Are GURPS Tech Books released in wrong order / badly planned?

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Refplace

I wouldnt call it poor planning. There were years between several of these books so ideas change.
Also They were released in the order of sales priority and work. The numbers on E23 dont really bear this out but I bet if we added hard copy it would
E23 numbers
Low tech 843
LTC2 826
UT 720
High Tech 621
Bio tech 506
.

Using just E23 will distort things. All the tech books have had hardcover printings and UT has ahd a softcover reprint.

[Kromm]

FWIW, the order in which these works were released was the order in which they were written, and the order in which they were written was the order in which we could find willing and able writers. Central planning is nice, but in this case it would've meant GURPS Low-Tech in 2010, GURPS High-Tech in 2011 or 2012, and GURPS Ultra-Tech in 2013 or 2014. We didn't want GURPS Fourth Edition to wait 10 years to see all of its core tech catalogs published, so we went with what we had in the bullpen. The slight inconsistencies are a pain, sure, but better than the alternative.

[Refplace]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

Using just E23 will distort things. All the tech books have had hardcover printings and UT has ahd a softcover reprint.

That is why I said "The numbers on E23 dont really bear this out but I bet if we added hard copy it would"
but having researched the numbers on E23 I posted them anyhow, W23 to my knowledge has no such utility.

[panton41]

Since so many of the original authors are both active on the forum and accept there are changes that need to be made, as well as former playtesters and simply knowledgeable folk, why work out an "unofficial eratta" document as time allows?