Phoenix Command & GURPS

[chandley]

Originally Posted by Anthony

Did they say it was deliberate obfuscation? I figured they were just slavishly applying some complex terminal ballistics model.

They said there was some deliberate obfuscation. How much there was, vs just using the model for ballistics they had, I couldnt say. The one designer was an engineer at NASA and loved complex math. He, naturally, thought the system was too simple :)

The point of the obfuscation was, apparently, to preserve their ability to release expansion (splat) books for various eras of guns, where they made a great deal of their money. The other money maker where the movie tie in games (except Lawnmower Man. That game didnt go anywhere...). Check out their Dracula game sometime, kind of interesting. All of this was related in a somewhat bitter rant during the last Gen Con they attended, as they where going out of business. So who knows how much is true and how much was said to put me off.