Post date: Nov 10, 2019 6:36:03 PM
The 2055 Turn has now ended. Thank you everyone, it has been really cool! The Referee has a large number of updates to carry out before the new turn, but most have already been prepared behind the scenes so our turn-around should not be as long as it has been in the past. We expect to start the 2060 Turn some time in the next few weeks.
The rules that we will be using for the new turn will be a cleaned up version of the Rules Proposal. We will not rule out any additional changes between now and the start of the 2060 turn, but we do not expect any either. There are lots of little tweaks, changes, re-balancing, simplifications, clarifications, and loopholes closed, see section 11.1 for a summary. The most important rules change being the reduction of cost to Response PApoints, your Referee thinks it will make the game more exciting knowing that no action is a certain thing. Other than that, the list of changes in section 11.1 continues to shorten with each new turn. Expect re-balancing to be a permanent game feature, but there is hope that we are coming closer to a time where each new turn does not have to be played like it is a whole new game.
Remember, it is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to keep the non-greyed out columns of the Unit and Facility List spreadsheets updated. These updates include the terrain type and modifiers for hexes which are owned by your nation; as there is no easy way for the Heaven&Earth database and our spreadsheets to talk to each other and there is no way the Referee can handle the workload of doing it himself. If you do not keep these things updated then you cannot expect that the Referee will actually carry out your orders.
Yours In Service,
K