Originally Posted by
RexScarlet
This is GW's new idea; [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_and_chessboard_problem[/url]
Imagine the squares were codices/supplements/FaQs/etc. and the grains of rice/wheat were RULES, now the cause and effect/affect of each rule on another rule is the total.
Pretty simple really, KINSS; Keep It Not Simple Stupid. (see below)
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GW's new approach (6e) is everything including the kitchen sink is allowed, the more rules, the harder for the Interwebs to figure out, and thus BREAK the game (finding good units and lists verses crap units). (Helldrake was a good example of this, crap unit, FaQ drop, great unit)
Breaking the game; makes GW units/products (crap units) sit on shelves and collect dust (= no sales).
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GW's old approach was every other edition;
Make bad units in the game great in the new edition.
Make great units in the game bad in the new edition.
But the Interwebs were able to adjust and break the new edition/game in about a year, and when a new book dropped, 30 days or less the Interwebs broke that also, so GW is seeing a slump in sales, and seeing stock that does not move. (Chaos Spawn was a good example of this, as Spawn were voted worst unit in both Fantasy and 40K, but now in 6e, they are great.)
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So, if GW does release a 7e, it will be in an attempt to wrestle control back, and to force the community to use everything including the kitchen sink, because it will ALL be in the Main rulebook, as opposed to now, with supplements/extra scenario books/FW allowed/Fortification in box rules/etc. as an option that is not in the main rulebook, and big tournaments and communities are saying no way.
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On the entire chessboard there would be 264 − 1 = 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 grains of rice, weighing 461,168,602,000 metric tons, which would be a heap of rice larger than Mount Everest. This is around 1,000 times the global production of rice in 2010 (464,000,000 metric tons).[7]