Originally posted by selunatic2397:
I come back 2 days later and find a long post from bill virtually the same fault finding over and over telling jatay3 how things are done in the REAL traveller.
Selunatic,
I pointed out the same things over and over because Jatay still did not get it.
He said;
'This is how things are done IMTU' and then proceeded to explain them. The trouble was they did not work, even in his TU. His idea about 'scatter', although a good one, is not enough. Either his ships scatter an order of magnitude greater than he is proposing or his warships have a far shorter sensor/weapon ranges than he is proposing.
Absolutely no one has a total canon campaign identical to yours in every tiny detail.
I'm not suggesting they should and I've never suggested that they should. That's why I've been constantly popping in those pesky acronyms like
IMTU,
OTU, and
IYTU.
The problem with Jatay's pirate 'lecture' is that it doesn't even work in his
own Traveller universe. It has no internal consistency and the first players presented with it will immediately spot the same continuity errors that I did. It doesn't even work in his own
Traveller setting.
We are here to have fun and chat with friends...
Jatay specifically asked for questions and responses to his post. My response; which was the same any player's would be, was
How come this doesn't work? I suggested changes that would make it work and then had to repeatedly explain those changes.
Why ask for questions and responses if you're going to ignore them?
If he merely wanted to role-play this
Kapiten character of his, the Random Static forum is available. Trader Jim uses it for that purpose all the time.
This is starting to sound like a playground spat.
Hardly. Jatay's posts have run into this trouble before. Check out one he began regarding the Sword Worlds Confederation military. His proposals there, which he passed off as canonical, not only failed to take into account the canon he said he was following but also failed to understand what the term 'confederation' means and how confederations work.
When you post something for questions and responses, you will get questions and responses. Good, bad, or ugly.
As for the formatting of the original post, you may have been able to read it easily - the Internet, text messaging, and affectations like 'l33t' have all but destroyed ideas like punctuation, spelling, or clarity - but many others weren't able to read it. Two said so in this very thread and I recieved PMs saying the same. One PM even thanked me.
You take the time to type up a 'lecture', then post it in a nearly formless blotch and ask for questions and responses? If you want us to be forced to translate it, why not post it in Sanskrit as well? If the idea is to 'chat' as you put it, why not chat clearly?
Have fun,
Bill