Armus wrote:
Yeah I guess I'm just confused as to why random people count but random ships don't when it comes to measuring affiliation focus.
Well, I don't personally put much weight into those low-percentage numbers. (which is why I'm using heat maps so they barely show up). For instance, I don't think Bajoran players would consider getting a random Bajoran or two every set as continued Bajoran focus. (In fact, I know a Bajoran player who doesn't think Emissary counts as a Bajoran since it was so heavily focused on Fed/Baj, but I digress).
The early take-aways I had were:
1. There's a bad habit of giving an affiliation a set and then... kinda forgetting about them.
2. Rule 1 does not apply to Feds, who show up in significant numbers all the way down.
3. I wonder if the reason Blaze is remembered so fondly is that it's easily the most balanced in terms of giving almost every affiliation a decent number of cards. (Borg got ignored, and Ferengi look low but also hadn't been officially introduced yet).
4. Props to the Gamma Quadrant design team, for being the
only set to have neither Feds nor Starfleet in it.