<div dir="auto">Speaking for myself the main reason why I choose to make deals is because by losing an encounter, whether by not sending ships there or not sending enough means that I not only gain nothing but also lose points. Get rid of losing EP and you will see less deals being made. Borders are not a big deal but losing EP is. This I would guess may be one of the reasons for deal making. <div dir="auto">Again speaking for myself, I will never try and win a scenario where my opponent is going to lose a substantial amount of EP unless forced to. Not everyone is like me, including yourself! </div><div dir="auto">We each play for pleasure, some like to make deals and fight a few battles and some like not make deals and fight everything.</div><div dir="auto">I do not have the time to ever fight every battle, so I have to make deals on turn by turn basis to reduce the number of battles I maybe involved with. Its what suits me.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 23 Aug 2021, 13:03 Marcel Trahan, <<a href="mailto:marcel.trahan91@gmail.com">marcel.trahan91@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Majead,<div><br></div><div>There is a big difference between resolving battles by diplomacy and making alliances.</div><div><br></div><div>To diplomatically resolve battles is normal and expected. You are outgunned or you outgun your opponent and offer him to leave is ok, because it can speed up the campaign. (i still love to blow up a few ships when i am outgunning my opponent or trying to escape with my ships when i am outgunned, those can be very fun scenarios to play)</div><div><br></div><div>What i am talking about is more of 2 or more players making alliances, deciding beforehand how to share the scenarios, and only sending very low BPV units to reap the EP, and increasing those borders as much as possible.</div><div>When a player has 20+ friendly borders and lots of police ships that are there to cover those friendly borders, this is where the campaign gets boring.</div><div><br></div><div>An example would be you and me having a 12 scenarios border, you build 6-8 FXE at 26 BPV each and i do buy 6-8 SNP at 55 each (smallest ship i can build) and we do each send ships to the borders that we are defending and whenever we have a chance to get a BORDER scenario, we take it. This would end up each making on average 240+ EP per turn without risking any ships and using useless inexpensive units. After 5-6 turns of doing that, we soon get to 20 common borders, building another 4 cheap units and reaping on average 600+ EP each</div><div><br></div><div>Once a few players start doing that, the other players will only have the option to start doing the same thing or they will quickly get relegated and fall so much behind that they cannot compete in the other scenarios. It takes 4-5 turns of doing that before the campaign turns into a stalemate and grind to a stop.</div><div><br></div><div>If players want to have a strategic/diplomatic campaign, go that way or play F&E. If players want a SFB scenario generating campaign, just don't make alliances, manage your borders (not too many or too little) and send ships to try to get as many EP as you can and try to remove as many EP's from your opponent as you can. I love to be the attacker in those Colony Raid or Convoy Raid (yum yum, minus EP) or i will try to take as many enemy ships as i can when defending those ones.</div><div><br></div><div>I currently have 1 SUB carrier group (I ended up with the SUB because the SUP-K that i had was deemed to require escorts, so i refitted it into a SUB) that could probably take any of my opponent fleet and i send it to a critical scenario and as for the rest, i will send 1 or 2 heavy ships (MC 2/3+) or a few smaller ships to most borders, hoping to outwit my opponents or have just enough ships to have a minimum chance of winning the scenario, hoping that my opponent did not send a big fleet.</div><div><br></div><div>This turn, i am sending ships to 16 of my 22 borders, 3 of them with 4 ships, 1 with 3 ships, 5 of them with 2 ships and the rest with only 1 ship. I do hope this will end up having a few scenarios to play out. My 3 or 4 ships fleet are spread among 4 opponents and my 2 ships fleet are spread among the other 3 opponents. Single ships are spread among all of them.</div><div><br></div><div>This is way more fun than making alliances, reaping EP and sending huge fleets on the few non-allied scenarios that would be left. At least that way, i get to play scenarios, which is why i join those campaigns.</div><div><br></div><div>Matt's last campaign turned out to be an alliance based campaign (and i was part of that alliance based campaign with my Hydrans and i plead guilty) and at the end, nobody was playing any scenarios because we where dealing with 1500+ bpv fleets and who wants to play those huge fleet games that takes weeks to play.</div><div><br></div><div>I do sincerely hope that this campaign will not turn that way and ends up to whomever as more allies.</div><div><br></div><div>Marcel</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 7:03 AM Majead Farsi <<a href="mailto:majeadfarsi@googlemail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">majeadfarsi@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">I don't think there are alliances ever. Its just talking to resolve some battles quickly. Speaking for myself, I can never play all battles as I do not have the time. If we did not solve some battle results diplomatically the game turn would be too long and I personally would start to loose interest. I do not want to have to wait 6 months for all the battles to resolve. Some have time to play out their battles but some will not be able to. Two things will happen, 1, the campaign turn will take too long to complete and 2 due to length of time people will drop out due to holding up the campaign or just getting bored.