Request to differentiate or change #starship from #starshipcombat

[BigNorseWolf]

The #starship tag is a bit misleading. Sure, people may want to know if a scenario involves starships so they can bring their ace pilot, but I think more players are interesting in knowing whether a scenario involves starship combat or not. To that end the #starship hashtag is giving false positives.

I skipped buying and several opportunities to run a scenario #'d starship because I thought it contained starship combat.

Trying to put together a group for the scenario, and 2 responses were about the starship combat. So I'm not the only one getting the wrong idea.

[Petronius]

Hmm. I thought #starship was supposed to indicate starship combat.

That's also what the SFS Guide says, which someone (me) will need to change if that's not what's intended. I'll make a note to follow up on this question with the rest of the Guide Task Force and Paizo staff.

SFS Guide wrote:

...certain scenarios have the Starship tag, indicating that the associated scenario includes one or more starship combat encounters.

SFS Guide wrote:

...Starship: This tag indicates the associated scenario includes some form of the starship combat rules in Chapter 9 of the Starfinder Core Rulebook.

First paragraph of Starships and under Player Basics >> Adventures, respectively, for the curious.

[thistledown]

I agree with BNW

[John Mangrum]

With a quick scan I can find only one scenario with the Starship tag that didn't include starship combat (from Year 4), and I think readers called that out for being misleading at the time. Have there been more?

[BigNorseWolf]

The other one i checked was battle for the beacon, where there MIGHT be starship combat?

[John Mangrum]

Oh, yeah, there are a handful of scenarios with the Starship tag that include avoidable starship combat.

[BigNorseWolf]

Oh right, forgot about that. (I did also lose a good chunk of december/january)