Reviews: Why they are often useless...

[atpollard]

Well the part about the design systems it truly a joke considering they are based on High Guard and the original CT vehicles...

I recently picked up the T20: Book 2 at DriveThruRPG and I have to completely agree. I saw about 90% of it fully compatible with CT B2 or B5 and 10% subtle improvements (like the computer/sensors rules that were a nice blend of improved detail without excessive complexity).

It makes you wonder if the reviewer really wanted to buy the FFE reprint of CT Books 1-8? They would have been 'complete' and 100% CT compatible.

 

[atpollard]

Off Topic Chatter

In 1999, the number was 1 in 5, not 1 in 10. (National Mental Health Association, Campaign for Clinical Depression materials.) 1 in 10 was seriously mentally ill. BTW, for Alaska, same time frame, the numbers were 1 in 4 and 1 in 6, for the same time frame.

The 1 in 10 just stuck in my mind when I first heard it because it matched the statistics for Americans who keep a gun in their car. I remember thinking that every time you cut off another motorist, there is a 1 in 100 chance that you have just angered a 'crazy person' with a gun.

 

[Ishmael]

about the review....

Can you trust anyone to write a review who doesn't understand how to use a spellchecker?

I have no comment about it other than that, because I don't have the books being reviewed.

 

[Blue Ghost]

Ishmael; you beat me to the punch. For a "review" it doesn't read very professional.

 

[ravells]

I expect these comments about the factual inaccuracies will make it back to source and he won't be asked to do a review again. If it was an unasked for review, that's ok too as most of the people who play traveller are here anyway and can see it for what it is.

To me the review seems to speak volumes more about the reviewer than the product.

 

[far-trader]

For what it's worth the guy's review of T20 Book 3 is up now:

http://www.rpgnow.com/product_reviews.php?products_id=23169&it=1

I wish I'd posted my prediction, and even taken some bets on it. As I expected this review is 3 stars. See the pattern Book 1 is 1 star, Book 2 is 2 stars, Book 3 is 3 stars... hey Hunter you need to make some more books with numbers, the higher the numbers the higher his stars go

 

[hunter]

For what it's worth the guy's review of T20 Book 3 is up now:

http://www.rpgnow.com/product_reviews.php?products_id=23169&it=1

I wish I'd posted my prediction, and even taken some bets on it. As I expected this review is 3 stars. See the pattern Book 1 is 1 star, Book 2 is 2 stars, Book 3 is 3 stars... hey Hunter you need to make some more books with numbers, the higher the numbers the higher his stars go

Take a laugh point

I'm not even going to bother reading this one.

 

[Merxiless]

Well, seems to me, that the guy is:

- Gearhead ^3
- Verbose to the point of Navinity.
- Set up on the review from a point where he's a fan of Early Editions, looking for an all new "Traveller" and not finding it.
- Confused, and missed the idea that T20 is a gateway to Traveller, a la D20 variant...not Some other guy's brand of Traveller, stealing from d20 at will.
- Definitely inconsistent.
-Looking at it like he's some Traveller Expert, but I've never heard of the guy.

*shrug*

Pay it no mind, fellas. He plays traveller as an economics simulator, not as a game with real, live players. One doesn't have to wonder why...much.

 

[Rhialto the Marvelous]

He gave First Survey five stars.

That is all.

 

[hunter]

He gave First Survey five stars.

That is all.

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

 

[jrmapes]

If you dare to take the risk of reading all of his reviews and having blood shoot out of your eyes, it offers a true insight to just how screwed up this person is (I use the word person hesitantly as I am still unsure if the author is truly a person or perhaps a monkey turned loose on a keyboard or even still the possibility of someone's computer A.I. program in testing.).

The full review makes it clear he has no knowledge of Traveller be it the game itself or the history of the game including the various editions histories. It would be like me reviewing a couple decades worth of Janet Daley romance novels which the only thing I know about them is that my step-sister read them constantly.

What is it with the "loser" ego that pushes one to pontificate on subjects that they know next to nothing about? Is it that per chance that they all stay in Holiday Inn's when not at home in their parents basements?

Jerry