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Campaigns have diplomacy. Individual scenarios where the 2 sides have predetermined ships and points get fought out. The format of what we are playing is campaign. On the next campaign I suggest we use something like FMJ to create more even encounters and battles and also keep some diplomacy.</div><div dir="auto">Majead</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 23 Aug 2021, 11:13 Marcel Trahan via SFBdrama, <<a href="mailto:sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Guys,<div><br></div><div>I think for now the best solution is to go with the honor system. Just all agree not to make alliances.</div><div>Send ships to try to get as much EP's as possible without losing too many.</div><div><br></div><div>If all players agree to go this way, it will create a lot of scenarios where we will enjoy playing which is the goal of the campaign.</div><div><br></div><div>As for myself, i am not in any alliance and i will not make any in the future. I don't care if i win or lose the campaign as long as i can have fun playing the scenarios.</div><div>I will even fight battles where i am outgunned just for the chance of winning the scenario if the conditions allow it.</div><div><br></div><div>2 turns ago, i attacked the prospecting raid with 2 SKA against 1 Seltorian CA and 2 Seltorian DD defending. I was outgunned and i had lots of fun playing it. I pulled it out but almost lost a SKA doing it. That was way more rewarding then making alliances and trying to build the biggest fleets possible which ends up not playing any scenarios at the end.</div><div><br></div><div>This turn, i will be sending ships to 16 of my 22 borders, leaving only 6 borders unattended. I hope this will generate some interesting scenarios even if it means that i am spreading my forces thin.</div><div><br></div><div>Let's all agree not to make alliances and see where it leads.</div><div><br></div><div>Marcel</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 4:13 AM Wayne Power via SFBdrama <<a href="mailto:sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_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 Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div></div>
<div><br></div><div dir="ltr">best answer I have found for scenario battles to happen is to offer a player to have a scenario battle (give out BPV or number of ship hulls to get battles that are 50/50 or 60/40 balance in BPV)</div>
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On Monday, 23 August 2021, 10:19:53 am AEST, Gregory Flusche via SFBdrama <<a href="mailto:sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org</a>> wrote:
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<div><div id="m_-3813899718978085803gmail-m_7175311092067192462m_2305391755614197775gmail-m_-851110171561804517yiv9115136203"><div><div dir="ltr">Boy did my little thing about diplomacy spark this thread? The only time i use diplomacy's like now when i have way to many borders and way to few ships. Then it is a trade off of points. I do not add borders with some one just to get more points. Sooner or latter all them borders will come back to haunt me<div><br clear="none"></div><div>There is no easy answer of course... but I still enjoy the game and how to play... :)<br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"></div></div></div><br clear="none"><div id="m_-3813899718978085803gmail-m_7175311092067192462m_2305391755614197775gmail-m_-851110171561804517yiv9115136203yqt80020"><div><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 6:29 PM David via SFBdrama <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer 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">Seems to me you could reduce alliances by just setting the EPV payments to<br clear="none">
more negative than positive for both defender and attacker. For example:<br clear="none">
Whoever loses or doesn't show up gets -150bpv whoever wins gets +50 instead.<br clear="none">
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From: Wayne Power <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" shape="rect" href="mailto:wdpower@yahoo.com.au" target="_blank">wdpower@yahoo.com.au</a>><br clear="none">
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Orion Observation (final report turn 7), ..the carrier went to the Gorn<br clear="none">
zone, and 2x DW are going to the Hydran space..<br clear="none">
On Saturday, 21 August 2021, 08:24:21 pm AEST, Wayne Power via SFBdrama<br clear="none">
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I usually try and set up a battle (scenario) or two each turn (using the<br clear="none">
Orion Observer giving information, mostly correct).<br clear="none">
, and this turn I now may send a force toward tall enough Hydran border if<br clear="none">
they want to battle the Paravians? ( Hydrans only have about 12 ships left),<br clear="none">
the Paravians can send a carrier group with a warp signature of 2.0 to<br clear="none">
scenario 1182.<br clear="none">
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On Saturday, 21 August 2021, 08:48:43 am AEST, Gregory Flusche<br clear="none">
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I have thought about this for a while now. More on victory conditions and<br clear="none">
generating fun interesting?battles. As well as doing as Matt wants.<br clear="none">
Generating fun stories as well,?<br clear="none">
1 set fleet sizes.. build a legal S8 fleet with the points given. No tugs as<br clear="none">
they and other ships like Minesweepers are given in a scenario.?<br clear="none">
2 victory conditions are set, Such as adding up EPV/BPV of kills. Using<br clear="none">
