I have to agree. And a good deal of the fan material isn't any better. A bunch of guys said, "Hey, let's develop these sectors!" but all they did was randomly generate systems. They didn't put any thought into what they were doing either or provide any library data to explain it. So I'm tossing it out and starting from scratch.
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DED
--- Jeff Dougherty wrote:
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> Traveller ended up doing neither of these. They created a random system in which the various factors didn't really inter-relate, which meant that a lot of the maps as written were just stupid. *But* that same system enabled GDW and its various licensees to run through entire sectors of space at high speed, leaving UPPs and not much else in their wake. The result is that most of the described space in the OTU has neither science behind it, nor any hooks on which to hang a story- just strings of hexadecimal waiting out there in the darkness to pounce on the unwary writer trying to make sense or a story out of the whole mess.
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DED
--- Jeff Dougherty wrote:
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> Traveller ended up doing neither of these. They created a random system in which the various factors didn't really inter-relate, which meant that a lot of the maps as written were just stupid. *But* that same system enabled GDW and its various licensees to run through entire sectors of space at high speed, leaving UPPs and not much else in their wake. The result is that most of the described space in the OTU has neither science behind it, nor any hooks on which to hang a story- just strings of hexadecimal waiting out there in the darkness to pounce on the unwary writer trying to make sense or a story out of the whole mess.
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