Is this a bug/mistake?

[Huib Versloot]

I have not read all the thread, but did read Hawks post and agree with that mostly. For designers I would recommend the following: be very strict about the 250 m/hex scale. The 6 minutes per turn in practice is just a sentence in a manual and not something in any designer's mind when he is designing (only the real historical facts and real terrain data are in your mind when you're designing). Given the abstractions in, and the pace of the game just take care that the total number of turns in your scenario does justice to the historical events you want to represent, then you automatically have designed in a realistic time scale. Finally add or delete some turns for playability/ balance purpose.
This is how it always has worked ever since the game was released. The best way to prove one understands the scale of the game is by designing playable scenarios that the community enjoys.
Finally I would recommend to the sceptics of the Matrix team to research the old Talonsoft scenarios. You will come to the conclusion that they are the most abstract scenarios around: not only in timespan, but also for oob, map size and representation.
No way anyone can derive "the original intent" and the "parameters of scale" from these scenarios, let alone understand them. Perhaps that is why the argumentation of the Matrix crititics stays limited to copying and pasting of some pages of the manual without being able to say how you would implement all that in a scenario.


Huib