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Author:  Gurneywars [ Thu Aug 27, 2009 1:54 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Competitive Play Changes Proposal

#1 - I rather go with number 2, not a fan of restricting maps, but can see the points.

But this could work out

#2 - I am all for moving championship to 200 level.

#3 - Stalling and slow play.

I think this section needs to be careful on its wording if implemented.
I feel a change should be time limit or 8 rounds minimum regardless even if time runs out. A judge can actually sit over the players at this point and see what is going on and can go from there.

For my part all my games ended in half hour or so. So I haven't run into the slow player problem.

#4 - Reinforcements cannot score gambit points. This will encourage people to actually risk pieces worth points in order to score points.
Edit: Change this one to read, "Score 5 points or the cost of the most expensive piece in gambit, whichever is LOWER."

I'm liking the way the other thread has brought this out. Jersey and nickname I believe.

Maybe an addition of all pieces 10 points or less score half their cost rounded down and all pieces over 10 points gain 5 points in gambit.

#5 - General Obi Wan Kenobi needs an errata losing MotF2, and changing SSM to negating only the first 20pts of damage received.

I don't agree with losing motf 2
changing ssm like above I can see as long as it is against adjacent pieces.

#6 - In any game that goes to the time limit, all figures who have taken 1/2 damage or more score as 1/2 their kill points (rounded down).

This one needs some more looking at. I haven't read everyone's post but strafe and gallop pieces can abuse this. How do you account for healing? Not really on board with this.

#7 - Change the 10 rule end game to include scoring Gambit points as qualifying to prevent the 10 round limit.

Like this. I also think that if all pieces are defeated on one side they can't win regardless of points.

#8 - The final round of the National Championship will have a 2 hour time limit.

I don't think that will work. Especially with hotel checkouts by noon, parking cost, etc or more money out of pocket. Not meaning the players so much but meaning the support staff for the event.

Author:  LoboStele [ Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:30 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Competitive Play Changes Proposal

Just a bit of a report here....

We played 300 points at the LGS last night. Dream Team squads, so no faction restrictions.

Only 4 players unfortunately, but I think it's still worth mentioning. 3 out of 4 squads contained Rieekan. 2 of those also had tempo control (one with Dodonna, one with Ozzel). The other Rieekan squad also had Leia JK for the re-rolls, plus Sidious Hologram, so lots of re-rolling. The 4th squad had Super Stealth. One of my match-ups was with my mostly melee squad vs. another guy's GMLS, so had some Djem So rolling going on there. So, funny enough, a decent cross-section of the squad archetypes that people typically accuse of slowing down games.

At 300 points, we played a total of 4 games (2 rounds basically). EVERY game finished in less than an hour. Now, none of the games played to the full victory condition of gaining 300 points, but every game got to a point where the opponent conceeded (all offensive pieces were dead, or enough were dead that it was obvious no comeback was possible).

Funny thing was....we actually weren't running a timer. We were just playing casually last night, no prize support on the line or anything like that. We just said "Eh, let's just play the games to completion". But we actually managed to finish all of them in less than an hour for each game.

So, discussing with StriderRe80 afterwards last night, we both agreed that perhaps because there wasn't the looming threat of "how much time is left in the round??", perhaps we played a little faster, and didn't get distracted otherwise. Don't know for sure, just speculating. Whatever the case, no one had trouble playing fast enough to win the games. We took time checking LOS here and there, took a few minutes here or there to figure out really tough movement/attack decisions.

So, my point being, you don't HAVE to take more than hour to play a game. I actually lost my game to StriderRe80, which you could call an upset. I had a decent chance going into the game to win it, but he got some nice breaks, and a squad matchup that favored him (stupid me forgot to include a Disruptive piece! Doh!). So that could be considered your typical "I'm playing a really good opponent, so I should be extra careful about my moves" type of game. But he didn't play it slow, and he came out on top.

So, just some things to think about. I'll try to post up a full tourney report on my two games when I get a chance if anyone's interested in the break-down of the games.

