On Parity Shift

Jeff wrote:

There will always be a "most powerful" political action. Currently, Parity Shift holds that title.

Oh, sure. But for my money it is the most powerful by leaps and bounds--nothing else is even close in terms of it's impact. The basic building block vote cards are all powerful, but reasonably so; KRC is very strong, but reasonably strong (and is a reasonably measuring stick for everything else in the game, really--one action card doing 3 damage that requires support [other cards or vote infrastructure] to make work); Con Ag *can* do 4 damage to your prey at one time but at the cost of spending much of the game doing 2 or 1 damage to your prey at one time; Con Boon can get you a lot of pool quickly; Reckless Agitation can do a lot of damage to your prey very quickly, but is surprisingly difficult to make work consistently and stops working all together in the end game. Parity Shift is way, way streets ahead of these other cards in terms of power and effect. It isn't just "the best vote card". It is amazingly, wildly over the top the best vote card.

Go ahead and fight the good fight for change if you still want to. It's kind of moot right now since the new rulings were released. Maybe next October to November it will be time to fan the flames of insurrection again.

Absolutely. I'm not, like, expecting anything to happen here. Apparently, most people paying attention to this discussion disagree with me. Which is fine. Just for my money, I imagine that the game would become considerably more interesting (and more balanced) if Parity Shift got a kick in the teeth.

Aaron wrote:

It has been a very long time since I lost 5 to Parity Shift.

<sidenote>

I lost 15 to Parity Shift in a single game at the EC.
My predator that did all that damage didn't win though, his grand-predator did.

</sidenote>

Ouch!

Ohlmann wrote:

Joscha wrote:

Hm, apparently not.
After all, I suppose that VEKN would be willing to risk a change not supported by the poll if they are dead sure it will do good to the game. And vice versa.

if they make a change not supported by a majority they risk that players in playgroups that oppose the change disregard the changes and thus VEKN would eventually lose authority and that would further cripple the game. If a certain playgroup decide to play with uncorrected cards they could still play the tournament as they want and adjust the decklist sent to the VEKN to match the rules and no one would know, or just play unregistered...either way that would hurt the game.

EDIT: before this post someone gave me two karma minuses without stating a reason (i was polite and did not insult anyone). it is childish. should I smack a minus to everyone proposing change to Parity shift (since I'm positive that those people asking for a change in the card did it, it is the only topic i post in)? if you give me a minus, at least have the cojones to let me know that you did it.

Väinämöinen wrote:

if they make a change not supported by a majority they risk that players in playgroups that oppose the change disregard the changes and thus VEKN would eventually lose authority and that would further cripple the game.

Well, what I wanted to say was that if a change is really for the better, even if unsupported, people will at least try it, and then support it (since it is a good change).

We are here to help the VEKN by giving an opinion. GOod change can be completely unsupported by players at first, but are unlikely to. So, this poll is a tool for them, not an absolute thing to follow.

(didn't gave a minus)