Invitation to playtest

But that's always been true ever since the formation of the VEKN - it decides what is sanctioned at its tournaments.

Lol. You guys brighten up my morning.

Adrian

direwolf wrote:

V:EKN has a stranglehold on the development of new fan based cards, insomuch as they determine what cards are supported for their sanctioned tournaments.

We are the 99%.

There is a lot of unharnessed energy and talent out there. There are a lot of projects that could be worked on besides just developing one new small set of cards, putting on the championship tournaments, and updating a few rules once a year.

I looked at the fan-run Star Trek site www.trekcc.org/, and they seem to do a lot with committees. It's true that if you are the only person in charge of marketing/rules/rankings/development you have a lot more control, but you can get a lot more done by leading a group of people. The role of the leader should be to see the projects that could be done and then to find the people who can do the work and to lead them, not to do all the work him or herself.

A lot of people on this board, such as Direwolf (okay, I won't tell them your real name ) have good ideas and energy, but they lack the "legitimacy" of VEKN since they have no role in the organization and don't have "Methuselah" standing in the community.

Personally I think that VTES can now be led by the players, but I know that I am in the minority. Does VTES have to be a like a vampire, frozen for eternity in the form it had at death? If the former design team wants to keep going, I say good for them.

Committees are a great idea, and probably would have done a lot to solve the design team's problems. I see no reason why you couldn't have one committee working on one expansion while another started prepping for the next, both creating cards under the coordination of one central leader. That leader wouldn't have anything to do with the actual creation of cards himself - he would only coordinate the process.

AaronC wrote:

A lot of people on this board, such as Direwolf (okay, I won't tell them your real name ) have good ideas and energy, but they lack the "legitimacy" of VEKN since they have no role in the organization and don't have "Methuselah" standing in the community.

Those people can offer their ideas and thoughts to the relevant forum (or people if they don't want to disclose them) and see the discussion evolve. Many players have posted new card ideas in the past. This is most appreciated. I don't think you have to be an old player to be taken serious.