Can 2300AD have it's own board?

Another question, would a separate forum promote discussion for 2300AD? I'm sure not a few people feel such postings on Traveller gets seriously drowned out and forgotten.

Maybe a show of hands here to see if there's enough who would want to talk 2300AD more often. I have the game and would add my voice if I could find where all the thread drift off to. Would having 2300AD prefacing a subject title make it easier to find specific posts on the Traveller site?
 
A show of hands isn't really going to be that effective in this case.

People who buy 2300 then cruise by the boards to see if there's anything for them don't see anything and they don't stay.

While this board is supposed to embrace all versions of Traveller, it is pretty extremely slanted towards Third Imperium type campaigns; people who are primarily or only interested in 2300 tend not to stick around.
 
If voting counts here then I vote for a separate 2300 forum :D It's an excellent idea!

The volume of traffic may be low but adding a new forum I doubt will dent Mongoose's bandwidth and 2300 is a current product, separate and different in many ways from Traveller and it's 3I setting.

Matt! Make it happen!!!

Please!
 
Problems? The ACTA board seem to serve well during both highs and lows. I'd say a 2300 forum could spark more interest by standing out.
 
I always found it difficult to wade through all of the ACTA:SF posts to get to the NA posts that I wanted to read. I'm in favour of a separate board for 2300.
 
Lord High Munchkin said:
Reynard said:
Actually there already is two forums down from this forum.
No, that forum is for 2000AD based games (2000AD is a comic).
You mean its not Twilight 2000?

If I see a comic book that has 2000 AD on it, I'd wonder why they didn't take it off the shelf by now.
 
It doesn't get taken down, Tom, because the 2000AD brand has been around for a while, since 1977 I think - so it's 7 years older than Twilight 2000! It's become quite well established, lol! :D
 
Rick said:
It doesn't get taken down, Tom, because the 2000AD brand has been around for a while, since 1977 I think - so it's 7 years older than Twilight 2000! It's become quite well established, lol! :D
No I meant that they might think the comic book has been on the shelf since the year 2000, that's what I meant, half-jokingly of course. ;)

I think as we live in the 21st century, the year 2000 is no longer "the Future" as it used to be. I 1977 the Year 2000 was associated with 2001 A Space Odyssey and "the Strauss Waltz", "the Blue Danube" and "Thus Spoke Zathura". Today we associate the year 2000 with President Bill Clinton, the Y2K problem and the run up to the 9/11 attack in 2001.
 
I know, I was joking a bit as well. I was 10 for most of 1977 and, looking back, I can't believe how naive we were back then, looking forward to a bright, shiny future, lol!
 
We finished up Vietnam, we were starting to clean the environment, corporations were only beginning their Dark Side fall and Nixon was out. There were still problems to make us a bit cynical but we finally got out of those social relevancy and conspiracy movies with the advent of this really fun movie called Star Wars. Still had Russia and China so the thought of WWIII was a probability. Not sure how naïve that made us when it was al real.

Oh, I was 23 then and becoming quite appreciative of current events. I wonder how naïve this generation will be labeled a couple decades concerning pandemics, world terrorism and severe weather changes? Would make interesting end of world prologues for new RPGs... and zombies.
 
I think that quite a lot of today's problems might be seen as foolish with 20 years hindsight, except maybe for China. Back in the 70's it was seen as a not very credible Soviet clone, with 19th century infrastructure, now look at it. Another 20 years and it will be the third superpower (or take Russia's place), in 2300 it may be the primary superpower!
 
I was 9-10 in '77 as well, things weren't so bright and shiney considering nuclear war and all that entailed. Played both T2K, and for a little bit 2300, but 2300 always had a sort of blah thing with France, and we knew it wouldn't have been what it was, not if Europe gets nuked, the fallout would have covered France. Thus it sort of opened a Python-esque quality, like with the French and Spanish in the forts everywhere. China and India are definitely overlooked, it would be interesting to see an alternate 2300 timeline involving them and no twilight war.
 
Rick said:
I know, I was joking a bit as well. I was 10 for most of 1977 and, looking back, I can't believe how naive we were back then, looking forward to a bright, shiny future, lol!
Actually the 2001 Space Odyssey scenario was set during the Cold War, that bone club which the ape man threw up into the air turned into a space weapon, though the explanation for it ended up on the cutting room floor. Clarke revisited the Cold War in his sequel 2010, tensions between the Soviet Union and the USA was a subplot to pass the time in his story which dealt with recovering the USS Discovery and cooperating with the Russians to get the ship away from Jupiter before it turned into a star. I could have rewritten that scenario, set it in 2014, with tensions in the Ukraine being the obstacle to overcome in getting the cooperation required to get away from Jupiter before it blew up. I note that their are Russians, Americans, and Europeans working together aboard the International Space Station, and no one's yet been shoved out the airlock without a spacesuit.
 
Rick said:
I think that quite a lot of today's problems might be seen as foolish with 20 years hindsight, except maybe for China. Back in the 70's it was seen as a not very credible Soviet clone, with 19th century infrastructure, now look at it. Another 20 years and it will be the third superpower (or take Russia's place), in 2300 it may be the primary superpower!

I doubt China will be a superpower in 2300. I don't know who will be, but China won't be. It's doubtful any of the nations we think of as "powers" will be great powers in 2300. The periods of ascendancy for a group or power are growing shorter and shorter.

The superpower will probably be the "Orbital Manufacturing Clans" or something.
 
Epicenter said:
Rick said:
I think that quite a lot of today's problems might be seen as foolish with 20 years hindsight, except maybe for China. Back in the 70's it was seen as a not very credible Soviet clone, with 19th century infrastructure, now look at it. Another 20 years and it will be the third superpower (or take Russia's place), in 2300 it may be the primary superpower!

I doubt China will be a superpower in 2300. I don't know who will be, but China won't be. It's doubtful any of the nations we think of as "powers" will be great powers in 2300. The periods of ascendancy for a group or power are growing shorter and shorter.

The superpower will probably be the "Orbital Manufacturing Clans" or something.
A clan is just an extended family, i don't see how that could be a superpower. The United States has been around since 1789, it has seen the rise and fall of Napoleon, the Decline of the British Empire, it survived its Civil War defeating the Confederacy, liberated Cuba and Puerto Rico from the Spanish Empire, witnessed the rise of Germany World War I, the defeat of Germany, The Great Depression, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, and The Soviet Union, the United States has been fairly stable throughout, and unlike Great Britain, it has got no empire to lose, its "Empire" is itself plus a few small islands of no particular consequence. Many hope the USA goes into decline and ceases to be, but I suspect the USA will be around for the long haul, unlike the Third Reich and the Soviet Union, it will probably still exist in the year 2100, as for the next two centuries, it depends on whether anyone values the ideas it represents of democracy and the Republic and so forth. If democracy dies, then so does the United States. If destroyed, there will be people out their who will seek to recreate it, as the United States is a country of ideals and those ideals may live on if the country does not. Its much harder to kill an idea than to destroy a country.
 
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