I understand what you said and hear you, I was only trying to get players to open up to giving T5 a chance is all. I was reading all the negative stuff prior to me even posting anything and I guess it finally hit a nerve for me.
Look I have played alot of Traveller over the past 37 years. My current group of 7 players have played now for almost 11-13 years straight every other week throughout those years. I have been the GM for that total time, the only gamer that left me died in a car accident. So my game has survived a pretty long time. Now I started playing Traveller some 37 years ago when I was 12. I have played ever since, and collected tons and tons of Traveller items. About 25 years ago, I started to come up with my many own house rules and developed my own rules set that I have used ever since.
I have tried to tell others on that site about my system, but they simply are uninterested in even considering anything not written by or for Mongoose Traveller as core rules. I guess I called a few of the more vocal snotty ones "closed Minded", "followers", "that would jump off a cliff if everyone else did it too". For me that is not being creative think on their own.
The rest of my gamers are all in their mid to late 40s or 50s like me and each of them also run their own gaming group on the week we do not play (every other) and they all use my house rules as well too with some minor changes of their own. We kind of look at it as "Our House rules" and we all contribute, but it is based off of my basic system using d100 / percents rolls to resolve issues. Everything is a d100 roll, skills, attack vs defense for combat, and so on.
I did not try to push my system on anyone, but it is extremely quick to pick up and use and understand. I have used it a long time, and it does work. I have told of my rules and even explained different parts of it in threads, but never pushed it. Heck I am always open to looking at anything, it might have a idea that maybe might be better to use. I always try to keep a open mind and that was what I was always trying to get accross to others over there. That seems to not to go over well, and to some they only can see what is written in the Mongoose rules and that is the only way to do things. Then some of these guys then get snippy or snotty, and well the rubs me the wrong way.
I guess I should just let it go, beacuse as is always the case many of them in 10 years will not even be gaming anymore anyway.