Basing options - how are you doing them?

[Renny]

Billclo, the artist has done a really nice job on the arc template. Looks really pretty and should look very impressive on the table.

Red-24, I also really like what you've done. I'm going to have to make my own now :roll: . And i'm glad your really enthused by the game. It's only the energy of yourself and others on the forum who keep me coming back despite all of the other nonsense that's going at the moment with the supply problems. So thanks, is what i'm trying to say

 

[billclo]

Once I get around to updating my gaming site with an ACTA section, I'll post the template .jpg for others to use (no watermark on mine).

I assume that was directed at me? I haven't decided what to do with these extra stickers, which is why I put up the watermarked version to preserve my options.

I talked to one of the big guys (Steve Cole and Matt) to see if he'd be interested in putting the sticker in his webstore and selling them for me (for a modest royalty to me) and he didn't think there would be enough sales to justify it. I have no idea, personally. At that point, I had decided that I'd just hang on to the excess stickers and see if I ever needed them, or I could parcel out a few here and there as a prize when I was running games at conventions.

Being as I had to pay the artist ($60), then pay to have the stickers made ($60+), it wasn't exactly cheap to do this. If there turns out to be more demand than we'd expected, I would be open to the idea of selling some to people. My main intention had been to make some profit off my endeavor, and putting them out there for free wasn't part of the original plan.

If someone wants to do their own template up and put it out there for free, great, go for it. That's one of the great things about this hobby; people do stuff and put it out there for anyone to use because they love the game. But when I pay good money to have something made up, I am a little reluctant to give it away for free.

If there's anyone wanting to buy some, private mail me so I can gauge the potential interest. Thanks.

 

[Red-24]

I assume that was directed at me?

More "in response to" than "directed at". ;-)

I'm pretty sure that there is little profit to be made in specialized gaming. But, for the amount of time I spent putting the templates together, they could easily have cost me $120 in time spent. So I don't think your investment was bad. You could probably get your money back just by posting here for people to buy them from you.

I really wanted mine to look the way that "I" wanted them. For example, I didn't want the 45 degree marks going right to the stem of the base. That's one of the reasons I did them myself. The other was so that I could put most of my gaming dollars into the miniatures, paints, decals etc.

If I come up with a great gaming idea that I think I can actually profit from I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll give stuff away for free to raise up my online geek status.!

 

[Renny]

I've done game writing before (Darwin's World, Savage Worlds conversion).

I'm a big fan of your Savage Worlds conversions BTW. I've done a Savage Worlds Star Trek conversion myself so it's no surprise that i'm loving ACTA: Star Fleet and am keen for the rumoured Savage Worlds Prime Directive conversion to appear as well. I'm not even sure that's true, but I live in hope

 

[Red-24]

Well, since my buddy was having some trouble figuring out fire arcs (port vs. starboard) and since some moisture caused issues with my "ink-jet" printed fire-arc templates. I redid them and printed them off on a colour laser printer at work.

Here's what they look like now:

And here's what they look like in action:

 

[Pembo]

Here's how i'm basing my fleet.

Going to use a photo printer to print personalised bases for each ship, onto vinyl sticker paper.

 

[tlee33]

Elakin, how much extra work did you have to do to get the corsec mounts to fit the ships themselves?

Not much at all. I drilled a hole in the bottom of each system for the peg -- 11/64 bit, i believe, and just glued the peg in. For some ships (such as the Fed Frigate and light cruiser) this "hole" was just a very shallow divot - but still provided better rigidity than flush gluing the peg. Other ships, like the heavy cruisers and up, most of the peg fit in the drilled hole.

Of course, ya gotta be careful not to do this:

Haven't tried fixing that yet

I want a way of not having to drill into the ship. possibly just flush mounting the mount to the ship.

those that have the omni stand: do you think I could mount a magnet to the bottom of the ship and would it be strong enough to hold onto the peg? I assume the threads are magnetic at the top of the peg?

or another possibility, I was thinking of just getting some litko flight stands and attaching 1 magnet to the top and one to the bottom. seems like this would be the cheapest way to go, but I like that the corsec pegs can screw off for easy storage.

ok, after thinking about it, I'm going to buy 16 square bases, 16 pegs, and 16 flush mounts from corsec. then I'll buy a bunch of magnets and attach them to the ships. now I'll have detachable magnetic flight stands, and I shouldn't have to buy any more stands, just magnets. any comments?

another idea...for the magnet, I was going to use one of those small Bucky balls. it should fit perfectly in the grove of the ship and the groove of the mount, even allowing some movement. in theory, sounds, good, but I'll have to try it....

well, it didn't quite work. the ships were too heavy for the magnet, but it looked good and almost worked. I think for the small ships, it'll work fine.