> From: MacGyver [email removed]
> Subject: (2892) Re: (2885) Traveller Mk III: An Editorial by, well, YOU know.
>
> I think the current GDW is quite a bit better about maps, artwork,
> typesetting, and all that stuff in my opinion. Dark Conspiracy in my
> opinion, is the most flashy product GDW has ever produced that I've
> seen. The maps and arts are just wonderful. And let me tell ya, before
> I saw DarkCon, I was very skeptical myself.
You are absolutely correct about flashiness and good layout and all that -
But it still has the same general type of problems that we've seen in the
MegaTraveller books, ie the referrences to some piece of data found in another
chapter that *simply isn't there*!
Three examples that comes to mind right now is that the equipment listing
mentions that contacts work into the availability codes and that exact how this
works is supposed to be found in the section on contacts. Not so.
I've also not been able to find any explanation of the availability codes
in 'Dark'.
And in the character generation chapter there is a mention that some weapons
need special licenses, and that data on how to get those is in the equipment
listing. Nope.
All these examples are just more of what we've seen before. Bad coordination
between different parts of the design team leading to spurious references was
very evident in MegaTraveller. I suspect that the proofreading is done by
people who *alreay know the system* and unconciously fill in the missing parts
because they know what it should be. The missing availability codes makes this
more likely because they are such a staple in the T2k system that anyone
familiar with it would know about them.
Don't get me wrong: 'Dark' is still much better editing and typo-wise than
MegaT, but it still hasn't reached the goal.
- -bertil-
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["It's that feeling of yawning emptiness that comes over you as you are close to
the edge of the TML charter." I hope I dodn't break it, James :)]
[SSLLLUUURRRPPP!!!!! GLOOMP! Bertil vanishes into a black hole. No
problem, Bertil -- James]