The Force Is With Us: Your opponent may only activate two characters after your squad is completely activated. Remaining characters may not activate and a new round begins.

What about correcting (errataing) Gha Nackht to give rapport only to 4+ point droids or restrict mouse droids to an acceptable number (4-5 comes to mine)? I mean, if we could to it to SS Mastery in DCI play we could do this as well.

High activations / tempo control should not go away, but IMHO this Gha+Lobot+Mice feels a bit overpowered. Restricting mice wouldn't hurt any squad which does not use mice for acts, and Dodonna squads could still go to mass acts, but it would feel more balanced.

Just my 2 cents.

What about correcting (errataing) Gha Nackht to give rapport only to 4+ point droids or restrict mouse droids to an acceptable number (4-5 comes to mine)? I mean, if we could to it to SS Mastery in DCI play we could do this as well.

High activations / tempo control should not go away, but IMHO this Gha+Lobot+Mice feels a bit overpowered. Restricting mice wouldn't hurt any squad which does not use mice for acts, and Dodonna squads could still go to mass acts, but it would feel more balanced.

Just my 2 cents.

I'm unconvinced any rules in the floor rules need changing. (I don't consider adding maps or clarifying how V-sets are used changing the rules.)

I'm all for adding alternate formats, but the regionals and champs proved (to me) that the basic competetive play is working well and all that's needed is more--and more competetive--peices for the factions that don't compete that well at this time.

+1 - that's where I'm at as well.

Per round activation cap is a really interesting idea.

The Force Is With Us: Your opponent may only activate two characters after your squad is completely activated. Remaining characters may not activate and a new round begins.

What I had mentioned to Dennis involved the Semi-Championship game, whenever I made a move to kill Landspeeder and I moved Vader six squares back and behind an ugnaught, which I suppose is a very valid call for stalling, since I had been doing that earlier (I went to strike down Ferus and moved.. ten away to get behind a corner so he couldn't shoot me from a far away), so, no hard feelings there. It was a correct call from Brad I believe.

I kind of feel like the floor rules changes at this point and this is only my opinion, need to be only the maps.... and the rules of integrating the v-set into play officially.

There are some minor things that need attention but in the end not much change.

We have to address the v-sets existence and how they work into offcial play and add to the maps. Other than that I have not seen anything huge imo to add.

+1 - that's where I'm at as well.

I kind of feel like the floor rules changes at this point and this is only my opinion, need to be only the maps.... and the rules of integrating the v-set into play officially.

There are some minor things that need attention but in the end not much change.

We have to address the v-sets existence and how they work into offcial play and add to the maps. Other than that I have not seen anything huge imo to add.

Although I am one of the people who's been suggesting some slightly more radical changes than this, I totally get where you're coming from, and yeah, it is hard to feel 100% confident in bigger changes until people get a chance to see how the V-Set plays. I would suggest that the tempo control/mass activation concerns might be worth revisiting in the future, but right now there seems to be a pretty clear consensus in this discussion for "status quo plus new maps," and that strikes me as an entirely reasonable way to go.

And thanks again, Dean, for all the hard work on this.

While this is probably true, as I said on the show last night, don't let it stifle posting new ideas. We keep this stuff in mind and come back to it. Many of the actual changes made last year were ideas from 2-3 years before we implemented them. If nothing else the brainstorming is important just to see a range of ideas that we might not have thought of before.

My suggestions really were in the spirit of brainstorming, and I was glad that those ideas and ideas like them were talked about seriously (especially tint's activation limit/tempo piece ban idea, which I personally think is the most thought-out and potentially beneficial reform idea on this thread, though it would be a very, very big change to the rules). So yeah, I certainly don't feel stifled--I was glad that people really thought about the issue.

Ok I'll throw out an idea. I would like to see a melee combined fire option in the rules. If I have 5 ugos around a guy, please let me have 16 attack for 10 dmg.

We could just change the wording on the rule to "characters must have line of sight or be adjacent to the target". If you want the +4 from a melee person they need to be next to the target.

It would be cool if we could work it both ways. Melee getting help from ranged that have los. Ranged getting the +4 from melee adjacent to the target.

Combined fire is not that big a part of the game as it sits right now. Maybe this would open it up a bit more with some new options.