COTI:
Be fair, there is plenty of hate to go around. ;)
Seriously, the difference in the feel between the setting of a vast 11,000 year old imperium with a frontier that has been settled for 1000 years (pre-Rebellion) and the desolate wasteland with pockets of civilization (post-Virus/Wave) are SO DIFFERENT that anyone who LOVES one is almost guaranteed to HATE the other.
The issue is that new people come along and want to talk about it again (which is fair, just because I have already had that conversation, doesn't mean they can't) so the same territory gets revisited for all the same reasons.
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TNE:
So back to your question about preference and use.
I don't care for the TNE GAME MECHANICS and I don't really get a thrill from the history of the Third Imperium (or the Fourth), however I love the FF&S Gearhead Toolkit and I love the FEEL of the pockets of civilization surrounded by vast wilderness. So large chunks of TNE have made it into my Proto-CT PbP game on COTI.
I don't hate TNE.
I just love simple ... Rule 68A* covers 90% of everything for me.
* For anyone needing a brief explanation: roll 2d6. target is 6+ for an Easy task, 8+ for an Average task and A+ (10+) for a Hard task ... (I don't need no stinkin' tables for nuttin').
Be fair, there is plenty of hate to go around. ;)
Seriously, the difference in the feel between the setting of a vast 11,000 year old imperium with a frontier that has been settled for 1000 years (pre-Rebellion) and the desolate wasteland with pockets of civilization (post-Virus/Wave) are SO DIFFERENT that anyone who LOVES one is almost guaranteed to HATE the other.
The issue is that new people come along and want to talk about it again (which is fair, just because I have already had that conversation, doesn't mean they can't) so the same territory gets revisited for all the same reasons.
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TNE:
So back to your question about preference and use.
I don't care for the TNE GAME MECHANICS and I don't really get a thrill from the history of the Third Imperium (or the Fourth), however I love the FF&S Gearhead Toolkit and I love the FEEL of the pockets of civilization surrounded by vast wilderness. So large chunks of TNE have made it into my Proto-CT PbP game on COTI.
I don't hate TNE.
I just love simple ... Rule 68A* covers 90% of everything for me.
* For anyone needing a brief explanation: roll 2d6. target is 6+ for an Easy task, 8+ for an Average task and A+ (10+) for a Hard task ... (I don't need no stinkin' tables for nuttin').