Anthony Neal [email removed] says:
>
>>Also, the logical place for Computer/Robot rules would be in
>>the Virus book, which we can't expect until late 94... at the earliest.
>>However, I think if you came up with a good set of rules, you could
>>get them published (in some form) in Challenge, which would
>>make them "official".
>>
>>Matt
>
> Hmmm. Never considered the TNE thingy. I've been stuck in Mega for such
>a long time that TNE never crossed my mind. I guess anything I come up with
>will be cross-compatible.
Er. Probably not. The computers in TNE are entirely different. You
don't pick an arbitrary model number anymore (they were arbitrary in MT,
anyway; the model# >= jump# rule was missing), you install one or more
computers of your chosen tech level. That's it. The only differences
within a tech level for the big comps are the flight/standard/optical
progression and the number of comps you install. Your comps must be
the same tech level as your sensors and control systems.
>Either way, I'll post them when/if they ever work out.
>
> Published??? Wow! Never considered that either. Who'd publish me! ;->
Not Challenge, if it's a MegaTraveller article. According to the
submission guidelines, it's TNE or nothing. The recent issues have
been printing the backlog of MT articles as fast as is practical.
They don't seem to want any more of them. With TNE (and now FF&S) in
the stores, I can't say I blame them.
If your work is still MT-compatible when it's done, The Traveller
Chronicle might print it (see message 6499 from last night). TTC
is a "Traveller" magazine in the same way this list seems to be a
"Traveller" list. Not just Classic, not just MT, and not just TNE.
All of them. Right, Paul?
That said, I find the lack of apparent enthusiasm for TNE on this
list distressing and annoying. Distressing because of the "It's
different. I don't like different" attitude which accompanies much
of the discussion, and annoying because all the big-volume posters
seem to have fled to the pocket-empire list (a list with "No Loitering,
Private Property" posted at the door), and abandoned the main TML.
It got worse when the folks who wanted to playtest the FF&S preview
material went and formed _another_ list to follow that activity.
The TML was left a shadow of its former self during this time. The
enthusiasm for these projects that could have infected the rest of
the list was kept behind closed doors (and still is), and thus was
wasted on those who needed no encouragement.
Please don't think that I consider these other lists a "bad thing."
Each has a specific mission that it pursues vigorously (I assume,
not being a member of either). Their isolation from this list is
what bothers me. A Lot.
James Kundert
[email removed]
PS That's not ALL TNE computers do, mind you, just the beginning...