23:58, Gregory Flusche via SFBdrama <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org">sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="yiv9866350455gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr">Tribunal 13 is ready to advance... unless I get more diplomatic cries</div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv9866350455gmail_quote"><div class="yiv9866350455gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 6:28 PM Wayne Power via SFBdrama <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org">sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="yiv9866350455gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div></div>
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