(Re: COTI)
Wow. Thanks for the update. While not uplifting, non-uplifting truth is
better than uplifting untruth. I have to wonder if there's maybe not one
or two haters who just keep priming the pump over there. On the other
hand, look at it this way: The haters have TNE living rent-free in their
brains. While they may think they hate Virus, they're infected themselves.
TNE gets the last laugh.
> Hi all,
>
> I've been over on the CotI boards these last two days (for the first
> time in 8 years) to try and find an answer to my question regarding the
> two vargr states: Ruler of Five and Opposition Alliance. I never even
> got around to posting my question there, which means I'm going to have
> to go back. Crap!
>
> The hate for TNE lives on. Oh my goodness, there are active threads
> (ACTIVE!) with subjects like "Why do you hate Virus?". And people are
> attacking it for all the same old reasons. One guy who was just
> discovering the setting said that TNE didn't /feel/ like Traveller.
> Another guy complained that though TNE was bad, Martin's 1248 setting
> made things worse. And on and on.It was a flood. I had to fight the urge
> to respond to these people or drown.
>
> I checked the TNE section. No one had posted anything there in 75+ days.
> We haven't had much activity here either. SFRPG has been quiet too. So
> has everyone moved on from TNE?
>
> I heard a rumor over on CotI that T5 will have a new setting where the
> timeline is advanced to the year 1900. It's far enough out that Charted
> Space should be sufficiently recovered from the Rebellion, Collapse,
> Empress Wave, and Black Curtain War. The tech level max is to be bumped
> up to 20. Sentient AIs and cybernetics will be embraced (someone claimed
> that it's in the T5 rules). I admit that I'm intrigued, but I have to
> wonder if it will be enough to appease the haters. They'll finally have
> their shiny new 4th Imperium and all will be as it was in 1105, except
> with more stuff. Will they finally shut up and move on?
>
> \_/
> DED
> TNE @ Yahoo ml Admin
>
Wow. Thanks for the update. While not uplifting, non-uplifting truth is
better than uplifting untruth. I have to wonder if there's maybe not one
or two haters who just keep priming the pump over there. On the other
hand, look at it this way: The haters have TNE living rent-free in their
brains. While they may think they hate Virus, they're infected themselves.
TNE gets the last laugh.
> Hi all,
>
> I've been over on the CotI boards these last two days (for the first
> time in 8 years) to try and find an answer to my question regarding the
> two vargr states: Ruler of Five and Opposition Alliance. I never even
> got around to posting my question there, which means I'm going to have
> to go back. Crap!
>
> The hate for TNE lives on. Oh my goodness, there are active threads
> (ACTIVE!) with subjects like "Why do you hate Virus?". And people are
> attacking it for all the same old reasons. One guy who was just
> discovering the setting said that TNE didn't /feel/ like Traveller.
> Another guy complained that though TNE was bad, Martin's 1248 setting
> made things worse. And on and on.It was a flood. I had to fight the urge
> to respond to these people or drown.
>
> I checked the TNE section. No one had posted anything there in 75+ days.
> We haven't had much activity here either. SFRPG has been quiet too. So
> has everyone moved on from TNE?
>
> I heard a rumor over on CotI that T5 will have a new setting where the
> timeline is advanced to the year 1900. It's far enough out that Charted
> Space should be sufficiently recovered from the Rebellion, Collapse,
> Empress Wave, and Black Curtain War. The tech level max is to be bumped
> up to 20. Sentient AIs and cybernetics will be embraced (someone claimed
> that it's in the T5 rules). I admit that I'm intrigued, but I have to
> wonder if it will be enough to appease the haters. They'll finally have
> their shiny new 4th Imperium and all will be as it was in 1105, except
> with more stuff. Will they finally shut up and move on?
>
> \_/
> DED
> TNE @ Yahoo ml Admin
>