"Inertia?" Topic

We often read excellent ideas here at TMP —better basing systems, simpler rules, smaller armies, new scales, different terrain methods—but many of us stay "locked in" to old habits.

Re-basing is the obvious example: sensible in theory, often daunting in practice.

What hobby changes have you resisted, even though they might make gaming easier or better?

Examples might include:
changing figure scale
Using fewer figures per unit
switching rulesets to something more modern/revolutionary
Using sabot bases/movement trays
etc

What's your hobby inertia? What change are you resisting—and why? Habit, cost, nostalgia or simply too much invested already?

Butterfly gaming.

There is a terrible trend in our hobby to try every new rules set that gets released, then abandon that for the next new rules set that comes out, and the next, and so on. Too many games are first games, learning games, introductory games, etc. I prefer to settle on a set of rules that work, and play them enough to get competent. These days it takes me longer than the life of a rules system to build the armies and terrain to play it.

There's a second trend which is unrelated but fits the same name: playing a different game every gaming session. I like a little variety in my gaming life too, but it becomes impossible to have a good game that moves along at a reasonable pace when the table is full of butterflies who couldn't possibly stand to play the same game twice in one year. It's impossible to be an experienced player of a game without frequent experience playing the game.

There are a few things I do through inertia, but for purely pragmantic reasons. A couple examples:

15mm scale. I started with 15mm, all my terrain is scaled for 15mm, my measuring systems are adapted to 15mm, it works well for the kind of small-army gaming I prefer from the black powder era on back, it's easy to acquire painted units and armies in flea markets, etc.

I've tried branching into other scales, but I never get anywhere because it's too danged much work to create duplicate sets of all the goodies (terrain, bases, measuring stuff, etc.). Multiplying the storage problem is also a really bad idea.

Fire & Fury basing for 19th C. armies. It's flexible, reasonably generic, and my favorite rules systems can all use it.

I thought I'd stick to this for everything, but last year I began to adopt Koenig Krieg (and Napoleon's Battles) basing for 18th C. armies. This is the deeper-than-wide stand system with 4 figures in a 2x2 arrangement (15mm base size: 20mm wide x 25mm deep). I never liked it, but so many flea market units come that way, I decided to quit swimming upstream and just go with the flow.

Words of wisdom, YA. Sadly, just call me "Lepidoptera" – I get bored with a period or rule set & need to move on periodically.

switching rulesets to something more modern/revolutionary

Nope. Nope. Nope.
Fake "Confucius say…" joke:
"This is good because it is old. That is better because it is new."

A new area of research insured by several sources.
I delay painting 28mm and getting a 3D printer