I see a few draft picks that are puzzling, but I don't want to mention any names. There are a few picks in the top half that are a little bit odd. Each CEO probably has a different knowledge of the players that are out there.

I'm not suprised that Gem didn't pick me b/c he smashed me in a Chess game a few months back. That wasn't my best game ever - that is for sure!

KB

The battleship holds one photon. It doesn't in the original edits, but it will in this game.

Incidently, anyone on my corp who hasn't received an email from me needs to contact me either via private message here or email me at kemper3@roguesrattery.com

also on the draft thing, time available at the keys also affects choices, u can have one of the best out there, but if he's only at the keys an hour a day, u might pick someone else. There's a bunch of things to look at when pickin.

Or, when looking at draft order, you also have to consider that I have never played in a game with most of the people signed up.

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Marcellus wants to play.

Marcellus is too late, the draft is over. Keep an eye out though, if everyone enjoys this game as much as I suspect they will, there'll be another good draft game in the near future.

Just a reminder game opens this Sunday at 8:00 pm CST see you there.

Am I missing something in the edits or does the Merf have absolutely no reason to exist thanks to the StarMaster and Constellation being dropped to 2 ([:O]) TPW? And out of curiousity why was the already-dubious Sentinel downgraded to being unable to land on planets? And holy crap, even Colts can TWARP?!

I've never quite understood edits that make ship balance even worse than stock. [:)] Most of them seem to either overcompensate the less used ships so that the ones that're usually used become useless (like the SM and Constellation have rendered the Merf in these edits), or overpower the most used ships so people have even less of a choice to make when buying one (like the Colt here), or some combo of the two as in this case.

Merfs have 2 TPW? I usually only see them as they're exploding. I thought they were just used to transport holds from Stardock to my Colt. [:P]

But yes, the Merf's will still have a use in cashing. And the Twarp on the Colts is also an edit geared towards Reds cashing. It won't make them more powerful, just cheaper (turnwise) to refurb.

Vader puts a lot of thoughts into his edits. I'm sure there have been oversights, but there is usually a good reason for his changes.

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Red's cashing abilities are already pretty insane in stock. Add MBBS mode and 26-player teams ([:O] again!) and you have a game that I'll be very surprised to see not over in 24 hours. The team that hunts best on day one to stop the other corps from cashing as much will be able to spend the 200M creds a day a team can easily make to keep other corps out after that quite trivially.

With such large teams I'd consider limiting cashing potential to be important, to make sure the thing doesn't end prematurely. But then again, most of the public games without delays like this are over in 24 hours so for that purpose the edits are great. [:)]

Any alternates needed, heh? ALEXIO contact me you punk!

Assuming teams are fairly even, it shouldn't be possible for one corp to severly outcash the others and end the game in 24 hours.

there is no way this game will be over in 24 hours..sure one or two blue ppters will get sded or at least podded in the first few hours of the game...but that will happen to every team...each team has it's own early game hunters to do there thing...it's a balanced game...I am sure it will last a few weeks like all the other past draft games