Well, only for the Klingons, another 5 fleets would be nice. I use them for BATS busting forces. I like a cleaner-looking map than stacks of loose ships. But... that's just me. I have no idea about other users.

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Thursday, July 23, 2020 - 01:10 am: Edit

Klingons have 47 now:
I just added the following 5 to get you to 52.

T'Fay - A thank you (in advance) squadron for building the GW Scenario
Cromarg - A central defense squadron
Phylos - A north eastern defense squadron
Selnar - A western defense squadron
Kadrak - A home system defense squadron

I used Klingon names for planets/colonies found in the Gazetteer...Of course you can do what you like with them.

By Ted Fay (Catwhoeatsphoto) on Thursday, July 23, 2020 - 10:26 am: Edit

Sweet! Thanks! =)

By William Jockusch (Verybadcat) on Thursday, July 23, 2020 - 03:02 pm: Edit

I run out of fleets with the Feds, or come close to running out, pretty often. Coming close is about the same as running out, as one doesn't want to spend time checking every single fleet to see if it is used.

I asked for more FRD parks a while back. That would be at least as helpful as more non-FRD-park fleet markers.

By Ted Fay (Catwhoeatsphoto) on Thursday, July 23, 2020 - 03:44 pm: Edit

A third Klingon FRD park would also be nice.....

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Friday, July 24, 2020 - 02:45 am: Edit

I already added a few Fed Fleets to give the Fed more than the Klingons (including a 3rd FRD).
And 2 new Gorn (Turtle got a fleet and had to name one for Allie since the legend is strong here on the board).

By Alan De Salvio (Alandwork) on Tuesday, July 28, 2020 - 12:29 pm: Edit

Make a note, Lar is not allowed to post in any other discussions until this project is finished. Or sleep.

By Ted Fay (Catwhoeatsphoto) on Tuesday, July 28, 2020 - 02:02 pm: Edit

Or eat. Or .... you know....

Breathing is allowed, though, as is drinking.

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Tuesday, July 28, 2020 - 11:26 pm: Edit

Haha. Turtle has taken the box away for a couple days. He is recounting/correcting all entries, due to our resolution to remove 1500-2000 counters to make way for some CivWar Playtest stuff.

This included the Jumbo/Heavies which were a big roadblock so things will flow smoothly once he gets it back to me.

(In an Old Colonies type way all production is not lost...I can still make new counters in an old box and just copy them to the new box for population when he is done.)

By Thomas Mathews (Turtle) on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 - 08:10 am: Edit

Counts are complete. The current box is just over 91% complete. The biggest issue will be adding the roughly 2500 - 2600 Civil War Counters. Now most of those counters came from the reduction of the current counts in the Lyran and Romulan counters so if you run out in a regular game you can use the Civil War counters for those empires.

Lar can tell how involved the process is for making a single counter for a new unit. Once it is created then the process of making multiple counters for it is super simple.

By Alan De Salvio (Alandwork) on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 - 12:20 pm: Edit

I would be more comfortable with this situation if Thomas had 'rabbit' as his user handle.

By Thomas Mathews (Turtle) on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 - 12:30 pm: Edit

lol Alan. It took me almost a week to count all 57000+ counters. And that doesn't include ones that I deleted that could be deleted for a variety of reasons.

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 - 04:19 pm: Edit

Creating the duplicates in trays IS super simple but has to be done thousands of times and at the right number for each.

The visual of the counters are constantly (and for the most part) individually evolving, everything from the artwork to the nomenclature on them has changed an uncountable (I lost count 20 years ago) number of times.

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Friday, August 07, 2020 - 03:02 am: Edit

SVC: I can give you an update blurb for Cyberboard for CL54 if you would like one. Let me know when it needs to be in. As we close in on completion the message can be updated. Email it to you?

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, August 07, 2020 - 04:34 am: Edit

Email it to me anytime in the next three weeks.

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Saturday, August 08, 2020 - 02:44 am: Edit

Will do

By William Jockusch (Verybadcat) on Saturday, August 08, 2020 - 01:03 pm: Edit

Klingon D5s also seem to be running out in my game with Paul. He keeps grabbing them from the deadpile. So to keep up with the counter set, I need to keep killing them

By Thomas Mathews (Turtle) on Sunday, August 09, 2020 - 09:28 am: Edit

William, because of the counter limit built into Cyberboard you and others will more than likely be pulling other units from the dead pile to be reused.

By William Jockusch (Verybadcat) on Sunday, August 09, 2020 - 12:46 pm: Edit

Yeah, I know, my point is that the usage of slots could be improved. I've been picking on Hydran CA, but similar things could be said of other CA. The Kzinti CA and CC could both be cut in half with no problem for example.

By Thomas Mathews (Turtle) on Sunday, August 09, 2020 - 01:35 pm: Edit

They got cut. You are still going to have that problem with various counters for each empire. It is not going to go away and is only going to get worse.

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Sunday, August 09, 2020 - 10:17 pm: Edit

Well the easy fix is put ONE D5 over in the dead pile and

1. Change the text on that counter to reflect the dead

or

2. Use the number markers to reflect the dead count

We added some groups in this go around but it was to alleviate the build frenzy

By Bill Su (Wsu) on Sunday, September 13, 2020 - 06:20 pm: Edit

Actually, the problem should be getting better. https://github.com/CyberBoardPBEM/cbwindows/issues/12 is a high priority for me.

By Ted Fay (Catwhoeatsphoto) on Friday, November 13, 2020 - 11:03 am: Edit

Status update?

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Saturday, November 14, 2020 - 10:20 am: Edit

Overall there was a slight regression due to some late additions and updates. In general its going well.

New Counter creation is 99+% complete.
Existing counter tweaks are 90+% complete
Map Updates 100% complete
Charts 95% complete (most of the incomplete status here is with only two types of charts)

Counter populations:
These are 90% complete with the Vudar, Paravian, & LDR, (All) EB Trays and some new playtest CivilWar goodies being the remainders.

Marker populations:
I am populating (or rather repopulating) the marker trays with all the new ME goodies and additional requested items. 100% of the trays are made, 90% of these are populated, less than 50% have been verified.
(Note: Verification means that all empires are accounted for and stats are accurate per the latest SITs.)
(Note2: If I start from scratch in a tray it gets populated by rule number 701, 702, ...)

By Ted Fay (Catwhoeatsphoto) on Monday, November 16, 2020 - 10:13 am: Edit

Time to publication?