Seeking "Atlas of the Imperium"
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daryen
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Is your "Why?" directed at John or me?
The reason for my question is because if FFE ever gets around to the next pair of reprints, John doesn't have to go hunting for a rare, expensive, and, quite frankly, rather disappointing product, because it will have been reprinted, enhanced, and easily available.
The reason for my question is because if FFE ever gets around to the next pair of reprints, John doesn't have to go hunting for a rare, expensive, and, quite frankly, rather disappointing product, because it will have been reprinted, enhanced, and easily available.
FlightCommanderSolitude
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Last I heard was that FFE was working on JTAS Volume 3 and considering the MT-CD. No mention of Atlas.
Yep, it's the disappearance of "Second Survey" from the radar screen - no mention at all on the FFE website, and no word that I've seen from any knowledgable source - that has me looking for this. If Second Survey *is* in the pipeline, I'd be willing to wait for it.
Thanks in advance,
John
Thanks in advance,
John
It was directed at John. The product isn't worth the paper its printed on. All the information (and more) is contained on the web already, for free.
The atlas falls into a group of books for which I completely fail to understand why anyone would want them, not to mention paying insane prices for them. The DGP 101 robots (now on e-bay for $51!) is another title in this category.
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What was this "Second Survey" supposed to be?
daryen
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It was supposed to be "Atlas of the Imperium" on steroids.
Atlas of the Imperium was just a collection of dotmaps. Only the hi-pop worlds had names, and no UWPs were provided. (I still can't figure why someone would pay $100 for the thing.)
The idea of "Second Survey" was to provide names and UWPs for all of the worlds in the Atlas. Apparently MWM sat down a figured out what the ramifications of that would be and let it quietly disappear from the list of potential reprints.
However, "Atlas of the Imperium" should still be included in the "Modules Reprint", assuming the Modules Reprint is ever produced. (With any luck, when he does come out with the third JTAS volume, the Modules Reprint will hopefully be the other volume that comes out with it.)
Atlas of the Imperium was just a collection of dotmaps. Only the hi-pop worlds had names, and no UWPs were provided. (I still can't figure why someone would pay $100 for the thing.)
The idea of "Second Survey" was to provide names and UWPs for all of the worlds in the Atlas. Apparently MWM sat down a figured out what the ramifications of that would be and let it quietly disappear from the list of potential reprints.
However, "Atlas of the Imperium" should still be included in the "Modules Reprint", assuming the Modules Reprint is ever produced. (With any luck, when he does come out with the third JTAS volume, the Modules Reprint will hopefully be the other volume that comes out with it.)
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Malenfant
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Ugh. I'd hate to have every single world in the Imperium defined as UWPs. For one thing, most of them would probably end up being wrong anyway (computer generated UWPs generally suck through being non-random). For another, it would close the doors to any writers wanting to publish their own sectors, since someone would come along and say "hey, your systems don't match what's in the Second Survey so they're not canon!". Plus it renders UWP generation kinda irrelevant, since there'd be no more UWPs to generate.
FlightCommanderSolitude
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What's even crazier is a copy of MT Referee's Companion is going for over $70! I got mine for $5 ... and it's a signed mint copy from the GDW archive!Originally posted by Wolf man:
Just saw “Atlas of the Imperium" going for $100.00 US on e-bay.
It must be some weird psychology thing. I mean, a copy of Striker is going for at least $7 on ebay, but FFE sells mint copies for $5 (or at least they did, until the site went insane and useless). Granted, they come without the box and the "dice" (more like grains of salt with black marks on them, if I recall), but still!
- Funny you should mention that...land prices in florida (even swamps) have gone up. People buy them for a cheap tax base and deductions....etc.
- Also its not legal for a Floridian to approach an out-of-stater in an effort to sell land.
Has anyone figured out "why" anyone would pay that much for a traveller book off of Ebay. Is there a
shortage? I just picked up a few for 3rd party books for a $1 each and shipping.
Savage
- Funny you should mention that...land prices in florida (even swamps) have gone up. People buy them for a cheap tax base and deductions....etc.
- Also its not legal for a Floridian to approach an out-of-stater in an effort to sell land.
Has anyone figured out "why" anyone would pay that much for a traveller book off of Ebay. Is there a
shortage? I just picked up a few for 3rd party books for a $1 each and shipping.
Savage </font>[/QUOTE]Thought about shelling out the cash for some of the Megatraveller stuff.
Then my wife whacked me over the head with a clue bat.
There is this lot of MT stuff out there that is up $62 so far. But OMG it has Assignment:Vigilante and Knightfall in it. yum. There is another lot with ref stuff like companion but here is the kicker it has the ref screen. Wow.
Need more money.
Need to figure out way to explain to wife so she stops smacking me with the clue bat for wanted to pay that much money for out of print Megatraveller material.
ACK,
Glad to hear a couple of my modules are worth something. Seriously, if Marc published MT on CD/DVD or whatever that value will probably change.
All in all, I figure its collecting gone crazy.
Who knows maybe someday they'll be collectables on the shelf next Star Trek ears.
Savage
Glad to hear a couple of my modules are worth something. Seriously, if Marc published MT on CD/DVD or whatever that value will probably change.
All in all, I figure its collecting gone crazy.
Who knows maybe someday they'll be collectables on the shelf next Star Trek ears.
Savage
mike wightman
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Hey, if you want to use them, buy two in the first place
FlightCommanderSolitude
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It closed at $202.50 !
notagoodusername
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Damn, that's gonna be one disappointed person...Originally posted by FlightCommanderSolitude:
It closed at $202.50 !
Shane
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