Lord_Ball wrote:
For the stat portion I think probably the best way to go would be after the full submissions are made use the average for the base stats then based on the submissions figure out how many SAs the figure should have and have people vote for their top ones (how ever many is decided upon minus auto-includes such as emplacement/droid/ewok, etc.). This way if Sithborg nixes a SA it doesn't necessarily invalidate a whole build.
let the cost be determined last and the 1 thing that gets tweaked the most in play testing.
I like the idea of averaging stats to determine the initial card. However, I don't think we should mix and match the SAs quite that way. Stat card ideas aren't usually able to be broken up that way - if you lose one part you could lose the whole idea of the card. You could wind up with a Sarlacc with some sort of Pit ability (and Emplacement) along with Speed 1, which wouldn't make sense.
I'd propose the following process:* Open discussion for X amount of time, where X is about one-third of our allotted design time.
* Allow proposals of full card stats. Give a day or two for people to post their full proposals. Start voting only after that time is up (so that early posters don't earn an advantage). Vote for 3 days or so.
* Take the SAs and CEs from the winning stat card, and then take the median for the four base stats (rounding to the nearest 10 for dmg and HP) from all of the proposed stat cards.
* Based on that stat card, everyone can suggest a cost. (Only allow 24 hours for the cost suggestions.) Take the median cost that was suggested. With the cost, that gives a complete stat card.
* From that point, we have a complete stat card and about half of our allotted design time remaining. Anyone can propose changes (removing abilities, tweaking them, changing stats or cost, etc). Whenever a formal proposal for a change is made, everyone can voice a +1 or -1. After 24 hours, if at least two-thirds of people voting approve the change, it is accepted. Whenever time is up, whatever is left on the accepted card is what is submitted to the design committee.