On Mon, 13 Nov 2017, Reuben Staley wrote: > I am expanding the AP system. In some rules, you can spend 1, 2, 3, 4, or 6 > AP to perform map actions. Action Points keep on being hated on and it's > likely that they will be phased out soon. So I gave them a new use as a > kind of limit placed on map actions.
I don't particularly hate on AP or shinies, but I do hate on having the two systems - in terms of "growing an economy", it weakens rather than strengthens. So if you want an economy, do away with AP. If you'd rather have everyone just have a set # of actions, do away with shinies and expand AP. It was a needed kludge when the first economy draft didn't have anything like a minimum income, and we were nervous that the economy might break and we needed a backup. The economy still has big issues but the basic "spend a few shinies to do things" seems to be working so it's probably time to retire AP (or replace it with a pend/CFJ w/o Objection mechanism for backup instead of AP).
