10-26-2011, 04:14 PM | #31 | |
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It would be nice if all the tech books were rewritten to smoothly flow into one-another. But that'd take a lot of work, work frequently needs to be paid for, therefore the rewrites would cost money. I'd presume less work to reformat than to create and less work = less cost. Would the power behind the throne care to posit a price for, eg UT mkII? See how many "I'd buy it"s it garners and, if it's a popular concept, add it to The Wishlist...
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10-26-2011, 04:54 PM | #32 |
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Speaking as someone who works in big projects... you either do the best you can, admitting it won't be perfect. Or you don't do it at all. I just saw a 3-year project sink beacause the person responsible took so much time trying to make it perfect, that costs exceeded reason. And it became so abstract and idealistic, that no one was willing to keep shoving money into it.
A less "perfectly planned" project would have seen benefits in the first year, flaws and all. And would have kept going, being perfected gradually. Had GURPS waited for the stars to align, it might not have had enough profit to keep going. Also, experience gained helped more recent projects. On a personal note, the order was just right for me... because I game more, the lower the tech-level gets. If the order had been chronological, I'd get the short straw. Its a matter of perspective, I guess. |
10-26-2011, 05:24 PM | #33 |
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I'd eat up a UTC series. The LTC series is great reading, but it mostly just that, to me, leisure reading material. UTC I would actually use. I'd love to see a companion about weapon design, ala this thread, with a design sequence and worked examples. I would certainly be fascinated to read a series that discussed social implications of various UT fields, too. There is room for crunch as well as fluff, although advice on integrating technology into a sci fi campaign doesn't seem so fluffy (in the pejorative sense) to me.
The way to look at this isn't "we had to do something under constraints, so now we live with what we have," it should be, "given the base we have built, what do we add onto it to make campaign creation a smoother process with more options. |
10-26-2011, 05:29 PM | #34 | |
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10-26-2011, 05:31 PM | #35 | |
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10-26-2011, 05:36 PM | #36 | |
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UT also, in my opinion, suffers from the fact that sci-fi future settings can be so danged varied. A blaster from Star Wars, a Laser Rifle from fall out and a Las Gun from 40k are very different weapons! While a sword is a sword, no matter what it looks like.
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10-26-2011, 05:56 PM | #37 | |
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Seriously, though, you may be right. A design sequence for UT weapons might be only long enough for a Pyramid article. |
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10-26-2011, 06:01 PM | #38 |
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Might. On the other hand, design for ONE class of weapons (bows) took me 11,000 words to get right. Original predicted budget? 2,500. :-)
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