Re: [GZG] [Aliens] was Re: FMA at EEC etc

I'm not sure who wrote:
>I really do not understand the secrecy of the playtest list. My
>understanding is GZG makes little offthe rules anyway.

This comes from an incident that happened prior to the release of the
first Fleet Book.

Jon had some ideas for FT. They were ideas off the top of his head,
basically blue-skying, brainstorming. He posted them to the list to
get an idea of what the FT fans thought. They were just
"possibilities" and nothing Jon had really developed or fully
explored.

Someone on the list told his friends. Good thing, as Jon wanted people
playtesting the ideas.

The friends didn't like the ideas. They started posting on the
Internet how much they hated the new ideas. Since it got lost in
translation that these were just things that Jon was _thinking_ about,
they started posting about how Jon was ruining the game. They said
that if the game was going that way, they were done with FT. They
continued to bad mouth the game, creating a negative buzz.

As it turned out, the items they had issue with were either not
implemented or implemented in a modified form that worked. Their
worries never materialized.

Regardless, Jon learned his lesson. The test list was created, and
everything is more-or-less kept secret until it's reached a fairly
late stage of development. It's not what Jon would prefer, but it's a
business necessity.

Allan
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