> I agree with Ameer -- the game mechanics need revision and proofreading,
> but Leave Our Universe Alone! The setting for the game is the single
> most important factor in making it so popular for so long. I think it
> would be insane to make such drastic changes. For my part, I'm still
> having trouble getting used to the Rebellion.
To be honest, I don't like the Rebellion to begin with.
> I find all this stuff about a computer virus causing widespread havoc
> across the Imperium to be higly dubious at best. Even if a mechanism
> for carrying it from world to world could be contrived, it's hard to
> believe that the computer technology on the myriad different worlds
> would be sufficiently compatible to allow it to thrive.
Well, I'm sure GDW will come up with a good explaination.
For the most part, GDW has been pretty good on this kind of stuff.
While I may not like Rebellion, it's at least believable. The new
universe is going to be introdcued at next years GenCon.
> What is the HIWG's view about this upheaval, I wonder? Or DGP's?
To be honest, I have no idea. I don't even know if they know
of this yet. I've stopped monitoring the Traveller board on GEnie.
But I doubt this was posted. All this information came from my talk
with Lester Smith, one of the GDW in house staff designer. For those
of you that don't know who he is, he did "Deathwatch Program" for
2300 AD and Dark Conspiracy.