Change of Personnel in the H2H Section

[Herr Straße Laufer]

Peter, in my original post I was responding to both you and the Wolfman. I did not cut and paste. ;)

H2H does serve a purpose. It could be better than it is. It will soon be better than it was.
Designers and testers both need to stay active. They need to communicate. The H2H area will not suffer from good, active, testers who are willing to rate truthfully. Along with designers who want to see their "product" be the best it can be for balanced and fun play.

"I think the majority of members won't bother with it and thus, I fear the contributors will spend a lot of time banging their' heads against the wall and also, eventually will we see 'games reported' being only h2h approved ones that someone can report?"

Well, this is surely an opinion you are entitled to?
This has happened in the past. I hope our "new" parade will not be so rained upon. In fact there have been many who have not tested before that are joining testing now?
Hopefully that, along with the more active H2H custodians, we will cut the stagnation and get the design "wagon" moving. :smoke:
If your time does not permit you to test an other's scenario I am sure that other members will step up and do the task.

"This is why I made mention earlier about the elitism that may occur, that may alienate many fine designers."

Elitism. I honestly do not see it. All members can test a scenario? They just have to sign up for it. If they find a scenario is "crap" then they can rate it that way.
The designer and the testers would not feel so elite then? :rolleyes:

I remember my very first scenario design. About three designs later I tried to help out players in a tournament that could not get an EF scenario to play properly in their e-mail exchanges. My scenario replaced the EF scenario. The first comment I heard was "this sucks" from the one player and "this is awful" from the other. :(
It was as balanced and similar in size to the EF scenario. It was just not their "cup of tea". It was not my fault that they could not get the original selected scenario to work.

As a 'designer' I learned a lot from their feedback. LOL!
In actuality I wanted to make better scenarios because of those comments!

Believe me, I do not see an "elite core" taking over the H2H area. Any more than the core of Talonsoft testers who played those games over and over to get them right. I do hope we end up with a diverse group who would be equally as dedicated to the game and not specific designers or testing groups.



HSL