Or one could seperate the TML into the Imperium based discussions
(background) and another for rules based discussions (CT/MT/TNE/Var).
Personally I'm just as sorry to see some of the 'old-timers' go
here and elsewhere and wouldn't mind to see them back. But I don't really
expect some of them to make it back because there are too many differences
caused by the new TNE/FF&S rules (Virus/ship movement). I don't know.
Whether the Virus is a good thing or a bad thing is a mote point now.
It's a fact of the TNE era. (the suggestion made here that the Virus
has some psionic ability to alter its ciruitry is however a very good
suggestion to make it more realistic).
As for the ship movement problem, I happen to remember a vocal outcry
about the unrealistic DGP thrusters and about getting more science into
Traveller again. To a certain extent that's what we got.
Admittedly not everything's perfect (to say it mildly for some).
Hey, it's only a game, a Sci-Fi game at that. Game Designers are not
scientists (and even if they were, there would still be disagreement
over what's real and what's not).
I think some things got forgotten in all the flaming back and forth
over TNE. (And more people would join the TML if the flaming disappeared,
but they have no desire to waste their time or bandwidth listening to
the flaming).
1. It's a game.
2. It's not real life.
3. You don't like it, change it. Give the fixes to others (Maybe it'll
become an 'official' variant).
<100-diameters> For work on the Antares Down adventure it was decided
(at least initially) to make the jump point 100 diameters out from the
radius of the star. This was a plot device to make life more interesting.
Since this never made print it can be considered unofficial. And
considering new TNE ship movement rules, maybe not desired.
<Andy - Green Virus> See The Stand <grin. Better yet read the book>. Or
even the Andromeda Strain (the book is better here too). Another thought that
had been made was just to worsen the effects of the Black war period of the
Imperium (so to speak).