basic victory conditions, So much for a destroyed/captured or crippled ship.<br clear="none">
When one player exceeds three times?or whatever?of other players is the<br clear="none">
winner..? Could of course use Matts empire score as well as a way of<br clear="none">
winning.<br clear="none">
I like the idea of getting points for what you kill. When I played ancients<br clear="none">
Miniatures, Tournament battles were judged by enemy units routed destryed?or<br clear="none">
broken. You won if you had the higher?kill ratio. This promoted fighting.?<br clear="none">
If you do not attack You get no points.?<br clear="none">
You can still have allies. So you can mass more ships elsewhere. You would<br clear="none">
get?points for killing units added to a scenrio?such as bases and ground<br clear="none">
units. This also means getting points for killing fighters/shuttles. .?<br clear="none">
3 each player would get so many EPV depending?on the number of borders to<br clear="none">
buy replacement ships for those lost in combat.. Then the border/no border<br clear="none">
battles can matter as? Size of fleet can be determined by number of borders,<br clear="none">
( The government?will give the admiral so much to spend on a fleet )?<br clear="none">
4 all this means to win you must fight battles. Fleets dependent on<br clear="none">
borders.... as well as everyone having about the same EPV means more even<br clear="none">
battles to be fought, Mind You can still send what ships were you want and<br clear="none">
well it does happen.?<br clear="none">
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On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 6:01 PM Wayne Power <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" shape="rect" href="mailto:wdpower@yahoo.com.au" target="_blank">wdpower@yahoo.com.au</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">
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I like the idea of a set amount of EP each turn (the EP each turn could go<br clear="none">
up or down at a campaign year end based on how many victory/loss in battle<br clear="none">
each player had) Perhaps each empire needs to win certain types of scenarios<br clear="none">
to also advance EP.<br clear="none">
At present in these types of Campaigns some players make small deals every<br clear="none">
now and then, others players have allies from the beginning and have them<br clear="none">
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06:56:45 am AEST, Majead Farsi via SFBdrama <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" shape="rect" href="mailto:sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org" target="_blank">sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org</a>><br clear="none">
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yep I remember that one, and that's why I think your format would be better<br clear="none">
for encouraging players to fight a few as well. I like to do a bit of both!<br clear="none">
Maybe allowing a certain number of encounters to be resolved by diplomacy<br clear="none">
but everything?else must have at least 1 shop?+ like your format allocated<br clear="none">
to it. It would be fair I think. For myself I have not had any alliances but<br clear="none">
have made some logical diplomacy choices depending on the random encounters<br clear="none">
where the gain and losses have been mutual.The only reason why players try<br clear="none">
for diplomacy?is because they do not have enough ships to cover all borders<br clear="none">
that need covering and allocating ships to cover the ones that can be fought<br clear="none">
will leave them open to overwhelming encounters. Again your format solves<br clear="none">
that issue??.<br clear="none">
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On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 at 20:48, Marcel Trahan <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" shape="rect" href="mailto:marcel.trahan91@gmail.com" target="_blank">marcel.trahan91@gmail.com</a>><br clear="none">
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Majead,<br clear="none">
I do understand the need for sporadic diplomacy based on the encounter type.<br clear="none">
But if it gets like the previous campaign, where allies were?sharing 17 to<br clear="none">
24 borders, increasing them every turn and only sending Police ships to pre<br clear="none">
negotiated?borders, then it becomes unbalanced. I remember some players that<br clear="none">
had 35-40 total allied borders and enough small ships to cover half of them,<br clear="none">
those players were getting so many EPs every turn that they could send 9-10<br clear="none">
ships fleets to the few other borders where they?did not have any<br clear="none">
alliances.. I think i did not play any scenarios?in the last 4 or 5 turns of<br clear="none">
the campaign. And once a few players started that process, other players had<br clear="none">
to?do the same to try to keep up with the other alliances. And i was guilty<br clear="none">
as well of doing it and it is why i am not doing it in this campaign.<br clear="none">
Currently, this campaign is still at the point where you try to outwit your<br clear="none">
opponents, Sending ships where it matters and creating interesting<br clear="none">
scenarios. If we start alliances, then, it becomes only brute force or<br clear="none">
whoever has more allies.<br clear="none">
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On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 3:26 PM Michael Helbig <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" shape="rect" href="mailto:admgrraven@gmail.com" target="_blank">admgrraven@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">
