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Last week I visited the Missouri State Archives and a couple local libraries for client work. When I was finished I drove to Springfield, MO, to visit my sister and wait for my parents to bring my son home from vacation. I again stopped into the Springfield Public Library to look through a couple of county histories I looked at in Jefferson City. After locating a few more surnames related to this family I wanted to make sure I could check the books once more before I left town and had to inter-library loan them.
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Don't know how I missed that these were available, but thank you!
Susan, I will have to really go through their website and see what else I have "missed". Sometimes you don't even know you missed it until you need it.
Thank you, Jennifer, for another excellent tip on Missouri research. ;-)
Thank you. I have lots of Missouri research that needs to be done.
Karen, I'm happy to help!

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Quick Question. On Normal Warrior are able to spell reflect the Carrion Swarm. Is that still possible on Heroic, or is it useless to use reflect during that encounter
You do not need to kill Mal'ganis to engage the optional boss. You can run to and engage him as soon as you clear the final gauntlet, before you talk to Arthas the final time of course.
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Yeah, i am excited to get into heroics, i have the gear. However, on my server (as large as it is) most fo the geared healers are in the top guilds and dont Pug, so i am still waiting on my guilds healers to get there
I mean, they both drop in about a minute, so it's not really a big deal, but if a group is tight on time you can go right to the guy who drops the drake to be sure.
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It's a pretty reasonable timer. We usually get their with around 2-4 minutes left on it, and our group doesn't even have the best dps.
Cider great guide, I wrote a full one as well before searching (D'oh) I'll post it here after this too I guess, since i went through the trouble of writing it up.. sigh.
But as stated. YOU DO NOT NEED TO KILL MAL'GANIS FOR THE DRAKE. You can directly engage the chrono for the drake right after the gauntlet.
Shoulda searched sooner, Anyway I guess I'll post the bit of it here for text version =/
So we tried it out 2 days ago, friend had a beta key so he's done it a few times. I don't know if anyone have posted about this or done it really yet but I haven't seen any so I figured I'd make one for you guys.
Group makeup was prot warrior, holy paladin, mutilate rogue, BM hunter, ret paladin.
Couple of Naxx 25 loots, sath, 10 man etc.. Heroic gear, Normal gear, T6 .. k.
Well basically the run is all about moving fast, obviously. Start the event by initiating arthas' long talk with urthar and jaina. Arthas will then enter town and "dispose" of the sick townspeople.
Kill them. Soon there will be a red emote and more importantly, an arrow on your mini-map. The arrow leads to a group of elites which need to be killed asap to engage the next wave. As you run there simply take any adds with you, use any aoe's along the way -- tclap consecrate etc. The waves are not very hard, and the first few are a joke but it does get progressively harder... i guess. Similar to hyjal there will be ghouls, necromancers, good ole Aboms (Bile golems), SPIDERZ (Crypt fiends // Tomb Stalkers) and I believe there are some acolytes. Generally the kill order is not a big deal, I prefer -->aboms, crypt fiends, tomb stalkers , necros, etc.
Not sure if I read the tooltip correctly, but I believe the aboms have some sort of healing debuff they put on the tank so logically, get rid of them if your dps can support it.
So after each wave, a new arrow will appear on the minimap. Follow it. Move fast, same show. We had a hunter so after clearing the zombies on a certain path we were able to throw Aspect of the Pack up, but make sure its off before engaging. Similarly, if you have a LW bring some drums of speed for the long runs. When you are undergeared every second does count at first. We generally moved towards the middle after each wave in order to be in a better position for the next wave.
After Wave 5: First boss. Meathook. He does hit kinda hard, but its just a basic tank and spank. I had to blow a last stand and trinket after a few big hits.
After each boss fight there is a ton of time to mana up,and again move a little toward the middle as well to prepare for the next wave.
After Wave 10: Second boss. Salramm the Fleshcrafter. He is a caster. He spawns some ghouls so pick them up, but overall they are pretty negligible. I'm forgetting this off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure he cannot be interrupted.
For my warrior kin, as stated in this post. SPELL REFLECT. Throughout the waves necromancers shadow bolts can and should be reflected for upwards of 6k damage which is very decent. Salramm's shadowbolts can be reflected as well.
