James Kundert complained about a lack of enthusiasm for
TNE on the main Traveller Mailing List and that the TNE-Pocket
and FF&S review groups had gone off and done their work
seperately. I'd like to address what TNE-Pocket is doing,
for real, as opposed to random speculation 8-)
TNE-Pocket is for the most part not discussing TNE.
We did a surge of "how's it going to work" at the
beginning, before TNE was actually on the street,
and a second round of fixes when we got the game.
The TNE-Pocket list isn't there to discuss T:TNE.
We're making a very detailed small corner of the
TNE universe, not discussing issues as a whole.
Believe me, the ongoing arguments about pre-collapse
politics in the Aoeriyya region and how we're going
to get Metlay's Vargr over before the Virus hit
have nothing to do with the TNE game in general.
The traveller mailing list (this list here) is intended
for general discussion of Traveller the game, in all
its guises. TNE-Pocket isn't about Traveller: The New Era.
It's about Aoerriya, one small corner of TNE which we were
lucky enough to be given to play with.
TNE-Pocket isn't trying to be closed either. The archives
(which are about 6 weeks out of date, because I changed jobs
about that long ago...) are publically available at the
FTP site ocf.berkeley.edu directory pub/Traveller/TNE-Pocket
and anyone can download them. They'll be updated next time
I have a weekend to spare. The reason TNE-Pocket has a
"please don't join if you don't want to work" warning
on the front door is that we actually want to get something
done, not just sit and yak about it. And we have. We have
an outline, which may be revised depending on what the publication
arrangements end up being but seems otherwise pretty solid.
We have many thousands of words of first-draft (and some second
and third ...) manuscript for sections of the above. We have
individuals penciled in for all the sections. We're not very
busy right now because GDW has about a one-month response time,
and we're waiting on some info from them, but we've been
making good progress on the whole.
That having been said, the list _is_ open, albeit with a slow
reaction time (mine) to add you. There are two people who
are queued up and will be added real soon now (tm). We're not
discussing state secrets, and if you will respect the "we're
here to make something" point of the list, go ahead and join.
Subscription requests to [email removed], and like I
said I'll add you as soon as I have time.
But don't join TNE-Pocket to chat about TNE. If you want to do that,
do it here. TNE-Pocket doesn't need it, and the rest of the TML
people would miss out if general TNE discussion migrated.
- -george william herbert
[email removed] System & Network Administrator, CRL
moderator, sci.space.tech and co-mod, sci.space.science
occationally a writer, engineer, gamer, other random hobbies