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It's the same way with MF. Where does a new person start? 3.3, 4.0, 3.5, unlimited??? Let's make one the 'official' weight to start with, and guys can always move around once they're comfortable playing. The main idea is simplifying the choices until a person understands the 'why's' and how's' of playing MF.
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Personaly, I understand what you're saying, but I simply don't think that way : in slot racing, yesterday the scale prefered was the h0 scale, then the 1/24 in the 70-80, now the 1/32 is the "standard"...but standard only in europe, because USA stills prefering h0 scale...but only the people aged of 40 years old or more...but children prefers 1/43...but all that is changing, because people run digital slot cars now...etc, etc....you see what I mean : the standard is that there is
no standard
It's why I 'm more in the same spirit than Geno, Weirdwolf and other guys here : in my mind, it's make more sense to classify diferent things about their particularity, more than classify them from a (good or bad) scale value, because making ONE standard specify that other classes/wieghts/categories are NOT standard, in my thinking.
SO...I agree more with that classification :
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Stock class 3.3 and under classic class ?
Mod class 4.0 and under heavy class ?
Unlimited 4.0 and up free class ?
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classic class for newbies (using standard miggle or tudor gamesets)
and old school players (and/or players using a specific ruleset wich is better with 3.3g figs, for example arena football on model 500 board, perhaps)
heavy class for big size customizers, big board owners (and/or players using a specific ruleset wich is better with 4g figs),
high speed miniature football, etc, etc...
free class for...all the other ones : fantasy players (we can imagine one day playing MF with orcs and trolls, why not ? the figs already exists), very specific rulesets (squad total weight rule, like Reginald spoke about one day, or big linemen rule like I play in france : 4.0g for skill players, 4.2g for linemen)
My two cents (even if I am a beginner, I'm french, and you know how much we love to hear our voice sound
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