I'll keep it short. The War Room annoys me. It annoys me because PPS_Will said: When reviewing a constructed list, all items which break FA or point allotments will be flagged for easy viewing by your opponent. These flags will also be present on any emailed list. These exceptions may then checked against the appropriate theme force card.
Excuse me for being a lazy bum, but that's unnecessarily complicated. We shouldn't be forced to open new rules, find documents elsewhere on the War Room, search the forums for current rulings on theme lists, and then finally returning to look at annoyingly flagged options I know are correct, and THEN explain them to my opponent again (who by that time should be turning red and venting steam). Privateer Press closed down iBodger and I was down with that (competing product and all that), but then decides not to put out a competing product.
IF the rules and cards in War Room are always correct and up to date, we could just as well trust a complete list construction tool, that took theme lists into consideration and just couldn't create illegal lists unless you actively marked that option (with flags and all).
/Lamoron
Are you assuming that War Room won't be taking theme lists into account, or is there something PPS_Will was responding to that I have no frame of reference on?
ReplyDeleteAt this time the War Room will flag illegal choices, and it's up to you to explain to your opponent why the tier list allows it. That's just silly when it could just include the tier lists... and you know... not allow illegal choices.
ReplyDeleteTook me a while to read through the forum posts on pp's site, but I think I finally found what you're talking about. I agree, it's silly. The more I hear about War Room, the more I really want to continue using ibodger.
ReplyDeleteTo get around possible IP issues, I wonder if anyone's considered going the same route as ArmyBuilder does and provide a list building piece of software with data files maintained by a fanbase.
I know a couple of guys in my group are working on an application to keep track of game statistics, and if they ever get around to finishing it we might have a project for them :)
ReplyDeleteI might not have been keeping myself 100 % up to date. When you talk about war room it sounds like some kind of tool. Is this correct? And what is all this talk about iBodger being closed?
ReplyDeletehttp://privateerpress.com/warroom
DeleteIt's a good idea turned fairly sour so far. iBodgers creator was asked to stop supporting it because it theoretically competes with War Room, but then War Room has none of the features I like from iBodger so...
How do you usually use iBodger? I don't think I use it to it's full extend. I have it on my phone, so I mostly just use it as a mobile list building tool that can email lists. Has it been removed from the apple and android app stores then?
ReplyDeleteI don't know. I won't be supported so I guess it will die. I used iBodger statistics a lot which is what I will miss the most, and I think checking/making tier lists will be a nightmare in War Room (though possible).
DeleteSounds kinda lame. One could hope that they improve on war room. Sounds stupid to exclude a feature to make sure that you don't create illegal lists /:
ReplyDeleteHeard nothing but bad stuff about WarRoom. Sounds like a bag of fail. The guy doing iBodger should set up on a heavily defended secret island and keep making it :P
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