Entry parameters

"Leave it open, leave it open"...

Can anyone answer me: Based on WHAT experience can a new player (no,
everyone does NOT have Internet access, nor do they belong to helpful
gaming clubs) can decide on reasonable parameters?

Mutual agreement is kinda nice, but if we could just agree on
everything,
what would we need the rules for? Are we so unimaginative that we can't
think of our own rules :-/2

What's wrong with guidelines? No one says you HAVE TO use ANY of the
rules
in the book. Lacking a tournament environment, they're all just
guidelines
subject to mutual agreement.

I personally would rather have a rule I can choose to ignore than an
empty
space I'd have to invent something to fill it with.

Besides, you can always make a scenario game out of a tournament game,
but
not the other way around.

P.S. Kallistra's ships are nice, the fleet packs are good bargains, but
they are clearly gaming pieces -- the undersides are flat and
featureless.

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