Bryn the 2300AD guy
Banded Mongoose
The author of PB isn't on this board, but is on the discord. I've created a thread for corrections: https://discord.com/channels/999979093728706612/1053953886949490758
2300AD - Project Bayern now on PDF & Pre-Order
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Sigtrygg
Emperor Mongoose
The last few projects that offered pre-order with time to send feedback improved those products. It was noticeable that almost immediately the powers that be started replying to those threads.
I would humbly suggest to the powers that be at Mongoose:
1. release pdfs for pre-order sale at least a month before they go to the printer
2. a dedicated errata catcher is nominated to liaise with the fan base to catch errata that appears to be easy to spot for us plebs but slips through the author, proofreader, editorial and playtest before it gets to public pdf release
3. if you author a work you show up on these boards to receive due praise and constructive criticism
The radio silence on this £75 pre-order has me worried that once again they have gone to print with glaring mistakes - I hope I am wrong.
I would humbly suggest to the powers that be at Mongoose:
1. release pdfs for pre-order sale at least a month before they go to the printer
2. a dedicated errata catcher is nominated to liaise with the fan base to catch errata that appears to be easy to spot for us plebs but slips through the author, proofreader, editorial and playtest before it gets to public pdf release
3. if you author a work you show up on these boards to receive due praise and constructive criticism
The radio silence on this £75 pre-order has me worried that once again they have gone to print with glaring mistakes - I hope I am wrong.
Bryn the 2300AD guy
Banded Mongoose
As an interesting historical aside, I was looking for something on the FB group, and found an announcement from Gavin that Bayern, with 6 plot points and 8 interludes, went to Mongoose in August 2015...
Hey everyone,
Just to let you know that every one of your messages here gets read, and will be actioned upon!
Just to let you know that every one of your messages here gets read, and will be actioned upon!
Bryn the 2300AD guy
Banded Mongoose
I'm confused...
It means it's been rated 7 times, but no-one has written a full review. I will review it when I've finished going through it thoroughly. It's mostly very good, with some problems introduced by the constraint of using the AEH rather than the 2012 edition. It would have been a better product if published for the 2012 edition, as the new edition drags it down a bit.
Sure, but it doesn't say 'rated' it says 'reviewed'.
Also, the smiley-face I included indicated that I was kidding. It's just funny to see '7 reviews: no reviews yet'.
Bryn where is this discord? The link’s not working for me. It tells me there are no text channels. I hear assume that you don't want us to submit corrections vocally...
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Mine only have blank pages on my phone.
Bryn the 2300AD guy
Banded Mongoose
Ah, discord links have expiry dates. He's a new one:
Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.
Or find the Mongoose Publishing discord, and look for 2300ad.
Bryn,Ah, discord links have expiry dates. He's a new one:
Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.discord.com
Or find the Mongoose Publishing discord, and look for 2300ad.
Ahhh thanks! I finally found it. It turns out I wasn’t subscribed to Mongoose discord only Traveller discord. Thanks!
This is a known issue on our website at the moment, we will be looking into it this year.
ottarrus
Emperor Mongoose
So, when I log in to my account page, it lists what I've purchased. When I click on what I've purchased it leads me back to the purchase screen. If I click on that [and the risk of telling the system I'd like to buy the same thing twice] it tells me it's in my cart. I check that, and it goes back to the purchase screen.
So color me confused.
EDIT!:
Nevermind. Just found it. Yes, I feel less than my alleged IQ tells me I should be.
So color me confused.
EDIT!:
Nevermind. Just found it. Yes, I feel less than my alleged IQ tells me I should be.
IanBruntlett
Emperor Mongoose
From https://www.mongoosepublishing.com/pages/releaseschedule I see it is meant to land in April.
bytedruid
Mongoose
I'm reading Areospace Engineers' Handbook now. Could you post the correct stutterwarp equation here, or a link to it? I've yet to find an errata link yet on the Mongoose site, though it's probably obvious and I just missed it.
Thanks,
Bryn the 2300AD guy
Banded Mongoose
The stutterwarp equation in the original and in the 1st Mongoose edition was based on the cuberoot, and GDW themselves did a correct conversion in FF&S:
warp eff. = (TL+4) * (MW/10T)^0.33333
Where TL is the tech level*, MW is the stutterwarp power in MW and T is dTonnage of the vehicle.
On 12th August 2016, Colin stated that the cuberoot formula produced "very odd performance curve." Sadly, I did not see it at the time, because he was wrong. The cuberoot formula is the correct one from the physics point of view.
More to the point, once he changed to the squareroot formula, he broke the speed relationship in the game. Hence the warp limits, which were his cludge to prevent exploitation of the effects his change produced, and were introduced based on me pointing out the mistake. Although now deleted, he stated that actually fixing the original problem was too much work.
* Also note that in the proposed GDW 2k3 to TNE conversion, TL was one lower. The TL range in the current MgT 2k3 comes from my misreading of an interview with, ISTR, David Nilsen in one of the British RPG magazines, Role Player Independent if memory serves.
warp eff. = (TL+4) * (MW/10T)^0.33333
Where TL is the tech level*, MW is the stutterwarp power in MW and T is dTonnage of the vehicle.
On 12th August 2016, Colin stated that the cuberoot formula produced "very odd performance curve." Sadly, I did not see it at the time, because he was wrong. The cuberoot formula is the correct one from the physics point of view.
More to the point, once he changed to the squareroot formula, he broke the speed relationship in the game. Hence the warp limits, which were his cludge to prevent exploitation of the effects his change produced, and were introduced based on me pointing out the mistake. Although now deleted, he stated that actually fixing the original problem was too much work.
* Also note that in the proposed GDW 2k3 to TNE conversion, TL was one lower. The TL range in the current MgT 2k3 comes from my misreading of an interview with, ISTR, David Nilsen in one of the British RPG magazines, Role Player Independent if memory serves.
bytedruid
Mongoose
Hey thanks for posting that
.To get this down to "news I can use" would the stutterwarp equation be:
warp_eff. = (TL+5) ∛(MW/10T)
for current 2022 Mongoose Traveller?
All the references I see to power in the Aerospace Engineers' Handbook lack units, so I assume that traveller uses an abstract "power point" system. If so, what is the power point to megawatt conversion?
Since it's been decades since I calculated any quantum tunneling probabilities, and even that was just a simplified 1-D potential, can you rough-out what physical (or geometric) model would indicate that the jump distance should be proportional to the cube root of power?
Anyway, thanks for letting me pick your brain. This is an old game with a rich history and it's nice to know how to got to it's present form, and more importantly, what I can do with it. (Also, I have no idea what FF&S stands for.)
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