Re: GURPS Spaceships Series
 

You might want to see this thread I started in the e23 forum which has a compilation of 'expected' GURPS releases for the rest of 2009.

Re: GURPS Spaceships Series
 

It's an off-handed joke, something Loren Wiseman had mentioned
being awoken in the middle of the night at some Traveller Convention
by an all-night gaming group who needed to know the color of Jumpspace

"We need an official ruling...Let's call Loren!"

< laugh> that one always makes me crackup.

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Re: GURPS Spaceships Series
 

At a guess, probably not. Remember, when REAL books are in production, they have to schedule time with the printers and arrange for transport. Thus, they have a one or two month advance notice as to when the books hit the shelves.

With e23 PDFs, they don't have to be printed and shipped, they only have to be uploaded. Thus, they don't have the benefit of an advance notice.

Re: GURPS Spaceships Series
 

Indeed. The gap between " 'kay, book's done" and " 'kay, book's up for sale" is so small as to be terrifying. I wouldn't expect to start seeing PDFs announced ahead of time.

Besides, that would mean making up a new procedure, and that would be, like, hard, and stuff.

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It's October already! Are we there yet?

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Moooooooommmm!! Brett's on my side!!!!

Re: GURPS Spaceships Series
 

Kromm's blog mentioned Spaceships 5 being set for release in the first half of October. Since it wasn't released today, I assume that means either next Thursday or the Thursday after.

I was hoping it'd be released today, but my hopes were all dashed:( Oh well - a few more weeks shouldn't be too much a burden.

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Hey were "finally" getting Vorkosagan......

So it looks like is gonna be a good month....

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Woot! Got it!

I'll print it out after the first corrected version comes up.

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Reading it now.

I must say, I'm surprised that the Enceladus nuclear-pulse explorer wasn't given a magsail. Spaceships clearly indicated that as a possibility, and magsails are around at TL9. And you'd save a lot on armor, as well as having a secondary propulsion system.

As well, you should be able to manage a Mars Mission using a TL7 nuclear pulse drive, which contradicts the statement made in the Mars Mission box. Of course, that means extensive use of nukes, which tends to be frowned upon in the current political climate.