How many of us are there?
- Thread starter Shadowfax
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I'd suspect aramis could give you some figures allowing for spammers...
That would be a real hard number to pin down. Consider that disproportionately one would expect active online forum members would be Refs/Ref+Players as opposed to just Players. To my knowledge, none of my current or former Players have ever participated in online Traveller forums (or online games).
So, currently, I represent 4 Players in such a count.
Looking at T5 Kickstarter numbers, I suspect a large percentage have played CT at some point - however, many of those are just as likely playing newer versions, or no version at all - who knows. Also, as a CT fan over the other newer versions - T5 does not hold a strong appeal to me - since I like CT for its simplicity. So I wouldn't be in that count and such would include my Players. (Though I may find T5 is adaptable enough for me, who knows ... )
pendragonman
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Active, or total? Active you may be close, total you are off by several orders of magnitude.
saundby
SOC-14 1K
Yeah, not sure what you'd call our group. I mix CT with MGT and T5 (mostly mapping and world creation). Though we're leaning back more heavily toward CT, because house-ruling some of the MGT stuff is just getting to be too much of a burden.
We've got about 14 people playing here, though (counting me as ref). On any given night, we're splitting things between a couple of different games to help things move faster. Trying to run 13 people at once just gets too slow at times, so we're limiting it to 8 at once. The others play Mutants and Masterminds, but more than once their play comes to a halt as they listen in on our table.
Also, I played CT for about 30 years without being a part of any larger group, online or otherwise. In fact, after some bad experiences with HG powergamers in college I explicitly cut myself off from the larger body of Traveller outside my own game until I joined up here 5 years ago or so.
Mark
We've got about 14 people playing here, though (counting me as ref). On any given night, we're splitting things between a couple of different games to help things move faster. Trying to run 13 people at once just gets too slow at times, so we're limiting it to 8 at once. The others play Mutants and Masterminds, but more than once their play comes to a halt as they listen in on our table.
Also, I played CT for about 30 years without being a part of any larger group, online or otherwise. In fact, after some bad experiences with HG powergamers in college I explicitly cut myself off from the larger body of Traveller outside my own game until I joined up here 5 years ago or so.
Mark
Active full users between 25 Mar and 25 Apr 2013: 776
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Total CT users worldwide? No clue. But IIRC, >150,000 units were printed (Tho' I count for 3 of those, counting two boxes CT2e, plus TTB). And Marc's been selling CT, MT, and TNE PDF's via DriveThrough for 7+ years now... and that total doesn't count Big Floppy Books, either.
Fritz_Brown
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Yep, a LBB set somewhere, as well as a set of BFBs, plus the CT CD. So I count for 3. 
But, 4,000 players would be a pretty good base I would think for a 35+yo game, and probably much higher when you throw in all the versions.
But, 4,000 players would be a pretty good base I would think for a 35+yo game, and probably much higher when you throw in all the versions.
Yep, a LBB set somewhere, as well as a set of BFBs, plus the CT CD. So I count for 3.
But, 4,000 players would be a pretty good base I would think for a 35+yo game, and probably much higher when you throw in all the versions.
Not to mention, prior to the reprints, Marc had a "cloning" policy - I cloned a few books under that policy for people.
And then the unlawful clones, and the foreign language editions: German, Spanish. (I've seen an itallian printing - don't know if it was licensed.)
MT was in japanese as well as English; Hobby Japan was still selling it around the turn of the century.
I have seen a whole set of stuff in German over here. Not sure if it was legit or not. I think it was Mongoose.
Thanks for that I was just curious. Sounds pretty good. Except for the: "spam-spam-spam-spam"
Age
Now I am getting curious about the age group of the traveller market segment?
I am not quite sure exactly when I started playing CT. I reckon it must have been somewhere in 1982-1984. I know there are a few "old gronnards" out there yet, but I have to admit that I was so satisfied with CT and striker, that a lot of the other stuff went right on by me.
Sure, I dabbled a bit in Traveller 2300 and MegaTraveller. There were some good ideas there I thought and the execution seemed well done, just based on the limited number of products I sampled, but I didn't care much for a lot of the other stuff that came out or at least judging from the limited number products that I sampled in that respect as well. There seemed to be some fairly well-done Traveller GURPS material, but there were also some cheesy ideas there too.
So how old are we, generally speaking now? I mean with all the young pups and stuff?
Now I am getting curious about the age group of the traveller market segment?
I am not quite sure exactly when I started playing CT. I reckon it must have been somewhere in 1982-1984. I know there are a few "old gronnards" out there yet, but I have to admit that I was so satisfied with CT and striker, that a lot of the other stuff went right on by me.
Sure, I dabbled a bit in Traveller 2300 and MegaTraveller. There were some good ideas there I thought and the execution seemed well done, just based on the limited number of products I sampled, but I didn't care much for a lot of the other stuff that came out or at least judging from the limited number products that I sampled in that respect as well. There seemed to be some fairly well-done Traveller GURPS material, but there were also some cheesy ideas there too.
So how old are we, generally speaking now? I mean with all the young pups and stuff?
BlackBat242
SOC-14 1K
I started with CT in mid-1983... after a year of college and 2 years on active duty in the USMC.
So how old do you think I am?
Shadowfax seems to have had a very similar progression and course with Traveller as I have, and I am still happy with CT.
So how old do you think I am?
Shadowfax seems to have had a very similar progression and course with Traveller as I have, and I am still happy with CT.
I started playing Traveller when I was age 12 using the CT box set, and I have been playing/GMing/collecting ever since and I am 49 years old now...thus 37+ years for me!!!
Wow, cool.
Glad to know that there are a lot of us 40-somethings out there still playing and enjoying Traveller. I don't get to play enough these days, as my group is in the states and I am still overseas. I found a few traveller players here, but we are too far apart to really get together.
Glad to know that there are a lot of us 40-somethings out there still playing and enjoying Traveller. I don't get to play enough these days, as my group is in the states and I am still overseas. I found a few traveller players here, but we are too far apart to really get together.
Chuck Anumia
SOC-14 1K
TNE-1248
(Current age 56)
I started playing CT in 1980 while in the US Army.
I played MT when it came out and TNE when that came out.
I used MT books to drive my TNE gamers to seek ships not destroyed to badly or infected by virus.
Just got T5 and will now see what I can build with it *Rubs hands together*
(Current age 56)
I started playing CT in 1980 while in the US Army.
I played MT when it came out and TNE when that came out.
I used MT books to drive my TNE gamers to seek ships not destroyed to badly or infected by virus.
Just got T5 and will now see what I can build with it *Rubs hands together*
Travellerspud
SOC-12
define "player"
I would love to play in a game or ref a game, but cannot find anyone else, so I fiddle with Striker and Ship Designs, detail NPC's etc. (pretty much throughout the last 15 years)
is that "playing"?
Me in a nutshell (minus Striker), until 2-1/2 years ago, when I discovered a younger (long lost??) cousin was also a gamer. (I'm the 'elder' of the group, at 47.)
My current group was of 4, now 5 (including the ref), though we're currently engaged in a 'Top Secret' military campaign set in Iraq, 2012.
Meanwhile I work on the Gateway Domain...
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