Author:  StriderRe80 [ Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:11 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Competitive Play Changes Proposal

maybe that is something we can try a few times and forgo the time for a few nights to see who it goes and tell people play till the game is done. with school back in right now i don't think we are going to have to many people show up right now so i don't think it should effect us to much

Author:  JHART [ Sun Aug 30, 2009 7:15 am ]
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billiv15 wrote:
#4 - Reinforcements cannot score gambit points. This will encourage people to actually risk pieces worth points in order to score points.
Edit: Change this one to read, "Score 5 points or the cost of the most expensive piece in gambit, whichever is LOWER."

Wouldn't it be simpler to remove the DCI rule that killing reinforcements doesn't score points?
We could still change gambit so that the points received are based on the value of the charicter. But it is the freebies from reinforcements that are really abusive.

Author:  Sithdragon13 [ Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:38 pm ]
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I agree. Lets start with the reinforcements no scoring and if there is a still a problem we can address it later.

Author:  NickName [ Sun Aug 30, 2009 7:31 pm ]
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I think he's saying he wants kill points for reinforcements, and if I'm right, I'm further guessing you don't really agree with that. :)

Author:  Sithdragon13 [ Sun Aug 30, 2009 7:43 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Competitive Play Changes Proposal

Kill points for reinforcements is a BAD idea. Characters that grant reinforcements are costed accordingly. Lobot is in no way worth 27pts if his reinforcements cost 20 kill pts.

Author:  Mickey [ Mon Aug 31, 2009 7:25 am ]
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Why not make pieces that grant those worth their value minus what they bring in? So for Lobot killing him would be worth 7. Then no tracking what pieces were brought in and all pieces can be used normally.

Author:  Sithdragon13 [ Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:45 am ]
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Basically because that makes everything a whole lot harder and requires erratas to the characters.

Author:  billiv15 [ Mon Aug 31, 2009 9:25 am ]
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So any other thoughts on the changes?

Author:  Cybit [ Mon Aug 31, 2009 2:57 pm ]
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I'm really worried about the time games will take if we put guidelines in for X rounds.

Could really hose up tournaments.

Author:  billiv15 [ Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:28 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Competitive Play Changes Proposal

Cybit wrote:
I'm really worried about the time games will take if we put guidelines in for X rounds.

Could really hose up tournaments.


Please explain your concern, I am not sure I understand it.

Are you saying that you are afraid judges will give infinite time extensions to games until they reach the guideline number of rounds? If so, I think you missed some of the discussion where I pointed out that all I really want in the floor rules is something like, "Appropriate play speed is one that allows both players adequate opportunity to reach the victory condition". The guidelines would likely go somewhere else entirely, perhaps as an appendix to the floor rules, perhaps on the RAC, or perhaps as some kind of FAQ or something somewhere.

Also, I have been thinking about the Huge Friendly Format. What if we add "All huges lose rigid and gain stable footing (or just either of those)? Any issues with something like that?

Author:  LoboStele [ Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:30 pm ]
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I definitely think Huges gaining Stable Footing would be great. Definitely make them more playable. Not so sure about Rigid though. You're already restricting the maplist to help with that. If you take Rigid off them altogether, it can lose a tad of it's flavor.

So, I'm in favor of the Stable Footing thing, but keeping Rigid, and addressing that aspect through the map list.

Author:  Grand Moff Boris [ Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:33 pm ]
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I don't think players should be making errata changes to stat cards. That's designer territory IMO.

When the floor rules start changing how the abilities of various pieces perform, well let's just say it could be a can of worms we may wish we hadn't opened.

Author:  billiv15 [ Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:38 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Competitive Play Changes Proposal

Grand Moff Boris wrote:
I don't think players should be making errata changes to stat cards. That's designer territory IMO.

When the floor rules start changing how the abilities of various pieces perform, well let's just say it could be a can of worms we may wish we hadn't opened.


Yes in general I understand, but last time I checked, I do not have that power. If we were to think about something like that, it would be a suggestion sent up to WotC as an option to consider for the new format. I certainly am not anticipating that this would be something that would just be able to be added to the floor rules without WotC consent and approval. Especially since it easily could be something that they intend to address in another way in a coming set (for example, a Major Veers that grants Stable Footing to huges, or something like that :)). Quite obviously this would have to go through the design team before it would ever be considered. I just wanted to throw it out there as an idea to consider, to see if it's something the community would want. Since the discussion of the other ideas had died down, I thought it might be a fun direction to take the conversation. That is all.