AFTER THE WAVES: Follow arthas to townhall. AS SOON AS YOU ARRIVE-- TALK TO HIM. Enter the building, there will be 3 people who transform into those chrono-dragonthings from durneholde//BM(sorry i suck at lore) The girl is a caster. Kill them and go up the stairs to the top. 4 adds will come out of a portal. Don't blow a tclap or anything as soon as they spawn because it takes a few seconds before you can actually hit them. Keep moving, this is all scripted now until the boss so you are stuck waiting for spawns because Arthas is slow..
Run through the hallway and some will spawn both in front and behind you so make sure to pick them all up with any aoe abilities.
Few more mobs and boss time.
For Chrono-Lord Epoch its mostly tank and spank again, bosses in this instance are very simple. He does do some kind of wounding strike I believe its called, which the tooltip read a healing debuff. Anyway, just burn through him heal up and you'll be fine.
Talk to arthas again, and head through the bookshelf. From this point on its a sprint to the end. As the tank it is your job to know how much you can pull, make sure not to get too many. Going a little slower is much better then a wipe. Our ret pally got carried away at one point and ended up dying so be careful. Once you see the small corridor from which you entered you are almost there. Take a left and engage the chrono-guy.
Burn him down and pickup your drake. We had 6 minutes left on our timer after a flawless run. With more gear this place will be cake. Its also probably one of the fastest instance runs as well for badge farming purposes.
After that you can kill Mal'ganis who is the last boss.
im alittle confused is the drake a 100% drop off the extra boss?
What is the Charge macro you use?
Got my Bronze Drake on our first Timed try today, wish I would have seen the disclaimer about not having to kill Mal'ganis! Regardless, we still got him down with no more than a few seconds to spare. 3 cheers for ProjectMarmot!!
If the timer runs out while you are fighting it, the boss will start walking towards the portal. You still have some seconds to burn him.
Yesterday the stupid scaped at around 30k HP, but well, it was an awful run
In summary, TBC raiding is easy. 9/10 encounters can be summarized with 1 phrase. Stay out of the fucking fire.
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I'd like to start a discussion on free software. I have to admit (rms, forgive me, I have sinned) that practically every time I've installed a distro, I've also installed flash and java, which are non-free. Stallman himself has said that pirating software is not in itself immoral:
I don't call this copying "piracy", because that is a propaganda word. I don't think it is wrong to copy and share information. Governments can pass laws against it, but that does not make it wrong, just illegal.
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Now if this is the case. So long as I ignore the license, why is it immoral to download and use flash and java?
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i understand your feeling, since I am about in the same boat :
-I do value and respect RMS's views... I think they are essential to the FLOSS mouvement.
-I try my best to stay away from proprietary stuff for my own use (keep in mind I fix windows PC's for a living... but I use Gnu stuff at home...).
-But sometimes I need a closed app, such as Realplayer to listen to a radio station I enjoy, or of course the flash plugin in Firefox, because a major amount of websites I visit request it... And yes, Skype, because most of my folks use it, so it's a need for me... And I am also one of those who read the wiki's explanation about w32 codecs, but still downloaded and installed it, because of some (very few...) songs I have in my collection that are wma instead of mp3... Of course I wish there was a software to convert all that to ogg, but I am not aware of one yet...
-As of Java, I don't really need it in my daily use, but I would gladly welcome the free alternative in the Blag repos...
So, I am an example of a guy who doesn't live totally by his beliefs, but I am getting closer (!!!) Rome was not built in a day...
But to conclude on RMS, if he wasn't so tough on the matter, I wouldn't try as hard to avoid closed-source stuff. So it is a good thing for the comunity.
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I agree, whenever I hear rms being criticized, I think, if it weren't for him the gpl would have morphed into something completely useless to protecting free software. He needs to be hardline. He keeps everyone honest. And I think he is essentially right. I think it's ironic that I'm trying to justify my use of non-free software by calling it "piracy". ;)
But I can't yet follow in the footsteps of St. Ignucius.
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Well, I've done it. I've replaced all my non-free apps with free ones. I've decided to take my commitment seriously.
