Saipan 1944

[vince hughes]

At Larry

I sincerely hope nobody thinks we are not getting along. Its a discussion as far as I am concerened and have no desire to stab anybody at this stage.... Hehe !

At Hugs

On Roger Freed vis a vis levelling out of ratings. Lol, I know like me you play replay baseball games and they are more 'statified' than anything out there. Of course there will be a levelling off as you say, but I guess the two major differences with the Roger Freed analogy and the NS ratings are that:

None of the other developers products had a leg-up on scores before their ratings began clocking in.

Also, I guess its also fair to say that Roger Freed was also not able to 'select' his .400 batting average beforehand and did actually have to achieve it under competitive conditions unike Nihon Silks ratings that have not been tested under such (by other players).

On Customers:

Both Shad and Hugs have mentioned customers or potential customers. I never have mentioned customers or brought that into the conversation at all, so not sure where any percieved concern on my part on this has materialised.

I just think that the naturalised ratings of other players experiences should let the snow-flake of a game/supplement settle where it will land on its own.

At Andrew

Where you say that designers SHOULD be rating their scenarios as 5's, see a copy of my comment from post # 10 on Jay's "Designer Rating Scenarios" thread... copy below:

By Vince """"" But on the other hand, rate a 4 or less and then its "WTF are you turning in scenarios of less than brilliant when you KNEW them not be brilliant. Why submit such dross" ? """

So you can see here Andrew, that is exactly what I said too and we are on the same page, and it is this very reason why I think its pointless (no pun intended on the word pointless) for the designer to rate them because they simply can not be neutral ratings.

Finally, I would be very surprised if such conversations actually detract from Jay's efforts with these products. That would be incredible if true. As PG grognards, we are all well aware of Jay's Joie de vie for the system and have myself expressed excitement on the expectant arrival of the times two package of Japanese and Pacific items. But as it is a forum, I will certainly continue to raise discussion points on said forum title until banned or deceased :-) In fcat, won't be much of a forum without interesting and debatable issues,

And yes, re: gagging - I knew it was nonsense but it drew the parry as desired.