Whatever happened to Solomani Ships TA

[shield]

Does anyone know what happened to the Solomani Ship's travellers aid. I understood the designs and some of the art were done?

Cheers
Richard

 

[Kharum1]

Hi Shield,
The designs are done and most of the artwork is done. However, there seems to be a project management issue. There is a lack of communication that has caused the project to stall. Hopefully, it will be fixed in the very near future.

 

[shield]

Good news. The solomani ships would make a good counterpoint to the Imperial navy, and useful for TNE as well since the good old solomani were all over the rimward half of the imperium.

Cheers
Richard

 

[Kharum1]

Well, with no word from Hunter (again). I am becoming increasingly doubtful that this will ever be finished (at least through QLI).

 

[etherflyer]

I'm increasingly of the opinion that we'll see no more TA products at all.

Annoying, as I have a 12-issue subscription…

 

[Kharum1]

Ouch! That has to suck. Why haven't you been screaming about it? You spent good money for it.

 

[etherflyer]

No one answers my emails. I have asked for either a projected delivery date for the remaining issues, or a refund of 1/3 of the $66.99 (Cdn) that the subscription cost me. (The exchange rate was considerably worse five years ago when I subscribed, when we were promised 1 issue a month.)

Keeping contracts with customers does not seem to be high on Hunter's priority list.

 

[Kharum1]

Good luck with that. I guess you might have to threaten him with legal action like the last guy did to get his attention. WOW, five years and still nothing. That is amazing.

 

[hunter]

No one answers my emails. I have asked for either a projected delivery date for the remaining issues, or a refund of 1/3 of the $66.99 (Cdn) that the subscription cost me. (The exchange rate was considerably worse five years ago when I subscribed, when we were promised 1 issue a month.)

Keeping contracts with customers does not seem to be high on Hunter's priority list.

Well I've searched all of the possible mailboxed I have for any emails from you either under your name, your registered CotI email address (which is the same as the eLibrary email address), and your username and I'm coming up with nothing. And that's going back at least two years. Could it have been under another email address or something?

As for the subscription, you might also note that I did make the EPIC Adventures part of what is available via those subscriptions which means you have access to well over the 12 issues you initially subscribed for.

At any rate, I'll be happy to refund you for the remaining 3 issues you have in your subscription. Do you want it via PayPal using your CotI email?

 

[Kharum1]

So Hunter what is going on? I've sent you a few more emails to your promise for material and no answer. I'm very concerned to your commitment to this project.

 

[hunter]

Kharum, you have email.

 

[hunter]

So Hunter what is going on? I've sent you a few more emails to your promise for material and no answer. I'm very concerned to your commitment to this project.

See above, you posted while I was gathering the info and emailing you

It boils down to, I'm swamped and pushing through as fast as I can. Sucks sometimes, but that's life as a small business. A covered most of it in my recent Blog post.

 

[yourstruly2095]

Crap deleted.

 

[hunter]

Excuses, excuses... :nonono:

I dislike sockpuppets that come aboard to do nothing but stir up trouble, use multiple accounts, lie, and like to use proxies to hide their location...and yourstruly2095 isn't the username you originally went by either is it? So now you have 2 banned accounts!

 

[Colin]

Really now. Then you'll have to explain why Colin Dunn said that the delays are largely due to the fact that nobody can afford to pay for the artwork.

I never said that. I said paying artists wasn't my department. Hunter is working on several different things at the moment, as, quite frankly, am I. We will hopefully get to this in the near future.

The delays with 2320 have largely been due to the various personal and professional commitments of those involved, myself included. I certainly cannot, and would not, speak to any financial issues. I don't know of any, and none of it is my call in any case. I have no knowledge of the financial position of QLI, or Hunter, or, well, anyone besides myself.

Please do me a favour, and don't put words in my mouth. If you are going to quote me in some fashion, maybe drop me a note to make sure that you haven't misinterpreted what I said.

Oh, and for the record: I have no problem working with Hunter. He has done well by me in the past, and I would expect that to continue.

(Follow up)
This is what I actually said:

Plans are fairly well-advanced. I can turn out a vehicle book in about 2 weeks, and a ship book in comparable time. The real bottleneck is art, and the hold-up on art is financing. And financing is not my department. The tech book is fully outlined, and partially written.

All this means is that art costs money and I have no idea what the money situation is. As I said, not my department. However, this is not in reference to 2320AD Core, but to follow-up materials. Nor does it say the QLI can't pay. All it says is that QLI needs to be able to pay, and I don't know where they are at. For books like this, the bottle neck is ALWAYS art.

If you want to find trouble, you always can. This is what I tell my pre-teen daughter. But this is really working at it.

 

[Border Reiver]

I am a new visitor to this site

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Really?
Style and syntax seem awfully familiar.

 

[hunter]

Thanks Colin. I have a pretty good idea who it is, and anyone who has been here a while probably does too

 

[MJD]

Farewell Mandocello.

Y'see, Mandocello is me. It's my alternate address that I use for various reasons when accessing COTI. Poor Mandocello got caught in the crossfire.

Turns out that by sheer chance I seem to have used the same proxy server (someting with a G) to access the site last week when direct access wasn't possible that whoever posted the recent diatribe used. So Mandocello got banned.

And he's staying banned for security reasons. I find this annoying - I had nothing to do with the original fiasco, I'm just a collateral casualty. So gee thanks Yourstruly-person for that one.

Ah well, RIP Mandocello; caught in the crossfire. And all because I used a proxy server during that outage.

Why Mandocello, you ask? Because I like Cheap Trick and Mandocello is one of their best songs.


I, I can hear you laughing
Youre a million miles away or youre here
I, I will never leave you
Im a million miles away or Im near
I, i, the thoughts youre thinking
But youre a lifetime away from your home or youre here
I, I can see you crying
Youre a million miles away or youre here
Look at me like I look at you
Think of me like I think of you
Speak to me like I speak to you
Dream of me like I dream of you
I, I can hear you thinking
Youre a million thoughts away
I, Im the dreams youre dreaming
Im a million dreams away or Im here
We can go down slowly like the rain
I could leave and be with you again, oh
I could be your lover, lets pretend

 

[MJD]

Oh, and for those who have not quite figured it out - *I* didn't make that post. Mandocello didn't either, because he's my secret superhero identity.

 

[hunter]

Oh, and for those who have not quite figured it out - *I* didn't make that post. Mandocello didn't either, because he's my secret superhero identity.

You weren't the suspect trust me, though I'm sorry your Mandocello account got caught in the crossfire. While you used the proxy during the outage, there have been other uses of that proxy on that account afterwards and there are no other uses of that proxy server by anyone other than yourstruly9025. There were a couple of other discrepancies that make me a bit concerned that whoever it was managed to access your account. And so I'm keeping it banned.

And to make it clear, I do not suspect MJ of any involvement in this crap. It's not his style.

I've also banned the use of the proxy server in question.

I'm also closing this thread as it has gone badly off-topic. There is a similar thread open right now if you wish to continue discussion of the Solomani Ships TA.