Well I'd have thought in context it was obvious, but if not, changing from a good PvP ship to a good flipper. That doesn't require a skew of the rules, just the willingness to change to circumstances. The rule we have means that player X (none specific not refering to any poster in particualr in case that is not clear) who is in his big fat <insert FOM CC/BCH> does not need to contemplate having to change to accomadate circumstances all he has to do is sit in hex Y (none specific hex purely for illustration and not related in any way to a similar sounding but differently spelt player), watch player Z (no relation to a Kzin but I can see why this may be confusing) see him in mission for 2 minutes while he flies off and know that the little varmint will be gone for an hour. That rule skews the game IMHO. In case you hadn't noticed I was discussing no rule, not implementing one.
BTW I'm reasonably sure I'm not drunk, but I wouldn't know, I'd have to consult you, who obviously know so much more about my mental health than I do, from half a world away. But that is getting personal so we should keep our Doctor/Patient chats off the boards
So you are going to demonstrate your mental health by telling me it's a just a matter of "willingness" to change from a KRC to one of the following, K5R, KR, BH, WE, in order to flip hexes faster. Explain how this works and I'll believe you are not a nut or a drunk on a crusade to return us to the "good ol' days" just for your own benefit. That's all I want, an explanation of how it really works so that flying a KRC is actually worse than the other ships available for fighting AI and PvP.
Still waiting for an explanation .....
Not sure I can be bothered, but as you are the Doc, can you run an AI standard patrol in 2 minutes in a KRC? If so, there is no problem and I am utterly wrong. If you cannot, then the KRC is a worse ship for AI missions than ones I know can.
This has strayed from this thread back onto another, but as they are linked in that the rule under question is a direct result of fast flipping, it is relevant here. If the argument is that the SPHG is a commando ship and will be "R"'d out then its time to ask for at least the plasma races to get them back, as I can do the missions in approaching that time and I am useless with plasma ships. Yes the Commando ships are not so good PVP, but that's what your KRC is for you have to switch ships for the job in hand. (no you don't "have" to, but it is more effcient)
For the record (again) I think Plasma ships suffer from SFB BPV problems, when fighting tournies (as I did many years ago) plasma boats ruled and BPV was high for launchers in that game(SFB). They are not so effective (boards are bigger so no hard edges to pin peeps against) in this game. The Rommies are particulary hard hit because of the 25% bump (or whatever it is) they get from cloak which is not that effective (in this game). I may be wrong but if I were Rommie I take a 25% reduction in BPV over a cloak anyday (just an opinion). So I still think plasma races should have an accross the board reduction in BPV to help flipping, and there is an argument that that the Rommies should receive more on account of the relative usefullness of the cloak. Now this strays into another thread, but again related, because if you equalise the times people flip in then again the disengaement rule becomes less "required". Again just opinion.
As for personal agendas I have stated my position more than once, people are free to accept or reject that as they want. It is also not a question of "old" or "new" it is a question of freedom of choice, reduction in rules, and equalisation of a long vexed question, from the time the words "cheesy droner" were first used by the ISC following CW3, of the inequality of mission times; a question of playing in more than one way and accepting the validity of alternative gamestyles. I'll repeat again I am more than willing to give up the Kzin if all other drones are removed, if that will solve the problem.
Now that lot probably strays well off the question, but it's all related.
I do not actually enjoy hex flipping that much I do enjoy PvP more, but we have differing views on what "meaningfu"l PvP is. Most of all I enjoy the strategy, which in my view is skewed by a tendency to guide people by rules or public humiliation to a certain way of playing.
I know I have said all that before, and I expect it to be dismissed as more deranged ramblings, but that's the readers freedom of choice.