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Ed, I think you take a good decision.
However, how do you plan to view certain website that require the flash plugin in Firefox ? Flash is non-free... Well, you could say you won´t install it and live with it... That´s fair enough...
Post your feedback, I might take my courage in my hands and do so, one of these days, but it´s hard for me, because my favorite news radio station use realplayer codecs... Most my folks communicate with Skype...
I don´t make a big deal of win32, since I don not have a bunch of .wma songs... I don´t really use java based apps neither... And above all, I am not a gamer, so I don´t really care about video drivers...
I´ll be following your commitment :o)
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Flash was never that big an issue. The sites that I frequent most don't use it. My thing was that there were a couple of java apps that I used regularly. One of the was MakeDocGUI which is a java text to palmdoc converter so that I could convert text that I grab of the internet read it on my pda. There's a KDE app calle kpalmdoc which is part of the kdepim package that works okay. It's not as good as MakeDocGUi but it suffices.
The other non-free app that I've used commonly is acrosslite, which displays crossword puzzles so that I can print them out. There is a linux version but it isn't free and it is so old that it no longer works with any of the modern distros. The library files that it needs are all deprecated. So for a while I was using the Windows version of Acrosslite with wine, which worked great. But I came across a gtk app covered by the bsd license and it prints out acrosslite formats fine. It actually works a lot better than the linux version of acrosslite did.
So since I didn't need them I decided to uninstall flash and java. When and if java is open sourced, I'll probably reinstall it. And when gnash is ready for prime time I'll try that out. As far as video drivers are concerned, my laptop uses an intel video card and the i810 free driver gives me 3d acceleration. It's not the greatest video card in the world, but ppracer works with it. And like you, I'm not a gamer. The only game I *must* have is pysol, a python solitaire game. But it's free and doesn't require a lot of resources.
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Ed, since we are in a confession mood, I admit the sin of using Opera browser, mail-client and IRC...
of course, I could live without it, I also use separately Firefox, Thunderbird and Xchat...
But it is so well integrated in Opera, it's a shame it is a closed source app.
Yes, I did try for a whole week Seamonkey as my sole browser/mail-client/IRC. But Opera is Opera, and it is just better done.
However, I will, sooner or later, clean up my acts and live up to my FLOSS commitment.
It could be worst, we are only talibans of Free Libre Open Source Software, we don't have to live under the rule of the Charia !
But, more seriously, it makes me feel better to jump on that free spirited wagon, at the time of the digital revolution, I do feel like I can resist, up to a certain point, to the Big Brother propaganda...
Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 12:16 pm
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Yeah, well, in my case I made the jump when it was most convenient for me. I don't really deserve sainthood even though technically I am now a saint in the church of emacs according to the critieria laid down by his holiness St Ignucius (
). I'm just lacking one of those neat haloes that rms has (
) ;)
Having been a software pirate for many years before making the jump to linux, I don't see why license purity is that big a deal. It's nice not to have to violate the law. But if I needed the software, I'd still use it, license or no. So I still sin in my heart. ;-)
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Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 12:27 pm
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As of software piracy, I make a living of selling/fixing windows PC's.
Down here in the islands, the copyrights are not very well enforced, so we have a bit of freedom to sell a PC with xp/office/photoshop/+ a bunch of cracked software, all that cracked, for the customer.
Of course, I wish I could just install them a nice distro, Blag for example, but they all want their xp... I sometimes tell them that I don't use windows, despite the fact that I install it for others, and fix their viruses/spywares/problems afterward...
It is definitly a paradox in my life, that makes me feel like an evangelical pastor selling dope, or better said, a drug-dealer preaching the Bible !
But windows works in my favor, since it has many problems, I always have work, so somehow, I benefit from that situation...
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:17 am
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If Windows didn't exist, a lot of people would be out of work. Just a shame M$ profit from Windows so much and not the people who have to struggle to make it work for others.
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:48 pm
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I am the leader of a local Free Software community activist group. In time, people learn that non-free software really does harm *them*. When you say that, it makes them think.
Humans are naturally greedy and selfish, so it makes sense that the way free software should be explained is from the perspective of the end user. Too many people focus on the programmer's perspective. Don't get me wrong: That's the whole idea, but we should be definitely focusing on the end user a lot more.
