Re: FT III, BIg ships and such.

Chad Taylor wrote:
>I have a lot of misgivings about FTIII at the moment.	This sounds
rather
>like a GW thing.  There may (to some) be a problem with one small
section
>of the game that isn't exactly balanced.  GW then turns around and
changes
>the entire system, forcing us to buy the new game.  That is happening
at
>the moment to Epic.  A game that is very good with only a few problems,
so
>lets redesign it from the ground up.  FTIII for the moment just sounds
>like that.  I realize that I am about to get flamed in the worst way
for
>comparing GZG to GW in this way, but I am getting tired of this kind of
>nonsense.  FT is just fine the way it is, in fact it is great!  All FT
>could possibly need (IMHO) "might" be a few suggestions on how to
balance
>out some of the things that a few people feel are unbalanced (keeping
in
>mind that not everybody feels they are).  IMHO I feel that a third
>expansion (kind of a "bit more thrust" or whatever) would be much
better.
>I would like to see a few suggestions to balance the "problems", maybe
>some new tech systems, a few more alien races, and maybe some campaign
>rules.  I REALLY don't feel like being forced to buy a new rulebook so
>that I can learn a new system to replace the one that works great the
way
>it is.  

I agree with you 100%!	Fixing known problems and adding optional
expansion
stuff would be great, not an entire rewrite.

Mike Miserendino