Thank you Milo, I very much agree with your sentiment. I used the FF as an example earlier, to explain my thinking and I agree that it is now to late to change the default position. It was more a comment for the future. It seems a little strange to be able to argue that we can have a default and an option and be so divergent on which should be which, when clearly you are free to pick either! That goes to show that my thoughts around how and why you should pick which is the default selection may have some validity. So maybe that's the feedback that's relevant for future developments.Milo wrote:@garion: You've made some good points. I understand your point of view, and agree with the basic point that a rule that makes it more likely a coach will abandon a team should be reconsidered. I don't consider it as serious an issue as you do, but I do see your side of the argument.
The problem is that the rulebook has already been printed, and so -- for most players -- those rules are already in place. GW could print an errata, but that errata will only be seen by people who go looking for it, and errata are by their very nature admission of a mistake, which companies do not generally like to do without a compelling argument. Most coaches will probably never encounter a situation like yours when it was competitively better to abandon a team and start over; even those that do, many of them would prefer to keep the team and history and deal with the slight competitive disadvantage.
Given that the rules already clearly state the two options, and leave the choice of those options to the LC, I think it is unlikely that GW would post an errata just for this issue. If and/or when there is a new core rulebook printed, that would be, I think, the appropriate time to discuss whether the rulebook should be amended to show "no-TV-impact-for-FF" as the default option, and "FF-adds-to-TV" as the other option. I just don't think it's going to happen before that point, nor do I think it is severe enough (in impact or frequency) to warrant any errata.
What I do think would be great is an article in WD (or posted on bloodbowl.com) discussing options available to LCs, and making some suggestions about ways to tweak the rules to implement a more competitive or more fun league environment. Discussion of the pros and cons of this rule would go great in there, giving new LCs some background on why they should select one option or the other.
I think that an article laying out options for an LC to consider for structuring their league to suit their players and environment would be an excellent thing to do. I think some of us who first purchased bloodbowl some time ago (1994 for me!) forget how it can be approached differently or that we have actual choices because we always use the same set up. Or for someone new to being an LC it would be great too, preventing people overly complicating things or teaching the new players that there is more than one way to go here.
May Nuffle not curse you this weekend, keep Blocking!