The people I've encouraged to switch to Blag (somewhere near 70) all use exclusively free software and are deathly afraid of people taking away their freedoms to use the software in any way that they like, to be able to copy, etc. It's very important to them, now that they realize.
Blag is easy to promote because its easier to install than Ubuntu, has very similar hardware support (*rt2x00, ahem ;-)* ) and has better multimedia support out of the box. By large, the only reason Ubuntu got big was because of money. It's not really that user-friendly. All freedom aside, SuSE is far superior to Ubuntu out-of-the-box.
But when you look at your values, and how you value freedom, especially when it comes to something as big as software and computing, you'll come to Blag.
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:04 pm
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dylan0 wrote:
I am the leader of a local Free Software community activist group. In time, people learn that non-free software really does harm *them*. When you say that, it makes them think.
i think it's easy for free software advocates [a label i would apply to myself] to be fixated by the freeness of their software. let's have a look at hardware -- well is your computer built of free hardware, that's not environmentally disastrous, causes wars in central africa, is built in a unionized workplace etc etc? if i thought of all those ramifications, i'd give up computing altogether...
living life under capitalism is a series of comprimises. yes, we try to use free software for everything and encourage others to do the same. but we are
the free software cheka...
dylan0 wrote:
Humans are naturally greedy and selfish...
well, i
strongly disagree with this. get some of kropoktin's
mutual aid
down you're neck and still argue this. capitalism
greed and selfishness as good attributes to have to get ahead. i don't believe they're innate.
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:42 pm
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scratch naturally. input "generally". and i meant to generalize about america.
sorry about the cloudy behavior.
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:57 pm
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On the hardware topic, I am trying to re-use, or recycle as much as I can, this is why I am also very interested in software/distros than can run on older piece of junk, while still providing regular usage...
However, in tropical countries, hardware dies much faster due to humidity, dust, heat, ocean breeze, and also from human mis-handling...
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:59 pm
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I wish I could only use free software but working alot with video-media it is hard. There are various free alternatives like ogg-theora and such but but the amount of people that can view it is smaller, also its hard for me to watch other peoples stuff since there are so few that use free codecs. Using flash is so much easier to use for streaming media on my web-site.
But I can atleast say that i keep away from all commercial software and try to use as little as possible of proprietary softwares as I possibly can only using it for video (and sometimes audio) codecs.
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I wanne add a couple of points myself on the whole last page of posts
- CW v renewal -> i have since droppped CW and started using renewal for 2 reasons, higher ilvl is increasing my hp to the point where renewal is good enough healing wise. And secondly (imho most importantly) it is off GCD, meaning u can use it whenever without losing a GCD for a mangle or something else.
- meta gem choice: if you do not have acces to the legendairy meta -> agi/3% crit dmg, yes i know i myself said there is no advantage for gemming agi over the double value secondairy stats gems, but for metas this is different. That 3% crit dmg in a crit build is immense. If you however, have completed the collect 20 secrets part of the legendairy chain, the crit dps gem is simply OP and will imo get nerfed eventually, but untill then, get it. It increased my dps by approx 15-20% depending on RNG. Wich brings me to my last point.
- considering yourself a dps: most druids run with a crit build. meaning the dmg output, if played properly should be decent. I think, why shouldnt we focus on pushing as much dmg as possible? Killing a boss faster, even if enrage timers arent an issue, is still beneficial overall. Beeing able to clear more content in the same time is always better than the oposite ^^ I will take Jin rokh as an example. Sure u can tank him outside the pool and no have to worry about the static busrt damaging ppl in the water. Sure you could use incar on tank swap to make sure you hold aggro. What i do is different however. Play like a dps with the ability for a boss to smack u in the face and not fall over and die Meaning, I pre pot -> beserk. Tank it in the pool, use incar when in the pool AND with a decent vengeance stack + re pot. On our last heroic JR kill i was top dps, granted, i have the legendairy meta, but our dps are far from bad, I produced a whooping 200k dps. Tank dps is, imho, an important part of the overall dps.
