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Flyndaran

11-14-2007 07:09 PM

Re: GURPS Spaceships Series

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Originally Posted by Anthony

Largely content, but there's actually a content advantage for an SF game to use metric, because to the American consumer metric units look high-tech.

Of course, this applies in reverse to Fantasy.

Yet D&D uses base ten coinage. Odd that, eh?

Wizard

11-14-2007 07:33 PM

Re: GURPS Spaceships Series

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Originally Posted by Anthony

Largely content, but there's actually a content advantage for an SF game to use metric, because to the American consumer metric units look high-tech.

Spot on. Everytime I open up GURPS Space and see miles as a measurement it loses it's appeal as SF to me. I purposely run my modern day campaign set in the USA so I don't have to worry about conversions, the only issue is teaching the kids the imperial system.

Rupert

11-14-2007 09:07 PM

Re: GURPS Spaceships Series

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Originally Posted by walkir

Of course - how many tenth of a percent of the gamers outside the US are willing to pay for your products as long as those aren't metric?
In my opinion, it's the same reason Vehicles 2e didn't sell too well.

Vehicles had two editions, and VE2 went through at least three printings. I'm not sure it can be said to have not sold well.

Phil Masters

11-15-2007 03:19 AM

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Originally Posted by SCAR

So I for one, non-US citizen, support SJG in the use of Imperial measures!

And yet I've known a British gamer who could not use GURPS because of the Imperial measures. She'd been educated in metric from the start of her schooldays, and those other units meant nothing to her. Lost sales there.

And, well, Imperial might look more appropriate for pseudo-medieval fantasy, but drag it into a cyberpunk setting - given that cyberpunk writers use metric more or less as a matter of stylistic standard, because they deal in rationalised fast-forward futures in which tradition and convention are dead - and the result just looks a bit sad.

Frankly, I think that 4e should have done whatever was necessary to be fully dual-system. I can work with Imperial units, but that doesn't make them right for purpose.

safisher

11-15-2007 08:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Rupert

Vehicles had two editions, and VE2 went through at least three printings. I'm not sure it can be said to have not sold well.

And GVB had the little switch to change units whenever you wanted, too.

Paul	11-15-2007 10:34 AM

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I apologize if I've dredged up the age-old debate. I was attempting to highlight our reasoning. We really aren't ready to be converted.

Get it? Converted?

Oh, I kill me!

Not another shrubbery

11-15-2007 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Paul

I apologize if I've dredged up the age-old debate. I was attempting to highlight our reasoning. We really aren't ready to be converted.

Get it? Converted?

Oh, I kill me!

...
Where's that shepherd's crook?

*g*

RevBob

11-15-2007 11:34 AM

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Hey, I'm just glad to see that the GURPS Spaceships POD is in the works...whatever the units!

flyingwombat

11-15-2007 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Crakkerjakk

I want to become the emperor of America, just so I can put my size 10.5W on the continent's chest and force the metric system down it's throat...

The USA was supposed to go metric in 1980. Freeway signs and containers (cans, bottles, etc) had "English/metric conversions" and there were programs coming online to educate the populace. Then, a groundswell of resistance, as I recall almost out of nowhere and the project was killed.

Anyway, neither system makes my brain hurt. It'[s just another system of measurement. So relax.

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Originally Posted by RevBob

Hey, I'm just glad to see that the GURPS Spaceships POD is in the works...whatever the units!

Me too!

David L Pulver

11-16-2007 01:18 AM

Re: GURPS Spaceships Series

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Originally Posted by RevBob

Hey, I'm just glad to see that the GURPS Spaceships POD is in the works...whatever the units!

The next book in the series - on commercial ships - is now in playtest as well.

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