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I like games. I play a lot of board games. Settler's of Catan, Puerto Rico, Carcassone, Betrayal at House on the Hill, Talisman, etc. My latest obsession in this category is Agricola. As for PnP RPG's, I used to play a lot of 3.5 Edition DnD and lead a playtest group for 4E before it was...

You're assuming the throw to the diagonals remains the same, which is not the case with the LS-56 octo-gate. Rather than pushing the cardinal directions out and making them "concave" as you say, they pull the diagonal points in a bit to get the same result. Thus, less throw overall...

That's true of the Sanwa JLF octo gates (or so I've heard). However that's not the case for all japanese sticks. I, too, prefer octagonal gates, so when I built my custom I used a Seimitsu LS-56. The optional octagonal gate for this stick actually has LESS throw than the stock square gate...