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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 3:13 am
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Originally, scout rules and aegis rules were intended to solely be Borders of Madness. Simplified scout rules were included in the base game to facilitate the use of the published, laminated Federation Scout. When the simplified rules turned out to work pretty well, it opened the gates to simply accept them as part of the main game. Aegis rules were included due to a misunderstanding between myself and Steve.* Since they ended up working out OK, they are also now part of the base game.
However, most other items in the Borders of Madness will not make it into the main game, and will remain Borders of Madness. I do not believe that any Borders of Madness rules are intended to be included in the Reference Rulebook at any point, so as to keep them separate. (In fact, many of the Borders of Madness rules are in Borders of Madness because they were intentionally excluded from the base Federation Commander game.)
I expect any Simulator-only items to also remain outside the base game, too.
[*] Back in Briefing #1, Steve decided to include drone ships. I suggested including some escorts for the non-drone empires, so they could have a way to handle the increased drone output of drone-using empires. While I intended for the escorts to just be ships with a different load, Steve thought I meant for them to be full aegis escorts. By the time that was all hashed out, we had aegis rules and now will have escorts for everyone. Fortunately, they seem to work fine and don't unbalance or hurt anything.
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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 8:15 pm
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To some extent, I have to wonder if there is a need for BoM other than carriers/fighters and maybe gunboats.
Consider that a lot of the futzier rules in SFB (energy balance due to damage, crew quality, legendary officers, plotted movement, sublight evasion, Crew units, positron flywheel, non-violent combat, UIMs, low-powered fire control, passive fire control, catastrophic damage, critical hits, emergency repairs, tactical intelligence, EW fighters, Klingon mutiny, ship separation, temporal elevators) aren't even being considered for BoM. there is just no need for them.
The various gritty rules for the "seeking weapons balance equation" are an all or nothing thing and I vote for "forget them": special drone warhead, scatter packs, ECM drones, ECM plasma, type-H drones, enveloping plasma, pseudo-plasma, shotgun plasma, plasma sabot, cloaked decoy, drogues, wild weasels, pilot quality, multi-role shuttles, SWAC shuttles.
A lot of the remaining rules (scouts, aegis, tug pods, pinwheels, even commando ships) already migrated from BoM to the main rules without harm. Surpise is written into scenarios as a special rule when/if needed.
I halfway suspect that maulers (and their special directed turn modes) will, when actually done, be so simple that they'll easily and harmlessly migrate into the main rules. Shock is handled in non-maulers by firing limit rules. We may or may not bother for maulers because I'm worried about it migrating back into the F6 and BCJ).
So what is left for BoM?
Carriers and Fighters (Probably not chaff and booster packs and megapacks and chain reactions) Not sure about dogfighting. I am very dubiuos about heavy fighters and bombers but we might have to so you can simulate F&E battles. The various fighter-pods are probably not worth the bother. Ralads are a maybe. Would anybody miss casual bases? remote control fighters don't seem needed.
Mines, mine warfare, minesweepers.
battle pods, carrier pods
Jindarians and all of their special junk
Prospecting shuttles and their dubious cannons (I vote no)
Transporter Artillery (I vote no)
Ballistic targeting
Stasis fields (I vote no)
prime teams, commandoes, militia, heavy weapons squads: I vote no.
Paravians, Carnivons, Borak, Peladine, Nicozian, simulators.
Any SFB terrain type not yet in FC might be BoM or regular rule.
Any SFB monster will probably show up as a regular rule.
X-rules, Y-rules, Omega, Magellanic, Maelstrom.
Not really remembering much else.
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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:05 pm
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Well, we have already done several fiddly things in BoM that I am sure should never be included in the base game, but are still fun options to play with. So, I think BoM will always be more than fighters and gunboats
Here are the things we have in BoM that could be added to the base game, but have not yet:
- Maulers (Communique)
- Tholian Pinwheel (CL42)
Things already done in BoM, but should never be added to the base game:
- Super-Intelligent Computers (CL ??)
- Stasis Field Generator (CL40)
- Klingon Firing Arcs (CL38)
- Fighters/Carriers (CL37, et. al.)
