The profanity is certainly helpful. It conveyed just how FUCKING pissed off I am about this LUDICROUS position. People should get angry more often. Stops you from getting walked all over. As for compromise, that is possible in a discussion with fellow consumers over what changes ought to be made. It is also possible to compromise due to feasibility concerns. We might all want product X but it could be impossible to produce it at a price we're willing to pay. What it is NOT possible to compromise is our voice. To be dismissed out of hand on the strength of some arbitrary decision ("oh sorry, we're not changing this part of the game ... just cuz") and money-grubbing mentality ("well obviously the only changes that need to be made are ones that increase our sales") is worse than galling. The fact that you lap it up and say "yessum" is appalling.
Hi Sig! Okay look. Right now what I'm REALLY fighting against is the game going away completely. They have no talent or resources at ALL directed toward preserving the game. Well so what if the game is in stasis? At least we can still keep playing it, right? Wrong. IF GW doesn't support the game anymore, they won't maintain the master molds. When those wear out, they won't renew them (a costly process), and then BFG goes the way of Spacefleet.
IF the game is going to reach a point of stasis, I at LEAST want it to get to that point with as complete and varied a ruleset as we can put on the street before it happens. Without getting into particulars, the situation is a bit more precarious than it seems, but at the same time there are unique possibilities in play from several different directions that may breathe some new life into the game, REAL life, like an opportunity to effect real changes to the fleets, core rule sets, everything. That time is NOT now and NOT yet, but it's coming.
Be angry, Sig, that’s fine. It's not helping any, but it's not really hurting either so keep it up- loud, off-kilter passion for the game is certainly a LOT better than no passion at all. However, I assure you we are not just lapping up what's happening and not doing anything about it- heck, that's the whole POINT of this project!!! We're simply NOT going to get all the changes we want right now, and forcing the issue isn't going to change any of that. We can either make slow and steady progress, or we can bitch and moan that progress isn't fast enough while in the meantime no progress happens at all.
I'm not addressing this anymore. We have too much to still get done, and we're running out of time.
- Nate