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I agree that this is excellent news, its the first glimmer of hope thats happened on this forum for some time now
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OK sorry, Welsh gentleman then....no just doesnt have the ring to it
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Hey, I live in the US and don't have a drop of Brit blood in me and I'm excited.Originally posted by Malenfant:
Is it me or are the people who are most antsy and excited about this all either Brits, ex-pat Brits, or members of the Commonwealth?
Well, that and that I'm running a very strongly 2300-flavored game with a TNE backdrop so I'm always looking for ideas I can ste^H^H^H adopt.I think it's also something to do with the fact that 2300 is like 18th Century colonialism in space, a time when Europe - especially the UK - was ascendant and the US was nothing at all. Nothing like a game that harkens back to the "good old days."
I have to admit, even having been raised in the US that part of 2300's appeal was a non-US-centric world. (However, I did have issues with France being #1 for 300 years - I didn't have issues with it being France unlike a lot of people, but I do have problems with them being #1 for so long, something, even with their supposed rising and declining fortunes, I find a little unrealistic.)
Not me. I never had any problem with the good 'ol US of A being dropped from its mighty perch (even to the extent of being supplanted by the French!). It []iwas[/i] the future and the world was recovering from WW3. Of course, I got an independent Texas to smooth my nationalistic ego.Originally posted by Malenfant:
Is it me or are the people who are most antsy and excited about this all either Brits, ex-pat Brits, or members of the Commonwealth?
I always assumed a world in chaos needed a guiding light and sometimes a refuge. It was this way that France was able to step up to mantle. I think France only recently declared Empire status, however, having played the game many moons back, I played French dominance much as we see American dominance in 2001: A Space Odyssey, all the adverts are in French & French companies predominate but in no way do we see the French of having all the trappings of Empire save on the French Arm but then we see American Empire trappings on the American Arm, Chinese trappings on the Chinese Arm etc. Like the United States, France of the 24th century has become a reluctant Empire, it crowned itself with aspirations of grandeur of the past hence resurrected the concept of Empire to describe the current hegemony...which is a very loose and almost invisible Empire on Earth and the Solar System. Governance is more diffuse and spread to multinational agencies and foundations...France simply provides the lingua franca that smoothen all transactions.
I also live in the United States, and I've loved 2300 since the early '90's. Even the ascendancy of France was copasetic -- it gave us a believable Earth-bound bad guy.
Plus, I loved the feel of 2300, as an American - it hearkened back to the Frontier days, what with America striving to (re)gain greatness, the American Arm for all intents and purposes "tapped out" (which meant that we had to start applying good old-fashioned American ingenuity to solving the cul-de-sac issue, either with experimentation with stutterwarp tugs, somehow breaking the 7.7ly barrier, brown dwarfs, what have you), American servicement serving in an "on-loan" capacity in the militaries of other nations, and generally a humbled but not quite cowed "non-big-boy" nation quietly gaining de facto ascendancy while the "big-boy" nations of the EU slap each other silly...
...then throw in the Kafers...
Plus, I loved the idea of an independent Texas. And I'm not a Texan.
One thing: I loved the "alternate timeline" feel of 2300, too - retaining the Twilight War as it originally was conceived, just realizing that "our" timeline diverged from 2300's sometime in the late '80's. Being a Trekkie, I never had a problem with that idea - Trek's timeline diverged with "ours" in the mid-'80's also (if not earlier).
It's a stupendous "what could have been" milieu...
Colin - here's praying you get something going with 2300/2320...
Plus, I loved the feel of 2300, as an American - it hearkened back to the Frontier days, what with America striving to (re)gain greatness, the American Arm for all intents and purposes "tapped out" (which meant that we had to start applying good old-fashioned American ingenuity to solving the cul-de-sac issue, either with experimentation with stutterwarp tugs, somehow breaking the 7.7ly barrier, brown dwarfs, what have you), American servicement serving in an "on-loan" capacity in the militaries of other nations, and generally a humbled but not quite cowed "non-big-boy" nation quietly gaining de facto ascendancy while the "big-boy" nations of the EU slap each other silly...
...then throw in the Kafers...
Plus, I loved the idea of an independent Texas. And I'm not a Texan.
One thing: I loved the "alternate timeline" feel of 2300, too - retaining the Twilight War as it originally was conceived, just realizing that "our" timeline diverged from 2300's sometime in the late '80's. Being a Trekkie, I never had a problem with that idea - Trek's timeline diverged with "ours" in the mid-'80's also (if not earlier).
It's a stupendous "what could have been" milieu...
Colin - here's praying you get something going with 2300/2320...
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Rumours of its passing look to be greatly exaggerated. Welcome back Hunter.
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Roger Calver
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100% agree with you.
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Roger Calver
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Good news GET IT OUT ! errr thats the book you understand
Hello Hunter
Wow! Thanks very much for the update. Granted things may change (for a whole host of reasons you'd be most familiar with), but may we enquire when the final release might be? Given the long periods of quite, I'm sure people would like to have a rough idea if they seek to purchase a "workable, usable" version with an eye towards the "final release." Having had a glance at the 2320 Lite (and being a fan of ALL the artists who have been involved in generating the art work), I know I'd love to have the final version ASAP.
Thanks
Wow! Thanks very much for the update. Granted things may change (for a whole host of reasons you'd be most familiar with), but may we enquire when the final release might be? Given the long periods of quite, I'm sure people would like to have a rough idea if they seek to purchase a "workable, usable" version with an eye towards the "final release." Having had a glance at the 2320 Lite (and being a fan of ALL the artists who have been involved in generating the art work), I know I'd love to have the final version ASAP.
Thanks
Jeff M. Hopper
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Boo-Yah!
Good news for the faithful.
Good news for the faithful.
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2320AD will initially be released in 3 stages, as I get them done, much like I broke the THB into 3 books. The first, covering characters, rules additions (for T20) and background, should be going up for sale by the end of the weekend at the latest, barring any unforeseen issues.
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