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What light at yonder webpage breaks....

...'tis the homepage, and the update is the sun!

Hark! An update to CotI!

Nice to see you back with us Hunter.

Shane
(who isn't plugging this update at all...)
 
Ditto and also to MJD. Keeping in touch with fandom and providing free information is the surest way to keep the flame alive and growing.

Hopefully, this might trigger a new movement that will bring back paper RPGs. As I get tired of one dimensional computer games that still act as if cyberspace is just one big battlefield.
 
Nice maps, Shane. I'd love to get 'em bigger though... any chance of a subsector by subsector map of Ley at least?

Nice.
 
X-boat routes I don't know yet, but I can do borders without too much worry. As for subsector maps that is easily done. I'll knock them up and get them to Hunter and Martin to post if they are willing (zipped groups of subsector maps by sector would probably be a good way to do it).

The maps are done by dumping the data from Galactic to a script file for Campaign Cartographer (using a free utility created by someone whose name escapes me at the moment - I'll let you know). It does subsectors automatically too.

Shane
 
Very nice maps Shane. I second the motion that marked borders would be appreciated (I know code in the lower right gives allegiance codes, but I'm visually oriented
). Only thing to be careful of if a computer's automatically drawing the borders is that it shouldn't try to draw borders around client states (code IC?) and non-aligned worlds (code Xx?).

P.S. What's with those changed allegiance codes (rather than the traditional Cs and Na)? That's the sort of thing that tends to gives grognards and canonistas seizures (proving myself to be half-grognard: enough to notice, but not enough to get upset ;) ).
 
The allegience codes are mostly identical to those in the Gateway book, excpet for a few occasions 'cause Galactic doesn't support single charatcer allegience codes. I'll hazard a guess at the old Cs changing to avoid confusion because there are different polity's client states there (though that isn't my work, so I can't speak for sure).

Borders wil take more work 'cause I have to do them manually, but I'm more than happy to do them when I get the time.

Shane
 
Thanks for the answers, Shane- I showed one of my players the whole gateway domain yesterday and all he did was shake his head and say "there's a whole lot of opportunity out there"- they've been running around the Linkworlds Cluster for nine sessions now.

He was impressed with the scope of the Traveller Universe... as he should be.

So, thanks for the work Shane, and I can't wait to see bordered maps and the subsector maps too.
 
Shane,

Thanks for the great work on the maps. If you can, please let me know what program/script you used to create the sector maps. I'm interested in doing something similar with my ATU, and those look very nice.


Thanks in advance,
Flynn
 
Shane,

Much thanks for the sector maps! I second the request for subsector maps, borders, and xBoat routes. Personally, I'm not as interested in the trade route thing, though I know many who are.

Stars for you, mate!

cheers,

thom
 
Originally posted by Flynn:
Thanks for the great work on the maps. If you can, please let me know what program/script you used to create the sector maps. I'm interested in doing something similar with my ATU, and those look very nice.
The creation process was basically:

Enter data in Galactic
Create a Campaign Cartographer script using Gal2CC
Runs cript over a blank sector map
Fiddle with it
PRint to PDF

Unfortunately the Galactic program doesn't seem to want to draw borders (or I can't figure out how if it can), so I'll be doing them by hand. It will do routes, though.

The link for Gal2CC is:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/elvwood//Traveller/Supplement12.html

Thanks for the praise - I'm glad these are useful.

Shane
 
Seems that all good webpages get an occasional update.

Can anyone tell me what the Galactic program is, where it can be found, and how much it costs?
 
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