Re: DSII: Vehicle Generation Programs

At 01:47 PM 7/14/97 +0000, you wrote:
>> Date:	  Mon, 14 Jul 97 10:29:00 PDT
>> From:	  Nils A Hedglin <Nils_A_Hedglin@ccm.fm.intel.com>
>> Reply-to:	  FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
>> To:		  ftgzg-l@bolton.ac.uk
>> Subject:	  DSII: Vehicle Generation Programs
>
>> Where can I find a vehicle generation program for Win 95/NT/3.1?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nils
>>
>>
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>> Nils_A_Hedglin@ccm.fm.intel.com
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>We'll be releasing one next month.  We did have it scheduled for
>this week, but I want to add some additional material to the mix
>before I release it on CD Rom.  It'll go for $15.00 retail.
>
>KR, Geo-Hex
Wait a minute.	you are going to sell us a vehical generatior for DSII
for
$15.00.  I don't want to sound too critical, but I think that strikes me
as
a little wrong.  Here is my reasoning.	There really isn't that much to
the
DSII Vehical generation system.  It is by no means a complex system.  I
can
make a vehical on pad and paper in under 10 minutes.  I realize that a
program to do this is useful, but with a little work I could write a
spreadsheet in Excel or Lotus that would do much the same thing. 
Charging
15.00 for this is in my opinion a little silly.  For example, there are
a
number of FT starship generator spreadsheets on the web.  Most are
pretty
good.  Now I doubt that anybody is making $15.00 a shot off of any of
these.
Also Dream Pod 9, has released a vehical and Gear construction sheet for
it's Heavy Gear game, as a service to the people that play it's game. 
You
can down load this from many sites on the web and, be for they changed
servers, the DP9 official site as well. 

If you are really intent on making money on a vehical generatior for
DSII,
my advice to you is to make it downloadable from your GEO-HEX website
for a
small fee.  This would lower your expenses in that you would not need to
put
it on CD-ROM or have to ship it. You may also get more visitors to your
website, which if I remember lists all of your products.  They may just
order something in addition to the DSII Generator.

In closing I believe that you may be going about this the wrong way. 
Making
money off of a simple Vehical Generator even if it is packaged with a
few
extras like Digitized Record sheets, and some graphics, is a little
silly.
Especially if you are going to charge me $15.00 for it.

Thank you
Joe. 
JNoll 
"Microbiologist by training,....Wargamer by choice"