I am sure that Kodak and Blockbuster felt the same way once. Kodak didn't want digital photography equipment sales to cut in to their analog camera and film sales, so they ignored digital. Blockbuster didn't want to reduce the video rental income, so they ignored digital and streaming. Where are both of those companies today? That is the long view.
And again the numbers say you’re in the minority which your anecdotal evidence doesn’t refute. Just because it’s what you want doesn’t make it what’s best for the game or mongoose. This is a case where rationally requires you to think outside of your personal desires and look at what is best for the majority. What is best for the majority is that mongoose keeps growing and keeps producing Traveller.
I will not buy a book that I am not interested in. And if they continue to add ship tech rules in adventures and supplements that I will never buy then I may as well stop buying their core rule books as well since they are never used by the authors when they write their adventures and supplements. So they lose a customer.
One customer vs the much larger numbers of customers they would lose doing what you want. Again your in the minority the numbers prove this so I’m sorry if you leave but I’d rather the game keep growing.
What numbers? Prove it. Prove it to me that majority will by a £40 book just to get 3 pages.
Agreed! If I have to buy 30 different books, just to find the rules for what one author put on one ship in some supplement, then @Sigtrygg is right. I would never buy more either and I have spent over $500 on gaming material in just the last 6 months.
Why would they lose any customers by providing the three pages for free? If people are buying the supplements for the reasons you say they will still buy them.
Over the last 5 years the numbers of products that mongoose has published for Traveller yearly has only increased first number, the Kickstarters that they have done have only increased in support number 2, the number of Traveller events at major conventions has only increased number 3, mongoose as a company has had the funds not only to acquire the rights to Traveller but also other games as well as starting its own game lines. All these point to a company growing. There’s your numbers
Your not talking three pages your talking a major part of the system, construction rules cover ships, robots,vehicle, heck you could argue world to in there. While people don’t buy these books for your three pages they are a selling point. Having been in business and own my own businesses in the past I understand the need for as many selling points as possible to improve sales.
It generally is in gaming the market is to marginal and to eclectic for this to work, generally the writers have a better understanding of their market than any attempt to research.
How many pages in Behind the Claw are ship construction rules?
What sigtrygg is pushing for in a constantly updated PDF with all the construction rules, while this wouldn’t affect the CRB sales it would affect the sales of many of current and future construction books (ie Highguard, robots, vehicle and any future such book as well as the alien books). The CRB doesn’t keep the game going it’s the source books and the adventures that do.
One? The TL 16 stuff is part of a column.
So, it is basically one page from the Behind the Claw book which should have been in the High Guard book. Seems simple enough to Me. Quit putting ship construction rules in "fluff" books. Also, the writers should really use the rules that exist instead of doubling up on a rule, like the Adjustable Hull, Concealed Maneuver Drive, Variable Emission Drive, etc.
The spreadsheet doesn't tell you what the component does. It just tells you how much space it takes up and how much power it uses.