- Battle Tugs (CL44)
- Frax (simulator) (CL40/41)
Things we could add to BoM, if you want, but should stay BoM only:
- Mine fields (no laying; just sweeping; effectively a terrain type)
- Prime Teams
- X-Rules
- Other Simulator Empires
Finally, one thing I think should be split up:
- Put independent/casual gunboats in the base game
- Put gunboat flotilla/tender operations in BoM
So, currently, BoM is already more than just fighters and gunboats. And I think that is a good thing.
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 12:37 am
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Besides carriers and fighters, I would really like to play gunboats and some limited 1st generation X technology. Those seem relatively easy to add to BoM without destroying the balance.
Mine fields and mine sweeping seem like a logical addition too.
I am glad the futzier rules are out.
I would also love to forget the "seeking weapon balance equation.". Personally I would like to have enveloping plasmas but not at the cost of bringing all the rest of the equation in; that cost is too high.
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 3:44 am
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I understand all the balance equation concerns except for enveloping plasmas. Would they require Wild Weasels to counter balance?
I agree with Marcus, if it really requires all of the other seeking components to balance it's not worth it.
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 9:09 am
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I don't really want to see carriers, but I'm sure they are coming. PFs are probably even further down my list.
Filling in EA for flotillas of PFs was a nightmare. If some thing that would normally be expected to operate in flotillas still require EA in a BoM version then I'd consider them a failed port (as in failed to stream line the major problem with them). Indeed, unless you get rid of the EA per PF I'm not sure why they would require any rules that do not already exist, they are effectively very tiny ships otherwise.
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 4:21 pm
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I would like to see gunboats and a version of X ships (with simpler rules) available for player use.
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 5:19 pm
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I expect that gunboats will be done as mini-ships. I personally, however, would much rather them done as super-fighters. If done as super-fighters (basically, no allocation, specific capabilities available based on speed/damage, has ship card/uses DAC for damage) they would be extremely easy to use and would only have to choose speed as their pre-turn activity. But that would probably be too radical of an approach.
The other thing I would like to see is that gunboats, as combat units, be added to the base game. The idea is that you could take up to six of them in a squadron/fleet, and they just cost points. There are no other requirements or rules. The idea that they are somehow carried to the combat is completely ignored; they are just really small combatants.
The advantage of this is that there are no Tender rules. There are no leaders or scouts. There are no mech links. They are just tiny ships (from a fleet rule perspective). However, given their low cost (40-50 points), they would be great for helping balance points battles and give that option to almost every fleet. They would, in effect, be a balancing point for constructing fleets.
Then, Borders of Madness can add in Tenders, leaders, scouts, operational rules for carrying gunboats, and all of that fiddly stuff.
That's what I would love to see. Don't know if it will happen.
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 7:47 pm
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mjwest wrote:
I expect that gunboats will be done as mini-ships. I personally, however, would much rather them done as super-fighters. If done as super-fighters (basically, no allocation, specific capabilities available based on speed/damage, has ship card/uses DAC for damage) they would be extremely easy to use and would only have to choose speed as their pre-turn activity. But that would probably be too radical of an approach.
Doesn't seem that radical to me, it is in fact pretty much what I was thinking about the last time PF discussion came up in our group, more fighter like from a mechanical perspective if not capability. Say choose a speed at turn start: very high speed = only 1 weapon, high speed = all weapons but no overloads, lower speed allows overloads, or stuff like that.
I was also trying to get rid if the DAC as well though, but couldn't off hand think of a satisfactory way - the nearest I got was a Starfire style track, just cross off systems in order. But given they are small maybe the DAC wouldn't be that bad, just force them to take frame on skips so they are more fragile, but more to the point you don't waste time going down the DAC trying to get those last couple of hits.
I still think they'd be BoM though.
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 7:47 pm
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I like the sounds of that, Mike. Many things about FedCom seemed "radical" to all of us SFB grognards, when it first came out. Now it's my platform of choice and I haven't played SFB in over 10 years.
PFs would be much more enticing as a point-balance unit than other small ships, like the APT, etc.
Because of the movies and DS9, there has always been a demand for a "small, 12-man combat ship" Klingon unit from the players I taught. The G-1, as you describe them being implemented, would be perfect and a lot of fun.
