Yep, this is exactly what I had hoped for because I urgently need such stuff
for my setting and campaign.
Scout?
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for my setting and campaign.
Thank you.
The campaign started in November, and we currently have 77 pages of set-
ting background material plus about a dozen maps, 12 pages of our campaign
chronicles (32 game years), and quite a lot of other stuff, including for exam-
ple our system conversion from Mongoose Traveller to BRP.
Almost all of this can be downloaded freely from the download section of my
German "home forum" Fundus Ludi, where I also have my "construction site"
for the design of the setting.
There is just one little problem: All of it is in German.
Right.
The campaign started in November, and we currently have 77 pages of set-
ting background material plus about a dozen maps, 12 pages of our campaign
chronicles (32 game years), and quite a lot of other stuff, including for exam-
ple our system conversion from Mongoose Traveller to BRP.
Almost all of this can be downloaded freely from the download section of my
German "home forum" Fundus Ludi, where I also have my "construction site"
for the design of the setting.
There is just one little problem: All of it is in German.
My dealings with mongoose have been as a semi-dissatisified customer who has seen no efforts to make the electronic editions fully useful in the last 2 years, in not one, but two product lines. The graphic design in the electronic editions of MRQ make it hard to print and hard to read. Known issue; issue complained about within weeks of first release of the MRQ PDF.
No update altering the poor choice of text-on-gray. No update correcting the badly mangled table.
FF to present; I've purchased 4 PDFs, and the deckplans within are low-resolution raster images, which are at best marginally readable, and at worse (the large ships in HG) unreadable. This is an issue which people have been complaining about since the update PDF for the deckplans for the core rulebook print edition.
Additionally, when the open playtest complaints about power were generally "you messed up the relationship between MD and JD requirements and PP production, please simply rationalize the relationship" they instead chose to drop it entirely, and in MHG, introduce a far less rational oversimplification that results in unrealistic PP requirements. (EG: a PP-C in a 100 ton hull can support a tripple fusion turret; in a 600Td hull, it can't support any fusion turrets.)
Further, Dave, you provided no data, only assertions without data; that alone is the definitive of an opinion, not of a fact. Mine is also an opinion. Both are based upon fact, but neither is fact.
I'll grant that their return policy is pretty damned impressive. It's also been put to so much use that I wonder about their financial stability. And I wonder if, by putting more into QC rather than CS, if they could reduce their costs by having fewer returns needed.
Of products I've purchased, all but one electronic, MRQ+3 supplements, MGT, MGT-Merc, MGT-HG, and MGT-Starships, all have had significant problems. MGT, Merc, and HG have had updates. MRQ did not, at least not on the materials I purchased.
No update altering the poor choice of text-on-gray. No update correcting the badly mangled table.
FF to present; I've purchased 4 PDFs, and the deckplans within are low-resolution raster images, which are at best marginally readable, and at worse (the large ships in HG) unreadable. This is an issue which people have been complaining about since the update PDF for the deckplans for the core rulebook print edition.
Additionally, when the open playtest complaints about power were generally "you messed up the relationship between MD and JD requirements and PP production, please simply rationalize the relationship" they instead chose to drop it entirely, and in MHG, introduce a far less rational oversimplification that results in unrealistic PP requirements. (EG: a PP-C in a 100 ton hull can support a tripple fusion turret; in a 600Td hull, it can't support any fusion turrets.)
Further, Dave, you provided no data, only assertions without data; that alone is the definitive of an opinion, not of a fact. Mine is also an opinion. Both are based upon fact, but neither is fact.
I'll grant that their return policy is pretty damned impressive. It's also been put to so much use that I wonder about their financial stability. And I wonder if, by putting more into QC rather than CS, if they could reduce their costs by having fewer returns needed.
Of products I've purchased, all but one electronic, MRQ+3 supplements, MGT, MGT-Merc, MGT-HG, and MGT-Starships, all have had significant problems. MGT, Merc, and HG have had updates. MRQ did not, at least not on the materials I purchased.
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Could one of you just call the other a Nazi so I can invoke Godwin's Rule?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_Law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_Law
This _is_ something we are aware of and have been looking at. We have improved the speed at which updates to PDFs can be implemented, and these are now often done before a problem is even announced.
We _can_ do more with PDFs, and this is something we are painfully aware of. What we really need to do is appoint a PDF-Tsar within the company to properly handle them, so they can be tweaked from the print-ready files (on which all our PDFs are currently based), add bookmarks, etc.
As things stand, we don't have the staff to do this in the way we like, so we make smaller adjustments in the way we do things, when we can. PDFs are becoming more important though, so we will have to approach this relatively soon.
Well, and your opinion that his statement is an opinion and not a fact is also
only an opinion, and in my opinion we have had enough opinions on opinions
or non-opinions for now ... but this is just an opinion ...
Erm, can we stop the sniping and countersniping, guys, and stay on topic, please? All I really want to to know is when there's a concrete date for the release of Scout. I appreciate that you both seem to have differences, but they're best settled in PMs and not like this public squabbling. It's unbecoming of two intelligent men.
As of the date of this post, the scuttlebutt I have heard says that Scout should be out next week. And I'd really look forward to it being next week, since I'm planning another Manchester trip - and I'd love it if the trip coincides with Book 3's arrival in Fan Boy 3.
But I've been misled by false rumours before, so you can see my predicament.
@Mongoose staff: I know you're all doing your level best to ensure the highest quality of product. Writing good Traveller consistently is a tough row to hoe, to borrow the US aphorism. So I can imagine what you're all going through to get the books on the shelves, and then flying off them again.
As of the date of this post, the scuttlebutt I have heard says that Scout should be out next week. And I'd really look forward to it being next week, since I'm planning another Manchester trip - and I'd love it if the trip coincides with Book 3's arrival in Fan Boy 3.
But I've been misled by false rumours before, so you can see my predicament.
@Mongoose staff: I know you're all doing your level best to ensure the highest quality of product. Writing good Traveller consistently is a tough row to hoe, to borrow the US aphorism. So I can imagine what you're all going through to get the books on the shelves, and then flying off them again.
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