Posted: 30 September 2008 at 2:13pm | IP Logged

-Howdy. I drew up two rulesets for my take on a GE 2.0, drawing upon my utter lack of gameplay development experience and vast ineptitude of understanding game mechanics. Well, i take that back, in college a buddy and i created and played a Transformers card game that was fun...so long as we were drunk.

Anyway, i have many ideas for changes (most minor and meant to simply make gameplay more efficient and easier out of the box) but will relay one of the more mundance ideas i had for purposes of this post:

The one thing i would change is make the Sector HQ better represented on the game board. Take the HQ cards, slap a Strength 25 label on it, and make it part of the board proper. Why? Because, that's why. Could even put a card rule or two on there to give the different empires flavor, even some things that already apply but would give somethign to stick on the card.....Lobo

Posted: 30 September 2008 at 7:34pm | IP Logged

The game needs to become duel-centric. It is much easier to find a single opponent than to find 4+ opponents. It can still retain its multi-player aspect but it must become a good duel game.

In my experience with Lobo (and we have played dozens and dozens of duels) whoever gets an early advantage with damage wins. There needs to be a better balance of play - more of a see saw to the game. We manage to achieve this some times but often it is he who engages the S10 first wins.

This assumes that you want to change the game to make money.

J--

Posted: 21 November 2008 at 8:37am | IP Logged

MogwaiSC wrote: I think anything that contributes to the mega-draw madness should go. I've got nothing against Alliance Treaties, etc., but once you step over that line, the game loses almost all of its flavor. Decks become generic; you stock up on Cybermages, Research Developers, Quartermasters, Alliance Treatys, Tech Breakthroughs, etc. There's very little variation in the game once you buy into the whole mega-draw madness thing. It practically eliminates any of the strategy of playing cards and the tactics of how you divide your fire, what targets you pick, and so on. The only difference between a Vektrean deck and a Bolaar deck, or most any other deck for that matter, are the ships in it. Everyone else all has pretty much the same cards in their decks. It becomes a game of who can draw the most first, rather than how well you build your deck, or what combinations you can think of and pull off, how well you play the cards you've got in your hand, and so on. I also think some kind of change in combat mechanics needs to be made so that you have to measure your attack. In real life, you attack someone else's fleet and they fire back at you when you fire at them. That doesn't happen in GE. There needs to be a system that allows for retaliation actions and/or fire. It could be quite simple, something like allowing ships that don't fire their weapons during their weapons fire phase to fire in retaliation when fired upon. That by itself would dramatically change the game dynamic. It would by no means solve the mega-draw madness problem, but I think this is a different issue. It means you'd have to build some before you attack, you'd have to hold some units in reserve for defense, etc. just like in real battles. My group tried it a few times and it actually was a lot of fun, it really makes you think and plan.

yup hes right