David Johnson asked for details on campaigns, so I will share mine.
I'm running two concurrent campaigns with the New Era rules; one set in the
Reformation Coalition circa 1201, and the other set in the old Imperium
circa 1106. In fact, I'm running the "Secrets of the Ancients" series (Adv 2
"Research Station Gamma", Adv. 3 "Twilight's peak" and Adv 12 "Secrets of the
Ancients", for the newbies). My players are enjoying themselves immensely
after a somewhat rocky start due to rules glitches. One guy quit the RC game
because he was ticked off that his laser rifle couldn't penetrate the armor
of robots (the police bots from TNE), but everyone else uses slugthrowers,
so they did okay. The folks in the "Old Era" game really enjoyed "Gamma"; one
person, who has been into Traveller forever and has played that adventure
before said he enjoyed it more with the TNE rules.
To Anthony K. Baggeley: I did not mean to seem critical of Twilight 2000.
I like the game quite a bit. It's just that, especially in the early modules,
there was no mistaking the fact that everything had gone to Hell in a
handbasket. It was depressing and downright sad at times to think of that
happening-which is the type of setting where heroes shine even brighter-when
you can convince people to play them. I also understand what you mentioned
about CP 2020 (another game I enjoy), and your comments about Cybergeneration
make me want to check it out. I don't mind "dark" settings unless they seem
hopeless. That's why I like TNE; the "phoenix rising from the ashes" bit
always gets me.
Oh, and by the way; I am definitely ALLEN Shock. My name has appeared
with question marks recently on posts both here and on gdw-beta. My wife
lets me use her account to keep me off of more expensive long-distance
bulletin boards. Nothing compares to the Internet, anyway.
Oh, and one more thing, while I have taken it upon myself to defend TNE
from it's detractors, I have both CT and MT, and still run CT from time to
time (like this Thursday night). Traveller in all it's forms is far above
anything else.