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Solomani Ships TA?

BetterThanLife said:
Traveller isn't that huge a market anyway. Then it has been fractured with widely differing rulesets. Virtually each ruleset for Traveller has conversion from CT in one way or another. (Some better than others.) CT is as close to a Universal Traveller as there is. Pen and Paper RPGs have lost a major portion of their market share to MMO. (If it was still such a big business then Mongoose wouldn't be dropping their Babylon 5 license.)
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Don't conflate giving up a license for not doing well.

Licenses get expensive; the profit margin was probably lower than they can make on Traveller, Conan, or other such products for the same outlay.
 
aramis said:
Don't conflate giving up a license for not doing well.

Licenses get expensive; the profit margin was probably lower than they can make on Traveller, Conan, or other such products for the same outlay.
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There is doing well and Doing WELL.

I know several game stores, where I know the owners, and it is other things the store is selling that is keeping them afloat, not Pen and Paper RPG. One in South Bend, Indiana (A college town) closed because it wasn't making a living. Two others in the same area (town used to support 4, there are 2 colleges, one medium University and one major University there) the RPG section became a small section in the back. In Anderson, IN my Ex-wife's fiance' has owned a game store for roughly 20 years, in the same spot. (Another College town.) It is now more a used DVD store than a Game store and still doesn't do well. He opened two more locations recently and doesn't even carry games in either because they don't offer enough profit or move enough to bother with. All this was before the economy tanked.

The kids have moved on to other things. The demographic is contracting and getting older not expanding. It is certainly getting tougher to find a game, or find players.
 
If you go back over all the threads for this TA, there have been numerous "promises" that it's almost finished, or just waiting on one picture revision, or etc. And while I have been waiting for this for several years I've become somewhat jaded as to whether it will ever be finished.

Still, I check daily, hoping against hope that it will be available.

Now, about TA7, in the intro it references a TA for fleet auxillaries. When will this be available.?
 
hunter said:
...(thanks for the edits Dan!)
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...more than welcome Hunter, as poorly as I fear I did. If there's anything missed it's on me, I didn't give it the time it needed so it was rushed and from old notes. I expect I missed some but hope the designs themselves at least are correctly vetted.
 
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