I agree with the above. I downloaded the pdf yesterday and skimmed through - thought nice colony maps a different take on the usual plan but just as informative and excellent atmosphere. Got to the equipment section and as my teenage son might text OMG WTF! Please tell us these are place holders lef...

indepth details on Tirane itself that would include world maps and details about the many different colonies there

Have you seen the Tirane Sourcebook site (http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~dheb/ ... tirane.htm)? I think you'll find pretty much all you need there.

Is there any possibility of including colour versions of some of the illustrations (deck plans and renders for example) in the pdf version? I suspect I know the answer but if you don't ask you don't get.

Jonathan

Great news - much better cover, Laurent Esmiol artwork, and Colin's words. I'm really looking forward to this.

Jonathan

Sounds interesting, albeit a bit time consuming and difficult. A gamer friend just got access to a printer, hence my recently acquired fascination.

Like this http://www.shapeways.com/model/188731/s ... tml?gid=mg you mean?

Jonathan

I'm definitely with Will on this I think the cover has been drawn by someone who has never read 2300AD and has no idea what's in it. This is a game about a gritty, hard-sf view of the future, and we get a sub-standard space-opera-ish image with a couple of people slouching around on rocks and a poin...

Excellent news - looking forward to it (don't forget to sign on Laurent for the ship illustrations!)

Colin asked I'm curious as to what people think about 2300AD. Should it be a contemporary Hard SF game, incorporating inspiration from the current generation of hard SF? Or should it look to its roots, and create the same sort of experience as the original? My short answer : both My longer answer : ...

45 and Golden Age

I bought the Little Black Books in the Little Black Box - just checked the shelf upstairs and they're still there.

Hionhurn wrote:Maybe thats why they are recruiting a new writer, to help move things along ?

They are? I'm fairly sure they have one already and the delay was a scheduling problem.

2300ad did not feature in the 2009 State of the Mongoose. My impression is that 2300ad is still on the schedule just a bit more in the future (than perhaps some of us would like). Is there any official word on this? If some lobbying is required I for one would be happy to contribute my electrons to ...

Colin wrote My first hurdle is to create a ship design system that somehow meshes with High Guard, but gives the additional "crunch" required by 2300AD, especially in power plants Is the 2320 ship design system owned by QLI? It was certainly not part of the published pdf although it did appear in th...

It's a little more complicated than that. There are a LOT more stars in RECONS and Hipparchos than in the old Gliese 2, and some of the positions have changed (more accurate). Among other issues, Wolf 359 (Nyotekundu) is 7.8 light years away. Using new data means no Arms, which greatly changes ever...

There's asteroid mining and permanent habitats throughout the solar system, but stutterwarp arrived early enough that there was no real impetus to heavily settle the solar system. Gas giant mining for volatiles and helium-3, some scientific stations. Overall off-Earth population in the solar system...

Colin wrote:The period of time from from the early part of the 21st century until approximately 2050 is known to most historians as "Twilight"....

This ticks all my boxes - still compatible with original version (for those who want to retain it) yet credible as a "real" future history. Excellent.

<snippage> Key elements of the 2300AD setting Twilight (War) Early French primacy American isolation stutterwarp drive and advanced space travel Spinning gravity habs Really alien aliens spaceplanes and shuttles impending alien war... 3-D starmap What else? Multi-national / balkanised Earth and set...

Surely you'd be better off writing in Java then it will run on all those OS?

Personally I’d stick with the alternate history WW3 but if you must… You have three requirements Need to end up in much the same place in 2100 – back in space, developing stutterwarp, French are the top dog. Significant global disaster but not an extinction event or something that sends us all back ...

Fantastic to see the new 2300 material in preparation once more – don’t forget Laurent Esmiol for the ship illustrations. Just a few thoughts from me on what I would like (or not). For the setting What makes 2300AD 2300AD – or what you MUST keep if its not to become something else (not that I wouldn...

Fourth version available. I included, extra from previous version, habitability considerations for towns, capital(s), and planetary specials such as tidaly locked, ravaged by war etc (these can be turned off or even forced using the field at bottom of first page). [...] I believe this is just about...