#587057
It's Friday, so it's time for a Friday Question.
Are you having more fun with the STCCG than you were in 2017? Why or why not?
Okay, last time I asked about 2002. This is widely (though not universally!) seen as the game's nadir, so it's good and pleasing, but not hugely shocking, that players are having more fun today than they were back then.
This week's FQ should be a little harder. Are you having more fun today than you were five years ago? This helps us see whether the CC/our community as a whole have recently been on the right track.
Here's some things that have changed in the past five years:
New sets:
Broken Bow,
Live Long and Prosper,
Cold Front,
Metamorphosis,
The Gift,
Equilibrium,
The Cage,
Q Who?,
The Neutral Zone,
A Private Little War,
Dogs of War,
Second Star to the Right,
The Trial Never Ended,
Paradise Lost,
and several boutiques I didn't even mention cuz WOW!
Rule changes:
The rule that "Earth" and "Bajor" don't include Mirror Earth and Mirror Bajor
can now report activated
Attempt restrictions (Homefront/Quantum Torpedo/matching affiliation) are checked only at start of attempt and when solving
The Frool Rule cancelled
Unlimited cards
Disguises count for characteristics
"Set-add-multiply" officially defined for the first time
❖ missions can't be stolen anymore if there's only one copy on the spaceline
ANIMAL restrictions cancelled
Miracle Worker unloaded
Nor rules overhaul: unlimited walking, beaming restrictions lifted
Regions: missions in regions must now seed at either end of the region (not insert anywhere in the region)
Face-up cards are public information
Zalkonian Storage Capsule no longer a valid download source
Ban/errata changes:
2EBC were removed from official support in 2019
"Clarifying errata" returned with a vengeance, leading to two full set remasters (Enterprise Collection and The Motion Pictures) and a variety of other minor touch-ups to cards
-icon cards got overhauled
got nerfed.
Before that, got nerfed. So did Temporal Benefactor!
Two cards lost the icon (The Wake of the Borg and Defend Homeworld)
War Council returned to the game from the long-term ban list in mid-2017. Welcome back, War Council! Scan and Full Planet Scan also came off the ban list, but nerfed too hard to see play.
Real World Changes:
Covid shook the player base pretttttttty dang hard. I'm not sure we've recovered from the impact. To be quite honest, I worry we never will.
We made "first contact" with the large group of casual (mostly Traditional) players in the Star Trek CCG Facebook group, a relationship we're still trying to build up.
Probably other stuff I'm forgetting, because (unlike all that other stuff) I can't read real-world changes straight off a database ticker.
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So it has been a busy five years! Is your time with the STCCG better for it?
Are you having more fun with the STCCG than you were in 2017? Why or why not?
Okay, last time I asked about 2002. This is widely (though not universally!) seen as the game's nadir, so it's good and pleasing, but not hugely shocking, that players are having more fun today than they were back then.
This week's FQ should be a little harder. Are you having more fun today than you were five years ago? This helps us see whether the CC/our community as a whole have recently been on the right track.
Here's some things that have changed in the past five years:
New sets:
Broken Bow,
Live Long and Prosper,
Cold Front,
Metamorphosis,
The Gift,
Equilibrium,
The Cage,
Q Who?,
The Neutral Zone,
A Private Little War,
Dogs of War,
Second Star to the Right,
The Trial Never Ended,
Paradise Lost,
and several boutiques I didn't even mention cuz WOW!
Rule changes:
The rule that "Earth" and "Bajor" don't include Mirror Earth and Mirror Bajor
can now report activated
Attempt restrictions (Homefront/Quantum Torpedo/matching affiliation) are checked only at start of attempt and when solving
The Frool Rule cancelled
Unlimited cards
Disguises count for characteristics
"Set-add-multiply" officially defined for the first time
❖ missions can't be stolen anymore if there's only one copy on the spaceline
ANIMAL restrictions cancelled
Miracle Worker unloaded
Nor rules overhaul: unlimited walking, beaming restrictions lifted
Regions: missions in regions must now seed at either end of the region (not insert anywhere in the region)
Face-up cards are public information
Zalkonian Storage Capsule no longer a valid download source
Ban/errata changes:
2EBC were removed from official support in 2019
"Clarifying errata" returned with a vengeance, leading to two full set remasters (Enterprise Collection and The Motion Pictures) and a variety of other minor touch-ups to cards
-icon cards got overhauled
got nerfed.
Before that, got nerfed. So did Temporal Benefactor!
Two cards lost the icon (The Wake of the Borg and Defend Homeworld)
War Council returned to the game from the long-term ban list in mid-2017. Welcome back, War Council! Scan and Full Planet Scan also came off the ban list, but nerfed too hard to see play.
Real World Changes:
Covid shook the player base pretttttttty dang hard. I'm not sure we've recovered from the impact. To be quite honest, I worry we never will.
We made "first contact" with the large group of casual (mostly Traditional) players in the Star Trek CCG Facebook group, a relationship we're still trying to build up.
Probably other stuff I'm forgetting, because (unlike all that other stuff) I can't read real-world changes straight off a database ticker.
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So it has been a busy five years! Is your time with the STCCG better for it?
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"We pledge our loyalty to the Glossary from now until death."
"Then receive this reward from the Glossary. May it keep you strong."
~Iron Prime