Standardized Points Costing

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**Dast**

Dast wrote:

Something I was wondering about as another possible way of balancing units was "the market solution".

As demand for a particular units rises so does it's points cost.

This would vaguely involve a website/database where people can submit the lists they are using. Some sort of formula measures the frequency with which various units are used and turns up the price on the popular ones.

If everyone is spamming helldrakes/riptides their points cost goes up, if they are still being spammed they might go up again. Meanwhile rough riders get cheaper and cheaper until people start using them.

Their are some big problems with it. Obviously if every marine army contains tactical marines that is less of a problem than if every marine army includes land raiders. Some sort of weighting to do with the number of alternatives or something would be needed.

I don't know if people would submit their lists online for it, on the one hand it might be tedious, on the other hand I think people might kind of like the feeling of being part of something bigger (something the hobby often lacks as players are often only in contact with a few other players). Who knows?

On the tank/infantry thing I really think similar is better. It makes sense with most units, but then some robots turn up (such as neckrons, Riptides or whatever) an the whole thing goes weird. Necrons are made of metal, does that mean high T or a good save? Why is a riptide a monster when a dreadnought it a vehicle?

Dast

So if I want to reduce the cost of Land Speeders all I'd have to do would be to spam that page with hundreds of Space Marine lists containing everything except Land Speeders?

Yeah, but don't worry. Your opponent can do the same thing with Monoliths, so its fair. Besides the guys trying to bring down the prices of land raiders, terminators, centurions and you would kind of cancel out.

Something would be needed to stop that, it was more idle speculation of "what if.." than a serious idea. You would actually need a significant pool of contributors to make it work, even with sensible restrictions (such as 1 list per day per person) some one could manipulate it if their were few enough others around.