Not having to deal with allocation for something that small would be quite nice. Given the high power curve of most of the PFs, it's kind of superfluous in the FedCom environment anyways. They typically had the power to scoot and shoot at the same time, with only minor adjusting needed; why bother with the minor since FC avoids crunch.
Another benefit would be that the Feds could just have their PF without any universe-shattering issues. Battleships abound in FedCom, so I can't see the Fed Thunderbolt PF being an issue.
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 11:21 pm
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The reason I would like to see them in the base game is twofold:
1) They are very cheap. This means they let you field balanced forces very easily, and lets the "filler" unit be actually useful and empire-specific. (As opposed to trying to wedge in an armed auxiliary into the "hole".)
2) They are a character-level unit. By having them in the base game, you build a bridge between the RPG games and the board games.
As for the speed/weapons thing, yes, they should be related. I would like it so that if they go max speed they can use all weapons, but only normal loads. If they slow down, they can overload. The reason for the DAC is that I want differentiated systems. So, they still use the "normal" gunboat ship display, if they lose a weapon box, that weapon is no longer available. If they lose power, their speed/weapons options go down. I do want the system differentiation, just not the power management. Make the power management fixed, but keep the systems.
Then, all of the other "gunboat stuff" would be BoM. I don't want that stuff in the base game. Just the base combat gunboats.
(In a way, it inverts the "standard experience" of SFB gunboat deployment. In SFB, the idea is that tenders and full flotillas are the "normal" deployment, and "casual gunboats" are the exception. What I am asking for is that the "casual gunboats" are the standard use [i.e. in the base game] and that tenders and full flotillas are the other option [i.e. in BoM].)
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I like these ideas, too.
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I like Mike West's thinking as well.
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Yes It will help with the odd left over fleet points.
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The published carriers are way under pointed. They are heavy cruisers with a lot more internals for slightly more cost in the case of the fed strike carrier 156 points.
Have you seen the latest Communique. The hydran escort. A ship with 5 gatlings !!!!
At a quick glance it is a buffalo Hunter (already an excellent ship) that replaces the fusions with gatlings and aegis capability, and all for a mere 8 points!
Just noted that here, as escorts are usually 'carrier' escorts in the background.
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Assembly is the media agency of record for Expedia and responsible for generating bookings for some of the largest travel sites on the internet including: Expedia.com and Hotels.com.
With so many online travel services saying and doing the same thing, Expedia.com turned to Assembly to break-through and drive preference. After deep-diving the category we had our strategy: Drive new levels of brand engagement with a "born-social" Facebook contest called "FriendTrips". Inherently social, users invited five friends to join them on their virtual plane bound for a dream vacation. Part of the Assembly Stack - "Dynamic Creative Versioning" (DCV) Technology was the key to driving differently motivated travel enthusiasts to come together in a single contest. DCV continually developed thousands of versions of the creative in real-time, match-making messages with individuals and taking Expedia.com conversion rates to new heights.
High-flying results — starting with 50,000 Facebook "fans," Expedia soared past their goal of one million "fans" in 6 weeks making "FriendTrips" the most successful Facebook program of its kind. The integrated program energized enthusiasts, built a fan-base of new brand advocates and drove a double-digit increased in US domestic bookings.
Assembly is the media agency of record for New York Life, the largest mutual life insurance company in the United States and one of the largest life insurers in the world.
In the crowded life insurance market category, noise is high, establishing trust is at a premium, and many companies and offerings come and go. After evaluating opportunities and crossing them with a deep understanding of the New York Life target passions, Assembly delivered a high-impact content partnership with Major League Baseball to remind viewers that New York Life has been keeping families safe and secure for more than 165 years. New York Life's "Safe and Secure" is a completely native integration triggered when a player slides safely into 2nd, 3rd or home. The first of its kind, on-field product placement comes alive with New York Life's blue box appearing on the screen with the words, "Safe and Secure" and then rotating to the "New York Life" official logo.
Winning strategy - Integrating the brand naturally into the flow of the game is a great reminder to fans that they too can be safe and secure. Assembly has since stretched the success of New York Life "Safe and Secure" beyond baseball into first of its kind in-game features in football, basketball and hockey.