Author:  Grand Moff Boris [ Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:54 pm ]
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billiv15 wrote:
Grand Moff Boris wrote:
I don't think players should be making errata changes to stat cards. That's designer territory IMO.

When the floor rules start changing how the abilities of various pieces perform, well let's just say it could be a can of worms we may wish we hadn't opened.


Yes in general I understand, but last time I checked, I do not have that power. If we were to think about something like that, it would be a suggestion sent up to WotC as an option to consider for the new format. I certainly am not anticipating that this would be something that would just be able to be added to the floor rules without WotC consent and approval. Especially since it easily could be something that they intend to address in another way in a coming set (for example, a Major Veers that grants Stable Footing to huges, or something like that :)). Quite obviously this would have to go through the design team before it would ever be considered. I just wanted to throw it out there as an idea to consider, to see if it's something the community would want. Since the discussion of the other ideas had died down, I thought it might be a fun direction to take the conversation. That is all.


Oh, I see. Well no harm in asking them for that, I agree.

Your post is worded in a way that (to me) suggests adding something to the floor rules.

Author:  billiv15 [ Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:56 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Competitive Play Changes Proposal

Grand Moff Boris wrote:
billiv15 wrote:
Grand Moff Boris wrote:
I don't think players should be making errata changes to stat cards. That's designer territory IMO.

When the floor rules start changing how the abilities of various pieces perform, well let's just say it could be a can of worms we may wish we hadn't opened.


Yes in general I understand, but last time I checked, I do not have that power. If we were to think about something like that, it would be a suggestion sent up to WotC as an option to consider for the new format. I certainly am not anticipating that this would be something that would just be able to be added to the floor rules without WotC consent and approval. Especially since it easily could be something that they intend to address in another way in a coming set (for example, a Major Veers that grants Stable Footing to huges, or something like that :)). Quite obviously this would have to go through the design team before it would ever be considered. I just wanted to throw it out there as an idea to consider, to see if it's something the community would want. Since the discussion of the other ideas had died down, I thought it might be a fun direction to take the conversation. That is all.


Oh, I see. Well no harm in asking them for that, I agree.

Your post is worded in a way that (to me) suggests adding something to the floor rules.


Gotcha, but I will reiterate a point I have made several times already in this thread. Not all of these are intended to be floor rule changes. This would be one of those :)

Author:  Cybit [ Tue Sep 01, 2009 11:04 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Competitive Play Changes Proposal

billiv15 wrote:
Cybit wrote:
I'm really worried about the time games will take if we put guidelines in for X rounds.

Could really hose up tournaments.


Please explain your concern, I am not sure I understand it.

Are you saying that you are afraid judges will give infinite time extensions to games until they reach the guideline number of rounds? If so, I think you missed some of the discussion where I pointed out that all I really want in the floor rules is something like, "Appropriate play speed is one that allows both players adequate opportunity to reach the victory condition". The guidelines would likely go somewhere else entirely, perhaps as an appendix to the floor rules, perhaps on the RAC, or perhaps as some kind of FAQ or something somewhere.

Also, I have been thinking about the Huge Friendly Format. What if we add "All huges lose rigid and gain stable footing (or just either of those)? Any issues with something like that?


OK, that makes me feel a little better. One of the things I've learned to appreciate now that I judge Magic is the ability to nuance. I still think the game design is what is leading to slower play (much higher punishment for mistakes).

I like the stable footing / lose rigid idea myself. Huge pieces need *something*.

Author:  JHART [ Wed Sep 02, 2009 7:50 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Competitive Play Changes Proposal

I would rather see huge mini's fixed with a cheap tech piece. One with a special ability like:
Vehicle Upgrade- Huge charicters gain stable footing, huge charicter's that do not have savage gain DR10, Huge charicters with mounted weapons gain accurate shot.
That way huges might have a chance in all forms of play, instead of being limited to a special olympics format.

Author:  Azavander [ Fri Sep 04, 2009 11:54 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Competitive Play Changes Proposal

I was pondering last night as I was flipping through my binders if some figures that seem to be overcosted get a little better with Healing being a game strategy (points for health under 1/2 at time) Does Cade at 61 feel better because his heal 40 is more useful? Or even Barris with her Heal 20 make you want to spend 70 points to put in the synergy combo...

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