Re: FT III, BIg ships and such.

>Gee, I must have the most /un/popular opinion around here; so much so
>I dread exposing it.

:-)
Well, *I'm* not going to flame you for it.  ;-)  Everyone's entitled
to their opinions, whichever side of the fence they stand.

>I'd /like/ to see FTIII be a complete rewrite; so complete a rewrite
>that they go from the d6-intensive current system to FMA-style
>multi-die-style adjudication.	That would make it /much/ easier, in my
>eyes, to interface DSII and SGII.  

Well, I really can't talk about DS2 or SG2 'cause I haven't seen the
rules
or anything for them around here (and I've looked, no avail). I would
like
to see those rules and then see some kind of merger between the systems.

>Given the unpopularity of changing anything but the smallest fragment
>of FT amongst this group, I have to sit back and wonder how its
>expected for GZG to stay afloat.  If you folks were in charge, there'd
>be neither the excellent DSII nor SGII rules which are far and away
>superior to their predecessor.  

Well, I dunno 'bout that. Again, not having seen the DS*/SG* rules I
can't comment on them directly. But FT2 seems to be a very good system
in and of its own right. This was what hooked me into the game from the
word 'go'. It's already now an excellent system.

But that's my $0.02 worth.  :-)

>/never/, in my eyes, shown a mere hint of the GW mentality.  Any
>updates and new versions they produce, they do so because they feel
>its necessary, not just to gouge the playing public out of a few more
>lousy bucks.

Oh, hey, I have nooooooo problems with expansions and updates and stuff!
A lot of things people have asked to see (campaign rules, fleet books,
scenarios, new races/tech/systems, etc) I'd love to see in an 'official'
capacity, and don't think anyone would have to rewrite the rules to
incorporate them. Nosirreebob.

>I think its vaguely insulting that most of the replies were
>implicitive of just such a mindset and hope to my depths that I'm
>simply reading more vehemance into them than is actually present.

I *seriously* doubt anyone here was leveling insults or vehemence at
Jon or Mike or GZG. I think a *lot* of people are frustrated from past
experiences with other game systems that have gone from Good and
Excellent
to Unwieldy and Ugly, and that's where the vehemence you're reading
comes
from. I think most people were using drawing on those other systems as
an analogy of what they feared might happen to FT.

>So, my unpopular view; I'll go crawl back under my stone, now.

No, no, stay out in the light! Your skin's looking just a *little*
pale...

Mk
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