Steve Higginbotham:
> BTW, I missed something: "pay for the privilege"? What was that
supposed to mean?
It means that GDW pays for Internet access...we don't have a university
or a megacorp to pick up the tab. Actually, since its going to my private
GEnie account, it means that _I_ am paying for the privilege of seeing
TML (we'll see if Frank OKs the voucher I turn in).
To the TML at large: Perhaps I should explain a couple of
things...all BBS connections I do for GDW are done on my home
machine, after working hours. The office phone lines are too noisy
for a modem (and the phone company seems unable to fix that without
large infusions of money). This all comes out of my so-called "free
time." Only on rare occasions does Frank Chadwick or anyone else from
GDW actually lay hands on my keyboard. All of the material people ask
to be forwarded to them is transferred to disk or printed out and shoved
under their respective noses.
I get Biweekly TML delivery, so I won't be posting more than once or
twice a week, although I'll try to answer Email letters faster.
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Steve Higginbotham, Mike Metlay, Mark Watson, Lewis Taylor Goss,
your notes have been given to Frank Chadwick and David Nilsen, as
requested.
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To Mike (the Rantmeister? ;- ) Metlay:
I decided to sign up for TML acess after numerous individuals here
strongly encouraged me to do so. I'm pretty thick-skinned (and I can
curse in four languages if the situation warrants), but I see no point
in carrying on endless "Oh Yeah, well you're another!" exchanges (they
get in the way of free discussion).
Let me clarify one final point: If somebody says a game I produce is a
piece of crap, I can live with that (it happens often
enough)...that's a matter of personal taste. If, however, somebody
calls me an idiot, or says that GDW employees are totally lacking in
brain cells, I see that as a personnal attack. I'll try not to engage
in personal attacks, and I hope others will do the same.
Rob Dean:
One brief question for GDW, if you don't mind my asking--what sort of
numbers are we expecting for common Traveller weapons in TNE? Say, a
laser carbine and a gauss rifle as examples.
Good question. I haven't completely worked them out yet. This is a
rather complicated undertaking, since bullet weight, muzzle velocity,
and the other factors needed for the rating equation is not readily
available for some of the Traveller weapons. Energy weapons are
also a problem, as no rating formula has been worked up yet. There _is_
a laser carbine rated in Dark Conspiracy, representing a primitive weapon
with a back-pack power unit. I suspect that the ratings for the plasma guns
and the like will prove to be deadly enough for you.
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My thanks to John, Brian, Steve, and George for their expansions and
clarifications on my brief discussion of the T2K2 system.
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Wildstar Your Vector (Delta-Vee) Movement System and Virus suggestions
are in the hands of Frank and Dave. Frank, I know, has read the Virus
material.
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Well, that's all for now.
Loren K. Wiseman
representing GDW, Inc.