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I have lately only allied with players that are almost totally incompatible<br clear="none">
with my schedule. Since changing jobs my time has gotten more flexible so<br clear="none">
need fewer allies. Also learning to enjoy the game again.?<br clear="none">
On Fri, Aug 20, 2021, 2:48 PM Majead Farsi via SFBdrama<br clear="none">
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I kind of agree with you Marcel,?to a certain?degree. I do think that a<br clear="none">
certain amount of diplomacy has to be in it. The campaign moves forward by<br clear="none">
granting Ep's to the winner of encounters. Some encounters are fair on both<br clear="none">
sides and some are not, some have fair EP distribution some don't. This<br clear="none">
forces us to use diplomacy wherever?possible.?To not use diplomacy you would<br clear="none">
need to remove the variation in the EP's granted. All should be equal. All<br clear="none">
encounters give the same EP advantage. To remove diplomacy entirely then<br clear="none">
give every empire a certain amount of EP each turn, no reduction or increase<br clear="none">
and measure the campaign by another means?of measuring wins and losses. By<br clear="none">
Campaign end see who has the best ratio of wins and losses and claim them as<br clear="none">
winners.?<br clear="none">
I think your format FMJ does not get rid of diplomacy entirely?but it does<br clear="none">
limit it. I would like to play a later campaign with your format where we<br clear="none">
are able to field at least small carrier groups, which would require a<br clear="none">
higher initial?EP to build with.<br clear="none">
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On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 at 17:11, Marcel Trahan <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" shape="rect" href="mailto:marcel.trahan91@gmail.com" target="_blank">marcel.trahan91@gmail.com</a>><br clear="none">
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I agree with you Majead,<br clear="none">
But i do remember the last few campaigns where allies were?building lots of<br clear="none">
cheap units, opening borders between themselve, splitting scenarios?to get<br clear="none">
the most EPby sending cheap units while massing huge fleets to the few enemy<br clear="none">
borders that were left.It ended up that for the last few turns, we did not<br clear="none">
play any scenarios at all. That was my main reason behind?FMJ rules.<br clear="none">
If it goes that way, it means that alliances are the only way to go and we<br clear="none">
end up not playing any scenarios, which kinda defeats the purpose of the<br clear="none">
game.<br clear="none">
As for myself, i don't have any allies and will not get any. I am here to<br clear="none">
play encounters?and have fun.<br clear="none">
Marcel<br clear="none">
On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 11:13 AM Majead Farsi <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" shape="rect" href="mailto:majeadfarsi@googlemail.com" target="_blank">majeadfarsi@googlemail.com</a>><br clear="none">
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To prevent, that Marcel we need to adopt your encounter format which has<br clear="none">
advantages and has some disadvantages ( I think the disadvantages can be<br clear="none">
solved!) but it does create more battles. Diplomacy is part of most<br clear="none">
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The Romulan Star Empire is RTA.<br clear="none">
Diplomacy kills the spirit of the game. It turns the campaign from a<br clear="none">
scenario?generation for SFB to a who gets the most allies and builds<br clear="none">
impossible fleets to battle against.<br clear="none">
Hope this one does not turn into a hoarding game.<br clear="none">
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On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 8:23 AM Majead Farsi via SFBdrama<br clear="none">
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Federation Horde are RTA.<br clear="none">
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On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 at 23:58, Gregory Flusche via SFBdrama<br clear="none">
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Tribunal 13 is ready to advance... unless I get more diplomatic cries On<br clear="none">
Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 6:28 PM Wayne Power via SFBdrama<br clear="none">
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GWO turn 7 Y179 Orion Observer reports,<br clear="none">
no Paravian ships at the Tall enough Hydran border area1182 Organian Treaty.<br clear="none">
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battle group Albatross moving toward the oasis planet "Lighthouse" to defend<br clear="none">
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battle group "Fire" defending one of the last Paravian convoys on the NERF<br clear="none">
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battle group "Sword" with a warp signature of 2.0 heading toward the Romulan<br clear="none">
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scattered elements of battle group Petrel at the Dino-Mites border.<br clear="none">
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On Friday, 20 August 2021, 12:45:13 am AEST, Wayne Power via SFBdrama<br clear="none">
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Shearwater Albatross Petrel Paravian RTA?<br clear="none">
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On Thursday, 19 August 2021, 02:34:49 pm AEST, Brent Stanton via<br clear="none">
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The People's Front of Hydrax is RTA.<br clear="none">
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