Point Values

[Kool Kat]

I am not necessarily talking about abandoning CS completely (i.e. not sell it anymore, or patch it for new operating systems). What I am talking about is trying to add things that are out of scope for the game engine or forever tweaking things that might fix things going forward but makes old scenarios unplayable.

Again just my thoughts.

Mike

I agree with Mike's comments.

Over the past several months, I have read proposals after proposals to revamp the artillery / spotting rules, opportunity fire, unit point values, etc. Essentially, these proposals advocate the elimination of entire rules and drastically altering the game engine. Reasons cited include "xyz" (insert the rules section here) is "too simple," "unrealistic," "unfair," "unbalanced," etc.

With the dust still settling from the ver. 1.04 game patch and some of the questionable changes made in that patch - variable visibility, extreme assault, bathtub naval units, "hidden" anti-tank guns, sci-fi "projecting" bomber units, etc. - all adding different and potentially unbalancing elements into the JTCS scenarios, I think it is very premature for folks to be advocating MORE whole scale changes until MORE players get MORE games under their belts and persons can start to realistically evaluate these new or changed rules / units and their impact in the game.

Also; what I have NOT seen discussed, is the need to create new scenarios based on ver. 1.04... AND the need to "upgrade" existing pre- ver. 1.04 scenarios (custom & stock) to be compatiable with the ver. 1.04 game patch.

As it has been pointed out in other posts, there are a wealth of existing scenarios that may play much differently (maybe better? or maybe worse?) under the ver. 1.04 game patch. We just don't know. Are we just going to shrug and state that players are on their own with the existing stock and custom scenarios developed pre ver. 1.04? If so, where does that leave us as players today? Select from a handful of post ver. 1.04 scenarios only?

And now, the constant clamor from a few scenario designers and players that MORE whole scale changes MUST happen now because current rules sections and game mechanics are broken?

I don't buy it... and as a JTCS player I believe we need to move more slowly and proceed in a more deliberate manner. Let's let our scenario base "catch up" with ver. 1.04 before we start tearing apart entire rules sections and revamping the game mechanics again.